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Gothic Chronicles Of Myrtana: Archolos mod for Gothic 2

notpl

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I have reached the point where I have a choice whether to remain with the mercenaries or to go my own way. On the one hand I kinda want the hoodie armor, but on the other Lorenzo is really getting on my nerves. Regardless I did not expect to get this type of choice. Does the story change significantly afterwards depending on what I choose?
Nah, it's just a change of armor and some new inventory with water mages. No reason not to do it unless you have lategame fatigue and just want to move on (which is understandable)
 

Testicules

Educated
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Nov 12, 2018
Messages
26
Started this last night. Playing a new genuine no-shit Gothic in 2022 is just an absolute joy. I can't believe I didn't hear about this sooner, but I'm gonna avoid reading through this thread so I can go in more or less blind.

Two things:
1. Just found out there's a potato voice pack you need to download separately. I think the trend toward voicing everything in games is generally a negative, but I remember thinking Gothic games did it right. This is probably worth adding, yes?
2. I'm donating $50 or EUR or whatever the fuck to these heroes and putting a Polish flag in my twitter bio
 

catfood

AGAIN
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Nirvana for mice
DONE AND DONE. 101 hours (skipped all the dialogue cuz who wants to listen to potatospeak lol)

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Great game. Puts Larian, Obsidishit, InEptile etc. to shame. I shall eat potatoes tonight in honor of everyone who worked on this.
 

agris

Arcane
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Great game. Puts Larian, Obsidishit, InEptile etc. to shame.
The next time you read someone defending why mediocre product A, B or C was released by one of those houses, keep in mind that this exists, was made by a team of amateurs and was completely free. By realizing that "fans" are making excuses for developers who owe them nothing, and the quality of the games they make is down in the basement, you can see that the biggest problem with our hobby is what is tolerated and even celebrated by the consumer.

Don't settle for less, demand more.
 

Blutwurstritter

Learned
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Sep 18, 2021
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Is the story of Archolos tied to the story of Gothic 1 or Gothic 2? After replaying both G1/2 almost back to back my Gothic hunger is satisfied for the moment but if the mod has many tie-ins I would pick it up rather sooner than later.
 

Anthedon

Arcane
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Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
Is the story of Archolos tied to the story of Gothic 1 or Gothic 2? After replaying both G1/2 almost back to back my Gothic hunger is satisfied for the moment but if the mod has many tie-ins I would pick it up rather sooner than later.

There are plenty of tie-ins, it's set in the Gothic universe after all.
 

Rarre

Educated
Joined
Jun 13, 2019
Messages
83
So.. this is good? I stopped playing games until 2023 because all is shit and work, family stuff, I will comeback in 2023 with a dominions5 campaing and maybe with this singleplayer...
after a year of non gaming the average games look like shit... the good ones looks average... Is it worth it?
 

notpl

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So.. this is good? I stopped playing games until 2023 because all is shit and work, family stuff, I will comeback in 2023 with a dominions5 campaing and maybe with this singleplayer...
after a year of non gaming the average games look like shit... the good ones looks average... Is it worth it?
Nah, don't bother. We were all just pretending to love it for 87 pages.
 

Arryosha

Learned
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Dec 16, 2019
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Supposing this was a standalone PB release, where would you rank it among their other titles?
 

deama

Prophet
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May 13, 2013
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I would rate this inbetween gothic 1 and 2. I prefer gothic 2 the most still, but archolos is still pretty good, it's just that it has a few annoyances in the story that I don't like too much, gothic 1/2 don't really have those.
 

agris

Arcane
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Supposing this was a standalone PB release, where would you rank it among their other titles?
As others said, easily on par with Gothic 1 & 2. I don't say this lightly, I can't think of another RPG TC that I would say that about. While some of the OG Fallout TCs are good in their own right, none rise to the level of Fallout 1.

Archolololos rather easily, and thus surprisingly, is up there with Gothic 1. Yes, there are more invulnerable NPCs and it's a *bit* more narrative heavy in certain ways, but puts Risen 1 to shame, for example. I won't subject myself to G3 so I can't compare it to that.
 

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