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Gothic 1 and 2 are some of the best RPGs I ever played. Piranha Bytes really knows how to make a world that feels lived in. Their maps are small compared to poo poo like Skyrim but they're so full of hand placed detail that it's hard to even compare the two. I was really hoping that with JoWood collapsing and Nordic Games picking up everything that PB would be given the opportunity to remake Gothic 1. Gothic 2 also has my favorite insult in a video game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuE2yud9BWI It's so good. Risen 1 was so, so, so close to being amazing. It's such a shame. It would be up with Gothic 2 as an amazing RPG if it wasn't for the last third. I mean, look at this poo poo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UARKChxxL4U It had such a great atmosphere. It also had some pretty sharp, fun writing. It's too bad that Risen 2 completely sandbagged the franchise. If Risen 2 had improved on Risen 1 the same way that Gothic 2 improved on Gothic then it'd definitely have been a franchise people cared about. Risen 3 was much better but still had some of that Risen 2 baggage. It returned to the 'camp' idea from Gothic 1/2 and took Risen 2's archipelago idea and greatly expanded on it. The islands were bigger and more detailed but it still wasn't great. The story was also kinda dumb. Risen 1 ended with a really cool premise but then Risen 2/3 only barely touched on it and was just "Pirates are cool, right? Also Titans I guess." Edit: gently caress Gothic 1 and 2 were so good. The early-mid 2000s was such a great time for weird, buggy, ambitious european/russian games. Sankis fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Aug 20, 2015 |
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