![]() The story is to some extent non-linear - the player can decide which faction to join, which influences the path the story will follow. The devs give us a limited open world, where we can find, among others, camps set up by ore diggers, mines, orc village and numerous ruins. In Gothic, the action is shown from third-person perspective. The players, on the other hand, take on the role of a nameless prisoner, who soon after crossing the barrier turns out to be made for much bigger things than working in a mine. Unfortunately, spell got out of control and eventually the dome surrounded the whole area of the Valley of Mines, imprisoning both the convicts and guards, as well as the mages themselves together with an ancient evil lurking in the land. In order to prevent prisoners from escaping, the mages created a barrier that could only be penetrated from the outside. The convicts sent there have to work hard to extract ore in the Valley of Mines. Gothic takes us to the fantasy kingdom of Myrtana, whose ruler - Rhobar II - created a penal colony on the island of Khorinis. While the original was the work of the German studio Piranha Bytes, the described game was developed by the Spanish team at Barcelona Studio, created by THQ Nordic, which from May 2019 holds the rights to the brand, and also owns the team at Piranha Bytes. After that, THQ Nordic is eager to learn from the players through a survey following the completion of the prototype, whether and how it should proceed with the production of a full Gothic Remake, or leave the heritage and the great memories associated with it untouched.Gothic is a remake of an RPG released in 2001 under the same title. They can play the yet-untitled Gothic Remake project and roam around the Mining Colony of Khorinis. ![]() Today, a free playable prototype (Gothic Playable Teaser) of what a new Gothic could look and feel like will appear in the Steam Library of everyone who owns a game from Piranha Bytes, be it Gothic 1-3, Risen 1-3, or ELEX. To find out what the true Gothic fanbase thinks of a modern remake of the cult classic RPG, THQ Nordic and its new Spanish development team, THQ Nordic Barcelona, will start an experiment. Here’s the Trailer for the Gothic Playable Teaser: Is it a Gothic Remake? Not yet, but it can become one: THQ Nordic releases playable prototype on Steam, asks for the player's opinionīarcelona, Spain / Vienna, Austria, December 13th, 2019: „Welcome to the colony!“ – how is it possible that 18 years have passed since we first heard that phrase at the beginning of Gothic, the game that set a milestone in the history of German fantasy RPGs, such as Risen and Elex? Since then, we all have grown older, acquired some wrinkles, and are laughing at how we look in pictures from the early 2000s – or how games looked back then.īut, what if we could turn back time, take everything that was great almost 20 years ago, and put it in a beautiful modern look (let’s say powered by Unreal Engine 4) along with improving some things that were not that great, like the combat system, for example? With more than 43.000 answered surveys and over 9.000 (yes, really!) reviews on Steam and various discussions on all social media platforms, there is enough data to check.Įager to check for yourself? As we want to start a transparent and open production with the community from the very start of the project, we are happy to offer you the results of our survey in a neat PDF file or - for the people who really want to dig into the raw data - the entire dataset with all 43.111 participants included.ĭownload the raw data (.csv and. On the evening (CET) of February 16 2020, THQ Nordic took the survey offline, and hereby publicly releases the raw data of the survey, as well as highlight graphs. Over 180.000 players have played the playable teaser so far. Next step is to set up a Barcelona based studio and head into main productionīarcelona, Spain / Vienna, Austria, February 19th, 2020: Just a little over two months after releasing a playable teaser for the Gothic Remake and asking the players for their feedback, the answer is clear: The fans are up for a new "old" Gothic game and the vast majority (read: 94,8%) was in favour to develop a remake of the iconic German RPG Gothic, originally released in 2001.
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