Risen 3: Titan Lords

[toro]

I'm waiting for... loin cloth, with a wooden spoon difficulty.

Anticlimactic.

 

[Metro]

The patch improved the performance.

Great. Wake me when this hits $10.

 

[balmorar]

Risen 3 with DLC is 50% off on Steam until 27th of February.

 

[Zombra]

Risen 3 with DLC is 50% off on Steam until 27th of February.

 

[balmorar]

what

 

[Darth Roxor]

Risen 3 with DLC is 50% off on Steam until 27th of February.

 

[Metro]

Great. Wake me when this hits $10.

 

[balmorar]

Risen 2 -75%

 

[Metro]

Got for $1 in some Humble Bundle. Barely worth that.

 

[balmorar]

Then they will doxx you.

 

[adddeed]

WELL worth the money, highly recommended to those who enjoyed the previous games.

 

[Alfons]

Got for $1 in some Humble Bundle. Barely worth that.

That's like buying a literal piece of shit for a buck, of course it's not worth it.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I will only be satisfied by Ludicrous Difficulty.

Personally i'd wait for Preposterous Difficulty.

This game has gone to plaid!

 

[Infinitron]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-05-07-risen-3-enhanced-edition-announced-for-playstation-4

Risen 3: Enhanced Edition announced for PlayStation 4
Comparable to "ultra" settings on PC... and then some.

Of all the games to be tarted up for a next-gen release I didn't expect one to be Piranha Bytes' largely glossed over role-playing game Risen 3. But it is, this August, and only for PlayStation 4.

Risen 3: Titan Lords came out on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in August last year. It was OK - hampered by its combat but "a commendably deep and full role-playing game" underneath.

This PS4 Enhanced Edition offers graphics comparable to "ultra" settings on PC, "and even surpasses the original visuals in a number of areas". It has higher-resolution textures, post processing effects such as "bokeh" depth-of-field (when points of light become out of focus and become large circles), HDR bloom and volumetric clouds.

It also bundles all existing additional content, including the Adventure Garb, Fog Island and Uprising of the Little Guys DLC. The PS4 game supports stuff like Remote Play, streaming, recording and Share Play too.

Risen 3: Titan Lords - Enhanced Edition will be a digital release but also have retail releases in the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain and Nordic territories.

There were a couple of screenshots to go with the announcement and they're below.

 

[vonAchdorf]

It has higher-resolution textures, post processing effects such as "bokeh" depth-of-field (when points of light become out of focus and become large circles), HDR bloom and volumetric clouds.

Glad that they focused on the areas the game was lacking for this re-release.

 

[throwaway]

Is that why they've been silent for ages? I haven't even played the last 2 games and their antiquated hide-in-a-bunker marketing is begining to lose me faster than the reception R2&3 got.


Just for the record at least its not an entire repackaging of the PC version :

There will also be new post processing effects and a new volumetric cloud system

I fully expect pc users to get a patch with that

 

[made]

Goes without saying that Roxor will re-review the Enhanced Edition. Our quality standards demand it.

 

[cvv]

There's only one thing that accurately sums up my feelings about this game, PB and Deep Silver in general.

Spoiler

 

[Alfons]

Risen 3: Enhanced Edition

 

[Obama Phone 3]

Still not gonna play it. And Risen #1 is one of my personal fav RPG's ever.

 

[Zeriel]

I've had this installed on my computer for like a year. Have yet to try it, due to the Codex hate re: it. Judging by my past experiences with Codex hivemind and European shovelware (i.e Bound by Flame, which I found pretty enjoyable) I'll probably end up having some fun with this if I ever try it.

 

[Joni Odin von Hassenstein]

I've had this installed on my computer for like a year. Have yet to try it, due to the Codex hate re: it. Judging by my past experiences with Codex hivemind and European shovelware (i.e Bound by Flame, which I found pretty enjoyable) I'll probably end up having some fun with this if I ever try it.

If you care about a beautiful world and good atmosphere (like I do) you will definitely enjoy it!
I personally felt like it has more soul than Risen 1 (let alone R2 O_o), but I think that one is overrated anyway.

 

[Obama Phone 3]

I've had this installed on my computer for like a year. Have yet to try it, due to the Codex hate re: it. Judging by my past experiences with Codex hivemind and European shovelware (i.e Bound by Flame, which I found pretty enjoyable) I'll probably end up having some fun with this if I ever try it.

If you care about a beautiful world and good atmosphere (like I do) you will definitely enjoy it!
I personally felt like it has more soul than Risen 1 (let alone R2 O_o), but I think that one is overrated anyway.

I don't like the pirate motif.

 

[MicoSelva]

So, which of these for PC:

1. No upgrade to EE (Tomb Raider style)
2. Free upgrade to EE (Witcher and Wasteland 2 style)
3. EE is a re-release that you have to buy separately (Deus Ex HR and Sleeping Dogs style)

Spoiler

4. Nobody cares about Risen 3

 

[belowmecoldhands]

Ok so I went to metacritic for Risen 3 and it has terrible reviews. Why?
Metascore (pc): 65
Userscore (pc): 5.6
Metascore (xbox): 44
Userscore (xbox): 4.3
Metascore (ps3): 36
Userscore (ps3): 3.9

For a comparison, he're the metacritic scores for Risen 2 and Risen 1:
Risen 2:
Metascore (pc): 69
Userscore (pc): 5.6
Metascore (xbox): 60
Userscore (xbox): 5.9
Metascore (ps3): 47
Userscore (ps3): 5.4
Risen 1:
Metascore (pc): 77
Userscore (pc): 8.1
Metascore (xbox): 60
Userscore (xbox): 6.4

Looking over the review comments for Risen 3 (PC), I see these commond complaints:
...game mechanics too simple
...combat is slow and infuriating to use (1)
...poor voice acting and story
...boring fetch quests
...grindy leveling
...graphics are at least 6 years outdated
in short: dull, repetitive, outdated and a copy of Risen 2

(1) - lots of complaints of rolling/combos and too much dying in fights; one person complained of not being able to escape from fights - they said they'd be pursued infinitely; another complained mage fights are too much rolling

One of hte more interestin comments was about how quests are layed out on the islands. So you can come across a quest objective BEFORE initiating it with the quest giver. So you might find a quest item (I'm guessing) and then later find the quest giver who wants it? Doing a quest backwards? The poster stated this was different from most modern RPGs because the quest objective isn't generated until the quest is given (and/or the player meets proximity criteria).

Another comment from the same poster, who gave the game a 7.5, was that the game was relatively free in its objectives. You did what you wanted. Although many other posters said the lack of somethign to tie it together was bad.

The overwhelming majority of user reviews are negative.

EDIT: The xbox user reviews for Risen 1 mirror many of the complaints in all the Risen 3 reviews. I think that's interesting because this includes the PC user reviews. Either the game changed in a way that all of the reviewers now agree or the PC user reviewers changed and so no longer like a game similar to Risen. Maybe Risen 3 was too much like Risen 1. Or maybe it wasn't enough like Risen 1 for PC user reviewers to like it, nor was it good enough for other user reviewers to like it.

Idk. I do have Risen 1, but have only played seeral hours some months ago. I did find hte combat to be harsh. I kind of liked it at first, but it got dull without figuring out how to counter. I did eventually get a quest for a new sword and moved to another village to get it. But I was mad because the quest somehow evaded me at first and I wasted so much time trying to kill creatures which made me run more often than not. I also accidentally killed a npc that gave a quest when I aggroed some wolves and they mauled him to death. While this paints a sickly portrait of the game, I still want to play it agan sometime. I'd give it a 6 or 7, but keep in mind I'm fairly hardcore andhave put up with some very harsh things in games. Many others won't feel the same. So I forgive hte harshness and/or shortsights. I also thought hte game had very good graphics compared to what I'm used to. And hte fact you can craft in the game and ther'es so much more for me to see,makes me give it 6 or 7, despite the shoddy start.