The Official Gothic 4: Arcania thread

[commie]

PB didn't do forsaken gods.

I know, they didn't do Arcania either. My point was that Jowood rushed PB, rushed Trine and rushed Spellbound...they didn't learn a fucking thing from G3 and did the same or worse with the other 'Gothic' games since.

EDIT: Oh I see I was a bit ambiguous with that sentence, should have been a separation between FG AND PB. I rewrote it now.

 

[CrusaderTemplar]

Well, there seems to be a increased number of women then in Gothic 3. But thats the only thing different. Everything is bad.

 

[Flanged]

The worst thing in the demo was coming to the realisation that the Nameless Hero from Gothic 1 and 2 had been struggling against a chronic muscle-wasting disease the whole time. Apparently, any old shepherd can take on six goblins no problems with a stick. They even let me beat Diego, for Christ's sake. With a stick.

Have to admit, though, the handling of the whole pregnancy reveal was very deft, very humanistic, and really drew me into the world these characters inhabit.

"I'm pregnant... fair enough?"

Have modern game writers actually met any human beings, or even watched film of them?

That weird slidey thing in the vid happens all the time as well, whenever you jump up on one of the rocks that block you into the path. The don't actually make it impossible to jump up there - they just make you slide and get glitch-stuck in the stone if you do. Why? Was that supposed to be a compromise towards the exploration players? It's not even an attempt at the illusion of freedom.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Hahahahahahaha, CD-Action has posted a review of this on their site.

Overall score: 3.5

Pros:
- Moderately interesting plot
- Combat system better than in previous Gothics
- Pretty-looking world.

Cons:
- Removal of many characteristic elements of the series
- Bad optimization
- Bad animations/shoddy dialogue

I also love how they describe the 'better combat':

'sword-monster collision detection is a lot better, and after each hit, we have a short moment when the weapon starts flashing, and another click makes the character launch a long combo. Thanks to this, fights are a lot more gripping and interesting'


What a joke. This is exactly like that thing Darth Roxor was talking about. 'The game does away with all these sucky elements of the previous installments, while keeping the spirit of the series, 10/10 !!!!!!'

 

[SCO]

I think they are disappointed they weren't brided with advertisements but still have to maintain the facade for the games that did, so the criticism and praise is about retarded things that those other games do.

 

[Raghar]

I deleted it and downloading 1 GB of Touhou images instead.

I installed G3 and applied official patches, it run without problems. Installing any Gothic without properly cracked patches is silly.

 

[made]

Hahahahahahaha

Stop wasting time and get writing that review. It's a 15 hour game, what's taking so long?

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

Where is my LP bitch?

It will forever be a prisoner... of ice.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Hahahahahahaha

Stop wasting time and get writing that review. It's a 15 hour game, what's taking so long?

As I said, playing it in intervals longer than 30 minutes is nigh-impossible. It's that boring. And besides, since I want to get the maximum impression out of it, I'm at least trying to do everything there is to do, and the '15 hours' thing is, I guess, done with no complete exploration and shit.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

JoWood? More like Jew... wood. Right? Right?!

I've seriously never seen a good game with a Jew... wood insignia plastered on it. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[commie]

JoWood? More like Jew... wood. Right? Right?!

I've seriously never seen a good game with a Jew... wood insignia plastered on it. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Gothic II
Silent Storm
Spellforce
The Guild 2

 

[flabbyjack]

JoWood? More like Jew... wood. Right? Right?!

I've seriously never seen a good game with a Jew... wood insignia plastered on it. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Gothic II
Silent Storm
Spellforce
The Guild 2

Publisher should not get credit for publishing good games.

Aracania Impressions

The map (it's linear):

My impression of the game(Hey at least the graphics are nice! Wait a minute...):

I didn't label the axes but you can figure it out.

 

[Felix]

JoWood? More like Jew... wood. Right? Right?!

I've seriously never seen a good game with a Jew... wood insignia plastered on it. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Gothic II
Silent Storm
Spellforce
The Guild 2

One thing they have in common, buggy as fuck

 

[commie]

I've seriously never seen a good game with a Jew... wood insignia plastered on it. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Gothic II
Silent Storm
Spellforce
The Guild 2

Publisher should not get credit for publishing good games.

[/quote]

True, but the poster was saying there was not good game released with JOWOOD on the cover. It's always been a publisher and not a game maker.

JoWood? More like Jew... wood. Right? Right?!

I've seriously never seen a good game with a Jew... wood insignia plastered on it. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Gothic II
Silent Storm
Spellforce
The Guild 2

One thing they have in common, buggy as fuck

Exactly and far too consistently buggy to just always blame the developers as Jowood does. It's their history of paying as little as they can and forcing a product out the door as fast as they can that leads to such situations over and over again. I'm wondering if the makers of these games found a better publisher then these games would have gotten the exposure they deserved, but it seems that Jowood were the only fuckers sneaky enough to offer peanuts for these titles knowing they could make money on the cheap as the games(even half done) would still be good enough to make them a mint.

Unfortunately in Europe there are few decent publishers. UBI had potential a 5 years ago but rushed headlong into the decline. It seems that apart from Jowood there was no-one else to publish these games as certainly EA or Activision wouldn't have done so.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Oh my God, someone please make it stop. The save game says I'm barely 6 hours into the game, and I'm already so sick of it, for fuck's sake, how could they release such a half-arsed turd, please shoot me, I can't take it anymore.

 

[SCO]

Numb your brain. Take weed or xanax.

I imagine it's the only way.

 

[Shannow]

JoWood? More like Jew... wood. Right? Right?!

I've seriously never seen a good game with a Jew... wood insignia plastered on it. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Gothic II
(Silent Storm)

Fixed

 

[Vault Dweller]

The game is fucking awful. It makes Oblivion look like a masterpiece.

 

[MetalCraze]

Arcania sucks
What a big surprise
I didn't see that coming when devs said they are inspired by Oblivion 2 years ago


Also JoWooD was good once (about 5 years ago)

 

[Mortmal]

Dont be sad ! risen 2 is still coming!

 

[Sceptic]

Oh my God, someone please make it stop. The save game says I'm barely 6 hours into the game, and I'm already so sick of it, for fuck's sake, how could they release such a half-arsed turd, please shoot me, I can't take it anymore.

You must suffer for the good of the Codex! After all DriacKin finished his FO3 LP and was it Elzair? finished his Oblivion LP. Now it's your turn. Be a true patriot Darth Roxor!

The game is fucking awful. It makes Oblivion look like a masterpiece.

You know your game is beyond hope when even Vault Dweller is reduced to making a one-liner about how much it sucks.

While it is unlike me to cast a judgement on a game before trying it, I don't think I'll even bother with the demo.

 

[Joghurt]

Oh my God, someone please make it stop. The save game says I'm barely 6 hours into the game, and I'm already so sick of it, for fuck's sake, how could they release such a half-arsed turd, please shoot me, I can't take it anymore.

You must suffer for the good of the Codex! After all DriacKin finished his FO3 LP and was it Elzair? finished his Oblivion LP. Now it's your turn. Be a true patriot Darth Roxor!

The game is fucking awful. It makes Oblivion look like a masterpiece.

You know your game is beyond hope when even Vault Dweller is reduced to making a one-liner about how much it sucks.

While it is unlike me to cast a judgement on a game before trying it, I don't think I'll even bother with the demo.

That surprised me actually. I "bought" the game from TPB, but didn't arse myself to install it, but I didn't believe every one of you who were saying the game is THAT bad. I kept thinking that it cannot be THAT bad. Now when even VD cannot be arsed to say anything positive about the game I won't it even bother installing it.

Someone must do the fucking LP of this shit...take the bullet for the Kodex.

 

[Jaesun]

Someone must do the fucking LP of this shit...take the bullet for the Kodex.

 

[markec]

http://www.nowgamer.com/reviews/xbox-360/9474/arcania-a-gothic-tale?

"But while perusing the info there’s something you should know about the Arcania series of games: they are universally considered to be rubbish. Gothic 4 doesn’t really buck this trend, but it at least has made a few changes that make this the best the series has ever been, but that’s not really saying much."

 

[MetalCraze]

Arcania series of games

it at least has made a few changes that make this the best the series has ever been

L.U.L.Z.