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tonizito
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| Quote: | There is war in the human kingdom. Hordes of orcs are invading the land from the north. To keep up the strength of the king's troops, the blacksmiths of the realm are constantly producing new weapons. Those who break the law await a terrible fate: they are sentenced to heavy labor in the penal colony to dig the ORE needed to create weapons.
The area is surrounded by a magical barrier, a sphere of two thousand meters in diameter which spans the prison like a dome. Entering the barrier doesn't pose a problem, but leaving the sphere is impossible... at least for a living creature.
You may be innocent, yet you are sent to prison where you have to compete with hostile creatures. From now on, your only goal is survival... and eventually finding a way to escape. |
| Quote: | System Requirements:
OS: Windows XP/2000/ME/98/Vista
Processor: Intel Pentium III 700 MHz
Memory: 256 MB Ram or higher
Graphics: 3D graphics card with 32 MB Ram
DirectX: 8.1
Hard Drive: 4 GB
Sound: DirectX compatible |
Homepage: http://www.gothic.de/gothic1/index.php?lang=eng
Developer homepage: http://www.pluto13.com/
Downloads: http://www.worldofgothic.com/dl/?catid=1
Screens: http://steamcommunity.com/app/65540/screenshots/
This game... 
Even with all the bugs and the crashing (mostly due to a win7 + player kit combo I think, playing at locked 30fps is for noobs like razorsedge after all  ) I still had a blast with this game.
The combat is very hard to get used to and the targeting system at times makes me want to rage hard but hey... still better than the crap that I've seen in Risen 2 so far.
I'm seriously considering to install a small XP partition to play Gothic 2 if it has the same issues as the first.
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Nov 2013 11:09 Post subject: |
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tonizito
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Nov 2013 11:25 Post subject: |
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Windows 8?
WINDOWS 8?!
I DON'T NEED TO STINKIN' WINDOWS 8! 
To play gothic, that is.
Nah, I'm suspicious that most of the crashing I had was due to win7 + player kit + unlock fps, but I didn't want to try playing it @ 22fps to be absolutely certain of that.
Thanks for the vurt mod, it was just what I was looking for G2.
And yeah vurt, get working on the first gothic, chop chop!
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Nov 2013 11:29 Post subject: |
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@toni: I see, but before you begin partitioning your drive. Gothic should run just fine on a virtual box aswell, as long as the gfx drivers work ok.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
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tonizito
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Nov 2013 11:34 Post subject: |
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| couleur wrote: | | I see, but before you begin partitioning your drive. Gothic should run just fine on a virtual box aswell, as long as the gfx drivers work ok. |
I'm not going to install XP unless I see about the same (or more) issues and crashes as I did in the original.
So for now W7 it is. 
Also, the game seems to use DX9 instead of DX8 (I'm assuming G1 used DX8, the bundled redist had some DX8.0 stuff. However radonpro detected it so maybe it was DX9 after all...) AND since you no longer have to jump through hoops to unlock the FPS I'm hopeful to see much less issues with it.
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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ixigia
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| Posted: Fri, 15th Nov 2013 01:14 Post subject: |
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I still keep the happy Gothic duo installed on my (now my father's) oldass P4 2.4Ghz+1GB RAM +9800pro + WinXP 32bit along with other classics.  Vintage games + vintage PC + vintage 4:3 monitor=vintage awesomesauce.
In all seriousness, these games are the very definition of timeless masterpieces. I doubt we'll ever see something similar, not with the same degree of freedom and challenge at least. Hell, even the creators themselves failed at giving us proper sequels.  (with the exception of Risen 1 - first half of the game)
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| Posted: Fri, 15th Nov 2013 02:22 Post subject: |
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I love this game. Only finished it once but what an atmosphere it had ! Always wanted to finish it again but 24fps and some other weird problems don't le t me
3080, ps5, lg oled
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| Posted: Fri, 15th Nov 2013 14:03 Post subject: |
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wait, by default its 24 fps? I installed the fan patch or whatever, not sure if i was using player kit, but i had no issues on win 7.
I played it right after nvidia finally fixed dx7 games in their drivers after people started complaining gothic 1 and 2 didn't work anymore
Needless to say, amazing game. I can't wait to play 2 and 3, but i need a vacation to pull that off. 
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| Posted: Fri, 15th Nov 2013 15:02 Post subject: |
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I liked Gothic 1, but I absolutely loved Gothic 2. Best in the series IMO and one of the best (in a very short list) in its genre.
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tonizito
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| Posted: Fri, 15th Nov 2013 23:08 Post subject: |
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| Mister_s wrote: | | I liked Gothic 1, but I absolutely loved Gothic 2. Best in the series IMO and one of the best (in a very short list) in its genre. |
I can already see why and I'm only a few hours in 
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Nov 2013 20:56 Post subject: |
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One of my all time favorites as well! This and Gothic 2!
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tonizito
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Nov 2013 01:51 Post subject: |
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So far so good, it's MUCH more stable than the original. It's actually pretty demanding in some parts of the city, I'll try it on the laptop tomorrow (got a xp 32bit partition in there ) but I'm pretty sure that it's just due to the game being demanding at times.
Also can't lock the FPS with radeonpro or rivatunerstatistics server 
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Nov 2013 11:59 Post subject: |
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I assume you have the gold edition with the expansion? That's a must. I played it on Win7 and XP, didn't see any difference personally. I doubt going to XP will have effect.
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tonizito
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Nov 2013 23:01 Post subject: |
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Fucked it up with gothic 2 big time.
Spent too many LP on useless shit (animal trophies, mostly since those were useful money-wise on the original), now I'm at the 3rd chapter and after returning from the colony having killed ~half of the orcs on one-vs-one matches the sleeper guys roast me quite a bit until I'm in sword swinging range.
Started over again but now spending my LP more cautiously and trying a more ranged build but I'm just going over so many stuff a second time and not really feeling like pushing through or continuing from my old save.
le fu 
EDIT: ... and it's all in the manual
Damn I'm getting old and senile
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Sat, 30th Nov 2013 18:49 Post subject: |
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lol, i was a crossbow wielder with light magic and sword skill from what i recall, combat wise.
think i had some weird paladin robe from those weed smoking people in the swamps.
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tonizito
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| Posted: Sat, 14th Dec 2013 20:40 Post subject: |
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| lolozaur wrote: | probably that huge fee for the monastery had its effect, i was starving to death and they want 1000 gold?
anyway is there any mod for the font, or it can be replaced or make it bigger? im playing on 1024 just to see the dialogues but the font is weird anyway |
Pffff just "donate" 2 mana to beliar. Or do the new expansion quick access quest (statue for Daron).
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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ixigia
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Apr 2014 03:00 Post subject: |
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That will be very handy, cheers! I can't replay them right now because the Gothic games require a lot of time to be fully enjoyed, but the post has been favourited *soon*
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There is now a new demo for the reloaded mod for Gothic. They have upgraded the geometric details in assets about 3x with new textures and include the DX11 mod.
For a game that old, it looks fantastic imo.
Sadly, only the first chapter of the game is playable atm.
https://www.worldofgothic.de/dl/download_537.htm
Sorry, the link is german, but the installation file lets you chose english, so that should work aswell.
The installer is totally hassle free. I tried it and it runs fine.
Pics here: http://demo.gothic-reloaded-mod.de/
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"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
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tonizito
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Jan 2017 21:25 Post subject: |
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| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Tue, 31st Jan 2017 12:20 Post subject: |
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too bad it sounds like the engine limitations will make this either an ultra long dev time or end up being unfinished
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| Posted: Thu, 2nd Feb 2017 20:46 Post subject: |
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Loved and played this to death, 16 years ago. Great games, but its time to move on. --> Sees Mafia III 2001, LET ME IN !!!!
| Epsilon wrote: | | Meanwhile the people of that generation will call those guys relics, and not move with the times when everything is auto fucking. |
| EyePatchLives wrote: | | Press X to tame beasts. YOU ARE DA BEASTMASTER!!! |
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), i heard about it half a year later when a friend told me that a friend of his has it and i was OMGOMGOMG 
