Nintendo

18439 readers

13 users here now

A community for everything Nintendo. Games, news, discussions, stories etc.

Rules:

No NSFW content.
No hate speech or personal attacks.
No ads / spamming / self-promotion / low effort posts / memes etc.
No linking to, or sharing information about, hacks, ROMs or any illegal content. And no piracy talk. (Linking to emulators, or general mention / discussion of emulation topics is fine.)
No console wars or PC elitism.
Be a decent human (or a bot, we don't discriminate against bots... except in Point 7).
All bots must have mod permission prior to implementation and must follow instance-wide rules. For lemmy.world bot rules click here

Upcoming First Party Games (NA):

Game | Date

Mario & Luigi: Brothership | Nov 7 Donkey Kong Country Returns HD | Jan 16, 2025 Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition | Mar 20, 2025 Metroid Prime 4 | 2025

Other Gaming Communities

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Gothic Classic Switch Port | Announcement Trailer (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by slimerancher to c/nintendo

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

It's coming!

I loved it when I originally played it. I am not sure how dated it will feel now. But I would love to give it another go. Specially since I never played the sequels.

Any Gothic fans here? Going to get the classic or going to wait for the remake?

Edit:

Here is the unedited list of fixes which will be incorporated into the Gothic 1 Switch port. This port is the original game code, no remastering, and no remaking, it is the port of the original code to the Nintendo Switch.

The following list of fixes will be made though:

https://thqnordic.com/article/gothic-1-switch-list-fixes

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] slimerancher 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, there is a remake already in works.

And you are right, the game doesn't look too great, and I have heard from couple of people that it's aged very poorly (at least the PC version). I am still going to give this a try though. Just to check it out. Maybe all the fixes, with controls and UI updates have made it playable.

[–] avater 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

at least the pc version? There is only a PC version of Gothic and it's still completely playable, it's just not your modern role playing game so you have to get used to keyboard only controls...and few other quirks that made that game so "german"

I still think that the international version is lacking all the charme of the original german translation, which was and still is amazing and completely different than anything on the role playing genre...think of a grumpy geralt from the witcher but multiply it with a 1000 😂

[–] slimerancher 3 points 1 year ago

I meant, with the Switch version releasing, I can't say that this one has dated badly too, maybe the fixes and updated controls and UI would make the game feel less dated. As for the PC version still being completely playable, I haven't tried it myself, but everyone have different tolerance level for older games, so it's possible some people enjoy it.

And all Piranha Byte games are like that, they have their "quirks". We may love them, but not everyone does. There's a reason there games didn't rank very critically. That said, I love their games, switch version of Risen is already on my wish list, but with Gothic arriving too, going to give it a try first.

As for the language, unfortunately I don't know German, so would have to play the version I can understand, but it sounds interesting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah the PC version is what I played, it just does not control right. It looks fine enough, but there was no playing

[–] slimerancher 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's a very old game. I remember it was a bit janky even for it's time, but if you can past those, they are great games. Maybe wait for the remake.