What's a game you love but can't actually recommend?
What's a game you love but can't actually recommend?
Alternate title: what’s your favorite obscure jank?
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Piranha Bytes Gothic and Gothic 2 are some of the best RPGs ever produced in my view. The atmosphere, the sense of progression and danger, the way every single item and enemy is curated and placed in the world with care and thought, the way the game doesn't hold your hand and characters actually behave like human beings - including the player. All wonderful.
Unfortunately, the graphics were ugly as shit for 2001-02 and the combat is unbelievably janky. A large part of the game's difficulty curve comes from how fiddly and frustrating the combat is. So, it is really hard to recommend.
The gothic remaster should be coming out eventually, I think it’s in dev hell currently.
Gothic 1 and 2 as a remaster with all the QoL stuff added would honestly be amazing. Didn't know they were planning on even do a remaster.
The demo is still on steam last I checked. It’s a short vertical slice of the intro.
I just checked and I don't see it on their page. But holy shit does it look good! Gonna wishlist it and hope for the best. I have a few games on my list that I'm hopeful for them getting out of dev hell anyway. Looking at you, Memory of a Broken Dimension.
Gothic won me over when I went into someone's house looking for loot and they beat the shit out of me and took all my stuff. Also, the terrible voice acting is so charming.
Came here to post this. I agree that they are some of the best RPGs of all time.
I think the graphics still hold up because they fit the atmosphere so well. The only reason why it's hard to recommend is the combat system.
Have you played Risen 1 from the same devs? It's probably my favourite game of all time. Also, I've heard that "The Chronicles Of Myrtana: Archolos" mod is great.
Archolos is very good - it adds a lot while sticking close to the OG Gothic experience. My biggest objection to it is that as of right now it is only available with Polish voices, and I miss the crappy EN voice acting of the originals :( but that's hardly fair given the amount of work that went into it. If you have the time, and love Gothic 1-2, you should definitely give it a shot.
I played Risen 1 and 2 a long time ago and recall them scratching some of the same itch, albeit not quite as good. Just saw there was a third entry which I never played