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Originally posted by Iron_Scarecrow@Dec 16 2004, 04:54 PM
What is Gothic like?
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i've only played Gothic 2 (planning on playing the first one some day)
But, in short, its a german RPG.
The graphics are okay and the controls are often strange and uneasy.
However the game itself is brilliantly made. Unlike most RPG games like Morrowind or KOTOR people have an actual life.
Each NPC will have his own daily schedual. The simple village folk will wake up in the morning and go listen to the Priest preaching some holy story near his deity's shrine and in the evening they'll go for a drink in the tavern (which is mostly empty during the day) and then go home and sleep.
The fisherman will go and fish, the shipbuilders will continue building their ship and the farmers will go out and farm their land.
In the monastery Monks will all go to prayer in the main chapel in the morning and then return to their jobs like tending the Monastery farms and cattle, or studying and such.
This is often nice when combined with a quest. For example in one thief quest you must steal some rich guy his ring (or was it a key?) But most of the time he works in his shop which is right in one of the busiests parts of the city thus making it impossible to rob him. So you must study his daily routine, its then that you'll see that, each night, he'll pass through a dark alley on his way home and that is where you rob him.
The gameplayworld is this much smaller than, say, Morrowind but also much more alive and realistic. And the landscaped are very nicely done aswell. A dark forest will actually feel gloomy with branches everywhere and dark trees and fog on the ground... this is something Morrowind did not achieve that well.
I'd say it has a brilliant atmosphere... I'd give you a better example of atmosphere in Gothic II, but I'd ruin the story of Gothic I then