MULTI Official Arcania: Gothic 4 Thread- PC demo now out

[devilscallmedad]

ArcaniA: Gothic 4 (Formerly known as Arcania: A Gothic Tale)

Developer: Spellbound Entertainment

Publisher: JoWooD Entertainment (EU)/DreamCatcher Interactive(NA)

Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

Release Date: 12th of October, 2010

Genre: Role-playing

General Information

Arcania: Gothic 4 is the fourth installment of the Gothic series, and the second one to be developed by a company other than Piranha Bytes; the game will be developed by Spellbound.

The start of the development was officially announced on August 23, 2007, along with the name of the new developer. The project was originally entitled Gothic 4: Genesis; the name change to Gothic 4: Arcania was announced in 2008. At the Games Convention in 2008, JoWooD Entertainment announced the final name for the game - "Arcania: A Gothic Tale". The name change serves two purposes. First, it hints at a world rich in magic and fantasy. Second, and completely from a marketing perspective, it helps give the Gothic franchise a fresh start in North America, where it has failed to gain significant popularity. The name has been changed once again, now to ArcaniA: Gothic 4 (This change applies to both; EU and US).

In August 2009 JoWooD Entertainment announced that Arcania: A Gothic Tale will be delayed until 2010, giving Spellbound more time to polish the game. JoWooD Entertainment plans to make Arcania an AAA title - the most successful title from the Gothic Series, and one of the best RPGs of 2010.

In March 2010, Dr. Albert Seidl, JoWooD's CEO, revealed that ArcaniA will be released in the autumn of 2010.

The game will run on Trinigy's Vision Engine

Arcania's physics engine will be NVIDIA GPU PhysX.

Background Story

War covers over the Southern Islands like a blood-drenched shroud... and finally, War reaches the idyllic isle of Feshyr in the Southern Seas. The protagonist of Arcania - A Gothic Tale returns from an adventure to find his home town pillaged and looted. The aggressors' ships - with an Eagle displayed on their billowing sails - escape over the horizon.

Seeking revenge, the hero leaves the destroyed city behind and soon realizes that this cowardly attack did not just happen on a reckless mercenary's whim. An evil power lies waiting at the threshold of this world, and our hero will need to face this nameless evil. Yet the hero is not alone - his fate is linked to that of a beautiful, mysterious lady as well as a powerful artifact from the long-forgotten distant past, which plays a major role in the grandiose new RPG adventure.

Short Stories: The Cleaved Maiden


Videos

Arcania Teaser Trailer

E3 09: Developer Walkthrough Part I

E3 09: Developer Walkthrough Part II

E3 09: Firemage Gameplay

Arcania - Ambiance Tech Trailer

Arcania - Work in Progress

Combat Gameplay Trailer

Gamestar Preview of Arcania (In German)

GamePro Gameplay (In German)

Destiny Trailer

New Gameplay Video

Interviews and other Information

http://forum.jowood.com/showthread.php?t=147600

Spellbound speaking

JoWood Questions and (some) Answers

Games Radar First Look

Exclusive Press Release

Interview with Arcania's Internal Producer, Kamaal Anwar

Interview with Arcania's Producer, Reinhard Pollice - Faceoff Games

• The Magic Barrier will return
• Nameless Hero will NOT be able to swim
• You will have to unlock Areas (like in Grand Theft Auto), you can't return to the first sland (That island only serves as a tutorial)
• Old Characters from previous Gothic games will return (They will have a good reason to be on Southern Islands)
• Interface will be completely customizable and old Gothic UI will be available
• Spellbound is developing PC and 360 version, while the specialized team is working on the PS3 Version
• You can't get drunk
• Old Creatures like Molerats, Meatbugs, Shadowbeasts, Scavengers, Minecrawlers etc. will be in Arcania as well (And a lot of new ones, too)
• Old Herbs will come back as well
• All Dialogue will be voiced
• There will be Subtitles
• Mud will not be in the game xD
• There will be NO Trainers. Hero will learn skills from a Talent Tree, much like in World of Warcraft
• If you die, you die. Load saved game.
• Female Characters will play a bigger role rather than just being Housewives
• Armor is in Sets, but there are some individual pieces as well
• You can't join a Faction, you can just do Quests for them (But not all of them, help one and others will hate you etc.)
• Shrines will make an Appearance
• Soundtrack is made by Dynamedion and is already finished
• Arcania will be published as "Arcania - Gothic 4" everywhere (EU and US), not only in Europe. But there will be two versions of the logo.
• According to a latest interview with JoWooD's CEO, Dr. Albert Seidl, it seems that the work on the sequel (ArcaniA II) will start in this summer, before the release of ArcaniA.
• Combat System is similar to Fable II
• There are three Gods in Arcania, and each represents one kind of Magic
• Spells are upgradeable
• Other skills are also upgradeable (Like Archery)
• There are caves and underground complexes
• If your computer was able to run Gothic 3 with a good quality it will be able to run ArcaniA as well
• There will be Riddles and stuff (Levers, Switches, Opening Gates etc.)
• There ought to be something really special for the Lockpicking mini-game

PC Requirements

Conflicting reports on this one.

Official ( insane ) requirements:
http://www.arcania-game.com/?lang=en&ID=1840

Other sources suggest lower requirements

PC demo
http://apa1.ams1.cdn.ip-exchange.de/ipexchange/cia2/Gothic 4 Demo.zip
http://download.pcgames.de/download...=Gothic 4 Demo.zip&t=mirror&article_id=746003



Screens

Official Website
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[Necrokiller]

Those screenshots look so awesome!

Now, how would the game look on LOW to require a rig like that?

The mirrors are really slow everywhere.

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[CerebralTiger]

Gothic 4 Demo out now!

Screens:

Looks pretty awful. I think I'll pass.

P.S. The dude these screens belong to was running it on the following specs:

- ATI 5850
- Core i7 CPU @ 3.2ghz
- Win 7
- 6 gig ram​

 

[Necrokiller]

Really? Based on the looks alone?

How can you game on a console if that looks awful to you?

P.S: The dude is using an awful res for the specs he has. Not the best pics to judge the IQ.

 

[CerebralTiger]

^ Oh alright then, have it your way.

1080p screens:

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[Necrokiller]

Not amazing (if you think about Witcher 2), but not awful either considering the size of the worlds. I can only imagine what the console versions would look like. Too much grass for PS3 :lol:

 

[Chandoo]

Well they did delay the PS3 version for an unknown amount of time, probably need all that time to render new plain textures instead of the grass

 

[Necrokiller]

See now, these are much better. The other guy probably didn't have any filtering on.

Damn that foliage and smooth shadows. Probably gonna look even better in motion.

 

[Sire Ahsan]

Looks pretty awful. I think I'll pass. :​

Awful ?

How did you even MANAGE to play anything on your console(s) ? :/ ... HOW ?

EDIT - The images remind me SO much of Risen and its earlier missions.​

 

[genious]

Cool shots will try it for sure.

 

[Kane]

yaar yeh kab graphics improve karen gey i skipped tha last knowing that it has a good story!

 

[CerebralTiger]

Awful ?

How did you even MANAGE to play anything on your console(s) ? :/ ... HOW ?

EDIT - The images remind me SO much of Risen and its earlier missions.

Generic would probably be a more appropriate word to use here. And honestly, I can name several console games that look much better than this generic mess. Just look at the character model and the surrounding environment. They totally scream "Derivative!". Yes, the foliage, the lighting, and distant objects are rendered quite nicely, but that's just about it. It looks like a low-budget mod fetched straight out of Risen. And wait till you see it in motion; some of the worst animations I've seen this generation.

 

[Kane]

I am buying mount and balde from steam................!

 

[Necrokiller]

Generic art would probably be a more appropriate word to use here. And honestly, I can name several console games that look much better than this generic mess.

Fixed. You're mixing art with technical graphics here. Sure, the setting looks generic. But technically its still better than many many multiplats and anything but awful. And then again ALOT of great games do look generic, regardless of the platform. This generation hasn't really been the best example of originality.

 

[Ex0dus]

will that look the same as the screenshots on your average rig? i dont have i7 + 5xxx :<



i agree with CT the art is horrible, but the graphics look fantastic.

 

[CerebralTiger]

You're mixing art with technical graphics here.

Not entirely. You can't just segregate animation as a component of art alone. The physics engine has to be supportive, and in this case, it obviously isn't.

And I didn't exactly say whether I was referring to the tech or art when I called it awful, did I?

 

[Necrokiller]

Not entirely. You can't just segregate animation as a component of art alone. The physics engine has to be supportive, and in this case, it obviously isn't.

You can't. I agree. But I haven't seen the animation (and these screenshots don't show that) so I didn't comment on that. Gonna youtube it now. Is it even worse than Alan Wake? lol (excluding the lip sync)

And I didn't exactly say whether I was referring to the tech or art when I called it awful, did I?

Exactly what created the confusion.

 

[devilscallmedad]

Yeah baby it wouldn't be a Gothic game without the bugs, silly voice acting and strange animations, looked like Spellbound captured the feel of the series Day on....will wait for patch 1.08

360 demo out too now.

 

[Chandoo]

360 demo out too now.

Sweet. will check if DL links are available and grab it tonight

 

[Necrokiller]

Played it myself. It was alot like Risen, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Runs quite well too. The 'insane' requirements were bullshit.

It looks like a low-budget mod fetched straight out of Risen. And wait till you see it in motion; some of the worst animations I've seen this generation.

Gonna have to disagree with that. Voice acting and lip sync was the absolute worst I've seen in a while. But the description about the animations in general is kinda exaggerated in my opinion.