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Development Info Making of Gothic Remake - Chapter 1: The Essence of Gothic

Tavernking

Don't believe his lies
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I am one of the heathens who won't play the original but will try a remake because of Gothic's reputation. Needs good reviews first though.
 

Sweeper

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There is, an almost imperceptible, unquantifiable quality to the classics that can scarcely be identified, let alone replicated. Like a spirit of a game, that can only come about through careful artisanship, unlike the copy pasted, plastic video games that are created today. The models, the animations, the level design, the UI. Every pixel is there for a reason. Remove one and you ruin the spirit.

To try and recreate that is a futile effort doomed to failure. Those games were simply a product of their (better) time and much better people at the helm. What you'll get is a plastic imitation with a Gothic skinsuit on. It'll prolly be worth checking out just to see how uncanny it is. But it will not be good. There is a 0% chance of that.

I mean fuck, just remember the voice acting man. You're not getting that. Ever again.
 

Azdul

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I am one of the heathens who won't play the original but will try a remake because of Gothic's reputation. Needs good reviews first though.
just play the original it's not that long or difficult.
It also still looks great and sounds great. Game was ahead of its time in so many ways.
I've finished original release ages ago and I'm in the latter parts on second playthrough of "patched" version.

'Out of the box' Steam version is worse than original. GOG version is a bit better, but even with community patches and DX11 renderer - still rough around the edges.

From what I've heard, remake is a mistake, so the best option is to wait a decade for OpenGothic to add proper Gothic 1 support ;).

Or not. After all, I've even managed to finish the original release, with a little help from nice guys at Piranha Bytes. No pleasure without pain.
 
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Gothic 1 has steam workshop support where you can do anything with the game with a 1 second click of the mouse, so the one reason to even try a "remake" is bullshit.

They won't recreate shit, not with those bland modern graphics and brit voice acting like you pulled some faggot theatre kid out of class to do a game.
 

Squidhead

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I think Steam Gothic 1 comes with the community patch right out of the box. At least 2 did.

Nothing stopping newcomers (aside from keyboard-phobes.)
 

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