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C64 and casettes...had to love em....45min load time

Frater Perdurabo wrote:You should have played unpatched G1 and G2

I have, actually. G1 and G2 were PLAYABLE, that's the main difference. After the first 5 hours of gameplay I started to get frustrated a lot. The beginning of the game is pretty smooth, but the problems start piling up the more you advance in levels and in the game world. The guys at Piranha Bites etc. had the set-up and the story right, but they just can't make the shit work.

I haven't had the need to use console commands yet to PLAY the game the way it's supposed to be, but I have spent a lot of time and lost my patience several times when trying to do shit the "legit way". Important characters dying, glitches causing people to go violent against you, accidently talking to one character before talking to another leading into a chain reaction that stops you from earning enough reputation in a specific town and thus losing the opportunity to do 5+ quests (thousands of xp)... the list goes on and on.

Seriously, it's a game you MUST play with a walkthrough on your desk. You always need to check what needs to be done and what you shouldn't do in case the hints the characters give are completely wrong (the NPCs don't know shit about compass... So far there's been only one NPC that gave the directions at least somewhat correct... usually "go look for them in the mountains in the north" means that you should go to the south-east forest and so on...) or if there's some unmentioned conditions that you must fulfill and stuff. It kinda reminds me of Vampire: the Masquerade - it looks good on paper and you gotta give compliments on the personal idea, but the execution sucks.

Frater Perdurabo wrote: In fact, I am playing the Gothic II expansion (Night of the Raven) again at the moment. What an awesome game.

Is there an English version? At least I'm not aware of that...

Kashluk wrote:

Frater Perdurabo wrote:You should have played unpatched G1 and G2

I have, actually. G1 and G2 were PLAYABLE, that's the main difference. After the first 5 hours of gameplay I started to get frustrated a lot. The beginning of the game is pretty smooth, but the problems start piling up the more you advance in levels and in the game world. The guys at Piranha Bites etc. had the set-up and the story right, but they just can't make the shit work.

I haven't had the need to use console commands yet to PLAY the game the way it's supposed to be, but I have spent a lot of time and lost my patience several times when trying to do shit the "legit way". Important characters dying, glitches causing people to go violent against you, accidently talking to one character before talking to another leading into a chain reaction that stops you from earning enough reputation in a specific town and thus losing the opportunity to do 5+ quests (thousands of xp)... the list goes on and on.

Seriously, it's a game you MUST play with a walkthrough on your desk. You always need to check what needs to be done and what you shouldn't do in case the hints the characters give are completely wrong (the NPCs don't know shit about compass... So far there's been only one NPC that gave the directions at least somewhat correct... usually "go look for them in the mountains in the north" means that you should go to the south-east forest and so on...) or if there's some unmentioned conditions that you must fulfill and stuff. It kinda reminds me of Vampire: the Masquerade - it looks good on paper and you gotta give compliments on the personal idea, but the execution sucks.

Frater Perdurabo wrote: In fact, I am playing the Gothic II expansion (Night of the Raven) again at the moment. What an awesome game.

Is there an English version? At least I'm not aware of that...

I didn't really play G3 a lot, because it ran worse than shit on my PC (fucked up memory controller, whoopdie-fucking doo), but my brother played it a lot and he said that it wasn't all THAT buggy. Apparently the new patch also fixes the flawed combat system.

Remember the final battle in G1, where you have to pierce the pillars with your sword? Last time I replayed, I got a bug there and could not finish the game. Woo!

Yes, NotR is out in English as well, just torrent for Gothic II Gold. I had a few problems with getting it to work, so if you decide to download and encounter any, let me know and I'll show you what I did.

Kashluk wrote:Gothic 3 is okay, but really, really buggy and has some completely stupid unfinished things... Like some of the skills in the Character-screen have no trainers, one of the skills does not exist, one of them doesn't work properly and two don't work at all. Oh yeah and you can rise your strenght, endurance etc. (due to a bug) indefinitely if you carry just one temporary strength/endurance/health etc. potion.

Not to mention that most of the quests and scripts are b0rked too.

With the few patches it seems alright, and I haven't encountered a bugged quest yet.

My main problem with the game is the stuttering

I'm still quite sure that <a href="http://www.duckandcover.cx/darkunderlord/Spacecat.swf ">this</a> was indeed game of the year 2k6.

Mismatch wrote:I'm still quite sure that <a href="http://www.duckandcover.cx/darkunderlord/Spacecat.swf ">this</a> was indeed game of the year 2k6.

dunno the NPCs are kinda boring

Well...Hellgate London just dropped off my short list of anything even remotely interesting. Apparently it's somekinda pay for play MMO now.

Sacred Underworld

Gothic 3

Dominions 3

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft? You fucking traitor, aren't you running TC?

YEAH BUT NOW I'M RUNNING MC LOL LOL LOL LOL OL OL OL OL

But yeah...

I was. Then I got a life, it seems. Now I've lost it again

Redemption is a fickle thing, mon petite choue.