A few rather funny things about Sacred : <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
- First, I found out that sometimes, when you beat Undead Ones, you can colect their skulls - and use them as Weapons ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> Imagine, bashing a monster with the skull of an undead one - possibly even speaking ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
- Well, the Sacred-Community has found another thing : Schniepel. The Goblins cry this out as a kind of weird war-cry (at least in the GFerman version), and the community is speculation about what it might mean . <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
(The german ie is spoken like a long i , like in irritation, only longer.)
The both theories most of the people agree upon are :
- Schniepel means a higly snobistic person, also called "Schnösel". This is slang and / or even dialect.
- Schniepel ist another slang / dialect word for a certain part of the bodies of male persons ... (women don't have it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ).
There are reports of Goblins attacking with the cry "Schniepel !" , but when they are defeated, they sometimes cry "Doch kein Schniepel ..." (English : "No Schniepel ...") , being frustrated and disappointed (this sounds to me like "he / she wasn't such a cheap victim I expected him / her"). I have difficulties translating the implicit feeling of disappointment that lies within the addition of the word "doch" in this exact sentence.
EDIT : I've seen first posts changing the names of "Goblins" into "Schniepels" ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
On a more serious side, what I like very much is that animals cannot be slaughtered (except Wolves) ... unless you find a special item allowing that.
Also there are books in the game, with recipes, for example.
Anyone willing to buy it I would give the counsel / advice to wait a few weeks. There are still seemingly a lot of bugs, even some "quest-brakers" - especially for randomly generated quests - a thing we surely know here, too. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
There are also reports of a unique copy-protection : People playing without the disc find themselves on an island with no way out ... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
