Erkki

I caved in after reading the RPS posts* and bought it. Also, I did enjoy the demo, and it ran well enough after turning off shadows. * which is odd, since so far it's almost the exact same experience I had with the demo so I didn't really learn anything new.

Borderlands Brütal Legend Dragon Age Ghost Bums II Alpha Protocol (although I doubt the awesomeness of this one)

It's funny how often all of you said "I don't know" when discussing retro games

There is actually a decent detective adventure game called "Jack the Ripper". It's nothing special, but I liked it. http://www.adventuregamers.com/gameinfo.php?id=186 [edit] if you read the review on AG, it makes it sound godawful. Well, it has a lot of crappy elements, but I think it's not quite as bad as the review says. [edit2] apparently there are more AGs about Jack the Ripper: http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,69 (this one is also called Ripper, haven't played)

The combat in Risen is definitely more broken than in Gothic. You automatically lock on an enemy that gets close, but as the enemy moves around you, the lock doesn't follow so you'll be striking in the wrong direction. PS. Applied new thermal paste, CPU now idling at around 40 degrees, was 55 previously. I hope I'll be able to play this demo properly now.

Ok, this crashing seems to be no fault of Risen: my CPU temperature is rising to 100 degrees Celsius while playing games. Must buy new thermal paste, I think.

I would donate, if I hadn't already impulsively donated several amounts of money to Jason Rohrer

Wohoo! This weeks mission accomplished: gold on all hard levels

I just remembered that one of my favourite songs from late teenage years was , which would translate as "Return of the Wizard". But the wizard was more like some dude in a grey suit a couple of sizes too big and a fedora, rode a motorcycle and hung out with punk rockers. He did use magic in an awesome sci-fi punk story collectively written by the band members, though.

Thanks, guys!

Could this game be good enough for me if the only FPS I've found interesting enough to finish in the past 5 or so years are Far Cry 2, BioShock and Half-Lives? Also, I haven't played any of the Halo games and no console FPS-s at all.

No. Dual Core Opteron 185 (2.61 GHz), 2GB RAM, GeForce 8800 GTS. Seems to be enough for most games, although the system is two years or so old.

Also, is on youtube

Metacritic so far 1. PC Games: Risen (2009) 81 Deep Silver 2. Xbox 360: Risen (2009) 57 Deep Silver Quite odd. Does the Xbox version really suck that much compared to PC. The Eurogamer review giving it 4/10 was discouraging, but the PC reviews are a lot better (haven't read any though). I played the demo, it runs really slow on my computer. The same clunkiness from earlier Gothic games is still there. Basically seems about the level of quality of Gothic 3, which kind of sucks. It also crashed twice, but that may be due to the occasional overheating problems my computer has.

it's not!

Man, I forgot it was built on XMPP, which is cool. For years I've been thinking that people at workplaces should use XMPP (aka Jabber) instead of MSN, Skype, other proprietary stuff. Every company should have an IM server or hosted solution, like they do for e-mail. And I just managed to kind of sneak in a public XMPP server at the company I work for. Bwahahaha. It doesn't get much use yet, though. And will probably be deprecated by Wave? PS. If Wave is not very buggy at this point and someone has an invite, I wouldn't hate you for sending me one.

Yeah, I wasn't really thinking that the open world part would be limited to the same mechanics as the demo.

You could subscribe to the RSS feed and use some kind of filters on that.

PS, I really wish the inventory would pop up somewhere around the robot, like maybe its hand should make a kind of a clothes line, or something like the Grim Fandango inventory. It would make so much sense here, instead of the more common hover on the top edge of the screen (but maybe I only get that feeling because you don't get a lot of stuff in the demo).

Wow. This is much more like a traditional adventure game than I thought it would be -- you control the game only through the character, and can't make things happen by clicking anything on the screen like in the previous games (or was Samorost 2 like this as well? Anyway, it seems more strong here). I like it a lot.

OMG demo is out already http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/10/01/rise-and-shine-its-risen-demo-time/ This came totally out of the blue for me. Nice, just as I finished the Brütal Legend demo that was too short.

Cool demo, but I'm a bit disappointed that it was only the exact same sequence that was shown in videos ages ago (plus the intro movie). The main menu is awesome! Gameplay feels pretty much like I expected after seeing the videos.

The second part was even better! Really great puzzles in this episode!

Finished the first part. Really good so far. The puzzles are maybe a tad simple, but on the other hand they make great sense and I think I only got stuck for a minute before remembering to look again at a thing I had already seen but forgotten about. Great co-directing, Jake!

Why didn't anyone tell me how good Shivah was when it was free? Damn you all. I might buy it after I've cleared my backlog, though.