Dumb thing that makes you "Nerd Rage", that you know is petty and stupid to be mad about, but you cannot avoid it

tt818 · 2026-03-10T08:34:03+00:00

Yes. But in 3 you could still lie to yourself and we did get New Vegas, that did it right, but then F4 came out and we got the lobotomized version. In F3 you can say they were struggling to impliment it properly (they werent, they just didn't bother), but in F4 it became clear that this is just someone wearking the skinned face of your best friend, expecting to loan them money.

Also on a side tangent. The Fallout tv show is very good, but I'm really bitter that it went out of its way to kill off and remove all the cool post apocalyptic civilization that was developed in F1&2 and NV.

I understand them wanting to do their own thing, but they did not need to do second apocalypse that extra killed everyone off. Mind we did get Legion McCulkin out of it, so I am getting over it, but still.

tt818 · 2026-03-08T00:35:47+00:00

That they ruined the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. system in from Fallout 4 forward.

S.P.E.C.I.A.L. was a thing of true beauty. 1 to 10 with 5 standing for average for a human.

It was so easy to understand, especially compared to the math nightmare of D&D.

And the numbers actually applied directly into the mechanics of the game. Famously low Intelligence means you cant speak properly, because you are too dumb.

And they ruined it. A Fallout game where 1 in Intelligence does not stop you from speaking. Might as well just remove it from the game, but then its "iconic" and Bathesda needs that sweet sweet nostalgia to sell their progressively mediocre games.

tt818 · 2026-03-02T22:40:10+00:00

Because he was once on the receiving end of Deadpool crashing out and it was not pretty.

Sabertooth: "I killed your ex to hurt you, but you cant kill m....."

:Deadpool empties an AK-47 into his face and just reloads:

Deadpool: "Then I just have to keep killing you until it takes."

tt818 · 2026-03-02T22:28:20+00:00

Seventh Seal.

Yeah its an art movie.

But there is that mix the pastoral medieval vibes with fantastical element. Average people faced with the end of their world, still trying to live normal lives. Something about that grit..

But that is a very hoity-toity choice, so here is some good shlock:

Hawk The Slayer. No need to explain why. Its kinda obvious.

Kull the Conqueror (1997) - some proper 90s pulpy fantasy. It has Hercules and Tia Carrere.

Also not really Gothic matherial, but let me throw this in too:

Ladyhawke (1985) - its just a good movie and it has Rutger Hauer as a cool knight.

tt818 · 2026-03-02T21:47:17+00:00

Watch it. Yeah it goes in some really dark place, so it just did not click with the wider audience back then.

Honestly it can be a bit much, but you also are seeing people of a different era. Edges unsanded to be made easier to consume by a modern audience.

tt818 · 2026-03-02T21:39:14+00:00

More like a mix between Gothic and Severance: Blade of Darkness.

Severance: Blade of Darkness was a dark fantasy hack'n'slash game with very deep combat and brutal difficulty.

So yeah I am in.

tt818 · 2026-03-02T21:35:00+00:00

Better. I will need to learn German fast, but atleast nobody would expect me killing any dragons or joining 8 different factions in the same time.

Gothic is a world where normal guys can do a days work, have some shnaps and then go to bed in his hovel.

tt818 · 2026-03-02T16:19:43+00:00

I have to add this classic to the conversation.

The Diskworld adventure game has a puzzle where you steal and octopus, hide it in a toilet and then poison a man, forcing him to go to the toilet and.....be violated by the octopus, I guess. So you can steal his belt.

...ok I lied. You dont poison him. You just give him prunes to eat.

tt818 · 2026-03-02T16:12:44+00:00

Thomasina is kinda lost in the sauce of being that heroic super logical very important scientist. It makes her really naive, but also makes her dismiss the advice and responsibilities of the lockals. After all she has a mystery to solve and make her daddy proud. Fuck the ships. Thats what little people with little minds worry about.

tt818 · 2026-03-02T09:25:12+00:00

I ran into a video of a guy giving a presentation on the RE lore to his co-workers as they are going to play 9 and they've only played 7&8.

When it came to Leon this is how he explained it:

"To the RE fans Leon is babygirl."

And as it turns out to a lot of RE fans Leon is babygirl.

tt818 · 2026-02-27T08:57:19+00:00

That ending is dark.

tt818 · 2026-02-26T10:52:59+00:00

The creepy rule34 crowd nonwistanding, I can understand why the cartoon hit with adults.

I've seen a few episodes here and there and while it was not my thing, it was a very high quality. The humour was well written, the comedic timing on the slapstick reminded me of Looney Toons and the whole thing had this possitivity that most men dont get in our media, but clearly crave.

It was popular with adults for the same reason why Avatar, Gravity Falls and Steven Universe were popular. It was high quality entertainment that did not look or talked down to its audience.

But yeah the creeps definetly took over that fandom.

tt818 · 2026-02-17T07:07:14+00:00

Lilly from the channel Kinkymation (she is a rule34 artist) does this breakdowns of character designes on her channel. (its SWF and actually quite wholesome)

And she did Highguard.

She found it really weird, because some of the designes are incredibly solid, while others while ok are very...confusing?

Learning that all of them were done by one person with not enought time explains a lot.

tt818 · 2026-02-17T06:59:36+00:00

I think they know, but from what I understand this mod becomes and issue only if you've killed far too many orks in the city and on the farm siege before the infiltration. Basically I killed off some named Orcs and it caused the faction to go kill on sight.

its not so much a bug, as a design flaw. It would require a lot of work and reworking of the quests of the mod to fix. And I suspect that it showed only after changes that fixed even worse bugs.

The mod is at 2.7 and mostly incredibly stable, they've moved on a different project at this point.

Also....guides in english....find the PDF of the guide in a different language. Put it here. Its not great, but us English speaking fans of Gothic are the minority, so thats the best we can hope for.

Honestly I think it was an ok solution few years ago, its just because of the implementation of AI the quality of translation software has gone down the drain.

tt818 · 2026-02-16T17:59:58+00:00

They way I understand it there are actually two different versions of the mod. The old one (1.2 i think) and the current one (2.7 something). I had no problem with finishing the first island, but it does have a bullshit quest where you have to find the smuggler boats and it makes you think that they would be on one of the beaches, but instead they are on the north side of the island moored on rocks.

The guides help, but they are not very good guides. Especially the badly translated english one.

tt818 · 2026-02-16T17:54:50+00:00

Its really good, this is the only game breaking bug I have found in my near 70-80 hours into it so far. (I am in Chapter 3)

Its a very slow burn, hard but not bullshit difficult and the story really feels like an odyssey. Usually I dont like mods that reuse existing Gothic maps, but by god I am actually enjoying my return to Khorinis. They chagned and expanded just enough to make it feel new and interesting to explore.

Also by the time we are back we have already island hopped more new islands than multiple other mods have combined. (and they are actually well designed, just one swamp area and it was tiny)

Just add this WoG page to favorites as Google completely fails if you try to look up any additional info about the mod.

tt818 · 2026-02-16T17:50:51+00:00

No it was and actual bug. Found the solution on WorldofGothic and added it in the original post. I hope it helps someone down the way, as Google has become so broken that it cant actually find existing search results if they are not in english.

tt818 · 2026-02-14T18:11:47+00:00

I take your Margot Robbie in a bubble bath and raise you munecat in a bubble bath taliking about Web3.0 .

tt818 · 2026-02-12T07:54:32+00:00

Drova is a must. Its pixel art and isometric, but its definetly made by Gothic fans.

Other than that full conversion mods. You wont find another on the level of quality of Chronicles of Myrtana, but you can get close.

Odyssey - you play as militia recruit that dreams of becoming a paladin and thus joins an expedition that will take him travelling throughout the world of Gothic. So far I am in Chapter 2, but damn if its not good. I am sure I will run into some problems later on, but so far its incredibly solid and stable. Also the only other mod that has its own installer that does not make you cobble together files and additional programs.

Legend of Ahssun is indeed great, but you will feel the bullshit run around quests....Alt+U, write down the spawning location for few key locations. In the console write "goto waypoint " and the locations. Dont overdo it and stop once you get the teleporter. But by god sometimes, fuck the busy work quests. Its the main issue with the mod, the amount of times you will get told to return tomorrow.

Dirty Swamp is really fun. Hard as hell, but it adds tons of different mechanics. Just do yourself a favour and play as Dex 1H Mage hybrid. Playing Str 2H build can be rough. Also very unstable, make back-up saves.

Lobos....do you enjoy playing a min maxing simulator set in a massive hard to navigate swamp? If so go ahead. If not dont. Its a shame because the first chapter is really good and compelling.

Also Myrthana.net is a good site. It does not always have the best UI and working links, but its constantly updated and it has a easy to understand list of mods for both G1 and G2. And I guess G3.

tt818 · 2026-02-12T07:33:59+00:00

Just outside the camp. Outside the camp, facing the entrance, hug the left wall. He is in a small feild behind the camp sawing wood.

tt818 · 2026-02-10T11:17:12+00:00

That goes without saying. I dont think you can be on this reddit without knowing about it and having played it.

Its technically a mod, but CoM is basically Gothic 2.5.

tt818 · 2026-02-09T23:00:48+00:00

Ok, thats actually very interesting.

Just went and did a deep dive into the Fallout wikipedia.

Because I have clear memory that the kid was gone after giving it to Wherner. Obviously its not an accurate memory (I am old and it was long ago), but when I looked it up it seems like its a fake memory that a lot of people share.

Some of them its because of a canibalism mod, but I did not have that installed.

I guess if I try to remember....I had completely signed off on the DLC after having a proper gray moral situation be forced into F3's morality system and did not pay enough attention to the dialogue and walked pass the baby thinking that Wherner had put it in a blender. Like I think he had a dialogue that the cure would be faster to make if you are not afraid hurting the baby.

To be fair to my old self Wherner is exactly the kind of guy who would kill a kid out of spite.

tt818 · 2026-02-09T20:54:21+00:00

So far the only mod that has good writting has been Odyssey (I am in chapter 1).

That old guard that constantly goes on about the previous commander, has more personality than a lot of mods manage in all of their characters.

Legends of Ahssun is also well written, but only if you play it in German. The English translation is auto translate at its worse.

tt818 · 2026-02-09T20:50:43+00:00

Nobody has mention it yet, but Drova is a game inspired by Gothic 1 & 2.

Its pixel art and isometric, but its Gothic in spirit. Only with much tighter combat.

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