Thread 723541367

This might be the manliest game i have ever played...

>>723541367 (OP)
when is that remake of 1 supposed to come out? I remember them saying they listened to the feedback and are making it better

>>723541516
early next year
but it doesnt matter. its UE slop that doesnt capture anything from the first game

>>723541538
I'm guessing it will be modded to hell and back so I'm kinda holding out till a year after release for all the ocd germans to make it a true remaster

>>723541367 (OP)
you better played it with the german voice acting

>>723541367 (OP)
2+notr is the manliest game because if you enjoy the ridiculous rebalance and difficulty, you're either someone who knows every exploit, or a masochist

but I'm glad people still discover and enjoy Gothic in 2025. i honestly think it's among the best pieces of eurojank to ever happen, and few games since then managed to create an equally good illusion of a world that lives on while you're merely a part of it

>>723541367 (OP)
So manly...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-LdunD6ZKs

>>723542803
Is NotR that much difficult from vanilla G2? I was very young when G2 came out and don't remember anything from it (apart from fucking around in Korinis and dying to wolves lmao)

>>723542803
If you're an actual masochist you need to play odyssey on legendary difficulty.

>>723544973
G2 was kinda on easy side, and players complained, so NotR rebalanced it way too far down. If you won't take full advantage of NotR content, your character might end up underdeveloped, regenerating dragons are really, really tricky to kill in conventional ways unless you know what to do (dragon snapper scroll, demon summons), seekers went from being a joke to something you genuinely want to avoid until you're ready. I prefer NotR rebalance because I know the game well enough, but I'd be concerned for the sanity of anyone who decides to play G2NotR as their first Gothic.

They basically turned the game into something that only a series' veteran can play without getting annoyed.

>>723545290
>but I'd be concerned for the sanity of anyone who decides to play G2NotR as their first Gothic.
that's me, and I loved it. finished Archolos, loved it, too.
but to my shame, I never finished G1 because it kept crashing on me. I really need to give it another try.

>>723541367 (OP)
>mfw modern players trying to play G2 with NotR out of the gate
Godspeed, fellas.

>>723544973
It is, but people are severely overestimating the difficulty of NotR. If I could beat it as a 7 year old kid, then anyone can beat it.
There's a lot of metagaming you can do in that game, but if you don't, there are powerful scrolls that can bail you out of most of the actually difficult fights.

>>723545689
>>723545735
problem is that gamers today are more fucking retarded than we were at single digit age

>>723541516
Reminder that Reinhard Pollice, the game director for Gothic Remake was a producer for Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods and ArcaniA: Gothic 4
Keep your expectations for Gothic Remake in check so you won't be disappointed

>>723545906
>game director for Gothic Remake was a producer for Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods and ArcaniA: Gothic 4
what the fuck, I didn't know that
it really is over, huh

>>723545290
I've tried to build some anti meta builds like a 0 str mage that still goes melee and it works you can beat the game just fine, the master sword is just that much overpowered.

Good lord, is that Archolos mod of the decade update EVER fucking coming out? It's been like 4 years since the release.

>>723547687
It may take 4 more years but they are working on it, there was a small update just last month.
https://cdaction.pl/zapowiedzi-2/najlepszy-mod-do-gothica-2-w-historii-prezentujemy-prace-nad-nowa-wersja-kronik-myrtany-i-mowimy-o-zmianach-nowe-screeny/

>>723545906
I saw the censored slavegirls, I have no expectations. They can fuck off and I hope the game bombs.

>>723547795
Glad that it's still being worked on then. I've been wanting to replay as a mage, and it seems the update will have some significant changes to that type of gameplay.

wasnt there a Skyrim mod thats basically a Gothic game in style and structure ?
i think it was called Enderal or smt like that

>>723541367 (OP)
I don't know about "manliest" but it certainly is the second best game ever (the best one is Gothic 1).

>>723541367 (OP)
Still the greatest RPG to have ever existed.

>>723541367 (OP)
All rpgs are more feminine than putting on a skirt and sucking cocks

Stop hoarding and use the magic scrolls.

>>723550649
What the fuck is this FoV
Also what mod?

>>723551010
FoV? The camera's zoomed out I guess. I use the DX11 mod so maybe that changes something I'm used to it by this point.
The content mod itself is Odyssey and it's a giant pile of shit I wouldn't recommend to anyone except the most hardcore of gothic fanboys.

>>723541367 (OP)
>khorinis
FUGGEN HOME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ1tyNFODM4

>>723550649
if you used scrolls
you didnt beat the game

if you used snapper scroll at the beginning to clear the forest
you didnt beat the game

>>723551856
damn
actually never noticed how good this composition is.

>and it's a giant pile of shit I wouldn't recommend to anyone except the most hardcore of gothic fanboys

I get this so much, I played through it 2 times and I adore and despise it at the same time

the difficulty is just all over the fucking place and the maps are so damn huge it's impressive and annoying at the same time

still has some of the most memorable moments I had in a game period

killing all the Orks in Khorinis City at Night with my Paladin buddy is something I never forget

>>723552573
Kai was good at his job. Even 3, which was complete dogshit, had some good soulful music in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCtV4DYZkK0

>>723552475
Okay buddy

Now I want to play risen again

>>723553105
The mod does have a few cool moments and I could create a gallery of impressive looking screenshots that make it look appealing.
BUT
These moments are so few and far between in an ultra marathon of a mod it really was not worth it. My final save time was 220 hours, I didn't use union or any of these "QOL" plugins, just DX11.
The long story short of odyssey is that if you attempt to remake gothic 3 in gothic 2 engine you still end up with a bad game.

>>723553197
>disparaging 3
Pleb.

this game is gówno played only by polaczkis you should zajebać się

P.S Skyrim is better

>>723541367 (OP)
gothic 2 is a reskin of 1 with barely improved mechanics. It even shares the same starting map

>>723553406
Yeah, that area are you posted is so fucking beautiful but gameplay wise it's a nightmare

those fucking overpowered Seekers that attack you from up the mountain and turn you into a roast

I like the really small Islands that occasionally come up the best

just big enough to bee fun to explore

>>723548238
enderal is indeed a great mod but it's nothing like gothic. Think of it as more of a 'what skyrim should have been' than a different game.

>>723541708
they will use the assets to backport them to gothic 2

>>723553521
There's nothing to disparage, the game spoke for itself.
Quests were mostly mmo-esque braindead dogshit and the world was static with the populace replacement being the only variable should you choose to slay the orcs in whatever city they're in. At least 1 and 2 kept things fresh via chapter updates, it made it seem like things were actually developing and the world changing.
3 had potential and needed more time, patches might've fixed the bugs, glitches, balance and optimization but the core of the game will forever remain flawed. It's literally cyberpunk 2077 of gothic games, wide and very shallow. SAD!

>>723553613
and thats a good thing

>>723554393
yes, I agree.

>>723553613
if anything, it's impressive that they've managed to make a sequel with like triple the content in a year

>>723554631
lots of meth

>>723554631
Iterating is always easier. Fallout 2 would be another good example of that.

Chciałbym się dostać...

...do Starej Kopalni.

>>723550649
>unc be like, yoo this gameplay is fire

>>723541367 (OP)
I like gothic 4 and I don't care what anyone thinks

>>723550649
I just finished this temple and I think I need to take a break from the mod.

>>723554631
There's a universe where they kept doing that for 5 more years and they got until Gothic 6 just like the Tomb Raider series.

Kinda funny reading these threads knowing i beat both Gothic 1 and Gothic 2 when i was in 11th grade, which was roughly in 2004. I only played Gothic 2 for at least 1 year and i had around 40 saves for each playthrough that i did. So yeah, i finished it more than 40 times. I played Gothic 1 less since it was shorter and smaller, maybe 15 times. I also played Gothic 1 after playing Gothic 2 since that's how i managed to procure them from pirates who had internet (i didn't). Also i fucking loved NOTR. Such was life in rural Romania.

>>723553613
gothic 2 actually has improved mechanics you have to notice it without looking like a dumbass

>>723556081
Let me just give you perspective how much playtime I had at end of each chapter
chapter 1 - 15h
chapter 2 - 40h
chapter 3 - 85h <- temple is here
chapter 4 - 142h
chapter 5 - 176h
chapter 6 - 217h
chapter 7 - 220h <- more or less speedran this part since I was sick of the game
And there are my stats in the spoiler image at the very end of the game.

>>723556308
I played them in 2005, I'm from Chile. Gothic 2 is still a comfort game for me, every time I come back to it everything is better, after all these years it's still my favorite game, there's just nothing else that even resembles it.

>>723556446
My god, even reading that shit is hard. Why not just completely redesign this stat screen.

>>723556654
I think it was meant to look better and take full screen but I couldn't get that to work. Anytime I messed with the scale option in the .ini file it instead broke all other UI elements. So yeah the stat screen looks ugly as shit but realistically when playing you only care about STR and HP, everything else is irrelevant.

>>723556450
>Gothic 2 is still a comfort game for me, every time I come back to it everything is better, after all these years it's still my favorite game, there's just nothing else that even resembles it.
Same anon, same. I used to replay G1/G2 through every christmas period as kind of my little personal yearly tradition, it's magical, few games respect your autism as much as Gothic does.

The closest thing to Gothic I've found through years was recent KCD, but it's a bit too slow and too grand to be a direct replacement. Great game regardless, it's just that it still doesn't quite nail it.

>>723556446
These numbers are crazy. Was anything even a threat at that point? If I had to guess this is way past the "nothing can kill or harm me" territory.

play dark souls 2 (sotfs).

>>723541538
I've seen a demake of the first demo in Gothic 1's engine and it was 10x more atmospheric.

>>723541367 (OP)
1 was manlier as the only females it featured were prostitutes who were not even allowed to talk to you

>>723545290
Notr isn't difficult if you consume learning tablets at correct time
Waiting for the last moment is WRONG. you may maximize learning points, but you are only making the endgame even easier while having very difficult midgame

>>723545290
Endgame is harder on notr, but early game is harder on vanilla i would say, that is if you dont know wtf youre doing and dont abuse transform scrolls, it really takes some time to get things going. Notr just gives you plenty of cruches to breeze early game.

>>723557580
>who were not even allowed to talk to you
It's the other way around. You are such a pleb that "(you) are not allowed to talk to us".

>>723557153
>Was anything even a threat at that point?
Yeah sure, enemies on legendary difficulty have ludicrously inflated stats endgame they easily have over 1000 strength and come in large packs. That said legendary difficulty has retarded balance curve, for majority of the game enemies have so much armor you deal 5 damage to them while they kill you in 1-2 hits. On top of that all enemies have DEX = STR and they get to have like 250% skill in every weapon which means they will snipe the living shit out of you if they have a ranged weapon and a lot of them do.
I didn't feel powerful in this mod until like late chapter 5 which is an absurdly long time and you never feel unkillable, you constantly have to use boosters like black ore or control spells like fear, ice block, ice wave. Near the end of chapter 6 you get rain of fire rune but that lasts for maybe last 5% of the game, only then you can start ignoring combat and feeling like a walking god otherwise the game's pure pain.

>>723545290
I'm still annoyed that trainers become more expensive not based on how many times you've learned from them, but how many total skill points your character has at that moment.
So if you, for example, use a permanent potion or something else that improves your stats too early - congrats! You've wasted it! And if you forget to unequip your stat boosting gear before learning, you're wasting points, too.

What are the most noteworthy mods for G1/G2 (except Archolos, the absolute GOAT) and what do they offer?

>>723552475
>Get Dragon Snapper scroll
>Clear the forest
>Level ups up the wazoo
>Transform back
>Life points didn't increase

>>723557714
>Endgame is harder on notr, but early game is harder on vanilla
I feel like neither is difficult past chapter 4 and NOTR is definitely harder than vanilla at the start.
You can minmax yourself into being able to wield the Orc Slayer in vanilla as early as chapter 2. I don't remember if there're enough points to raise your one-handed skill to "Master" though but I think it's also possible iirc.
So you can just do that and farm tons of exp in the Valley of Mines by pulling strong enemies one by one. Orc warriors along with some other enemies can be sidestepped, making it possible to slay most of the enemies in the Valley without spending much of your healing items.

>>723545906
Grim if true

>>723557862
>enemies on legendary difficulty have ludicrously inflated stats endgame they easily have over 1000 strength and come in large packs. That said legendary difficulty has retarded balance curve, for majority of the game enemies have so much armor you deal 5 damage to them while they kill you in 1-2 hits. On top of that all enemies have DEX = STR and they get to have like 250% skill in every weapon which means they will snipe the living shit out of you if they have a ranged weapon and a lot of them do.
That shit sounds absolutely horrid lol. But I guess inflating the stats would be the only way to make the game "challenging". Not much else you can do with that combat/design.

>>723558279
Yeah legendary mode is retarded and if I knew any better I wouldn't go any higher than daring because that allows you to learn the weapon master and sniper perks which are not allowed on hard or legendary.
My primary motivation for even playing odyssey in the first place was practice for Archolos 2.0 hard mode so I locked in difficulty as high as it goes, and that did make me a better player but it was totally not worth it.

>>723558127
Neither is really hard once you play it for Xth time, but if youre going in blind, you likely wont find out about orc farming strategies due to the poor ai. And chapter 1-2 offers much less resources than notr, while enemies remain equally strong. Only after seekers appear, you can feel the difficulty spike in notr.

What are some other games with a similar feel as Gothic 1 and 2? As in fantastic open world design with fun exploration and a satisfying progression system?

>>723545689
The Steam version of 2 Gold has it included, right? I've only played Gothic 1.

>>723559615
CoM: A

>>723559615
lol
Mods and other PB games.

>>723559615
People say Drova is gothic like but is it or is it any good I don't know.

>>723559615
well Risen is pretty much a not - Gothic

>>723541367 (OP)
the first one is better

>>723559615
there isn't anything like gothic
it's over

>>723549427
There's some fine memories in those games.

One thing I don't understand is why NOTR has the pirate subplot, it comes completely out of nowhere, doesn't mesh with the rest of the story and feels like a mod

>>723560661
did a G2 classic playtrough recently. Get the mod that removes addon content from notr from the gothic fansite, not from steam or anywhere else. Was pleased not to do this jarkhendar shit again

>>723560661
It's because someone at Piranha Bytes has autistic obsession with pirates, as the Risen series focused entirely on pirates.

>>723560661
I mean you're right that it doesn't really mesh with the story, but I like Jarkendar a lot, and some more lighthearted parts of Gothic are always enjoyable.

>>723559919
It is very much a Gothic-like, at times blatantly so. It's decent for a homage, but it isn't unfiltered kino like the big G. Then again nothing is, I guess

I wish Archolos had a German dub

>>723559615
Risen kinda fits, but only the first one. I barely remember the second one and I played the third recently but that shit was ass.

bump

>>723561209
isn't one in the works?

>>723563234
Yeah, apparently there's one in the works, I didn't know about that. It sounds pretty hit or miss, but I guess it's alright for mod standards.

>>723545643
Archolos is much more fair and balanced.
Biggest part being that the game remembers whether you learned attributes or got them through potions or something similar. So you can just chug everything you can your hands on. Makes exploration and side questing more rewarding.

The potion and scroll hoarding towards the late game in NotR was such a retarded game design, it's unreal.

>>723564474
>The potion and scroll hoarding towards the late game in NotR was such a retarded game design, it's unreal.
I've watched a review about archolos where the guy praised NOTR for this feature because it made the game "more balanced" and that archolos was too easy because you could just chug permanent upgrades right away.

>>723545906
uhhh oy oy oy aaaAAAA.... ughhhhh hmmmm Damn you ruined my day with that information

>>723564474
>The potion and scroll hoarding towards the late game in NotR was such a retarded game design, it's unreal.
True. There was a mod that changed that into a similar system to Archolos, I played with it a few years ago and it made the whole experience so much more pleasant.

>>723559919
Drova markets itself by including a lot of what make Gothic iconic but it fails in feeling like it.
It feels incredibly tame, trying to appease current politics while waving the "we're gothic!!!" banner.
Without going deeper into the details: Let's just say that every other high ranking army officer or leader is a woman.

>>723564634
>explore woods
>see monster
>loot behind it
>slay the beast and come out triumphant
>your reward would make you even stronger and perhaps let you wield a better weapon
>but it doubles your LP cost the next time you visit a trainer, >next level up is essentially worthless (aside from HP gain)
Truly magnificent game design and the peak of game balancing.

Can you name me the reviewer so I can go into his comments and call him a retarded faggot?

>>723565687
https://youtu.be/6IKbV7PJPFg?t=5372
This guy, I timestamped the section of the difficulty complaints.

>>723559779
Yes. You can't really buy G2 anymore in any other form than Gold

Consider this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68K8t55n-Gg

>>723564474
There's a mod for NotR that does the same thing, I recommend it.

how the flying fuck are you supposed to play melee in this game? You almost never fight 1v1 and in early game you're being gangbanged

>>723566171
Perfect. I look forward to the harder version of the game.

Gaytracing is OUT
G*drays are IN

>>723566875
Games really, unironically, 100% seriously should have never progressed beyond this level of graphics.

>>723566989
I'd say HL2 would be better as the upper limit

>>723566653
Name one situation in the early game that requires you to fight multiple enemies at once that aren't wolves or some other pest.

>>723566653
1h melee is pretty much the optimal way to go if you know the mechanics, get to at least fighter level of 1h skill and abuse the i-frames of backstep and you can beat anything 1v1.
How do you fight 1v many? Either get more stats, use ranged/magic to reduce fight to 1v1, glitch enemies on terrain to split them up or get really good at the game then you can fight 2 or 3 enemies at the same time, but more than 3 you will need some sort of advantage of stats/magic/range etc.

>>723567041
lighthouse in G2

>>723567041
The bandits on your way to Khorinis

>>723567159
You can buy scroll of summon skeleton for like 75 gold and this one skelly boi will wreck all the bandits at the lighthouse for you.

>>723567167
skill issue

>>723557889
Dirty Swamp is a nice mod for G2, if you liked the addon world you should give it a try.

>>723566079
In your timestamp he specifically states that his complaints about the balance are towards the abundance of bonuses you can get your hands on in the early game, making you much stronger than the game requires you to be for these chapters.

The increasing LP mechanic of NotR would not be such a big deal if NotR was also abundant in things you can find and use to power yourself up. But it's not the case.
Aside from maybe a handful of potions that give you +3 stats each or stone tablets that give you +2% on weapon arts (for which you need to learn the language first), it's not going to break your power levels.
If you lift the LP restriction, you still won't be a powerhouse demigod towards chapter 3. In Archolos on the other hand, you will.

>>723541367 (OP)
i officially declare that the worst mod for this game is not odyssey but fucking returning 2.0
genuinely embarrassing how russians turned my beloved autistic rpg into a korean MMO grindfest with armors ripped out of fucking skyrim lmao

>>723559615
>As in fantastic open world design with fun exploration and a satisfying progression system?
The Witcher 1 kinda.

>>723567640
Is that why it's commonly known as the retarding?

>>723566989
you say it only because you can't run anything else

>>723566989
It looks so cozy

>>723567640
I vaguely remember playing Returning many years ago. Like a lot of mods, it was very bloated, and let you get very overpowered, but I think I've beaten it so it couldn't have been that bad.

>>723567228
Not in NOTR. Also in vanilla you can solo them easily early game. In NOTR those guys are tough as fuck.

Also you can come with this argument about anything in chapter 1. Retard

>>723567778
NTA, but yeah. Beyond the awful grinding and broken balance, the devs added a bunch of retarded shit to the game, like the sect camp just below Xardas' tower that don't believe in Sleeper anymore but apparently still talk about his grace. It turned out that they ripped a bunch of assets from other mods and just slapped them onto their project with little rhyme or reason. I played it last year, and it was pretty buggy and obtuse from what I remember, you had to dive into forums to figure out how to progress in certain sections and maximise your levelling due to inflated enemy stats. If the game broke (this happened often) you had to use Marvin, but the devs hate you using it and basically broke it long ago.
Best way to play is on Normal/Hard difficulty, going beyond unlocks more content but adds so much time-wasting retardation that you shouldn't bother.

>>723568231
>Not in NOTR.
I'm sure it's possible in NOTR.

>>723567167
All three are optional.
You even get Cavalorn to roll them for you free of charge.

>>723567159
Optional quest that is intended for mid game but is available early, not meant to be completed early.
The bandits give 300 exp each. The same amount a shadowbeast does.

>>723568418
It's not, they 1 shoot you with bows. The way i did it was transform into fire lizard, so that way, sure it's doable

>>723548091
when did they show them?

>>723541516
Kek, demake, where they turned female slaves into maids because *our female developers were offended by mere thought of women being slaves*
Yeah, I wouldn't expect much.

Is Greedfall any similar to Gothic?

>>723553406
220 hours? I couldn’t even stomach 30 of that mod. It really feels like a giant kitchen-sink project where they just kept adding more and more stuff to make it bigger instead of better. I had to call it quits near the end of the second island. I don’t think I ever felt even remotely engaged with the world, the characters, or the story. A real shame, because they clearly put a lot of effort into it

>>723567640
That entire mod feels like a fever dream. I still remember quitting around 100 hours in because I got stuck in that one desert and couldn’t finish a quest I needed to progress. My journal wouldn’t tell me what to do, and every guide I found was in Russian and made no sense through Google Translate

>>723569287
fk no

>>723567640
>i officially declare that the worst mod for this game is not odyssey but fucking returning 2.0
I mean, I thought it's almost a consensus that returning is shit and it's only more content for those who are actually desperate for some more gothic mindless gameplay. And that Odyssey it's pretty good.
Never played either because no English translation, but that's what I read people say

Has anyone here played Gothic II - Nostalgic Edition? Would you recommend it? I don’t want to waste hours playing it only to realize I actually hate it like I did with returning

So, Of Ash and Steel.

What do we think?

>>723571314
looks like ue5 action slop

>>723571479
But feels like Risen1

>>723556308
Same but with Bloodlines, greetings from Ukraine.

>>723552475
>t. perched on a high place and peppered enemies with arrows

>>723559615
It's not a single MC game (it has a party system), but Dragon's Dogma has a similar "feel" when you're just running around exploring and finding things.

>>723572017
As much as I liked DD's combat and pawn system, I thought exploration was one of its weak points.

>>723571314
At least ask about the right game, namely Sword Hero

>>723571314
Just watched the trailer. Honestly yeah, looks very ue5 sloppy. The animations just look awkward and the game screams jank.
But I am a sucker for things like smithing my own things and customising my home, so might give it a try.
>>723572707
That looks cool. How's the demo?

>>723571314
I'm playing the demo now and I just got to where it really opens up. I wish it had the combat mechanics of the Sword Hero demo, but running around the woods feels nice so far.

>>723572604
>I thought exploration was one of its weak points.
I've played it too many times to really feel any novel sense of discovery any more, but the first (and second and third) times I played and ran up the side path near the encampment and fought "that" bandit then went to Maul's fort, and then near the coastline to fight a golem, then near the battleground with the ballistas and cyclopses, and then eventually hellfire forest to find the drake were fantastic. I also liked getting lost in the undead woods and getting one shotted by an armored skeleton, or seeing the wight that spawns in the little poison swamp at night. I wanted more of that with a few setpieces and quests for 2, but sadly, that wasn't what most of the game was.

>>723570571
Odyssey is garbage
>First quest have you locked for days in barracks all the soldiers are sleeping, quest makes 0 logical sense, apparently like 20 guys are just ok with simply not sleeping
>2nd quest has you go back and forth between 2 npcs who are like children who refuse to talk to each other.
Dropped the game at this point. Yeah, couldn't even stomach 2 quests. I don't care what's after that, if first 2 quests are this dumb rest is probably even worse

>>723574374
The second one is German humor. Only they understand it.

>>723574374
>2nd quest has you go back and forth between 2 npcs who are like children who refuse to talk to each other.
Funny that in 6th chapter when you return to the starting island nearly the entire population is turned into undead or zombies but these two retards are part of the tiny group of survivors

>>723559919
It's nothing like gothic and none of the devs worked on gothic. Their entire marketing hinges on "remember gothic?" to profit off another companies success. They sit in big streamers chats and suggest their shitty game daily.

>>723567167
You can find a few fireball scrolls before meeting Cavalorn and use them to instantly kill one of the guys inside the cave, then 1v1 the other bandit.

>>723567542
It starts nice, but then turns into combatslop

>>723574801
>german
>humor
no such thing

>>723576616
god I wish

>>723576616
German humor is no laughing matter, anon.

>>723576765
>some cheeze pizza
Uhhh

>>723572707
>namely Sword Hero
looks funky, wishlisted

>>723576616
german humor is beautiful. my favorite example is when you have this one innocent dude in G1 who wants to be your friend, and then the point of the quest is to beat him up when you're sufficiently annoyed

>>723545108
>temple of Ashdod
mod set irl?

Anyone tried nostalgic edition for 2?

>>723545906
do you happen to have the Mr Kitty edit of this, please? with sound, I mean

>>723559615
Elex was pretty fun, the difficulty curve was very Gothic-like, the beginnings were miserable and almost any creature in the world could one or two-shot you and you could seriously mark noticeable moments when you started feeling stronger. The setting is a bit harder to swallow, but overall it retained a lot of the charm of G1/G2.

>>723576765
idgi

Is there any way to increase the view distance in Gothic 1 in the gog version? I can see more in the distance when I don't look directly at it but have it at the side of the screen, the weird fog kicks in when I centre the camera onto something in the distance.

>>723586340
I think in the game folder there's am ini file you can open in text editor and change things like this.

>>723571314
soulles
there are no gothic-like games on the market

>>723586865
Have you even played it?

>>723586494
>ini
Haven't had to open one in over a decade.
But I found the entries sightValue and modelDetail, but increasing them doesn't change anything from the inital problem. I see fucking far on the sides, but looking at something directly in the distance, covers it in fog.
I tired disabling it by setting zFog to 1 but that just removes the fog while keeping the limited rendering.
What I want is when I look at the waterfall in the distance I don't see it, I look to the side of it and I see the entire mountain range. I just want to have the same view distance in all directions.
Unless it's really not possible, then I guess I'll have to do with what the game gives me.

I remember playing Gothic 2 as kid. Killing a dragon and becoming a knight was how it ended, right? or were there multiple endings depending on factions. I have it on steam, might give it a try sometime.

>>723588336
>>723588336
You kill the undead dragon at the end.
As for the knight part, you must've chosen the paladin route (one of three factions). You don't really become a knight at the end of the game per se but rather down the road after you side with the militia.

>>723588336
>Killing a dragon and becoming a knight was how it ended
you certainly do kill some dragons, but you become a paladin some time before the end
>multiple endings
nope, factions have some different quests and different armors, but the ending is the same regardless of your choice

it's a great game, if you don't remember too much from it, certainly give it another run

because of this thread I spent the last 2-3 hours watching random gothic 2 youtube videos
I don't know why, unfortunately I remember the game too well not to get bored on a replay.

A very comfy gothak thread. These rarely hit 200 posts.

He's literally me

>>723590581
>G4
disgusting

>>723544973
the combat rebalance means unless you score a crit, you deal a miserable 5 damage or so no matter your strength or the weapon you wield.
but humanoids can be parried, beasts can be dodged, magic is easy mode and you can attack enemies through walls so it's not much of a difference.

Epickość

Weird to see people talking about Odyssey when I just started playing it a week ago. I'm currently in the desert.

>>723590980
>magic is easy mode
I thought one handers were the best in 2?

>>723592396
And, how are you enjoying it so far?

>>723593015
It's trying really hard to be Gothic 3 but I like it. Somehow despite being almost level 70 I still have tons of things to spend skillpoints on.

>>723582939
https://litter.catbox.moe/p9a4nf.webm

>>723593221
Grazie, such a work of shitposting art

>>723553105
>>723553406
>>723566875
2 decades later, sometimes I snoyface at what amazing stuff modders can come up with
F O R F R E E
and the krauts couldn't improve or even maintain their output

>>723594939
Well there is always Legends of Ahssûn but it's just pretty mediocre

>>723560558
it's a shame that the four-friends-content was cut out; they mention a regular meet-up place, and that you're becoming one of "the trusted ones", allegedly you would have had a few sidequests about joining their mutually-beneficial, apolitical friend circle
>you meet every friend at one of the hardest mid-game battles, help each other and part ways on better terms
so simple and so well done

>>723561209
in all honesty, not knowing Polish made Archolos truly feel like a new game despite the kinda-familiar setting

>>723595150
I wrote a few mod names from this thread, ty

>>723592715
maybe in 1v1 combat, but the biggest threats come in groups or packs and only magic deals splash damage.

>>723561209
I learned a bunch of German playing G1&2 with German dubs and later text.
But after 2 Archolos playthroughs I can still barely understand Polish. I'm Romanian so you'd think it'd be simpler, Slavic influence and all. What a weird language.

You just know

>>723597071
>low poly sword and sorcery made by a team of less than 40 people
people say fashion returns, but it's been a solid 20 years of bleak hope so far ...