nostalgia (for simpler times) "Immersive" is an understatement with the OG Gothic games, so many hours through all those years. Good times mate. Fingers crossed that one day you'll cover Gothic II & The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos as well. Greetings from the Netherlands, you absolute madman!
You don't press left mouse button to do anything. You press left ctrl. The mouse is something you don't even touch. Movement with arrow keys, A & D for strafing, left ctrl for action, left alt for jump. That's how you play Gothic. Not with a mouse.
When it comes to Gothic I enjoy the fact that you do not start out as bad ass man just killing swathes of enemies and you can very easily get your ass kicked and be forced to pay people not to kick your ass. Kingdom Come: Deliverance did this sorta thing as well in that you are just joe average trying to survive and then thrive but even so with all that armour and experience you can still get your ass kicked getting outnumbered or in a bad position. Wish a few more games were like this.
Everything happens according to the will of the Elder God Woman. The Elder God Woman blocks the Nameless Hero, making him feel incompatible. That's the basic feeling of Gothic 1.
The only successor that can work is it's exactly like Gothic 1 but the proceeding chapters 2 and above are littered with the same experiences you had in chapter 1.
8:11 until you realize that you're inside a prison and guards don't care about anything as long as you pay them. In less than 2 hours of gameplay and before even joining any camp, you can max out strength, one handed weapon skill and grab the strongest one handed sword in the game and all of that without even using exploits, and if you don't mind doing some sequence breaking, you can even get the second best armor in the game while at it.
The puzzles are just sitting there. There's no highlighting. Any hints are found in the dark where you shine your torch upon to literally see hieroglyphs that give you a hint on how to solve the puzzles. These temples really make you feel like an archaeologist uncovering ancient tombs. Nobody tells you how to solve them.
i do not replay many games, but this one i recently gave another go and it is still a good game; as feedback for the review: the second half was a bit too word heavy, i think it would have done the review a favour if that part was cut in half and instead would have contained 1 or 2 examples were you as a player had different choices to solve a problem
Things that hold back Gothic to be perfect penal simulator is xp. I kid you not, if you can outgrow everything by yourself. You aren't trap with them, they are traped with you. So true succesor of first Gothic are games like Space Prison.
A game where it relentlessly makes you want to kill the NPCs and well the game has no qualms about that either in fact it might be encouraging it by making the NPCs absolutely insufferably evil, obnoxious and diabolical.
I'm also desperately looking for a game that made me feel the way this one did. I started playing this in 2021 mainly because I sudden had a strange itch to play an old game with PS1 graphics and see those blocky graphics in life with wonky controls. There was just a charm about all that, I jumped into Gothic thinking it was just going to be a typical PS1 janky RPG. Little did I know this game would change everything (get that reference?)
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NIE WIEDER Gothic The Video Game. Everything else can repeat itself if the interest in computer science and robotics human experiments in the USA runs out.
nostalgia (for simpler times)
"Immersive" is an understatement with the OG Gothic games, so many hours through all those years. Good times mate.
Fingers crossed that one day you'll cover Gothic II & The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos as well.
Greetings from the Netherlands, you absolute madman!
You don't press left mouse button to do anything. You press left ctrl. The mouse is something you don't even touch. Movement with arrow keys, A & D for strafing, left ctrl for action, left alt for jump. That's how you play Gothic. Not with a mouse.
gothic seems to encompass every german fetish since 1517
not sure which disturbs me more.. the comment or the implied, hyper specific peverse knowledge D:
-Was ist falsch mit dir?!
When it comes to Gothic I enjoy the fact that you do not start out as bad ass man just killing swathes of enemies and you can very easily get your ass kicked and be forced to pay people not to kick your ass.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance did this sorta thing as well in that you are just joe average trying to survive and then thrive but even so with all that armour and experience you can still get your ass kicked getting outnumbered or in a bad position.
Wish a few more games were like this.
>Playing gothic with mouse
You disgust me
Everything happens according to the will of the Elder God Woman. The Elder God Woman blocks the Nameless Hero, making him feel incompatible. That's the basic feeling of Gothic 1.
Weirdly, one of the few games you actually can play with one hand.
Dammit. You reminded me of the existence of that song. Now I have to listen to it on repeat for several hours straight. Dammit.
Pretty good review. I think the frequent use of metaphores is humorous
The only successor that can work is it's exactly like Gothic 1 but the proceeding chapters 2 and above are littered with the same experiences you had in chapter 1.
This is one of the best gothic reviews out there
I wonder how King Adolf would react to all the hashishins coming over from Varrant 😱🤣😭
You captured the experience of the Gothic I game perfectly. Well done.
8:11 until you realize that you're inside a prison and guards don't care about anything as long as you pay them.
In less than 2 hours of gameplay and before even joining any camp, you can max out strength, one handed weapon skill and grab the strongest one handed sword in the game and all of that without even using exploits, and if you don't mind doing some sequence breaking, you can even get the second best armor in the game while at it.
The puzzles are just sitting there. There's no highlighting. Any hints are found in the dark where you shine your torch upon to literally see hieroglyphs that give you a hint on how to solve the puzzles. These temples really make you feel like an archaeologist uncovering ancient tombs. Nobody tells you how to solve them.
I'm glad to see people discovering Gothic even after so many years.
3:51 Well, yeah. But, since it's an old game, it came with a manual. :P
i do not replay many games, but this one i recently gave another go and it is still a good game; as feedback for the review: the second half was a bit too word heavy, i think it would have done the review a favour if that part was cut in half and instead would have contained 1 or 2 examples were you as a player had different choices to solve a problem
I recommend making the script sound less like a drawn out advertisement blurb on a steam store page
Things that hold back Gothic to be perfect penal simulator is xp. I kid you not, if you can outgrow everything by yourself. You aren't trap with them, they are traped with you.
So true succesor of first Gothic are games like Space Prison.
A game where it relentlessly makes you want to kill the NPCs and well the game has no qualms about that either in fact it might be encouraging it by making the NPCs absolutely insufferably evil, obnoxious and diabolical.
I'm also desperately looking for a game that made me feel the way this one did. I started playing this in 2021 mainly because I sudden had a strange itch to play an old game with PS1 graphics and see those blocky graphics in life with wonky controls. There was just a charm about all that, I jumped into Gothic thinking it was just going to be a typical PS1 janky RPG.
Little did I know this game would change everything (get that reference?)
Polska Gurom
Might be just me, and not meaning to accuse of anything, but it sounds like a chapgpt script
There is also the X series from Germany that is one of the best Space exploration game.
So, did you like the game or not? I couldn't tell from the video.
Hell yeah, Germany represent!
Fantastic video as always! Love your stuff.
Welcome back Vlade, hope you're feeling healthier than ever.
Glad to be back, friend. I am as fit as a fiddle and ready to pamper you guys with regular uploads! Take care of yourself too, wouldn't want anything to happen to you
Talks about the music of gothic 1 and has gothic 2 music in the Background 🤦
Play it with Keyboard only, not with the mouse. Much better. CTRL and Arrow keys, not wasd
Bro is playing Gothic with a mouse wtf.
Gothic 1 is best played with 1 hand, wasd+shift/alt/space is basically all you need.
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NIE WIEDER Gothic The Video Game.
Everything else can repeat itself if the interest in computer science and robotics human experiments in the USA runs out.
Cool description of the game.😅
Nice video vlade
Germany is awesome.
🎉🎉🎉
nice video :)
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Some of random jokes about other media like Bleach was very cringe, but a solid review. For Gomez ( he is the only one who has bitches )
That's not true - Y'Berion also had bitches.
gg
2 is better
Ehhhhhh dunno Gothic 3's better
Risen 3 is Pyra's best game
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