Originally Posted By Fnord (3 JUN 2012 7:04am)

Hey, I actually liked the combat system in Gothic. It was not very intuitive, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes quite good. It is a system that really rewards skill over grind. 

I liked the Gothic 2 system and the first Risen as well. This is something else - I never got the hang of it right up until the end and my character never did what I wanted him to do.

Originally Posted By Traveller (3 JUN 2012 1:53pm)

 

You mean the Gothic 1 control system? ..or combat as it was in Risen 1?  Do you mean that you have to jump back and stuff?  It doesn't seem quite as fine-tuned in Risen 2, I haven't played much (been fiddling with Back to the Future and Screaming Narwhal), but so far I've just been blindly whacking stuff and getting a hiding from human opponents as a reward for that... but at least I get to beat crabs ok... or some water monsters whatever they are.  

I need cash though... cash to buy skills and gear.

Oh, blindly whacking stuff is good as long as i can just button mash through combat and don't die too often, it's fine for me.

I rarely use any blocking/parrying/evading techniques.

Unfortunately button mash wasn't the best way to play Risen or Arcania (G 4), but it seemed to work in Gothic 3

Originally Posted By markornikov (4 JUN 2012 5:43am)

Originally Posted By Traveller (3 JUN 2012 1:53pm)

 

You mean the Gothic 1 control system? ..or combat as it was in Risen 1?  Do you mean that you have to jump back and stuff?  It doesn't seem quite as fine-tuned in Risen 2, I haven't played much (been fiddling with Back to the Future and Screaming Narwhal), but so far I've just been blindly whacking stuff and getting a hiding from human opponents as a reward for that... but at least I get to beat crabs ok... or some water monsters whatever they are.  

I need cash though... cash to buy skills and gear.

 

Oh, blindly whacking stuff is good as long as i can just button mash through combat and don't die too often, it's fine for me.

I rarely use any blocking/parrying/evading techniques.

 

Unfortunately button mash wasn't the best way to play Risen or Arcania (G 4), but it seemed to work in Gothic 3

 

Hmm, I found with most of the Gothics and with Risen 1, that you had most of your work cut out either jumping out of the enemy's way, or jumping around trying to "catch" them properly like with goblins. I found combat very dumbed down and easy in Arcania, with the enemies a lot less smart.  With the former games, it was better to use ranged combat, if you could.  With Arcania, I could literally just hack and slash.  I haven't played enough of Risen 2 yet to form an opinion.