Risen Review
The Short Version: Risen is an incredibly long and boring RPG that is damn near torture for any sane person to play (on Xbox 360). Only Hardcore RPG’ers willing to forgive a list of bugs, glitches and poor design choices a mile long need apply. Why anyone would subjugate themselves to Navigating an unforgivably backward-ass Map & Quest Interface in this Grindfest – that on occasion looks as if it was developed in 1999, for little to no reward is beyond me. Especially when there are far superior RPG choices out there. Do yourself a favor and stay far away from this one! Or at least wait for a bargain bin price to satisfy your morbid curiosity.
The Video Review:
What you’ll Like:
• Massive amount of Content, over 60+hours, but will you even want to play through it all?
• Surprising amount of Dialogue, and your main character has a voice, I like that fact.
• Some of the Spells are fun for a few minutes.
What you’ll Hate:
• Its Incredibly Boring throughout the entire game – No real “Epic feeling moments”.
• Awful Interface. Map & quest screens are nearly useless and buried under too many button presses.
• The game is filled with Broken Quests, Glitches, Bugs, and Framerate hitches (every time you kill an enemy). Unforgivable.
• Combat is underwhelming – Block, mash button, Push enemy up against wall, block, mash button. Rinse Repeat.
• Crude graphics and Pathetically Sloppy Textures.
Final Verdict:
3/10
Terrible Game!
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This is actually one of my most beloved RPGs of all times. So I User rated it 10, because for my taste it really has no flaws and only one bad aspect: How addicted it can make you. I played through it now my 6th time.
I hear the xbox 360 version is terrible, the pc version so much better, its a crime for the xbox 360 version to be so bad
How is it a crime for the Xbox 360 version to be ‘so bad’? The Xbox 360 itself is terrible; red rings of death? Scratching disks? Stupid menu layout? Backwards button layout? Needlessly having almost the exact same library as the superior Playstation 3?
It’s not Risen that’s terrible; it’s the Xbox 360.
PS3 Overheating red light says hi.
I got a PS3 when they were new, and mine never overheated or had any problems, my 360 did start red ringing though, so I vote for PS3. At least I can still use it.
risen is actually a pretty good game if you play on pc, that is.. metacritic user score says 8.1 for pc and 5.8 for xbox..
you should´ve really reviewed the pc version joe..
1:18 – 1:35 Thats the new Tomb Raider lol
Why are people giving this a 4,0?
Because they played the PC version which is significantly better than the Xbox 360 version and doesn’t have any of the glitches, frame rate drops, or poor graphics textures that the Xbox 360 version has.
ANY of the glitches is a little too far…really.
Guild Wars music! Oh the memories!!!
I bought it too at humble bundle and i must say on pc most technical issues from xbox360 are gone. The game is very hard and quest rewards are very small but its a game from the makers of Gothic and this kind of games are always like this. Kill a dragon and you get a healing potion and 100 exp thats the deal.
But if you are into that kind of game its fun and i say on pc its a 5.5/10 for me. Its no Skyrim or Dragon Age but its ok and more fun than most todays Jap RPGs ^^
I just got this game through the humble bundle this week. I really got the bundle for Saint’s Row. Though as I’m playing through this cheap-as-free game, I don’t think it’s too too bad. I see Joe’s points on all of it. Though now that I’m about 3/4 of the way through, I may as well finish it. it’s mildly entertaining.
remind never to become joe’s cellmate
me
I like to kill my coop partner in DR2. Its fun. You should try it to take your mind off of this shit. (;
Angry Joe rules! ;P
Epic “sweeping” story-lines. Hah. Best part.
I liked this game on the pc, maybe because I’m just a sucker for that atmosfere. After the dissapointment I got from Gothic 3 and Gothic 4 I longed for a game that resembles the atmosfere from the first 2 Gothic games. But that’s just me I guess.. (btw I think Risen 2 just sucks balls in comparison to this one )
“It’s like the promise of cheese, just with no cheese!” lmfao!!
At 1st YOU’RE into the game
Joe, buddy, looks like your blood pressure got *puts on shades* Risen.
This game is just a poor version of Gothic. They just traveld in time back to 2004 and somehow maneged to create lesser game on the same ide. Do somethink new Pyranie Bytes!!
Now they made something new with risen 2 and ppl are whining for “back to the roots” and if they go back to the roots ppl want something new again.
You will never satisfie everybody…
Well that was to bad, i liked the game and had no problems at all.
I got the xbox 360 version and personally would rate this game 6/10.
Yo Joe! I love your videos but watching them on youtube is much better because the buffering on your site is really bad! No offence bro…peace!
why in gods name does this game look so bad on xbox … jeez i could swear the pc graphics were A LOT better
Should have played the bad-ass PC version!
I got this game some time back. My brother, who I tend to trust when it comes to games, suggested I get the game. He told me it was unforgiving and didn’t hold your hand, that it was an RPG for the serious gamers. Naturally, I was excited and bought it. I should have realized what I was getting myself into when I bought it from Gamestop for $5. FIVE DOLLARS!! When I talked to my brother about it afterwards, he said that he wouldn’t touch the crap. HE FARGGIN TROLLED ME WHEN THIS GAME!!!
I thought this would be like Skyrim…. till I saw the intro
Glad I don’t have risen it sounds like a piece of a chocolte covered pretzel trust me it is bad don’t try one it might taste like shit like risen is
I played the game and its very good in my opinion… i dont see why people hate this game so much.. i do think that a lot of commenters are copy-catting almost precisely what joe says.. its human..
idiot achievement: “you bought the game and actually played it. dumbass”
haha, great review joe 😉
you know the amount of content and and spells and weapons makes me believe that this is what skyrim shits out every day maybe this is kinda like skyrim’s mutant ugly grandma
I love how Joe’s intro pretty much sums up the whole review.
I played this game on PC and i give it 1 out of 10 because i couldnt finish the game because of the bugs. Also the graphics was a problem if you have nvidia card. I hated the leveling system because it made little diffrence between level 1 character and level 10. The conversations very way too long i was skipping most of them. This game is worser than gothic 3 imo. This is a **** game not terrible.
1001 Ways to piss me off
Number 291-Use of the term “Hardcore” or “Realism”
Sorry, but you’re telling me you have to think to put something down if you’re out of handspace, or you need to remember to eat, or can’t immerse yourself without it, please! There’s this thing called imagination, try it sometime. And realism, yeah, because hiding for a while, holing up in a small area and attempting to hit someone from a far is so “fun”, and that for sake of gameplay, you’re helth regenerates back to full super fast, yeah, just been kneecapped for being an insufferable bitch, just hide and don’t get hit for a few secinds and you’ll be able to walk fine. Call me old fashioned but surely just fun gameplay and interesting story is all that’s needed to make a good game , but nope, gotta immerse myself, become the character, eat as the character, sleep as the character, poop as the character. It’s almost as if humans don’t have this skill that would allow for emmersion sans doing on the busy body work, oh wait, we do, it’s empathy!
You just described imagination when you explained how you eat sleep and poop as the character. Video games are conduits of imagination. If you dont like those elements dont play an rpg. ROLE PLAYING GAME duh
Yes, Imagination, I’ll happily imagine my bodily functions working, but being punished for not actually doing it is just busywork, which last time I checked, isn’t fun.
Hey guys, he reviewed this on the XBOX, not PC. If you like the PC fine, but the reason the game was given a 3 was because of the mistakes of the XBOX. Don’t say this game should’ve gotten higher because it was better on the PC , I’ve played the XBOX version and it deserves this rating, if not less. Don’t question the rating based on the system, but how the game performs on that system.
PS : On the XBOX, everything he says is TRUE
I would give the xbox 1/10 even but the PC is more like 8/10
Hey guys, he reviewed this on the XBOX, not PC. If you like the PC fine, but the reason the game was given a 3 was because of the mistakes of the XBOX. Don’t say this game should’ve gotten higher because it was better on the PC , I’ve played the XBOX version and it deserves this rating, if not less. Don’t question the rating based on the system, but how the game performs on that system.
This is just like “Mortal Kombat” movies. The first was “meh. it´s cool” and the second one is “Oh, shit. The first looks like a master-piece compared to this”.
So… yes. That´s the same feeling I have with the Risen franchise.