Gothic Chronicles Of Myrtana: Archolos mod for Gothic 2

[Murk]

Beat it via guard path and uhh it's fucking great.

Holy shit.

Well done poolanders.

 

[Murk]

edit: fixed image links.

also what in the fuck

this is solid gold

ITS JUST LIKE MY CHILDHOOOD

more: http://wanderer.kamrades.com/ru/g.shtml

bonus unrelated meme

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[Konjad]

98% positive is great.
It has a better score than all games on the RPG Codex Top 101.
So is Archolos confirmed to be the best RPG of all time or what?

It's better not just in positive percentage, but even by number of reviews.

Don't know about all time, but I think it's a 2021 GOTY for sure, not even a contest

And the 2% who write negative reviews don't really criticize the mod, but:
- reject it because it has Polish dubbing and reading translation is too difficult
- complain graphics are too dated, doesn't look like AMAZING new games
- are too dumb to run it and too dumb to read the pinned Steam forum thread with step-by-step instruction
- use the not recommended (because the game warns you that it might corrupt saves) quick save option and complain it corrupted their save

I only saw one "legit" negative review about gameplay where the guy complains you can't play a pure mage from the start of the game.

So in fact it's more like 99.9% positive reviews if we exclude dumbfucks.

 

[HoboForEternity]

So is history of khorinis still going or this is gonna be the last gothic game we have in a while

 

[Alphons]

So is history of khorinis still going or this is gonna be the last gothic game we have in a while

If you can speak German or Polish there's The Odyssey- over 200 hours, 1000 NPCs and 430+ quests across Athanos, Khorinis, Nordmar, Myrtana and Varant.



2.0 version was released in 2016 in German, translated to Polish in October last year

 

[HoboForEternity]

So is history of khorinis still going or this is gonna be the last gothic game we have in a while

If you can speak German or Polish there's The Odyssey- over 200 hours, 1000 NPCs and 430+ quests across Athanos, Khorinis, Nordmar, Myrtana and Varant.



2.0 version was released in 2016 in German, translated to Polish in October last year

sadly i speak neither, but who knows if it's ever get translated

 

[Justicar]

So is history of khorinis still going or this is gonna be the last gothic game we have in a while

If you can speak German or Polish there's The Odyssey- over 200 hours, 1000 NPCs and 430+ quests across Athanos, Khorinis, Nordmar, Myrtana and Varant.



2.0 version was released in 2016 in German, translated to Polish in October last year

sadly i speak neither, but who knows if it's ever get translated

Dont count on it only true EUROPEANS care about Gothic games inhabitants of kwanzania and island niggers from united cuckdom never made a gothic mod and their dedication to translating released ones is nonexistent (you need to know foreign languages to translate something and we all know angloids know only their simple cavemen language.)

 

[Aconitum]

So is history of khorinis still going or this is gonna be the last gothic game we have in a while

It's still going, but its future doesn't look the best right now. In the comments of their youtube video, they confirmed that it's definitely not coming in 2022. There's been a lot of drama surrounding that project, and Archolos coming out first definitely didn't help them. Remember, they used to be the same project, but the team split up due to some internal issues.

 

[Baron Dupek]

- complain graphics are too dated, doesn't look like AMAZING fancy new games.

fixed

New games sometimes looks good, but when you play them with all graphics option enabled then - surprise - don't looks that good because developer responsible for special effects failed its job. Now you can have harder time see in the game because HDR/bloom/abberation/whatever was made for benchmarking/screenshots and not longer gaming seassions unless you're some kind of degenerate with eyes melted in your sockets.
You might disable those effect but then you paid for ultra expensive GPU and you can't utilize its full potential?

 

[Anthedon]

So is history of khorinis still going or this is gonna be the last gothic game we have in a while

If you can speak German or Polish there's The Odyssey- over 200 hours, 1000 NPCs and 430+ quests across Athanos, Khorinis, Nordmar, Myrtana and Varant.



2.0 version was released in 2016 in German, translated to Polish in October last year

How does it compare to Archolos quality-wise?

 

[notpl]

So is history of khorinis still going or this is gonna be the last gothic game we have in a while

If you can speak German or Polish there's The Odyssey- over 200 hours, 1000 NPCs and 430+ quests across Athanos, Khorinis, Nordmar, Myrtana and Varant.



2.0 version was released in 2016 in German, translated to Polish in October last year

How does it compare to Archolos quality-wise?

It's unplayable trash. Zero alterations/improvements to the basic gothic gameplay whatsoever, it even lacks the basic shit that all mods do like fixed permabonus/LP scaling (meaning you can't consooooom your permapotions immediately or you fuck yourself endgame) and it contains like 15 full gothic-sized maps packed to the gills with trash mobs like a fucking mmo. You have zero ability to customize your character (skill progression is completely set by the plot, cannot be a mage or archer in any meaningful sense) and it goes hard on the plot stuff from gothic 3 that nobody liked.

Total misunderstanding from top to bottom of what gothic - or even just an RPG in general - should be. I'd recommend janky amateur garbage like Velaya or Returning before Odyssey.

If you want something actually good, like sort of in the same arena as Archolos but just moderately worse in all respects, try Legend of Ahssun. Another fun one is called "Dirty Swamp" but it's much shorter and more experimental, mechanically.

 

[Justicar]

So is history of khorinis still going or this is gonna be the last gothic game we have in a while

If you can speak German or Polish there's The Odyssey- over 200 hours, 1000 NPCs and 430+ quests across Athanos, Khorinis, Nordmar, Myrtana and Varant.



2.0 version was released in 2016 in German, translated to Polish in October last year

How does it compare to Archolos quality-wise?

It's unplayable trash. Zero alterations/improvements to the basic gothic gameplay whatsoever, it even lacks the basic shit that all mods do like fixed permabonus/LP scaling (meaning you can't consooooom your permapotions immediately or you fuck yourself endgame) and it contains like 15 full gothic-sized maps packed to the gills with trash mobs like a fucking mmo. You have zero ability to customize your character (skill progression is completely set by the plot, cannot be a mage or archer in any meaningful sense) and it goes hard on the plot stuff from gothic 3 that nobody liked.

Total misunderstanding from top to bottom of what gothic - or even just an RPG in general - should be. I'd recommend janky amateur garbage like Velaya or Returning before Odyssey.

If you want something actually good, like sort of in the same arena as Archolos but just moderately worse in all respects, try Legend of Ahssun. Another fun one is called "Dirty Swamp" but it's much shorter and more experimental, mechanically.

Dirty swamp is pretty good but on the short side took me like 12h to finish.

 

[notpl]

Dirty swamp is pretty good but on the short side took me like 12h to finish.

Yeah it's almost like a tech demo for a completely new game system rather than a real campaign. Really cool, though, the stuff he did with gothic's magic system is incredible.

 

[Justicar]

 

[Aconitum]

I'd recommend janky amateur garbage like Velaya or Returning before Odyssey.

I can agree with Velaya, but I personally wouldn't recommend Returning. Tried playing a few different versions as they were coming out, but always gave up. It's not just the gameplay, but from what I played, the story it added felt like some bad, teenage fanfiction.
Can totally recommend Wanderer though. Tried playing it with a dictionary when it first came out (because it was Gothic with guns) and shit was great even though I couldn't understand anything.

 

[notpl]

I'd recommend janky amateur garbage like Velaya or Returning before Odyssey.

I can agree with Velaya, but I personally wouldn't recommend Returning. Tried playing a few different versions as they were coming out, but always gave up. It's not just the gameplay, but from what I played, the story it added felt like some bad, teenage fanfiction.
Can totally recommend Wanderer though. Tried playing it with a dictionary when it first came out (because it was Gothic with guns) and shit was great even though I couldn't understand anything.

Returning is what I recommend if someone really, REALLY loves Gothic 2 and wishes it were 250 hours long. It may have some cringe and a great heaping spoonful of slavjank on top of the already significant krautjank, but nothing else does what it does.

 

[Outlander]

For Gothic 2 just use L'Hiver.

 

[thesecret1]

I can agree with Velaya, but I personally wouldn't recommend Returning. Tried playing a few different versions as they were coming out, but always gave up. It's not just the gameplay, but from what I played, the story it added felt like some bad, teenage fanfiction.

I tried it. The story it added was terrible, and I mean TERRIBLE crock of shit, but I enjoyed the added difficulty, mobs, and even some quests quite a lot.

Returning is what I recommend if someone really, REALLY loves Gothic 2 and wishes it were 250 hours long.

Yeah, that's me. I think it's pretty good, tbh, if only they put a lid on their fanfiction...

 

[Alphons]

Remember that one Water Mage in NotR mentioning a giant, empty, boring desert beyond the mountains in Jarkendar?
Have you ever played NotR and after defeating Raven thought "Man, wouldn't it be a great if he just got wounded instead and teleported me to that vast and empty, forsaken by Adanos hellhole"?
Have you ever wanted to wander aimlesslly for 30 hours, trying to decipher poorly written objectives and navigate through a land without any landmarks?
Have you ever thought that one more mandatory 20 hour long dungeon just before Irdorath would be just swell?
Have you ever wanted to see Gothic's engine melt down by rigging a giant battle between hundred orcs and every single human on Khorinis?

If you've answered YES, Returning was made for you.

 

[thesecret1]

The appeal of Returning 2.0 was in setting the difficulty to legendary and carefully sneaking past the orcs and snappers to get to that one field raider you can kill for some of that sweet, sweet XP. Every time you got stronger and could finally take on a tougher enemy type, you felt like the fucking king of the world, especially since actually scrounging up the XP needed to get to that point was a herculean task. Gold was naturally also in extremely short supply, and straying off the path in the early game often equated to suicide (hell, even the path itself was crawling with enemies). It was rough and shitty in many aspects, but I still had a blast.

 

[Aconitum]

Remember that one Water Mage in NotR mentioning a giant, empty, boring desert beyond the mountains in Jarkendar?
Have you ever played NotR and after defeating Raven thought "Man, wouldn't it be a great if he just got wounded instead and teleported me to that vast and empty, forsaken by Adanos hellhole"?
Have you ever wanted to wander aimlesslly for 30 hours, trying to decipher poorly written objectives and navigate through a land without any landmarks?
Have you ever thought that one more mandatory 20 hour long dungeon just before Irdorath would be just swell?
Have you ever wanted to see Gothic's engine melt down by rigging a giant battle between hundred orcs and every single human on Khorinis?

If you've answered YES, Returning was made for you.

 

[Inhabitants of Khorinis]

Love me some monty python

 

[Tacgnol]

I'd recommend janky amateur garbage like Velaya or Returning before Odyssey.

I can agree with Velaya, but I personally wouldn't recommend Returning. Tried playing a few different versions as they were coming out, but always gave up. It's not just the gameplay, but from what I played, the story it added felt like some bad, teenage fanfiction.
Can totally recommend Wanderer though. Tried playing it with a dictionary when it first came out (because it was Gothic with guns) and shit was great even though I couldn't understand anything.

Returning is what I recommend if someone really, REALLY loves Gothic 2 and wishes it were 250 hours long. It may have some cringe and a great heaping spoonful of slavjank on top of the already significant krautjank, but nothing else does what it does.

Sounds like the Gothic equivalent of those russian stalker soup mods.

 

[Anthedon]

Remember that one Water Mage in NotR mentioning a giant, empty, boring desert beyond the mountains in Jarkendar?
Have you ever played NotR and after defeating Raven thought "Man, wouldn't it be a great if he just got wounded instead and teleported me to that vast and empty, forsaken by Adanos hellhole"?
Have you ever wanted to wander aimlesslly for 30 hours, trying to decipher poorly written objectives and navigate through a land without any landmarks?
Have you ever thought that one more mandatory 20 hour long dungeon just before Irdorath would be just swell?
Have you ever wanted to see Gothic's engine melt down by rigging a giant battle between hundred orcs and every single human on Khorinis?

If you've answered YES, Returning was made for you.

Not going to lie, I'm (morbidly) curious now.

 

[Alphons]

It's an artistic choice to use slow motion in this battle, just like in "300".