Torchlight or Sacred 2?

[bartholen_v1legacy]

I played Torchlight's demo a while ago, and found it to be quite entertaining, even if I didn't grasp half of the information on-screen. It's 15,99 ? on Steam, which seems quite steep to me, considering it also has been 3,99 during some sales.

I've seen Sacred 2 lying on Gamestop's "Buy 3, pay 2" pc shelf for quite a while now. It's only 9,99 for a full game, so I've been thinking about buying it. The problem is that the reviews I've read are quite mixed, and it seems to have a lot of bugs. But since it was released in 2009, they shoulda patched it up at this point.

Which one is a better Diablo clone? Which one should I buy? Or should I just buy Diablo 2? Or go to hell with this thing and buy Red Alert 3 as I've been planning?

 

[Kagim]

If you have to get one get the Diablo Clone.

Sacred 2 was very very bad.

 

[Jandau]

Torchlight, and it's not even a contest. Sacred 2 is a buggy mess, ugly and poorly designed in every way a game can be. Torchlight is a cute little Diablo clone that's fairly polished and quite fun.

 

[Milo Windby]

Torchlight, sure its a Diablo clone... but then again its made by the designers and leads of Diablo 1 and 2.
Can't beat having a good game like that.

 

[xxcloud417xx]

Played both, I am so unhappy I payed like 30 bucks on Sacred 2... plz go spend 20 on Torchlight and be much happier.

 

[Korten12]

never played Torchlight but got sacred 2 for my ps3 and it is amazing, so much to do and I love the graphics artstyle. also in one quest you get to watch a 6min CGI of the blind Guardian band play and you get their instruments as weapons after it.

watch on youtube the CLASSIC GAME ROOM REVIEWS of Sacred 2.

 

[Rylot]

Torch Light, Sacred 2 just sucked.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Sacred 2 aint all that bad but if you bought it for the PC its fuckin horrid, terrbily optimised framerate drops like flies sure I dont have a top-end rig but my god even on low it drags.

Torchlight on the otherhand meh, it's polished but dull no diablo 2 for sure not enough variation can only hack through the same brown tunnels for so long.

 

[TOGSolid]

Torchlight is polished, but if you're good at games like Diablo 2, Torchlight is going to be very, very easy.

 

[Baralak]

never played Torchlight but got sacred 2 for my ps3 and it is amazing, so much to do and I love the graphics artstyle. also in one quest you get to watch a 6min CGI of the blind Guardian band play and you get their instruments as weapons after it.

watch on youtube the CLASSIC GAME ROOM REVIEWS of Sacred 2.

Dear god I love CGR! That review was the reason I bought it for my 360! GREAT game, highly recommended! Can't comment on the PC version though, but games like Sacred 2 are just begging for mods, so I'd hope it has a large modding community. I also LOVED the Blind guardian quests, they're a great band! Never tried Torchlight, but I've heard many, MANY good things about it. I don't think you'd go wrong either way, but my vote goes for Sacred 2.

 

[Runding]

Here's my take on the two games:

Sacred 2 - Xbox version

Pros: Has a huge world with different locales. Ridable mounts including epic mounts. Has multiplayer.
Cons: Horrid voice acting, music is love it or hate it rock-metal, frequent loading screens in towns.

Torchlight - I've only played the demo but read a ton of reviews as I was going to buy it until I found out there was no multiplayer.

Pros: Very polished and has great graphics/art style.

Cons: The deal breaker for me was the lack of multiplayer. I love spending hours decking out my character to go show off my stuff online. Also, I've read over and over that the game is too easy.


I guess in the end it's up to your preference. Torchlight is a very casual friendly game with a great care of polish- however you spend the entire game in a single dungeon. Sacred 2 is a bit buggy and is very hardcore- there's not even an option to "respec" if you screw up on your build, forcing you to restart a new character. However if you want to play online then you will need to strongly consider Sacred 2.