I did start out on Might and Magic IX but since it is not run in Dosbox I had no easy way to make ingame screenshots and time went by. After several hours I am in the starting town and it doesn´t seem I will do a revisit of this game since I lack proper screenshots until then. I did however download a program to make fullscreen ingame screenshots and have a few gathered in town so who knows ?
But....
I abruptly halted my progress in Might and Magic IX when Risen 2 - Dark waters arrived a few days ago. That is a very promising title even though I have only played for two hours so far. I loved the first Risen so I have high hopes for this one but I am quite dissappointed that is has not received better scores. I will find out the reason for that.
Then problem two struck me. I have moved my computer into a smaller table to fit it in the hall at home. Air flow is less good now and I cannot make my 4870x2 run well with Risen 2. It crashes a few minutes in due to heat, so now I am looking to replace that graphics card with a less powerful one but one that produces less heat and is less noisy but still superior to a single 4870. I found a second hand Radeon 4850 for 85 dollars that is on the way now so I will be up and running Risen 2 next week again.
Even though I might not start up a new revisit soon, I will definetely keep writing about RPGs in one way or another even tough it might be newer RPGs. This game genre is so small as it is so I cannot afford not to speak of the games released after the year 2000. I am very grateful for all indie developers out there that keep the spirit living of the CRPGS like Basilisk Games with their Eschalon series.
I remember really liking the first half of the Risen 1, but the second half was pretty weak, I just don't think Piranha Bytes is very good at making dungeons
ReplyDeleteHmm...You are probably right about the dungeon thing. There wasn´t that many dungeons in any of the Gothic series either.
DeleteAnd that was a good thing, the strength in the Gothic series was it's open world with characters that actually mattered and had personalities, something which not every Studio seems to able to make *coughs*Bethesda*coughs*
DeleteIf you are having trouble taking screenshots, try InfranView (http://www.irfanview.com/). I use it for my games and haven't really had any problems. The only complication I have encountered is the initial hotkey is CTRL+F11 and that can change the speed of dosbox at the same time. You can change the hotkey around to avoid this, though.
ReplyDeleteI'm interested to know about Risen 2. I played the demo of the first one and thought it was pretty cool, especially since I am really interested in playing through Gothic. Still on the backlog, though.
I hope that helps.
Thanks for your advice BacklogKiller!
DeleteI have always like Piranha Bytes and especially Gothic II and even Gothic III. Gothic IV was technically very good but what an empty and childish RPG.
and yes... I know Piranha was not the developers of Gothic IV. The Gothic Spirit is so clear when looking at Risen.
DeleteRe your graphic card overheating problem, have you considered getting a small electric fan and setting that up to blow cold air into your pc's airvents?
ReplyDeleteI already have one or two extra fans installed into my case but I don´t see they are doing much effect. My case was bought 2006 mainly to have a silent PC, so It does not have enough air vents in my opinion. I should have replaced the stock cooler on the 4870x2 but now it seems its better to buy a newer card and not spend more money on the old one. Besides, to play my CRPGS I hardly need this main computer anyway :-)
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