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I figured they're called albs because the ELEX makes their skin pale white.
Alb is the old Nordic word for Elf. The old high German word is Alb aswell.
By now Albae have become mostly synonymous with dark elves in Germany, mostly due to the success of books written by Markus Heitz.
He is one of the most successfull German Fantasy writers. Not really something special, on the quality of better published DnD books, but thats it, but very influential.
His version of the Albae is basically lifted from DnD drow anyway.
So you are on the money, the Alps in Elex are supposed to be elfs, specifically drow.
luj1
You're all shills
yeah the lack of originality in this franchise is comical
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Alb is the old Nordic word for Elf. The old high German word is Alb aswell.
By now Albae have become mostly synonymous with dark elves in Germany, mostly due to the success of books written by Markus Heitz.
He is one of the most successfull German Fantasy writers. Not really something special, on the quality of better published DnD books, but thats it, but very influential.
His version of the Albae is basically lifted from DnD drow anyway.
So you are on the money, the Alps in Elex are supposed to be elfs, specifically drow.
That book is gut zum "verheitzen"
The "artwork" looks like Markus Heitz has done it himself.
Alb is the old Nordic word for Elf. The old high German word is Alb aswell.
By now Albae have become mostly synonymous with dark elves in Germany, mostly due to the success of books written by Markus Heitz.
He is one of the most successfull German Fantasy writers. Not really something special, on the quality of better published DnD books, but thats it, but very influential.
His version of the Albae is basically lifted from DnD drow anyway.
So you are on the money, the Alps in Elex are supposed to be elfs, specifically drow.
That book is gut zum "verheitzen"
The "artwork" looks like Markus Heitz has done it himself.
Na ja die besseren DnD Romane sind auch alle nur als Feuerholz gut...
Dexter
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Yes, what Piranha Bytes really needs is to hire experienced art people from California, so that they can teach them that bald white dudes are bad and they should be more creative by concentrating on gender selections, colored hair and pronoun choices.
Hadn't thought of this, but it's yet another reason why the name is on point.
PB has always used descriptive names. Gothic because of the architecture, the art style. Elex because it's the central element in the conflict. Simple and evocative, and leagues better than what Obsidian comes up with.
luj1
You're all shills
What isn't? Such a Herculean feat.
It's Oblivion that is the decline.
The number of equipment slots doesn't make a good game or not.
ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB
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They are sticking with five equipment slots for the sequel.
More is obviously better, but that is good enough in my opinion.
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proper number of item slots depend on game systems. For example in oblivion you have enough of those to slot invulnerability enchantments and receive 0 damage - for example reflect or chameleon. Morrowind was also meh with all that equipment juggling to cast enchanted spells.
KCD didnt have magic stuff problem but I also found it a bit annoying to dress up. Especially with items getting destroyed and siege/scouting scenarios.
On other hand limiting consumables tends to limit your options and have you keep only most powerful items instead of being versatile. I might be biased due to my ddo days, when I had almost every spell scroll in my hot bars
KCD didnt have magic stuff problem but I also found it a bit annoying to dress up. Especially with items getting destroyed and siege/scouting scenarios.
On other hand limiting consumables tends to limit your options and have you keep only most powerful items instead of being versatile. I might be biased due to my ddo days, when I had almost every spell scroll in my hot bars
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I remember many of us trashed it for being a mix'n'match system that didn't give a cohesive look, and was just a boring lootfest. Actually we did that with Morrowind, but Oblivion was an even shittier game.
In comparison, in Gothic, armor was tied to the roleplaying. It showed your social rank and your camp allegiance: you only had access to certain armor if you were a member of a faction and had a certain status. To get better armors, you needed to rise in the ranks. And when you wore the armor of a certain group, everyone knew who you were and what you represented, what role you had in society. That sort of setting and roleplay intergration matters to me a lot more than this mixing and matching bullshit to look like a heterogeneous multi-colored faggot.
It's no wonder that those who played and liked Oblivion found armor customization so important, 'cause there's nothing else to the game but the dressing up and lalala-ing in the sandbox.
Why would it be beyond retarded to have elf-cultural-equivalents in a setting?
I didn't say that. I said it's retarded to claim that about the Albs.
It would mean either you haven't played the game or weren't paying any attention during it, since the origin of the Albs was cleary explained.
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Gothic's approach to armor is wrong. Why can't I murder a paladin, steal his armor and then equip it. What's stopping me since we are both humans and have the same anatomy.
Just make the armor devoid of any magic since I'm not an Innos follower but being unable to loot it is simply dumb.
Weird how we never saw women paladins, Innos seems very peculiar about his choice of followers.
Just make the armor devoid of any magic since I'm not an Innos follower but being unable to loot it is simply dumb.
Weird how we never saw women paladins, Innos seems very peculiar about his choice of followers.
The in-game explanation for the name and the design origin of the name need not be the same. In this case, they intersect.
Only if you're being anal about how unrealistic it is. PB doesn't make getting loot easy like most developers. That's one of the best things about their games.
Gtfo with that woke shit.
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