Why all the hate?

[Albert Minigolf]

I know that this game is not really considered "Sacred" but is it still fun or is the hate cause the game isn't actually fun.

[Septimus Prime]

Awesome game if you like beat-em-up style smashing. Alot beautiful landscapes, zombies, etc. Altough guiding female voice is annoying but if you play alot you get used to it and in the end she will start to respect you and her tone changes...
Also armors, weapons and skills skins will change once you level them up.
At lvl 45-50 almost all upgrades are unlocked and evry class looks awesome.
It is also alot better than Gauntlet. But it is a Gauntlet-type game.
For full enjoyment it has also 2 extra storyline and 2 extra hero DLCs. Both worth getting.

[Chane]

I like the game. I understood that it's not Sacred before I bought it and I expected a nice hack and slay game and that's exactly what this game is. I even like the German dialogs and yes, they often make me smile. They are grotesque in a way that they are funny again and the speakers did a great job. The game is fun! It's just not Sacred.

[prpl_mage]

Expectations and dissapointment mostly. People expected another Sacred game, this isn't another Sacred game. it just happens to share the name.

Same thing kinda happened with diablo 3 upon release. A lot of people expected it to be exactly like diablo 2 but better graphics. So they didn't like the rune skill system, they didn't like that skills were unlocked by leveling, they didn't like that stat points were removed, that mercenaries couldn't be brought to multiplayer, that there wasn't any pvp, that there was no runewords, no horadic cube, no gamble, small inventory, that not all areas where completely seeded squares of monsters and so on.
People even complained about the look of Diablo himself. And that game is still really close to the previous 2 games. So logic dictates that this one would be recieved even worse.