I have not played very long because I am disappointed in it. I loved Risen 2 and thought that it got almost every RPG aspect down, except in the case of settlements, which were tiny. I've played it numerous times and loved it.
Risen 3 started out as an incredibly long, tedious dungeon crawl where you're picking up golden loot from every corner with almost no dialogs to flavour things up. In Risen 2, on the other hand, you start the game surrounded with talkative NPCs. You then start off with not even a shirt, go around conversing with the Inquisition and the pirates and slowly develop your character.
After getting the option to choose my destination, I didn't want to deal with another dungeon, so decided to sale to Antigua. Of course, the town was under attack, but that was irrelevant seeing as it was massively scaled down compared to Risen 2, where it actually felt like a settlement. I then sailed to Tacarigua and of course the pirates were wiped out and there were twice as less NPCs as in Risen 2 on the whole island.
I guess the game picks up and I'll try to play ahead. I just want to play an RPG that doesn't revolve around loot and dungeon crawling.