Comments on: The Risen Report #1: Tourist

By: Introspective

Introspective — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:14:26 +0000

This is a very good review. I’ve been playing Risen since it came out and my character has attained level 8, and I’ve upgraded my weapons and armor. The game story line goes linear at the beginning, but the game open up later. Then you can tho what ever you want. For me this game is far better than Oblivion.

By: jalf

jalf — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:33:57 +0000

The difference might be that most films have decent voice acting in the original language. For one thing, they’re voiced by the people actually playing the roles.

Whereas with games, it is often equally lousy in any language. It doesn’t matter if it’s the English, Polish or Spanish version of the game. In every case, they just pulled people off the street, gave them a copy of the script, and recorded whatever they said. More or less…

(And yeah, to be fair, I know there are plenty of skilled voice actors, and some of them even work with games. But they’re often not given a chance to actually do decent work. it doesn’t matter how good a voice actor you are if you’re just asked to read from a script)

By: Brainfart

Brainfart — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:41:37 +0000

Speaking of ‘sexism’, I think you’d be surprised at the amount of influence a woman can have over her husband if she threatens to withold food. Don’t mess with the fellow who does the cooking.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:15:14 +0000

“you as a grown up men should not pretend that you are fighting for women’s rights ;)”

Why not?

Why the hell not?

Srsly… why can’t men care about women’s rights? What rule would Alec be breaking here?

And how is it more “honest” to evade the issue by making a crass remark about tits?

In case you think my comment is too confrontational, allow me to end it with a conspiratorial winky emoticon, as if to say, “we’re all in this together, bro!” (The hell we are.)

;)

By: Will

Will — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:26:58 +0000

Thanks for getting me interested in this – I downloaded the demo (took two tries…) and I’ve spent an hour or so on it. Decent first impression and I like the environments, but I can see where some of the complaints are coming from – the tutorial works quite well if you do things in the right order, but it’s really easy not to. My first go was like this:

“Explore the beach”
I explore the beach, following a trail of juicy looking shellfish (Lost in Blue instincts kicking in) to find a vulture. I have no weapon. I click but nothing happens. I die. I discover (in the controls menu) that I needed to press the middle mouse button. Then I try again and the vulture kills me despite my valiant punching.

On a later attempt I found a decent sword tucked away in a corner, and I got told how to enter combat by Sara, but I think a pinch more direction (not letting you wander off and die instantly) in the first five minutes would make things less frustrating. If the designers absolutely refuse to railroad you at the start then a context sensitive tutorial (tell you about fighting when you first have to fight) would be a reasonable option.

Anyway, after some enjoyable wandering later, I found a small ruin, went in, thought “this is creepy” and died instantly in a trap. I guess that one was my own fault – it clearly wasn’t a good place to be and I didn’t have much health.

Still, it’s showing promise and I like Sara for having a believable voice (the venison line was great) let’s hope there are more decent voice actors in there later on.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:24:47 +0000

Four? I thought even Gothic loyalists thought 3 was crap?

Still, your point is well taken. I can’t even justify a $10 purchase with the unholy backlog of PC games I have at the moment (damned weekend sales) but I’ll make a point of picking up Gothic 2 the next time I need a game in the genre.

By: TeeJay

TeeJay — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:32:52 +0000

“Do any women read/comment on this site?”

It would be extremely bizarre to think that no women read this site surely? Or are you just asking for someone to identify themself as female and give an opinion about Risen?

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:17:54 +0000

The way I would look at it is this: if you can get past those two things (and they weren’t hard to get past, for me), you’ve just come across not one but -four- giant RPGs full of goodness to sink your teeth into. And if not, you’re only out $10, which is surely a lot better than being out $50 on Risen.

(You may be able to find them cheaper than $10 elsewhere, also. I just figure GoG’s easy and reliable.)

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:45:16 +0000

Starting to become interested in Risen now I have to say :)

By: toro

toro — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:30:09 +0000

@neems: First time I saw Fred, I was laughed like a insane rabbit. This is the best sidekick that I had from the times were Morte was roaming the land. :D

By: toro

toro — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:14:07 +0000

I’m a huge Gothic fan, but there is one game that is better that Gothic at his own game. It’s Arx Fatalis. But better is a harsh word, most likely equal.

By: toro

toro — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:09:14 +0000

You are validated.