>>3936125
It's a great twist, but it retroactively ruins Archolos for me.

>>3936125
It's honestly impressive how the Poles managed to make a named character with less personality than the Nameless hero.

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>>3936125
>mug him for his sword and crossbow in in the first chapter
punished Scar

>>3936132
It was a shit twist
>Here's how you fixed everything, good job hero
>Also you get thrown into the barrier so we can railroad you one last time
I'm cool with fan canon being picked up in other mods, but this one is just bad.

>>3936137
Lel
Scar does have personality too. It's just nasty and brutish.
>And I'm also making sure the women get their's, hahahaha

>>3936282
>>Here's how you fixed everything, good job hero
>>Also you get thrown into the barrier so we can railroad you one last time
I will never understand why people are butthurt about this. It's believable that a nobody rapidly gaining influence is bound to be noticed by the elites and either recruited or destroyed.

I think it's less weird than Raven, some literal nobody with no personality, becoming the main villain in NotR.

>>3936457
Raven at least is a moderately bad guy becoming even worse. Scarvin is the hero becoming a villain.
#notmymarvin

>>3937095
Marvin killed his father and robbed his mother's grave. Sure, he is a nice person for most of the game but he is not crystal clear. Besides, fallen hero is a great trope.

Being able to kill really strong NPCs with super strong gear and lots of experience by yourself is incredibly immersion breaking.

Is Archolos worth playing if you're not Polish?

>>3937506
I really really loved it
the main city is outrageously impressive, one of the best CRPG cities of all time

>>3937506
Yes, there is a fair bit of replayability
>Can join the Guard as a faction, they give you the option to specialize as either a crossbowman(unlike NoTR here it is very viable option) or 2 handed melee combatant
>Trade guild(Araxos), bowman or 1 handed melee
each specialization comes with their own quests too
or if you feel like ditching your faction, later on you can also go independent with unique armor and quests (plural it depends on the faction you ditched)
you also have to make a choice between your professions
>Butcher
>Alchemist
>Blacksmith
>Carpenter (the "not thieves guild")
>Bowmaker

>>3937095
A decade goes by between Archolos and Gothic 1

>>3937541
crossbow is plenty viable in NotR
I can't remember if it was actually really good or just good enough to be viable because I did it like 10 years ago but I definitely did a crossbow run.

>>3936137
>with less personality than the Nameless hero
In my language the Nameless hero had a lot of personality, though he had two fairly different personalities depending on the voice actor.

>>3937506
Yeah sure
If you're russian or at least german

>game called Gothic
>no cute Goth girls in it

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>>3937671
She doesn't look cute at all, she reminds me of "sexy babe.png" from those shitty German porn games in the 90s (like the Lula games or something)

>>3937692
their file names all like babe_1, babe_2.

>>3937570
>plenty viable as long as you skip all the crossbow training(meaning you won't hot anything that isn't right on front of you) to scrape together enough str and dex to use it and deal actual damage
no, fuck that gay balance

>>3937707
NTA but I think the crossbow was designed as a supplement for a melee-focused character, while the master sword was a supplement for an archer, so neither of them was supposed to be the core of one's build.

>>3937714
in original Gothic 2 yes
Notr removed that idea completely, there just isn't enough LPs to have a decent handling on crossbow
in Archolos you can be okay swordsman and a master crossbowman, hell you can you can even wield high dex weapons and still train str and handling if you want to roleplay as duelist/spearman
NoTR's balance also destroyed paladin magic (it sucks dicks in the expansion)

>>3937737
>Notr removed that idea completely, there just isn't enough LPs to have a decent handling on crossbow
Eh, I think you can do it if you use tablets and potions optimally.
>NoTR's balance also destroyed paladin magic (it sucks dicks in the expansion)
That part is true, the magic becomes more of a flavor rather than a tool.
>in Archolos you can be okay swordsman and a master crossbowman, hell you can you can even wield high dex weapons and still train str and handling if you want to roleplay as duelist/spearman
My Archolos build was bullshit. Had high STR and DEX, used one-handed DEX melee weapons, I had a crossbow (I didn't use it much, admittedly), and maxed out spell circles, although my mana pool was rather humble. It wasn't a problem, though, because I used the mana regen set.

I just played through Gothic 1. It was nauseating dogshit. The entire game had me running joyless errands. Nice jogging simulator for homosexuals. The end game swarmed me with hordes of enemies until it was unceremoniously over. My only other Gothic experience was 3 in 2006 which was garbage. I'm not holding my breath for 2. If 2 games so far were bad I'm not expecting a masterpiece from the most hyped of them.