Barely played Diablo 2. Haven't played Sacred 2.

However, you asked for opinions, so I have to side with Diablo 2. Sacred 2 comes with SecuROM which I consider (and many others) to be more trouble than its worth. In fact, I'll side with nearly any non-SecuROM game, even games from a different genere.

If I could get a copy of the game without the SecuROM (legally, not hacked), I would pick up a copy and try it out to see which is better.

Diablo2 is still better imho.  waiting for diablo3, hopefully 1 more year.

Got the game & finish it while ago. Apart from the class mount where each class can ride on it & do a chain combo it is not much different to d2. It sort of get bored for me after a while.

I am very curious about this title, hows the Mp?

Im am/was a BIG diablo II fan, played that till i had 3 lvl 90's and those funky rune items, wich is low to medium rich i guess but it went a bit repatative from there.

most of the reviews of it are 2 of 10 stars... so um sure it looks good but...

Yeah, didnt like Sacred 2 all that much either. Weird classes and really bad voice acting. Graphics are awesome and I love the freedom that Sacred 2 gives in the sense of exploring the maps as you see fit. The unique mounts saved the game for me because the Hellhound for shadow warrior was just awesome.

Sadly Diablo2's days are long gone. I reinstalled it again sometime ago to hype myself up for the coming of Diablo3. Diablo2's music was just awesome. It had that real sinister but yet melodic feel to it. I also played Titans quest + Exp and man did I love that game. I must have played it like 100 times since its release in 2005.

But no matter how you look at it, Diablo set the benchmark for many games of that genre. Some clones have succeeded in equalling it and other have failed in comparison. Hopefully Diablo 3 will also impress just like D2 did.

Long Live the OAK

All,

   As far as DRM goes I was not aware that it had SecuROM, I bought a copy from Impulse and downloaded it.  It didn't cause any problems on either of my PCs.

   Differences from Diablo - I like the cooldown on the skills, the ability to chain together skills in a combo, the ability to mod you attack powers (The biggest plus), only being able to pick 10 skills.  All in all Sacred 2 character development is much more complex then Diablo 2 and it did confuse and scare off a lot of players and some reviewers but I think it is a much better system.  On the down side, the map is huge and static and it takes too long to go from one place to another (To be fixed in the expantion next month).  The voice acting bugs the hell out of some people, it is full of cheese (Some badits cry out 'I knew I was only an extra' when killed).

    MP - The EE servers are not bad but the US servers (Hard Core) and a baren wastland (There are between 2 and 8 players on at any given time).  The talk it when the expantion comes out next month they will be server merge so that all the English servers will be merged into one.

   I am having more fun then I have had in a long time playing (I am on my 7th Hard Core char in less then a week)

Sammual

Sacred 1 was wayyy better IMO than Sacred 2 - certainly in terms of atmosphere.

It had that traditional fantasy world that looked genuinely dark and medieval (jaw-dropping 2D backdrops and coutryside), and addictive gameplay that just drew you in. The draw-backs were the ridiculously childish names & storyline. Tho the atmosphere took a dive with the expansion, leading to the problems with Sacred 2.....

I spent all of 15 minutes on the Sacred 2 demo before giving up - it just didn't have the same addictive nature, and (IMO) the 3d both 1) Leads to a drop in backdrop looks/atmosphere and 2) makes the gameplay too fiddly. Action RPG is best in 2D - NB: Diablo 3 has fixed perspective, so I think will Torchlight. Worse still, the silly/childish aspects have been expanded - all the characters are ridiculous scantily clad females or daft rock-band males. Plus that ludicrous egyptian dog. 'Original' is good, 'Daft' isn't.

I played Sacred 2 and I just couldnt stand it for more than an hour and a hlaf.. every thing about it was.. well not enough.. Diablo on the other hand, is a great game ^^ (but old)
however, I have always been a more Neverwinter Nights / Baldurs Gate kind of guy

All I play is hardcore.  I lost my first 8 chars learning to play the game but the more I play the more I like it.  Your 'Survival Bonus' increases your stats, your 'Magic Find', the experence you get, and the level of the monsters you face.  I LOVE the concept but am having too much fun playing Hard Core to start a normal char to play around with it.

Sammual

Only on Win 7 64 systems.

What are you running into?

I am pissed off, I just got  the game this week.  I was planning on playing all day today before I head to the beech for a week on Sun.  Last night the MP servers went down and they still aren't back up.

Sammual

I'm on Vista64 and the game runs rock solid.  For what I read on the boards most of the users having issues are Win 7 64.  The Vista64 users found a workaround for the crashing / lockups (Reinstall and patch in the correct order I believe).  From what I picked up in IRC the issue was people missing an interm patch that updated PhysX.  If you had PhysX installed on you PC before you insalled Sacred unless you updated Sacred 2 to 2.3X it didn't upgrade PhysX.

Sammual

P.S.  I'm off to Ocean City, where are you comming from?

please show me hard proof of these rootkits. 99% of the time it' s DRM babies being parranoyed and blaming games when it's probably them dling torrents