Gothic Remake: Interview with Reinhard Pollice (Reaction)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Gamestar, the german games news outlet, had a lengthy interview with Reinhard Pollice. Let's take a look!
Link to the original video:
• Gothic Remake: Das neu...
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8:26 Choosing between Gothic 1 and 2 is like being asked which parent I love more - mommy or daddy?
But Gothic 2 is mom)
Gothic 1 is the blueprint, it's better than gothic 2 in atmosphere, world building and story. Gothic 2 is generic fantasy (dragons, really?) with no interesting twists in it. The story just chugs along doing it's job as if it was written by Carmack. The most telling thing about this is the fact that best moment of gothic 2 happens when returning to valley of mines. The only thing gothic 2 is better at is execution, which, being the second game is an expected thing.
Without gothic 1 there's no gothic 2. You can tell they were running out of creative fuel in gothic 2 and basically running on vapours with NoTR (pirates in aztec structures is just ridiculous).
However I will acknowledge my irrational dislike of Pankratz and his ideas so I am willing to concede on NOTR which seems to be agreed upon peak of the series for some reason. (I will debate anyone on this, NOTR is not good and anything Pankratz does is mediocre).
Lee is like 50yo general, not 25yo game developer
Lee looks like a poor hunter
I hope they cookin good
Happy Christmas lads
@@josenucre4094 happy christmas brother!
I'd say Gothic 2 Night of the Raven tried to come back to atmosphere of the Gothic 1
Yeah the emphasis is on "tried", but I totally get what you're saying.
An example for a castle youre talking about at 26:00 is Predjama Castle in Slovenia (have been there, it and Slovenia are really worth visiting). This would actually be sick to even expand on that idea. Im curious if this will change with the Stone Dragon
That is exactly the one I was talking about! Thanks for bringing it up!
Funny thing.. I never thought of that, but it would require them to get some permits xD
23:20 - Absolutely correct! It was a total machine melter, basically the "Can it run Crysis" meme, 6 years before Crysis. And while I was typing this - hot damn, Crysis came only SIX years later?!
1:17:45 - I think I've seen that one, too, and the guy who made that redesign didn't use AI, but rather painted over it. He's a character concept artist. :D
Exactly. Pretty incredible that it came out so "shortly" after that. Technology made huge leaps around that time.
@@vertigo7082 Bro Gothic I played exactly on realease, it was the BEST LEAP EVER CREATED and the graphics were mindblowing ! wth?
Face reveal! 😍 Merry Christmas, Vertigo, and everyone here in the comments section. 🌲
Merry Christmas Kai! I hope you will have some quality time with your family! Always a pleasure to see you here!
Yes you're right, the dodge rolling is how the new acrobatics work. However I'm not alone in finding this to very problematic. For one, roll dodging never belonged in a Gothic game. Also every subsequent RPG which implemented roll dodging without any restraints like stamina ultimately ended up with combat encounters regressing to a dodge fest where the whole thing looked cheesy and simplistic (take Arcania for example). Dodge rolling helps you cheese most encounters with its instant availability of s and also being a superior form of evasion compared to other options.
From what we know, the Gothic Remake doesn't impose any limits on roll dodging once we learn acrobatics. Quite a few people on the steam discussions expressed their dissatisfaction with this new addition and also pointed out how this game has started to resemble Arcania in certain ways (well Pollice was one of the producers of Arcania, so small wonder)
Maybe some meatbug ragout with rice and mushrooms? 🤔😄
When will be released ? I am dying here to replay UNIVERSE OF GOTHIC, the game who changed everything for me .♥♥♥
They should take their time. I want it to be really good and time is of great importance. No more I wanna see a rushed Gothic, we got plenty of that in the past.
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I think they will make Orcs more human even tho they are just a tribe in G1 which was sent there to advance as an army and that's why they recured to traditional type living which makes complete sense, so just adding more to the voice of them and maybe hear them speaking also will part up with the next release of the game which will be G3 if they continue the remake of all 3
MILTEN LOOKS AMAZING ALREADY
They must be cooking something
2:05:00 omg yes ! Best idea you had !
Oh brother, I just hope you have made good questions. I am tired of hearing the same shit on every article or interview. Looking forward to see this "Tomorrow"
Oh I didn't take part in the interview, it is from Gamestar magazine. I am just reacting to it!
100% they completely missed the mark with some of the characters! Especially Lee and Gomez! Oh and by the way why is the leader of the Mercenaries and a fire mage faces so dirty like they were in the mines...
I watch a Gothic remake video and get hyped, same old story every time... I know I should'nt believe everything I hear, but I want to believe the game will be good
1:01:55 CORRECT YOU ARE RIGHT !
35:00 Biggest COPIUM EVER, BECOMING AN ORC ARMY IN ORC CAMP ! WTF
at this point it's clear that the game will be good, the question is it will be just good or a very good one?
It's gonna be like Arcania with roll dodging now available
I'm the heretic that wanted character creator for the remake, your nameless so why nor choose how you look like?
Yes, Gothic1 back then was absolutly stunning (Night of the Raven was outdated) but G1 was relesed in the same year when, for example Diablo 2 was. Literally ixeleted game. Similar games but with smaller world back in 2001 was Max Payne or year later in 2002 Mafia 1. Gothic had biggest world and you could roam freely. Far more challenging. So yeah, interviewer was horribly wrong.
I feel like you are unsure about your own prefference and how you saw the game, I can assure you your feelings about the game are not your own perspective :) and it's good to push that perspective of what gothic made us love it !
Can you elaborate on that?
@vertigo7082 you should be 100 % confident, i feel you are 90%. Seeing the direction they go ,which is vastly different in many aspects make everyone wonder if are we not stuck just loving gothic as it is and can t see it otherwise. Yes, but when mentioning what made gothic great you are 100% right 85ish % sure you should still request that. There was a minute apecifically for that but I can t find it. Aniway thanks for the 2 h movie. Was one of the best !
@@san4ndreas103 Well I can't be really confident because I haven't played a final version. Judging by designs and gameplay I think there is still a way to go but overall I am looking forward to the release.
Sometimes I embrace changes, sometimes not so much. I know that I am not walking an entirely straight edge here, but man, I am but a human: flawed.
@@vertigo7082 trust me Change is always good for us humans. It's something not all can do but that's the good way to go about everything philosophically. But yes about Gothic it should have some solid backbone gameplay like the original, no sliding, not different skinny characters it should be the stone in some aspects thats still the stone in the remake.
Blaming Björn Pankratz for the end of Piranha Bytes is a bit easy. After all, those were team decisions. And yes, Elex 2 is a terrible game.
According to some sources, the team always wanted to return but he got in their way for whatever reason. I guess it is hard to create a game that lives up to G1 and G2 but they had enough time.
@@vertigo7082 Yes, there were divergent opinions within the team, but that shouldn't have been shared in public. And, as I said, it was a team decision after all.
And let's be honest: wound another instalment of Gothic have lived up to the expectation, with the outdated technology we know from Elex 1 and 2?
When Genome was developed, it was a greal novel engine for Gothic 3. But using the same engine 20 years later tells you a lot about Piranha Bytes. In their early days, they were on par with Bethesda, with Gothic 1 and 2 prevailing over Morrowind and probably Oblivion as well.
But another Gothic title with the technology of Elex and Elex 2 would never have been a match to Starfield or even Fallout 4.
So, I highly doubt that the decision to make Elex 2 rather than another Gothic title led to the downfall of Piranha Bytes. On the contrary: a fairly produced Gothic which doesn't live up to the expectations, would have been an even bigger disappointment. And in this light, Björn Pankratz was only realistic proposing not to make another Gothic instalment. They didn't have then means to make it good.
@@NikiokoBjorn certainly didn't learn from the limited success of Elex 1. All he needed to do was to retain whatever was good in the first game, fix the rough areas and add a few more innovative ideas (pretty much like how Gothic 2 improved over Gothic 1). Instead he decided to reinvent the whole wheel and created a product which is probably on par with, if not worse than R2
Yo i dont like THIS Lee too
He whack!
Completely disagree with bloodflies eyes with you. The moment you said "I don't want to see danger at night". In this gothic magical world glowing bloodflies eyes in my opinion would be good idea. Because this unreal engine 5 environment will be full of light sources at night. Remember the forest with stone circle in gothic 2 how glowing the forest is. I don't think those eyes will be glowing so hard that it will be unimmersive.
The glowing stuff near the stonehenge are ambient lights that emphasize the magical nature of this place. Glowing eyes just make enemies easily avoidable in the night.
I guess everyone has their own opinions but this is not merely a visual effect because it has gameplay implications.
Wow you have a face :3
Sometimes I do!
If they allow moding by community the game will be great none the less !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!