Yesterday, my download for the game Sacred completed and I installed it. What a letdown. Its a Diablo-ripoff that doesn't even do the job properly. The character modeling is painfully kiddy and the animation is jerky on my P4 machine. Getting the game to run properly is challenging enough. Lots of If-Else logic involved. The worst thing of course, is the game itself. My elf couldn't shoot a single arrow. My seraphim couldn't swing her sword. The enemy characters simply stand there and a) kill each other b) ignore me. How fucking stupid is the AI anyway? Now, I'm a computing student and am reasonably bright. If I can't get the game to run properly (dormant enemies for godsakes!), then the game is screwed up, plain and simple.
So I uninstall it, only to find that the damnably stupid uninstallation program wiped out my mp3 codec along with the game (Sacred uses mp3 for its ambience. How amateurish.). As a result, Window Media Player couldn't play a single mp3. I had to reinstall the codecs, after realizing that re-installation of Media Player didn't help one bit. All these for a lousy game. I'm never going to play anything from Ascaron again. Ever.
The gods of copyrights previously mentioned must be having a ball. Bleah.