Gothic Remake Playable Teaser Impressions 

Gothic Remake on GOG - gog.la/ROIGHT THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo This video is slightly different than the usual stuff, but there are some bigger videos cooking right now.

"Right okay, Right, Right, Right, Light this up, Right okay, God damn, Okay, Right". The writing could do with some work.

"Right, I'm going to leave a comment here on the RU-vid website. Loading it up, yeah. Ah, there it is. The comment box. Alright, now let's type in a comment. Right okay, hit the keys, simulate the alphabet, right. Good, good, these look like sentences. Right, okay. Now I have to complete the dialogue by officiating it and sending it to RU-vid's servers. Got it. Right, the 'Comment' button would complete it. Right, just move the mouse over, right. Okay."

The voice actor sounds like one of those Ubisoft division fake live trailers

the fact that the "this is just the beginning" ending line results in a pan out to a world you can't see because the post processing is so bad is perfect

The nameless hero here sounds like a Let's Player in his own game

Dude literally stuck his entire body into a fire in order to light a torch so that he could see better in a room that is on fire. The same fire that he is inside of. His response? “Right. Okay.”

"right, ok" - gothic writer collecting feedback

The first scene of the game is AMAZING. To summarize, the character wakes up, picks up a torch, lights it up from a fire to see better, and the torch then allows him to finally see the massive pyre all around from which he lit up the torch initially. And before that, apparently it was too dark for him to see the fire all around him. Freaking GENIUS.

Playing the Gothic Remake almost makes you wish for a silent protagonist.

"right.... right.... mm right... alright.... mmm right " - It's like watching someone's first Let's Play

"The whole charm of Gothic is that you earn that status." Spot on.

"can't see, too much fire" *Lights torch* "Ah yes now I see"

It's like the team put a gun to the voice actor's head and told him "If there's more than 2 seconds of silence you get the bullet"

"Worst. Prison. Ever." -laugh track ensues

I can imagine the sales pitch: "Now imagine if you took that immersive rpg from 20 years ago, where you have this really slow and thoughtful start AND JUST EXPLODED INTO PIECES AND FIRE AND THE PROTAGONIST WAS A CROSS BETWEEN UNCHARTED, THE WITCHER AND BRUCE WILLIS OH MY GOD ITS AMAZING". I don't know, it feels like they missed the mark a little bit.

In case people wonder what happened in 3 years and why theres no game yet: "Aside from certain graphics taken from the playable teaser, there was a "complete reboot" in game design after the community feedback on the demo called for a remake that was more close to the original than the demo itself. " theres even "showcase trailer" from 2022

**everything around him is ablaze** "Ugh, where am I?" **lights up torch** "Ah! now i see!"

>Everything is on fire around him >"Right I need a torch to see better, right, ok, yeah, right, that works"

This makes you appreciate silent characters that much more.

- Why did they change the beginning? It used to be that he was just some random guy thrown in a mining prison. Because they throw everyone in there because the kingdom desperately needs magical ore... - Why is he lighting a torch when there is fire all around him? - Can he please shut up!

"Roight. Roight. Roight... Roight." Literally, unironically a quote from this game during a serious scene lmao

The MC sounds like a unit in a RTS who's replying to the commands you issue over and over

Me: Remember... the key to good story telling is "show, don't tell" Gothic Protagonist: Wait, why not both?

It really feels like they had the voiceactor do 4 takes for Each interaction for replay value. But then someone messed up and used all for every scene

He says "right, okay" so much I was expecting can't hold us to start playing

Oh no... he's just like my dad. While assembling a jigsaw puzzle: "Hm, this one... nope, not this one, ah this one looks right... no, not an edge... blue piece, I need a blue piece. Huh. Grass pieces go over here... does this one fit. Aha. Oh, not that one." He's the only person in that room. I can hear him from the kitchen. I don't think I can play this game, it's too gritty and realistic for me.

The protagonist acts, looks and talks like Geralts demeted brother... .

"Mandalore yells at coyotes" is something I didn't know I needed in my life.

THE MAIN CHARACTER IS JUST BRIGGS FROM LIMBO OF THE LOST WE'VE GONE FULL CIRCLE

That narration is like watching a reaction channel

'That Witcher dude sounds cool and hip, let's clone him into our game' - the developers, probably.

It's like they purposefully didn't want to put anything that made the original Gothic great into its remake.

The protagonist sounds like someone who'd walk up the carriages on the tube in London and you'd just smile and sweat and pray that he gets off at the next station

I've briefly talked to the developers and they seem to acknowledge the issues of the demo, particularly the "right, ok, right" intro, overly chatty NPCs and the underwhelming combat system. They are definitely listening to feedback, so make yourself heard, people.

I don't know if I dislike this teaser so much because of my immense love for the Gothic games or because it truly isn't a good remake of the original game. I feel like they changed almost everything that made the original games good. For instance if you take how the game looks; This teaser looks like a J.J. Abrams trailer, while the original game felt like it had an earthy toned down filter that made the atmosphere almost palpable. When you arrive to the colony, you are not a hero on a grand adventure, ready to take on the world and all of its treasures, how it looks like now, but rather you are a prisoner who is probably going to be a digger for the rest of his life. Life down there is miserable, everyone is miserable and the look of the original game makes you feel like that. You are not in an adventure park, but in a shitty place with shitty people. You can even see the difference between the first and the second game in terms of looks. The colors are brighter, the blues are bluer, greens are greener etc. which makes sense because you aren't in the prison anymore but a free man in Khorinis. Then the changes to your character and Diego (and what we can expect - every other important character in the game too!); Both you and Diego lost what was special to your characters. I never saw Diego (in that part of his life) as a dashing and charming rogue who goes on some kinds of adventures, but rather as a grizzled vet who's done his fair share and has now taken a back step and an almost administrative role with the shadows. Of course he still does stuff when he's of need, like helping you kill the troll, but I always got the feeling that he'd rather just sit it out now. I don't think I need to go in to too much detail on the changes, as it is enough to see the differences between your and Diego's first interactions in the original game and the teaser. No need to mentioned the changes to the nameless hero, everyone already said what's wrong with that. Such major character changes lend me to believe that this will be a "Gothic - Reimagined" (by less talented writers) rather than "Gothic - Remade" As you have said - less is more! Instead of calling me rookie every second and it becoming dull and too on the nose, show me that I don't know how to hold a sword like you showed me in the first game. Show me that everything can easily kill me, make me die twenty times. You showing me that instead of just telling me that I am a rookie sends a much greater and long lasting message. The other changes that I really disliked were them taking Fallout 4's dialogue options. Instead of seeing what you are going to say to someone, you see options like "Help", "Old camp", "Gomez". I hated that about Fallout 4 and I hate it about this teaser. The same thing with the inventory options and other UI elements. Everything seem like it is being catered to consoles and console players and it's ruining the feel of the game. Honestly, this teaser showed me that the devs are not capable of recreating what made the original games special and because of that I would rather them just not make it. I would like to be wrong and that they can make a great game, but this just isn't it. It's not just some minor things that need to be changed but the core seems rotten. Again, I hope I'm wrong and they make a great game. PS I love the fact that they are so interested in what the people think of the teaser, that gives me hope. Thank you for making this and the other Gothic video, they were both great!

*fire every where *grabs a small piece of wood that is on fire "Ah yes now i can see"

"Ugh, uh, gah, roit. Ugh uh" - Gothic, 2019 alternatively "Ugh the video game"

The protagonist’s self-narration sounds like a 12-year old trying time make an abridged version except he forgot to make it funny. The assets look nice. Different, but nice. The stuff ragnarox said resonates the most with me: the reason why I loved gothic 1&2 and why everybody else I knew loved it, was the way the world was build up around you. None-respawning enemies, the mugging if you failed to pay for protection, the way things opened up as you progress. The design synergized with the atmosphere and it got hammered home from the beginning: the first guy you meet knocks you out for shiggles and the second guy advises you to keep your head down and be careful until you establish yourself. I dunno, I like that you are a complete pushover in the beginning. Unremarkable until you make something of yourself. Didn’t get the feeling here.

Captions were a bloody joy in this one

they gothic 3'ed gothic 1 while they should have gothic 2'ed gothic 3!

Well, that was a very quick transition from being pleasantly surprised to completely disappointed.

Gothic: Directed by Michael Bay.

I love it when people say "well its just a demo it might be good eventually" Okay imagine being a game designer and you want to hook the audience and this is what you give them. If the demo is bad, the game will likely be bad.

I fully expected a SSeth shitpost at the end there with the other reviews and I’m honestly disappointed it wasn’t there,

The extreme amount of narration made me actually realise how much restraint Naughty Dog showed with Uncharted.

They should just replace all the protagonist voice lines with the "It's quiet" guardsman line.

The beginning summarized “Hrng alright gah hmm ok hrng ok gah aright.”

Haven't watched the vid yet but my biggest complaints in the original game were A: no torch lens flare and B. the main character didn't have verbal diarrhoea. I sure hope this remake has something for me!

"Right, OK, right, right, ohhh, ohhh, right, OK, right..." Did they legit use the script for a porn vid somewhere?

That opening is a lot like Arnold doing commentary on his own movies AN HERE I AM IM PICKING UP THE SCROLL AND IM FALLING OH WOW RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT SO NOW I AM LIGHTING THE TORCH

everyone remember that guy in the old camp that built is house in middle of the walk way after being told not to build the hut there he comes back next day finds a second door

Yeah, one of the things that made Gothic special was that, especially in the beginning, getting uppity resulted in a quick visit from the slap fairy, if one was lucky. It was also very frustrating, but it made the later game so much sweeter :-)

14:28 I love how the Nameless Hero and Diego are both overlooking the Old Camp, but you can't see shit because it's all covered in cyan draw distance sky-fog. The original Gothic had a way more impressive view, and it didn't even make a big deal out of it.

"Please! It can't be real!" So...do monsters not exist outside the barrier? Or is this guy just in the Denial stage? These are important questions, Gothic.

If I were to head a dev-team doing a remake of a classic, I would give the team adequate time to play through the original. It would be mandatory for all team members and completed with a quick oral exam to verify that they've got the spirit of the game. The money saved by not having to spend as much time post redoing stuff that didn't work would likely be greater than the expenditure of having an entire dev-team play a game for a few days.

15:40 the coyotes fighting is hilarious!

I feel like the english voice actor was just shown footage and told to "just go with what's on screen." and the guy felt he had to say something to fill time.

Have the writers ever heard of "show, don't tell?"

"Diego will remember this" Oh dear no. I loved more of the Telltale Walking Dead games than I honestly should, but really this stuff does not belong in Gothic. Also the hero probably was supposed to have a bad case of the "Stark Snark" (For some reason everyone's gotta be Iron Man these days) except they don't pull it off. He's a completely different person and that somehow even though the nameless hero never even had a lot of personality. And why the console market again? Don't they remember how badly 'Risen' on consoles bombed back in the day? This is gonna be worse than Arcania, mark my words.

"The guy narrates everything, just complete unnecessary actions like children's show" Blues clues, Dora the explorer, and RWBY. That earned a good chuckle.

Drinking game: take a shot every time protagonist says "right". You'd be hammered before the game starts.

If he doesn't say "My Legs are OK" I'm not buying it.

This remake kinda reminds me of the difference between Tomb Raider 1 & Tomb Raider Anniversary. The new one looks prettier and feels less clunky, but the older one had a lot more interactivity and felt like everything served a purpose for something. Like Chekhov's Gun but with game design.

Me: I want witcher 3 mom: we have witcher 3 at home witcher 3 at home:

I feel the same way, the charm of Gothic was how vulnerable you were at the start, just a random guy that had to avoid danger and get stronger over time, not kill a pack of wolves at the start

The response of the old nameness dude: " Spare me the rest of his nonsense".

Loved the Pathologic music in the background of Grim Beard Diaries' review.

*falls 10 miles* "right" (grunts) "right, right"

Philosophers debated it for centuries and still will be for millennia to come: is it quiet or is it alright?

Did he really say "Worst.Prison.Ever."? Jesus christ.

I really wish they'd have brought back the original nrrators voice, his "The kingdom of Mortana" is pure nostalgia, and nothing can replace his grizzly voice.

Wait a review with two of my favorite reviews? I'm proud of you Grim.

If I could give these devs just one tip to improve the game, I think they might want to try playing any Gothic game before working on this remake. Just a tip. I think having played a Gothic game would help with the remake.

“Like we’re in a children’s show!” >RWBY I love you mandalore.

Why did they turn the nameless one into offbrand geralt of rivia impersonating tom hardy

This character is like...the epitome of "you dont need to say every single thing that comes into your head."

Gothic: "Alright! Alright! Alright! Alright! Alright! Alright! Alright! Alright! Alright! Alright! Alright!" In the distance: "Okay, now ladies!"

Yeah, this game is setting off my "it's gonna be shit" alarm. I hope they turn this around, like, starting from scrap, but they probably won't.

Now that I am rewatching this, the intro sequence is a good way of summarizing the teaser. It hands you everything instead of having to earn it.

This whole teaser seems to scream desperation to me They’re so desperate for people to like it that they’re trying to throw everything they can at it Add in every post processing feature, make the main character a badass, give the player a million achievements, throw in quirky dialogue, make 80% of the main character’s dialogue literal grunts They lost sight of any and all subtlety and just made an unpleasant clusterfuck

"And this is just the beginning" *music intensifies [pans out to show fog]

"Aww, Gawdammit, wo' the 'ell jus 'appened?!" Blimey.

14:58 Why is noone talking about this part. He indirectly mentioned his alterego - SSeth reviewing Gothic II

I also like if you go 0.25 speed when he pulls the sword out at 3:00 you can just see his hands wrap around the air and the sword just pulls itself out. It then floats around the top of his head (good on the devs I only slowed thinking he chopped his head off for a second) and then proceeds to float until his arm wraps itself around it again. "Right, Okay."

A small part of me was waiting to get a "hey hey people" in the last section

The writting on the main character and the "can't steal a sword" thing makes me worried that this wiill have little to do with the spirit of the Original, which would be a shame cause it looks like at least some of the people involved are trying hard to understand what was so great in that game. Hopefully it will turn out ok, but I'm not holding my breath.

The thing that bugged me the most is in the opening cutscene, he seemed to not be able to see the whole ground covered in fire until he lights his torch with said fire!

I think we don't appreciate the editing in these videos enough. Fantastic. As always.

Did they just play the cut scene in front of the voice actor and told him to mumble random things?

2:29 This place is on fire and bursting with flames........better light a torch.

You put that nostalgic and amazing music of the old camp in the beginning! Damn you!

If Heros narration wasnt so detached and lifeless, it might be charming. I know i have a habit of talking to myself in a similar way in stressful situations. Having him seem actually affected by whats happening, and not just filling dead air like a reaction channel... it couldve been fun.

“What if we remade Gothic and turned the main character into Nathan Drake?”

“Roight. Roight. Roight. What the hell happened? Let’s light a torch. Roight.” Dear god, does he ever shut the hell up!?

“Ugh” “Ouragh” “Argh” “Alright” “Agh” “Alright”

it’s like the peak of soulless remakes and that loops back around to making it soulful again

Can they stop ruining video games with that Joss Whedon style of "everything is a joke, it's just a video game lol"?

Uh I didn't expect this video Uh Oh Haha Oh that's funny Uh Uh Oh I see Haha Uh I'm gonna, uh, I'm gonna like this video Click on the thumbs up Yeah Support the channel, yeah Uh Back to the video Yeah, that's it

7:42 that's Artorias' sword from dark souls LOL