Gothic

[Vaako]

Also checked out the beta today really short 20-30mins gameplay 10 monsters maybe. Didnt find a way to put torches back in inventory except for letting them burn out first which takes like 1min, cant jump while weapon is out on controller, didnt find a button to lock on enemies. Doesnt seem to have animation canceling so if you get surprised while in inventory you are probably dead. Controller sheme is really weird has dodge on the shoulder buttons and 4 different attack swing buttons. Getting health from eating takes too long cant even chew stuff fast from inventory need to watch the eating animation to finish. Beta didnt let me reduce the resolution from 3k+ down to 1920x1080 and PC was quite loud with a 3070. Hope they change the german voice/look of the main protagonist. Other npcs seemed fine but surely seems like you have to play it with keyboard mouse.

[ArcaneLurker]

-50exp

[wndrbr]

Picked up a bunch of beers. Walked forward a few steps, encountered a guard who asked me to fetch him a beer.

A good RPG would have a dialogue option that says "hey what a coincidence, I already have a beer with me! here you go".

Unfortunately, instead of that, Gothic remake just gave me a sidequest 'find a bottle of beer and bring it to a guard'.

[wndrbr]

Other than that (and a rather janky movement system) I liked the demo.

[DagothGeas5]

Picked up a bunch of beers. Walked forward a few steps, encountered a guard who asked me to fetch him a beer.

A good RPG would have a dialogue option that says "hey what a coincidence, I already have a beer with me! here you go".

Unfortunately, instead of that, Gothic remake just gave me a sidequest 'find a bottle of beer and bring it to a guard'.

I had that same encounter. You can give him the beer if you re-speak with him again after the dialogue closes but indeed it is a bit of a sad thing to see
I had similar encounters in the original Gothic, but there were plenty of quests that had reactivity to the thing having already been done (at times skipping entire quests for me as I explored the place and had what was needed already), I hope these things will be brought to their attention.

[Tinky Winky]

>Trying to Download the Demo on GOG
>An account is required
>No direct links
>Site tricked me to download the GOG GAYlaxy

This is why I am and will always stay as a pirate, **** you. Here's the direct links on worldofgothic.de btw if that helps.
https://www.worldofgothic.de/dl/download_753.htm

[Tinky Winky]

bruh I'm not really impressed, melee combat plays like some poor amalgamate between Risen 3 and Dark Soy and is just not fun, range combat might be better although I didn't find any bow in my playthrough as it ended really quick. It does at least run better and have faster reloading than STALKER 2, though pretty much everything runs better than that ukropig slop.

[traxtan]

The demo looked very unreal engine with generic landscape nanite assets, I couldn't unequip torches but I killed the black man with my fists and stole his stuff that was funny. Other than that I won't be playing the Gothic remake.

Edit: Dialog was pretty bad just seemed like Hollywood medieval millennial writing.

[1998]

Remake was the 4th most played demo during Next Fest

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nex ... d_feb_2025

[1998]

Didn't watch it yet, but already don't like 15 min of video justifying what they had to change.

[Finarfin]

If I remember, they said something about that the story was actually great but plotholes, inconsistencies, contradictions pulled it down. They want to try and fix these things.

[rusty_shackleford]

Gothic had a ton of cut content so I hope they complete it

[1998]

If I remember, they said something about that the story was actually great but plotholes, inconsistencies, contradictions pulled it down. They want to try and fix these things.

Yeah, video talks pretty much about that and a few other issues. Expanded skills, music...nothing outrageous.

[Finarfin]

People rag on the devs for something they said in the making of.
Oh right, they said the devs are idiots because in the original templars never walked from the sect camp to the old mine and stuff like that. I find it good because surely even the templars smoked some of that dank *** weed.
Think I also saw a female slave (not in bikini anymore and more rags)

[maidenhaver]

Is the d3d11 renderer any better now, or do textures still flicker and look ***?

[rusty_shackleford]

Is the d3d11 renderer any better now, or do textures still flicker and look ***?

Probably still looks like ***. I prefer the look of the original renderer, just use dgvoodoo2 or something

[DagothGeas5]

Saw there was a 1GB update, thought I'd share as it is live to test out (I personally am starting to fear they will change it to dumb it down or make things "easier", more "accessible" or things of the sort, deviating from the original feel of it, much like 1998's video above where they started to justify changes)
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app ... 5439579821

[Oyster Sauce]

[Finarfin]

SCHLÄFER ERWACHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[rusty_shackleford]

Remake release date set to Q1 2026

[Rand]

I can't believe that normiecattle WANT to play using controllers (especially on PC) for games not explicitly designed for them.
I cannot imaging playing something like Oblivion or Skyrim with a controller. It would feel like playing a game wearing hockey mitts or something.

[Oyster Sauce]

I can't believe that normiecattle WANT to play using controllers (especially on PC) for games not explicitly designed for them.
I cannot imaging playing something like Oblivion or Skyrim with a controller. It would feel like playing a game wearing hockey mitts or something.

Gothic was designed for nothing by the mentally ********

[rusty_shackleford]

I can't believe that normiecattle WANT to play using controllers (especially on PC) for games not explicitly designed for them.

Gothic was designed for keyboard only, and it in fact maps extremely well to controller use. If you're using a mouse for Gothic, you're actually playing it 'wrong'

[Bertram_Tung]

The switch port is the best version and what the developers originally envisioned.

[wndrbr]

[Finarfin]

[Marcus]

Thumbnail with a paki for the English version, a ****** for the German version, a (((hook nosed))) guy for the Poles and a regular* guy for the Russians?

*has a bit of a drunk thug vibe though

[rusty_shackleford]

english version guy just looks like a normal dude with a bit of a tan

[Finarfin]

Thumbnail with a paki for the English version, a ****** for the German version, a (((hook nosed))) guy for the Poles and a regular* guy for the Russians?

*has a bit of a drunk thug vibe though

Huh? Haste lack gesoffen? Das ist doch kein Paki, das ist Lester. Der Neger ist der gute alte Gorn, die Hakennase ist Diego und der normalo ist Milton. Aber gut, das weißste wahrscheinlich. Heutzutage sind nicht-weiße Charaktere eigentlich ein No-Go, aber hier lass ich es durch. Huh? You drunk or what? That's not a Paki, that's Lester. The ****** is good old Gorn, the hooknose is Diego, and the normie is Milton. But yeah, you probably know that. These days non-white characters are basically a no-go, but here I'll let it slide.

[Vaako]

Lost chance to give Klaus Schwab AI voice to a faction leader like gomez or xardas in an open air prison game.