Game News Arcania: Gothic 4 Demo Released

[Felix]

GOTY material right there.

 

[flabbyjack]

Okay so for the first 4/5 of the demo you have no armor -- just some ragged clothing. Good, I bet the quest to get my first set of togs will be great, just like in Gothic 1/2. Or maybe armor are really expensive powerful suits like in Gothic 3.

Then near the end you fight a large arachnid who drops a nice set of leather armor. Guh?

 

[Felix]

While G4 still feels very much like a Gothic game, some welcome changes have been made to the formula. A mini map has been added. For people who have never played G3, you don’t know how awesome that is. In previous Gothic  games, you had to find quest goals simply by looking for them in the game world. Now, you get nice little quest trackers, and quest givers have that familiar World of Warcraft style exclamation mark above their heads. You level up right from your character skill tree, instead of having to find a skill trainer. While searching for trainers added a level of immersion to the game, newcomers to the series will find this modern feature to be similar to how other role playing games work.

 

[Achilles]

Where is that from?

 

[Felix]

http://fronttowardsgamer.com/2010/09/28 ... pressions/

 

[Micmu]

MODERN FEATURE

:shock:

I want to kill
now

It's like, this game was once a racing game, but now is modernized and is first person shooter!

 

[Gnidrologist]

While G4 still feels very much like a Gothic game, some welcome changes have been made to the formula. A mini map has been added. For people who have never played G3, you don’t know how awesome that is. In previous Gothic  games, you had to find quest goals simply by looking for them in the game world. Now, you get nice little quest trackers, and quest givers have that familiar World of Warcraft style exclamation mark above their heads. You level up right from your character skill tree, instead of having to find a skill trainer. While searching for trainers added a level of immersion to the game, newcomers to the series will find this modern feature to be similar to how other role playing games work.

 

[Turjan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6KvSRWs_w4

Jesus christ that's some terrible AI.

Someone mentioned this "feature" before, but seeing it makes me wonder who thought that this was a good idea. That's completely retarded.

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

Good to see the Gothic franchise is completing its modernisation. I can safely stay away from it now.

"No, no, don't go that way! This is the correct way towards the quest item that was hidden in a secret cave amongst the forbidden forest"

 

[denizsi]

THE PRESIDENT IS A COMPUTER.

That wasn't a completely bad twist. Having an old fart president at all was just as bad in FO2. It's just that it was not the Fallouty thing to have in a Fallout game; it didn't fit much with the lore.

 

[markec]

THE PRESIDENT IS A COMPUTER.

That wasn't a completely bad twist. Having an old fart president at all was just as bad in FO2. It's just that it was not the Fallouty thing to have in a Fallout game; it didn't fit much with the lore.

It was far worse because it was a bit strange that noone in the Enclave knew he was a computer, and only morons would listen someone for years but never meeting him.

 

[Luzur]

THE PRESIDENT IS A COMPUTER.

That wasn't a completely bad twist. Having an old fart president at all was just as bad in FO2. It's just that it was not the Fallouty thing to have in a Fallout game; it didn't fit much with the lore.

It was far worse because it was a bit strange that noone in the Enclave knew he was a computer, and only morons would listen someone for years but never meeting him.

not strange at all by Bethesda logic.