Well, I've written some things about Sacred earlier in this thread; it might be interesting or useful to you.
Sacred is a kind of "creative hack 'n' slay game" , a game like Blizzards D2, but very creative in the details.
There is not much anymore in it that reminds me of Armalion, but it still can be found.
The community likes it, I think, and it is *definitively* aimed nowadays to the people liking D2-like games (H/S), unlike Armalion.