A Love Letter to GOTHIC's Open World Design ➣ Game Design Focus - RagnarRox

The trend of streamlined open world games these days makes me nostalgic for how games like Gothic and it’s brilliant sequel Gothic 2 approached open worlds back in the day.
I’ve been wanting to talk about this wonderful action RPG for a very long time, so here’s my most important reasons why Gothic’s open world design is still, after over 14 years since its release, amazing!

Both games can be purchased at Steam:
Gothic 1: http://store.steampowered.com/app/65540/
Gothic 2: http://store.steampowered.com/app/39510/

And gog.com:
Gothic 1: https://www.gog.com/game/gothic
Gothic 2: https://www.gog.com/game/gothic_2_gol...

In this video, I use a modded version of the two games, adding high resolution textures and Direct X 11 support to the games.

Check this video for details on how to install it (and skip the L’Hiver modification [Steap 2] if you don’t want the original map to be altered)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdqXu...


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Games shown in this video (in order of appearance):

Fallout 4
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Dead Rising 3
GTA V
Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag
Mad Max
The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
Gothic 2
Fallout 2
Goat Simulator
Minecraft
GTA 4
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Gothic
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

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