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Risen 2: The Dark Waters - Gold Edition, the pirate-themed open-world action-RPG from Piranha Bytes--the makers of Gothic--complete with all the expansions: Treasure Isle, Air Temple, and A Pirate's Clothes, is available 60% off on GOG.com. That's only $11.99 for the next 48 hours! You can also get the standard edition, without the expansions, for just $7.99.

[url=http://www.gog.com/game/risen_2_dark_waters_gold_edition][/url]Risen 2: The Dark Waters - Gold Edition is a third-person role-playing game set in a dark and gritty universe, which maintains the most immersive features of the original Risen, with multiple approaches to every challenge allowing players to shape the game world based on their own decisions. These choices will serve to unlock new paths, features and additional skills for the character. With an all-new pirate-based theme, Risen 2: Dark Waters aims to combine the most loved classic RPG gameplay mechanics of the original Risen with a fresh theme and setting on a huge variety of themed island locales. Together with a highly interactive environment and a full day/night-cycle affecting countless aspects of the game world, Risen 2 will be set in the most immersive RPG game world so far. The Gold Edition offered here includes the base game as well as the following expansion packs: Treasure Isle, A Pirate's Clothes, and Air Temple.

Set sails for the great adventure in a fantastic realm of pirates, dark schemes, and strange creatures in Risen 2: The Dark Waters - Gold Edition, for only $11.99 on GOG.com! Don't miss your chance to get the best value for your money with the special 60% launch discount, because it ends soon--Saturday, April 12, at 9:59AM GMT.
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liquidsnakehpks: anyone whos played and finished risen 1 aka 40 hours of joy , will be crushed playing this sequel . they really let the fans down with this one hope another risen game revives the franchise.
I can't agree on this. While I did like the first Risen better, I still had a ton of fun with the second. I honestly don't understand all the extreme negativity surrounding Risen 2. I thought it was still a decent game in its own right.
Bugs won't be fixed since the devs don't give feces.

Other than that, it is a pretty standard RPG. Would rate it around 7/10 from the few hours I played it. An annoying thing is you need at least two playthroughs to have seen everything since the game splits at a point.
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RabiatorG0G: Thank you, GOG, instabuy, IF:

it is safe to make a purchase right now with all this stuff going on. Since the certificate has not been renewed according to [url=http://possible.lv/tools/hb/?domain=secure.gog.com]this site, I am a bit concerned. Would love for a blueblood to chime in on this.

Edit: Damn typos....
The spoilts been active and known for around 1.5-2 years and it was a coding error that was more because the dev was "impatient" and tried to do his own thing... would have been a basic DOS had he not been in a hurry. That said you need to pivot in a 64k address space and snag whatever you want... its unlikly that any certs but a small few were taken.

The big thing now is phishing scams... Facebook, yahoo and google are patched and good so they should be priority one for new passwords. other then that protect your email like its your life and 2 factor all the things!

TLDR: the bad guys know about it and if gog was a target its to late, you can always do a one time PayPal they do free burner accounts.
Post edited April 10, 2014 by Starkrun
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Starkrun: [...]
That may all very well be true, but to be honest, as long as I don't get a confirmation from a blue text that it#s safe to buy from GOG.com, I just don't wanna risk it.

Is it normal that it takes that long to renew the certificates? To me as a layman it doesn't sound like anything that should take much of your time.
Each time I read about "risen : dark waters", i expect news from tinyE's basement.
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Protoss: ...An annoying thing is you need at least two playthroughs to have seen everything since the game splits at a point.
It's the same with Witcher 2 or wiith the different endings of Mass Effect. The only problem is that once I finish a RPG I never find the will to play it again.
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Protoss: ...An annoying thing is you need at least two playthroughs to have seen everything since the game splits at a point.
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Trilarion: It's the same with Witcher 2 or wiith the different endings of Mass Effect. The only problem is that once I finish a RPG I never find the will to play it again.
I've played ME2 and ME3 lots of times. Lots. Granted, were the only games I was playing for quite a long time, but still...

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Telika: Each time I read about "risen : dark waters", i expect news from tinyE's basement.
:D

As I said in the release thread for the first game, I have Risen 1 on Steam and will have to try it out before getting it here.
Any comments about the DLC? Worth it?
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Niggles: Any comments about the DLC? Worth it?
I´ve heard only the Treasure Isle is worth it, but for this price, I´d go with Gold Edition anyway.
Just to let people know... Risen 3 is coming out soon! google it. This stupid forum wouldn't even let me post a link :/

Can't wait! loved the other 2 games.
Your launch discounts aren't very good at keeping money in my wallet you know. :p
As regards comparisons with Risen 1 (decent game) I found 2 to be more fun, the second half of Risen is a pretty crap Fed Ex simulator (imo).
Excuse my french, but what is this nonsense about requiring DirectX 9.1c? Afaik 9.0c was the last label for said iteration, maybe they mean it needs the latest patches (June 2010 I think were the last one).
Underrated game. The end sections are way too linear but otherwise it's a fun Piranha Bytes game with exploration and sarcasm aplenty. The gunplay was particularly fun for me in an RPG, and the colonial setting was unique and enjoyable.

I am bummed they added the cheat DLC "pirate's clothes." I know many would have complained it wasn't "complete" without it, but the blunt truth is that kind of "awesome armor at the start!" DLC throws off game balance and is completely retarded.

Anyway... I have this on Steam and while I prefer DRM free its going to have to come down a bit in price for me to rebuy it.
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StingingVelvet: I am bummed they added the cheat DLC "pirate's clothes." I know many would have complained it wasn't "complete" without it, but the blunt truth is that kind of "awesome armor at the start!" DLC throws off game balance and is completely retarded.
I haven't downloaded the base game yet to see whether the DLC installer allows for selecting DLC, but either way it looks like the DLC can be selectively enabled in ConfigDefault.xml after installing the DLC pack (the config file has entries like DLC1="true"). The DLC pack is an additional download so it's also possible to buy the Gold Edition and then play without any DLC if preferred.
Post edited April 11, 2014 by Arkose