The most Underrated Fully Open World RPG from 2008 | Sacred 2 Worth Playing?
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Hello there my RPG lovers 00:00
What is Sacred 2? 0:05
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Unique classes 2:20
Two campaigns & Multiple Gods 2:55
The beginning of the game 3:45
My Shadow Warrior & The Inquisitor 4:23
Goofy story 5:21
Unique take on the gameplay 5:56
Hit chance? 8:03
Abilities & Combat Arts 8:25
Attributes & Itemisation 10:40
Mounts 11:54
Quests 12:30
The Visuals 13:18
The World map 13:48
My General Impressions 14:14
A Unique Experience 14:53
Outro 15:14 - เกม
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Did you play Sacred games before, or this is your first time hearing about them?
I really need to play Sacred 1, just to see why a lot of people think it's a better game.
By the way, I didn't even want to mention Sacred 3, because it basically ruined the series.
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played both. Sacred 1 had a very actice MP community, they even did horse races with those mounts, Lol.
It's easy to see why many people didn't like Sacred 2 just as much because the developers completely went nuts with the content about aliens and robots and with all that subsystems.
I always wanted to love S1 and S2 but you fleshed out the biggest drawback: The combat gameplay is absolute garbage. Too bad the developers never managed to get it right.
Been playing 2 since 2008 was really excited for 3 and totally disappointed. Tried 1 but once I got hooked on 2 couldn’t do it just fell in love with 2
I highly recommend checking out the first one, it is more classic and some of the story ingame fits like a glove, i loved the gladiator and his backstory, one of my most fav chars.
Moreover it has a lot of expansion.
Sacred 2 was and is a FANTASTIC game! Do yourself a favor and play it at least once in your life. Not Sacred 3 tho, that game was BEYOND garbage. That’s my 2 cents 😁
Agreed. I sadly started with sacred 3, didn't understand why people hated it. Then I played sacred 2... Within 5 minutes I saw 50 reasons why they hated 3.
Only thing I liked in Sacred 3 was the story. But the story definitely didn't hold the weight of the 3rd one because it barely had any gameplay that actually felt playable and interesting. It felt extremely second thought.
I was a lineage person and my dad found this when I was a kid loved it
I played Sacred 2 for a couple of hours and found it to be pretty shit.
nah, this wasn't good
I LOVED Sacred 1 and 2! I was devastated when Sacred 3 ended up being a steaming pile of sh*t!
S3 really wasn't though... it was completely different which is why most people didn't like it, but by itself it was a fun arcadey arpg.
I was saddened by sacred 3 as well
@@VitaKet it shouldn't have been called Sacred 3... =(
Sacred 3 was good af just wasent a sacred game
Agreed
Love this game. Played it on xbox360. Did you know you can watch a Blind Guardian concert in one of the pubs,complete with mosh pit and goblins stagediving😀
the game Is currently free to play on xbox (you don't even need gamepass or gold)
atleast in my region (argentina)
Just found out about the concert quest, would have blow me away while playing back in 2008, got to get my PC fixed and try and find it.
Sacred2 is coming to games with gold on the Xbox in March! Loved playing this game. Might play it again.
Here because of games with gold :)
There is even special mount for each class, for example the Inquisitor can have a giant spider at some point. This was a great review for a game worth remembering, it would be cool if you review the first one as well.
But lets not talk about the third one.
I love the spider, I get off it in someone's home and say "look, it's a house spider" those npcs must really crap themselves when seeing it though.
The special mounts were fantastic. The Temple Guardian’s wheel was a bit weird.
I like the shadow warriors demon-dog-gorilla thingy
first and second are so different.
Absolutely love Sacred 2. Wish they would remake or do a reboot of this series!
Remake, yes!! reboot, hell no because they always screw it up. look at Bards Tale 4.
@@8-bitsteve500 I agree! I just want something because I feel like it would do very well
Reboot I agree! I'm so glad they NEVER made a sequel to this game (/s).
Sacred 2 only need easy compatible with new systems, nothing more
Why? Just play it as it is.
I just bought this game today its crazy I just so happen to stumble upon this video now, I've only played like 20 min but it's amazing already love how it's couch coop definitely recommend
I played this game SO MUCH, the world was huge and very addictive. Then the loot, oh my the loot lol I played it on PS3 and have the platinum. Didn't have money for a gaming PC back then.
I put hundreds of hours into this game with my dad, who was in his 50s at the time, but on the console version. Eventually I owned both the PC and console version just cause I liked playing this game so much!
How does the console version hold up, particularly with controls? I am thinking of getting this on PS3 as my current PC is a load of crap.
I got it on xbox gold a while back
Community patch is great. Darkmatters community put a lot of effort and love into it and it shows. The game runs smoother, as some people mentioned before several bugs got fixed including some major ones like magic staff + multihit combination hitting enemies offscreen in a very large area. Some useless spells got buffed to the point of being considerable but not op (Dragon Mage's transform spells for example). Some cut content was added including willpower based weapons, bosses etc. Some interesting new sets added for all the classes. And on top of it the whole gameplay and progression system remains mostly the same as in core game, which I'm a big fan of. So yeah if you just discovered Sacred 2 and want to give it a shot I'd recommend you install the latest community patch as well.
You forgot to mention that each class gets a unique mount later in the game which allows using class abilities while mounted!
randomly thought of this for the first time in over a decade and wow talk about nostalgia hit. I still remember the exact day my mom brought me the 360 game on a motorcycle when i was living with my dad. I spent quite a bit of time playing sacred 2 with one of my best childhood friends who i always gamed with for many of years but i havent heard from in about 10yrs. After living over an hour away and him switching to pc main from console plus having a long term gf and a kid and me getting in a long relationship plus getting hooked on pills n other life stuff kinda made us drift apart i guess idk. This made me want to get in contact with him somehow tomorrow. I used to main inquisitor amd he mained serphim and i also remember doing alot of the poison/plague spread glitch thing that posions a ton of enemies while running around and you get tons of xp it was great lol
Great review. Sacred 2 has also a very good Community Patch, which fixes several bugs. This CM patch is even more quality of life for Sacred 2.
I found it a nice touch that if you are well above the level range of an area most enemies would leave you alone unless you get too close.
The fact the game featured Blind Guardian was more than enough of a reason for me to buy it and love it!
The best moment in the game loved the cutscene they are a bad ass band
German rpgs. Sacred, Gothic, Drakensang. Have a charm all their own. Only a handful of American rpgs could stand with them in the Golden Age. Morrowind, Diablo 1, Infinity Games, Neverwinter 2. Respect your opinion of course, but personally gotta disagree on the melee. Chopping someone up close range really feels good to me in these games. I guess that signature German jank isnt for everyone. But the combat in Gothic, Sacred etc is simple and satisfying to me and only adds to the charm
Damm dud 🙈 you have listed the best games ahahaha from my past 🥰 I've played all of them ! Ofc Gothic it's the best
Morrowind > Gothic. Fact. Also, Eurojank RPGs are one of the best. Pirannha Bytes is a good meme.
Also they had that band that played in game which was one of the coolest cutscenes in any game underrated as hell
Elex is a Sci fi Gothic game, and I love it.
@@catzor4795 I grew up with Morrowind, so it has a lot of nostalgia for me, but I find myself returning to Gothic more often. Gothic doesn’t have the scope of Morrowind of course, but it’s atmosphere and world design are still top notch. Morrowind is great, but its world feels empty by comparison.
I am blown away by how cool this looks
If Sacred 2 can be considered underrated, Sacred 1 could be even more so because it is older and more contemporary to the firmly established Diablo 2. The game was amazing, I played it since launch and every now and then I install it and create a different character. Even if I know the world like the palm of my hand, it doesn't lose its charm.
The thing about the sequel though is that, although it feels like a vast improvement and in some aspects it objectively is (for instance, there's a specific class mount for every character that allows you to cast your ordinary abilities while riding it), the setting shifts a bit. Sci-fi elements such as all the T-Energy related stuff and the Temple Guardian/Seraphim specific gear look a bit out of place for my taste, when the first game was pure, raw fantasy. The Seraphim of the prequel wielded actual holy magic instead of a blaster, and when you found something remotely sci-fi in the prequel it was meant like an easter egg, to set a comparison. Sacred 1 also had a more serious vibe to it, even if there were also intentionally funny sidequests and countless gravestones with silly messages that are pretty much a staple for the series. From the top of my head, I can remember that one quest that sent you to an island called Mal-Orc-A (like an island from Spain) and made you deal with unruly orcs that were harrasing tourists while sunbathing on the beach, and of course you were rewarded with your very own sunglasses.
All in all though? It doesn't detract from the whole experience and there is much to be enjoyed in Sacred 2. Give it a go and do so with Sacred 1 as well, if you're looking for a new ARPG! Chances are you'll end up sinking a decent amount of hours into it at the very least.
Don't play Sacred 3 though.
Yeah truly, Sci-fi stuff and a lot more focus on humor is what I dont like in sacred 2. Sacred 1 was an ideal blend of humor and seriousness
I think the sci fi twist makes it more unique and a bold choice from the developers rather than the safe usual medieval setting with magic.. devs nowadays are to scared to do things out of the ordinary or what they want so they make their predictable money n reviews.
one or some of them was most likely really passionate about it and they put it in. I didn't play sacred 1 though so just my 2 cents.
Every game and their mother was doing fantasy, to have a truly sci-fi oriented ARPG would have been amazing. Sacred 2 was pretty bold for doing this and made it not generic, unlike Sacred 1.
Such a good game finished it multiple times many years ago. One tip mage makes it easy to explore.
My favorite moment in this game was when you head through a town kinda early in the game and had to help that band and when you completed the quest you got to watch and awesome cutscene of the band performing and get to choose and axe guitar at the end of it soo damn cool
The band is Blind Guardian btw if you like that song
@@dango470 yes I did find them they are great a good folk rock band
@@spicypepperzit‘s powermetal not folk rock. Powermetal was even invented in Germany. Blind Guardian was one of the first bands of this genre
Great review! I appreciate the fact that you touched on all the different game mechanics and specific, unique aspects of the game. Many of the other reviews I have seen don't say much more than "Big map! Open world! Horses! Addictive! Fun!," which doesn't give much detail on WHY, which I think you did nicely
oh man the song by Blind Guardian and the mini concert in game was awesome :D
also i totally did not installed it again for another playthrough ^^
good work again on that video
I play in 2023 with the same enthusiasm as in 2008 I love this game ;-)
Man I played this so much when I was younger. It was amazing, absolutely massive if I recall.
This game absolutely holds up. Beautiful visuals and music, I love the voice acting for the high elf. The world-building within the cities is nice.
Right on PC maxed out it's absolutely a work of art 😍. I'm playing PC after playing console years ago and it's like a whole new game.
Reminds me of my favorite RPG of all time - Divine Divinity. Fantasy Open World with tactical-ish Action combat and a good bit of humor to the writing? I'm in!
One of the best RPGs
Played this back in the day, just picked it up for 5 bucks last night. Great vid!
This has been in my library for a while... And I do indeed like entering people's houses with my horse, so maybe I should finally give it a go.
I've been replaying this the last week or so, love it. I have the Sacred gold edition
I never played Sacred 2, but played Sacred Underworld a whole lot. At the time it was the only game on the radar with unique classes, cool customizable battle combos, big dragons, and old school graphics. AND horses!
Finally a good/recent video covering this game. There's barely anything on TH-cam about Sacred 2 with a modern context. I've had this game in steam library for a while now but haven't dove in yet and I would always try to find reviews on it with no luck tho. Thank you 😊
$3.74 (US) on GOG right now. I'm thinking of picking it up. I dig the genre, and have never played this one. My curiosity was also piqued by the Temple Guardian class. I love Egyptian flavored stuff in APRGs.
Play this for years. Currently level 197 dryad.
had this on my 360 back in the day, never got around to playing it, just bought it in the back compatibility sale for £3, playing it on series x and loving it
And then it hit games with gold :p oh well, at least it was pretty cheap for you!
I played Sacred 2 as Seraphim is a great game
Man, when I got that special Blind Guardian concert in the tavern, my mind was blown!
I remember playing this game and loving it
Cool, you covered one of my favorite games of all time, albeit two years ago! The game expands as you play. There's a real sense of progression. Early on it might take a while to kill an enemy, but as you level up the combat arts you can start nuking large groups of enemies. Also, each class has a custom mount, which you get about a third of the way through the game (or earlier if you know where to go). The shadow warrior rides on this big troll thing, the inquisitor rides a giant spider, the seraphim rides a massive tiger, and so on. This game also shares something with Elder Scrolls Oblivion: hilarious fully voiced randomly generated NPC conversations in towns. There's over 600 side quests and some of them are very elaborate, including some quest chains. For example, there's a lot of undead in the starting land, and there's a multi-stage quest to take down the lich who leads the undead army. There's also a ton of different enemies to fight, including larger size enemies like ogre mages, giant beetles, and dragons. Last but not least, the various areas of the map are varied and very cool. There's an end game crystal area that is very "Color Out of Space", and there's a huge underground volcano lair with dragons and fire elementals.
(Personally, I like Sacred 2 more than 1. The first game has some cool classes like the vampire, the dwarf engineer, the demon; and it has the same open world style. I just find the 2nd game more fun overall.)
Always liked this game, i really love the fact the creators put alot of easter eggs in the game, such as the voice lines and or the grave yard messages, also the fact you can discover amazing builds and new stories just by wandering off a path,its truly amazing and will never fail to entertain me ❤
Great video! Maybe it's time to give this game one more try..
This is gonna be on games with gold in march
The first part from 2004 had a fixed camera and thus resolved the transparency and angle problems quite well. Everything was positioned in a way that looked decent or good from the fixed perspective; for example, hill would always increase towards the upper parts of the map. So it didn't feel flat, even though it definitely was.
I loved this game. I Still have the boxed versions.
U do great reviews
i remember playing this game ALOT back then i remember each class has each unique mount that u can unlock later in the game and my favorite one is the wheel one
This is one of those games both me and my lom loved when i was growing up. I left for trade school and recently came back over christmas break, and i got her into PC gaming. Now we played this on a LAN network ofer the break. Good memories.
My fiancée and I were just thinking today about how much we played this game together--we'd trade over items, wait for the other of us to get back in on a different character, then trade back items (the items needed were, for some reason, easier to get using a different character to get the drop).
We stumbled across this video after re-watching the Blind Guardian video for this game.
Talk about nostalgia on both videos!
We also used to play Oblivion--couldn't coop on there though. Great shout-out on that game too!
Hello there, I used to play Sacred games back in the day when they came out. Yesterday I got Sacred 2 ice&blood from Steam because I felt so nostalgic for old fashioned rpgs. Can't wait to play it again ❤
Pretty amazing game. Would love a remaster.
Sacred 2 doesn't need a remaster version
Sacred 2 is even back-compat on the xbox series x!
Yup, I remember that the game map was huge!!
Getting the Enhanced Version Mod is a must
There is quest for unique mount for each class btw :D. I used to love this game as a teenager, almost finished it, i think i explored about 70% of the map, and just dropped it, and later lost save file, did probably around 100h tho.
Templeguardian my absolute favourite character class of any arpg.⚙🐺
Sacred 2 has the best itemization, skill progression and exploration than any other game that exists on planet earth. This is not just my opinion, it is a fact. I have played Sacred 2 for over 2000 hours and have played every action RPG that is out there.
P.s. - The story sucks and you should be installing the community patch mod if you decide to play because the company went under after the game released with lots of bugs.
I loved this game, shout out to that epic in game concert though lol
Always wanted to play this game, but had never picked it up. I went to the store and found it free and I can't stop playing it
As an interesting detail, Thq Nordic adquired the ip from the sacred franchise some time ago in an interchange of ips with another sub branch of the same company that owns them.
This means, after so many years of legal paranoia since noone knew who had the ip (one of the most common reasons that prevents the making of remakes of some classic games), we could get a remake coming from Thq Nordic.
Or a 4th, but i had rather them work in a remake first, so they get a better grasp of how the first 2 sacred games were, before doing another game
blind guardian
They just released this for Xbox live gold, I’m stoked ! Really enjoyable and nostalgic so far even though I never played a sacred game before
What's different here is that unlike other RPGs you can NOT reset skills..so you must choose carefully what direction you want to go because if you choose shield lore and find that you rather want 2 handed weapons instead then you wasted a skill slot for the rest of the game.
LMAO I spat my drink when you did a close up on that tombstone.
I got this the week it released on 360 but never finished it. I need to go back to it sometime.
You can walk by pressing w, so you dont have to click with your mouse. Just press w like in any other non isometric rpg and turn the camera with a and d
currently playing sacred2. running a dryad with blowpipe now. game is blazing fast and flawless under ssd. installed cm patch also. adding more content and fixed most bugs and memory leaks.
litte disagre with pacing. its not fast, its not slow either. it feels slow due to immense landmass you covered with walking. imagine having to walk or riding horse a whole texas state thru every nook and cranny.lmao
very early gameplay youll do auto attack most of the time. but just lil bit further youll find that using combat art is way faster and satisfying. my lv50 dryad already forgot how to left click (normal attck). just right click enemies on the edge of my screen. most of the died in one or two hits. kinda boring but i choose to be OP lmao.
best part of it, unlike many rpg game nowadays is that, there are so many different build in one class. with 3 different aspect for each one of them.
fyi. i also played the first sacred. gladiator is my favorite. gameplay pretty clunky, just like diablo. but nonetheless its perfect open world rpg back then.
I would love a remaster for this game.
One of my absolute favorite games!!!! So sad what happend with Sacred3 ;(
This game takes me back to finding some really weird stuff in the 360 library (like Divinity: Dragon Knight Saga!). Would love to hear more about these kind of forgotten oddities that are still available today.
sacred 1 was one of the best games that i played in my childhood
I’ve got so many hours in this game it is ridiculous. I played on XBOX 360. It became backwards compatible with the last batch of games. Your old save will still be there. It also happens to be on sale for $5 this week 1/24/2022. Highly recommended.
One thing I really liked about this is there was no tethering. You and co-op partners could be on the opposite sides of the map.
I played this as a kid all day at a random friends house and then never could remember the name of this game was so happy when I found it again
I love this game, it's magical. The soundtrack is fantastic too all the time, even the ambient noise is done well.
So basically games that are almost as old as me and can work on my potato pc
SACRED 1 AND 2 HAVE A CORNER IN MY SOUL FROM MY CHILDHOOD
PLEASE SPREAD THIS GAME'S EXSISTANCE
This got my copy one of the best games I've ever played
I actually dusted this game off on my 360 last week. Like you I have no idea what the main quest is. But it's hilarious to take out enemies that always complain before they die.
rented this from blockbuster as a kid.
some how some way it popped up in my head just now
3:18 "Sepharim" 🐗🦓🐴🐸
I've had Sacred 2 in my wishlist for several years now and never pay it any attention. This vid make me bought and loving it!
This game had a metal intro man
I started this game a bunch of times, but never had the patience/will to finish it, i dunno why 😅
Wait, that bar line was in game VO? Nice good two worlds vibes "It's raining".
Sacred and the unexpected Blind Guardian concert and legendary instruments :D
Ha I've always loved this game. As soon as the backwards compatibility was announced I put in it and started playing again
this is one of my favorite games ever
Highly underated game will always hold a place in my heart from the 360 days
I really hope I can play sacred 2 on my steamdeck when I get it
this game is a hidden gem, i played it back when it launched, and it was kinda hit or miss back then, towns were terrible, as you would take a few steps, and it would buffer a lot. other then that the game is great.
Loved sacred 2 fallen angel. Scared the hell out of me cuz my first day playing my psn got hacked
2:31 video starts here
To me its like a mix of baldursgate and titan quest
I wish thq would give sacred 2 the titan quest treatment
When they bought the franchise 2 years ago i was really happy but since then not a single word about sacred
I used to wonder why his game isn't as popular as other ARPG. I couldn't find reasons. It's a great game. It has many bugs that needed fixing, but if more players played it it would have drawn attention and get fixed..
the community patches fixed a lot nowadays.
I remember trying this game a long time ago but bounced off it because of the annoying camera and janky gameplay.
The graphics were amazing for a 2008 game (especilly from that 3D pseudo-isometric perspective).
You should really play Sacred 1 as it is really good and the 2D graphics hold up really well (unlike 3D games from the time).
Xbox 360 had some great ARPGs. I wonder if I'll ever see a review of Too Human, which, to this day, has the best ARPG combat I've ever experienced.
oh wow. it's been more than a decade since I've played it
yeah, combat was something else than button mashing
too human must be one of the most criminally underrated (arpg) games ever. it was just a little short, double number of missions would have been great.
@@kabelfritz I still laught at the fact that this game took almost decade to develop, was really short and ended with cliffhanger. Then studio fought with Epic (some engine shenaningans) and lost, then closed the doors forever.
@@SpecShadow well all of that added to the really bad image of the game, which is totally undeserved looking at the game itself. i have never played any other game that merges rpg and action so well.
I've always leaned away from overhead and isometric games - and from spreadsheet RPGs in general. However, I really enjoyed Sacred 2.
This is the one of the best games, EVER! Like World Of WarcrafT, Diablo 2 .. with Shadow Warrior, everything you need to do is: modify '' Demonic Blow '' to: Vehemence - Poisoning - Life Leech ''
If you use this, you will hit your oponents like '' aoe '' with one single blow, focus on that spec and you will never die in Sacred 2 :D Yeey.. thanks me later. :D
good game played loads on my playstation 3
You absolutely should try sacred 1
I just added this game to my collection as I have been thinking of adding it for some time.
Diablo never really drew me, nor most other ARPGs. However, this looks different, and the open world nature/quest design feels like it might be what I am looking for.