Recent reviews by Aaron

perfect game to distract yourself while watching videos

I think the designers of the mod really understood what made gothic 1-2 what it is, even if I don't understand much polish

There are a great deal of scripted events and map progressions throughout questest and the chapters which changes the usually static landscape which is a welcome addition we didnt see in the original gothics at all

I finished the game and most of the side quests within the playtime you see above so there is clearly a lot of content here.

BUT I HAVE TO WARN YOU to play a mage like I did at your own peril, it is very obvious that magic was an afterthought in the world design, meaning that there is no magic guild to join and the quest design often expects you to be a physical user (making a quest impossible where you leave your inventory behind and only get strength/dex based weapons to fight with). And the amount of spells and circles is also very reduced.

The style, serious tone and fleet deep behind enemy lines story gives me good homeworld vibes, the build system is easy to learn, flying and fighting is fun, physical, things feel massive/heavy with satisfying impacts.
Immersive looking cockpit like some sort of warship bridge with fully functional buttons, very cool. Whats not to like? The tutorial explains most of the interface but I still had to look elsewhere for what all the buttons do.

Coop, if you think you can have a nice experience of growing your colony together with a friend then you must know thats not how the game design intends it. You cannot share Survivors, only the host can gain recruits in multiplayer, only the host can manage the colony and its only their survivors living there. If you are not the host, your survivors will be loaded from your own singleplayer colony (you are forced to create before joining), while you are joined, your colonist are stored in a list and you can change between them, you can die but you can't recruit anyone unless you leave multiplayer go back into your singleplayer and do the nessecary gameplay to recruit, then come back to the multiplayer lol. Loot is not shared, resource storages aren't shared, but you can at least drop items on the floor for your friend to pick up again. Only the host can talk to mission NPC. Some Information and interaction points are completely hidden from joiners too.

gud

All I have is high level criticism, the game is really solid overall

Criticism:
the UI is somewhat ugly and the build menu could be simplified, especially the editing tools.
story, writing and voiceacting wasnt really taken serious, it doesnt feel like the life&death situation we are faced with is real, it sounds a lot more like the characters on an emotional level know its just all a video game, so don't expect too much from the story except for some blunt exposition and really superficial worldbuilding.

Praise:
The combat just feels so good and looks so nice, everything has weight to it, its very physical.
additionally the game runs really smoothy even on my almost a decade old hardware and looks great while doing so (in 4k resolution btw) really nice job by the devs.
I also like how the campaign is completely seamless, everything happens on one huge map that you freely explore and build
mining bases on to connect with teleporters for fast travel when the innevitable horde attacks appear.

Finishing thoughts:
I am not sure how much time we can sink into the game before we have seen it all, I imagine the campaign has replayabillity just from trying the really high difficulties and trying other loadouts/research trees. The coop is also being worked on so once that drops it adds even more replayabillity if they put even higher difficulties and challenges to overcome to match the power of cooperating players. But all in all there is no good reason to avoid this game, its a quality game.

who needs graphics anyways

Repair cost will be less bad

This game is so ahead of its time, my hardware feels like its 20 years outdated

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