Why is Gothic series so culty?

[Not.AI]

Some people don't want fun games. They want bad games so long as they are low on jank.

Because they "play" with their brain turned off on autopilot. Follow the quest markers is the game they want.

What jank really breaks is connect the dots gameplay. In a fun game, jank doesn't break the game as much because the player mostly stands around and thinks before acting.

 

[Fearlessjay]

I loved both games on release. Don't think they've aged that well though. Gothic was pretty unique for it's time.

 

[cretin]

Gothic has barely aged at all gameplay wise, unless you're one of these cattlebrain retards who has a panic attack over tank controls and really the only aspect of which gothic feels unwieldly is fighting multiple opponents, which is actually due to how the targeting system works as opposed to the controls. Visually yes, gothic looks old, G1 in particular has awful geometry. G2 on the other hand, has aged very well, and looks great with a DX11 renderer. Actually, cast in modern lighting and draw distances, G2's world shows off how impressively dense it is, especially for the time.

Really, you'd be hard pressed to name better ARPGs than G2. I play the gothics a few times a year, usually getting further each time and having fun but ultimately getting distracted and dropping it. Not a mark against them, because by way of comparison, I try to replay morrowind every year after some cunt hoodwinks me with bullshit about how its akshully the greatest game ever, and every time, its fucking awful. Ugly as sin and boring, the ultimate LARPer game for people who might as well go read a book.

 

[sosmoflux]

Myrtana's success and broad appeal proved without a doubt that Gothic has aged gracefully.

 

[Rincewind]

Why don't you just try it and see for yourself? I tried Gothic in 2009 for the first time, and it just sucked me in right away. Great music, great atmosphere, great quests, gritty low-fantasy setting, and so on.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

it just sucked me right away

What a whore.

 

[Fargus]

The rare kind of games that don't age and can be enjoyed by anyone who isn't a retard. No matter how many times i replayed G1-2 in 20+ years i still love them. Once you get over the 'jank' and weird controls you'll experience open world game unlike any other.

 

[Rincewind]

it just sucked me right away

What a whore.

I had fun; that's all what matters

 

[Stavrophore]

Im Pole and never heard about gothic up until i joined codex.
Tried it recently with all the systempack and community patches, and it still couldn't replace the shitty camera movement and inventory keybinding, so i had to drop it. It had aged badly, and such jank is unacceptable today at least for me. Why germans went for that retarded control scheme is truly a mystery, but i guess germans have to make everything unique and complicated, just like their tanks back in WW2.

 

[Jasede]

* Arrow keys/wasd + space, ctrl, shift
* Complicated controls

What is wrong with you people

 

[Fargus]

My nephew who was a teenager at the time completed both games multiple times and then years later Archolos.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Im Pole and never heard about gothic up until i joined codex.
Tried it recently with all the systempack and community patches, and it still couldn't replace the shitty camera movement and inventory keybinding, so i had to drop it. It had aged badly, and such jank is unacceptable today at least for me. Why germans went for that retarded control scheme is truly a mystery, but i guess germans have to make everything unique and complicated, just like their tanks back in WW2.

this is why nobody likes you

 

[Rincewind]

People who cannot get used to the controls in 5 mins *and* cannot appreciate the fact that the game is almost entirely keyboard driven should quit gaming.

 

[Jasede]

NES controller has more buttons than G1 and 2 use keys.

 

[†††]

It had aged badly

You aged badly. Your quote is the result of atrophying your gamer skills with modern popamole so much that you cannot adapt to non-modern standard control schemes and modern responsiveness. The equivalent of virtual sedentariness. If a guy can't run anymore, he doesn't say running as an activity has aged badly. No, he aged badly.

 

[Ladonna]

I couldn't find G1 and 2 for sale in Australia. I read about it on Underdogs, and managed to get two second hand games from Thailand via ebay. The boxes were all in Thai, but the manuals were in English, and the games played fine. It doesn't surprise me that they weren't big hits outside certain areas of the world, because they were so difficult to get hold of.

Anyway, great games.

 

[Jasede]

Where the hell did you come from!? Welcome back!

 

[Curratum]

Gothic has always been a hideous game, was hideous back then, is hideous now, all the same. The second one is almost bearable, but then again, so is very gently smacking at your dick with a mallet - not something you'd ever want to do.

The German writing can bore you to a stupor, the controls are horrible beyond description and the graphics looked like ass even back in the day. Anyone who attempts to convince you otherwise is probably not entirely ok in the head.

 

[Jasede]

It's the best written German game I know, what's so boring about the writing?

 

[Curratum]

It's the best written German game I know, what's so boring about the writing?

Literally searched on youtube and clicked the first result. Yep, still as terrible as I remember it...

 

[Jasede]

... You're playing it in English?
I guess you also watch dubbed anime.

 

[Curratum]

... You're playing it in English?
I guess you also watch dubbed anime.

I uh... I don't watch anime?...

 

[Jasede]

It's just an example. I'm saying that of course the writing isn't going to be that good or interesting in English. The localization was famously mediocre.

In German the game uses incredibly naturalistic German and was the first RPG to do so. It felt fresh. It was as if I were talking to real Germans.

 

[Konjad]

Some codexers are too retadred to even be able to manage pushing a few keys in somewhat less common order/combination. Honestly, I'm not even that surprised.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

gothic's controls are bad
they can be both simple and bad

 

[rusty_shackleford]

NES controller has more buttons than G1 and 2 use keys.

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Yes, and that's the problem.
We're at the point where people on the codex are defending controls obviously made for a gamepad on a PC game, just because they think it makes them seem cool.

 

[Konjad]

controls obviously made for a gamepad on a PC game

It's called 'keyboard'