gothic 3 better looking than oblivion?

dafloppyone · 4 Jul 2006 at 10:49

http://www.gothic3.com/index.php?do=097099116105111110061103097108108101114121

tedaC · 4 Jul 2006 at 11:04

Does look good watched the trailer - never played the Gothic games before - are they multiplayer ?

hood1971 · 4 Jul 2006 at 11:25

Gothic is similar to morrowind/oblivion in style - single player action rpg. Gothic 2 set the standard for action rpgs, which in my opinion is still to be beaten.

Roughneck · 4 Jul 2006 at 11:49

hood1971 said:
Gothic is similar to morrowind/oblivion in style - single player action rpg. Gothic 2 set the standard for action rpgs, which in my opinion is still to be beaten.

aye gothic 2 is a cracking game managed to pick up gothic 2 with the expansion from ebay a while back

Yewen · 4 Jul 2006 at 12:08

I don't trust screenshots, the game could be running at 1fps on a SLI rig for all we know.

If you look at oblivion screenshots they look very similar, as they picked / created areas that looked awsome and ran smooth.

aardvark · 4 Jul 2006 at 15:21

i hope this is good - i thought oblivion was amazing when i first played but now, after having completed it all i see now are its flaws (and it has many)

Semiskimmed · 4 Jul 2006 at 15:23

Yewen said:
I don't trust screenshots, the game could be running at 1fps on a SLI rig for all we know.

If you look at oblivion screenshots they look very similar, as they picked / created areas that looked awsome and ran smooth.

i agree. although the pics still make your mouth water

dafloppyone · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:19

watch the hi def trailer then see what yah think

King4aDay · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:28

Nice, when's it due?

Flammy · 4 Jul 2006 at 18:53

Roughneck said:
aye gothic 2 is a cracking game managed to pick up gothic 2 with the expansion from ebay a while back

There was an expansion?! I didn't know that.

Gothic 3 might be looking nicer than Oblivion but I doubt it will be as open ended and freeform. Gothic 2 was a great game but was comparatively linear.

King4aDay · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:24

Flammy said:
There was an expansion?! I didn't know that.

Gothic 3 might be looking nicer than Oblivion but I doubt it will be as open ended and freeform. Gothic 2 was a great game but was comparatively linear.

To be honest thats not necessarily such a bad thing... I found that once I'd completed the main quest in Oblivion I found it hard to be bothered doing that many of the side quests.

redline · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:39

All those shots look confined compared to Oblivion - the great thing for me in O is the ability to see miles into the distance, to stand on a mountain top and pick out the route you've travelled..makes the world feel real.

Also isn't GothicIII 3rd person? - this reduces the immersion for me.

Dispite what I've just said, it does look very good, and look forward to seeing how it turns out.

The $6m Dan · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:59

A link for you all to download the E3 rolling demo.

Link

Edit - There's not much actual footage.

Jack Bauer · 4 Jul 2006 at 22:22

King4aDay said:
To be honest thats not necessarily such a bad thing... I found that once I'd completed the main quest in Oblivion I found it hard to be bothered doing that many of the side quests.

Part of playing elder scrolls games is going back to them with the same char later when they release expansion packs with new content. You might do them then when u are intrested again

Ozzie Dave · 4 Jul 2006 at 23:25

I honestly couldn't care less about its graphics prowess. I have a top end rig but the gameplay is what I'm hoping is good. Too many games now try to rest on the graphics....but maybe thats what people want? :confused:

It can't be any shallower than Oblivion's gameplay surely (without user mods). Not that I'm bagging Oblivion but without a load of gameplay mods I use with it I would have shelved it ages ago.....here's hoping Gothic 3 can deliver the goods (gameplay-wise).