![]() ![]() The result is a game that would ordinarily be action heavy, like a graphically superior version of Torchlight, had the overall story and action not been so dull. Sound interesting to you? Yeah, me neither, but read on anyway, or I’ll have to look for a real job, and we all know how awful this job market is right now.Gothic 4 is an over-the-shoulder-camera RPG much like Oblivion or Mass Effect, but it leaves much of the role-playing activities out. What it does have are mole rats and lots of them. Gothic 4 is an as on-the-rails RPG as I’ve ever seen, and exceedingly light on RPG elements, and soft on dramatic action. Anyway, if the previous entries in the Gothic series were sandbox style, then Gothic 4 represents a significant departure from those. ![]() ![]() Better for all of us if we just forget that I mentioned it at all. OK, that’s not quite true – I think I recall a friend of mine several years ago telling me that Gothic 2 was a bug riddled but generally fun sandbox-style RPG, but that’s hearsay, and I could well be mis-remembering the entire conversation. And I don’t mean the Dragon-Age-didn’t-play-it rings no bells, I mean the name Gothic means nothing to me. Secondly, unless some unusual quirk on the part of the game developers led them to name this Gothic 4 without any prequels, there likely have been three other entries in the Gothic series, but they ring no bells with me. And though I explored every corner of Mass Effect, I never touched the sequel. So, while I played Oblivion (and the expansion Shivering Isle) for maybe 150 hours, and Fallout 3 and its expansions for well over 200 hours, I missed Dragon Age completely. For one, though I like RPGs a great deal, I tend to fixate on one in particular for a very long time and play it to exhaustion, and so miss many fine entries into the RPG market that would serve as a basis of comparison. I am likely not the best person to be reviewing Arcania: Gothic 4. The Ugly: which I hesitate to call an RPG as most contemporary role-playing elements are missing The Bad: containing a lackluster and somewhat dull adventure ![]()
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