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[Humdinger]

Arcania: Gothic 4 was multiplatform. No clue how the game was at all though, never played it since it just had the name and nothing else of the series.

Oh, man, that was terrible. I played that, at least for 10 hours or so. A real stinker. 42 on Metacritic, if that gives you an idea.

I didn't remember that it had the Gothic label. Developer was Spellbound Entertainment and Black Forest Games...

 

[Denton]

Can someone tell me why the first one is so well loved? What’s the big deal?

- It came out in 2001, long before open world 3D RPGs were standard genre
- It had seamless world with only one loading screen in it
- It had dark, medieval fantasy atmosphere with 10/10 soundtrack
- it was challenging and had brilliant character progression
- it had NPC daily schedules, dynamic daytime cycle and weather
- it had pretty much no copy/paste filler (like today's games, particularly by Ubisoft, are filled with)

It came out before Morrowind, and imho was superior to Morrowind.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Here's one hour of Gothic Remake gameplay from Gamescom.

 

[Skifi28]

Here's one hour of Gothic Remake gameplay from Gamescom.

That face...

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

That face...

You mean this face?

 

[Skifi28]

You mean this face?

I'd say it's the average YouTube thumbnail, but I feel like they keep getting worse.

 

[Dazraell]

Here's one hour of Gothic Remake gameplay from Gamescom.

Fun fact, this gameplay doesn't feature the protagonist from Gothic games but has a different character named Nyras as a lead. Alkimia created this special "prologue-like" demo for trade shows that is completely separate from the main game. Apparently events from this demo takes place about a year before Gothic 1 actually starts

 

[PeteBull]

- It came out in 2001, long before open world 3D RPGs were standard genre
- It had seamless world with only one loading screen in it
- It had dark, medieval fantasy atmosphere with 10/10 soundtrack
- it was challenging and had brilliant character progression
- it had NPC daily schedules, dynamic daytime cycle and weather
- it had pretty much no copy/paste filler (like today's games, particularly by Ubisoft, are filled with)

It came out before Morrowind, and imho was superior to Morrowind.

here vid about it, more in detail but agree 100% with what u said
In Germany and here in Poland both gothic and gothic 2 became legendary/classic games, basically every1 with a pc wanted to check it out/see how it runs, think crysis but for action rpg's, ahead of its times simply