Gothic II

hike1 · Post by **hike1** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 2:41 am

If you're a fan of old-fashioned RPG's, Gothic II is for you, I
saw it for $4 on Amazon, but I went for the $15 one with the extra
episode. This is from JoWood, and it's done with their typical
German thoroughness, the townspeople grind knives, pound hammers, bang hot horseshoes, one guy stands there smoking,
with smoke coming out of his mouth on a regular basis. They
all talk along with the written dialog.

Downsides are long load times, if you get killed, you really
have a long wait to play again, thinking of cheating because of
this. Oh, there's no crack, so if your disk gets trashed, game over.

Came out in 2002.

Another good one from them is Arx Fatalis from 2003, went
a long way, couldn't find the 6th of 6th items so I gave up.

Post by **QuestOfDreams** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:31 am

This is from JoWood, and it's done with their typical German thoroughness

JoWood is an Austrian company, however it is just the publisher. The game was developed by Piranha Bytes.

Another good one from them is Arx Fatalis

Arx Fatalis was developed by Arkane Studios (JoWood is the publisher)

hike1 · Post by **hike1** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:27 pm

So did you play these games? What did you think?

Post by **QuestOfDreams** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:02 pm

I've played Gothic 2 a while ago and it was quite nice, didn't play Arx Fatalis...

Post by **Jay** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:13 am

I've played Gothic and Gothic 2 but not the Gothic 2 extension.
Gothic 2 had better graphics but Gothic 1's atmosphere was better. Overall Gothic 1 was more fun.

When Gothic 3 is coming out i am going to get a Geforce 8000 to play it(if i got the money). (Boah! those screenshoots!)