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That was the right call, they did a pretty decent job with the story, it is well worth exploring on your own.

Yeh... Commandos 3 was disappointing.

But not everyone wants to go thru that kind of difficulty. A game has to be first and foremost, fun. And if someone is into that stuff, then there are the higher difficulties.

The only way i see that happening is, it being released as a mod for BG3.Who knows, maybe someone will do something like that. And you are right, the Forgotten realms are so vast, that it feels like a waste to concentrate only on the sword coast, or rather, concentrate mostly on the sword coast.

@ltgchris693 yoooo that would be an insane amount of work, i doubt anyone will do it. i feel like it's so much lost potential to only baldur's gate 3 now. idk i'd love more games with similar graphics (i am unfortunately someone who needs good or interesting graphics) set in the forgotten realms. i know it's a bit difficult with legal stuff, but it would be so cool to have more game studios try their hand at this.

They will probably stay in the industry. But we will likely not see such a mod from them ever again,maybe someone else will step up. Although i understand hat Gothic is notoriously difficult to mod.

This is probably what most people think who played this story. To bad that this and maybe the Enhanced Edition, is all we will get. But still, i am very grateful for this grand game they have made.

@@ltgchris693 not really. i think i'll gather a team to add new content to Odyssei 2.0, so maybe something similar could be done to Archolos 2. At last, it's fans who gather to make such things come true and i think that raising 1 million USD would be enough of a motivation, and another 1 million during the project

@@Xardasflynn657 Yeah, maybe. But from what i remember they did it entirely non profit. Except the video department, that they did accept donations for. Don't get me wrong. I would love Archolos 2 or for someone to finish the History of Khorinis.

@@ltgchris693 history of Khorinis is unfortunately dead, Chronicles killed it. I'm polish so i can explain it to you- they used to be a single team, then the split happened due to internal conflicts and different visions. It was a race to who will make it first, but not only Chronicles are already 3 years ahead, most likely they will be 8 years ahead when the other one comes out. History Of Khorinis uses the same map, and they can''t outdo the RPG mod of a decade, so it makes no sense to waste another 5 years working for free just to make a significantly worse version of the same world. Their only chance is to make a map anew, but it will take another 5-7 years so no point in waiting for that, because Chronicles of Myrtana 2.0 and Archolos 2 will be out at this point. They are done and nothing could be done to save the project, Chronicles were just unbeatable and they know they are at horrific disadvantage So yeah, i'd love to see Archolos 2.0 and maybe 3.0, like real DLC level stuff, or just Archolos 2 since it does it's job as a standalone game, taking place either during the first formative years of a colony (taking over the colony and advancing to become a Scar), or a pre-prequel about Marvin's life on Londram, his childhood and events that happened there, or maybe even Scars escape from the colony 10 years later and going to the continent, which would give the opportunity of Showing the continent properly, with places like western Varant (canyons), northern Varant (swamps), Northern Nordmar (Orcish homeland), Western Nordmar (Isengard, the land of glaciers and crevasses, where 1 of the 4 Beliar Temples reside), Myrtana Highlands where the Unknown Lands Lie and perhaps giant steppes further towards the unknown lands, which is 6 new lands, and maybe 7 with a surprise land on the north-west part of the continent, giving 10 instead of 3 lands and making the continent 3 times as big, making it feel like a real continent sorrounded with oceans. You could finally have an orc-homeland, the wanderers and Adanos believers homeland, the more barren and wild part of Myrtana, a homeland for Lizard People, a homeland for Dragons and Demons and maybe a nomadic step of with a new races, wild and dangerous. You could always add access to all 4 Beliar Temples, situated in the far north volcanic mountain-steppes, the barren part of Orcish Land and somewhere in the far western Varant. Possibilities are endless, and Odyssei 2.0 already showed that it is possible and it's extremely cool to extend the world not by 50%, but by 300%, if done properly. A mod like Odyssei 2.0 with quality of Chronicles of Myrtana is worth any amount of donations, and i'm sure they will make the right decision depending on their time and financial budget. It's really fun when you've just hit level 150 after 200-300 hours with 6.000.000 xp, and are still progressing the story and upgrading your character. We really need to see more of this universum, and the fans are our only hope- imagine what could they do with millions instead budget equal to 0

I know the story, i too am polish :) I still don't see such a mod being made, although i wholeheartedly wish that it will. The Gothic world has still way more to offer. All these things you wrote about in the last paragraph i would love to see. Especially after what Gothic 3 did with that, which is to mean, not a whole lot.

This game is well worth it.

@@ltgchris693 I got it on steam for less then $2.00.

I did share that exp on my first runs. But later on i started to adventure alone. But they truly are one of a kind when it comes to any game genre.

These are not canon, so they were left out.

Not really. It was either to cut the guild or not to relese the mod. I know what i would choose. Plus, the content that is in game, trumps the lack of a mage guild.

Oh yeah I can def understand where they are coming from and don't want to diminish neither the quality nor the effort of the mod/creators. This is definitely something born out of love for gothic franchise and nothing wich is for sure appreciated in this day and age.Like u said the creators deserve all the praise in the world

You and me both :)

No, the namless hero is a difrent character. SPOILER! Marvin is Scar from Gothic 1.

Thank you very much. Go right ahead and play it, as you know it is well worth it :)

This is actually a fun idea, although i think that it would have to be remodeled to be more open then these games. But by that time it would become an isometric RPG. I still wish they would do something on the basis of the "Three musketeers"

@@ltgchris693 Paradox Interactive dont have any money to make an all out a baldurs gate isometric RPG, its a shame how what they made in 3d now is not as charming as in 2d sprites, also, where are the talking heads nowadays? another IP that would be perfect is DUNE..made the fencing battle like legend of sherwood but with more varied animations and game mechanics

Thank you very much :) I am glad you enjoyed it, i find that there is a lot to talk about with this series of games.

Yes, true. I neglected to talk about that at the end, i didn't write it down at that time and it slipped my mind (i'm a bit bummed out about that). It's funny how each of the people involved jumped to the conclusion that the artefact had to be the sword. As they were almost all warriors or fighters, the fact that it could be different never even crossed their mind. Only a water mage had the insight to look deeper into it. Ps. See you've played Sonora. Great game.

I don't intend to murder you :) even though i like Origins. I feel your comment has a lot of validity to it.I myself go back to Origin on the count of the world and the overall feel of it rather than the companions. I don't like playing with a whole party,unless they fend for themselves most of the time like in Dragon Age or in Mass Effect (which actually has the best companions in all of BioWares catalog, at least for me). In Dragon Age i like the gritty nature of the world, and that it is actually complicated but not as depressing as in Game of Thrones. The world building is top notch and for the most part makes sense. As for NWN i must admit that i am not a fan of the first game, but it's addons are superb, especially Hordes of the Underdark, i still play it from time to time. DA 2's problem wasn't actually in its story, but rather in it's technical execution, way to much repetition and samy dungeons. That was its ultimate weakness. The fact that most maps were the same just with different sections gated behind a pile of rubble or a door. But the way you talk about Origins, it sounds that you don't hate it as much as far more it disappointed you, or was lacking in the departments you find meaningful (wich is valid). Because you seem to see some redeeming qualities in it.

@@ltgchris693 First things first. Codex and the world are far better written than any quest in the game. Which is so painful to read books full of fascinating ideas just to jump to "kill 5 wolves" quests. By the Inquisition all of that just became "fight Templars... *But evil Templars*" and all the nuance is gone. One other thing. I feel so sorry for random NPC. There are so many (like 90% of the game) encounters where we "defend ourselves" and by that I mean normal people, simple peasants see criminals responsible for the death of their king (us) and always it ends up in the fight where all of them get killed. And most side quest focus on that. So put it streight: Dragon Age Origins is about main character being forced to join organisation whom main philosophy is to do the right thing no matter the cost. But any question of their authority and their rituals is met with violence. So the Campaign is about murdering everyone who stands in our way ESPECIALLY guards who are not even potencial allies but obvious allies. We kill our allies so our corrupted guild would remain at power. And our companions are manipulative homicidal monsters which get pissed if you even question any of that. We are Villains of this story and game refuses to recognise it! With DA 2 you see faction wars where there is no obvious evil so it makes a player question everything. This is what I thought the series was about. Sadly in eyes of fans the series is about fighting evil monsters. And the main reason why people hate Dragon Age 2 story is because they hate what happend to their beloved companions. I do no feel DA2 had problem with copy/paste areas because in DAO it was already a problem with Denerim and Ogrimmar. For me Dragon Age is a tragedy for it never became a mature series it wanted to be. And this is sad. I hate the game for what it is because it is also painful for what it could be... Also Quinari without horns look dumb. About NWN I meant modding community and tools. DA had some ambitious mods but it died quite quickly. And sidenote... Majority of mods are focused on romance and looks of your companions. NWN is still strong in this area.

I give you the MMO styled quests, that was also one of my problems with gothic 3, but Origins has a lot of interesting adventures too, albeit these are mainly main quest related, the adventure for Andraste's Ashes chiefly comes to mind. I also feel like the Grey are opportunistic to the extreme most of the time, but they do fight for the greater good so to speak. And how they don't mesh with political power is also nicely explored. About the potential allies part. While i doo agree that there should be more possibilities to talk things thru, like with the knight in Denerim. You still have to acknowledge that, they attacked the grey of their own accord, even if they didn't grasp the whole picture. Defence on the part of the attacked is to be expected. Although once again, i would like to have the ability to at least try to convince them to my side of things. I liked the dynamics in DA2, the gray nature of it all, but most of my enjoyment of the game was shaped precisely by the reused locations and enemies spawning out of thin air. Origins might have had similar looking locations like in the Deep Roads and Denerim, but they were distinctly different locations. Not so much in DA2, where they were explicitly the same with different entry points.

@@ltgchris693 "they attacked the grey of their own accord" - you mean, city guards... attacked the criminals in city they swear to protect? It is not like black magic. It is their job to protect citizens from assassins of the king. It would be argued this is a tragedy of situation but heck... we have mages who can use invisibility spell and rogues can sneak in. There is obvious way out to avoid this stupid combat. Except... the game is programmed so you cannot. I test it. If you try to avoid farmers in Lothering after the scene in tavern (and by the way, that was idiotic scene. Someone warns us it might end up in a combat so of course the only logic is to ENTER it and kill people we suppose to protect) if you try walk up the ramp near the exit it also starts a cutscene where I remind you... you cannot give people the money they need to move their families from this place. You just doomed them and your companions do not even care. Oh but they will murder me if I try to do main quest and safe Arl's life or get pissed I gave a sword to a kid in this world where everyone is hostile so he could protect himself. God, it still boils my blood. This world really deserves to be destroyed by dark spawn if our party is meant to be the "good guys".

These are supposed to be the information that the pragmatic incarnation had tatooed on his back. These are the first clues as to where to go and what to do. The information about Mort and Farod are there.

@@ltgchris693 So the Homer Simpson way for remembering how to find his way back to home after work.

@@benjaminsente7430 At least a permanent one :)

I didn't see it that way, but it would fit the pragmatic incarnation rather well. I simply don't see any player who grew accustomed to his or her party, suddenly abandoning one of them for Vhailor.

@@ltgchris693 It wasn't only the pragmatic incarnation, who was a dick, though. Yes, he had Deionarra killed, but the heartbreak sequence from the Sensate stone (her binding trauma) was before that, iirc. I think realizing you're immortal might cast your close relationships to mortals in a bit of a different light... Like it doesn't make that much sense, anymore

True, but i am approaching this form the point of view of the player, who will probably start the nameless one to forge meaningful relationships. Although i like your approach, it would be right for many incarnations, all be it not for all.

Try the wizard path... you will eventually have enough spells to keep the monsters away from you.

Yes, try to avoid fighting when possible (i simply run away) and play as a wizard, this should alleviate most of the combats clunkiness. Give it a try it is definitely worth it.

Are you talking about the answer to the games question?

@@ltgchris693 Yes.

I disagree, the game is pretty explicit in what the answer to that question is, and in Torment death is to 'week' of an occurrence to facilitate a change in ones nature. Aafter all the first incarnation changed himself not because of death, but because of regret (that is how he sees it) which means that he believed he could change his nature and he did.

@@ltgchris693 Interesting point. There are only 3 repetitive categories of incarnations after all (good, pragmatic, paranoid). But in the end, true _.d.eath never arrives, since he and his sideaspects (followers embodying his previous intentions) seem to be nearly immortal.

So are you saying that the lack of death changes one's nature? Or am i missing something?

Women's suffering? Nono, they all suffer - that's why they're bound to the Nameless One - their Torment! The sexual aspect is only a vehicle for inflicting that suffering.

I wouldn't say that they emphasize women suffering more than any other, the torment of it's male characters is also very pronounced and the protagonists is front and center.

I didn't see the driver in such a way, but your approach does have merit, as even i appreciate the rifle he got in BtCoD(hell of a weapon). I guess this is on the count of me having almost always a more stealthy approach, and i actively dislike the machine guns firing mode. The sapper for me personally came in handy more times than the driver, as i sometimes said "screw it" and tried to blow up the entire map of possible. Although no one beats the Marine/Diver in my book. I am a bit worried for Origins, but will see what they are going to do with it.

@@ltgchris693 Fins is cool, he has a great assortment of abilities/weapons, but his a one man army in C2...if he was in every map you could literally finish the game with only him 😂 ...whenever he's available I give Tiny's knife to him and just go to town on every axis on the map 😁

@@-Yurkey That's the same thing i do. I guess the "throw knife" ability is just to good 😄

Yes the ending was for me a nearly perfect fit. I mean Divine Divinity 2, where you can play as Fane, a walking, talking skeleton. I believe that there is nothing in the game of his mother being a water mage (it would be strange for her to be one, in such a patriarchal society as in Gothic,as i recall there are no women mages anywhere). No i think that Jorn was just recruited on Londram by the chapter of the Ring that resides there. So he actually didn't have any ties with the mages of Archolos.

I second that.

even comparing it to AAA crap is a disgrace, it's like black and white, the great and the horrible, at one spectrum you have the best game possible made non-profit by fans, which deserves to be a guinness record in itself, a game with decades worth of replayability and possibly its own modding community in the future, all of that for FREE. at the other spectrum you have these moloch corporations that specialize in wasting money and making horrible stuff even more horrible. being professional at worsening things that are already bad is probably the only real skill their teams possess. any comparison feels unfair

I don't begrudge them for not including the path of the mage in game. As i much more prefere to have such a gem as Archolos without a mage, rather than not have it with it. As a mod team they had to divide and conquer, which is actually difficult to do. Most modders want to include as much stuff as they can, which most often leads to an half baked product, if it gets released at all. I don't have any problem with Araxos,as they are an enjoyable guild, although i will freely admit that the city watch is a way more interesting one. The crafting is great in this game and cooking is just top notch. Yeh the permanent consumables are a godsend, a fine addition. I do not agree that it's designed to be for a 1-H character, the 2-H style works very well too, and any faults with the fighting system go towards the base mechanics anyway. For me personally, reach was mighty important, when i had a better but shorter weapon (while using 1-H) i always didn't use it, i found that i get hit way more when my reach is short, so i stopped using weapons that are as short as a dagger.

I didn't know that they shut down. It seems that they closed last year. That is actually a pity, i always wanted for someone to make a tactical RTS with the "Three Musketeers",but that is probably never happening. Maybe these type of games don't have the mass appeal to keep a company afloat. I will look into their sale numbers and see how it looked. Oh, and i will at some point look at them, because i do have some things to say about these games.

@@ltgchris693 Unfortunately, yeah. In their farewell letter, I remember, they said that the genre is simply "too niche" and "unsustainable". Heck, they nearly went under right after Shadow Tactics shipped in 2016; only a contract for Desperados 3 saved them. And now they really shut down after their newest Shadow Gambit game. It means that even three 96%-rated Steam games in a row is not enough to keep a studio afloat. 😢😢 Please do! I'd love to hear your take on those games. Personally, I think Shadow Tactics is good, Desperados 3 is great, and Shadow Gambit is a bit of a disappointment.

I just saw how many copies they sold and for how much, at least on steam, and seeing that Desperados 3 made worse numbers then Shadow Tactics, came as a big surprise to me. I think that i might be a bit harsher to their games, the one main thing that bugged me that their games, they didn't really innovate on the formula that much and gameplay wise all these games were pretty much the same, and i think that i would love to go into much more detail about that in a future video. Say what you will about the Spellbound games,they definitely tried something new with each instalment. Although i do like the Mimimi games.

@@ltgchris693 Oh, totally. The core formula remained the same - they just tweaked the numbers and slapped on a new coat of paint (setting/characters) across all three games. I dunno why, but if I had to guess: their 96% ratings made them confident the reviews would translate into sales? Or perhaps they were scared of alienating people who'd fallen in love with their - admittedly basic - formula? Who knows... That said, they did try to inovate with Shadow Gambit a bit, but in my opinion, they inovated backwards. Gambit plays a lot like Robin Hood and features perhaps all the flaws you described in the RH section of your Spellbound video. Still, with Mimimi gone, who's gonna create more of these games? Or are we destined to have just Commandos to tide us over?

I'm sure i missed a ton of stuff that is still in the game, expetialy the references.

I am very interested, what is the story behind this comment :)

Thanks :) I always wondered about that, but didn't come around to ask anyone about this, when i first played it.

I disagree that the available guilds are uninteresting, they both have their highlights, although the city watch is a bit more engaging. As to the mage path, magic is still available. And i rather they released the mod without the mage, rather than not release it with it.

@@ltgchris693 So do I. I am glad they did, it's still better than all Risen games for sure. But I got frustrated by the missed potential. Magic is weird, with no system and some itens to scale damage.

@@profhenriqueTrue, anything for a mage is hard to come by. Although it is promising that they intend to remedy that in the enhanced edition. The only way to scale damage that i know of is drinking the perma-potions, +5 to damage if i remember correctly.

Yeh... it was a bit tedious at times.

I'm the same. Expetialy when i remember that Robin Hood exists, i have to replay it periodically, the maps (although few) are excellent.

@@ltgchris693Do you know that you can upscale the game (Robin Hood) up to 1080p? But that resolution will cause very tiny characters and items. 1400x900 is a suitable resolution on my 55" 4k TV screen. At the moment I'm trying to find out how I can upscale the resolution of Chicago 1930.

@@Feindflieger1Doesn't it lose its magic in such a high resolution? The character design must be unrecognizable.

@@ltgchris693Not at all. You can play with all possible resolutions to find out the best you're comfortable with. I agree that 1080p is way to high for that game but something between 1200x800 or 1400x900 is ok. And for sure it depends on your screen. My PC is connected via HDMI to my 55" TV screen and playing that game in max 1024x768 is...