Game News Risen 2 - Cinematic Trailer

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Tags: Piranha Bytes; Risen 2: Dark Waters

<p>There's a cinematic trailer of <strong>Risen 2: Dark Waters</strong> available at IGN. <a href="http://uk.ign.com/videos/2011/04/12/risen-2-dark-waters-cinematic-trailer" target="_blank">Watch it here</a>. Note how this one guy uses voodoo in the end.</p>
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<p><em>Thanks to <span class="postbody">TheSHEEEP.</span></em></p>

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

CGI trailer meh, though I suppose the art style will be same in the game will be major major

IGN tard gonna tard though

The first Risen was one of the worst games I ever played. In fact... it's one of the very few games I never finished...

Derp

Risen was ok. There was only one complaint that I always had of it though. I couldn't figure out where to go. A lot of the missions I had to use a game guide to just get to it. Hopefully they'll fix that and the game will be good.

Rpg's are teh hard.

 

[baronjohn]

interest rising

interest rising

interest rising

interest rising

"XBox360 Playstation 3 PC"

interest = zero

 

[ortucis]

"XBox360 Playstation 3 PC"

interest = zero

Risen was also multiplatform. On PC it looked and worked just fine.

 

[someone else]

Risen is better on the pc than on console. Just ask the Angry Joe.

 

[kofeur]

Risen didn't lose its PC roots and there's no level scaling!

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

"XBox360 Playstation 3 PC"

interest = zero

Risen was also multiplatform. On PC it looked and worked just fine.

Quite a few good old rpg's where available on consoles so there is nothing inherently bad about making a console port for the game. As long as they focus mainly on the PC and it's capabilities and then make a console port it should be fine, unlike other multi plat form games these days which are made for the console and then ported to the PC.

 

[Roguey]

"XBox360 Playstation 3 PC"

interest = zero

Risen was also multiplatform. On PC it looked and worked just fine.

Quite a few good old rpg's where available on consoles so there is nothing inherently bad about making a console port for the game. As long as they focus mainly on the PC and it's capabilities and then make a console port it should be fine, unlike other multi plat form games these days which are made for the console and then ported to the PC.

The first one was built as a PC game from the start and (poorly) ported to the 360. This time it's fully multiplatform:

And speaking of smart, after learning a hard lesson with Risen (trying to port the PC version over to console with not enough time or resources and ending up with, well, a mess), Deep Silver's taking its time with Risen 2, to make a version specifically for the console. Even better, they're adopting the console controls to the PC version since public feedback told them that console gamers are often confused by PC controls while PC gamers don't mind using the console ones.

This is also partly why they've split it up into three smaller islands.

 

[Achilles]

Heh. There will be blood.

 

[Coyote]

And speaking of smart, after learning a hard lesson with Risen (trying to port the PC version over to console with not enough time or resources and ending up with, well, a mess), Deep Silver's taking its time with Risen 2, to make a version specifically for the console. Even better, they're adopting the console controls to the PC version since public feedback told them that console gamers are often confused by PC controls while PC gamers don't mind using the console ones.

Also, there's that Jedi mind trick again. "Even better". Just like that article about Skyrim that said "Some good news: 'Mysticism' is gone".

 

[Commissar Draco]

Looks like second RPG aside from TW2 worth gaming and maybe even buying this year.

 

[thesheeep]

this year

I'd be somehow careful about that...

 

[villain of the story]

Uninteresting. Something that annoys me about trailers is showing feats or abilities that you can't have in the game. It's very unlikely that swift disarming arm lock won't be in the game, as cool as it is.

This is also partly why they've split it up into three smaller islands.

Does not compute. Size of the landmass usually has no bearing on the system unless the settlements are huge and the view distance is extreme and we know they aren't.

 

[Fens]

And speaking of smart, after learning a hard lesson with Risen (trying to port the PC version over to console with not enough time or resources and ending up with, well, a mess), Deep Silver's taking its time with Risen 2, to make a version specifically for the console. Even better, they're adopting the console controls to the PC version since public feedback told them that console gamers are often confused by PC controls while PC gamers don't mind using the console ones.

This is also partly why they've split it up into three smaller islands.

i'm reading that as "Deep Silver (and not Piranha Bytes) is making a special console version instead of porting the pc version"

... bummer about the controls though

 

[ortucis]

This is also partly why they've split it up into three smaller islands.

Does not compute. Size of the landmass usually has no bearing on the system unless the settlements are huge and the view distance is extreme and we know they aren't.

I don't mind splitting up the world like this. I am expecting a lot of content on every island so I will probably visit another when I am bored with the one I am pillaging.

In FABLE: TLC, despite the small size of the maps, they managed to make the towns look surprisingly populated back then. And in Gothic 3 every settlement had a lot of quests and population as well.

As long as there is content..

 

[Luzur]

Risen was ok. There was only one complaint that I always had of it though. I couldn't figure out where to go. A lot of the missions I had to use a game guide to just get to it. Hopefully they'll fix that and the game will be good.

just that is a good sign things are inclining.

 

[poetic codex]

You know, for people who actually grew up in the Caribbean, games like this, and movies like Pirates of the Caribbean, take on a very different meaning.

It's all laughable.They're using hollywood voodoo , and silly pirate stereotypes. These are based more on hollywood tradition, as opposed to historical fact. Little do they know that truth is more exciting than fiction.

 

[ortucis]

Little do they know that truth is more exciting than fiction.

Yeah, I want the realistic Somali pirate version. Now THAT'S one exciting life we all dream of living. Well, not all of us.. actually maybe Andhaira only.

 

[someone else]

They did said that the pirates are not Caribbean pirates, was posted in this forum as well.

 

[Coyote]

You know, for people who actually grew up in the Caribbean, games like this, and movies like Pirates of the Caribbean, take on a very different meaning.

It's all laughable.They're using hollywood voodoo , and silly pirate stereotypes. These are based more on hollywood tradition, as opposed to historical fact. Little do they know that truth is more exciting than fiction.

Ever play Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers? They did a pretty good job of accurately representing voodoo (at least the New Orleans brand of voodoo) in that game.

 

[thesheeep]

It's all laughable.They're using hollywood voodoo , and silly pirate stereotypes. These are based more on hollywood tradition, as opposed to historical fact. Little do they know that truth is more exciting than fiction.

Who fucking cares?
It's a game, a RPG, not a simulation.

But speaking of it, a somehow more realistic approach to the pirate theme in a more simulation-like game would probably be interesting. I'm thinking of Mount & Blade... just with ships and docks instead of large plains and more small battles instead of huge ones with hundreds of people. Those should be rather rare.
Could be fun.

 

[Morkar Left]

It's all laughable.They're using hollywood voodoo , and silly pirate stereotypes. These are based more on hollywood tradition, as opposed to historical fact. Little do they know that truth is more exciting than fiction.

Who fucking cares?
It's a game, a RPG, not a simulation.

But speaking of it, a somehow more realistic approach to the pirate theme in a more simulation-like game would probably be interesting. I'm thinking of Mount & Blade... just with ships and docks instead of large plains and more small battles instead of huge ones with hundreds of people. Those should be rather rare.
Could be fun.

Akellas Pirates of the Caribbean with New Horizons mod or City of abandoned ships fits the description nicely.

 

[Jaesun]

Don't fuck this up PB!

 

[Roguey]

This is also partly why they've split it up into three smaller islands.

Does not compute. Size of the landmass usually has no bearing on the system unless the settlements are huge and the view distance is extreme and we know they aren't.

That's seemingly what they told this guy:

The biggest change in the franchise might be found behind the scenes, and not in the actual gameplay. The Xbox 360 version of Risen was a port of the PC game, and a poor one at that. The developers are the first to admit it, and where most ports of titles are developed in tandem with the primary platform development, the original Risen was given a measly six months to develop the 360 version. The result was a glitch-filled game with substandard graphics, and numerous technical issues. Risen 2: Deep Waters is being developed for both consoles and the PC, and certain changes have been made with the console development in mind.

The most noticeable difference between the original and the sequel is the change from a single island to a series of islands. The game should be the same size as the original, if not bigger, but with multiple islands the console version can have time to lead each new area, which makes the game much easier to develop for.

 

[MasterSmithFandango]

It's all laughable.They're using hollywood voodoo , and silly pirate stereotypes. These are based more on hollywood tradition, as opposed to historical fact. Little do they know that truth is more exciting than fiction.

Who fucking cares?
It's a game, a RPG, not a simulation.

But speaking of it, a somehow more realistic approach to the pirate theme in a more simulation-like game would probably be interesting. I'm thinking of Mount & Blade... just with ships and docks instead of large plains and more small battles instead of huge ones with hundreds of people. Those should be rather rare.
Could be fun.

Akellas Pirates of the Caribbean with New Horizons mod or City of abandoned ships fits the description nicely.

City of Abandoned Ships fits the bill pretty well, although the game is a bit on the mediocre side.