One thing to be aware of this game is that the requirements for the Phat Loot you find is dependent on 3 things:

1. The level of your character
2. The difficulty level
3. The area you are in.

That means, as I have found out to my huge disappointment, that if you rush through a difficulty level and unlock the next one without leveling up enough, you will not be able to use any of the loot you find due to the level requirement.

That's really the only reason I stopped playing the game - rushed to the Platinum level, and would have needed at least 5 hours of straight grinding to be able to use even the most basic magical equipment drops.

No, it's action-based like Diablo, etc. For what it's worth, I found the difficulty scaled just fine. The first few creatures you encounter aren't hard to kill and you will ramp up in power and skills quickly enough. Try it at this price - it's a terrific game! :D
I totally agree with you. Sacred 2 felt like a very, very different game to me. I own the EU version and expansion for it but just could not finish it. The UI and everything else in the game felt way too convoluted and poorly laid out.

Sacred Gold, however, is a real gem :)

This simply won't do. PM me your email address and I will gift you a copy.


-Khalaq

Great deal guys. I've been wanting to get this game for years, and for 10 dollars it was already very tempting, for 4? Well, it looks like I'm going to waste away in Sacred Goldville. Thank you! :-)

Must mull it over...

Although I'm always up for a good Diablo clone...

wow pm'ed you hope im not too late

The constant respawn made getting from place to place achingly time consuming and dull. However, the game is a lot of fun and combat is lots of fun too.

Agreed that Divine Divinity is better, however.

One of the main things leading to a smooth experience in this type of game is how inventory is handled and how that impacts getting from place to place. If you have to constantly travel back to town to sell things kept in a limited (and all too often small) inventory, a game will wear on you no matter how good. If those distances are especially long and if monsters respawn in them so you can't just GO and get back, ugh. Sacred Gold has all that in spades.

But it is still quite fun. It would not take much to make it a game I played forever instead of failed to complete. If you have more tolerance than I do, you may find all Sacred Gold's virtues overpower its few but quite aggravating faults.

Thanks, purchased!

Wonderful! Since I've only recently jumped on the Diablo-clone train (via lots of time spent with Titan Quest), this seemed like a logical purchase to make. Hooray for more hours of hack and slash fun to come!

Darn, I haven't written my review for this yet, waiting to finish my my underleveled Plat run so I can try different specs in Niobium. (Which is on the back burner as I try to finish other stuff to free up disk space for the Witcher, yikes!)

It's a great game though - even grinding can be pretty fun, and each class really has a unique playstyle.

It's amazing how quickly the mod team nukes spam though. It's already gone, whatever it was. Every time I've commented on spam, it's gone by the time I finish writing my post and add it!

This game is too good to pass up for $4 - no seriously. If you played its sequel, don't be scared. This one was much better fleshed out in many ways and is as close to my heart as the infamous "Diablo" series. I hated 2, but this one was a gem in a sea of 3d fps games that slowly killed the topdown arpg.

Also keep in mind a part of this game was developed by a company prior to Ascaron, which could be why it has higher quality standards than S2 did.

This is the first game I got from GOG, and yet I still have not finished it. Got bored along the way. But I promise to come back and finish it someday...

Have a disc copy of this already but bought another off GOG for the convenience :).Havent tried it on my win 7 64 bit system however. Works ok for those out there using same OS?.

a big thank you to Khalaq for gifting me the game :)