For me this game has alot of good going for it, fun, makes you think, and then think again. As for compairing to games like Oblivion, Risen, Gothic, or w/e those games are made from cookie-cutters, with the exception of Oblivion, that game series is descent.
That's just Daft (sorry, couldn't resist)
You ruined a fist class post in the last couple of lines. The Gothic series and Risen (the real Gothic 4) are bloody fantastic ARPG/RPG hybrids (just like DKS in fact) - anything but cookie-cutter. Oblivion, on the other hand, is just a totally bland, cut&paste, wothless POS.
Everything else in your post is spot on though
Good show!, can't win them all.
I tend to agree w/ the thought about
Risen,
Gothic ect..I never actually said I didn't like them, more-so that I ended up playing Risen, followed closely by Arcania(gothic 4), and at the time seemed the two games felt like long lost twins. Oblivion was it's own beast. Though I must say it is slow repetitive, essentially good I suppose if MoDed to crap. So my early
wall of text, (which when rolled was
6d6 of damage +
blindness for 5 rounds, though you can
save for half vs. Int check) , was incomplete, and for that I apologize. Can't forget us old folks and our memories.
