Game News Gothic 3 demo is coming on Nov 10

[Shoelip]

I got it to run with minimal slowdown on my Athlon XP 2100+, 1024 mb RAM, 128 mb Radeon 9800 PRO when I turned everything to low and then turned textures and low detail distance to medium.

After I liberated Cape Dun I decided to cheat myself every item and skill in the game and explore the invisibly walled off areas with teleport stones. I teleported to the city closest to the capital on the other side of the wall and walked until I got to solid ground, I then proceeded to go Lu Bu from Dynasty Warriors on the orcs camping outside the city, with the biggest weapon I had yelling "Who else seeks death?" at my screen every few kills. :D So this game is good for hack and slash play too!

At one point I decided to create an army of the undead with the spell and all the orcs and zombies/skeletons had a nice brawl.

 

[Country_Gravy]

This demo is pretty sweet. After liberating Cape Dun, is there anything else to do? I am probably going to pick this up at the beginning of December. I am not going to have any time to play until after the holidays anyway. It usually is choppy for the first 5 minutes after I start it up and then is somewhat smooth. I have a Pentium D 3.0 GHz 1 GB of RAM and a 6800 Graphics Card. Might pick up an extra gig of memory since I am hearing that this game is very memory intensive.

I have had more fun playing this game demo than almost any game in the past couple of years. I have never played any of the Gothic games. Is Gothic II any good, or will I be disappointed after playing III?

 

[stargelman]

This demo is pretty sweet. After liberating Cape Dun, is there anything else to do?

You could always work for the other side :D

 

[Paranoid Jack]

I have had more fun playing this game demo than almost any game in the past couple of years. I have never played any of the Gothic games. Is Gothic II any good, or will I be disappointed after playing III?

That would be hard to say unless I had done it. But G2 is the same type of game a little different combat wise but most people who have issues with it get over it after playing a few hours. Either way if you have a lower end machine for $20 (or less) you can get Gothic 2 Gold and enjoy that until you are able to play G3. That may be best since PB will be patching G3 soon hopefully. Not that I have had many issues...

 

[Hazelnut]

I kicked his ass, he didn't die only went unconscious (Oblivion, anyone?)

The Gothic games always had non-lethal combat with "friendlies". You can finish everyone off by holding the right-button and left-clicking. That would of course make every orc nearby hostile to you. Choices & consequences.

I've been playing the demo for a couple of days and I can't get this to work. I'm trying to kill Phil and I must have dropped him to the ground with no health over 10 times now. When I try the right button and left clicking the hero either swipes at air, or if the weapon is away he loots the body. Incredibly frustrating, and not the only thing either. Killing the wolves was annoying too, because reloads take over three minutes on my slow ass machine. And whoever said you can't die until level three was wrong.. you wont be killed in combat but falling from a cliff because the undergrowth is too thick to see through.. Embedded the hero in the roof of the Cape Dun Orc Store... :D Lost 30 mins of playing because saving takes nearly 2 minutes.

I'm enjoying it, but I'm not convinced that I'll buy it until I get a better computer which is not looking likely for a year or two. Maybe I'll stump up for some Ram to take me up to 1 Gb and play with low settings and go for it.. either way if someone can help kill Phil I'd be grateful.. :wink:

 

[stargelman]

I've just bought Gothic 3 via eBay from some guy from... Moldavia. It's kind of weird, the version is supposed to be in Russian and English, on three CDs? It looks kinda shady, but it was real cheap and hey, if it comes without copy protection that just slows the game down, who am I to argue?

For the first time, I've built a new computer for Oblivion. At least now I can play Gothic 3 smoothly without all the problems everyone reports. Saving takes about 20 seconds, loading a bit longer it seems, but it's still acceptable.

BTW, the jowood guys are real assholes. Not only do they sell an unfinished game that has so many bugs that many people can't even install it (like a friend of mine who bought it right off the bat), they're also acting like total a-holes and have contracted a company from either Switzerland or Austria to find and record IPs of people downloading the game via BT. So even though I just bought it legit (kinda? I hope?) I CBA to download it now so as not to have to wait two weeks for the POS box to arrive because I happen to live in the same country as the company who made it and the threat of legal action is pretty real. Bleh.

 

[Claw]

I've been playing the demo for a couple of days and I can't get this to work. I'm trying to kill Phil and I must have dropped him to the ground with no health over 10 times now. When I try the right button and left clicking the hero either swipes at air, or if the weapon is away he loots the body.

Maybe lousy performance has something to do with it - you play Gothic with less than one Gigabyte Random Access Memory? I really don't know what you could do wrong except perform it too fast. Too fast has always had a habit of confusing Gothic's controls, and G3 is no exception.
You gotta hold the right mouse button while looking at your victim. The Hero should then assume a special "deathstab" stance, with the sword (assuming you use that style) pointing upwards. The Hero is also focusing the enemy while the right mouse button is held; apparently that's a special feature.
Then clicking the left mouse button should execute the finishing move.

 

[Hazelnut]

Cheers Claw - I managed it & the Orcs love me now. The speed was the issue as you guessed, and yes I am running the demo with less than a gig (XP2200+, 512Mb, 128Mb 6600GT)

It's actually not that bad on the lowest settings, as long as I don't move around the world too much and cue loads of stuttering and disk access... I'd definitely wait to play this one if I had any idea when I'll be able to afford a nice new system to play it on, but I don't so I'm tempted just to play it 'rough' this christmas. A quandry indeed...

 

[Country_Gravy]

Anybody know if I can transfer my save game from the demo to the full version when I get it. If so, does it do it automatically or do I have to copy a save game file?

 

[4too]

Standard FEATURE of PC games: Not Windows Compatible

Standard FEATURE of PC games: Not Windows Compatible






Had opportunity to access a broadband hook up, and grabbed some of these huge demos. Got the Goth 3 demo to see what an action RPG is all about. Never even got down wind of a Goth title until recently found Goth 2 in the bargain bin.

Too many other titles , DoW expansions, TR Legend Demo, (guns akimbo!) successfully installed. Why try Goth 2 if it's of the same QA as this Goth 3 demo?

So far all at the Codex can install and play the Goth 3 demo. Right?

The demo, Gothic3.exe, can't find this d3dx9_29.dll . I can, it's on the C drive in the DX9unpack folder, and I can't even spell C++.

Maybe it's the ATI video card? Need the latest drivers? Or a Nvida upgrade? A Dual Core Mac, to install Win XP on?
Drivers? On dial up here, could take a lot of time. ATT loves to drop my connection during downloads.

The DoW expansions installed ok, the TR Legend demo installed ok.
Why do I need to tinker with more beta warez?

Some help already up at the Aspyr site. Goosing the D-X files first.

http://support.aspyr.com/index.php?mod_ ... _rating=no

No dx90c folder found, only the DX9unpack folder, demo zip not complete?

My player's review ...... no spoilers ......







The help at the Aspyr site was scoring 1.6 out of 5 when I was there.


Perhaps that will be my personnel score of the Goth 3 demo,
until I actually find a game to play.

Unless some one here suggests I do the dial up for ATI drivers, or know which side of my mouth that my tongue needs to be during the install.







4too

 

[Jasede]

Happened to me too, 4too. Just download the latest Direct X 9.0c from the Microsoft homepage. Yes, I already had it installed before, but the demo wouldn't find that .dll. After doing what I mentioned, however, it would run fine and dandy.

 

[4too]

Standard FEATURE: Windows Not Compatible With Windows

Standard FEATURE of PC games: Windows Not Compatible ... With Windows






Thank you Jasede.



Took a while to catch up with the MS security hacks of the week and the authenticating the authentication to pass go and have 9c reinserted via interweb !

Goth 3 demo loaded up, configured itself, and dumped me into an intro battle with out a clue on how to equip. Paused, set difficulty to easy, bare knuckled through
the mob and have been hunting and pecking ever since.

3 (?) year old PC, 3 gig Hz P4, 1 gig ram, recent video card upgrade to 256 meg ATI, with the TV on board.



Got the guy stuck between a chest and a shelf, that's another RPG tradition.
Will let the values clarification squad sort that issue out.

At this point just happy to lurch along.

Thanks again.





4too

 

[Pegultagol]

BTW, Best Buy Canada is selling this game next week (two day sale on November 21, 22) for mere 30 bucks. That's an awesome price for any new non-budget title, imo.

 

[Hazelnut]

Well I think I've pretty much wrapped up the demo now, having done all the quests I can, with only the bandits quests uncompleted but I'm not going on a hunt for their hideout when for all I know it's not actually part of the demo...

I thoroughly enjoyed it even with the choppy performance when travelling. A few niggles, like armoured Orcs & Humans being easier to kill than some of the wildlife, struggling to kill the orc patrol single handedly and finding them easy to drop but difficult to slay without one popping up and taking the last of my health.. I think people should stay down longer, or there should be a 'I wanna kill this bastard' mode so you don't have to do the finishing move maybe. Oh, and the flame sword staying on fire even when you 'sheath' it on your back. WTF?

I flip-flopped from Orc supporter to Rebels so I could carry on playing longer because I ran out of Orc quests. I seemed to shoot up the levels, but boy do the learning points feel sparse. Only found out where you increase health and learn spells five minutes before stopping - has anyone tried the magic path? What's it like?

Since it's less than £18 at amazon.co.uk I think that I'll be picking this up for christmas. It's just a shame RAM is so pricey at the moment but a half gig will have to be added anyway. Ho hum.

Look forward to your review VD, but I think the demo's already done it's job. :D

 

[Vault Dweller]

Look forward to your review VD...

Almost done. Uploading the screens now. Give me a half-n-hour...

 

[Claw]

Time's up. Cards on the table.

It's actually not that bad on the lowest settings, as long as I don't move around the world too much and cue loads of stuttering and disk access...

I suspect the performance of the demo may be superior on low-end systems compared to the actual game due to the smaller world.

Never even got down wind of a Goth title until recently found Goth 2 in the bargain bin.

That's funny, I bought Gothic because Rosh wouldn't stop dropping its name on NMA.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Time's up. Cards on the table.

Technical difficulties.

 

[Claw]

You suck. I'll go to bed now.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Almost done.

Edit: Done. I'll make a newspost tomorrow. Enjoy.

 

[Hazelnut]

Since it's less than £18 at amazon.co.uk

The fucking bastards have reduced the discount over the last 24 hours - it's now £26 and it's pissed me off that I didn't order it already. Strange that it's not in my browser history or anything, so maybe I was halucinating. Or they mixed up the G3 & G2 prices or something. Anyway - just thought I'd correct myself and share.

 

[kingcomrade]

This game plays like WoW, only you have to click the mouse Diablo style.

 

[Volourn]

Downloading this SH@T now!! :D

 

[WittyName]

This game plays like WoW, only you have to click the mouse Diablo style.

Just played the demo for an hour or so and, yes, the feel is very much like WoW. I found combat to be a bit difficult and kept getting my ass kicked by orcs in the first battle but I'm sure it's just a matter of getting comfortable with the interface.

In case anyone with a less than cutting edge gaming rig is interested, I'm playing on a Dell laptop with a Core 2 Duo processor, 256 MB ATI x1400 card and only 1 Gig RAM. Gameplay seems fine on medium settings. I do get some 2-3 second 'freezes' when going into new areas but nothing major.

Just to add on what others have said -- combat is such that if you keep wailing on someone then they can't get an attack off and will die with ease. It works the opposite way, too, which is why people get ravaged by wolves, etc. I think I read somewhere on the forums that this has been tweaked a bit in a patch.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Only 1 gig? Hah! you spoiled little bitches these days. I'm pulling my weight with only 2ghz, 512mb ram and a 5200 rpm HDD. 'Course, having a Radeon X1300 512mb 600mhz doesn't help but hey. Game looks a bit chit in parts, but i can run it with medium view distance so i actually get a semblance of the world and not some crazy foggy alternate dimension (memories of Ultima IX abound)

 

[stargelman]

Just played the demo for an hour or so and, yes, the feel is very much like WoW. I found combat to be a bit difficult and kept getting my ass kicked by orcs in the first battle but I'm sure it's just a matter of getting comfortable with the interface.

I have a hard time believing that. All you have to do is click the left mouse button repeatedly. Did you set the difficulty on "hard"? I found that first battle to be surprisingly easy. Orcs in general were often no match, at any rate much easier than most of the wildlife.