darkswan said:
Woah! It must be Sacred Day. Already gave it props today 10:45 for the start screen in the GW forum.
DS
Didn't see that mate -sorry
I bought Sacred when it first came out and loved it and recommended it then. Forget what stopped me playing it then - some MMORPG or other came out.
They released, free, a big download add-on pack called Sacred Plus. Later they released the expansion, Sacred Underworld. Anyways, been playing it again for the last couple of weeks and bought the Gold pack earlier this week, which just adds Underworld for me, but at half the price.
I've bought and played Dungeon Siege 1 and 2 as well. Graphics are better in DS, but I wouldnt describe Sacred graphics as anything like poor.
Sacred definitely wins out in the game play stakes, especially medium and long term. Class wise, template build wise, equipment wise, boss wise, going through the games on increasingly difficult levels - Sacred wins on all those things for me. DS had them but somehow didn't capture the Diablo magic.
If anyone plays Sacred I'd recommend checking out the class forums above and getting a reasonable idea of what character build you are going for.
Of course, all this is null and void once we get Titan Quest in the near future, which the lead designer has openly admitted is Diablo 3 as no-one else was doing it (Brian Sullivan, incidentally, co-developer of Age of Empires).