Weilan

So I knew this game for many years and the first time I gave it a go around 2006/2007 I immediately uninstalles it, because I was turnes off by the fact that characters are 3D, but the rest is 2D. I've always remembered the game and it bugged me that I didn't play it and when I msntioned it to a friend he said he played it back in the day and it was great. So I decided it's time to play and used the GOG version. First character I made was Battle Mage, because I wanted to break the cycle of playing melee classes all the time. I also chose the Silver difficulty after researching onlielne and people said that Bronze was too easy. I figured if the game was like Diablo, I won't have any trouble... Boy, was I wrong... after I went to that city past the bridge, where I had to deliver a message, I was around level 14 and the goblins would gank up on me and destroy me before I could even swear. Here is why the game sucks. If it played like Diablo, even on hardest I could kite the horde if goblins until I kill them. But in Sacred, the cooldowns of skills are so long that I have to wait about 5 seconds between being able to use a skill, and even though I invested points to reduce the cooldowns, it still didn't matter once the skill levels up. I liked using the basic Fireball, but compared to Diablo, ths spell here takes too long to cast, the speed at which it teavels is pathetically slow and it doesn't even hit all enemies when they are bunched together in my face. The way you switch between skills is counter-intuitive and only makes things harder and a bigger pain to play. The UI is pretty bad, especially the placement of the character portrait and health bar. The way weapons are placed on the bottom and not where the other equipment is is pretty horrible as well. Quests are mediocre and the overall story is non-existent. The horse mechanic is garbage - animation of getting on and off a horse is too long, can't be interrupted and until it finishes you can't do anything. Also fighting on a horse is useless and thw horse dying is a joke that's not funny, I have to buy another stupid horse now? So I'm not sure if I've encountered anything positive about the game and I believe it's a pretty big piece of garbage... I honestly don't know how the devs can make such a failure - tries to e hack'n'slash RPG with story and fails at being a hack'n'slahssh, fails at being an RPG and fails at having a story. Did I mention how bad the voice acting is? Nah, I won't even go there. I will test Sacred 2 next, see if they made some improvements there...