Sacred 3 is out and people are pissed! haha
Talk about a misleading title. If you've played any of the Sacred games (except Sacred Citadel) you're expectations of Sacred 3 would basically be that it is an action RPG akin to Diablo and its ilk. BZZZZ WRONG! haha
I really have no idea why previews had any trouble describing this game more accurately. It's basically X-Men Legends or Marvel Ultimate Alliance in a Sacred-themed universe, minus the loot.
The game really should have been called Sacred Citadel 2 or something.
For any Sacred fan that played the two previous games (open-world ARPG), this just looks like a disaster.
It looks like they took out almost everything that made Sacred 1+2 great (once you patched it and/or installed mods) - the open-world aspect; loot-crazy; level-up crazy; upgrading crazy; inventory; etc etc. One of the things that made Sacred series stand apart was the huge open-world - most ARPG's games (think Diablo series + Torchlight series) aren't super free-roaming in their game-world.
Sounds like controls w/ KB-mouse ain't so hot there, either - kind of like how Dungeon Siege 3 was, before it got patched-up.
While DS3 was nowhere as great as the previous 2, it was still decent.
Thing was - DS3 still had loot-craze + upgrading skills; and plus a much-improved story.
It looks like S3 has NONE of that!!
Ugh - what a bloody shame.
I'll be curious about S3, once it hits a Deep Silver Humble Bundle or winds-up in some bundles. Seems inevitable, given the likes of this kind of disaster.