Wow. Very short.

[IndigoAK]

It took me 44 hours to beat the base game, the expansion only took me 3 and I felt like I was looking around. Maybe I was just overleveled or somthing.

[Barbazz]

You were not overleveled or anything. I started from scratch, I never played the base game. It took me 6 hours. I died once during the whole game. Definitely it is WAY TOO SHORT and WAY TOO EASY!

[theodnum]

Originally posted by BlackBerron:

You were not overleveled or anything. I started from scratch, I never played the base game. It took me 6 hours. I died once during the whole game. Definitely it is WAY TOO SHORT and WAY TOO EASY!

did you play on Gothic mode ?

[Barbazz]

Originally posted by theodnum:

Originally posted by BlackBerron:

You were not overleveled or anything. I started from scratch, I never played the base game. It took me 6 hours. I died once during the whole game. Definitely it is WAY TOO SHORT and WAY TOO EASY!

did you play on Gothic mode ?

Not really. I'll give it a try and let you know how it went. Thanks!

[Hannibal]

44 hours is too short? Most games today are 4 to 6 at best. Consider yourself lucky or spoiled.

[studmuffin]

Originally posted by Jimathus Grandi:

44 hours is too short? Most games today are 4 to 6 at best. Consider yourself lucky or spoiled.

he meant the base game arcania..fall of set. is the standalone expansion..its disgracefully priced and it only took me 3 hrs to complete.its an absolute disgrace.The base game is ok but its definatly not a gothic game and has no right being called one

[bezzegezjo]

My gametime: 7 hour. So easy on medium lvl and very short.

[Schlubotipelto]

The base game is ridiculously short too and can be beaten in around 10-15 hours. There is nothing in the base game. I haven't played the expansion, but the base game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and has almost no content by Gothic standards.

[Tiny Trees]

Arcania took me 48 hours. In a way I kind of hope Fall of Setariff is short.

It's not that I dislike it. Actually the opposite. However Arcania did get a bit long-winded. There were times when I just wanted to get to another destination but I had to fight my way through monsters. Not just a few which were expected but pack after pack of them.

I enjoy the combat, but endlessy walking backward while shooting arrows got tedious. However Arcania wasn't all like that and most of it was brilliant. I liked it. I forgot just how much until I started up FoS about half an hour ago, and saw the first view of the scenery. The guy standing on the end of the draw-bridge, and countryside behind him. I saw plants growing and couldn't wait to finish the chat to go pick them.

Arcania was a good game and I am stuck to understand why people didn't like it. Having said that I did not play any of the other Gothic games. It has just a few too many monsters which was my fault for playing on hard, as they'd be easier to beat on normal. Other than that only one complaint and a bug one people should be warned about. That place where you jump down a ledge on the main path, and can not get back up. You go down it once as part of the quest and come out and can come back round to it. If you go down though you can't get out because one of the gates on the path ahead is closed.

It's been at least six months since I finished Arcania. My above grumbles put me off the expansion slightly. Yet now I am seriously happy I started playing FoS.

[Tiny Trees]

It took me nine and half hours.

[Atech66]

I plated Arcania and it was fine went to FOS and the graphics were completely wacked out.. did they change engines or something? the water was all missing etc the faces you could see a piece of helmet and then teeth with an eyeball.. was unplayable