Popular Post Gilberticus 374 Posted November 12, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted November 12, 2018 I've played Sacred 2 for years, until I beat the game with every character using every aspect mastery. The bad part is I was playing on a laptop which only let me play for ten minutes at time before either ctd or complete freeze. Ten little minutes at a time isn't enough to experiment really with anything. I couldn't really get a feel for point allocation or anything, or even explore. What it boiled down to was me downloading set items and going off of character guides. Which meant that none of the characters I made felt like mine, they were just photocopies. CTD also meant that I'd also lose any map progress, so you can imagine the frantic beeline I'd make to the next town/quest. And a ton of other frustrations you can imagine with being only able to play in ten minute little spurts. A desktop changed ALL that. I never knew how much fun shopping was on this game. Before, standard sets were just the garbage I wore before leveling enough for set items. Now, I have at least a week's worth of shopping to make matching standard sets. I also would have never guessed that standard sets could be just as rad as the set items. I just slaughtered the White Griffin with an A.S focus Inquisitor clothed in just his grey Blood Poison set. A desktop made all the difference in the world, it's like a whole new game for me! 3 Link to comment
Gilberticus 374 Posted November 13, 2018 Author Share Posted November 13, 2018 Now, don't get me wrong, set items are the shiz, especially the ones that the modding team made. Not only did they painstakingly make them, but they also created lore for them, like the Disgraced Gods set. But it's easy for me to collect that set, send them to my blacksmith, then puff my chest up bc my Inquisitor steamrolls over everything. It's a whole different ballgame trying to steamroll through things with a simple cloth set. Even shopping for it is a pain in the rear at times, since a few of the Inquisitor's sleeves look similar. The character guides are also awesome. Many people have painstakingly created guides for us, some of them are very elaborate. Now that right there's a labor of love. But I'm also a stubborn cuss, I don't want to just play a toon that's a photocopy of someone else's hard work, I wanna build my own. Of course someone here told me years ago that desktops were better to game on than laptops, but I had to learn the hard way 1 Link to comment
podgie_bear 184 Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 (edited) 7 hours ago, Gilberticus said: Of course someone here told me years ago that desktops were better to game on than laptops, but I had to learn the hard way Maybe they are, but some of us don't have the option and have to make do with what we can have. I am just so thankful that Sacred2 plays so well on a laptop with Intel integrated graphics! Schott's free camera mod makes the game look so much better for me even with my settup (Dell Latitude E6430, core i5 laptop, 2.5Ghz, 4Gb RAM, Intel HD4000 integrated graphics). OK, so I don't get to play the modern fancy-dancy, graphics dependent games. But most of them seem to have little real substance once you get past the pretty graphics and there are so many great older games I can play. Edited November 13, 2018 by podgie_bear 1 Link to comment
ameaeth 50 Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Yeah it's a nice change and challenge to start from zero from time to time. Although I can understand all (me included) who spend hours upon hours on shopping, grinding and even trading for sets and uniques and want to use these fruits of hard labour to steamroll everything. :D 1 Link to comment
Gilberticus 374 Posted November 13, 2018 Author Share Posted November 13, 2018 I can totally understand people having different levels of income. I'm not criticizing those who use laptops, I'm criticizing myself for not being smarter about it. In 2010, my Xbox broke, which meant I had to go without Sacred for a bit. While researching where to ship my console, an ad popped up: "Get the greatest gaming laptop of all-time, for just $3,200. Never need another laptop again!" I knew nothing about laptops beyond the fact that my little Acer couldn't handle sacred 2. So, wow, thirty-two hundred bucks, I can have this fancy Alienware, and never have to worry about upgrading or getting another laptop ever again (snort, a sucker is born every minute!!!!) That Alienware m15, straight from the factory, stuttered with anything fancier than Minesweeper. Last year, my wife bought me a desktop for two hundred bucks. It has an i5-2400 core and a GeForce GTX 1050, and I think about 8GB of ram. So, she spent $200 for a machine that can do what the machine I spent $3200.00 on can't. Of course someone told me that they could get me a desktop that would blow that stupid Dell out of the water, for a quarter of the price, but I was too stupid and impatient to listen. $3k lesson to learn that just maybe, sometimes, some people know what the hell they're talking about, and that when it comes to computer, I am vastly out of my league. Link to comment
Veracious 267 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 3 hours ago, Gilberticus said: I can totally understand people having different levels of income. I'm not criticizing those who use laptops, I'm criticizing myself for not being smarter about it. In 2010, my Xbox broke, which meant I had to go without Sacred for a bit. While researching where to ship my console, an ad popped up: "Get the greatest gaming laptop of all-time, for just $3,200. Never need another laptop again!" I knew nothing about laptops beyond the fact that my little Acer couldn't handle sacred 2. So, wow, thirty-two hundred bucks, I can have this fancy Alienware, and never have to worry about upgrading or getting another laptop ever again (snort, a sucker is born every minute!!!!) That Alienware m15, straight from the factory, stuttered with anything fancier than Minesweeper. Last year, my wife bought me a desktop for two hundred bucks. It has an i5-2400 core and a GeForce GTX 1050, and I think about 8GB of ram. So, she spent $200 for a machine that can do what the machine I spent $3200.00 on can't. Of course someone told me that they could get me a desktop that would blow that stupid Dell out of the water, for a quarter of the price, but I was too stupid and impatient to listen. $3k lesson to learn that just maybe, sometimes, some people know what the hell they're talking about, and that when it comes to computer, I am vastly out of my league. This is exactly why I always find a friend or family member to ask questions of before I do anything that's new to me. I went to my IT guy at work and after that I paid $1600 for a desktop, slim line monitor, gaming keyboard and mouse, and headphones. And it'll last me about 8 years with the games I play. Or I can upgrade a piece at a time. 1 Link to comment
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