![]() ![]() The framerate never once rises above 25 fps, and for the most part, I'd say it averages out at closer to 20 fps. Unfortunately, all of this fidelity comes at a price. Graphically, Arcania looks fantastic when motionless. Though meaty, the story is rote and is the very definition of generic. Though the story is told very well, it isn't particularly new or inventive. ![]() Now he must make peace with his true destiny and take up arms against the one true evil of the land. He pursues them in the name of vengeance, only to discover that everything he thought was just unfortunate happenstance had been his fate all along. The first few hours of the game - arguably the most important time to win a player's interest - are an endless barrage of tedious conversation by badly-rendered characters, combined with fetch-quests that are both unimportant and make very little sense whatsoever.Īfter the first few tedious hours, our hero suffers an unimaginable tragedy at the hands of a mysterious fleet of ships. The epitome of traditional, to be sure, but certainly not uninteresting. The overall story of Arcania is serviceable, solid stuff. The strength of any good RPG lies in its ability to sweep you up and away into its mythos, its story and each character's situation. It appears that King Rhobar III was driven mad by his pursuit of a mysterious amulet, and as a result set the lands to ruin as his search for it became more desperate. The opening cut scene - albeit a very compressed video - spins its yarn with skill and sets the stage nicely. If you are the kind of gamer to whom mad kings and fantasy role-playing are of great interest, this game's basic premise will suck you in immediately. The game begins immediately following one such nightmare, as our hero is jarred from his slumber by his harpy of a girlfriend, chastising him about catching rats, talking to her father, and various other trivialities. Our hero has been plagued by nightmares of late, in which an insane king, King Rhobar III, wanders a netherworldly cavern, slaying undead things and encountering a demon. Of course, he is destined for great things, to perform heroic acts and rid the land of a nameless evil that has slowly swallowed up the Southern Lands, but you won't get to see any of this for the first three or so hours. Set in the mythical land of Myrtana, Arcania: Gothic 4 puts you in the greaves of a nameless hero as he awakens on the edge of small village in which he herds his sheep and otherwise leads a simple life. ![]() ![]() Piranha Bytes developed the previous Gothic games, but publishers JoWood have handed most of Gothic 4's creation over to Spellbound Entertainment. Arcania: Gothic 4, otherwise known as Arcania: A Gothic Tale, is a 3rd person RPG and marks the first outing in the Gothic series to be helmed by new developer Spellbound. ![]()
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