Metro
Arcane
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- Aug 27, 2009
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IMO, Risen is a closer approximate of Gothic's archetype than Gothic 3. That's not to say Gothic 3 is a bad game, it is just that their ambition overshot their ability to deliver (yes, yes, publisher constraints). I definitely see what they were attempting to do in G3 I just don't agree with a lot of their design decisions. It plays like a single player MMO and combat is significantly worse than the original Gothics and Risen 1 (where it's a much closer approximation of G1 and G2). I was hoping Risen 2 would have reproduced the same core game mechanics present in Risen 1 and put them in an expansive Gothic 3 style world but... they regressed badly.