Gothic Series : Othor Games

» Sat Sep 03, 2011 8:50 am

I have the Gothic series in my Steam library (they came as a package with the dreadful Arcania Gothic 4).

So far I haven't played any except for Gothic 4, and I'm wondering which one I should try first?

Gothic 1, Gothic 2 Gold Edition, or Gothic 3?

Is it a continuing story of sorts, or can you pick up anywhere in the franchise? Also, are mods available for these games?

» Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:46 pm

I recommend starting at the beginning, personally. the first one is a bit more awkward than the second in some ways, but there is a continuing story (with recurring characters and such) and it may be harder 'going back' from Gothic 2. The scope is also a bit smaller and it has a ton of peculiar idiosyncrasies that contrast with later games in fun ways.

Don't play the third without the community patch.

» Sat Sep 03, 2011 3:06 am

Start from G1, but my favourite is Gothic 2.

» Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:52 pm

I have the Gothic series in my Steam library (they came as a package with the dreadful Arcania Gothic 4).

So far I haven't played any except for Gothic 4, and I'm wondering which one I should try first?

Gothic 1, Gothic 2 Gold Edition, or Gothic 3?

Is it a continuing story of sorts, or can you pick up anywhere in the franchise? Also, are mods available for these games?

Gothic 2 with Night of The Raven is the apex of the series IMO. Gothic is a fine game but seems a bit unpolished and barren (and very buggy). Never played 3 or 4 (as my patience with Piranha Bytes has worn thin).

Start with Gothic then move onto 2 as this expands upon the story. You may find http://wiki.worldofgothic.com/Misc/Console+commands extremely helpful for debugging.

I also have heard there are problems trying to get 1-3 running on x64 architecture.

» Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:43 am

Gothic 1, as has been said because of the continuing story and recurring characters etc. I'd say you could play any of them in whatever order and understand what's going on but since it seems you'll be playing them all anyway, go for them in order.

» Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:49 am

OK, I downloaded and installed Gothic 1, thanks for your recommendations!

However, i'm having trouble figuring out how to enable 1920x1080 resolution display.

It seems the maximum resolution possible is 1600x900. Do I need to use some sort of mod or unofficial patch to enable 1080p?

EDIT: oh no, the very first time I tried to run it I got an Access Violation error, reading as follows:

Spoiler

======================================= UNHANDLED EXCEPTION OCCURED ======================================================
======================================= CRASH INFOS: =====================================================================
GOTHIC 1.08j, Parser Version: 50
User: Admin, CPUType: 586, Mem: 0 MB total, 0 MB free
Startup Options:
=============================================== CALLSTACK : ==============================================================
0023:005E4019 (0x007F66DC 0x06366274 0x06360034 0x00000002) GOTHIC.EXE, zCVertexBufferManager::UnlockOpenVertexBuffers()+265 byte(s), D:\dev\Gothic\current_work\ZenGin\_Dieter\zVertexBuffer.cpp, line 387+2 byte(s)
0023:0060C320 (0x00000001 0x00000000 0x007F66DC 0x0160FB40) GOTHIC.EXE, zCWorld::LoadWorld()+352 byte(s), D:\dev\Gothic\current_work\ZenGin\_Dieter\zWorld.cpp, line 2351
0023:006F470B (0x0160FB40 0x00000000 0x0160FBFC 0x0FFB9738) GOTHIC.EXE, oCWorld::LoadWorld()+731 byte(s), D:\dev\Gothic\current_work\gothic\_Ulf\oWorld.cpp, line 447+20 byte(s)
0023:006561C5 (0x0160FB40 0x0160FB70 0xFFFFFFFE 0x0160FB6C) GOTHIC.EXE, oCGame::LoadWorldStartup()+277 byte(s), D:\dev\Gothic\current_work\gothic\_Ulf\oGame.cpp, line 2935+65 byte(s)
0023:00655505 (0xFFFFFFFE 0x0160FBF8 0x0160FCB4 0x00000011) GOTHIC.EXE, oCGame::LoadWorld()+421 byte(s), D:\dev\Gothic\current_work\gothic\_Ulf\oGame.cpp, line 26800023:00652D44 (0xFFFFFFFE 0x0160FBF8 0x00000000 0x0160FC6C) GOTHIC.EXE, oCGame::LoadGame()+260 byte(s), D:\dev\Gothic\current_work\gothic\_Ulf\oGame.cpp, line 2017
0023:00652D44 (0xFFFFFFFE 0x0160FBF8 0x00000000 0x0160FC6C) GOTHIC.EXE, oCGame::LoadGame()+260 byte(s), D:\dev\Gothic\current_work\gothic\_Ulf\oGame.cpp, line 2017
0023:0042A890 (0x00000000 0x0176404A 0x01764049 0x0160FE84) GOTHIC.EXE, CGameManager::Menu()+2528 byte(s), D:\dev\Gothic\current_work\gothic\_Bert\oGameManager.cpp, line 1439+331 byte(s)
0023:004271F8 (0x007F7038 0x77084B9F 0x000609E2 0x0FFB9738) GOTHIC.EXE, CGameManager::Run()+1064 byte(s), D:\dev\Gothic\current_work\gothic\_Bert\oGameManager.cpp, line 679
0023:006F627B (0x6B636F4C 0x544F475F 0x00434948 0x00720065) GOTHIC.EXE, MainProg()+75 byte(s), D:\dev\Gothic\current_work\gothic\_Ulf\Phoenix.cpp, line 115
0023:00500533 (0x005C003A 0x00690057 0x0064006E 0x0077006F) GOTHIC.EXE, HandledWinMain()+963 byte(s), D:\dev\Gothic\current_work\ZenGin\_Carsten\zWin32.cpp, line 772

» Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:52 am

Does anyone know if there is a patch out for Gothic 3 yet?