[Kirov Class]

oh not the realism again guys. As foobar said, every person has difrent 'definition' of what should realism be.
Some may find it extremly unrealistic that you kill people with fire that comes from your hand (fireball) and doesn't burn you at all. The same person might find it unrealistic that you just transform, just like that, into some monster. Not realistic at all.
Another guy find it unrealistic that battle can take so long, as usually battle was rether fast. Also, he could find really unrealistic that the guy swings at your neck, so your head should be chopped off, yet you are barelly damaged.

So this all depends on what person sees as 'realistic', so i find it somewhat illogical to constantly talk about this realism or feeling of realism.

And why illogical? If you can cast fireball without burning hands, this is then logical too. So at the end, you are just so strong, that you actually can use 2h sword with one hand. What is so realistic about not burning hand by fireball, which you cast from your body and basiclly holds it in the hands, and so unrealistic about being so strong that you can lift 2h in 1h? Both can be really illogical or very logical, depends how you see it.

Don't throw that card. It is unrealistic, as it makes the sword fighting system unrealistic, and more "arcade".

And very non-logical, because then it makes 1h's useless (the speed advantage would certainly not outweigh the damage advantage, unless PB makes some serious changes compared to their system in their previous games).

[Gaminator]

"for our hero it could be around 100km2" is not a precise measurement.

i wanted to say, that if you entered the game, the world could be that size for You.I hope you understand me now if it weren't for my english I would say everything more precisely

[Michael Rüve]

The Piranhas said that the approximate play time of RISEN will be about 50 hours. You can spend more time in the game if you want

I might add that an unexpericenced gamer will probably take longer as well. Our own estimates tend to be biased since all of us are longtime gamers.

[zarrkoff]

unexpericenced gamer

I hope there won't be such typos in the final game!!

[Niklaus Zettel]

I would like to know, whether the end or the turning point in the game might be rather unexpected or not.

Greetings

[Powaz]

I would like to know, whether the end or the turning point in the game might be rather unexpected or not.

Greetings

Welcome to World of Risen

Believe me you don't want to know it, if you knew then you would expect it.

[Michael Rüve]

I hope there won't be such typos in the final game!!

Rest assured - there WILL be. Next to impossible to find each and any typo in 200.000+ words.

[Powaz]

Rest assured - there WILL be. Next to impossible to find each and any typo in 200.000+ words.

Nothing beats a honest answer.

[Katsche]

Rest assured - there WILL be. Next to impossible to find each and any typo in 200.000+ words.

Who cares when everything is composed...

[Dykunas]

Rest assured - there WILL be. Next to impossible to find each and any typo in 200.000+ words.

Wow, that's pretty neat, at least by todays standarts for a game of this scope (Planescape Torment had 800k, but of course only a few of those were voiced).

[vivaxardas]

Impressive. Somewhat between 650-700 pages, standard 12 pt font, with 1 inch margins.

[Niklaus Zettel]

Welcome to World of Risen

Believe me you don't want to know it, if you knew then you would expect it.

You've got a point, dude.

[Powaz]

Over at the german boards I was reading about that

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sea snake

so it's possible to swim afterall or what?

[cifre]

Don't know nothing about it but, if I hear about a sea snake, I don't necessarily think about going into watter to meet him You can encounter them on the beeches?

[catalinux]

No respawn? After first chapter, the entire world will be empty, except for humans, and monsters from "locked" areas. Maybe in the future games you'll reconsider this feature.

[paulcmnt]

No respawn? After first chapter, the entire world will be empty, except for humans, and monsters from "locked" areas. Maybe in the future games you'll reconsider this feature.

Wasn't the case with Gothic 1, 2, or 2x, so why should it be the case with Risen? I doubt all the monsters will be easy to beat from the 1st chapter so you can be almost sure that you won't be able to leave the world empty.

[RobinHood 13.]

No respawn? After first chapter, the entire world will be empty, except for humans, and monsters from "locked" areas. Maybe in the future games you'll reconsider this feature.

No respawns, but as he said, new creatures will appear between chapters in old places.
We had the same system in G1 and G2, and I think that worked out quite well.
Besides the game will probably be designed in a way that you have to avoid many enemies because they're to strong, and then fight them later on.
You can't have played G1 and G2 if you claim the world will be empty after first chapter.

I hope we will see something like the seekers, guarding roads, only they were easy to spot far away, and you had to stand right beside most of them before they attacked (after speaking).
I liked the speaking part, but they should see you from quite long distances, run up to you, talk some lines and then attack.

[catalinux]

You can't have played G1 and G2 if you claim the world will be empty after first chapter.

I used to clear the entire world before entering the 2nd chapter. Sometimes it was damn hard (not impossible), but is was also rewarding if you think at experience and learning points.

I was thinking at a more "natural" respawn, like periodically new animals being born?

[cifre]

natural becomes unnatural when come to think that in a couple of days you have a gestation period, birth and growing up.. I would chose to stick to the same solution as in G1 and 2, after the chapter you have less but new monsters. If I recall correctly, they stack if you don't kill them each chapter. This way you can keep under control the gaining of XP to the player, which imo is very important in a RPG as Risen.

[sonnedre]

Perhaps, someone has already saw new interview with Bjorn in PC Games site.

And there is also NEW pieces of Risen soundtrack. It can be download on PC Games site.

Music is just amazing. Remind me motives from Jarkendar and G1 too. I can feel athmosphere right now, even without game itself.