It might be a bit strange, but I’ve started to really dislike action RPGs. Not because they’re not perfectly good and enjoyable games, but because they ruin my life. I literally can’t play a MMORPG for more than a month, because I end up playing them for 10-12 hours a day. And what about offline action RPGs? Well, there was Diablo 2 and its excellent expansion. That game took up ridiculous amounts of my time for an entire year. Not too long ago Encore released the game Sacred; a game that borrows a fair amount of Diablo 2’s proven game mechanics. Even so I wouldn’t call Sacred a Diablo 2 clone, because the setting and story differ by a lot, and it has some neat ideas that haven’t been used much before.