i've never played a gothic game but i see no character creation

[Freaky Furry]

no character creation no buy from me with rpgs, their are very few that i will play without character creation

[Clail]

I guess you'll never play a Zelda or Witcher game either?
You're loss m8.

[Freaky Furry]

i own the the witcher 3 and 1 and i played and beat zelda i perfer the minish cap but for something like what gothic is it should have character creation i mean seriously nameless hero i mean come on if you don't let me pick genders

[Ced.Winchester]

Dude...it's a game with a set hero. Been like that since 2001. Why complain about that now dude? :D

[Tanist]

Originally posted by iv'e been naughty:

i own the the witcher 3 and 1 and i played and beat zelda i perfer the minish cap but for something like what gothic is it should have character creation i mean seriously nameless hero i mean come on if you don't let me pick genders

You aren't playing "you", you are playing a specific character in a story.

[Niele]

fact is, the character has it's own personality so you can't deviate much from the role. the story for gothic 1 & 2 is set, no different endings, the only thing you can choose during your journey is who you side with and who your teachers are. (you have heavy different endings in gothic 3, but some people don't put gothic 3 in the same basket as gothic 1 and 2. I enjoyed it personally.)
wouldn't be bad tho if in the game there was some kind of facial hair customization / tatoo, but i would not push customization further than that.

[Szil]

Hahahahaha, great bait, OP.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by Szil:

Hahahahaha, great bait, OP.

No, not at all. OP refers to The Witcher 3 and 1, but then insists that Gothic should offer a character creator. That makes no sense at all.

Btw, with regard to the predefined protagonist aka "the nameless hero":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_(video_game)#Plot

[Freaky Furry]

Originally posted by Cohesion.Bear:

Dude...it's a game with a set hero. Been like that since 2001. Why complain about that now dude? :D

yes a nameless hero...........

[Freaky Furry]

Originally posted by 𝒩𝒾𝑒𝓁𝑒:

fact is, the character has it's own personality so you can't deviate much from the role. the story for gothic 1 & 2 is set, no different endings, the only thing you can choose during your journey is who you side with and who your teachers are. (you have heavy different endings in gothic 3, but some people don't put gothic 3 in the same basket as gothic 1 and 2. I enjoyed it personally.)
wouldn't be bad tho if in the game there was some kind of facial hair customization / tatoo, but i would not push customization further than that.

again nameless hero......... so why not

[Arctic]

Originally posted by I've been naughty:

again nameless hero......... so why not

"Nameless" is not "Characterless".
He is no blanc slate but he gets treated as such.
A big chunk of the so called "hero"'s charm are his predefined character lines
and the nonexisting name.
Noone wants to know his former self, his persona developes around the choices you make.
His dialogues are set, recorded pieces.

But i agree on changing his appearance. You could do that to some degree.

Even a female character could be possible.
They have to spend double the budget on MC voice acting tho...
She has to get a similar personality too...
But in this non gender equal world it seems off for me to be honest. ;)

[Freaky Furry]

Thank you for agreeing with me

[Tomha]

Calling the protagonist a hero is stretching it to be frank. He's a criminal with no particular loyalty to anyone beyond possibly helping associates who don't even know his name. And we often resort to mass looting, murdering, and lying on a regular basis.

Also taking into account of unleashing every dangerous criminal onto an unsuspecting island.

We also helped ensure every Paladin in the Colony in Gothic 2 will die, which is cannon.

And in Gothic 3 we we effectively caused a massive vacuum of power throughout the lands and then just left, and act all high and mighty with self rightousness as the ungreatful peons are still killing eachother because of our "charity." This being the basis for Gothic 3's expansion.

And in Arcana, we become the villain.

The character is kind of just this psychotic force of nature really. As for not being allowed to customize out guy: You're not entirely right on that account either, there have been plentiful accounts of players using cheat codes, and mods to alter the main character's appearance to suite their wants. It's possible such a thing will be possible in the finished edition.

[Freaky Furry]

Originally posted by Tomha:

Calling the protagonist a hero is stretching it to be frank. He's a criminal with no particular loyalty to anyone beyond possibly helping associates who don't even know his name. And we often resort to mass looting, murdering, and lying on a regular basis.

Also taking into account of unleashing every dangerous criminal onto an unsuspecting island.

We also helped ensure every Paladin in the Colony in Gothic 2 will die, which is cannon.

And in Gothic 3 we we effectively caused a massive vacuum of power throughout the lands and then just left, and act all high and mighty with self rightousness as the ungreatful peons are still killing eachother because of our "charity." This being the basis for Gothic 3's expansion.

And in Arcana, we become the villain.

The character is kind of just this psychotic force of nature really. As for not being allowed to customize out guy: You're not entirely right on that account either, there have been plentiful accounts of players using cheat codes, and mods to alter the main character's appearance to suite their wants. It's possible such a thing will be possible in the finished edition.

He's a hero in the criminals eyes at least

[Arctic]

Originally posted by I've been naughty:

He's a hero in the criminals eyes at least

Haha, nope! Noone incriminates oneself of being bad or evil.
Perspective changes with the individual.
For him, WE are the criminals who want to stop his righteous rule over his realm,
he fought for his power to bring peace and order and he is insane enough to think everything is lost without him.

And until he reaches this point he never was a hero in any sane perspective.
He pissed off a lot of people to get what he wanted in G1.

In G2 he first started to think he has to fight dragons and orks because they would conquer, kill and enslave everything including him. Noone believes him, as he tries to explain how he saved the colony/world from an evil archdemon and how he is the only one who could wield the power of Innos against Beliars creatures.

In G3, the first thing he does is killing Orks without thinking twice. He could choose factions but regardless of those, he did choose the power to change the fate of others for his believes. The addon just bridged the idea of him being king Robar III in Arcania...

[Freaky Furry]

....... nerd