The Importance of Gothic 1+2's Music - Soundtrack Review 

Wow! Thank you SO much for this super in-depth, knowledgeable (and flattering) analysis! I appreciate that a lot and it's also great input for my current work on the remake. I also fully agree to your comments on the Gothic 3 soundtrack. :) Thank you!

OK THIS MADE ME REINSTALL GOTHIC 1

They can't make a remake without Kai Rosenkranz's soundtrack.

Every time i hear the Lobart's Farm theme. i immediately want to start a new playthrough... and it's not just that theme that always gets me to go back to Gothic or Gothic 2, it's most of the music in the first two games. The first Risen also nailed the soundtrack.

The music in Jharkendar is just so.... beautiful that I can spend my entire time just walking around and listening to the music as I walk through the various valleys and canyons and caves and beaches. Those vocals just got to me every time I go to this area. It also keeps a really nice emotion in each area, I feel disgusted walking through the swamps with it's music giving that creepy insect vibe, the pirates having a calm harmonica giving me a safe, calm almost homely feeling.

I find it so fascinating that Kai Rosenkranz was only 16 years old when he started writing the music for Gothic I! Talk about talent.

In my opinion what separates Gothic from any other game IS the soundtrack. It has SO much character compared to any other RPG. I could tell you more or less exactly where i am without looking at the screen in any of the 3 games based on sountrack alone. Absolutely amazing

Gothic 3's soundtrack is so exaggerated that it makes the game feel actually awesome lol. This trilogy has such great music its unreal.

I will always remember two moments in my first Gothic playtime - the first time I heard the main theme and my first time being in the Old Camp. These two tracks made me interested into cinematic music composition and basically changed my life forever :)

The valey of the mines melocy is my favourite, it brings up memories of how me and my brother ran arund the castle luring orcs one by one to kill them and level up late at night instead of going to sleep and be fresh for school on the next day :D

You were right about Gothic 3's music. Although technically superior to the first two games, it becomes way to accentuated and breaks into the foreground. Piranha bytes returned to the old approach in Risen probably because of this reason and the undercutting

Along with sound design in general, music plays such a crucial role in game design that it's kind of baffling that we don't get more nuanced discussions on it. You did a wonderful job here, so thank you! I think Dark Souls is another good example of how ambiance and music work together to immerse players in the world. Most of the game has no music, which is mostly reserved for boss fights and the Firelink Shrine, but when it does show up, it's all the more powerful for that. I wish more games would adopt that sensibility.

4:55 This track in the old camp is actually a variant of "Herr Mannelig" by the German band In Extremo.

Gothic 3's combat music is a meme because of how excessive it is xD

Finally someone who speaks some sense about the Gothic soundtrack! Even though Gothic 3's is very well done, I even have some tracks on my phone that I like to listen to, but when playing the game it's just too "bombastic" and as you said, it can distract you. It also sticks out a lot from the original ambiance of Gothic 1 and 2, where you had much darker tones, while in Gothic 3 the entire game is made as if it was a big epic adventure and even the soundtrack itself is made this way. In a way, Gothic 3's soundtrack fits Gothic 3, because they are both supposed to be "the epic journey of a hero in a fantastic world" and not "the quest to survive in a brutal, unforgiving world" from Gothic 1 and 2. That is also why I didn't like Gothic 3 that much (but that's besides the point). From hearing that comparison between different tracks, I agree that "Soliloquy" sounds like something from Morrowind. To me, both Soliloquy and Magical Theme have this "epic journey" theme, just like Gothic 3's soundtrack has, although they are not that bad. If Gothic was a bit more like Morrowind (i.e. bigger open world, massive customization and character build choices, epic journey feeling) Soliloquy would be the perfect field exploration theme for it. But we all know that isn't the case :) Personally, I feel like Gothic 1 and 2's soundtracks are not appreciated enough, just because it's not made by an orchestra like it is in Gothic 3. I find that funny and a bit sad, because everywhere I look I see people like "Oh yeah Gothic 3's soundtrack is sooo beautiful definitely the best in the series" and when I say "No, actually I find Gothic 1 and 2's soundtracks to be way better" they just start to laugh and make comments like "Do you even have ears?! This soundtrack is ORCHESTRATED, not made with a computer!" and I'm just here like, really? Is that the only reason why it's sooo much better? Music in video games is not supposed to just "sound good", it sets the mood, the atmosphere. Again, Gothic 3's soundtrack is not bad, but it's still worse imho than in G1 and 2. Oh well, now when I get into a discussion with someone over the internet, I will definitely link them this video, maybe they will get something from it and learn to appreciate the older Gothic's genius soundtrack a little bit more :)

Oh my god, such a great video! I don't read review anymore because of spoilers but videos like this make me so happy! Please do more non-review videos!

Thats one of these channels, where you check the remaining video playtime, nervous that id could soon run out like minutes left on the clock until the alarm rings.

Fantastic review, I've been playing Gothic since i was 6 and I've never noticed the details you did. The remark about bass drum reminding about the constant threat of orcs in the castle was particularly great. Sub!

I'd add Arx Fatalis to the "just ambiance improve the game" category, I don't think that game even has music, yet just running through tunnels, watery caves, catacombs, dwarf mines has so much atmosphere it's unbelievable. But yeah Gothic have really great soundtrack one I still love and listen to to this day, especially 3's.

Can't believe Kai made the forgotten world soundtrack when he was only 21 or 22 years old, thats crazy

"Magic Theme" actually fits quite nicely! It's mysterious and speaks of ancient civilizations... it's also dark enough to fit into combat. Soliloquy is just ridiculous.

You deserve more views on this well made Gothic Reviews

I just realized I've never played the add-on. I'm seeing these scenes in Jarkendar for the first time. My schoolmate lent me Gothic 2 and the add-on 16 years ago and left for Canada. For years the two boxes sat on my shelf till he came back and picked them up. The manual warned about the added difficulty, and as a kid I had mad respect for that. I barely beat Gothic 1 and 2 thanks to buggy final bosses. It's finally time to install the add-on.

Some music from other games that could potentially fit that specific gameplay fragment (imo) - 'Desert Dwellers' from Guild Wars Nightfall - 'Fortress of Jahai' from Guild Wars Nightfall - 'Caudecus' from Guild Wars 2 Living World season 3 - 'Dwarven Stone Upon Dwarven Stone' from Witcher 2 sounds very similar to G2 music in certain regards (it is more of an orchestrated melody but still).

Did you really get replied from the Maestro KaiRo himself?! You, sir, truly a legend

The gothic 1 score is probably my favorite game soundtrack. Definitely the most rememberable for me. Especially the Herr Mannelig esc Old Camp, Valley of Mines and the title theme. Can't say that I remember a lot of the Gothic 2 score but that it fits perfectly into the game. The one thing I love the most about KaiRo's music for Gothic. Gothic 3 has a way more blown out, epic theme as you stated. The prime example is Vista Point - the most beautiful score in all of Gothic in my opinion. While actually fitting to the green land of Myrtana though. Great video! btw: Just noticed how shitty the english voice acting in the game is. Seems like they tried to mimic the perfect, exaggerated way of speech from the original version and failed completely.

07:18 Na bro, you ain't reading too much into all that at all. I honestly think your reading is right, and I do think most of what you do, when I go through the music as well.

You hit everything absolutely spot on. I think 1 and 2's soundtracks very intuitively interpret the themes and scenes you come across in each game, and the way the music adapts to different situations is masterfully done. I also really appreciate the small little "endings" to the music before the next loop starts. It's kind of this *sigh* pointing to the mundane aspects of the games, but the rest of the music brings sorrow, dread, hope, and relief at different moments.

Wow those 2 generic fantasy songs are really good. They don't fit the scenery but all are better than no music. I agree that music is often not mentioned in reviews, or nobody credits it as it can have quite a major subconscious impact on your enjoyment of a game. There are many cases where to me a game wouldn't be the same. Like say a fallout game, only due to a strong intro featuring an ink spot song, it grips me right before I even started playing the game for the first time (or first time i step out in the wasteland to be greeted by the world map and "moribund world"). Same goes for the Thief series. For some reason, in thief 1(coz mechanist theme didnt feel special to me in thief2), granted it's a combination of text, video and music, but yes, be it a hammerite themed mission, a keeper or pagan one, those verses coupled with the hammerite chanting and hammer banging, or the creepy sounds within the pagan theme, or keeper humming, right before a mission in the briefing, those make me shiver. Weird that cutscenes and music make half the reason why the game is so good. And the ambient during the missions, that's a big deal as well. Right after the tutorial, in lord bafford manor, that won me over. Reading into it, it gave me a sense that I was intruding in a very dangerous place, in the middle of the night, where most are sleeping. And that i was treading around a sleeping beast, ready to kill me if I accidentally woke it up. Felt very uneasy, thanks to the creepy piano strings or whatever it is called, typical horror movie stuff.

It's good to know that there are so many people who love gothic as much as I do. It's part of my childhood and one of my best games of all time to this day, and I never found anyone who even knew about it before youtube recommended me this channel. It's good to know I'm not alone in this.

I'm often amazed at how every favorite game of mine has a fantastic soundtrack. An excellent soundtrack can often times turn an average game good.

There is a handful of games out there whose soundtrack I will always connect to its game after a few notes. A few examples of games whose soundtrack I will never forget: Gothic I, II and III, Mass Effect 1, 2 and especially 3, Dragon Age Origins, Aquanox 1 and 2 and STALKER SoC.

Gothic 1 and 2 used DirectX music engine, which was built around MIDI. This means that music you hear is actually hundreds of instrument samples played in real-time using MIDI instructions, i.e. you effectively run audio sequencer as you play a game! The super cool was that since music was programmatic, it allowed to introduce additional variations, include random motifs, change instrumentations, tempo etc. That's why main exploration music in Gothic 1 feels never ending, and yet not overly repetetive - since flute phrases and motifs are inserted at random intervals, thus making its shape slightly different every time it plays. Have you noticed smooth transitions between idle/fight music without fade-in/out? That's because transitions were played and rendered dynamically as one continuous track, in the same way as game world is rendered to your screen. It's actually disappointing to see that it was seldom used anywhere then, and just forgotten nowdays, even though the possibilities for interactive music design were just... immense. Instead, today all music in games is just pre-recorded, mixed and mastered tracks you can just play in your audio player Software they've used for composing was called Direct Music Producer, and it could be still found somewhere on the internet. I actually discovered music sequencing by digging into Gothic music files and figuring out how it actually works. It was a fun time, I even created a few tracks using samples from both gothic 1 and 2. Writing a music piece in that software isn't easy, and composer had to prepare and optimize his own set of samples, setup orchestrations and whatnot. I'm sure Kai Rosenkranz went through a hell getting those soundtracks done. It's "Strength through adversity", where the more effort one have to put into doing something, the more unique, distinct and original one would achieve (not necceserily high quality, but high concept instead). Sadly, nowdays there are have a choice of dozens/hundreds of tools for every task, petabytes of high quality assets - everything desinged to make it simple to produce high quality and high-definition content, but at the cost of it being generic, soulless, uninspired "products"

Gothic 1 had such an atmosphere to it that I didn't experience nothing alike to this day... especially the nights in the woods, Real fear haha

You need to do more analysis, bro. It's well done and your voice is pleasant to listen to.

Finally, someone understands it!! Good game music - like good film music - must not be noted by the player, but set the mood. And G3 crossed that line while 2 and 1 are spot on. Thank you, for pointing that out!

This guy is in love with the Gothic series. Left it on Autoplay and this guy has talked non stop about how amazing Gothic 1 + 2 are for over seven hours...

Very well put.

That moment when you return to the Valley of mines in Gothic 2 and a solo flute starts playing the original Gothic 1 is one of the best moments in gaming.

You should make more videos like this

Great review! You summed up exactly why the OST has so much charm in it. Without it Gothic's world feels much less organic. There are couple ways to make music for a video game. You can put the most fitting songs from actual bands/composers like Tarantino does in his movies. Mostly games with cars do this, Flatout 2 is a pretty good example. There is the Dark Souls approach which you've mentioned in the video. With basically no music in the majority of the gameplay, they can afford to make specific themes for every important character and zone. Themes are also the climax for an area that's why they are so epic. Gothic 1 and 2 are the opposite, where music is all over the place and there's no real boss theme. And even without the detailed music you can recognize every location and situation from it. Other great games like Skyrim or Diablo 2 are quite good in this but Gothic 1 and 2 are the most memorable end enjoyable for me. The music is humble and decent at the same time and it never become boring. I usually mute the music in other games after dozens of hours and switch to other music or cast in the background. I never did this in Gothic, it sounds so pleasant even after these years. And I wanna mention Severance: BoD which is a hidden gem ARPG from 2001. Its music is also on spot, you guys should check Severance atmosphere music 4 and you'll see what I'm talking about.

that's a very clever analysis.

The first two OSTs are so much an integral part of their games like Vangelis´score is part of Blade Runner. The music compliments and completes the action on screen. Even though you can enjoy the score on its own, the game itself can´t be seperated from the music without losing character and atmosphere.

Hey whats about In Extremo? YOu forgett about In Extremo!

I agree with your videos too much .... Am subscribed now.

difference in soundtrack: gothic 3 soundtrack overwhelms sometimes and sticks out, while being memorable it can be distracting. and gothic 1+2 soundtrack is always in the background, right of the hat i couldn´t name a single piece, but the music is always there in the background helping to set a certain tone or mood. i know the music in gothic 1 often sets a more bleak tone, since you yourself are trapped in an inescapeable barrier for the rest of your life and as soon as you arrive you get shown what you place in the food chain is: rock bottom, you are less than nobody bottom line: in gothic 1+2 the music helps you to feel like you are your character. and gothic 3 the music while nice itself is too dominating, i lost count how many jumpscares i had everytime the battle music started out of nowhere. especially since i knew every wolf, scavanger or boar could easily kill me because of those animation, or even better: invisible enemies

i had a dream to the song New Isle World and it was playing to a cinematic features in a movie theater...there were forests and everything but suddenly there was a talking donkey..........after that the audience started getting up from their seats and leaving. so sad.

What would you say about Old mine soundtrack? I downloaded Microsoft DirectMusic just to see how Kai composed it and it blows my mind how he came up with set of sounds for tracks like these.(minding all dungeon tracks like Orc graveyard/temple of the sleeper and mines and combat music, and transitions in every piece of music in both first Gothic's. Gothic 3 doesnt have any trasitions it just plays the music.

I love all the music in Gothic 1-3 and Risen 1. Even playing Valheim recently made me install Gothic 2 and Risen again :)

Temple of the Sleepers song is so atmospheric

My favourite moment is when you arrive at Irdorath and the music ACTUALLY scares you. D:

im kind of late in commenting but i still want to ;D i totally agree: g3 ost is instrumentally the best but is just over the top, which makes it feel just not right. in my opinion this is because rosenkranz had the opportunity to record the ost with real musicians and real orchestra etc. so they put extra effort in making it sound good - but it just does not fit as the digitally-(computer)written soundtrack from g1 and g2, which has a more lo-fi character to it and has less finesse in the "playing" compared to the human-played instruments of the real professional musicians, which makes it sound more grounded. also the musical transitions between the scenery in g1 and g2 works better in my opinion. as for your soundtrack comparison in jakhendar: i think they all worked somehow. the magical theme would fit a night-scenery. you are right - the key to the greatness of the g1/2 ost is that every scenerey has its unique, well fitting theme songs (and as i pointed out before: the computer made music, which is just a bit more limited to its expression, fits the game way better) man - g1 and g2 soundtracks are the best

And don't forget that Gothic 1 had a concert ingame with "In Extremo"

well said.

Gothic 1 and 2 soundtracks are the type of soundtracks that you would listen at a low volume rather than maxim the volume of you're speakers/headphones, they are very chill and you could add a lot of them to a chill playlist and listen to it from time to time.

100% agree with everything u said!

Even if I agree that Gothic has great music implementation compared to the competition, it is kinda sad that just reserving certain motifs and instruments for specific areas of the game world is still impressive. Video game music has a long way to go. Soundtracks for games could be a dynamic, magical, living thing if one would put the work in. Meanwhile, most studios just seem to order one or two dozen songs from a composer (which probably are good music in their own right) and then play those at quasi random throughout the game, basically offering nothing in terms of linking the story, visual and audial elements together. Woodtick in Monkey Island 2 is a great example of what composers could be doing with game music if they wanted to. Music for games needs a completely different approach than producing music for film, but the industry still hasn't understood this yet. Anyway, I love Gothic's music too, Kai is a beast.

I somehow hear original Melody even during no-ost section, I guess countless hours that I spent in gothic are to blame. I love hounting forest theme from first game and harbor theme from second the most, though really there are no out of place or annoying tracks in both games. And while I like the Witcher 3, I feel if the music there wes more simple and with less singing it would be an improvement

Seeing Torlof on the ship in a Paladin playthrough ...

I am observing the sound development in games for a long time. I would actually say, that sound and music are the single most important factors in games. I noticed how street fighter 2 on snes had very good sound and music and strangely when the series progressed the sound quality dminished. Diablo 1 had superb music and sound. When I first entered the crypt and hit the first goblin with a sword, it sounded to impactful and accurate, corresponding perfectly with the animation and athmosphere. Each successive Diablo title had worse music and more bland sound effects. I would say almost every game progressed that way, and must be due to the extreme obsession of the gaming industry with graphics. I come from a time, when you spent more money on a Sound Blaster *sound* card than on a graphics card and the difference it made was huge. In Dune 2 you had the option to pc-speaker, adlib midi sounds, sound blaster and sound blaster 2 and all of those options had distinct sounds with the sound blaster 2 rumbling with absoultely fantastic combat sounds, mg fire, explosions and music. Nowadays it doesnt really matter anymore. All your pc specs are entirely there for determining the level of graphics display and maybe there is also a certain relationship between the gaming hardware and software industry behind this phenomenon. I could make a whole video about this probably myself. I really like watching your videos and listening to your thoughts. You focus on many of the same things that I do aswell when it comes to games. The details you notice, the ones that annoy you and the ones you like, I pretty much share aswell. I will give you an example from I own experience. In Diablo 2 for example you were supposed to play the Amazon character either with bows or with spears, but you could equip a sword and a shield aswell and the Amazon had her own attack animations for that even if probably a miniscule number of players ever appreciated that playstyle. I loved such details and I also played the Sorceress with swords and shields and other unusual equipment just to test the limits of how far I could get with this. Now I never played Diablo 3 for just one simple reason. Already in the demo version I picked the monk class and he attacked with fist and feet. However when you equipped a sword, your attack value would go up by the attack of the sword, but you would still attack with fist and feet like bruce lee. Things like this immediatly put me off of a game. It is just such nonsense and is obviously just done for economizing on the visual budget which is competely bloated with cutscenes and unnecessary exaggerations. Anyways I watched many of your videos now completely agree with all you say. I also liked your drova playthrough. Game designers really need to disconnect from the player a bit. They are so focused on pleasing an audience and fulfilling their expectations. They need to get back doing what they want and trying to actually fool the player and lay traps for him. I think the designer actually needs to hate the player a bit, but in a good way, because he is making a dangerous environment meant to shock, scare, fool, annoy and challenge the player to overcome its obstacles. I think the developers of Gothic 1 and 2 had some of that attitude and the very first scene of Gothic 1 expresses this perfectly.

Please make a review of chronicles of myrtana archolos soundtrack It sounds as if kai himself made it specially for this I think they managed to pull of the gothic vibe soundtrack the series is known for

man u rly like gothic

and for your last question i put it in every game i play :)

I wish you could speak german, the original voice actors are absolutely amazing. You really feel how everyone is having a blast voicing these characters from start to finish which adds another layer of depth and fun over this game. :)

ah! khorinis! even though im in khorinis myself your music overlapped with mine haha xD

I fucking love these games they were the first games that really invoked strong feelings in me as a child and since then I replayed them every year. I have yet to find a game that comes close. Fuck the "remake" get Gothic 2 with the dx11 renderer, install the atariar edition mod and enjoy.

Soliloquy fits Markarth from Skyrim pretty well IMO.

My favorite soundtrack is the pirate camp music.The best in my opinion. 7:44

I love the soundtracks of the Gothic series and agree with everything you said. :) As for your cool comparison with the public domain music, I think you actually picked a rather inappropriate example. The original game music was too full and melodic, more like in Gothic 3, which undermines the idea you were trying to portray. :D Anyway, I liked both public domain pieces you put in there. Maybe you were just too good in finding fitting ones. :D However, I preferred the first piece, "Soliloquy" to the other one.

Is nomine vacans liberarit vobis ex servitus...

Gothic 1,2's OST (especially 1) is a prime example of the idea of "less is more", as well as of the importance of music in establishing game's atmosphere. It shows that technical complexity is not important in the face of the choice of right instruments and pace.

Critics or not i don't think it matters. A good soundtrack doesn't really pass unnoticed even though may get overlooked when talking about a game. In movies and in games i'd say that sound and music it's probably half of the experience. Somewhat similar to smell regarding memory and how we remember things. It's about feelings, how we get them and how we remember them. Smell or music are like a sauce to a dish. Not the main attraction but clearly a worse meal without it. The games or movies i liked so much that became a reference for me had very good music that managed to blend with the images in a way that gave me strong emotions. So music and sound are very important to a creator that is looking to instill specific emotions on the viewer or player.

Honestly i dont want to lie but the first song from the public domain i feel like it suits very good . Of course i love the original one but still that one was good too.

8:50 the other soundtrack sounds like to me like its then a gothic mod :D

Its very sad the leader of PB now makes his own music, it doesnt stand out at all and I cant remember one track of it. #BringBackKaiRosenkranz

Gothic 3 has the best soundtrackof the series for putting in the CD and listening to it. Gothic 1 and 2 have the better ingame soundtracks. The two generic choices... I don't know, they are nice to listen to, but they sound "too nice" for Gothic. When I hear them I think of something more whimsical with fey and stuff. Gothic was always a more down-to-earth gritty game where these two pieces of music feel a little out of place between the cursing and morally grey. stuff you can do. I don't want to hear whimsical music when I am interfering in a war between bandits and pirates, while slaughtering the local wildlife for profit. ^^

That health bar at the bottom left in the thumbnail got me confused if I watched some of this or not 😂

I felt *exactly* the same way about G3's soundtrack, it tried way to hard to put itself into the foreground. I'd even go further and say, that due to it's overproduction and 'overcomposition' (I'm a layman) it is a musically worse soundtrack than 1 and 2, because one's ears get tired of it fairly soon. With the old games, I actually like to listen to their soundtrack without playing them, especially 2's.

Now imagine Gothic 2 would have good English voice acting. (at the level of the German version)

What I'd want is a more "piratish" music around the pirates' camp.

Take this, Elder Scrolls plebs

I think G1 and G2 were just digitally created. G3 had numerous musicians that played all the music - incl an orchestra

The soundtrack by Kai Rosenkranz is by far the best choice here. And it's a pity you have to live with the mediocre voices in that english version. Please try to hear the originally german voices to compare - even you don't understand it, but it fit's so much better I think. The tone the roughness the subtle irony and some dialects makes the experience even more deep, intensive and immersive :-)

The gothic soundtrack is better than any other game out there but god damn the music at 5:45 drives me nuts! I have to mute my game every time I’m in that area

I actually liked the no music part. It has a peace and groundedness to it.

Who else thinks Gothic 1's setup loop is the best ever and perfectly describes the the atmosphere of the game... which is awesome :-)

I'm a simple man... I see a video about Gothic I and II's soundtrack, I like it. You sir, are amazing.

With the "generic" music the dialogues feels so major and they lack the needed dose of dark energy which we fell through the whole gameplay.

sometimes a god game makes you like an soundtrack or music you normally wouldn't listen to

Indeed I always tough that a good soundtrack alone creates 75% of a game's atmosphere. Studios have forgotten this, so there's no chance for a good action RPG like Gothic anymorr, besides current RPGs being bad in any other important aspect, too of course.

I thought the no music version could've work really well with more ambient sounds. It makes the whole thing feel a little bit more foreign i feel... Forgotten worlds i always thought was one of the more generic and forgettable themes in the games but idk... As for gothic 3's soundtrack i think most of it actually fits in very nicely, it seems like this whole "the music sticks out too much" thing is just something someone said and now everyone mindlessly repeats it... or maybe the combat music being so annoying made all the other songs in the game stick out much more aswell or something

mass effect also has great soundtrack gothic 3 is sometimes really horrible ost (like you said; fuckin combat intro), but also sometimes pretty good. i get why people say ost is ok because it does invoke some feel of a gothic world.

In my opinion, Morrowind has one of the best soundtracks and it blends perfectly to the game world, this also applies to Diablo 2. I also love the soundtracks of the Gothic 1-2 i found them really nice and they fitted really good to the game. When i played Gothic 2 for the very first time in my old laptop, the speakers were crappy, and i decide to invest 40 euros to buy myself some better speakers. I cannot describe how i felt hearing that soundtrack with some normal speakers. I was thrilled, the difference felt like i was playing a new game, and i just loved it. I will never forget the difference.

Ngl that generic fantasy by Matthew Pablo was pretty decent

Yes, I blame Lord of the Rings of the increasingly bad quality of fantasy music. Howard Shore's score fitted LotR well because it was composed exactly for the kind of tone the movie was aiming for, dark and decadent, not whimsical. One of my favorite soundtracks was Final fantasy 7, it fitted the world perfectly, more industrial and synth in the city, in industrial facilities, but for the remake they changed it for a bombastic orchestration that doesn't feel right at all. I really think fantasy games need more mundane music, more down to earth music, like Gothic 1 and 2 and some parts of Diablo 2. No more orchestra, no more pseudo-epic soundtracks, please!

the english dub of gothic is a catastrophe... if it wasnt that bad the games would probably the most known in the world

Love your videos, you present my feelings xactly, i repeat if you didnt play Souls, please do yourself a favor and play them starting with demos souls, please :) after that you will want to have the prefect game, that will be gameplay and graphics souls, and everything else Gothic i and ii notr

In my eyes G1 and G2 are masterpieces... never played G3 - looks beautiful tho, but i heard plenty bugs! Mby they updated something?!

it´s sad how true that statement is for me: i cannot really judge the music. and i agree gothic 1+2 had the music better attuned with the game in gothic 3 the music was more grand and sometimes out of place

Completely agreed on Gothic 3's soundtrack. It was well composed and beautiful, but takes away from the atmosphere by being too exaggerated.