Thanks for the great feedback and all the comments so far!! Very happy the video is having such a good reception🙏🏻. Really excited to create more Gothic content now! By the way if you are ever in the mood for some simple *Gothic* gameplay you can do casually on the side then come check out the custom *Gothic 2 roleplay and economy system* that I built specifically for my Gothic themed Discord Server! There you can climb up the ranks and guilds of Gothic 2 while building up your wealth and unlocking better and better quest rewards. From becoming an apprentice, to joining the thieves guild to finally becoming a Paladin, Fire Mage or Dragon Hunter. 💪 Also anyone managing to acquire 1 mio gold coins within this Gothic 2 server system will also be memorialized in the server hall of fame! 😁 *See you there!* discord.com/invite/hXzV4vrdB8
The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos is definitely the way for long-time Gothic fans to experience it the same way they did the originals more than 20 years ago.
Wow. Not only do you analyze the main pillars of Gothic's success beautifully, this is also an impressively crafted video. Visuals, editing and audio design are stunning. Well done! Top-notch quality.
Thanks Kai!! Very happy to hear! Means a lot coming from you. ❤️ Your Soundtracks where actually the reason I started getting interested in sound design stuff, so super excited to hear the Remake Soundtrack!
That’s one of the best editing I’ve seen. The last point was so true, I remember when I was a child, I used to imagine with my brother what happened when the Old camp attacked the New Camp, or what happened in the old mine. That was something special
Finding those small camps and not knowing if they are friendly or not was amazing for that time. Not to mention how frightening it was to go hunting in the woods and feeling completely lost, until you meet a shadow beast .
Re: HUDs. Game makers back in the day (see also Looking Glass and their evolution from Underworld to Thief): Let's try to make it minimal, so that people aren't reminded they're just playing a damn game. Game makers today: Screw that.
Great video brother, i miss the design of the gothic series in modern games. Now everything has to be big for the sake of being big. Hopefully we will go back to the good days at one point.
@@craftofambience2 many videos before this one pointed them into right direction. but if you would do video 2-3 years ago it could help them more. short but really gets the essence.
Very good points. Old Gothic vets are asking this question now for many many years. How can it be that a 25 year old game is still counted as one of the best rpgs ever created. Sadly not even the developers could anwser this question propperly which leads to following games that just couldn't compete with the great Gothic 1. But just to be clear. Gothic 2 was also a great game. I personaly see them as one game. Something what many modern developers should finaly implement is reusing the old engine and building a follow up game on it like Gothic 2 did. This will give them so much more time to work on world and story.
Yeah 100% agree. I often feel like Gothic 3 could have been so much better if they had just sticked with the old engine and improved it. I would have much rather taken a smaller world and a few loading screens here and there than the G3 engine that ended up feeling kind of floaty and had weird animations : / I guess this would've also saved them all the performance trouble they had on release with people hardly being able to run the game at decent settings.
Yes, I'm glad someone mentioned the readable social hierarchies as an important corner stone! They're so awesome. You could show everybody, who played the game for 15 hours any new NPC and the player would know which rank the NPC would have, how he would interact with wich other NPCs, where he could pop up, how the player would interact with him, how hard it would be to fight him and whom to tell when you get problems with him. And that makes the armour system so much better. You have better armour, yes, but first and foremost you moved up the ladder. And you get to go to new places, because there are parts of the world that you are forbidden from at the beginning. This social hierarchy is a major aprt of the immersion, the progressionand, in a way, the sence of place. But most essays miss it completely.
Yeah very true! It's kinda funny how simple it is to use this sort of reward structure around the armors and belonging to a certain camp or faction just form a technical point of view, yet no one else does it the same kind of way and in a lot of RPGs you just randomly find a better armor somewhere in a chest :p
Fantastic video. I just recently replayed Gothic 1 after probably a decade of not touching it and got reminded of how unique it is. While technically G2 is probably a better game with a sum of its parts, G1 has a much more fresh and unique setting and vibe and novelty, even to its story, which really helps with immersion. Chapter 1 was an absolute top tier peak gothic experience, getting accustomed and mastering this new world, but my main complaint tho was the lack of content/quests/dialogue and reactions from NPCs after chapter 1. Characters have nothing to say in the second part of the story, nothing to comment on the unfolding events even when they should've and them doing so should be a big pillar of immersion, to make a believable world . Mike Hoge said recently that most of the actual game content for G1 was created in the last 6 months of development or something like this and it definitely shows. Thats why I hope the remake will fill up the world and especially characters dialogue/interactions in the second part of the story and add new quests to keep chapters fresh and the world more immersive and believable.
Yeah really well said, totally agree! Gothic 1 really has the edge in terms of it's uniqueness while G2 is kind of the "better" and more "finished" game overall (while slightly less unique).
I don't think I'll ever get bored of gothic analysis videos, so I'm glad I've found this channel. Do you have any specific plans on what to cover next? BTW, what's the story behind your avatar if I may ask? It looks intriguing.
I've started to write a couple of new scripts for the next videos :) mostly about the early days of PB, Mike Hoge's design approach and also a few thoughts on why Piranha Bytes didn't survive etc. Excited to share more soon!
Yeah I hope so as well. From what I've heard in some podcast appearances of the creative director of the remake they where doing their own sort of analysis of what makes the Gothic games what they are before they started with the remake. Let's hope they do it the right way 😃
Man this is masterclass in terms of Gothic videos. From the writing to the game capture and video editing this is all on a whole new level. Very different from what I've seen until now. I like the direction you're going. Can't wait for your next video!
Thanks! Glad to hear! Yeah it's probably because even though I haven't been active that much on youtube I've got a lot of experience with editing and animation stuff from other fields. (Television and advertisments etc)
And the sea released the land. And there arose all creatures. Trees as well as animals. Wolves as well as sheep. And a guy with 300 subs making top quality content 🧐
Hey thanks for the nice analysis :) I noticed you did not mention Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos. I know it's not strictly pyranha bytes production but if you haven't, PLEASE give it a try. It incorporates every single aspect you just mentioned, the guys knew what they were doing. Cheers!
Yeah it's been on my "to play" list for ages and I'm sure I'll probably love it. Heard so many great things about it. Just hard to find time these days to game with all the work I'm investing in into the channels haha.
Interestingly, a lot of these points you could also apply to Ultima, especially Ultima VII, for example the NPCs have schedules and animations and function like the player, and there is no mini-map nor quest markers.
G1 & 2 are still my favourite RPGs of all time. This docu pretty much nailed why. Normaly i don't like fenzy shit and cuts, but your artstyle is very unique and enjoyable to watch. Keep it up!
Awesome video and editing! I love the point about being on par with NPCs. Sometimes I just went to pub drink beer and chat, or in Swamp camp just stood with guys and smoked swampweed. I would love to see you cover Archolos as I find it interesting that they really managed to do most of the formulas right and in some aspects even supersede the quality of Gothic
Very good video, and I agree with you 100%. I remember how disappointed I was in witcher 3, when I was able to casually walk in houses and loot everything, and nobody said anything about it. It broke the immersion for me instantly. No game can come even close to the immersion of gothic I and II - well at least that is my humble opinion :D
Damn, I usually skip videos with less than 1k subscribers cause the quality isnt usually the best but this was amazing. Im not even a gothic fan or anything and this was my first time hearing about the game but i stayed throughout the entire video. Extremely high quality and a lot of work was put into this. Subscribed
Hey CoA, great video! Really enjoyed your analysis and I agree with most of the points you made! The amount of effort you put in it is clear, hope you keep making more and that it is just the start :) A tiny criticism (and its purely because of my own personal preferences so do feel free to disregard it completely) - maybe tone down a little bit with the effect filters such as grain or light diffusion? Anyway, great video and I already subscribed to hopefully see more from you in the future! Do you think you might cover other gothic-related games, such as Drova in the future?
Thanks dude! Haha yeah I get what you mean, it's easy to get carried away and go overboard sometimes with the effects while editing. I have thought about covering other games but at the same it's kind of tricky to find the right audience for it, as other game communities tend to not be as passionate as the Gothic community.
Thank you for this wonderful video! Your approach to creating content really impressed me ! These decorations with NPCs and your story telling looks so fresh and new for me who's been interested in Gothic theme for so long! Keep going !)
Das ist einfach mal ein so verdammt hochwertig und professionell erstelltes Video! Hut ab! Da hat jemand wirklich Ahnung und ein Händchen für die visuelle Aufbereitung von Inhalten ;) Ich will gar nicht wissen wie viel Arbeit das alles war :D Nehmen Dir Deine Tools da ein wenig Arbeit ab oder ist das wirklich alles noch "reine Handarbeit"? Wenn ich mir vorstelle all die Effekte und Animationen in Premiere Pro mit Keyframes einzubauen, wird mir schon ganz anders xD Das würde bei mir ewig dauern oder ich bin zu blöd das effizienter zu machen ^^ Ich hoffe Du bleibst auf jeden Fall am Ball und haust weiter so hochwertigen Content raus wie hier :) Liebe Grüße - Der Graf.
Moin Graf! Danke für die lieben Worte! Ja war tatsächlich ein großer batzen Arbeit xD 6 Monate hat das ganze gedauert. Also die Sachen die sich nicht wiederholen sind tatsächlich eig alle "von Hand" animiert. Ich bin da zwar relativ schnell darin weil ich das schon Jahre mache, aber in der Summe dauerts dann halt doch alles. Mache das aber mit After Effects und packe dann die animierten clips in die Premiere Timeline.
It’s pretty impressive, that you can create something new and fresh about a game over two decades old. I was fascinated by your approach and thoughts. One thing though- the music is a bit distracting IMHO, keep it down please. You don’t need it, your narrative is enough
Amazing work and very instresting thoughts on Gothic 1. I agree with everything you have said and sadly I'm still looking for a game that would give me similiar experience as Gothic 1&2. Warm hug from Poland
Gothic nailed the open world RPG in 2001, and someone dozens of similar games that came after it over the next two decades didn't take the important lessons from it.
Hey, first of all, great video. Collecting what is crucial and the video editing itself is top-notch. You summed up the essence of gothic very well. I think there are many reasons why The Witcher 3 had the HUD designed this way, but another video could be made about it :) I'm interested in video editing like yours. I have a few questions for you. I guess you are using Adobe After Effect and Premier Pro. Do you use any plugins to animate elements to speed up your work? Where can I learn how to edit a video like yours? Thanks in advance for Your answer
Yeah with the underlying lore of the witcher books they had a lot more to incorporate feature wise (potions, oils etc) so I totally get why they went the way they did with the Hud. Yes you're correct it's done with After Effects and Premiere Pro. There aren't many plugins at play here apart from Deep Glow and a Depth Pass plugin (for bluring backgrounds). The rest is just years of experience with this sort of stuff I'm afraid :p Maybe I will make some sort of course on how I work on this stuff in the future for patreons or whatever. But not sure if there is enough intersted for it though. (Would be a lot of work to make some sort of course)
i think another reason for hero not having name or past is because YOU are the hero. so he has your name. but since all is voiced its impossible to support voicing a name that you choose so having no name is better. if time and money would permit i think choosing how you look would fit into design too
NICE VIDEO, i suggest u do a video comparison of all the gothic series and also risen 1 is good also the story of CDRP and how they were inspired by gothic 1 to make the witcher keep going dont stop making videos and im sure u will gain more subs in no time
My hypothesis is that not only Gothic 3 and their other games weren't that good, compared to Gothic 1 & 2, they also came out after WoW vanilla. I think that vanilla WoW was really a breaking point in RPG gaming, with its smooth gameplay, social aspects, large open world with almost no loading screens and great lore. You might not like it, but nobody can't deny that it was the first step that brought gaming to masses. Gothic 1 & 2 just also had that great nostalgia feeling (apart from being obviously well designed) and those other games suddenly started to feel clunky and weird compared to other great games of the RPG genre.
Yeah totally. I think the whole WoW Artstyle was hugely influental. The Orcs of the Remake for example always kind of remind me a bit of that with the massive spikes on their armor etc. And a massive section of the casual market (especially on mobile) often feels very WoW influenced in how they design weapons and armor etc. (Overly large etc) Unfortunately the more down to earth and gritty style of the early Gothic games is not quite as popular :/
@@craftofambience2 Yea that's prolly true, WoW is that kind of (overly)pronounced fantasy that definitely influenced many others. But I was talking more about the game feeling and the gameplay itself. It's incredibly well polished and fluent even by today's standards, and it came out at 2004! I think that was the main thing why WoW became so insanely popular and why other games suddenly felt kinda weird.
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Thanks for the great feedback and all the comments so far!! Very happy the video is having such a good reception🙏🏻. Really excited to create more Gothic content now!
By the way if you are ever in the mood for some simple *Gothic* gameplay you can do casually on the side then come check out the custom *Gothic 2 roleplay and economy system* that I built specifically for my Gothic themed Discord Server!
There you can climb up the ranks and guilds of Gothic 2 while building up your wealth and unlocking better and better quest rewards. From becoming an apprentice, to joining the thieves guild to finally becoming a Paladin, Fire Mage or Dragon Hunter. 💪 Also anyone managing to acquire 1 mio gold coins within this Gothic 2 server system will also be memorialized in the server hall of fame! 😁
*See you there!*
discord.com/invite/hXzV4vrdB8
MFs with 200 subscribers putting out the highest quality video essays out there:
The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos is definitely the way for long-time Gothic fans to experience it the same way they did the originals more than 20 years ago.
Wow. Not only do you analyze the main pillars of Gothic's success beautifully, this is also an impressively crafted video. Visuals, editing and audio design are stunning. Well done! Top-notch quality.
Thanks Kai!! Very happy to hear! Means a lot coming from you. ❤️
Your Soundtracks where actually the reason I started getting interested in sound design stuff, so super excited to hear the Remake Soundtrack!
holy shit it’s so well made and edited. im left speechless, masterful work! this vid gives off such chill and cool vibes
Thanks!! 😄✌
That’s one of the best editing I’ve seen. The last point was so true, I remember when I was a child, I used to imagine with my brother what happened when the Old camp attacked the New Camp, or what happened in the old mine. That was something special
Very true! I kind of forgot about that aspect. The old mine and attack on the free mine are super interesting to imagine :o
Finding those small camps and not knowing if they are friendly or not was amazing for that time. Not to mention how frightening it was to go hunting in the woods and feeling completely lost, until you meet a shadow beast .
Oh yeah 100%. The world always felt very believable and lively. Especially the woods.
Re: HUDs.
Game makers back in the day (see also Looking Glass and their evolution from Underworld to Thief):
Let's try to make it minimal, so that people aren't reminded they're just playing a damn game.
Game makers today: Screw that.
Kinda true 😅👍
Thanks for making content about Gothic and also in a such unique way. Love it!
Cheers T-Moor! Glad you're liking it!
Great Video, i am glad Lothar made it into the Video.
He will surely be in more videos to come in the future haha!
Very good video, love the editing, the choice of music and the voice.
Hope to see more of this kind of videos from you. Great work.
Cheers Halvor!! And thanks for selling me totally unsuspicious fish that are totally not filled with secret stolen items ;D
Great video brother, i miss the design of the gothic series in modern games. Now everything has to be big for the sake of being big. Hopefully we will go back to the good days at one point.
Yeah totally! I'm crossing my fingers and hoping the Gothic remake is a step into the right direction in those terms :)
@@craftofambience2 many videos before this one pointed them into right direction. but if you would do video 2-3 years ago it could help them more. short but really gets the essence.
Very good points. Old Gothic vets are asking this question now for many many years. How can it be that a 25 year old game is still counted as one of the best rpgs ever created. Sadly not even the developers could anwser this question propperly which leads to following games that just couldn't compete with the great Gothic 1. But just to be clear. Gothic 2 was also a great game. I personaly see them as one game.
Something what many modern developers should finaly implement is reusing the old engine and building a follow up game on it like Gothic 2 did. This will give them so much more time to work on world and story.
Yeah 100% agree. I often feel like Gothic 3 could have been so much better if they had just sticked with the old engine and improved it. I would have much rather taken a smaller world and a few loading screens here and there than the G3 engine that ended up feeling kind of floaty and had weird animations : /
I guess this would've also saved them all the performance trouble they had on release with people hardly being able to run the game at decent settings.
The fact that using cheats you can swap bodies with NPCs, even animals, and just pilot them is outstanding.
Yeah I always found that part mindblowing as a Kid haha. Running around for hours as all sorts of monsters.
Bravo! Great Video!
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Great editing OP, keep it up! Gothic peak
Cheers! ❤️
Yes, I'm glad someone mentioned the readable social hierarchies as an important corner stone! They're so awesome. You could show everybody, who played the game for 15 hours any new NPC and the player would know which rank the NPC would have, how he would interact with wich other NPCs, where he could pop up, how the player would interact with him, how hard it would be to fight him and whom to tell when you get problems with him.
And that makes the armour system so much better. You have better armour, yes, but first and foremost you moved up the ladder. And you get to go to new places, because there are parts of the world that you are forbidden from at the beginning.
This social hierarchy is a major aprt of the immersion, the progressionand, in a way, the sence of place. But most essays miss it completely.
Yeah very true! It's kinda funny how simple it is to use this sort of reward structure around the armors and belonging to a certain camp or faction just form a technical point of view, yet no one else does it the same kind of way and in a lot of RPGs you just randomly find a better armor somewhere in a chest :p
Fantastic video. I just recently replayed Gothic 1 after probably a decade of not touching it and got reminded of how unique it is. While technically G2 is probably a better game with a sum of its parts, G1 has a much more fresh and unique setting and vibe and novelty, even to its story, which really helps with immersion. Chapter 1 was an absolute top tier peak gothic experience, getting accustomed and mastering this new world, but my main complaint tho was the lack of content/quests/dialogue and reactions from NPCs after chapter 1. Characters have nothing to say in the second part of the story, nothing to comment on the unfolding events even when they should've and them doing so should be a big pillar of immersion, to make a believable world . Mike Hoge said recently that most of the actual game content for G1 was created in the last 6 months of development or something like this and it definitely shows. Thats why I hope the remake will fill up the world and especially characters dialogue/interactions in the second part of the story and add new quests to keep chapters fresh and the world more immersive and believable.
Yeah really well said, totally agree! Gothic 1 really has the edge in terms of it's uniqueness while G2 is kind of the "better" and more "finished" game overall (while slightly less unique).
Great video, about a great game. I haven't played gothic until recently and when I did the game truly inspired me.
I don't think I'll ever get bored of gothic analysis videos, so I'm glad I've found this channel. Do you have any specific plans on what to cover next?
BTW, what's the story behind your avatar if I may ask? It looks intriguing.
I've started to write a couple of new scripts for the next videos :) mostly about the early days of PB, Mike Hoge's design approach and also a few thoughts on why Piranha Bytes didn't survive etc. Excited to share more soon!
I'll surely stick around for more. A really nice vid! Thanks!
Great to hear! Thx for the support!
Glorious brother in Innos! I see you quite understand the core elements of the perfection that is Gothic!
the quality of the editing is insane🔥
Came from amazing background music stayed for even more amazing analysis keep it up :)
Thanks for the support on both channels!! 💪
I've played the game so much back then before I discovered the second game. After watching this video I really have to replay it again
I hope the developers of the G1 remake will take this into account.
Yeah I hope so as well. From what I've heard in some podcast appearances of the creative director of the remake they where doing their own sort of analysis of what makes the Gothic games what they are before they started with the remake. Let's hope they do it the right way 😃
Man this is masterclass in terms of Gothic videos. From the writing to the game capture and video editing this is all on a whole new level. Very different from what I've seen until now. I like the direction you're going. Can't wait for your next video!
Cheers!! Happy you're digging it and thanks for the support! :)
Amazing content. Can relate to almost all the points presented.
Keep the good work!
Great video. Crazy that it's only your second video. I could swear you are a big youtuber as good as this video is
Thanks! Glad to hear! Yeah it's probably because even though I haven't been active that much on youtube I've got a lot of experience with editing and animation stuff from other fields. (Television and advertisments etc)
This is some next level editing! Absolutely loved it!
Cheers!! Much appreciated! 🙏
And the sea released the land. And there arose all creatures. Trees as well as animals. Wolves as well as sheep. And a guy with 300 subs making top quality content 🧐
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Hey thanks for the nice analysis :) I noticed you did not mention Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos. I know it's not strictly pyranha bytes production but if you haven't, PLEASE give it a try. It incorporates every single aspect you just mentioned, the guys knew what they were doing. Cheers!
Yeah it's been on my "to play" list for ages and I'm sure I'll probably love it. Heard so many great things about it. Just hard to find time these days to game with all the work I'm investing in into the channels haha.
@@craftofambience2 Reinterpretation of Rosenkranz music is alone worth it :)
Interestingly, a lot of these points you could also apply to Ultima, especially Ultima VII, for example the NPCs have schedules and animations and function like the player, and there is no mini-map nor quest markers.
Intersting, I've never played any of the ultima games but I think I remember the Gothic devs mentioning them as inspirations?
G1 & 2 are still my favourite RPGs of all time. This docu pretty much nailed why.
Normaly i don't like fenzy shit and cuts, but your artstyle is very unique and enjoyable to watch. Keep it up!
Gothic is a masterclass in game design.
Awesome video and editing!
I love the point about being on par with NPCs. Sometimes I just went to pub drink beer and chat, or in Swamp camp just stood with guys and smoked swampweed.
I would love to see you cover Archolos as I find it interesting that they really managed to do most of the formulas right and in some aspects even supersede the quality of Gothic
Yeah totally! Haven't had the time to check out Archolos yet but it's definitely on my "to play" list ✌🏻
Very good video, and I agree with you 100%. I remember how disappointed I was in witcher 3, when I was able to casually walk in houses and loot everything, and nobody said anything about it. It broke the immersion for me instantly. No game can come even close to the immersion of gothic I and II - well at least that is my humble opinion :D
Haha yeah that and no eating animation at all was definitely a bit of a bummer as a Gothic fan :P
Loved the video. Rewatched it 2 times just because of the editing and overall pace. Definitely sticking around and I can’t wait for more! ❤
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it and thx for the support!
Wow, production value and information presented is top quality, great work sir!
Thanks! 😃
Damn, I usually skip videos with less than 1k subscribers cause the quality isnt usually the best but this was amazing. Im not even a gothic fan or anything and this was my first time hearing about the game but i stayed throughout the entire video. Extremely high quality and a lot of work was put into this. Subscribed
As a Gothic fanatic since I was a kid, thank you.
Hey CoA, great video! Really enjoyed your analysis and I agree with most of the points you made! The amount of effort you put in it is clear, hope you keep making more and that it is just the start :) A tiny criticism (and its purely because of my own personal preferences so do feel free to disregard it completely) - maybe tone down a little bit with the effect filters such as grain or light diffusion? Anyway, great video and I already subscribed to hopefully see more from you in the future! Do you think you might cover other gothic-related games, such as Drova in the future?
Thanks dude! Haha yeah I get what you mean, it's easy to get carried away and go overboard sometimes with the effects while editing. I have thought about covering other games but at the same it's kind of tricky to find the right audience for it, as other game communities tend to not be as passionate as the Gothic community.
Thank you for this wonderful video! Your approach to creating content really impressed me ! These decorations with NPCs and your story telling looks so fresh and new for me who's been interested in Gothic theme for so long! Keep going !)
Das ist einfach mal ein so verdammt hochwertig und professionell erstelltes Video! Hut ab! Da hat jemand wirklich Ahnung und ein Händchen für die visuelle Aufbereitung von Inhalten ;)
Ich will gar nicht wissen wie viel Arbeit das alles war :D Nehmen Dir Deine Tools da ein wenig Arbeit ab oder ist das wirklich alles noch "reine Handarbeit"? Wenn ich mir vorstelle all die Effekte und Animationen in Premiere Pro mit Keyframes einzubauen, wird mir schon ganz anders xD Das würde bei mir ewig dauern oder ich bin zu blöd das effizienter zu machen ^^
Ich hoffe Du bleibst auf jeden Fall am Ball und haust weiter so hochwertigen Content raus wie hier :)
Liebe Grüße
- Der Graf.
Moin Graf! Danke für die lieben Worte! Ja war tatsächlich ein großer batzen Arbeit xD 6 Monate hat das ganze gedauert.
Also die Sachen die sich nicht wiederholen sind tatsächlich eig alle "von Hand" animiert. Ich bin da zwar relativ schnell darin weil ich das schon Jahre mache, aber in der Summe dauerts dann halt doch alles. Mache das aber mit After Effects und packe dann die animierten clips in die Premiere Timeline.
@@craftofambience2 Dann nach wie vor wirklich Hut ab! 🙂 Ich hoffe und wünsche Dir, dass die Videos die Aufmerksamkeit bekommen, die sie verdienen 😉
It’s pretty impressive, that you can create something new and fresh about a game over two decades old. I was fascinated by your approach and thoughts. One thing though- the music is a bit distracting IMHO, keep it down please. You don’t need it, your narrative is enough
Amazing work and very instresting thoughts on Gothic 1. I agree with everything you have said and sadly I'm still looking for a game that would give me similiar experience as Gothic 1&2. Warm hug from Poland
Cheers! Yeah one can only hope that there will be more Gothic similiar games in the future 🙏🏻either with the Remake or otherwise.
Cool video as someone who’s making rpg game myself I love this kind of videos, it’s a great source of inspiration! :D
Fantastic video 👑
Dude, your video editing is superb. How do you only have 420 subs? This is 300k+ content. Immediate sub!
Yo that editing is crazy, nice content man
Awesome vid and discussion! I gave every comment a thumbs-up!
Legend! Thx for your support! 🙏🙏
Wow Man that editing is brilliant! Amazing job about amazing game subscribed for sure❤
Gothic nailed the open world RPG in 2001, and someone dozens of similar games that came after it over the next two decades didn't take the important lessons from it.
thats some real good content there! Very good! Keep up the good work! Gothic never dies!
That's a sub from me for sure. Well done!
Cheers! Thx for the support!
Thx for video 😄
Hey, first of all, great video. Collecting what is crucial and the video editing itself is top-notch. You summed up the essence of gothic very well. I think there are many reasons why The Witcher 3 had the HUD designed this way, but another video could be made about it :)
I'm interested in video editing like yours. I have a few questions for you. I guess you are using Adobe After Effect and Premier Pro. Do you use any plugins to animate elements to speed up your work? Where can I learn how to edit a video like yours? Thanks in advance for Your answer
Yeah with the underlying lore of the witcher books they had a lot more to incorporate feature wise (potions, oils etc) so I totally get why they went the way they did with the Hud.
Yes you're correct it's done with After Effects and Premiere Pro. There aren't many plugins at play here apart from Deep Glow and a Depth Pass plugin (for bluring backgrounds). The rest is just years of experience with this sort of stuff I'm afraid :p Maybe I will make some sort of course on how I work on this stuff in the future for patreons or whatever. But not sure if there is enough intersted for it though. (Would be a lot of work to make some sort of course)
Great Video!
i think another reason for hero not having name or past is because YOU are the hero. so he has your name. but since all is voiced its impossible to support voicing a name that you choose so having no name is better. if time and money would permit i think choosing how you look would fit into design too
Well of course it does since its beautiful Polish game
NICE VIDEO, i suggest u do a video comparison of all the gothic series and also risen 1 is good also the story of CDRP and how they were inspired by gothic 1 to make the witcher keep going dont stop making videos and im sure u will gain more subs in no time
More polish game than Witcher
have you tried chronicles of myrtana archolos? basically new gothic 2 experience
Not yet! Wanted to give it a go for a long time but didn't really have the time unfortunately yet. One day though! 😃
My hypothesis is that not only Gothic 3 and their other games weren't that good, compared to Gothic 1 & 2, they also came out after WoW vanilla. I think that vanilla WoW was really a breaking point in RPG gaming, with its smooth gameplay, social aspects, large open world with almost no loading screens and great lore. You might not like it, but nobody can't deny that it was the first step that brought gaming to masses. Gothic 1 & 2 just also had that great nostalgia feeling (apart from being obviously well designed) and those other games suddenly started to feel clunky and weird compared to other great games of the RPG genre.
Yeah totally. I think the whole WoW Artstyle was hugely influental. The Orcs of the Remake for example always kind of remind me a bit of that with the massive spikes on their armor etc.
And a massive section of the casual market (especially on mobile) often feels very WoW influenced in how they design weapons and armor etc. (Overly large etc)
Unfortunately the more down to earth and gritty style of the early Gothic games is not quite as popular :/
@@craftofambience2 Yea that's prolly true, WoW is that kind of (overly)pronounced fantasy that definitely influenced many others.
But I was talking more about the game feeling and the gameplay itself. It's incredibly well polished and fluent even by today's standards, and it came out at 2004! I think that was the main thing why WoW became so insanely popular and why other games suddenly felt kinda weird.
ok what AI voice your using, i heard this voice in another video. REAL GOOD VOICE, eleven labs?
Yeah I'm using eleven labs but it's a clone that's trained on my own voice. (Improves my english pronounciation a bit since I'm not a native speaker)
deep dave?
Is it you who voiceovers a video?
Sort of. It's actually an ai clone trained on my voice :P it helps with clearer and more correct english pronounciation
@@craftofambience2 oOoOOh! That's so coool
I love all from series But my favorite is gothic 3 I never had problems with original cd game so I never understand the hate
The music is too loud for me
Cheers for sharing, will take into account for the next one.
@@craftofambience2 it was great for me, but I wear good headphones
Ludos.
First!