Risen PC Now Gold But Xbox 360 Delayed

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Risen PC Now Gold But Xbox 360 Delayed

Risen

Piranha Bytes has announced today that their RPG Risen has indeed gone gold for the PC and will be released on October 2nd 2009.

But now to the bad part of this news, the Xbox 360 version has been delayed and should be available in the Q1 of 2010.
There is no reason yet given from Piranha Bytes but lets just hope its not bad news.

Risen is an RPG project that is produced by Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes. In the game, the protagonist finds himself shipwrecked after a storm and finds himself on a mysterious island. An active volcano dominates the scene. Ancient temple ruins recently have risen from the ground, and bizarre creatures infest the island.

Q1? That's bad news for Risen.

Mass Effect 2

I'm pretty sure we got Bioshock 2, God of War 3, Dante's Inferno, SC: Convictions, Mass Effect 2, and more to edit in later. Those are some heavy names for sure. I think it may be hard for Risen to make a name for itself.

If it were that they would've also delayed the PC version, because Mass Effect is also coming to PC at the same time as the X360 version.

i watched a video for this game on xbl the other day and all i could think of was two worlds...

Now that I've re-read your post, you were dismissing the ME2 reason, my bad. Anyway, let's pretend my last post was directed at everyone that thinks Riven got delayed because of ME2.

Strange... not a disaster, maybe it's for the best since it was now going to be released between Divinity 2 and Dragon Age. Both games are fantasy RPG like Risen so that is some strong competition. If it gets released in januari 2010 then it should have better sales since Mass Effect 2 is probably going to end up being released in late Q1 2010. It also is a sci-fi RPG, so not as much competition for Risen as Dragon Age and Divnity 2.

But what is strange is this: '' Risen has reached Gold status for PC as well as the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®, and is now in production. This means that the path is clear for a release on October 2, 2009. '' http://risen.deepsilver.com/blog/pages/en/news/news.php

Apparantly the 360 version is gold but they won't make the release date. Intentional, or some production problems?

Well they had to chose between Dragon Age Origins or Mass Effect 2 as a competitor in the RPG genre... hard job to do anyway.

So I will give Dragon Age Origins a shot now.

Bad news. Now this great game will be overlooked on the king console of RPGs.