Sacred 2 Gold

Love this game, it is excellent

There isn't a lack of good action RPGs these days and, if you're new to the series, you might wonder why you'd want to play Sacred 2 when you can play games like Diablo 3, Grim Dawn, Dark Souls 1&2, Path of Exile etc. Well, it's perfect if you're looking for a straightforward romp with a ton of looting and fighting (also cheap, especially during sales). There aren't many meaningful choices with sprawling questlines, but there's a lot of peculiar humor and quirkiness that you can't help but smile at. It's actually similar humor to the Black Isle games like Baldur's Gate and even early Ultima games, except more prominent. Most quests are basic MMO-like stuff, yet quite short and there's a huge game world to cover while doing them. There's so much loot and so many mobs to kill that you'll almost get sick of them. I'd say it's even too easy, but there are classes and builds that make for a bigger challenge if you so desire (like Inquisitor or Temple Guardian). Essentially you're there to be a badass and enjoy looking at some nice equipment, then ride out to whack a bunch of undead and kobold mobs to gather even nicer stuff. Also recommended is the Community Patch for the game, Sacred 2 isn't too buggy or anything on it's own but the patch does organize some things better and also adds things that the devs couldn't get finished.

If I ever saw the world that exist solely with a purpose to be cleared for loot and xp, that's it. If I ever saw the quests that require literally no thought other than following the quest marker, that's them. If I ever saw opponents being nothing else than walking hp bars that you have to empty - that's this game. It might have nice visuals and beautiful design but oh my it lacks the meaningful content. You could spend dozens of hours in what feels absolutely mindless, as neither quests, nor combat, nor exploration are fun. Quests are basically "kill stuff"/"interact with object"/"go to a certain point", with rarely any interesting story at all. Combat feels like just casting the same spells until the target dies. Exploration? Well, considering that all rewards are random and most locations are absolutely boring, it's not worth it. And oh how much time it all takes between some grains of relatively fun content like main quest's story. Adding to all those issues is the interface. It might've been okay when resolutions were lower. In full hd, this is a torment to the eyes as everything is so small and some things like runes are really hard to discern from each other.

Well... I've got 124 h of play time and today my savegame got corrupted. The reason for that happened is completely unknown for me. I searched a lot on the web but it seems it just happen from time to time and I can only start over again. Unfortunately, in Sacred 2 you can only have one save slot per character. Which is kind off strange, given that in Sacred 1 there was multiple save slots. So there is absolutely nothing you can do to protect yourself from that disaster. The game is fun to play, it has nice graphics (for 2008 standards but still it is not bad) and there are some Sacred 1 roots in it. I really liked it. But I really not like to waste my time and progress in such way. Especially, when devs do not let me to use other save slot to protect myself from such things.

One of the best RPG games I have ever played. Thanks for bringing this one back.