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epinefridis on 10 October 2009

I meant an old school WRPG that of course sells MUCH better on PC. I agree!



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Bagaren85 on 10 October 2009

First of all the 360 version looks like a budget version from the better PC-version.

Here in nordic and germany pc dominate, but thats not the only reason ofc. I cant find it here, was in the biggest gamestore yesterday to buy NGS2 and didnt se anything that mention RISEN.



Bagaren85 on 10 October 2009

Lawl, i just saw that the stores here start selling it 16th october.

Well, thats why.



ArcticGabe on 10 October 2009

I'm waiting for a patch to fix some graphic problems b4 I picked up the game on xbox.



Stefan.De.Machtige on 10 October 2009
ssj12 said:
epinefridis said:
Well, the game is obviously downgraded and chopped in its 360 version, but it plays decently and it has identical content.
I'm a hardcore gamer that loved old school hc RPG's and I just haven't got the PC to run the PC version of the game. I have the 360 version and till now, the game is great.

Let me ask you all a question. If the original Gothic 1 or 2, had a perfect port on PS2 or XBOX how many copies would they sell? I assume, not many. It s the nature of the games.

why is everyone calling it a hardcore RPG? its a WRPG... a niche genre which the highest sellers are on PC and include amazing RPGs like The Witcher.

Deep silver always made hardcore rpg. That means RPG's which are rather unforgiving and with a steep learningcurve. Western of japanese has nothing to do with that definition.  



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Lostplanet22 on 10 October 2009

Risen metacritic score 58.

If you hate someone please buy this game for him.

This is the score for the Xbox 360 version btw.



 

1200p|is|FullHD on 10 October 2009

well I got some facts arguing your topic title:

http://www.4players.de/4players.php/verkaufscharts/PC-CDROM/media_control.html
and
http://bignside.de/risen-fuhrt-download-verkaufe-an/10579

the first one is the official chart of Germany this week, the second one the result of an international download portal.

It had been obvious that Risen would stomp its competition in the very ground in Germany like its always with gothic, but the second one is quite surprising.
direct2drive.com is an international download portal, so this shows that piranha bytes has achieved broadening the brand into northern europe, not just like eastern europe and ofc germany, where the games always have been astonishingly successfull. compare it with monster hunter in japan.

if this trend continues, the brand will probably finally be able to rival the Elder Scroll series in its next iteration. piranha bytes next game can become the biggest WRPG brand in europe, whether namend risen or gothic or whatever.

the problem with the console version is that the game sets its focus on its huge and open world, you have ZERO loading times, every dungeon or house you enter is ONE PART of the world, which creates the unique atmosphere of the game. prob : xbox 360 and ps3 have veryvery little ram, which is the most needed in that department, so they had to cut on the graphics.

@ lostplanet22 : you fail



How can 720p be considered HD when it looks like ugly snow grains on my 22'' screen?

 

 

Slimebeast on 10 October 2009
ssj12 said:
the PC demo is amazing

Yessssss. Everyone should check it out.



huaxiong90 on 10 October 2009

This game is more popular on PC. Also, the 360 version is glitchy and has downgraded graphics, if I'm not mistaken. Not only that, but the game only released in Europe. It's coming to NA next year.



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nojustno on 10 October 2009

Weird. The game's amazing on PC. Worth a solid 9/10 imo.