I had one patch (8 MB) for Sacred and even before that it worked flawless. I had 2 for BD (25 MB each on ISDN, nice!) and it still had some major flaws. Sacred never crashed, never let items lose their value or has dungeons with NO monster. It has problems with some quests, but these are minor and not important to the game in general. In BD I started over once and once in Act 2...NEED I SAY MORE???
PLUS Sacred has a non linear world like DD had, lots of items, lots of merchants and HORSES!!! DD is better, but BD isn't. But that is of course "just a personal opinion". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
Have you actually played Sacred or are you just someone who counts the patches? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />
It's so hard to talk to fanboyz & girlz (try dissing IDOLS winners on a 14 year old, same effect)... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />
Zed, I have Sacred and played it for a short while before I received BD. In another post you were practically knocking the fact that BD is a Diablo 2 knock-off. Well, what do you call Sacred? Original? ROFL
Anyway, you're lucky to have had flawless gameplay with Sacred. Many gamers haven't had such a fortunate experience. The Sacred developers [Encore?? I think] have, indeed, created 6 new patches and are working on another one (if I remember correctly). I had a lot of trouble with the game and one bug that I absolutely adored (worked out better for the player) got fixed, so that kinda took the fun out of it in a way. Nevertheless, I'm not that enamored with hack 'n slash games and that's pretty much all Sacred is. (It's Diablo 2 on sparkles. *g*) It's impossible to clear out any battlefield sections because the respawn rate is astronomical. But for those people who enjoy that type of play, Sacred is definitely their game.
It's hard to compare one game to another because invariably there is something unique to each game. They may appear to be "Diabloesque" tone to BD but that's true for a lot of other major games that are on the market. It's abundantly clear that DD was your favorite thus far (between the two games). I'm having fun with BD as are a lot of others here on this board. So don't knock us 'cuz we like the game. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" /> (LOL)
Faralas <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mage.gif" alt="" /> *who doesn't even remember what 14 was like* <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" />
