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I was a bit miffed with my weapons too. Medium spoiler:

What makes you think it was supposed to be in the final product? Perhaps the small fact that it's ready on release day? I remember when they started doing DLC. My worries back then was that they'd just cut out 20% of the actual game and sell it for more profit later. Luckily that hasn't often been true.. until now. Modern Warfare 2 is doing it and Dragon Age sounds a bit suspicious too. Why make something extra when people aren't expecting more than 8-10 hours from their games anyhow? Just cut out a level here or there and sell the game for full price anyhow. Then sell the recently cut out DLC for the extra profit.

Risen has no scaling and no restrictions, so it's perfectly possible to run into an ogre or a ashbeast at level 1. I am level 22+ and two or three hits from one of those monsters still kill me. But luckily those monsters are pretty rare and well hidden. You're not very likely to run into them as a level 1. You might hear them though (there's an ashbeast hiding on a plateau above the eastern entrance to Harbour town).

Well, I am in chapter 3 now and I understand why people think it's linear.. it's by necessity. It's hard to explain without spoiling the game. I'm still having fun though, even though there's been a decline in the amount of new quests that pop up. But I love how when I advance in ranks within the bandits, everyone in the bandit's camp has something new to say about it. I'm a captain now. Some people weren't too happy about that.. Oh, and Maria, I was pretty confused about those unpickable chests too at first. But you'll (probably) find out why they are like that eventually! Major spoiler:

I have never started a thread that wasn't eventually locked!! I need a dragon repellent.

What if Obsidian is folding? Where would we all go?

I was JUST about to ask about that!!

PC gaming has been dying since 1995 or so. I think I'll cling to this "dying breed" for the next 15 years too.

There's lots of hidden stuff, try clicking on things. Minor spoiler:

Does not compute. How can it be the same growth up to 2008 while at the same time, claim Sweden has higher growth from 1995 onward? We had lower growth from 1979 up until 1994, and from 1995 to 2008 we had higher. It evens out over the entire time period.

Edit: Pwned.

Sweden has some of the highest taxes in the world (it not THE highest, 30% higher than the US!), and from 1979 up until 2008, Sweden and the US has had roughly the same economic growth, give or take a few percent. From 1995 and onward, we've had higher economic growth than the US. This with twice as high taxes! Source: http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2009/09/27/...t-hogre-skatter The source is in Swedish, as I couldn't find the English original (International Comparisons of GDP per capita and per employed person. 17 countries, 1960-2008. U.S Department of Labor Statistics. Division of International Labor Comparisons. July 28, 2009). Translated from the article: "Lower taxes in the United States gives the same growth as high taxes in Sweden. Higher taxes in Sweden gives the same growth as in the United States. The difference is that Sweden is a welfare State, where all citizens are relatively economically and socially secure, while the U.S. is the social divides country, including nearly 40 million poor and near 4 million homeless."

I've just entered the second chapter yesterday, but I did notice that the amount of quests available to me had diminished significantly. Of course, I've done probably close to a hundred of them already.. I will see if it turns linear or not after work when I can get some more playtime in. I must add, though, that the quests I've done have been varied and fun at least (I especially liked the Patty quest line). It's a pity if I'm all out of them already.

I don't think Risen looks awful either. In fact, I think the gameworld looks fine (except for the low poly cliffs and the slightly weird water) and the world design is top notch as usual. It's only in the character models/certain animations you can see that Piranha Bytes isn't a 150 man team like Crytek. Overall I think Risen looks good. Sometimes even great. By the way, am I the one only loving how when a wolf strafes really fast around you and you kill it in motion, its lifeless carcass tumbles around like a sack of potatoes? RPG's need more physics like this! My dream is to some day get a RPG where a fireball is actually capable of inflicting enormous damage, like breaking trees in a forest and blowing holes in walls. Perhaps a RPG using the Frostbite engine?

Technically, yes. But this is their first game with female characters. You know, with roles, voice actors, full animation sets, etc. It seems they've used the same system for male models as with female models when it comes to visible equipment and such. All characters have their weapons on their backs and it looks OK for a male character. But since the upper torso of the female model is so much smaller than the male equivalent, the weapons on female backs hangs in mid-air, 30 centimetres from their bodies. It looks awful.

Yeah.. in 2015.

You need smithing at level 2 and then you bring 10 iron ore to the smithy. Offer them to him and choose a bastard sword.. thingie (forgot the name of the unworked metal). It's only the initial metal thingie that's different. Tiny spoiler: Big spoiler:

Apparently Calicornia is in serious trouble: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/0...ling-state-debt 20% poverty in Los Angeles! Thousands of people standing in line for hours on a parking lot to receive free healthcare! 12% unemployment rates! Insane. I read this and remembered that Obsidian is situated in Orange County.. I wonder if this has anything to do with Alpha Protocol's disappearance? CONSPIRACY! --- Oh, and this article also made me remember:

Is it OK if I come into this thread just to mention Risen a few times? Risen Risen Risen.

This is their first game even featuring women, give them a break! :D Seriously though, I think I screwed up my character by going to the bandits. I met this magic dude last night that helped me through a mission and he was cutting through our enemies like a warm knife through butter! My measly sword (that gets blocked like 90% of the time anyhow) felt like a toothpick in comparison. I'm in Chapter 2 now at least.

I'm.. uh.. swamped with work (damn you, Risen). Will go to the gym today after work and then I'll take on today's exercises, I promise!

:'( but its too hard Geez, just wank before you see her then! Kids these days..

I'm currently playing the crap out of Risen. It's so good there should be laws against this kind of fun. It's indecent! Easily the best game of the year for me. So far (25 hours in).

Damnit, it worked So uh.. yeah.. Traders have infinite amounts of gold and I made the first 25 hours or so of my game needlessly difficult.. because I enjoy a challenge! Yeah, that's it. Nothing to see here, folks, move along!

That's exactly it! You have to try to match the value of your wares in the sell box (you) with the value of the wares in the buy box (trader). If you offer too little wares, he takes the rest in gold from you. If you offer too much, you never get gold back, he only thinks he's made one hell of a deal. So far I've never been able to wring any gold out of a trader. Not that it matters since I'm getting a lot of gold now anyhow, but it would be fun to know how H