Posted on: January 30, 2020

Mszalans

Игр: 120 Отзывов: 2

It is NOT even a rpg game

I completed this game in 27 hours, on "Gothic" diff level, using mostly 2h weapons and sometimes bow/crossbow. If you expect gothic-like rpg, then this game is an opposite to what Gothic games were. Compared to them it does everything wrong. - It is linear - Is not even an rpg at all! Your skills allow you only to build into ranged/malee/magic character. No other perks, nothing. Rarely quests give you freedom of choice, but it is illusory, because outcome is always the same... Therefore you cannot role-play, you just complete consecutive elements of the story in one only possible way. - Everything else you loved in Gothic games, here is not present or messed up. Therefore I would label this game as "Linear action adventure game". When you expect action adventure game, you can notice some pros: - some locations are made nicely, they look really good. However they are quite empty and boring. - story is mediocre. I know it does not sound like an advantage, but compared to other parts of the game it is not that bad :) Or it would be, if it not got cut after last fight in the game. After this fight, game just cuts you off, without explaining anything! Yes, you get a short clip, but it's not very informative. The true ending of the story is in dlc, which looks like it was a part of basic game, which got cut off just to form a paid dlc. Which most of players probably bought, because it would be bad to not finish a basic game which... got its ending cut off and placed elsewhere. So, I would give this game 2 ratings: - if you expect gothic-like rpg: 0/10 - if you expect simple linear action adventure game: 4/10 Here I marked it overall as 1/5 simply because you are not allowed to rate 0/5.

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Posted on: May 3, 2025

jakub90adamec

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Игр: 48 Отзывов: 3

Gothic franchise lives

I played Gothic I and II as a kid, never finished Gothic 3 but almost finished Arcania. The system and world is good enough for me as casual player. 2 years ago I almost finished the game but unfortunately it stopped loading my saves and crashed everytime. That was on my old laptop. I stopped playing because reinstallation didnt help. Now I installed it on my newer machine and encountered issues: First and Error: Could not switch to new screen mode, and can't restore previous one! My installation was missing VideoSettings.xml file. So I made one as per guidelines on internet forums. Then I encountered an issue with missing textures (showing pure black instead) and strange shadows. I saw in my VideoSettings.xml that the game set the video adapter to my integrated Intel GPU, so I had to go to NVIDIA Control Panel where Preffered graphic processor setting was at Auto-Select option. So after switching to my dedicated GPU the issue went away. I hope this helps if somebody encounters similar issues.

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Posted on: October 22, 2023

MatthiasHerzog

Владелец игры

Игр: 116 Отзывов: 11

No true Gothic, but quite ok

If you want to enjoy this game you have to put off your Gothic glasses. The story, the world, the opponents, the fighting are quite ok. The graphics were probably good when the game was recent. The dialogs however are some kind of anoying. It's also no real open world. It's more like an action adventure with some RGP elements. It's no masterpiece, but it's playable.

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Posted on: November 10, 2020

Bluehardt

Владелец игры

Игр: 493 Отзывов: 1

Don't bother, cash grab and disgrace

To move it out of the way - I wanted to personally confirm if the game is really as bad as people tend to portray it and oh boy - were they not wrong. I've spent 25 hours with it (started to have my doubts around 5th...) and completed it so you do not have to. First Gothic is one of my favorite RPGs - finished it multiple times, loved how open the world was, memorable characters and sense of progress, character development. It may seem clunky today but if you get over the "rough" and give it a chance - you are in for a treat. ArcaniA on the other hand tries REALLY hard to be not only a poor Gothic title but a poor excuse of an aRPG in general. One-star reviews truly state what's wrong with ArcaniA as a game - simply put it's boring, uninspired and unfinished. Other than occasional music this game just doesn't have any redeeming qualities. Most of the mechanics just feel like prototypes or placeholders or were they purposefully dumbed down THAT much? Jumping barely works, virtually the same enemies throught the game, nobody cares about you opening every chest you see/stealing stuff, boring character development, no thought went into making ANY quest interesting and the list goes on... Ending is cut away from the game - there's no conclusion. You went through all of this borefest just to be greeted with a big disappointment and unneeded questions. Oh, maybe it's resolved in the standalone DLC which takes barely a few hours to finish and costs almost at the price point of the original game? No idea, didn't play it at the time of writing a review - not expecting miracles though. It's made by another studio (not Piranha Bytes) and it's clear as day as you play it. Wonder what's the true reason behind releasing at this state - lack of funds, publisher's pressure, lack of inspiration or experience? That's the perfect example of handling the license poorly.

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Posted on: January 12, 2025

larazor

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Игр: 152 Отзывов: 1

Chicken Dinner

its a winner. Should not have waited so long to play. A solid game.

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