So lately I've been gaming quite actively. But the busy college days are already starting, so I truly cherish every gaming session I have. Since I already moved to another college and finally get to study something I truly enjoy, I think I would have less headache now. It's no longer considered as studying to me, it's more like fun learning. So, I'll definitely going to put more time on my long-time hobby, gaming.
Today, we'll be taking a look at Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition. Enhanced it may be, but looking at the menu screen, Gothic 3 looks much more dated than I expected. I thought this title came out the same year as Riften and Two Worlds. I'll do a second check on wikipedia later. As soon as I clicked New Game, the game flashed a bedroom on-screen for about half a second, then the intro cutscene begins. What was that all about?
Anyway, to be honest, I don't really understand the whole story of Gothic 3. Most probably because I wasn't even trying to while the cutscene was playing. I think there's something about a land splitting into 4 factions, with one of them being an orcish faction. These factions are fighting each other, then this unnamed hero interferes. Then, there's a brawl between a knight and a wizard or something.
The cutscene ends. Finally, now I get to play. My character wakes up to find himself lying on a bed. It was this bed that flashed just now. Glitch. Arnog, one of the characters I think was mentioned in the cutscene, has been waiting for me to wake up. I hope he didn't watch me sleep. That would be creepy.
My character is a rude sort. This kind of attitude automatically grants him the nickname Rude Guy. Well he's unnamed, so I might as well just give him a name. As soon as he jumps out of bed, he immediately questions Arnog a couple of things. He thinks Arnog kidnapped him just to watch him sleep. But actually Rude Guy was ambushed (hopefully not molested as well) by a bunch of orcs and they got all his equipments. Fortunately, Arnog's men found him and brought him to safety.
He didn't thank Arnog at all for saving his life.
Anyway, Rude Guy (me, obviously) is penniless right now. My first and most important task naturally is to earn some money to buy weapons. Everything always leads to weapons. But hopefully I get to find a weapon first instead of having to buy one. Most of the people in the settlement are labelled as "citizen" or "trader". This indicates that they have very little importance other than being eye-candies.
Ah, finally, somebody who has a name. I was pretty hopeful that Nisin here had a job for me to do, but apparently he doesn't. My character isn't helpful at all. He keeps asking everyone about the orcs. People are getting tired of your shit, Rude Guy. Nobody here likes orcs. Ask for a job instead, moron. But at least everyone's okay, unlike Morrowind's unfriendly townsfolk.
Then I went to the bridge near the exit of the settlement. There was a trail of bread crumbs along the bridge. Since I had nothing to do, I decided to pick up the bread crumbs and follow the trail, which eventually led me to the forest nearby.
Hey look! A bunch of dodo-looking birds! And you thought they were extinct. What are they doing here anyway? They look tame. Maybe I should hunt them and sell their meat. I'm going to use the money I earned to buy weapons to protect myself and hunt for more profitable game. By "maybe" I mean "I will".
I realize that I'm attacking using my bare hands, I have no weapon! Nevermind that. These scavengers look pretty harmless anyway. A few clumsy punches and one of them goes down. Hooray! My first kill!
Hang on a second. His friends aren't happy with this. They're attacking me! These birdies are not at all tame! Plus, they have some kind of special knock-down attack. When I try to get up, at which time I'm most vulnerable, they take their sweet time puncturing holes into my body with their sharp beaks. What violence!
My character drops dead. The end.
Fortunately, I made a smart move by saving my game earlier.
I loaded the save, avoided the cave where I had my deadly encounter with the scavengers in my previous life and headed somewhere else. I should start small first. There are herbs around here and it's a good idea to collect them for sell.
Things are getting better for me on my second day here, um, what was the name of this place again? Nevermind, I'll check it later. See, there are tens of chickens here and their owner, whoever that is, isn't around to witness the crime I'm about to commit. There goes my first activity of the day: punch a bunch of defenseless chicken. One kill = +10 experience. That's a nice bonus.
Now, this is the hard part. I have to sharpen my vision in order to spot the dead chickens on the ground that they seem to have merged into. I struggle so hard until feels like my eyes are piercing into the ground to the point I can actually see the core of the Earth. Nevertheless, I manage to pick enough chickens, while the rest must be lying around somewhere, left to rot.
Later on, I almost went further into the forest but when I saw some wolves roaming and howling around, I decided that, for my own safety, it would be better if I head back to the settlement and sell everything I've collected so far. On my way back, I played around with the interface and found out by looking at the map that the name of this miserable land is Myrtana.
Nobody has any errand that needs to be run. I desperately need a job right now! Oh, by the way, conversations are fully-voiced. So, hooray for that. But my character, as always, keeps asking about the orcs instead of a job to do. Rude Guy here thinks he's too good for some odd jobs. Nevermind, I guess I'll venture into the forest again to pick more herbs to sell.
But instead I find some chests! One of them even contains an axe. Thank goodness! With my new and probably-stolen axe equipped, my confidence grows and I travel deeper into the forest. I eventually reach a green, open field.
This monster here wasn't too happy to see me getting into his turf so I brutally killed him and gained +100 experience points. I switched to first-person view to inspect the monster's body, and look! My torso and feet are visible! Another hooray for Gothic 3!
Now I'm feeling extremely confident. It's time to do something I've been longing to for a long long time. Well, maybe not that long, like half a day or so. Hear me, I am going to avenge my previous death! Prepare yourselves, birds! I'm going to kill all of you for previously killing me for killing your friend! But your friend is alive now, because I loaded a game that was saved before I killed it, which means you never actually killed me...?
Bah! I'll still kill you birdies. I want your meat.
Bah! I'll still kill you birdies. I want your meat.
Okay maybe it's not going out as planned. The scavengers almost killed me back there, but I have an idea. I lure the creatures to the settlement so that the guards will attack them for me... but they act like nothing's happening! So I have no choice but to run all the way back to my house, hoping that they birdies will stop chasing and return to their cave.
Well, they're no longer giving chase but they're attacking the guards instead. I hear chaos behind me and run back to see what's going on. Well, I guess my plan works, although not in the way I expected. Shamelessly, I loot the dead birds for meat and proceed to enjoy them roasted. Wow, it must be because of people like me Dodos got extinct.
On my way back to the house (which I now assume is mine), I stumble upon this shrine. Supposedly, it grants me a wish, so I ask for endurance since the other wishes sound like too much to ask. But the shrine won't grant me anything because I don't have enough experience. Well, grant me experience then! Gah! So much for a powerful deity.
So, back in the house, I feel kind of stupid because it turns out that the chest next to my bed contains a lot of helpful items, including a sword and a dagger. There's also a rusty sword on a shelf nearby. I should have scouted the room first.
The next day, I try to make a name for myself in the arena. I make it into the final round and beat the then-champion Evert. Yay! I have a number of decent weapons in my inventory as well. Some of them were looted from chests while others were claimed from the warriors I defeated in the arena.
Also, I have resorted to stealing instead of doing an honest living. Sometimes I get caught stealing from chests and picking up things but I always run away back to my house and sleep. When I wake up, my victims are no longer hostile towards me as if nothing ever happened. That's my strategy and it's been working so far.
Because I'm rude and arrogant, I wrecked havoc back at a farm within the settlement and the cows fled to the forest. Since the shepherd in charge can no longer control them, I am now free to slaughter as many as I can. When I kill the last cow, it turns out that killing these cows is actually a mission, and I have completed it by accident and gained +200 experience points. Hooray!
I loot the cows for meat (which by the way isn't labelled as "beef"). Right, time to cook them by the campfire. I won't sell them though, because consuming each meat heals me by 10 hitpoints. I spent the remaining of the day stealing a few more things and looting chests, and then selling the stolen goods back to their owners. Now I have enough weapons, food and money to travel elsewhere.
I traveled for half a day until I reached this a fortress here, but first I'm going to check out the cave nearby for loot. Guess what's in there? Dead bodies! Unfortunately, they are un-lootable. Somebody probably has done so earlier. There's a pack of beasts in the cave as well, that I assume are the cousins of wolves, but best leave them alone.
Ah, it's dark already. I'm within the walls of Geldern, the fortress I mentioned just now. Inog, the brother of Arnog, is in charge of this place. My character acts rudely towards Inog as well. So, Rude Guy isn't his name anymore. Now, it's Arrogant Guy. Hooray, achievement unlocked! Anyway, this town is pretty boring. I'm not going to stay here for long. I'm thinking about going for a loot tour around town and then when I'm done, I'll head out tomorrow morning.
I couldn't wait until morning so I took off. Look at this orc town. Pretty gloomy, eh? If I'm not mistaken, the orcs are at war with the humans. I was surprised the orc guards didn't attack me on sight. They let me in. Better yet, they let a thief in... The orcs are richer than the humans. They have weapons and food lying all over the place.
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| Who put some glue on this chair? |
I looted a whole bunch of stuff but look at what's happening to me right now! I "accidentally" sat on this stool and now I can't get up! My butt is glued to the stool! I'm clicking the leftmouse button (the Use/Activate button) but it's not working! The Esc key doesn't seem to be working either!
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| Wait, what did I just press? I'm no longer sitting.. Yay! |
It's day 7 and I'm out in the wild again. This angry, orange rhino attacks me for getting too close, so now I get test my new spear on it. It doesn't seem to worth the trouble though because the Rhinos offer the same kind of meat as that of the cows' and the birdies'.
Later, I went up the hill and saw a bunch of giant wild boars with elephant feet. I over-confidently confronted them and guess what happened? I got killed.
Unfortunately, I forgot to save my game earlier and my last save slot dates back to 3 days ago. So, I guess that's it. My 7-day adventure has come to an end. I had an even better time in Morrowind, albeit much shorter than here.
Nevertheless, I'm sure Gothic 3 Forsaken God has a lot more to offer. I haven't even got to the exciting parts yet. There are a lot of spells I would love to try. Besides, I really want to fight those dinosaurs and monsters I keep seeing on the loading screen!
Another time perhaps.
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