Sacred 2 Gold for North America

The one real difference that needs to be made in the US version is to the save system--there isn't one. I've been playing the UK version, which has been heavily ridiculed for "only having one save slot". But, this is not true. There is actually NO real saving, only continuing. You can't load a saved game. You have to exit to reload, but it's not really reloading a player save, because you can't leave the game without saving--there's no "exit", only "save and exit". Thus, you're saving whatever state you wanted to undo by reloading in the first place. There is a "quicksave feature", but it just updates the one save and it's loaded when you start--there is no quicksave versus regular save option. In fact, the quicksave is automatically erased the next time you start the game or when you die!

This is death for any RPG, even an action RPG, because it kills experimentation. There is no risk-free experimentation because nothing is undo-able. Accidentally sold a final set-piece at a merchant? Sorry, it's lost forever. Spent 2 hours reaching a remote area and died? Sorry, you get to do it all over again with all monsters restored.

Some say this was done to simplify the system for consoles, but given that the DRM system uses savegame corruption as a protection technique, I think the true purpose is obvious...

Rant over.

Anyone else get funny messages in the console when they load this up? http://www.shackpics.com/files/sacredlolz_7gqbluhnqh7l1zzuu1ln.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h6S-Em6ddk
Yea :|

What was the N America delay for? Did they fix anything? Cuz the demo wasnt that impressive.

thought that said starcraft 2, i was in shock

still good news, however.