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Gothic Remake Is NOT What I Expected | First Impressions with Jason
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And next up on Jason's video game
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source, we got Gothic Remake. I got some
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impressions uh some thoughts about after
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playing uh past three or four days of uh
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Gothic Remake on a PlayStation 5 Pro. Um
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this is uh developed by Al Kima
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Interactive and uh published by THQ
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Nordic. Came out June 5th, 2026. Now
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originally this game came out 2001.
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Um, and this is a game that, you know, I
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seen over the internet over the decades
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that PC gamers coined as one of the
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goats, you know, um, one of the goat
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games back in 2001. I was at UW, UWM,
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attending WM and playing games like
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Devil May Cry 1 basically on a
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PlayStation 2. Hey, the PlayStation 2
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had an amazing catalog in 2001, 2002.
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Anyways, so you know, this is my first
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time actually playing Gothic because I
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was not a PC gamer back I didn't play
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the PC games back in the early 2000s.
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And uh yeah, this is a old school PC
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game. I've been gaming 40 years off and
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on. So I could tell you when the game's
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old school. This is old school, but it's
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wrapped in like a new skin. It's a
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remake of a 2001 game. Now,
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uh, this is one of the most [ __ ] perp
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perplexing games I played in a in a
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while because technically it's dog [ __ ]
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There's bugs, there's glitches. I mean,
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I can't even open a [ __ ] map without
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it the game freezing. I have to start
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the whole game over the PlayStation. So,
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there's a lot of technical issues with
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this. Uh, there were some updates and uh
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they added like some graphical modes and
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stuff. And I understand the remake does
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have some quality of life modes. And
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I'll get into quickly about um you can
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actually uh tame mounts in this game
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which you couldn't do in the original. I
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tamed a creature called a scavenger.
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These creatures with these skull face
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are pretty damn generic looking at this
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point. Little dinosaurs with skull faces
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and you could tame them there. You know
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there's a mission you got to collect
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ingredients and stuff and you could tame
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out mount. So there's that you know. So
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the traversal in the land is is I guess
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would be better. Like I said I can't
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compare this to the original. I did not
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play the original. I just played the the
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one that just released, right? Um it's
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perplexing. This game Gothic remake is
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perplexing. I mean, it is one of the
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best games I've played this year. Uh but
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yet it's it it's technically like dog
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[ __ ] basically. Um I have not played a
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game that had these many bugs, glitches,
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and crashes, but yet I'm loving it. You
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know, like I could see this game getting
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a 6.5 or getting a 10. I I as weird as
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that sound, I can see it. It it has that
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term. Now, I played a couple Eurogen
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style games over the years recently,
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like sort of recent like Risen Titan
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Lords. Uh you know, these are the games
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that are like in a vein of these type of
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style of uh uh Eurogen RPGs. Um which
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have a lot of charms. Some aren't that
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good, some aren't amazing. I also played
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the two Elix games, you know, the and a
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couple other like recent type of Euro
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RPGs. So, uh, Gothic is amazing and that
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has such a charm about his world and
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stuff. It's a dark fantasy world. The
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the hero is literally named hero and,
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uh, he's like a smartass. He's he
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doesn't at first he's dropped into this
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dome and he doesn't know what the hell's
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going on. He could he's dropped in, but
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he can't get out. He has to deliver a
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letter to the mages. There's three
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camps. There's an old camp, a new camp,
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and a swamp camp. I just joined uh I'm
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in chapter 2 now. I joined the old camp
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which is seem like the default camp to
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join first which has fire mages. Each
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camp has a culture you know they have a
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a pecking order of military. They have
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mages. They have guilds within each uh
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camp. They have each they each each got
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terminologies. They you know they they
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really have a culture like the swamp
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camp. They get high off of of swamp
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weed. Uh the the the uh old old camp
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which is the one I'm part of. you know,
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they're kind of like structured and
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that, you know, you pay some like
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mercenaries and these warriors called
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shadows and you know that the king of
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the land, I forgot the name of the the
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continent, whatever this takes place on,
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but you're inside a magical dome
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trapped. Okay. And there's a king called
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King Gomez. I just met him, Gomez. I
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just met him and um I am part of the
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shadow faction of those old old uh camp,
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right? So yeah, I explored all the camps
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pretty much and did a lot of quests.
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There's a well over 100 NPCs with
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dialogue trees and missions to give you
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and stuff. Um,
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this is old school. And as you can see,
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there really isn't much HUD. There's no
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map. There are maps. You got just like
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everything in Gothic. You have you have
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got to find an NPC trainer, an NPC to
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get to unlock gameplay mechanics. You're
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very weak in the beginning of Gothic.
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You have nothing. You're stupid. You're
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weak. You can't fight, you know. And the
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whole thing about it is that it doesn't
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hold your hand. This is a game that came
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out 2001. And I and I I'm assuming here,
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but I'm think it stays true to that
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because I play modern RPGs. This is not
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modern RPGs where all you got to do is
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walk around and kill [ __ ] and you could
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unlock different uh you could become a
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battle mage. Not in this. You got to
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find an NPC. You got to find a trainer.
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got to have certain uh criteria points
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laid out for like ore and something
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called LP that you need to actually get
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trained in. And uh you know, then you
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can upgrade your dexterity, strength. Uh
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you could you could buy maps. Everything
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takes ore, right? You can buy maps. Uh
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but like I said, you got to find the the
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trainers and you got to find the
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merchants and everything. Nothing's like
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there's no mini map, you know? You got
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to like find everything and earn
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everything yourself. So, a easy tip is
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that in the in the beginning of the
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game, you want to like lure enemies into
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a group of NPC guards or whatever, and
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they they'll kill all the all the
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enemies, and you can like grab XP and
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grab loot and stuff. You know, that is a
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loot system. It's it's a upgrading
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system. But to even become a blacksmith
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and use the the the the the blacksmith
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wheel, you got to like, you know, earn
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it. You know, this nothing comes easy in
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Gothic. Everything is earned. Um, you
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could any enemy can one-shot you. I
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don't even care if you're playing on the
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easy mode or the difficult mode. Like
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any enemy can oneshot you. You could
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just be walking around and stuff. And
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uh, leveling up, you earn level when you
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level up, you earn it. You know,
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it's an old school RPG. I'll just keep
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saying that. This is definitely the old
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school RPG wrapped in 2026
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skin. Uh, lockpicking. Yeah, I guess
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they changed the lockpicking. I made two
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videos on lockpicking. And yeah,
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lockpicking is a [ __ ] in this game. I
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don't even want to describe it, but it's
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it's it's a [ __ ] Uh the game has a lot
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of charm. Like I said, a lot of dialogue
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trees. There's no handholding. Uh
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the original game was created uh
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developed by Piranhabytes back in the
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day. Um,
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and I have played a few of their games
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in the past, but like rec more recent
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games, but yeah, Gothic is is very dark
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fantasy. I swear like I just want to
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turn on Danzig and listen to Mother
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while you play this [ __ ] It's very
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dark. You know, you think of Berserk,
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you think of Dark Souls. It has that
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charm in the world. Like it's But it's
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it's it's interesting because like I
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said, there's humor. Like when I first
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came to the old camp, there was this
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character called Mud. didn't do [ __ ]
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but walk by this guy. All of a sudden,
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mud's following you around. Hey, what
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are you doing, buddy? What are you? You
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know, he does this every like minute.
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Not even a minute. He will keep he'll
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keep stopping what you're doing. You
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could be talking to a merchant. All of a
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sudden, Mud will just just keep
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following you around and asking you
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questions and he's getting your [ __ ]
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nerves, you know, and all of a sudden
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you I at least I did, you know. I think
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I took a swing a couple swings at mud
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and eventually he stops following you
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around and stuff. But that's Gothic in a
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nutshell. It's like funny and cruel at
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the same time. is very dark. Uh, the
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writing is decent. Uh, you know, the
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NPCs are decent. The combat is just
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janky as [ __ ] I can never say honestly
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this combat is good. It's not. It's It's
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janky as [ __ ] But everything, I don't
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know how it comes together, but it does
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in a weird [ __ ] way. I mean, even the
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the uh the crashes and the bugs, they
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bug the hell out of me. But I'm still
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addicted. I want to I want to keep
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playing. I want to finish this [ __ ]
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It's like the story as you go on with
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the various camps and factions, you
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know, I'm just in a quarter of chapter 2
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and it's interesting. I want to keep
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playing. I want to keep leveling up. I
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know the loop now. The loop was not easy
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to get used to at first. Um because you
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got to memorize the whole damn uh map
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basically. If you don't buy a map, you
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got to memorize north,southeast, westy,
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you don't have a compass. So yeah, this
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is very old school. Atmosphere is thick.
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some good humor, you know, some good
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writing, you know. Um,
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yeah, I don't know. It's just a
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perplexing game, like I said, because
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technically it has a lot of issues. It
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really does.
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But, you know, I cannot honestly say to
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the old PC gamers that played this game
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in 2001 that it's a bad game. I can't
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say it, you know. I think it's a great
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game. It's just this just has technical
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issues, you know.
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So yeah, I'm playing as a battle mage at
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this point. I unlocked the firebolt. Um,
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like I said, each camp has a different
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like mage faction. One's water and I
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forgot what the other one was, but it's
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fire, water, and there's another one.
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And each camp has their idea and how to
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bring down the bear cuz basically, you
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know, you're put in there like as a
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criminal basically. It's like a big
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conclave and [ __ ] And everybody's
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trying to find their way out and
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everything. and you're like the clueless
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hero who's just throwing in and through
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circumstance and everything and he I'm
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think he's going to find a way out. You
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know, don't spoiler the story for me,
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but I think he's part he's part of the
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story and he's going to be a catalyst
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and how he's probably going to free it
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or knock down a barrier. That that's
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that's what I'm guessing, you know, but
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at first, yeah, you're weak. You're kind
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of stupid and you don't know what's
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going on in this place and everything.
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But yeah, man. Gothic. Gothic is like a
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conundrum, man. To me, it's like a It's
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perplexing as hell. It's an amazing
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like a Euro RPG, but it does have
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technical issues, you know, in a place
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in a PlayStation 5 at least. I don't
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know about the PC and whatnot, but no,
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I'm gonna I want to finish it. It's I'm
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addicted. Uh, it's a great RPG, but it
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does have a lot of technical issues. All
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