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Preview Gothic II US preview at GameSpy

Discussion in 'RPG Codex News & Content Comments' started by Saint_Proverbius, Aug 4, 2003.

  1. Saint_Proverbius Arcane Patron

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    Tags: Gothic II

    It's about <a href="Http://www.gothic2.com">Gothic 2</a>, it's on <a href="http://www.gamespy.com">GameSpy</a>, and it's a <a href="http://www.gamespy.com/previews/august03/gothic2pc/">preview</a>. So, here's a clip:
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    <blockquote>My first thought when I received an e-mail from Atari asking if I'd be interested in taking a look at their soon to be released RPG Gothic II was confusion. I knew about it of course. The game is a sequel to the critically praised but tragically overlooked RPG Gothic. I was under the impressions, though, that the game had already been released. Sure enough, I checked around the Web and the game's already been out for some time in its native Germany, and an English translation of it is already burning up the charts in the UK. </blockquote>
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    Does kind of make you wonder what's taking so long for it to get here to the States, doesn't it?
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    Spotted this at <A href="Http://www.homelanfed.com">HomeLAN Fed</a>
     
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  2. Flarnet Liturgist

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    Because JoWood is possibly one of the worst publishers in the universe (there are reports of a publisher in the delta quadrant that squanders even more valuable IPs and that stands up even more guaranteed long time cashcows, but those reports are unreliable). And Atari/Infogrames/Lets-change-names-like-a-cheap-criminal-to-gain-an-inch doesn't give a rats ass about a product that they wont earn much from, due to JoWood (in their trademark short-term greediness) not cutting them a decent percentage on the distribution deal.
    And why should Atari care about a product that competes directly with their core PC product NWN?

    The plotted course of a beheaded chicken looks like the combined computations of Albert Einstein compared to the business strategies of JoWood.
     
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