Game News Official Gothic III announcement from JoWooD

[Spazmo]

Tags: Gothic III; Piranha Bytes

<a href=http://press.jowood.com/>JoWooD's press site</a> has an official announcement (no direct link, apologies) confirming that Gothic III is under development at German dev house Piranha Bytes.<blockquote>Gothic III: JoWooD Productions presents the third chapter of the RPG success story
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Rottenmann, Austria, 14th of December 2004: JoWooD Productions continues its successful cooperation with the German developer Piranha Bytes by publishing one of the most spectacular titles of the coming year: Gothic III, the third part of the legendary RPG saga. "Being listed in all major 'most wanted' charts across Europe, Gothic III is the top title of the coming year. To publish a game with such popularity, potential and quality, is a great chance for us to push a world-wide known brand even further" ,comments Andreas Tobler, CEO of JoWooD Productions Software AG. JoWooD Productions takes this chance and will try to break RPG selling records of the past!
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"Our main efforts are to increase quality, atmosphere and fascination in Gothic III, to deliver an unbeatable RPG experience to all the Gothic fans out there. But even with all the improvements and innovations, we continue to build upon the unique concept of the Gothic titles", promises Mike Hoge, developer Piranha Bytes.
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In 2002, JoWooD Productions managed to establish Gothic II as known brand in the RPG world. Gothic II dominated the sales charts with weeks at the top and is one of the best-selling titles ever created in German territories. The success is also proven by dozens of awards like "Best RPG 2002", "Best of E3 Show", "Best of Games Convention" and incredible ratings worldwide.</blockquote>Hopefully, Atari won't fumble the release of this one, or better still, a different company will handle the game outside of Europe. And hey, how about Night of the Raven while non-German gamers wait for the third installment?
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Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.rpgdot.com">RPGDot</A>

 

[Whipporowill]

Official announcements are cool and all, but everyone knew it was in development and who would publish it. They could at least have dropped some new stuff on the game, or a first screenshot of the new engine... bastards.

 

[PennyAnte]

... a great chance for us to push ...

There you have it, in their own words! Publishers are pushers!

 

[Spazmo]

Well, there's this, which was right next to the ress release.

 

[Whipporowill]

Well, there's this, which was right next to the ress release.

Sorry, that's old as dirt - there's been some concept art circulating for a year or so, and that medina-like piece was one of them.

 

[jiujitsu]

I should buy Gothic and Gothic 2...

 

[Fresh]

Screens/art - Gothic III

http://gothic.gaming2.net/de/index.php? ... =artworks/

That site might be worth checking for further updates..

And there´s always that hi-res-video to contemplate:
http://gothic.gaming2.net/de/index.php? ... &catid=310

EDIT: looks like they pulled the scavenger-video. Oh well. It was crap anyways.

Heres a mirror: http://www.torgedellert.de/scavenger.rar :D

 

[Whipporowill]

Well, I've already seen the scavenger vid as well... damn, I'm hard to please.

 

[Elwro]

edit: to JJ: Yes, you should. In Poland distribution of Gothic 2 was funny - it was available a year or so ago, when I snatched it, and then JoWood requested for the sales to be stopped, so now you can buy neither G2 nor its add-on here.

 

[Shagnak]

edit: to JJ: Yes, you should. In Poland distribution of Gothic 2 was funny - it was available a year or so ago, when I snatched it, and then JoWood requested for the sales to be stopped, so now you can buy neither G2 nor its add-on here.

I've never been able to find either down here in the Land of the Long White Cloud.

I've played a demo of the first - awkward controls, but I was very intrigued and wanted more!

Hope Gothic III gets a better distribution...

 

[Fresh]

An official homepage will soon be up & running! *wishful thinking*

 

[Transcendent One]

The scavenger in the video looked very little like the ones in the first two games. I hope radically different graphics won't create a sense of discontinuity between the games.

 

[Fresh]

The scavenger in the video looked very little like the ones in the first two games. I hope radically different graphics won't create a sense of discontinuity between the games.

Dont worry. It´s supposed to look different. It´s an arabic scavenger. :wink:

 

[Digit]

A what now?

I would love for them to get a good ending this time. The endings for G1 and 2 were both terrible. It was funny, after you thought they couldn't do worse in G1, they surprised you in G2. I did like G2, I just kinda wish for more random dungeons that you don't have to do, but if you want something cool you can brave them. When I say Dungeon, I mean more than 1 more... and more than 1 Dungeon with 1 room.

Anyhow, I digress... a what now?

Digit

 

[Whipporowill]

I know what you're saying Digit - it was cool seeing the last dungeon in Gothic, but it was pretty odd it was like the only real dungeon in the game, and really, really short.

 

[Old Scratch]

Dungeons suck though. The lack of long, extensive dungeons is one of the things I really like about those games.

 

[Karl]

As long as they don't add huge Daggerfall like random dungeons, it'll be ok; but surely they won't do that. Still, because the new Gothic is set on the mainland of it's fantasy world, Piranha Bytes probably has enough room to put some nice -- and foremost believable! -- dungeons in place. So no extensive multi level Dungeons of Doom, but instead dungeons matched to the somewhat believable size of the game world.
That last one, the well sized game world, always was a strong point of Gothic's design.

 

[Elwro]

I know what you're saying Digit - it was cool seeing the last dungeon in Gothic, but it was pretty odd it was like the only real dungeon in the game, and really, really short.

There was another one, on the eastern shore (under a tower), but it was optional. Plenty of skeletons, a mage and this Chrysostomus (or sth) book there.