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Gothic III requires more than 50 hours to complete the game play. For such a long playing game it is required that the player should be skillful and energetic in order to win the game. In Gothic 3 Free Download proper sunset and sunrise can be seen and it looks like a player is not just playing the game. Nov 14, 2006  Gothic 3 Updated Impressions - Get Ready for Another Big, Open-Ended Role-Playing Experience. This upcoming role-playing game promises a rich, open-ended fantasy world for you to explore on your own. About Gothic 3 Game Guide. Author: Andrzej 'Rylak' Rylski for gamepressure.com. Last update: May 5, 2016. Guide contains: 40 pages, 337 images. Use the comments below to submit your updates and corrections to this guide. All Games Action Games Gothic Franchise Gothic® 3. Community Hub. A nameless hero becomes a legend! Myrtana, a world in upheaval: overrun by orcs from the dark lands in the north, King Rhobar is defending Vengard, the former stronghold of the humans, with his last troop of followers. Nov 19, 2006  In conclusion, Gothic 3 is not a bad game, but it is far from being a good one. As a result, Pyranha Bytes, the game developer, is history. What that means is that - most likely - there will be no more official patch for this game (ver 1.12 is the last official patch) beside home made ones from the ever faithful Gothic community (I am in it).

The moment when things started going wrong.

Gothic is about a harsh medieval landscape and the even harsher folks that populate it, right down to the tattered leathers and tattooed hides. It’s about grim lives, all nasty, brutish, and short, and usually hastened to their end by you, the nameless hero who plays a recurring legend in each installment’s tightly crafted yet largely nonlinear story. What it lacks in formally dressed vampires and flying buttresses, it more than makes up for with its vision of an alternate Dark Ages populated by Orcs, magicians and Undead hordes.

The original Gothic games competed with the likes of Morrowind even though it was a lot lighter on stat crunching. Character development took a backseat to non-player character interaction – you mingled with the populace, made cozy with the various factions, and went through hours of dialogue. The experience was a lot more personal than Morrowind’s rather stale, non-talkative world characters who were more or less virtual sign posts and souless quest dispensers. The bleak world of Gothic was a lot more lively, in comparison.

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Despite high critical acclaim, the first two Gothic games were rough around the edges, much like the rogue’s gallery of characters that populate each game. In particular, the user interface for inventory and character management was stubborn and obtuse, and the first-person combat system lacked much grace. These flaws were easily glossed over by the series’ strengths, like the nonlinear plot and the fully realized NPCs with whom you shared each game’s world.

Gothic 3 was Piranha Bytes’ chance to bring it all together and make the definitive nonlinear epic fantasy RPG for the ages. A small team of 21 folks that have stuck together throughout the series, the developers have learned a lot of lessons, and have listened extensively to customer criticism. In particular, the user interface and combat system have been overhauled.

The game world has grown. While the mainland of Gothic 2 was around 1 square km and had but one harbor city, Gothic 3 spans ten times that size and contains about twenty urban settlements that range from tiny villages to a large capital city, spread across three climates – desert, forest and alpine. There are hundreds of NPCs, thousands of monsters, and countless swords, spells and armor sets. There are ten trillion side quests, a comprehensive skill tree, weather patterns and a day-night cycle. In short, it’s got a lot of stuff.

This time, the plot takes you away from the island of Khorinis to the mainland of Myrtana, where your fellow humans have been enslaved by the Orc tribes and their monstrous leader, Kan. Unlike the savage and brain-dead Orcs of older Gothic games, however, the ones here speak English and won’t immediately attack you. You can, in fact, join the Orcs as a faction.

Gothic 3 contains a bunch of factions you can join. Two are struggling against the Orc oppressors: the Water Mages and the Nomad tribes that follow them and the Nordmar Barbarians of the frozen northlands. Opposing them are the Hashishan, who have been selling the Nomads and the other folk of Myrtana into slavery for power and profit, and the Black Mages, who rule the Hashishan through their mastery of the darker arcane arts. Internal struggles in the human factions can lead the player to work with either group (or with both, for a time). It’s up to you to decide which faction to join.

For example, if you’re looking to play the cruel mercenary, you may want to cozy up to Zuben, the leader of the Black Mages. But if you’re more of a moral crusader who wants to free the slaves, then you could join the human rebels and perform their quests which will eventually lead to rebellion. Your choices are reflected in dialogue options, quests, factional affiliations, and a whole host of subtle branching options embedded in each component of the game. As ever, the ending you receive will depend on who your chosen allies were throughout your adventure.

The new combat system is still a real-time sword-slingin’ and spell-spammin’ affair, although significantly changed. The animations are better (as long as you’re not in first-person mode), but the mechanics are a lot more simplified, and equally less interesting in the long run. Alternatively, those players who are less inclined to favor facing their foe down with steel can use powerful magic from a distance.

There are also several cool spells, including Time Warp (which slows down time around the player) and Army of Darkness, which summons a horde of angry ossified undead. The visuals for these spells are ratcheted well beyond those of the prequels, with eye-popping light and smoke effects. Magic weapons, by contrast, remain rare. One of the most powerful spells lets you bring down a meteor shower that temporarily turns the area around you into a hellish landscape, roasting everything in sight.

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So yeah, Gothic 3 has a lot of stuff in it. A huge island, lotsa cities, non-player characters, skills, you name it. But there comes a time when you think that there’s a little bit too much stuff, that making the world bigger eliminates any value that extra real-estate would hypothetically bring. I got this feeling after I’ve spent 15 minutes walking from one town to another, fighting the same generic monsters I had for the past three or so days. It was starting to feel like a grind, more work than fun.

The side quests are also not nearly as imaginative as they could have been, far eclipsed by those in Oblivion. They’re the regular ‘kill these monsters’ or ‘fetch me this item’ sort of quests that so often plague role-playing games. For instance, almost every new town you’ll find will have a few packs of wild beasts scattered around the city waiting to be culled, and it’s just a matter of finding the right NPCs willing to reward you for the task. Even if you kill the animals before talking to the appropriate NPC, the game automatically adds the quest to your log and marks it as ‘completed’. This speaks a lot to the formulaic nature of the quests.

The NPCs themselves, while more numerous, are dry and uninteresting. Their delivery is more business-like this time, which means you’ll rarely find characters that echo any sort of identifiable personality. The meeting with Xardas, for instance, should have been one of the high points of the game – it certainly took a lot of time and effort to find the guy – but the long-awaited meeting turns into a one-minute conversion that merely leads you to the following generic quest. For a game series whose main focus is on plot and character interaction, this felt like a total waste.

There was definitely something special about the Gothic series. It’s always had a fierce ambition that made you overlook the less admirable flaws. With their focus of complex character interactions and good storytelling, the first two games have won me over. The third one, alas, seems to have lost much of that retro magic, going with a dead-brained ‘more is better’ approach. Some people may enjoy it, but those who are unfamiliar with the series should try the originals first before embarking on Gothic 3.

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Gothic is a fantasy-themed single-playeraction role-playingvideo game for Microsoft Windows developed by the German company Piranha Bytes.

Gothic was well received by critics. Reviewers credited the game for its story, complex interaction with other in-game characters, and graphics, but criticized it for the difficult control scheme and high system requirements.^[1][2][3]

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Gameplay[edit]

The main character must complete quests and slay wild animals and monsters to earn skill points, which are used to increase basic attributes, improve skills, and learn trades. They are spent by finding the appropriate teacher. Several skills have only one 'level' (Sneaking, Acrobatics), while the fighting skills (one-handed weapons, two-handed weapons, bows and crossbows) have two proficiency levels. If the Hero chooses to be a Mage (or joins the Swamp Camp), he will be able to learn Circles of Magic; of which there are 6. The main attributes are increased in 1 or 5 point increments, starting at 10 and capping off at 100. The cap can be surpassed with the use of potions.

The game places a special focus on the interactivity of the environment. For example, hunting wild animals can earn the player raw meat. This heals damage and can be sold. However, by using a stove or frying pan, the player may also choose to turn this into grilled meat, which heals much more effectively. Similarly, most of the activities other characters can be seen doing (playing musical instruments, stirring soup pots, urinating etc.) can be done by the main character as well (although with the exception of forging weapons these activities have little bearing on the game).

The player can choose which camp to join, although quests get increasingly linear and the distinctions between different factions wane in the latter parts of the game. The major difference is that Swamp Camp members cannot become mages, because they are limited to 4 magic circles (out of 6). However, they gain access to magic earlier.

Synopsis[edit]

Setting[edit]

The game takes place in a medieval fantasy realm in which humans are fighting a losing war against the Orcs, a humanoid race. In order to fight back, the king needs to extract magical ore from mines, which can be used to forge more powerful weapons. Therefore he decides to send every man who has committed a crime to the ore mines.^[4]

To prevent the convicts from escaping he orders his 12 most powerful magicians to erect a magical dome over the mining colony. However, the Barrier goes out of control and grows large enough to cover the entire valley, trapping the magicians inside, and giving the convicts a chance to kill the distracted guards and take control over the colony. The king is thus forced to come to an agreement with the prisoners, trading goods for ore.^[5][6]

Soon after, the convicts separate into three different groups: the Old Camp which controls trading with the king, the New Camp which refuses to trade the ore they mine, and instead plan to use its magical power to explode the Barrier, and the Brotherhood, whose members believe in a god called the Sleeper which will help them escape from the colony.^[5][7] The magicians that created the Barrier also divided; they formed the Fire Mages, who joined the Old Camp, and the Water Mages, who joined the New Camp.^[5]

Plot[edit]

The player takes control of an unnamed prisoner who has just been thrown inside the mining colony. The exposition does not specify the crime for which he was convicted prior to the games' events. Before being sent in, the player receives a letter which he is tasked to deliver to the Order of the Magicians of Fire, which is stationed inside of the Old Camp. After getting the chance to talk with the magicians, the protagonist learns that Xardas, the head of the Fire Mages who is supposed to receive the letter, deserted in order to study black magic.^[8]

After joining one of the three camps, the protagonist ends up aiding the Sect Camp prepare the invocation of their god, the Sleeper, which they believe will show them the way to escape the colony.^[9] During the ritual the members have a vague vision and Y'Berion, the leader of the Brotherhood who performed the ritual, collapses after getting in contact with the Sleeper. In the vision, the sect members are shown the way to an old Orc cemetery. A guru and a few templars, together with the hero, set off towards the indicated place.^[10] Once there, however, the templars die fighting the Orcs they meet, and only the guru and the protagonist survive. After searching the entire underground complex the two fail to find anything. The guru then goes insane and starts accusing the hero that it is because of him that the Sleeper refuses to reveal himself, and attempts kill the protagonist.^[11]

After defeating the mad guru, the hero returns to the camp of the Brotherhood where he finds Y'Berion still weakened after the ritual. Despite efforts to help him recover, Y'Berion soon dies. Before dying, however, he warns the rest of the camp about the true, evil, nature of the god they thought was leading them on the path to freedom, and places his hopes on the escape plan of the Water Mages from the New Camp to blow up the Barrier using the power of the magical ore.^[12]

Bearing important information about the recent events in the Sect Camp, the player is given permission to see the Water Mages, who ask for help with their escape plan. After the hero acquires all the needed artifacts with the help of four convicts he has befriended, the Water Mages now need the help of the Fire Mages to channel the magical energy.^[13] However, the protagonist finds out the Old Camp's gates have been closed after their ore mine collapsed. Fearful that this incident might deprive him of his power, the leader of the Old Camp sent his men to take control of the New Camp's mine and killed the Fire Mages who were protesting against his action; only Milten, the youngest of the magicians, managed to escape.^[14]

Having no other option left, the Water Mages send the hero to ask for Xardas, the magician who deserted the Fire Mages, to help them. However, Xardas refuses to help the Magicians of Water and thinks that their plan will not succeed.^[15] He instead tells the protagonist that during his studies he learned that the Sleeper was summoned by the Orcs in order to help them against their enemies and that the demon is in a temple deep underneath the Orc city.^[16] With the help of Xardas, the player manages to enter the Sleeper's temple. Upon defeating the demon, the Barrier collapses and sets the prisoners of the colony free.^[17]

Development[edit]

Piranha Bytes worked more than 4 years on the development of Gothic's technology.^[18] The engine was created completely in-house,^[19] with a modified version later used for Gothic II. These are the only games to use this engine.

Marketing and release[edit]

Gothic was first released on March 15, 2001 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, published by Egmont Interactive. The European release date by THQ arrived on October 30, 2001, followed by the North American release by Xicat Interactive on November 23, 2001.

In February 2006 an international re-release was announced to prepare for Gothic 3 – which received much more attention from international media than the previous games.

In the course of the re-release an English demo version was made available at the official website.^[20] The Demo contains a part of the first chapter of the game.

In Germany and some other countries, Gothic is also available in a Collector's Edition, bundled with Gothic II and Gothic II – The Night of The Raven, and Gothic - Fan Edition, including the official map of the Colony as well as a variety of extras.

Reception[edit]

According to GameStar, Gothic failed to make an 'international breakthrough' into sales markets beyond Germany, a characteristic it shared with Anno 1602.^[29]

The game received 'generally favorable reviews' according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[21]IGN concluded that 'Gothic is a solid role-playing experience'^[3] and Eurogamer said that it is a game that 'developers should look to as an example of how a role-playing adventure should be done'.^[1]GameSpot gave the game a slightly less positive review saying that despite Gothic's achievements in terms of story and dialog, players might still be disappointed by its shallow character development and poor combat mechanics.^[2]

GameLive PC named Gothic the third-best role-playing game of 2001–2002, behind Dungeon Siege and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.^[30] The editors of Computer Games Magazine nominated Gothic as the best role-playing game of 2001, but ultimately gave the award to Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura and Wizardry 8 (tie).^[31] It was also a runner-up for RPG Vault's 2001 'RPG of the Year' prize, which it lost again to Arcanum. However, it won in the publication's 'Surprise of the Year' category; the editors called it 'a very solid, enjoyable debut effort.'^[32]

See also[edit]

• Risen, a similar game by the same developer.

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcTaylor, Martin (January 15, 2002). 'Gothic'. Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved January 16, 2009.
2. ^ ^abcPark, Andrew (December 18, 2001). 'Gothic Review'. GameSpot. CBS Interactive.
3. ^ ^abcKrause, Staci (January 15, 2002). 'Gothic'. IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
4. ^Piranha Bytes (March 15, 2001). Gothic. Xicat Interactive. Level/area: Introduction video. Xardas: The king needed swords for his army and every man guilty of a crime, no matter how insignificant, was forced to work in the Ore mines of Khorinis.
5. ^ ^abc'The Barrier..'. Gothic Manual. Xicat Interactive. 2001. pp. 14–15.
6. ^Thorsten Felden & Piranha Bytes (w), Henrik Fetz (p), Tom Thiel (i). Gothic - Der Comic: 13/1–3 (2000), Germany: Egmont Ehapa
7. ^Thorsten Felden & Piranha Bytes (w), Henrik Fetz (p), Tom Thiel (i). Gothic - Der Comic: 13–14 (2000), Germany: Egmont Ehapa
8. ^Piranha Bytes (March 15, 2001). Gothic. Xicat Interactive. Hero: I have a letter for the High Magician of the Circle of Fire. [..] A magician gave me the letter shortly before they threw me into the colony. / Milten: This letter is addressed to Xardas! [..] He left us some years ago and turned towards black magic.
9. ^Piranha Bytes (March 15, 2001). Gothic. Xicat Interactive. Level/area: Chapter 2: The Minecrawler's nest. Cor Kalom: Wait till nighttime, then come to the temple courtyard. We will gather there to invoke the almighty Sleeper.
10. ^Piranha Bytes (March 15, 2001). Gothic. Xicat Interactive. Level/area: Chapter 3: Artifacts of ancient power. Cor Angar: The vision was very vague. [..] I saw an Orc in a cave. There is an old abandoned Orcish place of worship nearby. The Orcs used to bury their dead there, that's why we call this system of caves the Orc cemetery. The Guru Baal Lukor has gone there with some templars. Maybe we'll find something there to help us understand the vision.
11. ^Piranha Bytes (March 15, 2001). Gothic. Xicat Interactive. Level/area: Chapter 3: Artifacts of ancient power. Hero: I've been to the Orc cemetery. There was NOTHING THERE. [..] The entire cave system is teeming with Ors. They killed all of the templars. Baal Lukor and myself survived, but suddenly Baal Lukor went mad. He screamed that the Sleeper had ordered him to kill me, and he intended to obey this order.
12. ^Piranha Bytes (March 15, 2001). Gothic. Xicat Interactive. Level/area: Chapter 3: Artifacts of ancient power. Cor Angar: Y'Berion woke up for a short time while you were out. [..] he said that the Sleeper is not what we think he is. We must try not to awaken him again. [..] Shortly before he died, he placed all his hopes on the escape plan of the Magicians of Water.
13. ^Piranha Bytes (March 15, 2001). Gothic. Xicat Interactive. Level/area: Chapter 3: Artifacts of ancient power. Saturas: There are not enough magicians in the Circle of Water to control the powerful energies and to guide them onto the right course. [..] Go to the Old Camp and try to win some of the Magicians of the Circle of Fire for our cause.
14. ^Piranha Bytes (March 15, 2001). Gothic. Xicat Interactive. Level/area: Chapter 4: Xardas. Diego: The Old Mine caved in [..] Gomez was [..] afraid that his position could be at stake. [..] Corristo and the other mages were the only people in the Camp to remain rational. [..] Gomez didn't trust them any more^[sic] and had them perfidiously assassinated. / Milten: I had a very narrow escape.
15. ^Piranha Bytes (March 15, 2001). Gothic. Xicat Interactive. Level/area: Chapter 4: Xardas. Hero: I was sent by Saturas. [..] The Magicians of Water plan to use their big ore mound.. / Xardas': Forget the ore mound! Its power won't open the Barrier.
16. ^Piranha Bytes (March 15, 2001). Gothic. Xicat Interactive. Level/area: Chapter 4: Xardas. Xardas: The answer lies deep beneath the Orc town. [..] A few centuries ago, five Orc shamen invoked a very old arch demon which they hoped would give their clan the power to defeat their enemies.
17. ^Piranha Bytes (March 15, 2001). Gothic. Xicat Interactive. Level/area: Ending video. Hero: When the Sleeper was banished into his own dimension I returned to daylight. The magic Barrier had fallen.
18. ^'Ask the developers!'. JoWooD Entertainment. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2006.
19. ^'FAQ'. World of Gothic (in German). Retrieved August 3, 2006.
20. ^'GOTHIC 3'. Piranha Bytes (in German). Retrieved August 3, 2006.
21. ^ ^ab'Gothic for PC Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
22. ^Nguyen, Thierry (April 2002). 'Gothic'(PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 213. Ziff Davis. pp. 92–93. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
23. ^Wessel, Craig (January 15, 2002). 'GameSpy: Gothic'. GameSpy. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
24. ^Lafferty, Michael (December 17, 2001). 'Gothic Review'. GameZone. Archived from the original on February 26, 2009. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
25. ^'Gothic'. PC Gamer UK. Future plc. February 2002.
26. ^Brenesal, Barry (March 2002). 'Gothic'. PC Gamer. Future US. p. 61. Archived from the original on March 15, 2006. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
27. ^Lyon, James (January 28, 2002). 'PC Review: Gothic'. PC Zone. Future plc. Archived from the original on September 24, 2007. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
28. ^'The 2002 GameStar Awards'. GameStar. Webedia. January 2002.
29. ^Staff (January 1, 2003). 'Kampf ums Überleben'. GameStar (in German). Archived from the original on December 4, 2018.
30. ^Editors (August 2002). 'Los Mejores 2001-2002'. GameLive PC (in Spanish) (Especial 2): 16–20, 22–37.
31. ^CGM staff (March 2002). '11th Annual Computer Games Awards'. Computer Games Magazine. No. 136. pp. 50–56.
32. ^RPG Vault staff (January 18, 2002). 'The RPG Vault Awards 2001'. RPG Vault. Vault Network. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007.

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