Sacred Remaster

[puRe]

After watching the Diablo 2 remaster last night, I instantly thought about Sacred, which is probably my favorite ARPG to this day. I would really love to see a careful remaster someday. Keep the gameplay 1:1 and just give the graphics an overhaul, just like D2 Resurrected seems to be.

[Tomatos208]

вот его то как раз и не будет)))

[◊ jaco ◊ de]

Sacred was my first ARPG and I had a lot of fun with it.
At that time diablo II was to low res to enjoy for me.
After that I only played titan quest and wolcen recently.
Now I'm looking forward to the diablo II remaster.

Would love to see a high res remaster or maybe a carefully remade Sacred I.
Didn't like the second one.
THQ Nordic bought the rights 2020. Maybe there is a remaster in development right now.

[DotaFSS]

Originally posted by puRe:

After watching the Diablo 2 remaster last night, I instantly thought about Sacred, which is probably my favorite ARPG to this day. I would really love to see a careful remaster someday. Keep the gameplay 1:1 and just give the graphics an overhaul, just like D2 Resurrected seems to be.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/thqnordicofficial/discussions/0/2248929785820547336/

[DotaFSS]

Originally posted by THQ Nordic:

There are plans for our new franchises. That is all I can say.

[wolfwarrior]

yay

[Melinda Safitri]

Originally posted by puRe:

After watching the Diablo 2 remaster last night, I instantly thought about Sacred, which is probably my favorite ARPG to this day. I would really love to see a careful remaster someday. Keep the gameplay 1:1 and just give the graphics an overhaul, just like D2 Resurrected seems to be.

i want sacred remastered... not for sacred 3, because sacred 3 is trash

[Donitsi]

Originally posted by Melinda Safitri:

Originally posted by puRe:

After watching the Diablo 2 remaster last night, I instantly thought about Sacred, which is probably my favorite ARPG to this day. I would really love to see a careful remaster someday. Keep the gameplay 1:1 and just give the graphics an overhaul, just like D2 Resurrected seems to be.

i want sacred remastered... not for sacred 3, because sacred 3 is trash

"Sacred 3" doesn't exist. It's totally different game with name Sacred slapped on it.

[Cast]

Sacred ReBorn HD mod is all you need. Once you play the game in true full hd (without streching), you don't need a remaster. Although sure -- I'd still want an officiale one.

edit: ReBorn used to add fake hd, but the most recent version finally adds true HD:
https://imgur.com/a/Rg98Jvz

I forced antialiasing x2 in my radeon software control panel for the sacredreborn.exe
Character models look way better this way. I'm sure it's possible for nvidia as well.
https://imgur.com/a/81rFvIc

I don't recommend more than x2 anti-aliasing because it will cause graphics artifacts.

[Melinda Safitri]

Originally posted by Cast:

Sacred ReBorn HD mod is all you need. Once you play the game in true full hd (without streching), you don't need a remaster. Although sure -- I'd still want an officiale one.

u mean this? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1932965845 why the graphics looks not different with original game? we need sacred with new graphics. :) thats why we need sacred Remaster..

[Cast]

Graphics are OK as they are for me, I don't feel the need to update once they are high-resolution as I see other parts in which the game lacks.

I still would like to see the remaster of course! It could add better graphics, sure, but if they only added widescreen support that would be fine for me as well.

In remaster I would like to see some online play seasons and online-only characters so there is no way to cheat and you can compete with other players on official servers, something like PoE/Diablo III. Of course it would be optional.

Then I would do something with the endgame. I feel like hitting max level takes too long. I'd delete one game difficulty and set some normal max. level like 100 (or 150) and not 216.

Then I wish there would be some more/different endgame content. These are loose ideas of course.

[puRe]

Originally posted by Cast:

Sacred ReBorn HD mod is all you need.

Thank you, I'll give this a try.

Originally posted by DotaFSS:

Originally posted by THQ Nordic:

There are plans for our new franchises. That is all I can say.

Lets be patient then, sadly this isn't one of my strengths.

[Red Sun]

I know I'm resurrecting an old thread, but I was doing some homework last night to track down the IP. My goal was to figure out who owns the IP so I could ask them for the source, even under NDA, so I could do a high resolution patch. What I found, however, is a LOT more exciting.

Ascaron went belly up in 2008 and sold the IP to Deep Silver, a division of Plaion / Koch Media, a subsidiary of Embracer Group. In May of 2020, Deep Silver traded the Sacred (and Risen and a few other) IP to THQ Nordic (another subsidiary of Embracer Group). From what I can find, THQ initiated the trade and asked for specific IP.

Here's the really exciting part. THQ has already released several full remakes of old games. Gothic and Comanche are two examples showcased on their homepage.

The rest is purely speculation: THQ has shown that they are interested in remaking old games for modern gamers and they specifically traded for the Sacred IP 2 years ago. So I THINK (hope) that THQ is planning to remake Sacred and we might see announcements from them on that front in a couple years.

[HiFive]

Originally posted by Red Sun:

Here's the really exciting part. THQ has already released several full remakes of old games. Gothic and Comanche are two examples showcased on their homepage.

The rest is purely speculation: THQ has shown that they are interested in remaking old games for modern gamers and they specifically traded for the Sacred IP 2 years ago. So I THINK (hope) that THQ is planning to remake Sacred and we might see announcements from them on that front in a couple years.

Interesting. Have you looked at the remakes they've already done? Are they good? Are the players happy with the remakes?

[Lolhahaha]

A couple more years? Does it really take half a decade to remake a 20 year old game?

[Halloween]

Hopefully THQ Nordic announces something this summer or fall.