Comments on: Fantasy World Fantasy: Risen

By: perilisk

perilisk — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:24:11 +0000

If you could actually get the games to play without major bugs, and could get over the fact that the story was shite, and could deal with the horrendous melee combat system and the fact that magic was worthless, the games were great.

No, that wasn’t sarcasm. For all the problems I had with them, overall I don’t regret getting Gothic 1 and 2 (never tried 3, though).

By: D

Thu, 07 May 2009 16:40:36 +0000

Such a pity that for everyone posting happily about these good looking videos from a promising game, theres someone in the corner going
“Palms?! NO SALE!”
“No classes?! NO SALE!”
“Real-time?! NO SALE!”

Wait and see people, please!

By: Sinnerman

Sinnerman — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:37:17 +0000

@toro: In all, sarcasm free, honesty I don’t enjoy the style of real time combat in most Euro RPGs like Gothic. Deal breaker for me.

By: Voice of the Majority

Voice of the Majority — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:49:05 +0000

I really hope they can keep the game size under control this time. In G2 there was talk about going to an island at the end and they traveled with a ship to…a cave.
G3 is vast, but they clearly didn’t have time to work with the story or factions. You can’t fix that with patching.

By: toro

toro — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:19:23 +0000

Jeez, Gothic I and Gothic II are way better that any TES game. Because the games were not made in US, they didn’t have the proper exposure in the main stream media as gamespot. Is true that Gothic3 was a bug mess, however Risen is closer to the previous games. And at this point, everything looks good (except the combat system).
Resin: Any serious gamer would have the decency to stfu about games they did not play.
Sinnerman: Turn-based!? Too much sarcasm for one post.

By: army of none

army of none — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:05:36 +0000

The music reminds me of Stronghold!

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:51:20 +0000

If you can trigger an eruption and then channel the lava into populated areas, then and only then is the presence of a volcano a feature.

By: Taillefer

Taillefer — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:39:39 +0000

The Gothic games are easily as..wait, did you just insult the mission design of Thief?

By: Resin

Resin — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:42:33 +0000

“The Gothics have chapters, and a pre-fabricated hero, and yet you have a lot more freedom what to do (and how to develop your character) than in many, many other RPGs.

I am not sure why an active volcano would bother you. :)”

Well, okay. I haven’t played the Gothic games so I don’t really know. The RPG I really liked (big surprise) was Morrowind. What I thought was most distinguishing was the open world design, when I read chapters and one character I started thinking it will be more like Thief. I loved the idea of a good stealth based game, but those missions and the lame story just killed it for me. I did not want to be called ‘Garrett’. The active volcano just seems like a slightly over-used story cliche – I leaped over lava pitts in the Super Mario bros. – yet they are touting it as some great thing, when to me it just says – more linear storytelling.

I hope it does have some freedom to it, because it is graphicly very impressive. I just don’t see it based on their site is all.

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:29:54 +0000

Looks too much like G3. Hope it’s very different in feel.

@Chaz. What’s wrong with G2′s combat? Sure the controls are weird compared to what one may be used to, but after you get past that combat’s fine. Now in G3, it wasn’t fine anyway.

By: unclelou

unclelou — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:29:08 +0000

The combat in G3 was bad – in Gothic 2, which used a completely different system, I thought it was fantastic. The closest an real-time RPG has come to proper melee combat.

If you kept getting killed in Gothic 2, you most likely were somewehre where you shouldn’t have been at that point.

No, I’m not impressed. I don’t care for an RPG where I don’t get to choose my role.

The Gothics have chapters, and a pre-fabricated hero, and yet you have a lot more freedom what to do (and how to develop your character) than in many, many other RPGs.

I am not sure why an active volcano would bother you. :)

By: Chaz

Chaz — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:15:15 +0000

I really wanted to like Gothic 2&3 but the combat was just so bad that I hardly got anywhere in either of them. Which was a shame because I felt like I was missing out on something a bit different from the usual RPG clichés.