Risen Gameplay - Part 1/2

[miclane12]

i dont mean to be the only negative person, but you have a sword and shield, use it.

[Cauchemar89]

@miclane12 A sword I didn't skill - so I would deal barely any damage with it.

[BER2ERKER]

Fable blows. Its just like Mass Effect 2 (the 1st Mass Effect was a great rpg)... dumbed down b.s. to appeal to non-rpg players. Fable sucks, badly. But not as bad as Two Worlds 2; which is the worst rpg ever made Im pretty sure. Go get Demon's Souls if you have access to a PS3, thats a phenomenal rpg.

[Flightily]

Interesting video! Does the game help you auto-aim? Is there an option to not have auto-aiming in melee and ranged combat?

[Cauchemar89]

@Flightily The PC-version doesn't have any auto-aim at all.

[superdede1221]

This game and Fable:TLC are the best RPG's

[Vantazzy]

From all the RPG games I've played, Fable does cramp the crone on it's head... Sure, Oblivian, Risen, Elder Scrolls, Lands of Lore 2/3, they have huge maps to explore, but the real fun of it all has Fable. Sure, the game Nier, comes VERY close to Fable, but this game, Risen... I have it for the xbox360, but it gets bored after a while... So I've stopped buying these types of games, unless they come up with Fable 4 ofcoarse!!! :P

[starfry25]

so is there different classes i like playing the mage class. does this game have alot of magic?

[Cauchemar89]

@starfry25 There aren't really classes. You just start with your basic character, which you can skill him the way you want him to be. Fighter, Rogue, Mage whatever you want him to be.

The game has a humble amount of magic. Just the usual combat, utility, healing, conjuration and transformation spells.

[Yerizzo]

What is that following him? Nav'i?

[attitudeaddjustment]

I havent played the game but are you allowed to roam around after you finished the game?

[coocoobumbum]

I want to play so bad but i keep getting some key error that steam has to fix. shit ton of people are getting it.

[Narutoe240]

Its quite a good looking game visually and gameplay wise as well. But after watching a minute I sort of lost interest. Its very close to Oblivion and Elder scrolls and like those games, it seems like it gets boring after some time of exploring. Is there anything is this game that grabs at you after being in a certian area for a long period of time? Other than that I wouldn't mind trying it out.

[Cauchemar89]

@Narutoe240 What do you mean with "grabs at you after being in a certian area for a long period of time?"

Also well there's a free Demo available. And currently it's a weekend deal on Steam for just 15€/$.

[Narutoe240]

@Cauchemar89 What a bad sentence. lol. Does it get repeatative when going into different dungeons? Are they all the same, or do they each have a unique thing seperating them from one another? Also downloading the game off Steam.

[Cauchemar89]

@Narutoe240 The dungeons are quite varied. They all got a different feel, obstacles and mini-puzzles. At least it doesn't have the copy/paste feel of Oblivion's dungeons. Some of the traps are recurring though, but each of them are setup differently and sometimes need different tactics to get past them.

[attitudeaddjustment]

@Narutoe240 Not to mention Arcania gotihic sereis even the critics say so and that glowing light is similer to a spell that helps you get light in caves thats proof enough.

[CidSilverWing]

This game is disturbingly similar to Oblivion, played from 3rd person. Is magic even remotely effective in this game? (more importantly, do you get self-heal spells that actually HEAL you good?)

[Cauchemar89]

@CidSilverWing Magic is viable in this game. I got through as a mage without bigger troubles.

There are three main combat spells - fire, ice and lightning. In addition there are Runes with different effects. Those two can only be used by a mage (except for the teleport runes.). There are also scroll versions of the rune spells, which can used by every class but only once though. Heal spells do heal a good amount, but have a channeltime. So you can't use them in the middle of combat.

[J0eMusty]

can you go 1st person

[Roman9944]

gothic vs risen: gothic 3 have got more cities and friendly people.Risen got better story and magic spells.if u want to buy one of them i prefer risen for nice story :)

[GeoAgeAlien13]

It looks really hard to kill a mob but its fine with me i still like this game :)

[ChodeofSin]

Graphics are nice. Do you have to kite the mobs with arrows like that a lot? I'd prefer to be more engaged in combat, but once in awhile kiting would be ok I guess.

[Cauchemar89]

@ChodeofSin The character I built in this video was for pure ranged combat. So that's why I kept my distance. But the classic frontal assault is possible as well with the right skilling.

[GeoAgeAlien13]

@Cauchemar89

You are awesome with archery man

[ChodeofSin]

@Cauchemar89 I get it a bit more as I ended up installing the demo, this game is very fun and detailed. I like the control system. Thanks.

[CrazyPandaGamer]

This sure looks like a beautiful game, and it certainly looks satisfying, but I noticed I got quite bored in Oblivion quickly, does this game keep you on your toes?

[Cauchemar89]

@CrazyPandaGamer Unlike Oblivion Risen focuses more on a smaller world and more linear story. So you got less liberty than in Oblivion where you could go wherever and do whatever you want. In this game you got a small, but nicely detailed island to explore. Like I said the story gets quite linear after an open beginning chapter, but it's not too bad.

The game is at least more immersive than Oblivion since it's more credible and less artificial than the Elder Scrolls IV.

[Emilianol46]

@Cauchemar89 WHAAAAAT?!?! lmao

[GeoAgeAlien13]

@CrazyPandaGamer

The only way to find out is to play men

[Tibor567]

Super

[pro707]

For $20-$30 this game is WAAAAAY worth the money. Don't believe what the douchey mainstream critics say.

[WAXstudios]

i take it same developers as the gothic games? Worth buying?

[Cauchemar89]

@WAXstudios It is from the same developers and yes it's worth buying.

[IANR632]

Is this a free roam game?

[pro707]

@IANR632 Yes 

[GeoAgeAlien13]

@IANR632

I think not,but ask someone else too,i'm not really sure it may be.

[TheInevitableTaunt]

is this a free roam type game?

[airjetsrka]

does he ever engage a mell fight?

[HoshiroAkatsuka]

Risen have, what's funny' pretty low requirements. It looks worse than Gothic 3 for me. Lighting effects are not the whole game, graphics do not make the right mood. That's my opinion, even my friends have PC on which Gothic 3 lags and Risen works pretty smoothly. Weird games.

[malphus00]

rendom question but can this game go online?

[Hulkamania246]

if i liked gothic 1 and 2 will i enjoy this?

[Cauchemar89]

@Hulkamania246 I'd say so.Risen generally gives this typical Gothic feeling from the first two games.

[NCONiall]

Just love the sound effects this is a cla game too bad alot of ppl don't don't know about it :(

[soldier101000]

is this game better to play on the 360 or pc?

[Cauchemar89]

@soldier101000 I'd say PC. Even though I never played the 360 one. But the handling it's certainly more convenient with a mouse instead of a joystick.

[Altair4359]

cooll game i want itt

[sutzu]

2 developers continuing the making the same series = win

[Spoc1012]

Trivia, what was the very first role playing game ever created.

[lilbribriboy]

@Spoc1012 braunstein

[Spoc1012]

@lilbribriboy correct! you are freaking awesome.

[lilbribriboy]

@Spoc1012 yay me

[PtzEasyHack]

@Spoc1012 which ever one resulted in your birth.

[jarjar231]

is this online for xbox 360?

[zazazom]

would you recomend this game?

[bravocmdr]

4:28 wth?

[skibidyboparoo]

oblivion game play is one of the best there is out right now besides online shooters so all adventure games are going to have to copy it somewhat just to sell a game until virtual reality gaming comes out. Bethesda has also been around since ms-dos so of course here going to make awesome titles. if you ever played elder scrolls: the arena that's a good classic which started morrowind and oblivion. what I'm trying to say is games have to copy each other to sell now in days.

[SKTroop979]

oh lmfao

[fraserburger]

Also, is this better on Xbox360 or pc?

[eclipsez0r]

@fraserburger every game is better on pc, noob

[fraserburger]

Will this game work for windows 7? if so, my pc specs are: 3gb ram, 160gb hard drive, 64 bit version of windows 7, AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 (i have no clue what that means or if it's any good), and AMD Sempron M120 2.1 GHz processor, and DirectX 11. I have no idea if these specs are good or not.

[sigmapsicharlie]

@fraserburger The Rad 4200 on your laptop is actually one of the better mobile GPU's out there, but I think the Sempron CPU may be the thing that will hold you system back. Everything else is good, you could play this game just at Medium settings.

[Rushthatspeaks]

I had to let the Don's men beat me up and steal some of my gold then they stopped beating on me and let me in to speak to the Don. Talk about poor programming.

[hungarianguardian]

how did you get this shield?:O

[Godspeedos]

Note to self - need to order more henchmen

[cfinch7874]

Note to self - learn how to use bow/arrow

[willhex]

lmao... i can't... stop laughing...

[SKTroop979]

wait what? need for speed? wtf....

[Cauchemar89]

What...?

[GreenOneAgain]

WHAAAAT ????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[diamondboy9]

this or divinty 2?

plz reply cos im going today

[Cauchemar89]

This.

[ariesas]

ciulpkit bybi duhai

[wildcard126]

if only it wus first person..... :(

[SKTroop979]

@wildcard126 how would play this game in first person? combat would suck.. lmao

[cfinch7874]

@SKTroop979 Oblivion is in first person and it rocks. In fact, this look like Oblvion in 3rd person.

[SKTroop979]

well maybe i shouldnt be talking cuz i never played either this or Oblivion but it actually would be pretty cool...lol

[gmcglothern]

looks great, the only thing i don't like is the item icons, but thats a silly preference of mine, they look to cartoony for me, the actual game though looks bad ass

[faustobuster3]

Good gameplay cauchemar!!

[adarons]

wow your all stupid play more games

[Cauchemar89]

Mkay.

[kiberkaos]

Risen is just a WoW copy of Gothic 3. It's Piranha bytes answer to JoWood. So if you liked G3, you'l like this. I personally favour NoTR over it, third part isnt exactly a sequel to Gothic!

[Cauchemar89]

I got no clue why you would consider this as a "WoW copy of Gothic 3", especially since the content of Risen is way smaller than the one of WoW and Gothic 3.

[kiberkaos]

Well you'we got no clue all right.

[kiberkaos]

What do you mean by 'content'?! Yes, WoW has 350 different plants, so we have 350 ''different'' collecting quests. Oh, G3 has more content than Risen?! Have you ever played the game!?

[Cauchemar89]

Ok, let's compare...

Risen has one town, plus some camps and a monastery - similiar to Gothic II. Gothic 3 had a crapload of different towns and villages.

Risen plays on one rather small island. Gothic 3 plays on the mainland with even different climate regions.

Risen has a guild system like Gothic 1 and 2 used to have - Gothic 3 not really... you just 95% of the game kissing ass of a fraction until they trust you enough and then you get 1-2 anticlimactic endquests.

Any questions left?

[kiberkaos]

Yes, well, in G3 there may be 150 towns, but all together can hardly be as big as Harbour Town or Khorinis, and yet, all look the same, have same quests,only three talkable NPCs and so on. Even Mora Sul, one of the biggest towns in G3 has only two streets and could be compared to Gutters. In fact, by population of talkable NPCs you would see that Gutters is bigger than Mora Sul. Stop wasting my time if you dont know what you're talking about.

[derboZZ1609]

/facepalm

[Cauchemar89]

So a game with basically only one huge town comes closer the the concept of WoW than another game with several small, same looking towns and repetitive quests?

Boy, your logic is sure stunning.

[kiberkaos]

Concept of WoW?! What the hell are you talking about?You cant compare WoW with G3! And why would you want to? I said that Risen is WoW wersion of G3! None of the games are similiar to it, I just said Risen looks a lot more like it. Even the beasts are similiar!

And thank you about the compliment of my logic, shame only you are too stupid to understand it!

[Cauchemar89]

You know what? Forget it. Just forget it. Think whatever you want to think, even though your whole opinion seems to be schizophrenic as fuck.

But fine, I don't give a damn anymore.

[nubix223]

omg why is everybody saying this wow wasint the first rpg!!! so than every rpg would have to have some elements of it in it!

[Brainiac83]

Theres alot of elements in wow from Gothic. And RPGs go way back..Long before wow..

[Killer555222]

WTF r u talking about?!

[LaMOi1]

this game looks really bad..... is it?

[Cauchemar89]

It's... I would say unusual.

Compared to all the other RPGs nowadays Risen is more straightforward.

No huge gaming worlds, instead a lovely, handcrafted one; no convoluted story, instead a simple, easily understandable one; and so on and so on.

And this simplicity is actually quite refreshing when you're sick of Bethesda's copy/paste gaming worlds and Bioware's story clusterfucks.

[jewboaca]

Can this be played in first person?

[Cauchemar89]

Sadly not.

[hekasoram]

i wonder.. i have tried to putt all my skills, like 8 point in Crossbow, but i didn't see nay noticeable difference in the speed of drawing.. it looks like draws still slow; in the bow you can see it, why is that>? and what bow do you use?

[Cauchemar89]

Well the Crossbow has a slower drawing speed in general, so you'll never get the speed you get with the bow. But when I skilled in bow I also didn't notice a greater drawing speed until I maxed it out.

And the bow in the video is a War Bow.

[hekasoram]

yeah, i understand, but I made some math about how many arrows/bolts can be iferd with both weapons and in 30 sec of fireing I got more damage per total with the crossbow that wiith the bow - the crossbow has 120 dmg and the Titan Bow 80, i think; i don't remenber exactly now but when I calulated the crossbow even with it's slow speed of reloading came fisrt :) thanks

[thepienoob]

reminds me of gothic

[Cainsgames]

well, the same company made both...

[spinafire]

This looks like a cool game! Maybe I should get it... :D

[UnofficialVenetica]

Looks Great.

I'm heading to Bandit Camp.

To join them so I can use a bow.

[popace]

I give you an advice. Train yourself for dexterity and bow. So you can deliver lot's of damage with a bow. Then immediately learn alchemy! You will be able to create a potion, which permanently gives you 15 points of strenght. Make a few of those and you'll have a big dex and lot's of strenght. So you can train yourself sword fighting too, and can handle the big boy swords :) The best combination in the whole game as I found out. Delivers lot's of damage and kills quickly without much HP loss :)

[denivish]

Looks a little lame.

[A108MI]

I keep reading on Risen forums that bows are worthless ... but your video shows that even in the temples, bows are great weapons. Good job.

[Cauchemar89]

Using the bow only is at parts a bit annoying, since you sometimes lack the space for Hit'n'run in the temples.

What helps there is either conjuring a skeleton as cannon fodder or using a "Transform into ashbeast"-scroll.

[deathwaitsfornoone]

i would get it if i had a good computer always more expensive 4 xbox

[dippsydenejkine]

Cauchemar have you heard how this game is banned in Australia? Surprising, but what is more surprising is the fact that this game already has plenty of torrents. Looks like a great game, but too much like Oblivion and Gothic 3.

[Cauchemar89]

Tsk... now that's just ridiculous. They banned the game because it supposedly incentivizes sex and drugs... Fine, in Risen you can smoke weed and you can copulate with a prostitute, but it's far from incentivizing. Heck, you don't even see how the main character enjoys himself with his rented courtesan. The screen goes black and lightens up a couple of seconds later - that's it. Maybe a quick dirty remark but not more. And the weed... well you can smoke it - not more, not less.

[mistertakeda]

He just talks to them. He's incapable of doing much more than that. Unless you find him the right drugs, anyway.

[ManOnCrackAkaYourMom]

Cauche..Remeber Gothic 2 ;) or 3.. whichever. this game is SICK my friend, but the gothic series is seriously one of the BEST of its kind. Some people say Oblivion, i say Gothic. do i need to beg? please do another of the gothic series.. no need to reply just take it in mind!!!!!!

[stickmanjr54]

hm...looks like fable maybe ill try it some time =o

[Cainsgames]

OMG you playing risen? And do you like it? R u going to lp it?

[Cauchemar89]

You know... there are games, which can be LP'ed and some which you need to expierence yourself. Risen is one of the latter.