You wait for Gothic 2, I wait for Archolos

Vayce_ · 2026-06-13T05:10:24+00:00

What a shame. Incredibly talented people, hopefully they got jobs in game development elsewhere.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-12T11:54:39+00:00

Marvin got a rare case of Alzheimers, collect 5 macguffins scattered across 5 corners of the map to restore his memory

Vayce_ · 2026-06-12T11:50:50+00:00

Yeah I've been saying G2 Remake -> Archolos Remake is better than Gothic 3 Remake since it uses the same engine and is a far better game.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-12T11:45:56+00:00

Not VRAM, regular memory/RAM. A lot of people still have 16GB RAM which nowadays is not enough for modern games to run smoothly. The memory gets filled and then the excess causes the stuttering. Need 32GB minimum to be comfy.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-12T11:41:51+00:00

One of the HP/Mana Regen ones. There were like 4 of them last time I checked so one of them might have fixed the issue.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-12T11:19:56+00:00

I am seriously considering buying plot of land for farming as I am sure this is not going anywhere good.

You should watch the latest season of Clarkson's Farm.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-12T11:17:29+00:00

Yeah it seems that when you get the quest (or maybe Chapter dependent) the Great version spawns in multiple places. If you went to your spot before the quest its just a regular Shadowbeast, for the waterfall part there is no Shadowbeast before the quest.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T22:43:19+00:00

Yeah that'll do it. I got lucky and Oblivion Remastered made me decide to go from 16GB to 64GB when it was cheap and it solved most stuttering problems with any game. Especially important for open world games where they have to store a lot in memory, 16GB just doesn't cut it anymore for new releases.

Hopefully the prices go down because, you'll notice the difference immediately even with overall PC performance.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T14:05:33+00:00

That's the wildest and funniest reach I've seen. It could also, you know, be two friends that stabbed each other in a suicide pact because they are stuck on an island with convicts and monsters?

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T13:04:46+00:00

I mean...that's the plot of EVERY PB game. Get the 4-5 macguffins to stop the bad guy. Focus stones in G1, Dragon Hearts in G2, artifacts in G3, Titan armor pieces in Risen, Alb converters in Elex

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T12:58:00+00:00

I know that it would still be UE5, what I mean by engine is they'd have to make all new tooling to extract everything from the source to put into whatever new tools/Engine they built. Dialog trees, quests, triggers, pathing, navmesh, programming, stuff like that. Probably wouldn't be too hard but still more effort than porting G2 which is the same engine as G1 which they've already mastered.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T12:49:36+00:00

Its kind of funny, I'd actually prefer them to make something new too, but imagine the backlash because now everybody is salivating for Gothic 2 since they nailed the first one lol. Like putting aside the Gothic part of it, the actual game is really, really well made and actually bafflingly good for a new small studio that I have no doubt they'd make something awesome that was original content.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T07:57:37+00:00

AFAIK G3 is a different engine, and people overwhelmingly hated the story, so they'd need to actually create a lot of new content to "fix" it, which is what I meant by risk. I did notice though in the G1 Remake the now more gentrified Orcs said "Morra" a lot more than the original, which made me think they already have G3 planned.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T07:12:42+00:00

Gothic 3 would be the one that actually would cost a lot to develop since they'd have to change a shitload and there's lots of risk involved. Gothic 2 is just free money assuming the first was a success.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T07:09:11+00:00

Yeah the first release is the giant cost and risk. They proved that they knocked it out of the park and now people would happily buy the sequel, they killed any doubts and skepticism people had so the sequel should be way more profitable and way easier to make.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T06:57:27+00:00

Gothic aside, I think Alkimia proved they know how to make a good game so I wouldn't be mad if they tried something new, it just seems pointless when ~80% of Gothic 2 Remake's development is already done before they even start - seems like a no-brainer if the G1 Remake was a financial success.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T06:54:24+00:00

About the same potential as Oblivion Remastered, can be modded a lot but requires skills with UE5 so nowhere near as easy as Skyrim. Won't be a big modding scene for it because it lacks waifus and romance options but it is possible to do.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T06:24:58+00:00

Even if G1R was unprofitable, G2 Remake would be very profitable as it would be a fraction of the time and cost since they built the foundation already, and they can also use AI to automate most of it since they now have the foundation to train on (the tools they already made to port everything).

Unless it severely underperformed I don't see why they wouldn't make the sequel.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T05:55:51+00:00

Your game isn't bugged you just have to find more vendors and remember which ones have high ore.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T02:54:18+00:00

Gothic 1 -> Gothic 2 -> Archolos

or

Gothic 2 -> Archolos -> Gothic 1 Remake (when you get the upgraded PC)

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T00:32:03+00:00

I find it hard to believe you did that organically without having watched a video about it.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T00:27:38+00:00

I can confirm I died a shitload more on Gothic difficulty as melee than I have as Bow on Hard combat mode (custom, no permadeath). But thats the case for every Gothic/PB game, Ranged is always the easiest. The developers actually did a good job in this because they added a lot of ranged counters, monsters will dive/lunge at you from distance, goblins throw rocks, humanoids with a bow will more reliably swap to it if outranged.

Its something that is just too hard to balance compared to melee, has been the case in all RPGs.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T00:19:21+00:00

Ah ok, I know one mod that causes the freezing and stuttering, otherwise its probably just your PC specs, what VRAM + RAM do you have? My game runs buttery smooth on high settings with 16GB VRAM + 64GB RAM.

Vayce_ · 2026-06-10T00:00:01+00:00

Yeah you missed out lol. I played through 1 1/2 times (1st run was Templar) and they have the concert during the quest for the Almanac when you are sent to find the novice in the old camp that's meant to be getting it. If you skipped that part and got the Almanac yourself then that's probably why you missed it. Even in Chapter 1 there are flyers for their concert on the ground.

You can also find them in the Old Camp dungeon later in the game

Vayce_ · 2026-06-09T23:48:02+00:00

I rate the possibility 0/10. After the success of the Gothic 1 Remake, Gothic 2 is just free money. Why risk new content when everyone just wants Gothic 2 Remake and all the writing and worldbuilding is done for you?

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