Risen, out 2 October!
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Well a friend of mine from a high street computer game company brought me my copy of the game around last night.
The shake screen isn't a bug, its a giant volcano nearby.
Q6600 @ 3.4ghz
4gb Memory
GTX 280
XFI Gamer
60 fps and i have forced improved graphics through the Nvidia control panel.
The story is pretty good, the atmosphere is really good.
Nights are dark, dungeons are dark and you need to use torches.
Mobs are a bit bland, gnome, wolf, bird, hedgehog, skeletons, boars, ogres, war cricket and so on. You can wonder into certain camps and until you fight them, you have no idea if there too high level for you, which is cool.
Exploration is really cool, you can find random ruins and keeps that are really quite spooky, but on "normal", 2+ mobs and you have to run away.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE QUICK SAVE AND QUICK LOAD KEYBINDED!!!!!!
Also be very very very careful how you do some quests otherwise the quests just lock and you cant complete them.
Terrain graphics are pretty nice, they give a nice realistic feel. Character graphics are completely shocking. Wolfs look terrible.
The crafting system is simple but also mildly in depth. To make a sword you need a sword cast, then you need to heat the cast in the forge till it glows, then hit it on the anvil to shape it, then grind it on the whetstone. So its pretty nice.
The combat system is nice, but very unforgiving, the mobs have a clear advantage, and it reminds me a little of the famous gothic 3 video of the stunlock boar. Example is this stingrat, you can swipe him 3 times and during them swipes he can attack you no problem, but when you take 3 attacks, you cant do **** apart from eat it.
Gold is very hard to come by if you choose the Don's camp, which i did, so my advice is find trainers and learn gutting ASAP and spend wisely.
Overall its a very nice game, but its dragged down heavily by stupid game designs and poor character graphics. Its worth £10 and not £25, this is why people pirate games...........
EDIT: Voice acting is pretty half decent, there is Andy from eastenders doing some voices and there seems to be that young nuclear physicist who was looking for the higs boson doing voices too, golem actor is there also. So the voice acting is pretty good.
The shake screen isn't a bug, its a giant volcano nearby.
Q6600 @ 3.4ghz
4gb Memory
GTX 280
XFI Gamer
60 fps and i have forced improved graphics through the Nvidia control panel.
The story is pretty good, the atmosphere is really good.
Nights are dark, dungeons are dark and you need to use torches.
Mobs are a bit bland, gnome, wolf, bird, hedgehog, skeletons, boars, ogres, war cricket and so on. You can wonder into certain camps and until you fight them, you have no idea if there too high level for you, which is cool.
Exploration is really cool, you can find random ruins and keeps that are really quite spooky, but on "normal", 2+ mobs and you have to run away.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE QUICK SAVE AND QUICK LOAD KEYBINDED!!!!!!
Also be very very very careful how you do some quests otherwise the quests just lock and you cant complete them.
Terrain graphics are pretty nice, they give a nice realistic feel. Character graphics are completely shocking. Wolfs look terrible.
The crafting system is simple but also mildly in depth. To make a sword you need a sword cast, then you need to heat the cast in the forge till it glows, then hit it on the anvil to shape it, then grind it on the whetstone. So its pretty nice.
The combat system is nice, but very unforgiving, the mobs have a clear advantage, and it reminds me a little of the famous gothic 3 video of the stunlock boar. Example is this stingrat, you can swipe him 3 times and during them swipes he can attack you no problem, but when you take 3 attacks, you cant do **** apart from eat it.
Gold is very hard to come by if you choose the Don's camp, which i did, so my advice is find trainers and learn gutting ASAP and spend wisely.
Overall its a very nice game, but its dragged down heavily by stupid game designs and poor character graphics. Its worth £10 and not £25, this is why people pirate games...........
EDIT: Voice acting is pretty half decent, there is Andy from eastenders doing some voices and there seems to be that young nuclear physicist who was looking for the higs boson doing voices too, golem actor is there also. So the voice acting is pretty good.
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Don't need to revert back at all, I'm on 190.62 and the game runs as smooth as butter.
Thats a bit harsh.
The voice acting is the same as Oblivions and Fallout 3, nothing amazing, nothing bad, just standard.
Control's are fine, never seen a problem.
Graphics are good in regards to the scenery, the characters graphics i admit are awful, but the terrain is nice.
Open your inventory and try to move, jump or fight.
Also sneak and eat food, its the new insta fast way
.There the 2 bugs i've found.
What frame rates are you getting ?
Mine keeps dropping right down to 15 outside in the open space or when there's a fight. in caves it's 120fps
That is already with shaddow on low, shader on medium. if I have everything on high it's unplayable.
60 FPS constant everywhere, with forced improvements through Nvidia control panel.
Pretty sure i have AA on.
I've manually added the risen.exe to the nvidia panel.
And i'm playing it at 1920x1080
Help needed!
**SPOILER**
So my first run of the game will be a standard fighter role going the swamp route.
I've done pretty much every quest in the town (lvl 4 now I think), and all that is left is beating Brogan in the arena.
I have a strength of 20, Swords lvl 2, machete, normal shield, and the scroll of protection from the farmer.
I can't seem to win, no matter what I try, even when rinsing all my health potions.
Any tips?
Game runs smooth as maxxed out at 1920x1080
Little tip, there is a bug in the game where mobs dont defend and only single swipe attack when you get there backs against a wall
Noted! I just hope money is easier to come buy once I meet with the don, I want moar skillz0rz
Best way to make money is to learn gutting and buying the items to get tropheys from your kills. This will add a much needed income, also dont be shy of stealing or pickpocketing, you don't have a moral compass in the game and most of the time if the NPC doesn't see you enter there house, you can plunder it dry.
Yeah, if you type the following minsky really fast and press enter, you enable the console.
Then type help and it'll list the commands you can use and i'm pretty sure there is a First Person view.