I just completed a quest in Sacred 2 called “Blind Guardian.” The gist of the quest is that a band hires our character to retrieve their instruments from undead, which are located in a few locations nearby.
First we recover the singer’s microphone, then two more locations to retrieve two guitars. In retrospect, those really should have given me a hint at what was to come, but at the time, no…
Once the instruments are recovered, each band member thanks you and you’re given the standard in-game reward of gold, XP, and some (awesome but my character can’t use them) weapons. Then, we’re treated to the real quest reward: a cinematic of the band playing a concert:
That is awesome! I wish more games (especially quest-heavy MMOGs) would bring full closure to quest lines and story lines with some type of cinematic, be it CGI or powered by the game’s engine. In this case, I was just laughing as a real band – turns out Blind Guardian is an actual band and the developers were fans – was featured in an otherwise fantasy game.
Sacred 2 is very slowly growing on me. My Dryad is level 16 now, and just got a new bow that glows with a green mist around it. I slapped a poison rune onto it for extra damage. DPS + Eye Candy = w00t 
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You’re aware this is the actual neo-prog band Blind Guardian, right?
Cool song
Too bad they didn’t have a demonic SYNTH PLAYER up on stage because there was definitely one in the mix…..
On 28.08.2009 there will be an Addon available.
Im still considering if i should buy it, im stuck in the Questline because of a bug…
But you know what the big problem is?
When I’d play Guild Wars and there was a cinematic at the end of the quest, I’d always get “5 of 6 party members want to skip this cinematic.” Naturally, I was the only one who actually wanted to watch it, and I’m sure the other players were thinking “OMFG tell his fookin noob to skip it and let’s go already!!!!1″
@Jason W: Yeah, we are thinking that but the great thing is that we can’t tell who skipped and who didn’t. Unless you told them in group chat that it was your first time, etc.
I rarely feel pressured to skip a scene if I don’t want to in Guild Wars because of that anonymity. But in DDO when we’re continuing quests or progressing quest chapters in the middle of a dungeon, the other players can see exactly who the noob is, so I end up skipping all the text and clicking OK just to keep up with them, which sucks the first time you’re there.