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Hey, Punny, I hope you know I use both and have zero bias towards either seller.
Guess I'm a horrible little monkey for using Steam much more, though. Oops.
Still, why don't you provide us some of your brilliant insight into the topic instead of sending us to videos and articles all the time and simply agreeing with them. Here, I'll give it a go to show you how to present an opinion.
I recently played and completed Risen. It was both about average at times and also downright unpleasant to play. The reasons are because of the combat, which is full of constant parrying, block-ignoring, and tons of sidestepping from your opponents. Obviously, this makes fighting multiple enemies much harder than it should be unless you've got some decent equipment and the enemy isn't too powerful. Another thing I didn't like were the quests. This game didn't have a typical questline. Instead of bringing up your journal and seeing a main quest to play through, you have to pick up various quests from random people in order to finally achieve what you need. For bandits, you need to screw around until you get a bunch of blade pieces. I didn't bother after a while. So I went to Harbour Town and took the Inquisition Path. To do so, I had to screw around for a while until the Commandant of the town wanted to talk to me. Then that basic formula repeats, with frequent branching into doing other tasks, and whatever. I had to enable god mode in the final dungeon too because I had run out of patience.
ArcaniA 4 - Gothic is another game I recently played...not even an hour ago I'd say. The combat is easily superior, being able to string together attacks faster, and enemies don't bullshit around and get free hits on you. The magic comes to you much more quickly and is satisfying to use. Ramirez from Highlander also makes an appearance in this game for some reason. Might not want to click this though. It might give you Gaben Sickness. Or something.
So in conclusion, Risen falls short in the combat department when compared to ArcaniA 4 - Gothic. However, Risen is the more challenging title if you like being cut off from combos...or like enemies ignoring the fact that you're blocking...
There's other points I could bring up, but whatever.
Hey, I didn't just post some piss poor critic's reviews. Sure, I didn't go too into detail, but you didn't go into any detail.
Your lack of faith in the Gaben is disturbing.
Guess I'm a horrible little monkey for using Steam much more, though. Oops.
Still, why don't you provide us some of your brilliant insight into the topic instead of sending us to videos and articles all the time and simply agreeing with them. Here, I'll give it a go to show you how to present an opinion.
I recently played and completed Risen. It was both about average at times and also downright unpleasant to play. The reasons are because of the combat, which is full of constant parrying, block-ignoring, and tons of sidestepping from your opponents. Obviously, this makes fighting multiple enemies much harder than it should be unless you've got some decent equipment and the enemy isn't too powerful. Another thing I didn't like were the quests. This game didn't have a typical questline. Instead of bringing up your journal and seeing a main quest to play through, you have to pick up various quests from random people in order to finally achieve what you need. For bandits, you need to screw around until you get a bunch of blade pieces. I didn't bother after a while. So I went to Harbour Town and took the Inquisition Path. To do so, I had to screw around for a while until the Commandant of the town wanted to talk to me. Then that basic formula repeats, with frequent branching into doing other tasks, and whatever. I had to enable god mode in the final dungeon too because I had run out of patience.
ArcaniA 4 - Gothic is another game I recently played...not even an hour ago I'd say. The combat is easily superior, being able to string together attacks faster, and enemies don't bullshit around and get free hits on you. The magic comes to you much more quickly and is satisfying to use. Ramirez from Highlander also makes an appearance in this game for some reason. Might not want to click this though. It might give you Gaben Sickness. Or something.
So in conclusion, Risen falls short in the combat department when compared to ArcaniA 4 - Gothic. However, Risen is the more challenging title if you like being cut off from combos...or like enemies ignoring the fact that you're blocking...
There's other points I could bring up, but whatever.
Hey, I didn't just post some piss poor critic's reviews. Sure, I didn't go too into detail, but you didn't go into any detail.
Your lack of faith in the Gaben is disturbing.
