Questions to JoWooD - 'Megalomaniac' risponde alle domande della Community italiana!

[Megalomaniac]

Dear Italian Gothic & ArcaniA Community,

My name is Reinhard Pollice and I work as Community Manager for JoWooD. Since I cannot speak Italian I have to talk to you in English. Apologises for that.

My plan is to answer your questions directly. So please prepare some question and after some time I will answer them.

Thanks and I hope we have a great time waiting together for ArcaniA!

[xardas66]

Hi Mega. You already know me as Xardasrule on WoG forum.

I want to post the first questions:

1) Is there going to be a new gameplay video this month or on february?

2) Do you have some screenshots that you plan to release soon?

3) Will there be new "Cleaved Maiden" stories?

[Shadow93]

Hi!

Here, two questions for you:

1) What can you tell us something about hero's abilities (I mean, can you reveal some of them)?

2) What about the combat system? Can you tell us if it is similiar to the system of other famous RPGs (like TES IV, Risen, or The Witcher)?

[Argalord]

Hi megalomaniac, it's a pleasure for me to have a direct contact with a developer of Arcania. In this way I hope we can get more information about the game..
Let's start with something that I consider important:

1) The PC interaction with the other NPCs. I mean, the dialogs in Arcania will be like the previous gothic with more choices, and depending on these choices, the other NPCs will have different behaviors?

2) And depending on these choices will the quests have multiple endings, for example?

Thanks for your time and sorry for my bad english. I hope you can answer..Bye

[speedfight]

hi mega!!!
here some simple questions:

1) Will the equipment be more varied in terms of weapons and spells, compared to gothic 3?

2) Will there be special locations in the new world, like in Gothic 1, or will it be random?

3) Are there going to be children and elderly NPCs in the game?

4) Is it going to be possible to put together different armors?

5) Are there going to be magical barriers during the storyline?

6) What can you tell us about the magic system?

sorry for my english

[Sakkio]

Hi, I'm the Italian Gothic Community leader. First of all, I welcome you, hoping that in the future there will be a constant dialogue and support, as we are a quite competitive community that love Gothic saga and with a good up-to-date site, which is up to other European sites.
I'd like to tell you - before I write my questions - that I'm sorry that there are not a lot of them, but we hadn't got any news since when EDL visited us, so the Community don't want to be repetitive asking you something obvious or top secret. Thank you very much, I hope we'll be able to stay in touch through Xardas66 in the future.



1) Arcania has been developed to increase the number of players: is it possible that we will see too many gameplay semplification to attract casual gamers?

2) It seems that you decided not to call it "Gothic 4" in order to increase its appeal on console gamers, as they don't know the Gothic series. But as much as regards the PC version, it would have been better to publish it with its real name. Why are always the Gothic fans those who have to pay? Will it be possible to back out and call the PC version "Gothic 4"? It would cost nothing to the publisher to sell it as "Arcania" for console and as "Gothic 4" for PC. There have been also similar situations in the past: Codemasters sold a game named "Severance: Blade of Darkness" in Europe, but they called it only "Blade of Darkness" in the USA.

3) The PC version will have a level editor so that the community will be able to create mods?

4) Don't you think that the series fans could be disappointed by the fact that they won't be able to play as the Nameless Hero of the first 3 Gothics?

[DarkGoth]

Hi Megalomaniac, and here we are...It's time for you to answer some questions...

1) Will the Hero's actions in ARCANIA modify the "visibly" world around him?

2) Will some unexpected events like "the closing of Old Camp in Gothic" or" the landslide of the Old Mine" be included in the main story?

my english is very funny

@xardas66 o qualche altro: se notate eventuali strafalcioni nelle domande, sapete cosa fare, vi ringrazio

[RobharIII]

Hi, Mega!

How many spells and weapons will there be in ArcaniA? Will they be different respect to previous Gothic titles?

[Megalomaniac]

Hello,

1) Arcania has been developed to increase the number of players: is it possible that we will see too many gameplay semplification to attract casual gamers?

Definately not. Mostly we made UI changes for casual players. So things like the minimap. But you can turn that off.

2) It seems that you decided not to call it "Gothic 4" in order to increase its appeal on console gamers, as they don't know the Gothic series. But as much as regards the PC version, it would have been better to publish it with its real name. Why are always the Gothic fans those who have to pay? Will it be possible to back out and call the PC version "Gothic 4"? It would cost nothing to the publisher to sell it as "Arcania" for console and as "Gothic 4" for PC. There have been also similar situations in the past: Codemasters sold a game named "Severance: Blade of Darkness" in Europe, but they called it only "Blade of Darkness" in the USA.

We are still thinking of making more use of the Gothic name. Anyway I think it doesnt matter how it is called. What count is how the actual game is.

3) The PC version will have a level editor so that the community will be able to create mods?

I am personally a fan of modability. We have to discuss that with Spellbound after the release.

4) Don't you think that the series fans could be disappointed by the fact that they won't be able to play as the Nameless Hero of the first 3 Gothics?

Yeah, but we have to move on. Playing always with the nameless hero would have been a neverending story. But the old hero is still in the game and plays an important role...

Will there be special locations in the new world, like in Gothic 1, or will it be random?

Well, I dont understand what you actually want to know. All locations are made by hand and nothing is random.

Are there going to be children and elderly NPCs in the game?

No children...

Is it going to be possible to put together different armors?

Well, not directly but we have a crafting system...

Are there going to be magical barriers during the storyline?

You mean like in Risen or more like in Gothic 1/3?

What can you tell us about the magic system?

Every god has its own kind of magic. It is learned like all abilities through our skill tree.

[xardas66]

I'll try to ask you my questions again:

1) Is there going to be a new gameplay video this month or on february?

2) Do you have some screenshots that you plan to release soon?

3) Will there be new "Cleaved Maiden" stories?

[Megalomaniac]

1) Is there going to be a new gameplay video this month or on february?

Most likely not.

2) Do you have some screenshots that you plan to release soon?

You will see...

3) Will there be new "Cleaved Maiden" stories?

You will see...

Sorry but on this kind of answers I dont want to give sure statements.
Generally: I dont oversee questions but sometimes I will answer them later.

[xardas66]

Messaggio inviato da Megalomaniac

Sorry but on this kind of answers I dont want to give sure statements.
Generally: I dont oversee questions but sometimes I will answer them later.

I didn't have any doubts about it!

[Toto_91]

Hi Mega!! Thanks for your willingness!!

My questions are:

1) Could there be an unexpected encounter in ArcaniA?

2) Will there be a "real" training system, or continue to purchase skills with experience points gained on level up?

[xardas66]

Have you already implemented the quests into the game?

[Megalomaniac]

1) Could there be an unexpected encounter in ArcaniA?

Yeah, I guess there are a lot of interesting story situations in the game.

2) Will there be a "real" training system, or continue to purchase skills with experience points gained on level up?

We wont have a real training system but instead a skill tree.

Have you already implemented the quests into the game?

Not all quests, but we have implemented already a lot of quests.

[Rhobar]

Hi Mega, I'm very pleased with your presence in this forum!

Here are my questions:

1) Could we see our reputation with the guilds like in Gothic 3?

2) How it will be the Quests Diary? Again a copy-paste of dialogues issue, like in G3 (ugly choice) or something better?

3) Will we find some non-aggressive Goblins, in way to interact with them, like speaking with, follow them or like this?

[Nordmar]

Hi Mega,

1) What about Gods? The nameless hero chased them away, but from what we've seen, they will be in Arcania.

2) If you have to compare with previous Gothic, what's the game more similar? Arcania is something like Gothic I, Gothic 2 or Gothic 3? Not in the gameplay (i guess you wanna create something new), but from the feeling you've playing with.

3) There are hoods, cloaks or helmets in the game?

Thanks.

[Megalomaniac]

Hi,

1) Could we see our reputation with the guilds like in Gothic 3?

2) How it will be the Quests Diary? Again a copy-paste of dialogues issue, like in G3 (ugly choice) or something better?

3) Will we find some non-aggressive Goblins, in way to interact with them, like speaking with, follow them or like this?

1) No, we dont have that kind of reputation system.

2) There are no dialogues in the quest diary. There is brief summary of what you have to do.

3) Well, as far as I know not.

1) What about Gods? The nameless hero chased them away, but from what we've seen, they will be in Arcania.

2) If you have to compare with previous Gothic, what's the game more similar? Arcania is something like Gothic I, Gothic 2 or Gothic 3? Not in the gameplay (i guess you wanna create something new), but from the feeling you've playing with.

3) There are hoods, cloaks or helmets in the game?

1) Yeah, they will be in ArcaniA but wont play a that big role as in the previous Gothic games.

2) Its more like Gothic 1 and 2 but with some changes to the core mechanics.

3) Yeah, they can be seperately equipped.

[xardas66]

1) Have you got any news about Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods patch and modding kit?

2) Are we going to earn experience points with the pickpocket skill? (If there is one)

3) Are we going to hear some of the ArcaniA soundtrack soon? If yes, when?

4) What characteristics do you think are important in an RPG like this one? What do you think is the most important RPG element in ArcaniA?

Thanks a lot!

[Voffka]

1) According to preliminary estimates, in your opinion in what month the game will be released?

2) The hero can not swim, so the locations will not meet the lakes, rivers and deep water?

3) That's that armor is not worn separately is a final decision, or is it more review?

4) Is there a physics minor items, such as run into the house and throw off the table underlying object, or they do not sdvigaemy (passive)?

5) How much will the variety of monsters and expect us any surprises or related?

6) How much time will be spent to run through the whole map from edge to edge, or on how fitting it would be great Any comparison?

Sorry for my English, for earlier thanks