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Risen (PC/360) - The Spiritual Successor to the Gothic series of RPGs
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Demo for the PC is out! 1.1gb
What is Risen? It's an action RPG for the 360 and PC. Specifically, it's made by Piranha Bytes and is a spiritual successor to their Gothic games, which were known for their massive, wide-open and seemingly alive worlds and faction based progression through the games. If you've never played them, play them (except the third game, avoid it)! But if you won't, think of them as The Elder Scrolls' or Ultima's more actiony, third-person brother.
Release Date: October 2nd for the PC in Europe and the US, and also for Xbox 360 in Europe. The 360 version will ship in the US sometime early in 2010.
The game's only copy protection will be a disc check.
Little is known about the game, at least for English speaking people, as pretty much all of the coverage for the game is in German. As I find more information in English I'll post it here, but since there's so little interest in this game I thought I should make this thread.
A bit of PR
45 minutes of gameplay
There is a gameplay video, though, and it looks really good. Watch it!
Another trailer
An English preview.
And for those turned off by Gothic 3: I've heard they're hiring a shitload of QA testers and are polishing this thing like crazy, and also try to remember how good Gothic 1 and 2 were. They can do this! They've got this! Maybe...
Reviews:
PCGzine: 84%
http://www.worldofrisen.de/english
What is Risen? It's an action RPG for the 360 and PC. Specifically, it's made by Piranha Bytes and is a spiritual successor to their Gothic games, which were known for their massive, wide-open and seemingly alive worlds and faction based progression through the games. If you've never played them, play them (except the third game, avoid it)! But if you won't, think of them as The Elder Scrolls' or Ultima's more actiony, third-person brother.
Release Date: October 2nd for the PC in Europe and the US, and also for Xbox 360 in Europe. The 360 version will ship in the US sometime early in 2010.
The game's only copy protection will be a disc check.
Little is known about the game, at least for English speaking people, as pretty much all of the coverage for the game is in German. As I find more information in English I'll post it here, but since there's so little interest in this game I thought I should make this thread.
A bit of PR
The epic role playing game is set in a medieval world on a volcanic Mediterranean island, The Risen story unfolds over four chapters and will offer multiple ways to develop the story by his own actions and decisions. An innovative and intuitive user control interface will support both casual and hardcore gamers. With full world streaming support, the player experiences no tedious loading of areas while playing in a fully simulated game world with authentic characters.
45 minutes of gameplay
There is a gameplay video, though, and it looks really good. Watch it!
Another trailer
An English preview.
And for those turned off by Gothic 3: I've heard they're hiring a shitload of QA testers and are polishing this thing like crazy, and also try to remember how good Gothic 1 and 2 were. They can do this! They've got this! Maybe...
Reviews:
PCGzine: 84%
System Requirements
The minimal requirements are:
* Windows XP
* a 2.0 GHz CPU
* a graphics card with DirectX 9.1, Pixel Shader 3.0 and 256 MB (as the GeForce 7900 or ATI 1800)
* 1 GB RAM
The recommended specs are:
* Windows XP or Vista
* a 3.0 GHz Dual Core CPU
* DirectX 9.1 graphics card with Pixel Shader 3.0 and 512 MB (such as the GeForce 8800 or ATI Radeon HD 2900)
* 2 GB RAM
To install the game on your hard disk, you need about 2.5 GB free disk space.
http://www.worldofrisen.de/english
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Piranha Bytes Corporate Website
Piranha Bytes Games Website
Deep Silver Website
Deep Silver Risen Forum
Risen official... erm... my space profile?:dnuhr:
Risen officia facebook profile
Fan Links:
WoR Forum - English
WoR Forum - German
Piranha Club Russia
Piranha Fanart Portal
Risen France Website
Risen Romania Website
Risen @ WoG Russia
World Of Risen.ru
Risen.cz
Risen Info.pl
Risen Forum @ gothic.phx.pl
Forum @ Planet of Gothic.de
Information about the developing team
(interviews and profiles)
Interviews and employee's profiles
Christmas Interview 2007
Christmas Interview 2008
Interview with Michael Rüve
Interview with Piranha Bytes' Project Manager Mike Hoge
Interview with Kai Rosenkranz
Risen Q&A with Ralf Marczinczik
[url="http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,678470/Risen-Tolle-Grafik-auch-ohne-DirectX-10-weniger-Nachladeru
ckler-als-Gothic-3/Rollenspiel-Adventure/News/"]Interview with Philipp Krause (german) [/url]
Interview with Björn Pankratz @ gamingxp.com (german)
Interviw with the PB's in PCGames
Improvised interview with the PBs, by +locust+ @ RPC 2009: English (thanks foobar:)) and German
Articles
Light effects
Day light
Dusk
Night time
Fight system
Fighting an Ashbeast
Fighting a Ghoul
Forging system
Heating the iron
Beatting the hot metal
Cooling the hot iron
Sharpening the blade
Beasts
Boar
Sea Vulture
Gnome 1
Gnome 2
Ghoul
Skeleton 1
Skeleton 2
Landscape/design
Forest
House
Temple entrance 1
Temple entrance 2
Beach and water
Fort
Training yard
Multimedia Interviews
Fan press conference with the Piranha Bytes at GC 2007 (GERMAN ONLY!!!)
Interview with the Piranha Bytes at GC 2007 - Simple (GERMAN ONLY!!!) Video or Audio versions
Video Interview with the Piranha Bytes at GC 2007 - Director's Cut (GERMAN ONLY!!!)
Video Interview with the Piranha Bytes at GC 2008 (Recorded with English Subtitles)
Video interview with gameplay footage with dude from DS @ gry-online.pl (RPC video 1)
RPC video 2 @ multiplayer.it (gameplay) (Ok, not really an interview, but to keep the RPC videos in one place)
Clubic.com: two dudes talking in french, some Risen gameplay (3rd RCP video)
RPC 2009 video presentation by PB:
Audio interview with the PBs @ gemefeature.de (come on, you don't really expect this to be english, do you?)
Information about Risen
Tech:
Story:
The magic of old gods is losing its power and that's why the temples with dark creatures are rising on the whole island, the volcano erupts.
The Inquisitor is "evil", he enslaves the people on the island to find "it". It isn't known yet, what "it" is.
Features:
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* There will be a few factions, and of course a system regulating reputation and dialogue/quest availability
* The island (smaller than Gothic 3’s Myrtana) will have a few areas of different climate.
* There will be other intelligent races, but no elves, dwarves or orcs (!). Only one of the races will be peaceful, most likely the gnomes.
* More emphasis will be put on catacombs, sewers etc.
* The combat system will be more extensive. The player will have to his disposal a few fighting styles. 60-70% of all skills will be combat-related. There will be double wielding, runic magic and possibility of transforming into different creatures.
* The character development mechanics will be similar to the one from the Gothic series.
* No mounts.
* An alternative movement system while exploring dungeons
* 40% of the game map will be underground
* The fighting skills are new. For example: It should be important to kill a certain monster using a certain weapon on a certain level.
* No swimming or diving
* A complex forging system
Characters:
The Nameless Hero
The Inquisitor
Sara (Sara is the first living person the Hero meets on the island.)
Inquisition and Rebel members
Monsters:
Miscellaneous
Screenshots Gallery
New Risen screenshots Gallery @ 4players.de
Artwork Gallery
Wallpaper Gallery
Posters
Advent calendar 2007 - Artworks and RPB Medley
Advent calendar for Christmas 2008 - Artworks
Screenshots from the GameStar preview
Gallery @ worthplaying.com
Video with daytimes
The Making of the risen trailer:
Part 1
Part 2
Music:
Risen Medley
size = 6,61 MB
Risen Christmas Medley 2008
size = 1,75 MB
Fan music from Piranha Club
size = 10,25MB
Other stuff:
Risen Toolbar for Firefox or Internet Explorer
Poster SuperHires
Resolution 3508 x 5040
Size: 15,2 MB
Temple Theme:
Resolution: 3510 x 4961
Size: 12,2 MB
total size = 27,41 MB
Director's Script
size = 37 KB
Risen screensaver from Piranha Club: English, German and Russian
MD5-Hashes:
c824a933b039aa50d5f153605aaf0891 Risen-MyLife(De).7z
9d3350fcd97b94bd0767299617ea1d77 Risen-MyLife(En).7z
00d260c219ff1a517c41b972c78d7bca Risen-MyLife(Ru).7z
Size = 7,41 / 6,67 / 6,56 MB
Video: NOTE: For youtube videos that have a High Definition option, but your processor can't handle it smoothly, type at the end of the URL "&fmt=18" , without the "" (doh:p), for High Quality.
Be sure to check the Multimedia Interviews section of this post. It contains several videos that present the gameplay of the game.
Risen Trailer from GC 2008
Daytimes video
PC Games Video
Risen Mood Clip #1
Risen Mood Clip #2
Risen Mood Clip #3
Furthermore, the World Of Risen provides a Xvid-encoded version beside the official WMV-encoded one from Deep Silver.
Risen Mood Clip #4
Risen gameplay video
I have faith that they can fix what they did wrong with the 3rd gothic game.
I am super excited for Risen, I thought this dev team had died.
Did you play Gothic with the official or fan patches? I'm going back through Vampire: Bloodlines with patches right now - I hated it when it shipped, but love it now. I think I'll try the Gothic series next - at least number 3. Any patches/mods you recommend?
Gothic 3...eennnghhh. I would have kept playing through it had load times not been agonizingly long, nor the game astoundingly buggy.
This, though, has my interest.
The Witcher and Drakensang were both great RPGs that originated in Germany, and I know a lot of people loved the Gothic series - both Risen and Gothic 4 have got my attention.
The game's were made harder than they really should have been due to the bad controls, especially when you consider than surviving melee combat depended on having to time defense and attacks properly.
They were pretty hard games to me, but not because of the controls or interface. Maybe I'm more adaptive than most, but after an hour or two the controls became easy.
Never played two or three. Maybe I should go play two at least.
I'm looking forward to this release.
When I played the first two games I never had any trouble with bugs. Or maybe my memory is just crappy.
Witcher was polish.
And I'll go along with, liked the first two Gothics but 3 ended up being unplayable after a while. And even then, the gameplay I think get's a little stale considering how big those games are.
Not so much the second game. That one felt like a game.
Will be watching for this one.
Chuck Norris with a strangely blocky pony tail.
Good news:
story trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IFsIXGi9i4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2Fdeepsilverhq&feature=player_profilepage
showing the game world's movement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dfLUqUvg6o&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2Fdeepsilverhq&feature=player_profilepage
If it's done in the style you'll have your freedom and then you'll fucking choke on it. Real freedom doesn't level scale, freedom kicks you in the teeth with a big orcy boot.
http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/52896/PC/Risen/Trailer/Night-Wish-Trailer
Nothing all that interesting in their first entry.
I'm replaying Gothic 1 right now, and it is probably still the most life-like RPG (along with 2) I've played in terms of NPC schedules. Just something about it feels better than others.
I loved the Gothic games, and this is by the same team and is essentially a spiritual successor so I'm getting it day one. October is going to be absolutely fucking ridiculous, but I'm going to make time for Risen.
It's called Arcana: A Gothic Tale, and it looks like shit. You can watch walkthrough videos from E3 2009. They're renaming it to Arcania because the series doesn't do well in North America, so they want to start fresh. It's essentially a reboot, and the story isn't a continuation (at least not to my knowledge, although the world is the same). It's a new hero this time.
"War covers over the Southern Islands like a blood-drenched shroud... and finally, War reaches the idyllic isle of Feshyr in the Southern Seas. The protagonist of ArcaniA - A Gothic Tale returns from an adventure to find his home town pillaged and looted. The aggressors’ ships - with an Eagle displayed on their billowing sails - escape over the horizon.
Seeking revenge, the hero leaves the destroyed city behind and soon realizes that this cowardly attack did not just happen on a reckless mercenary`s whim. An evil power lies waiting at the threshold of this world, and our hero will need to face this nameless evil. Yet the hero is not alone - his fate is linked to that of a beautiful, mysterious lady as well as a powerful artifact from the long-forgotten distant past, which plays a major role in the grandiose new RPG adventure."
The developer, Spellbound, doesn't really seem all that good either. Their games:
# Giana Sisters DS
# Airline Tycoon 2
# Helldorado
# Desperados 2
# Chicago 1930
# Rauchende Colts
# Airline Tycoon Deluxe
# Robin Hood
# Desperados
I'm not expecting much from it. The E3 videos didn't leave me interested in the least. Risen, however, looks freakin' great. Even though it's not Gothic in title, it certainly seems that it's going to feel like what we've come to know and love.
I don't remember him having any sort of personality other than a really lame ponytail.