addink on 20/6/2008 at 19:30
Maybe they think it'll get the press to re-evaluate the game/engine, now a lot of the bugs have been squashed.
Also, by the looks of it, they're not really investing in new resources so it could be relatively cheap to produce.
Anyway, I'll buy it. I'd love to see some more Nordmar.
heretic on 21/6/2008 at 02:51
Quote Posted by aguywhoplaysthief
I'm surprised that Gothic 3 sold enough to warrant an expansion. I remember it price dropping amazingly quickly, and it was in a double pack with some other really buggy rpg within a year or so.
Ditto,
The fact that the fan community pretty much ended up having to patch Gothic 3 themselves makes it even more surprising.
I'm still trying to figure out just how the first two fantastic Gothic games somehow led to the third, which were several steps backwards in just about every way IMO.
Hesche on 23/6/2008 at 09:08
Besides new quests I read about new items, new opponents and a new fighting system as additions to the original game. According to (
http://press.jowood.com/html/News/news_details.php?id=981&title=NEWS%20Int.&bereich=61) JoWood news site there has been an engine and user interface update:
Quote Posted by JoWood News
Liezen, Austria, June 18th 2008; JoWooD Productions is happy to present the first screenshots from the official Gothic 3 Add On. A vivid world, intoxicating new quests and the gloomy Gothic atmosphere invite fans to spend hours playing this exciting new chapter in the epic and popular RPG series. Have a look at the screenshots and get ready for the perfect Gothic experience once again.
About Gothic 3 – Forsaken Gods
Two Years after the phenomenal success of Gothic 3, this new episode offers a new glimpse into the amazing world of Gothic. Forsaken Gods includes new quests, new monsters and many of the old friends whom gamers around the world got to know in previous episodes. Gothic 3 - Forsaken Gods will answer all the questions which have risen in the past and will slowly introduce the fans to a new chapter...
Features
* Lively and interactive environment which reacts to the player's actions, creating a very intense and realistic atmosphere
* Improved graphics quality thanks to updated engine technology
* Enhanced user interface
* 15-20 intense hours of gameplay
* Improved combat system with new combat rules
* Plenty of new weapons, armour, monsters and quests
System: PC
Genre: RPG
Release: Q4 2008
Koki on 24/6/2008 at 11:51
Quote Posted by Judith
Nope, the only way of "fixing" Gothic 3 is to buy Core2Duo and good GPU :joke:
I have C2D 6600 and GeForce 8800GTS. I played Crysis on all High on this. I couldn't get Gothic 3 to go smoothly no matter what I did, using the newest official-unofficial 1.6 patch.
So my advice is, if you want to play Gothic 3, get Oblivion - gameplay is almost identical and Oblivion actually runs quasi-decently plus there's a hundred mods for it. Or more.
vurt on 24/6/2008 at 11:55
...so this improved engine/fighting should work within Gothic3 as well then i guess? That'd be great, i absolutely hated Gothic3 because of the fighting, and the stuttering was annoying too... with updated fighting i'd give it a chance again.
Sulphur on 1/9/2008 at 05:13
So they're making part 4 a first-person nature trek? w00t!!! Those shots are missing the furry animals and birds and stuff.
Sweet textures. Nice trees. Too much fog to hide the draw distance, but that lighting's quite stunning. Especially on the shots with the bridge and the path with the pile of logs. Unfortunately, these shots don't say much about the freaking game apart from that it will be a great forest simulator.
If they remember to get the furry animals in, that is.
So, if that's running on the Gothic 3 engine, I guess 4 gigs of ram would be the goshdarned minimum requirement to get to the menu, what say? What're they running it on, 4 overclocked GTX 280s?
aguywhoplaysthief on 3/9/2008 at 16:49
Quote Posted by Koki
I have C2D 6600 and GeForce 8800GTS. I played Crysis on all High on this. I couldn't get Gothic 3 to go smoothly no matter what I did, using the newest official-unofficial 1.6 patch.
Not surprising. I just loaded it on a q9550 with a gtx 260 and 8GB of ram, and it still ran like shit.
Not sure how they were able to accomplish that.
redface on 3/9/2008 at 17:13
I've heard that to cut costs they had students programming the engine and that's why it's so badly optimized and shit.
gunsmoke on 3/9/2008 at 23:28
Where did you hear that?
