Gothic Chronicles Of Myrtana: Archolos mod for Gothic 2

[Aconitum]

I'd recommend janky amateur garbage like Velaya or Returning before Odyssey.

I can agree with Velaya, but I personally wouldn't recommend Returning. Tried playing a few different versions as they were coming out, but always gave up. It's not just the gameplay, but from what I played, the story it added felt like some bad, teenage fanfiction.
Can totally recommend Wanderer though. Tried playing it with a dictionary when it first came out (because it was Gothic with guns) and shit was great even though I couldn't understand anything.

 

[notpl]

I'd recommend janky amateur garbage like Velaya or Returning before Odyssey.

I can agree with Velaya, but I personally wouldn't recommend Returning. Tried playing a few different versions as they were coming out, but always gave up. It's not just the gameplay, but from what I played, the story it added felt like some bad, teenage fanfiction.
Can totally recommend Wanderer though. Tried playing it with a dictionary when it first came out (because it was Gothic with guns) and shit was great even though I couldn't understand anything.

Returning is what I recommend if someone really, REALLY loves Gothic 2 and wishes it were 250 hours long. It may have some cringe and a great heaping spoonful of slavjank on top of the already significant krautjank, but nothing else does what it does.

 

[Outlander]

For Gothic 2 just use L'Hiver.

 

[thesecret1]

I can agree with Velaya, but I personally wouldn't recommend Returning. Tried playing a few different versions as they were coming out, but always gave up. It's not just the gameplay, but from what I played, the story it added felt like some bad, teenage fanfiction.

I tried it. The story it added was terrible, and I mean TERRIBLE crock of shit, but I enjoyed the added difficulty, mobs, and even some quests quite a lot.

Returning is what I recommend if someone really, REALLY loves Gothic 2 and wishes it were 250 hours long.

Yeah, that's me. I think it's pretty good, tbh, if only they put a lid on their fanfiction...

 

[Alphons]

Remember that one Water Mage in NotR mentioning a giant, empty, boring desert beyond the mountains in Jarkendar?
Have you ever played NotR and after defeating Raven thought "Man, wouldn't it be a great if he just got wounded instead and teleported me to that vast and empty, forsaken by Adanos hellhole"?
Have you ever wanted to wander aimlesslly for 30 hours, trying to decipher poorly written objectives and navigate through a land without any landmarks?
Have you ever thought that one more mandatory 20 hour long dungeon just before Irdorath would be just swell?
Have you ever wanted to see Gothic's engine melt down by rigging a giant battle between hundred orcs and every single human on Khorinis?

If you've answered YES, Returning was made for you.

 

[thesecret1]

The appeal of Returning 2.0 was in setting the difficulty to legendary and carefully sneaking past the orcs and snappers to get to that one field raider you can kill for some of that sweet, sweet XP. Every time you got stronger and could finally take on a tougher enemy type, you felt like the fucking king of the world, especially since actually scrounging up the XP needed to get to that point was a herculean task. Gold was naturally also in extremely short supply, and straying off the path in the early game often equated to suicide (hell, even the path itself was crawling with enemies). It was rough and shitty in many aspects, but I still had a blast.

 

[Aconitum]

Remember that one Water Mage in NotR mentioning a giant, empty, boring desert beyond the mountains in Jarkendar?
Have you ever played NotR and after defeating Raven thought "Man, wouldn't it be a great if he just got wounded instead and teleported me to that vast and empty, forsaken by Adanos hellhole"?
Have you ever wanted to wander aimlesslly for 30 hours, trying to decipher poorly written objectives and navigate through a land without any landmarks?
Have you ever thought that one more mandatory 20 hour long dungeon just before Irdorath would be just swell?
Have you ever wanted to see Gothic's engine melt down by rigging a giant battle between hundred orcs and every single human on Khorinis?

If you've answered YES, Returning was made for you.

 

[Inhabitants of Khorinis]

Love me some monty python

 

[Tacgnol]

I'd recommend janky amateur garbage like Velaya or Returning before Odyssey.

I can agree with Velaya, but I personally wouldn't recommend Returning. Tried playing a few different versions as they were coming out, but always gave up. It's not just the gameplay, but from what I played, the story it added felt like some bad, teenage fanfiction.
Can totally recommend Wanderer though. Tried playing it with a dictionary when it first came out (because it was Gothic with guns) and shit was great even though I couldn't understand anything.

Returning is what I recommend if someone really, REALLY loves Gothic 2 and wishes it were 250 hours long. It may have some cringe and a great heaping spoonful of slavjank on top of the already significant krautjank, but nothing else does what it does.

Sounds like the Gothic equivalent of those russian stalker soup mods.

 

[Anthedon]

Remember that one Water Mage in NotR mentioning a giant, empty, boring desert beyond the mountains in Jarkendar?
Have you ever played NotR and after defeating Raven thought "Man, wouldn't it be a great if he just got wounded instead and teleported me to that vast and empty, forsaken by Adanos hellhole"?
Have you ever wanted to wander aimlesslly for 30 hours, trying to decipher poorly written objectives and navigate through a land without any landmarks?
Have you ever thought that one more mandatory 20 hour long dungeon just before Irdorath would be just swell?
Have you ever wanted to see Gothic's engine melt down by rigging a giant battle between hundred orcs and every single human on Khorinis?

If you've answered YES, Returning was made for you.

Not going to lie, I'm (morbidly) curious now.

 

[Alphons]

It's an artistic choice to use slow motion in this battle, just like in "300".

 

[agris]

Alphons you have to stop this madness, i'm a man with a family and a job... the mods. they just. keep. coming.

 

[Mauman]

It's an artistic choice to use slow motion in this battle, just like in "300".

Good Lord, that poor game engine.

Made me laugh though.

edit - also, as an after thought, I feel like this game is warping my sense when it comes to rpg loot.

Going into the Fire Mage house to steal stuff - a couple of potions, scrolls....cool.

A bowl full of apples? HOLY SHIT YES!!!

 

[HoboForEternity]

rob the apples in valerio vineyard and make several dozen of apple pies. become as gods.

 

[Danikas]

rob the apples in valerio vineyard and make several dozen of apple pies. become as gods.

There is also a trader who sells ony apples in the port district of the city I got about 60 apples from him before he said his stock is empty. (you get +750 exp if you buy all the apples from him)

 

[HoboForEternity]

i guess big ben ate almost all the apples in archolos

 

[Mauman]

rob the apples in valerio vineyard and make several dozen of apple pies. become as gods.

There is also a trader who sells ony apples in the port district of the city I got about 60 apples from him before he said his stock is empty. (you get +750 exp if you buy all the apples from him)

He only sold me 4 or so for the day and told me to come back tommorow. I did and he wasn't there.
I'm still hoping he'll show up again. Granted, I'm still in chapter 2 so maybe that's why.

But yeah, I've LONG since gotten the Valerio Vineyard apples.

Next up is trading every single gold nugget for snack packs in the mines. Just got to get a little bit stronger so I can beat up the guards that DARE think they can have some of my precious snack pack nuggets.

 

[Jasede]

Without trying to alarm you, if after resting for two days he is still not at the spot in the poor quarter, your save is corrupted.

I feel a little empty. I am in the last "big dungeon" of the game and the usual Gothic weariness has set in -- when you are so strong that you do not even bother eating apples anymore, or spending your last few LP, or killing every enemy on the map. I feel content. Soon it will be over. It was glorious.

 

[Mauman]

Without trying to alarm you, if after resting for two days he is still not at the spot in the poor quarter, your save is corrupted.

Well...guess I should be thankful he just showed up


That's kinda scary....any other signs of corruption I should be looking out for?

 

[agris]

I’m right there with you Jasede, I chased the dragon and now it’s time to come back to earth.

this mod is fentanyl while gothic 1 & 2 are merely heroine.

 

[Danikas]

Without trying to alarm you, if after resting for two days he is still not at the spot in the poor quarter, your save is corrupted.

Well...guess I should be thankful he just showed up


That's kinda scary....any other signs of corruption I should be looking out for?

Missing npcs are always a problem.

 

[Jasede]

Just NPCs disappearing. But it is easy to confuse with NPCs just being somewhere due to a bounty, quest or their schedule, so you can't rely on this as your only tell. But that's the major giveaway, as well as NPCs that are supposed to start a conversation with you not talking to you automatically.

agris
Wow, you are an ancient poster. This mod has us great old ones coming out of the woodwork, huh? I love how your avatar suits your post. It was great to experience this adventure together, friend.

 

[Tweed]

So after almost 100 hours I finished it. It's been nice to have a game so well done that I could just binge on it nonstop to the end. If PB had any sense they'd cancel the remake right now and just have these guys make games in the Gothic 2 engine. Easily the best RPG of 2021.

 

[Murk]

So after almost 100 hours I finished it. It's been nice to have a game so well done that I could just binge on it nonstop to the end. If PB had any sense they'd cancel the remake right now and just have these guys make games in the Gothic 2 engine. Easily the best RPG of 2021.

PB has no control over it, unfortunately. THQ no-dick passed it to some new studio from spain.

sad.

 

[Konjad]

Meanwhile modern "real" Gothic:

 

[Justicar]

Meanwhile modern "real" Gothic: