Risen - Pack Shots

[Dhruin]

In case you didn't watch yesterday's video, the Risen blog (http://risen.deepsilver.com/blog/pages/en/news/news.php) has shots of the official box.
More information. (http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?newsbit=12803)

[northreign]

Looks more like wannabe superman has the blues.

[Chekote]

hehe, you're right, it sure does.

Apart from the flying, the hero pretty much is superman anyway =0P

[txa1265]

Big dude, big sword, forboding background, Gothic-like writing ... how can you go wrong? :)

[Ragon der Magier]

Well, aaactually... i would have liked the golden/yellowish inquisitor art that had been placeholder up to here much better.
They should´ve sticked with that one.
It fits the image that has been propagated for the new game world (the mediterranian, bright vulcano island) way better so far.

Alas, that image has also drawn some criticism from die-hard Gothic fans who prefer amd had expected to see the reduced colour palette of the predecessors given them the rough and edgy look&feel.

But if this box shot going dark and blue is thought as a device to counter that criticism, it´s an ill-fated move in my eyes.
Clumsy and artificial. :roll:

Also, we had dark and blue already for the G2NOTR cover. :(


Ragon, the Cover Mage
:biggrin:

[Wulf]

It appears PB have been listening to the fans and trying to implement their wishes best as possible, many liked the G2 style.
So look on "Also, we had dark and blue already for the G2NOTR cover." as a wish come true for many as it appears to reinstate a back to normal feel.
I like it, is portrays a certain mysery/fantasy atmosphere and certainly nothing to do with superman!

[Maylander]

I like the look. Then again, since this is a PB game, I would've bought it even if there was a pink, fluffy bunny on the box, so my opinion is hardly relevant in this matter.

[Alrik Fassbauer]

Looks more like wannabe superman has the blues.

Same thought here.

I find this packshot ... uninteresting.

"So this is the mighty hero you might become within this game !"

[Prime Junta]

I thought it a bit meh too. "Alpha Protocol... with a sword!"

(I thought the Alpha Protocol box was rather meh as well.)

On the other hand, the orangey brooding necromancer type somehow always screams "Dark Corners of the Earth!" to me. Which isn't actually *bad* as such; just not quite right for the game either.

[txa1265]

I like the look. Then again, since this is a PB game, I would've bought it even if there was a pink, fluffy bunny on the box, so my opinion is hardly relevant in this matter.

So long as it had a sword or was about to cast a fireball ;)

[Surlent]

Yeah. Since it's a game from Germany, somehow I was expecting the hero to wear black leather pants and have a moustache.

[Alrik Fassbauer]

You have quite some prejuduces, have you ? ;)

Or otherwise you've missed the irony tag. ;)

[Surlent]

Yeah, I'm jesting here of course. No offense meant by any means. But I really did expect that. ;)

Edit:
Remember the old hero from Gothic? He could have belonged to this band (http://assets.thequietus.com/images/articles/843/scorpions_1228755671_crop_400x300.jpg) and no one would have noticed the difference. :D
And no one would want to end up in prison colony with them.

[BillSeurer]

Big dude, big sword, forboding background, Gothic-like writing ... how can you go wrong? :)

Gothic 3-like contents...
:-/

[Gorath]

I like the cover - with the exception of the GfW thing at the top.

[gargar]

that's what i love about digital distribution, no more cover arts. who care for them, anyway?

[northreign]

Yeah. Since it's a game from Germany, somehow I was expecting the hero to wear black leather pants and have a moustache.

They should have went with that :-)

[Krzychu]

I don't like the cover much, it's a bit too hero-centric. I mean, it's not bad, I just don't feel a Gothic/Risen vibe while looking at it. But I guess it doesn't matter, really - pink bunnies would have been fine. ;)

By the way, I clicked to see the cover and noticed that they are offering Risen merchandise (http://risen.spreadshirt.net/en/GB/Shop/index).

[Grandor Dragon]

Unimpressed. I think they should have gone with the bright, medieval feel of the trailer. It is what makese the game stick out sylistically, so why not put it on the cover to make it stick out as well?

[danutz_plusplus]

Some new screenshots (http://www.pcgames.de/aid,691931/Risen-Mehr-als-20-Screenshots-aus-der-uns-vorliegenden-Vorschau-Version/PC/News/) have been linked to on the WoR forums. I like the Inventory and Stats Page (http://www.pcgames.de/screenshots/original/2009/08/risen_pc__006_.jpg).

[Gokyabgu]

Pretty cool box shot. But, Piranha Bytes boxshots always remind me the Gladiator movie. It's not so hard to tell why. :)

[Krzychu]

That's some tasty screenshots right there! Some very NotR-like. Thanks for the link!

[bemushroomed]

Those screens were pretty sweet, i like the shot when he's climbing, so at least that is in (still disapointed that there's no swiming/diving).

I really like the graphics engine that Gothic1-2 used, this looks the same except for better character models / higher poly count. Some graphics engines makes the graphics look very, hmm, brittle almost (Divinity 2), while in the Gothic games everything looks so incredible SOLID, if someone understands what i mean lol

[danutz_plusplus]

Those screens were pretty sweet, i like the shot when he's climbing, so at least that is in (still disapointed that there's no swiming/diving).


No swimming? I never heard that. I heard there would be no diving, but didn't hear anything about no swimming in Risen.

[bemushroomed]

^ not sure if its true though, its just something i read here, or maybe i misunderstod it.

[Krzychu]

No swimming? I never heard that. I heard there would be no diving, but didn't hear anything about no swimming in Risen.

That's what I remember from the GC 2008 video where people asked PB all sorts of questions.

[bemushroomed]

It says in this faq that there's no swimming or diving:

http://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/showthread.php?t=535288&highlight=swimming

ridiculous that both arcania and risen seems to take place at sea on an island but you cant dive/swim, imo that should have been one of the essential parts of the game.. its like playing a game that takes place in a desert but you cant walk on sand, well ok not quite, but almost.

Why are they trying hard to make carbon copies of each others instead of doing something that the other game doesnt have, that'd be competitive at least. People ARE going to make comparisons between those two games.

[Wulf]

Thats true, Lara Croft in Tomb Raider had no trouble diving and swimming against underwater currents, pulling levers and opening gates to find hidden areas. Risen, by its very nature of having temples with underground passages would be a perfect setting for water and swimming.

[Kostaz]

Seems like Risen won't be released in Australia.Good luck with getting it Corwin.

[Madjack]

As someone else pointed out, it looks like the Alpha Prime box shot and I think it also looks a bit like the Divinity2 boxart (without dragon). But then it also looks like any other two dozen or so boxes from the past five years. It's all about young male power fantasies isn't it?

I can understand why they've chosen that image. I've just finished off Gothic3 (with the latest community patch) and enjoyed it alot and I'll be buying Risen on release and no doubt enjoying it as well. But it's just a pity RPG games (generally) can't get a bit more psychologically sophisticated than the usual cod scifi/Tolkien worlds where the only way to progress is to get a bigger gun/sword + more outlandish amour/spacesuit and kill more stuff.

It's a pity because these big games could really challenge our assumptions about how we view the world and what we consider the 'norm' without sacrificing fun. They could do that by (for example), portraying societies that work in radically different ways to our current western worldview. Given the kerfuffle in the US at the moment over 'socialism' (although they wouldn't recognize true socialism if it bit them in the arse), imagine a game which included a working socialist society? Or something modeled on the historical Sparta complete with its less 'heroic' bits which really challenged the player's morals? But instead we get nice, safe, uncontroversial medieval or sci fi worlds - with shopping.

There's a reason why games are not taken seriously within the larger sphere of artistic criticism and the Risen/AlphaPrime/Divinity2/etc.. packshots are emblematic of why. They fulfill a commercial imperative, but they're puerile.