Game News Gothic 4 screenies

[DarkUnderlord]

Tags: Gothic 4: Arcania

<p>German terrorist group pcgames.de have managed to kill some people and <a href="http://www.pcgames.de/Arcania-Gothic-4-PC-206313/Bilder/Arcania-Gothic-4-Streng-geheime-Entwickler-Screenshots-aufgetaucht-766114/galerie/1407471/">grab some screens of Gothic 4</a>: That Gothic Game That's not Being Made by the People Who Made all the Other Gothic Games:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Today, top-secret development screenshots of Arcania: Gothic emerged fourth. The images were previously unpublished and are from the tech demo from 2007. They showed even then a graphic splendor</p>
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<p>Presumably the game either looks a lot shinier 3 years later or this is at good as it gets.</p>
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<p>Spotted @ <a href="http://www.gamebanshee.com">GameBanshee</a></p>

 

[JarlFrank]

Wow, this looks really really grainy.

 

[Micmu]

Like absolute diarrhea comparing to Risen. But then again, they're making this junk for xbrick.[/gfx_whoring]

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Germans. The fuck are you good for?

 

[thesheeep]

We once had a lesson held by their head of Game Design.
The impression I had was that all they do is aimed at pleasing their target audience (360 kiddies)... and this is what you get for that.

Those screenshots are complete bullshit, like some photoshop filter was used to make them look as bad as possible.
The graphics are hot, believe me. And there are more screenshots out there to prove it, so I have no idea why anyone would release those...

Anyway, according to some previews it doesn't have anything to do with the real Gothic series. There is even a button that shows you all the health bars of surrounding enemies (and their names, if I remember correctly), WoW-style.
At least there was one at some point during development.

I won't be able to play it on PC, and don't have enough money to buy it on the 360, so I really don't care that much.

 

[Some Moron On Welfare]

Klicken Sie HIER um weitergeleitet zu werden!

 

[MetalCraze]

Note how screenies they posted at the beginning of development cycle were total fake. Not that it was anything surprising considering XBawks as a target platform with its 5 years old hardware. These ones look pretty bad. Risen looked better.

 

[commie]

Meh, I'll still pirate it all the same. Spellbound are only good at making Commandos clones anyway.

 

[ortucis]

When I first played Risen and when the beach scene faded into view, I was awestruck with the beauty of the world PB had crafted (I haven't seen any screenshots or videos of the game before).

Gothic 4 on the other hand looks like it's the developer's first time using SpeedTree and instead of actually creating some beautiful custom trees, they just pressed the "randomize" button a few times to create trees for the whole game. I am of course bitching about trees cause for some reason they REALLY love showing trees in all Gothic 4 shots over and over. I get it, it's open world, it has trees, what about some large cities or small towns with people working and shitting? (I have seen a few.. but yeah, trees, I think the whole budget went into making trees and thinking up the stupid name for the game)

 

[Phelot]

Wow these look awful

 

[commie]

Come on, what are you looking at? They look fine! Sure they look more 2006 Gothic 3 quality, but that game still looks good.

Problem will be that it will be buggy as all fuck and half finished knowing Jowood.

 

[mike73]

Damn jerries, though you gotta look past that grain effect. Hope it's as fuckin great as gothic II

 

[dr. one]

Hope it's as fuckin great as gothic II

from a summary of gamestar preview (http://www.worldofgothic.com/gothic3/?go=G4previewGameStar0610Eng):

"All comfort features can be disabled, only quest-related NPCs and items are constantly high-lighted by a green aura."
"There are no teachers in the game. After a level rise the player can freely distribute talent points. The talents Alchemy, Smithing and Thieving are no longer available. Lockpicking has become a mini game, pickpocketing does not exist anymore. "
"The game ran smoothly and crash-free, but for the moment still contains many bugs, which, according to GameStar, will be removed by autumn."

you get the picture.

 

[Some Moron On Welfare]

Bah. Another shitty German RPG.

 

[Micmu]

"All comfort features can be disabled, only quest-related NPCs and items are constantly high-lighted by a green aura."

This is so anti-Gothic that you don't even have to go past other crap to get the picture what kind of garbage this will be.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Germany! Please stop making games! Drakensang, Gothic, I don't give a shit. Leave that stuff to the professionals and focus on your brothels instead.

 

[Jaesun]

Hope it's as fuckin great as gothic II

from a summary of gamestar preview (http://www.worldofgothic.com/gothic3/?go=G4previewGameStar0610Eng):

"All comfort features can be disabled, only quest-related NPCs and items are constantly high-lighted by a green aura."
"There are no teachers in the game. After a level rise the player can freely distribute talent points. The talents Alchemy, Smithing and Thieving are no longer available. Lockpicking has become a mini game, pickpocketing does not exist anymore. "
"The game ran smoothly and crash-free, but for the moment still contains many bugs, which, according to GameStar, will be removed by autumn."

you get the picture.

jebus. I skipped 3, and now will skip 4. I'll just continue to enjoy my Gothic 2.

 

[Texas Red]

Goddamn Germans. Go get partitioned by France or Russia, you fucking nazi assholes.

 

[mike73]

you get the picture.

almost forgot how bad 3 sucked balls

 

[fastpunk]

"There are no teachers in the game. After a level rise the player can freely distribute talent points. The talents Alchemy, Smithing and Thieving are no longer available. Lockpicking has become a mini game, pickpocketing does not exist anymore. "

What.The.Fuck??! They removed some of the signature features of PB Gothics. I'll definitely skip this and patiently wait for PB's next game.

 

[JarlFrank]

Come on, what are you looking at? They look fine! Sure they look more 2006 Gothic 3 quality, but that game still looks good.

Actually, Gothic 3 looks a lot better than that.
Gotta see how G4 looks in movement, but the screenshots... bleh.

 

[Morkar Left]

Why is everybody drooling about 3 year old screenshots? There were even gameplay-vids available...

"... only quest-related NPCs and items are constantly high-lighted by a green aura."
"There are no teachers in the game. After a level rise the player can freely distribute talent points. The talents Alchemy, Smithing and Thieving are no longer available. Lockpicking has become a mini game, pickpocketing does not exist anymore. "
"The game ran smoothly and crash-free, but for the moment still contains many bugs, which, according to GameStar, will be removed by autumn."

I didn´t know that the game will be such a travesty of Gothic

 

[Murk]

fuck. that. shit.

 

[Luzur]

its so next-generation.

 

[Lumpy]

I don't see why you all are acting like this has anything to do with Gothic. Risen is Gothic 4, this is some random shit from some other developer.