So new and yet so old

[Overread]

TV: Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Blind Guardian Trailer - Streaming Trailers, Videos and Movies - GamersHell.com

A stream (low quality) and download (better quality!) from the new Sacred 2 game. I must say it look visually to be a real treat to play and it looks like a lot of effort has gone into the looks of the diablo clone.
However the music for this seems old - ripped out of the older days of Red Alert or taken direct from something like buffy -- different in the fantasy setting to what we are used to at the moment - and for a hack and slash I like it!

That aside it looks like it needs a monster to play the game on, I hope it also has solved the errors of Sacred where even on high end machines the coding left jerky movments in the game at times. I also hope that its not going to need a monster system to look good on (I worry that with quade core and duel graphics cards that games are suddenly going to make a big jump in demands from computers to play smoothly on semi decent settings)

Also --- Tiger mounts!!

[Fake Vencar]

Ah, that looks impressive indeed! Been hooked on Sacred for...years maybe and somehow still haven't completed it (I blame this on the Journal in the game ). Bring it on!

[Overread]

I blame it on the journal, lack of story building and on updates that wipe your save files back to the stoneage!
It seemed that every time I got anywhere - out popped an update and back to the start I went

killing dragons is fun though (as a demoness its easy too )

[Happy Joe]

Excellent!
I had thought that either I missed Sacred 2 or that they weren't going to release it in the US.
Now I have 2 games to look forward to Farcry 2 and Sacred 2.

I got caught with the update thing once, after that I just didn't do the updates.

As far as needing a monster machine, It looks like many of the console games so it shouldn't be too bad, if you can tell much from a streaming trailer.
(I just hope that it doesn't use a game controller, and hopefully they will let the WASD buttons control character movement (ala FPS) rather than exclusively the mouse).

Now if Blizzard would update Diablo II/LOD...

Enjoy!

[Overread]

Blizzard did recently buy Diablo3.com from the owners of the fansite -- though they did state that this in no way means that they are working on diablo 3...........but there is a blizz con this year and last year they announced starcraft 2 - so who knows................

[Fake Vencar]

One thing about Sacred I did like was the level advancement system with the couple of points on your feats and one on your attributes. Hopefully this will continue in the next edition

[Overread]

my only problem was that equipment was so complex at times with all the %bonuses to stuff that kept appearing - esp at higher levels it was a real difficulty working out what was going to change when you changed kit (that and trying to look good at the same time )
oh -- and after Dungeon Siege it must introduce a pack animal to carry all the loot!