Elwro
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Orruk always looks at young lady with big eyes
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Game News Arcania: Gothic 4 Demo Released
- Thread starter VentilatorOfDoom
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God, these guys are still living in the dark ages of software development. They screwed up the interface. This is at 1920x1280:
Next one is at 1280x800:
Anyway, I don't get what's good about the game that any of you could look forward to it. Combat is as popamole shit as it gets. At least with the shepherd stick, one would expect to be able to use the curved end to grab and pull some necks or limbs. Then the same old of bigger weapons = slower bullshit. When will anyone do anything more interesting than clickfest combat? And combat becoming harder when it's shit is just tedious grind. And since the game will have nothing else but combat to gameplay...
Writing is shit. Also, no swimming.
I was surprised at the graphics though. Town's design was neat, the art direction acceptable (except for the character models) and the shadow quality was good. Animations are once again retarded though. They should've just drop the body language animations during dialogues, it comes off as retarded and annoying. The camera black-out between when you talk to a character and the dialogue scene comes up is terrible. They must have fucked something up to work right during that transition to make it so that you can't even skip that black-out.
And generally speaking, one of the worst demos ever. It's a pretty retarded idea to try to cater to the old fans with the ending for a demo and that cave-dungeon was just too fucking long for a demo.
Next one is at 1280x800:
Anyway, I don't get what's good about the game that any of you could look forward to it. Combat is as popamole shit as it gets. At least with the shepherd stick, one would expect to be able to use the curved end to grab and pull some necks or limbs. Then the same old of bigger weapons = slower bullshit. When will anyone do anything more interesting than clickfest combat? And combat becoming harder when it's shit is just tedious grind. And since the game will have nothing else but combat to gameplay...
Writing is shit. Also, no swimming.
I was surprised at the graphics though. Town's design was neat, the art direction acceptable (except for the character models) and the shadow quality was good. Animations are once again retarded though. They should've just drop the body language animations during dialogues, it comes off as retarded and annoying. The camera black-out between when you talk to a character and the dialogue scene comes up is terrible. They must have fucked something up to work right during that transition to make it so that you can't even skip that black-out.
And generally speaking, one of the worst demos ever. It's a pretty retarded idea to try to cater to the old fans with the ending for a demo and that cave-dungeon was just too fucking long for a demo.
I cant wait to get the full game since I cant believe this was presentation of finished product but more like a beta build or someones joke.
This was probably the worst demo I ever played and who ever approved of the decision to distribute this should be fired on spot.
The combat was a joke, I played it on hard and yet never once did I save the game or felt a need to do so. Dialogs and voice acting were hilarious but in a very bad way, I honestly cant remember so poorly written dialogs in a AAA game. Lack of swimming was surprising even more when your character needs to circle around a small pond, god forbid he wets his feet.
The funniest part was invisible walls that made you unable fall of cliffs (until you press the jump button), this is obviously made for the console masses since it seems developers think that it would be hard to walk to edges with a controller.
Graphics and world design are quite goo, but beyond that I dont see any reason to play this.
This was probably the worst demo I ever played and who ever approved of the decision to distribute this should be fired on spot.
The combat was a joke, I played it on hard and yet never once did I save the game or felt a need to do so. Dialogs and voice acting were hilarious but in a very bad way, I honestly cant remember so poorly written dialogs in a AAA game. Lack of swimming was surprising even more when your character needs to circle around a small pond, god forbid he wets his feet.
The funniest part was invisible walls that made you unable fall of cliffs (until you press the jump button), this is obviously made for the console masses since it seems developers think that it would be hard to walk to edges with a controller.
Graphics and world design are quite goo, but beyond that I dont see any reason to play this.
phanboy_iv
Liturgist
ArcaniA.
It's quite goo.
It's quite goo.
Antihero
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Did you uncheck "install PhysX"? But you're not missing much, quit at the witch's cave.Elzair said:
Graphics whore complaint time: why are the caves just as bright as the outside areas? At least they were with the mostly default settings I had. And lip-syncing was so terrible it looked worse than a poorly dubbed film's.
Twinkle
Liturgist
Elzair said:
Dude, you should thank it.
Heck, the demo exceeded my expectations. I thought it would be just bland and forgettable next-generic hack'n'slash in Gothic setting. Instead it was horrible, horrible piece of shit without any redeeming qualities whatsoever. The reasons were described in detail by Roxor and others. Apologists may state - but it's only a tutorial area, and as we know tutorial areas in RPG are traditionally supposed to suck. But they've shown us starting location and plot's opening. Some brief history lesson for you:
- Gothic 1. You are dropped behind the magical barrier with a letter to deliver. You are greeted with facepunch. Then some Spanish-looking dude "saves" you and suggests to join the Old Camp to prevent such accidents in the future. You follow his advice and move forward. You grab your first weapon, some shitty sword and you suck at wielding it which the game reflects through animations and puny damage output. Nevertheless, your skills are sufficient to kill scavengers in your way. You approach the castle. A guard stops you at the gate. You reply with smartass comment. You are beaten and ridiculed. Yet you are alive. I fell in love with the game at the same moment.
- Gothic 2. You are resurrected by your necromancer friend and given task to stop Ancient evil. Shit opening? Yep. But solid gameplay will make you forget about it pretty soon. Your first "real" task is to get to the blocked city of Khorinis. The starting area itself is pretty linear. But it has some neat surprises. Fore example, you can hack your way through the goblin caves and meet your friend from the first game. Or be a good boy and follow the road to the city. Soon suspicious bearded dude will stop you, because you match the description of the man they are looking for. You can engage into fight or talk you way out of it. In this case he mentions his boss in the cave nearby. You can try to whack him in the righteous fury. Or again, just follow the road. You reach the gates and guards don't let you in, because you need special pass. You can play by the rules and perform several primitive quests for a local farm owner. Or through careful exploration you can find another way into the city, bypassing the gate entirely.
Even G3's "kill all orcs in the village" was better.
What i found one of the worst things about the demo is how it hints at absolutely terrible story in the full game. Your pregnant wife wants to go to war-torn land to have an adventure? What an excellent idea! Why do i have this feeling that plot will revolve around me saving her from captivity or avanging her death? And seriously, if you are going to force player into having a wife it's a bad enough design decision, but how the fuck can you not make the chick hot? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FACE?!
Mortmal
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Hamster said:
yes i was thinking that as well, and according the rich dialogues with npcs, theres no doubt , they have no magination and it will works that way.
I suppose they made the girl ugly cause the players would be too "emotionnaly involved" if she die
.The plot looks like as cliché as an eschalon games with voice acting similar to the audio book for childrens 4-7 added.
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Is anyone surprised the demo sucks? I thought we had this sorted out like a year ago when gameplay videos were leaked.
http://rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=37376
http://rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=37376
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lordfrikk said:
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fizzelopeguss
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gothic is medieval conan, pure sausage fest, and that's just the way i like it.
Pseudofool
Scholar
The Gothic tone is clearly gone, and that was to be expected, given the change in studio.
The dialogue was just awful, even worse than gothic 3. As for quests it seemed tutorial/demo common fare, I did, however, like the bit with Diego, seemed Gothic-y if somewhat very simple and easily stream lined.
Not super happy about it being a free loot fest, without repercussions. The skill trees look way lamer than the former Gothics. The combat was better than Gothic three, but was a bit of click fest, and the dodge is crazy-over powered.
The invisible walls, and the dude on the bridge, along with the lack of side-quests felt par for the demo. The end of the underground cave section was clearly just there to show off baddies and probably differs greatly in the real game.
I'm still looking forward to it, but the skill tree gives me more pause than anything.
The dialogue was just awful, even worse than gothic 3. As for quests it seemed tutorial/demo common fare, I did, however, like the bit with Diego, seemed Gothic-y if somewhat very simple and easily stream lined.
Not super happy about it being a free loot fest, without repercussions. The skill trees look way lamer than the former Gothics. The combat was better than Gothic three, but was a bit of click fest, and the dodge is crazy-over powered.
The invisible walls, and the dude on the bridge, along with the lack of side-quests felt par for the demo. The end of the underground cave section was clearly just there to show off baddies and probably differs greatly in the real game.
I'm still looking forward to it, but the skill tree gives me more pause than anything.
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