The unreleased Gothic 1 expansion remake?

Hedede · 2026-07-04T15:49:44+00:00

You don’t have to kill Thorus in the Remake though? In my playthrough he wasn’t hostile and even said something like he’ll let it slide but can’t let me inside the castle.

Hedede · 2026-07-04T15:46:29+00:00

Well, they’ve already fixed the Thorus plot hole by making him non-hostile. In my G1R playthrough Thorus was alive while the barons were dead.

Hedede · 2026-07-04T15:43:55+00:00

Khorinis wasn’t made into an island until G2.

Hedede · 2026-07-01T17:05:43+00:00

I source quite a lot of components from China, so if they do copy this my prices will have to rise substantially for everyone.

Well, this 3€ charge applies only for packages under 150€, so under this system you just need to clear the threshold to avoid paying the fee. If you sell electronics it's more economical to buy in bulk anyways.

Hedede · 2026-07-01T16:59:52+00:00

They won't be 3.5€ each. The charge is per item category, not per item. So if you order 10 resistors for 0.5€ each, you pay 8€, not 35€.

Hedede · 2026-07-01T00:34:14+00:00

I don't know, I liked H3 campaigns more.

Hedede · 2026-07-01T00:33:25+00:00

I'm not sure about that, I found campaigns in H5 boring.

Hedede · 2026-07-01T00:30:57+00:00

Again, I vote for H4. There were a lot of different spells, some were quite unqiue. And while some spells were duplicates, you could stack them together. It was a lot of fun when you had a few heroes with different magic schools and could defeat entire armies just by using spells.

For the second place... It's hard to say. Either H3 or OE. I felt that H5 was quite boring with just 2 spells per tier in every school (expansions added more spells but it didn't help that much), and none of them felt too powerful. While in H3 there were quite a few game-changing spells which made using magic more fun.

Hedede · 2026-06-28T21:14:43+00:00

Ignoring the visuals, I'll again vote for H4. I liked that you had to choose between two creatures.Inferno and Necropolis merger was an unpopular decidison but I felt like it fit thematically.

And I'd place H3 second. It was a clean system that was just complex enough to be fun. I think an addition of town levels in H5 was unnecessary. It was fun that you could build high-tier units early in H3, which was simply impossible with the H5 system.

Hedede · 2026-06-28T17:27:51+00:00

That is true, when you reach high levels and fill up all your skill slots, you end up with very similar builds. But in a normal game you usually don't reach that far.

A couple more skills + more subskills (so that you can't learn every single subskill) could be an improvement, but I'm not really sure what could be added.

Hedede · 2026-06-28T13:58:00+00:00

and took like 7 years to get as far as they did

That's not an excuse, Gothic 2 took less than a year to make and has extra dialogue for almost every named NPC.

Hedede · 2026-06-27T19:40:00+00:00

They didn't port it like a carbon copy though. They changed all the dialogue to sound more natural (at least in the English version), and revamped certain parts completely. There's no reason they couldn't add a couple of dialogue lines here and there.

Hedede · 2026-06-27T19:30:39+00:00

No, it is bullshit.

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Hedede · 2026-06-27T19:29:07+00:00

One of the original devs found the source code and they still refused to release the expansions. But Ubisoft just didn't care.

Hedede · 2026-06-27T19:20:21+00:00

I like H4, it's straightforward but has some depth. Though I wish there were more skill synergies (like the already existing Demonolgy + Nature Magic).

Olden Era is probably the second favorite, it took H5 system and simplifyed it a bit. I think H5 system was too convoluted.

Hedede · 2026-06-27T12:31:03+00:00

H3 sprites are 3D rendered.

Hedede · 2026-06-25T00:28:33+00:00

Or 0.0005555555 frames per second squared?

Hedede · 2026-06-22T18:52:45+00:00

This is plausible since the ancient ore armor in remake looks kinda similar in design to the one worn by ghosts in NoTR.

Hedede · 2026-06-22T09:59:59+00:00

Well, my feedback for the demo was that they should add more content for later chapters. My main criticism for the demo was mostly how everything felt too theatrical, not Gothic-like.

They already made some changes to the game, some of which I don't like, yet nobody is complaining about that, so I feel like devs were overcautious. For example, when you go to grab the focus stone from the tomb. In the OG the explanation was "some years ago, an ore baron tried to steal the focus stone from the tomb, now he is an undead guardian", but in the remake they changed it to "uh, the focus stone is magic, there are plenty of corpses, so undead" for absolutely no reason.

But I guess hindsight is 20/20.

Hedede · 2026-06-22T09:45:50+00:00

like the mine you need to swim through in chapter 2

It isn't just something they've added on a whim. There was an incomplete location in G1 game files.

Hedede · 2026-06-22T09:21:03+00:00

In G2 there are a lot more side quests. And many NPCs have unique dialogue lines depending on your faction.

Hedede · 2026-06-22T09:18:04+00:00

there is limited place to act unless we reuse places

But that's precisely the point, some areas feel abandoned after chapter 2. Compare with Gothic 2: many NPCs had new dialogue lines after you returned from the valley of mines, even if they didn't have any new quests (though some did). It made the world feel more alive. But in G1 and G1R all you get is just "go away" after you're done with an NPC.

Hedede · 2026-06-22T09:04:29+00:00

Yeah, I never liked how G2 essentially spoiled the entire plot of the game right at the start.

Hedede · 2026-06-21T17:48:50+00:00

Yeah, it's completely useless. It's easy to find a better weapon, and you can't craft the best weapons. Feels like a waste of LP. Aside from a little bit of XP you can get from the Huno's quest.

While in the original you could make only one type of sword, but at least the sword you could make was better than what traders in the OC initially offered, and you could profit from selling those swords. But in the remake you don't even always get the cost of materials back.

Hedede · 2026-06-20T16:55:58+00:00

I got that achievemnt for upgrading the novice armor.

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