Terrible sales for Risen

[Slimebeast]

Scoobes said:

Slimebeast said:

Yes maybe, but it's not claustrophobic. Almost no other game is as open as Oblivion. Maps are huge, the scenes are huge. There's never invisible walls in Oblivion (which the Risen demo had lots of - although i know it gets more open in later stages). And its not cause it's primitive that they're able to pull it off, it's cause Oblivion uses the bubble system like in MMORPGs. (within a set area around the player all details are known, calculated and rendered, but outside the bubble the AI and environments are simpler)

Could they not have done somethig similar for the console version of Risen? And if this is true couldn't they have used this technique even on the PC version where they could have opened the game up to more users by having a lower system spec? Well, either way, I'll be getting this off Steam soon enough.

Exactly. I don't think Risen uses a bubble system, that might be the problem of the X360 version. So their solution was to compress and blur all the textures instead, no matter the view distance.
(I'm just speculating)