Sacred 2 Fallen Rand

Ten days too long, I know, right? or maybe for some of you, ten days wasn't long enough in between blog posts. Anyway, there's a good reason, but it's also a bad reason. My laptop decided to not display anything correctly, about a week ago. Long-story-short, I called HP, they said the monitor didn't count as hardware so it wasn't covered, and I've been sitting here thinking of ways to either fix my computer, persuade HP that it is covered, and/or buy a new LCD monitor for $300.00; none of which I really want to do.

Besides all that, in my gaming life I started up Sacred 2 a week ago and haven't stopped playing since. Literally, I think I've played every minute of every day since I've gotten the game. No, wait, that's Stallion and his Super Weapon on Chromehounds... I've only played all but a few hours every day.

I don't know where to begin with Sacred 2. The game some-what reminds me of Runescape, an MMORPG that I used to play when I was younger, which was as addicting as WoW is for some people. I've never actually played WoW, though, so I wouldn't exactly know, but it's up there.

We (Omega, Fro, Bro, and I) originally got Sacred 2 together to enjoy the loveliness that is co-op. We ran through the story 1.5 times and that's been about it. It lasted about 20 hours, and we still have to go through it 2.5 more times together.

On the single-player side of the game, I've been in a whore-type mode for some reason. 50 hours and counting, and I just completed my first campaign solo. I've done pretty much everything I can do in the game, with about 820 in it already. I have to play the Silver, Gold, and Platin campaigns before I can enjoy the full 1000 though. Even though I'm 70 hours in, it could very well take another 70 hours to do just that.

The map on Sacred 2 is so huge, that it makes Oblivion look like a playground; Sacred being the town. There are so many things to do, explore, and fight. The leveling system is one of the hardest to understand at first, though. It took me a really long time before I knew what everything was.

Besides that, this has easily become one of my favorite games. Even though the next 70 hours are just going to be gaining levels, it's the first 50 that really count, right Too Human? Right.