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Faux Gothic: Let's play ArcaniA: Fall of Setarrif! (Done!!)

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Multiple Sarcasm said:
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:lol: Ahaha oh my I'm laughing my pants off

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Brother None said:
Diego? Gorn? What, Arcania wasn't satisfied just raping the setting and gameplay of Gothic, they had to go ahead and ruin the series' most recognizable faces too? Great.

Most probably a desperate attempt to lure Gothic fans into playing this game.

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I love you so much :love:

Back at ya, root. :love: Hope you go back to your LP soon!

Erebus said:
I have to say, when that other dude told us two guys had gone to get the keys but not come back, I was sure it meant we'd have to rescue them and get the keys by ourselves.

I'm sooo glad that isn't so. That'd only mean even more filler, ugh.
 

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Brother None said:
Diego? Gorn? What, Arcania wasn't satisfied just raping the setting and gameplay of Gothic, they had to go ahead and ruin the series' most recognizable faces too? Great.
You're missing the big picture, it was Piranha Bytes who raped the faces with Gothic 3 first.
This is subjective, but translating the original look of the series' characters to modern polygon counts was pretty much the only thing Spellbound got fairly right - PB can take a leaf out of SBs book here.

Otherwise, the actual characteristics are, of course, totally alienated.
But again, PB pioneered this with G3 when they let Björn Pankratz write the bulk of the dialogue.
 

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Slaying my way through even more possessed knights and magi, I was making my way to the observatory.



It was only now that I noticed the possessed were talking -- not to me, but rather to themselves.



They talked about destroying everything.



They spoke some abracadabra magic in a forgotten tongue.



They were clearly afraid of something.

Miserable bastards. I put them all to rest.



And here I am, the observatory in sight.



Weakness. Nothing but weakness!

We are paladins!

Innos wants it!


Fragments of a heated argument: Lord Hagen must be up there with Lee.



Ah, the exclamation mark. I've been lookin' for you, my dear.



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Yes, he did.



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What are you up to?

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The paladins will chase the Setarrifians out of their hideouts!

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The Setarrifians?



(Haha got ya!)

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Innos gives us the power to fight on both fronts.

Lee kicks in.



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Damn, Hagen! With what men? Hardly any survived the attack of the demon, and the ones who did are scattered all over the town! We need to ally with the Setarrifians and then fight the demon together!

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I agree. And Milten knows how we can defeat the demon.

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I know Milten's plans. They are a sacrilege against Innos!

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Why is that?

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They are based on the holy artefacts of a foreign goddess.

(Foreign? :?)



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Maybe, but... perhaps they really help.



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We paladins are going to fight the demon and the Setarrifians! It is Innos' will!

Annoyed, Hagen laves the room.



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Lee. With Hagen, I'm one of the king's army commanders.

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Listen, Lee: Milten asked me to bring him the key stones opening the way into the burial temple.



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Yes, it is right there. Take it!

And the second stone is ours.



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Yes, a while ago. He was going to go into the house of the Mages' Guild, where the surviving Setarrifians are hiding... and there get the two key stones from the Setarrifian side from Karella.

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Do you think the Setarrifians have taken him prisoner?



(Damn, is it just me, or does Lee look like an aged Barack Obama in this game?)

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Above all Karella wants to defeat the demon. ... Here, take this. If you show it to the Setarrifian gate guard close to the Mages' Guild...



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Where do I find the gate guard?

(Close to the Mages' Guild, you stupid faggert.
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Go through that door into the next tower, then go down out of the tower in a southern direction. There you'll find the gate and the guard.

(Yeah, more like "go down that linear corridor, there you'll find the gate". :roll:)



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She should be in the house of the Mages' Guild and know what happened to Lester.

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Zyra is with the Setarrifians?



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Yes, I do.

(You do? :roll:)

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Good, then she will trust you.



:retarded:

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If you need any more equipment, don't hesitate to serve yourself from the chest in the tower next to this one.



Level 31 woohoo!

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You were in the battle, weren't you?

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It was night, but we still attacked the walls. The demon suddenly dashed over the wall like a glowing meteorite...



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Most of my men were killed in the attack. I was lucky. I fell into the gap, but I managed to grab on to the edge.

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And then? What happened then?

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The demon was gone just as quickly as it had attacked us...



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What happened in town, I don't know. I crawled out of the hole, gathered the survivors of my army...



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We only entered the town when the volcano erupted.

Well, that ends this rather pointless update.

Next stop: Mages' Guild. Zyra is there -- so let's see just who our stylish hero's special lady is!
 
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Why do they even use Gorn, Diego, Lester, Lee, Milten etc. it's not like their target audience would even recognize them any way? Though of course it does save them the extremely difficult task of coming up with names for characters...
 

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Why do they use the gothic name at all?

The only answer is burning MBA mills to the ground.
 

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So, why the Innos' paladin is so much of a jerk? Granted, some of these back in G2 were assholes, but these were grunts...

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Hell, he's trying as hard as possible to look EVIL.
 

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I'm wondering if Xardas is going to appear later in the game.
 

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1451 said:
I'm wondering if Xardas is going to appear later in the game.

He did in the OC. As a quite convenient Xardas Ex Machina saying 'I WILL SHOW YOU THE PATH TO VICTORY @_@ ' basically. I am sure he will pop up here, too.
 

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Darth Roxor said:
1451 said:
I'm wondering if Xardas is going to appear later in the game.

He did in the OC. As a quite convenient Xardas Ex Machina saying 'I WILL SHOW YOU THE PATH TO VICTORY @_@ ' basically. I am sure he will pop up here, too.

I suppose he too was dumbed down to fit on the story, right? Because I recall he was quite ambiguous, he used both evil and good ways to achieve his end, I suppose that would be too complicated to understand for the consoletard crowd they were aiming for.
 

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Cool, thanks for the info! I'm so excited now!

Also, Lee before and after.
Spot the differences and win a GOTY Collector's Edition of Gothic 4!
 

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Sergiu64 said:
Hmmmm, since when is Lee black??? I think I remember him being white in Gothic 2.

Truth be told, I don't actually think Lee is black in this game. This is probably just a side-effect of terrible lighting/shadow programming or something like that. Characters in this game tend to look black when it's dusk or in a dark room. We'll meet a certain princess soon and she'll be looking black too, even though she obviously shouldn't be. But ahem, whatever.
 

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Let's leave Lee and Hagen to their petty conflict.



Yeah, fuck you.



And enjoy the view instead.



Sure you have.



Hmm, I wonder where the Mages' Guild is...



Oh yeah, down the corridor below.
:thumbsup:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC5oSODcfk4



Aha, found ya. The gate to the Setarrifian part of town.



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Lee sent me. He wants me to bring Zyra, staying in the house of your Mages' Guild, a message.



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Hang on a moment... Good... Yes, you may pass.

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Where do I find the house of the Mages' Guild?

(*Sigh* Down the linear path, you silly. Don't you ever learn? :roll:)



(See, what did I tell ya? Just follow the trench.)



With that, we leave the patriotic gate guard be and, well, follow the trench.



The level designer even erected some magical barriers to make following the trench easier for us. So thoughtful of him/her/it.



The big house, eh?



Must be this (i.e., the only) one.



Indeed.



:roll:

(In before MILF jokes.)



Perverts.

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I'm looking for Lester. Do you know where he is?

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Lester went to the mine of Setarrif.

Erebus said:
I have to say, when that other dude told us two guys had gone to get the keys but not come back, I was sure it meant we'd have to rescue them and get the keys by ourselves.

:(

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Why is that?



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...she took the Stone of Wisdom and was going to enter the palace with a few of her man to recover the Stone of Nobility.



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What happened?

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She was ambushed by Thorus' Nordmar Orcs and was pushed back to the Setarrif mines.



:roll:

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Lester went to the Orcs alone to talk to them? If they are like Erhag, they don't think much of talking.

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That's what I told him too, but he wouldn't listen.

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Then I better have a look to see what's happened to him.

The nearby dude kicks in.



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Why is that?

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We have blocked the way to the mine and the palace with magic barriers.

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Then open the barriers for me and close them behind me. Where is the problem?

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There aren't many mages in Setarrif any more. To erect a barrier we need a strong Adanos focus, but we used up the last focus, after your friend Lester went to the mine. If we tear down the barriers now, we can't re-erect them.



(I gotta say, this dude reminds me of someone... someone with a willy. :roll:)

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What about Karella?

(Karella is the king of Setarrif's daughter, by the way.)

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She wouldn't want us to risk everybody's lives just to save hers.

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Listen, Magor.

Listen up, maggot.



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But to do that he needs the key stones. If you want to win the fight against the demon, you have to risk something. And now is the right time to do so.



:roll:



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I'll open the barriers for you.

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That's good. How do I get to the mine?

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Go back to the gate through which you entered here. Just before you reach it, there's a trench :)roll:) on the left leading westward. Follow it to the end, and then you'll stand in front of the entrance to the mine.



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It will help you fulfil your task.



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And how do I get to the palace?

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Turn to the left, when you leave our house, and follow the trench :)roll:) winding from there all through the town to its end. But... be careful when you enter the palace.



You look so gleeful, jeez.

You may not suspect it, but there are actually two, not one, damsels in distress for us to rescue. And we'll be heading to the palace first.



We can also listen to the nearby water mages' chatter.



:hmmm:



Deep stuff. Moving on.
 

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Magor is Rauter's long lost twin brother. Separated at birth, they led ignorant blissful lives until one fateful day a chosen hero would reunite them.
I'm amazed by the ease with which he changed his mind about not opening the barriers. Maybe this flip flopping behavior derives from the void that was created in his life by his inability to subconsciously cope with bereavement.
 

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Actually, that's true: The more you play and learn about this game, the more you're risking of suffering permanent brain damage :M :M
 
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lightbane said:
Actually, that's true: The more you play and learn about this game, the more you're risking of suffering permanent brain damage :M :M

There's actually no risk involved. It's an absolute certainty.
 

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The facial expressions, dialogue and game-play finally convinced me, this is all but a trolling attempt by the Derpelopers. :thumbsup:
 

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From what we've seen so far, this seems like an understandable reaction to finding yourself in this game.
 

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Brother None said:
The PC seems very smug about, well, everything.
In general, the game's a gold mine for retarded portraits.

Greatly enjoying the LP. Thanks for taking one for the team Bee :salute:
 

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