Vatras really wanted just to get stoned, you can actually complete this quest without bringing him swampweed. When you tell him you dont have any, he will be like '''uh ok lets do the ritual then". :D
It's a bit dissapointing you overlooked the Jharkendar part of the game. Some people don't like it, I personally think it was a work of genius. It shows that creators of Gothic 2 were fully capable of creating something a bit different which is still really good (in the light of what Gothic 3 was it seems to be an important point). Jharkendar had totally different climate than the rest of the game, this world looked different and felt different. It wasn't as much your typical medieval fantasy world, it kinda felt like something between Gothic and Indiana-Jones-Tomb-Raider type adventure story. And it was so beautiful might I add - Jharkendar just looked awesome, felt awesome, and the music, oh, this beautiful music...
A year later (I think it's necroposting at this point) and I answer to you: You are goddamn right. Jharkendar is one of the best memories from my childhood. The music, the atmosphere, the feeling of something completely mysterious... I won't repeat after you, but overall that felt awesome.
Yes! Jharkendar deserves for some explanation and time on screen. I really love exotic atmosphere, pretty nice plot and music. Especially music. I love every single track from NotR. So climatic! Forgotten World is just too beautiful, especialy fits tiny quest with Owen and Malcolm, which is in my opinion the most touchy thing in whole game. I just love pretty much everything about NotR. Contrast shown between Pirates and Bandits is interesting. Both of these groups are criminalists, but pirates usually care about each other like family while bandits definitely not, but even there are some nice guys. Also when I return to Khorinis I like meeting saved slaves and see their happiness that they're back.
There is a spell in the game called something like "destroy undead" , which is basically a fast missle type spell that instantly kills anything it hits as long as it is undead. They patched it in later versions of the game, but it used to work on the undead dragon. It was a bit anticlimactic that the end boss could be one-shotted with a scroll you could buy for cheap at various vendors and probably had already in your inventory since you picked it up somewhere and forgot about it .
@@itarH yep and in the undead dragon's room, there is one of those undead orcs that can spawn, and i've seen speedrunners just aim it on that orc and the dragon dies.
undead dragon is reincarnation of sleeper and xardas told to nameless that sleeper was banished from human's world and he couldn't believe that he is alive. Rhobar sent them to corinis because without ore he couldn't win war. Runes are created by ore too and without magic of paladins and wizards he hadn't any chance for victory. Action of gothic 2 is while rhobar almost lost this war and this was his only hope (ore ore ore ore xd). Hagen couldn't leave city and go to the valley of mines because he had problems with mercenaries and peasants which were rebels. Garond stayed in castle because ORCS WERE AROUND!!!! and his the most important duty was get the ore because he works for king and he is soldier. If he ignored orders of hagen he would be a rebel and if he left castle he would desert. I hope that you can understand something from this comment because i am pole and i am really weak in english :p
You're right. I think Garond also just didn't want to believe the situation was that bad and obviously was a coward just like Hagen wanted to wait for help from the mainland since they had no idea that the war was pretty much over. They were obvious fanatics and believed for sacred help that never arrived.
Magic ore was more needed for weapons. Someone (in the valley of mines i think) tells you that elite orc warriors are armored and almost impossible to defeat without swords made of magic ore that pierce even hardest armors with ease.
Great point pal! You just answered that big question from the conversation with the undead dragon and filled the gap of lore! I never understood that he was the reincarnation of the Sleeper, it makes sense! Thanks!
I seem to remember the expansion content as being a bit more substantial. There were different climate zones and enemies all over the place. Very enjoyable.
+baxopoka98 Me as well. It's so weird, melee combat is abysmal, quest design is abysmal, writing is abysmal, art design is average... yet I still can't help but call it my favorite aRPG of all time...
Thanks, i watched all of your gothic "reviews" and it has truly been a trip in nostalgia land :) I wish devs could take a page out of these old games, for the modern games...
Remember chills I got when you return from colony and all those seekers just invaded every place in the khorinos...best game, with G1 it got me to RPG genre
Great review man! I also love this game. The first time I played I became paladin of course, later on, maybe chapter 5, you get this busted rune as a paladin, banish evil I think it's called and u basically one shot everything that bows to Beliar, including the orcs. I remember returning to the valley of mines and killing all the orcs from a safe distance one by one with this rune. I played also as a dragon hunter because I loved big ass weapons but it was by far the most difficult way at later chapters, in the isle of Beliar mostly because you had to fight packs of orcs and lizard people. Finally I tried my luck as a fire mage and I had a blast! It was so fun doing the novice quests, I loved the feeling of being a monk. Chapter one is the longest as a novice but you become fire mage in the same chapter so it pays out a lot. You enter valley of mines having fireball spell which you can kill orcs one by one quite easily but you need a crap load of mana potions. At later chapters you become weapon of mass destruction, with the combination of two spells, aoe freeze and rain of fire, you obliterate everything that moves. It was so easy at chapter 6 killing 20 orcs in two seconds! Anyway Gothic 2 is my favorite game by far because no other game sucked you in its world as this does, making you part of it. Too bad Gothic 3 was such a disappointment...
I just stumbled upon your video by accident while googling "Witcher 3 ideal gothic 3" (Or as I call it, 70 percent ideal Gothic 3) and I absolutely loved your take on reviewing it. Thanks multi much!
It is interesting that the Gothic devs did recognize that the player had full autonomy and control over their adventures and choices, that which the villains too had after all.
Interestingly in my last playthrough as a Paladin I smacked the Seekers easily. Paladins are pretty OP. Also: Ranged builds. Awesome. Great review all the way, can't wait for your take on Gothic 3. Just re-installed it but couldn't pull myself together long enough to get started again... For your review playthrough I suggest an Assassin-Beliar-build, the most fun way to play this game IMO because of the endgame...
7:20 They never did that in my playthroughs.... Then again, I always saved some Rain of Fire scrolls for them so they never got a chance to kill each other.
I do like after every episode the game threw new challenges and changes to the world that even after you get good weapon and armor you still have moments you could do nothing but run and figure things out through your wits rather than just hack and slash.
Oh dang, the English translation is SO bad!!! As a German, I gotta tell you, a lot of things make much more sense in the Original language. Basically anytime you point out weird inconsistencies where dialogue doesn't make any sense, it's a weird translation issue. Also the voice acting is actually really good in German.
nice walktrough, unique, just like the Gothic series :) you highlighted the main reasons why it is a good game. before TNotR you could "easily" melee kill the seekers and dragons, then they tried to rebalance the game because of the new water mage staff and the claws of Beliar and, well you see what happened. i remember playing G3 (with the 0day patch) and that i couldnt pass the first wild hog because of the stunlocks it used. fuckin wildhogs. and the broken quests, and the broken main quest that you could solve only via console. i played through the game at least 10 times before an almost bug free (community project) version was available.
Found out that they actually explain the LP cost increase for 1h and 2h. If you ask the trainer for the militia (stands in the fort at Lord Andre) if you should start with 1h or 2h, he tells you, that you'll get better automatically with the other one.. in time.
For the whole endboss you just need 2 scrolls of destroy undead. Still, one of the best RPGs out there and I usually play through 1 and 2 every year once.
Is there a way to enable screenshots in Gothic 2? Like in Settings or in some directory .ini document or something? Something which would enable quick screenshots(as in not PrintScreen and then Paste into Paint, that takes too much time) and which would save screenshots automatically in the game directory or some other folder?
Btw, the voice thingy is the same in German. All Dragons, some mages and Xardas share the same actor. As do a LOT of the side characters, Diego and Lares for example.
One dragon for each element my ass! There are 2 earth-themed dragons, 2 fire dragons, 1 water-themed dragon and one darkness dragon. --- And that paladin leader in the Colony. "Oh, sorry, can't help you, go kill Satan yourself!" For fuck's sake.
Gothic 1 and 2 have mods for Manaregeneration and in general playing a mage is easy mode in gothic in special when you have your first AoE, I managed to clear out the orc town in G1 and almost everything in new Khorinis in G2, and clear out the orc camps in chapter 2. can be done and as mage dragon killing is extremely easy just get the lightning strike
13:14: The dragon fights are indeed awful. But fret not, I have discovered a surefire way to defeat them. Run towards them at all times while tapping the CTRL key. This way you dish out attacks that are so brief they don't make you stop. Bonus points if you put the Initial D soundtrack on while doing that.
+Jake Belyea i've always skipped it cause in every single playthrough of G2 i've had i've came to a conclusion that it's impossible to kill them with the gear you have at that point, unless you've cleared every single damn mob available before that point lol
Ah thats why. I thought that you were a bit too weak against Seekers and Orcs because i remember i was able to take them on without too much trouble by the time i went to Minental. Problem is that you first went there then to Jharkendar, but i always first go to Jharkerndar, then to the Minental, plus Jharkendar is actually better suited to go to first because enemies there are easier and you get a lot stronger after it.
The only way I managed to beat Gothic 2 with the addon was playing as a Mercenary dex based using bows. The game became so easy it was even a Joke. Before the addon, I beat the game as a pure mage, as a one handed mercenary an as a two handed paladin and It was awesome. (The experience of becoming a fire mage felt very special... I dunno why, maybe it was because the monastery sound theme). When I first played the game with the addon I tried my favorite build: pure mage. My ass got kicked so hard that it wasnot funny. It felt impossible to play as a mage at the moment. Then I tried as a two handed mercenary... not luck either. Almost every fucking two handed sword required so much strenght that I had to drop the idea. Then I started as a dex based mercenary with bows and one handed dex based swords (remember betty? from the bandits camp?) With that build, I beat the game easly :) (I even cleared the valley of mine by myself in chapter two using only a bow...)
The eye doesn't only force the dragons, it is actually one of the best defensive amulets in the game. The only alternative is Inos's Light amulet, which i am not sure you are able to get in Nights of The Raven, so Inos's eye is pretty much your best amulet through out the whole game.
But it loses all this power in the middle of dialogue so you have to put another amulet on actual fight... It gets wierder when you play as mage because in the end Pyrokar gives you even more powerful amulet so you could compare with paladin and Dragon Hunter armors.
Your "citation" of Michael Hoge is out of context. Hoge was talking about how they were prototyping Gothic 3 and looked at opinions about Gothic 2 that were posted at internet forums. He goes on and explains that an exemplary posts were "I felt the dragons were shit" and "I liked fighting against the orks" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kBSJ3_m64lU.html
Your whole G2 review is great! One question remains, though... why do you sound like you have an Indian accent sometimes when we can clearly see that you're not? :D
+Trash Lounge I was thinking about Neverwinter Nights aswell, i played it when it came out though, and i don't remember a thing about it. Got to check if it's worth reviewing first.
+JustCrumbz Arcania is not longer considered to be a sequel to Gothic, or even a part of Gothic series at all. There's just no point. It's just a terrible game overall and everyone knows it by this point
@@durminparadox I guess probably changed to not Ah I don't blame you I wouldn't want to play a shit game just so i can make a video about how shit it is either
Wait did you do the addon before coming back to the colony? If not then you are fu... in not so good situation, because normally you would 3-hit the seeker.
Actually the end dialogue does make sense if you try to focus enough on it (and its a foreshadowing of Gothic III), at first i was confused as hell as well, but after some replays i got it right (since you do need to see the ending once to understand that the dragon wasn't just smoking crack, or better said that there was something behind the crack), by being without name he refers that you are unbound by fate, something which applies to all avatars, the protagonist gets confused by the dragon because Xardas told him he was simply an avatar of Inos, Xardas not explaining the full implication of his existence, that he was unbound by fate and having the possibility to be an avatar for any god. The whole dialogue is made in a way where it implies that the protagonist feels a disruption in the "force" (for the lack of a better term) and the weave of fate upon meeting the dragon, at least that's what it was supposed to be if the delivery wasn't so bad/mechanical... it ended up more like two stoners trying to have a conversation. That said, this was a nice wrap up, loved your commentary and again had lots of fun, now onward to the Gothic 3 videos.
Wow, I never knew that you could actually open the gates for the orcs! After all these years and this game keep surprising me! What happens when you do it? Is it like a game over afterwards or what?
+James Sarvan Yes, there will be orcs inside the castle fighting against the paladins. If you talk to Parcival during this event he will attack you for opening the gate.
@@jamessarvan7692 No, the game simply spawns in new orks. The orks outside the castle stay outside the castle. Also, these orks spawn even if you kill all of the beasts besieging the castle.
As a mage it's very benificial. You can learn the second magic circle for 5 LP less from Milten (reducing the cost from 10 to 5). The other benefit is that, like in Khorinis, Jarkhendar as well gets new monster spawns every chapter, so entering later nets you more xp, that's the reason I go never go there in the 2nd chapter anymore.
What really bothers me is that, basically the melee combat in Gothic 3 is the same as in Risen, it just does not work as i would like, however in Risen its perfection, or at least very close to it.
I haven't played it because, console, but I've heard from non-stupid people that Dragon's Dogma has a pretty robust and enjoyable magic system for a single-player aRPG.
Durmin Paradox Yep, Dragon's Dogma: Arisen with Steam support, 60fps, optional KB+M control scheme and a retail price of $29.99 / € 29.99 / £ 24.99. Not bad, I say.
