Risen, Divinity: II

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I have been playing the Witcher lately, and I really feel like playing some good singleplayer rpgs. Risen and Divinity II interest me. Is $40 dollars the cheapest you can get Risen for? What about DRM, I heard it is crappy on that title... and I think $50 is the going price for Divinity: II. If this is the cheapest for either ill just wait for a price drop, which is hopefully soon.
 
Krieger91 said:
I have been playing the Witcher lately, and I really feel like playing some good singleplayer rpgs. Risen and Divinity II interest me. Is $40 dollars the cheapest you can get Risen for? What about DRM, I heard it is crappy on that title... and I think $50 is the going price for Divinity: II. If this is the cheapest for either ill just wait for a price drop, which is hopefully soon.
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I had my eyes on Risen going on sale through Direct2Drive during Christmas. Unfortunately, they pulled the game from the sale list at the last second. I'm waiting for the $20 range to pick that up.
 
Tzzird said:
I had my eyes on Risen going on sale through Direct2Drive during Christmas. Unfortunately, they pulled the game from the sale list at the last second. I'm waiting for the $20 range to pick that up.
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Darn, I tried searching ebay and whatnot.. just about the same damn price. I've got the "single player rpg" fever going on here lol!
 
If you haven't played already, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines will fulfill the itch.
 
I bought Risen on Steam and haven't had any problems with DRM. Risen is worth every penny of $50. It's such a great game. Divinity II is a good game, but I personally feel Risen is better.
 
GregP24 said:
I bought Risen on Steam and haven't had any problems with DRM. Risen is worth every penny of $50. It's such a great game. Divinity II is a good game, but I personally feel Risen is better.
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No longer on steam :/
 
I would not pay full price for Divinity 2, it has many hours of fun, but there are a few parts that lack near the end.
 
divinity 2 is a good game, $50.00 would be too much for it though,
but risen is a far superior game, definately worth $50
 
Why is risen so expensive? It should be in the $5 bins by now for a game with mediocre reviews. Yet I barely even see any copies on ebay.
 
I also give my vote for Risen. I've played both and enjoyed Risen far more than Divinity 2.

If you liked the Gothic series then you'll love Risen and likely already be well acquainted with the game-play mechanics. Conversely, if you hated the Gothic series then you will want to stay away from Risen as it's essentially Gothic 4 with a different setting and story.
 
Well personally I dont understand what everyone is saying. I enjoyed the witcher alot and I absolutely hated risen. In fact I couldnt even finish the game. To each his own I guess, but I personally would not recommend spending $40 on it.
 
There's demos you can download for both. I tried both demos and went with Risen. No regrets so far.
 
anonmoniker said:
Why is risen so expensive? It should be in the $5 bins by now for a game with mediocre reviews. Yet I barely even see any copies on ebay.
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Screw the reviews - and no way should this game be in the bargain bin. I bought every game imaginable last year, and Risen was my game of the year, beating out Dragon Age and about 48 other titles.

I loved Risen - every minute of it.

It's available at D2D.
 
Risen is one of the best games I played last year on any platform. It's one of the best RPGs I've played in several years easily.

Is it perfect? Hell no. It's uneven as hell in the third and fourth acts (people that played know what I'm talking about) and there's a few relatively minor Gothic 3 like glitches although this is far and away the most perfected product these guys have ever shipped out to the streets. I never ran into any game killing glitches like I did back in the days when Gothic 3 first hit the streets.


I would love to see a Risen 2 happen some day.

I need to try Divinity 2. I have no idea why Risen is no longer on Steam. That's silly.


You can get Risen on Amazon, Direc2Drive, and probably some other places. Look around a little bit. :)



Parmenides said:
If you haven't played already, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines will fulfill the itch.
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Everyone needs to play this amazing game, yes.

I want a sequel SO badly.
 
man... a sequel .... words can't express.


I keep forgetting about the demos for Risen and Dvinity. I need to try these out. What are the main problems with Risen?
 
Parmenides said:
What are the main problems with Risen?
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Some minor glitches here and there. Nothing terribly serious.

Uneven second half from a narrative and pacing standpoint.

The game doesn't hold your hand from the word go which isn't a problem but a warning to people who may be used to games that hold their hands for them.

Some people got frustrated and quit too fast because you start out as a weak scrub and just about every fight is a pretty hefty challenge.

If you're patient the game rewards you in spades for performance and for exploring.
 
terrible animations too... clunky feeling combat. Otherwise, great game. I doubt I will ever install it again for another playthrough, though. I got my 35 hours out of it.
 
Haven't played Divinity 2, but Risen is a great game.Very much like Gothic 3 with better graphics and level design.

As mentioned, I'm undecided as to whether this is a pro or a con, but you start out so weak that the first couple hours of play pretty much anything in the game can kill you with a couple hits.
 
Krieger91 said:
No longer on steam :/
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EHHH?! :confused: Why? I bought it last year. I better still be able to download / play it through steam!

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What are the main problems with Risen?
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The first couple of chapters in the game were some of the best SP RPG gaming hours I have ever experienced. Great story, lots of quests in my journal, got to explore a ton of places and talk to a ton of people and really make your mark on the land. Then chapter3 and 4 come along. For the last 8 or 10 hours of the game, I had ONE quest in my log. Total railroad straight to the end of the game. I still had a blast though, just a bit turned off due to chapt 3 and 4.
 
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KenG10 said:
EHHH?! :confused: Why? I bought it last year. I better still be able to download / play it through steam!
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You can.

People just can't buy it any longer on Steam due to some strange contract issue or something.
 
I played both demos, risen looked great and ran wonderfully on max graphics. Divinity 2.. well I really really wanted to like it but the graphics seemed really lacking and it didn't run very well. If only it did, maybe I was missing something?
 
my dream game would be if they took the risen engine and put it into the gothic 3 game world. no doubt not going to happen. It is a solid enjoyable game. Early problems had a fog issue with some video cards, since resolved. For myself I guess I will do gothic 2 then the expansion. Graphics not as pretty but everyone loves the games.
 
KenG10 said:
EHHH?! :confused: Why? I bought it last year. I better still be able to download / play it through steam!



The first couple of chapters in the game were some of the best SP RPG gaming hours I have ever experienced. Great story, lots of quests in my journal, got to explore a ton of places and talk to a ton of people and really make your mark on the land. Then chapter3 and 4 come along. For the last 8 or 10 hours of the game, I had ONE quest in my log. Total railroad straight to the end of the game. I still had a blast though, just a bit turned off due to chapt 3 and 4.
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LOL!

This is so true. And yet, I still loved the damned game. For me, this title renewed my faith in gaming. It was a transporting title.
 
Q-BZ said:
They're working on Gothic 4. I bet that comes close. :)
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Gothic 4 is not being developed by the guys that did Gothic's 1 - 3 or Risen, Piranha Bytes. Spellbound is working on Gothic 4, which is being called Arcania. Early screenshots look good but who knows how good the gameplay will actually be and how well it performs.
 
Gothic 3 was a pretty vast world. 3 continents and they all looked different. Each continent had 6+ towns. Risen by comparison had ~3 towns/areas. Even the Gothic 3 expansion they removed 2 continents.
 
Played both, both of them have issues in the latter part of the game tbh, just kinda easy and your character is just overpowered. Up until then it was all good tho.
 
Arioch said:
Gothic 4 is not being developed by the guys that did Gothic's 1 - 3 or Risen, Piranha Bytes. Spellbound is working on Gothic 4, which is being called Arcania. Early screenshots look good but who knows how good the gameplay will actually be and how well it performs.
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Thanks for the information. :)
 
Krieger91 said:
I played both demos, risen looked great and ran wonderfully on max graphics. Divinity 2.. well I really really wanted to like it but the graphics seemed really lacking and it didn't run very well. If only it did, maybe I was missing something?
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It took me a little while to get into Divinity 2; It starts off soooo slow. And you're right, the game engine just isn't very well optimized. I had to leave the shadow detail at low just to get an acceptable frame rate.

In the end I actually couldn't finish Divinity 2. At around 15 hours in I felt like the game had started to change pace and I was losing interest. It also didn't help that I still had a few hours to go before getting a place to stash my loot (and I'm a huge pack-rat in these types of games so loot management became frustrating).

Anyway, you're not missing much in Divinity 2. :eek:
 
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Artificiary said:
It took me a little while to get into Divinity 2; It starts off soooo slow. And you're right, the game engine just isn't very well optimized. I had to leave the shadow detail at low just to get an acceptable frame rate.

In the end I actually couldn't finish Divinity 2. At around 15 hours in I felt like the game had started to change pace and I was losing interest. It also didn't help that I still had a few hours to go before getting a place to stash my loot (and I'm a huge pack-rat in these types of games so loot management became frustrating).

Anyway, you're not missing much in Divinity 2. :eek:
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Unfortunately, I would have to agree with this - but I would have to say, as well though, that I enjoyed the first part of the game immensely.

Honestly, about 95% of the games I buy I don't complete anyhow.

I also got about 15 hours out of Divinity 2, and for me, those were enjoyable hours. It's not a great RPG - far from it - but somehow it's not pure rubbish either. It 'was' a bit of a letdown though.
 
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