Ahhh. Friday... sit down down time and a chance to read and dig into the posts I get to mirror and get some acknowledgement from other postings in this topic.. Sacred it was, first and foremost, and thats where it will always be! Only reason I got into it was because parents got me a computer, and at the time, getting downloads from online sites was the big thing... dunno how many games I went through, but after seeing Sacred in game and getting to launch a bow and arrow from a horse that was fully mobile, took my breath away. Not only did that moment change the world I saw through the screen, but sacred also came with an online community and... Hard Core!. I remember seeing that instead of just playing single person, it was possible to meet up with others...but open just meant everytime I died I could just press reset and I would just come back to life... I got bored of this after a few weeks and during that time the Sacred Forum sucked me in full time...just could not get getting over reading posts and quickly found myself as breathless as how I was the first time I was playing the demo... course one day I saw a pic of a super high level Seraphim with the words Hard Core on it... we found that well-hidden strangely placed skull, its eyes lit up and the world of Hard Core emerged.
World's never been the same since
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