EvaUnit02 on 27/9/2009 at 06:32
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http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/40300/) 10% off pre-orders on Steam
There's no listing of 3rd party DRM on the storefront page, hopefully there isn't any. The Deep Silver's Steam release of Clear Sky had Tages + limited activations and they didn't tell anyone before the release. Luckily since then Steam have started listing the presence of 3rd party DRM if a particular games uses any.
Clear Sky on Steam has had the activation limit removed since then, BTW.
Apparently the retail version of Risen uses Tages, but only as a simple disc check, it never goes online. I'd recommend getting that over the Steam release. Deep Silver had a tendency to be really late in uploading new patches for the Steam release of Clear Sky.
mothra on 28/9/2009 at 09:56
it's also much cheaper through retail (just don't buy it in germany, hehe, crazy world)
mothra on 29/9/2009 at 19:15
UPDATE: got the german version (sooner from the store here in austria), so far, so good. runs without problems, uses both cores. animations are WHACK ! like in pretty bad, especially jumping and when you walk your feet look sometimes like they don't touch the ground. so I adjusted the camera distance so it cuts off my feet :)
only played 1 hour but has the typical gothic1+2 charm (if you think it's a charm) and I already raided my first cave and entered a temple with ...... indiana jones - worthy traps ! was pretty fun and I already died a few times from taking on too much animals and not having proper weapons/armor. Saved the damsel in distress and helped working on a field, found my first map and made some bandit friend.
after that the "tutorial" area seems to stop and you get killed around every corner, so be quick and run !!! but the star of the show is the environment which they really made look alive and interesting. tons of loot and nice vegetation, insects, wind, weather, lense flar and thank-the-maker, no bloom on characters. well, let's see where this all leads me. I will not join any faction yet and take on some sidequests first before continuing the story. could be a winner, too early to say, I can forgive the clunky animations.
gunsmoke on 30/9/2009 at 18:18
JEALOUS :mad::mad::mad:
mothra on 1/10/2009 at 23:20
played some more, I like it very much sofar. I helped some farmers, defended a whore, investigated a crime, learned to pickpocket (which is funny), to sneak and looted some houses. buffed up my sword skills and have already a few magic scrolls. e.g. if you make someone hate you, you can use the "tell a joke" scroll to make them friendly again
still haven't aligned myself yet and will try to keep it that way for longer. the german VO are actually pretty good and there are some funny comments and conversations now and then, no bad german jokes yet. only that I still run around in dirty rags and didn't find proper armor yet (or have enough XP for a proper sword, not my toothpick......but i got a decent shield so I can always block and chip away health little by little. sword skills make me evade and break parrys, so the combat works pretty good sofar. learned to cook some meal (you need all the health you can get). finished only 20 quests sofar with at least 250 waiting (according to the achievements). As soon as I'm buffed up enough I'm gonna leave the city and raid another tomb !!!! Indiana Jones style. And I love that they just throw you into the world, no talking head holding your hand telling what to do. so the main quest is still a mystery to me (which I like). combat AI for animals is good as well, they constantly swarm you and evade if you just hack away. taking on more than 2 wolves at once is suicide (yet)
Renzatic on 1/10/2009 at 23:31
Sounds about like Gothic to me, which is always a good thing.
I'll post my impressions once I give the demo a whirl.
mothra on 1/10/2009 at 23:57
the feature set is pretty similar, combat is better, interface is more streamlined and intuitive. and the performance is good, loading times are very short and the quest log in combination with the maps helps most.
Renzatic on 2/10/2009 at 00:02
Combat at the very least sounds better than click-click-click thing they had going in Gothic 3, but I know I'm gonna miss the left, right, block, lunge system the old games sported. Despite all the people bitching about it alongside the funky controls back in the day, it really made for some great fights when you got used to it.
...and it just got through installing. See you all in about an hour. :D
mothra on 2/10/2009 at 00:06
the new system actually works pretty much that way, only easier to master (if you are patient)
left-click: attack (3 times is a combo)
right-click-hold: block
right-click on sword contact: break parry
left-click-hold: charge your strike
movement+jump: evade
and so on and so on, just more fluid
