Comments on: Sacred 2 Initial Thoughts (Xbox 360)

By: Jay Bell

Jay Bell — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:20:15 +0000

I am an avid RPG player and have played my share of hack and slashers and I have to say I can’t stand this game. I hate to judge it too harshly since I play games like WOW and Diablo. I play games with my wife and for starters, we were haven issues with traden between us. Same console and all we figured out how to fix that by starting her own live account but not sure how thats gonna work when her free gold membership expires after 30 days and shes silver. Now we are ready to go and we run into bugs that range from one of us usen an ability and we get stuck in place and can’t move, to getting stuck on loading screens. When the game isn’t buggen its annoying us both with the screen flickering soo much. I am playen on a Samsung 47″ touch of red 120gh with hdmi cables so we know it aint the hardware. Then theres the issue of the mini map never stayen put….. when we finally get it North to south it moves on us again >.<.. But the biggest thing of all is the inventory management!!!! We play on same console and when we level or mess with the loots its an epic ordeal that takes anywhere from 5mins to I am ready to get off cause I am fallen asleep… A good example of a good hack and slash I can base something off of is Champions of Norrath on PS2 we played that together and didn’t have any of these issues.. minin map stayed put (unless we rotated it) and we could both work our inventory/skills at the same time. Now I know a lil down time is to be expected with 2 people on one system but I run into this also playing online with my buddy as in we can’t go into inventory/skill management anytime we get something new cause it is a long process sorting through the goods. As previousely mentioned, you also can’t compare the gear you are wearing to what you are trying to purchase so lets add that to the time you spend ,amagen gear. And upgrading gear through forgen I will only say you have to clear your inventory out so you don’t accidentally waste money upgraden crap that you arent wearing. This is because you actually have to take your gear off… strip down and have a BS upgrade it just to put it back on…… GAH!!!

I will say this about the game. It is pretty when the screen isn’t screwing up and it really is massive. But as to referring it to anyone… only if you dont have something better to play.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:58:49 +0000

You need to learn to read more critically. Nowhere did I say anything about this being a review. In fact I said these were “very early thoughts.”

Having spent the amount of time with this game that I have so far, I am not even remotely qualified to review it. But a friend asked me about what I thought so far, and so I wrote up this post for my friends.

It’s important to understand *what* you’re reading when you come across a post such as this one. Without context, content is meaningless.

By: Snake

Snake — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:44:52 +0000

Hate you. Just hate you worst review ever

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:17:47 +0000

It’s quite popular with the XBL group I’m a member of; in fact we took quite a hit on our scheduled Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 sessions last night because so many were playing Sacred 2. I am reading about varied degrees of lag in every multiplayer game, though. Iffy netcode?

I’m sorta-kinda interested, the main problem being that I never liked Diablo either. Or Mythos for that matter. Clicking everything that moved for no other reason than that it moved wears thin for me. So did all the clicking. I have a feeling button-mashing would get equally tiresome.

I was hoping it had more of an up-close and personal view but from a few YouTube videos, it seems it’s literally a “way up overhead” game most of the time. Not sure how I’d like that either.

I can’t help but still be tempted by Too Human… another Diablo clone but at least in full 3D. And not fantasy either, which is very appealing lately. Still can’t help but think Flagship would have been better making Hellgate London a 360 game instead of attempting the Faux-MMO approach with servers, etc. But I don’t think I’d play Too Human or Sacred 2 unless I had friends to play with. Neither looks very fun solo, and neither looks like something I’d want to PUG with either.

I’m very, very interested to hear your co-op impressions though Pete if you ever get the opportunity. Is it a single seamless world? Zoned? Randomly generated terrain or static? Is there a lobby to join or do your friends just seamlessly pop into your game? Etc…

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:00:46 +0000

Thanks for your impressions of this. Console games like this are so rare, I’m not that surprised that so many of us are sat on the fence still, we just don’t know what to expect.

I’m after some impressions of multiplayer in particular if you’re able to elaborate further, but most people I’ve spoken to haven’t really had a chance to adjust to the main game yet, let alone find someone else to play with.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:36:47 +0000

@Randolph Carter — Yeah, that’s why I risked it even though some friends warned me off. This is one of my favorite genres and I couldn’t find any real alternatives on the 360.

@Werit — So far not very much. You travel around overland and then dive into pretty short lairs of one form or another, mostly caves at this point. But all your ‘random encounters’ take place above ground. None of the dungeons have taken more than a couple of minutes to clear. But again I’m really early in the game. 5% complete or something equally small.

By: Werit

Werit — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:59:23 +0000

How much of the game takes place in dark dungeons?

By: Randolph Carter

Randolph Carter — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:11:01 +0000

Hey Pete,

Thanks for sharing your initial impressions with this game. I’m interested in purchasing it because–best I can tell–there really aren’t any other hack & slash titles out there for the 360, and I could use one of those right about now. I’ll probably wait and see what else you have to say about the game first.