Gothic Thread

True, but those came out before JoWood was in its death throes.

>They'll make Gothic 4 eventually, r-right, guys?
Trust me, you don't want the current Pirahna Bytes touching the Gothic franchise.

You know, they could actually make Gothic 4 if they focused. Think about it. The first one didn't have an XBOX HUEG map. It was actually pretty small. But packed with stuff, characters and interesting places.
The second game had a bigger map, sure, but I think they went overboard with 3 where the map kinda looks like it wants to rival Oblivion.
Of course, if you don't have 200 guys working on your game, that map is gonna be a fucking wasteland.

I'm looking at my collection. Besides the The Guild (1 and 2) and Gothic, I can see a couple more games that really, REALLY made me mad.
The worst might be spaceforce captains.
Fucking turd of a game. I got it for 3€ and I still feel ripped off.
It's basically a reskin of Heroes of Might & Magic but in space. Except they fucked up pretty much everything. No diferent factions, only 5 or 6 diferent units. Abilities have no descriptions, or the same descriptions. The economy goes tits up because nothing has any rhyme nor reason.
And the story is pretty much a cutscene, then some text boxes that pop everynow and then. They're not even connected to the initial cutscene. It's like the guy writing the story got shot after the intro and replaced. And then the replacement got shot after a paragraph and the whole company decided it's tradition and went through 20 diferent writers.

That was one game that really impressed me. How much one company can take a solid concept for a game and still fuck it up.

I said Jowood fucked things up.
Fun as fuck and yet it's riddled with bugs. The second one being worse. Not only it was rushed, they were also forced to abandon it, and a lone programmer was left behind to work some comunity patches with the fans.
Same deal. Great idea, good game, poor execution. Again, the whole thing reeks of "talented people told to work and make a game with a shoestring budget in less than a month"
I take it you haven't heard of the cut content?
Or the missing voice Actors?
I take it you haven't seen the unfinished areas that were binned because they had to ship it before they were done?

And like said, these games were made before Jowood was desperatly clinging to life. They had their share of problems, but they were still a lot of fun And I replay them several times every year.
But Gothic did something to JoWood man. I have the games on my bookcase to prove it.

A little advice: don't put words on another user's mouth. It's not only rude, it doesn't really help you make your point.

I don't know. As far as I know they're still mostly the same people. Granted, I haven't played any PB games since Risen (which was pretty good), but I haven't really heard anything bad about Risen 2 and 3.

Fuck you and fuck your damage control. What you said is right up there black on teal.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Do you guys just replay the same games you already beat over and over?

Sometimes. I like to try new things Currently trying Clockwork Empires but every now and then I get a binge to replay some old gem.
Games like G1 are very solid games. They did amazing things back then and are good even today. Everytime I pick it up, I always have a blast and very few games can garantee you that.

It's kinda like Deus Ex Go ahead and re-install it. The new one's are… kinda fun. But then you go back to DE and have fun like it's the first time playing it.

It's not a "hurr, old games are better, new games suck". I've found plenty of good games nowadays that I like and replay a lot too. But these sort of games, these solid mastworks that stay fresh, engaging and fun, they're rare user. And most of all: subjective. For some folks, it's Doom for instance. It will always be THE BEST for them. I'm not into Doom, for me it's either Rise of Nations or SMAC for instance. Or Supaplex
I supose you have one game that your remember fondly and replay every now and then. Everyone does.

Last (you) you're gonna get out of me. There's a motherfucking world of difference between calling out jowood as the kikes they are and this shit you're pulling, muh damage control only makes it worse. You don't even have the balls to stand behind your post.
Ib4 triggered; you bet your ass I'm triggered when some duplicitous little shit decides to stroke his fedora over some of my favorite vidya.

Go fuck yourself.

Man, someone must have pissed on your cereals this morning.
I'm not even sure what you're doing.
Are you defending Jowood?
Are you claiming they did good games?
Are you just shitposting?
Are you ad hominem and anonymous poster?

Two of the games you posted (The Guild, Spellforce) weren't even published/made by Jowood. It was Runic Games salvaging a lot of their IP's.
I think you're getting awfully mad here for some reason, and I really can't tell why.