Gothic What creatures are these?

JDR13 · June 21, 2007

I came across this picture on Yahoo. Has anyone ever seen the creatures on the left side of that screenshot? The photo is listed as being from Gothic 2, although I think it looks more like a screenshot from G1.

I'm thinking that maybe it's from an early build of the game perhaps?

Malk · June 21, 2007

i've never seen it... it looks like it's from g1, g2 looks way better than this...

Alrik Fassbauer · June 21, 2007

The scenery looks like it is Gothic 1 ... but I've never seen them there.

Could they be in a mod ?

Or they could perhaps very early concept creatures ?

nameless hero · June 21, 2007

hehe they look funny.

narpet · June 21, 2007

Looks like the one on the far left is hopping like a frog... probably a concept creature for G1.

Hindukönig · June 21, 2007

I had an old video from Gothic 1 in pre-alpha status, the shot resembles that. There were probably more monsters which didn't make it into the game, e.g. in the video there were orc-like creatures which looked a little bit like undead shamans.

Hindukönig · June 21, 2007

Okay, now for your pleasure, here are some snapshots from the video, which looks quite final, but has some things in it which aren't included in the final game. Diego with a blue outfit, an arena (for testing purposes, I suppose), an old version of the minecrawler, an old version(?) of the inventory, etc. pp. Enjoy.

curiously undead · June 21, 2007

they look like the biters from gothic 1 who i believe showed up again in notr. though i thought they were a lighter colour.

Hindukönig · June 21, 2007

The other shots ...

cptmaxon · June 21, 2007

yeah I thought of biters too, they were used as a meat source for the orcs, they have them in NOTR but that screenshot looks like gothic 1

JDR13 · June 21, 2007

They're definitely not biters. Here's a snapshot of a biter.

Hindukönig, I would really like to be able to see that video in action. Do you know of any place on the web that might have it?

Alrik Fassbauer · June 21, 2007

I was about to ask a similar question.

I'm interested in that video as well.

JDR13 · June 22, 2007

Here we go...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T52kWp6cwUM

Hindukönig · June 22, 2007

Yeah, that's the video. The .avi on my harddrive isn't of much better quality.
But there's that old, old Gamestar-video about Gothic 1, where they had great plans (the player could become a guru) ... and the landscape in that video isn't much more than the Old Camp. Very nice, IMHO.

JDR13 · June 22, 2007

Found that one as well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4R1Eg20q4

Wow, this one is really old! You can see that very few of the textures were finished at that point. Very interesting view for Gothic fans though.

Pladio · June 25, 2007

JDR13 said:
Here we go...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T52kWp6cwUM

Did I see this wrong or was there a multiplayer option on the first screen ?

titus · June 26, 2007

I saw it too. I never saw one of those videos of G1, damn it looked so cool and now I want to replay it again

Hindukönig · June 27, 2007

Multiplayer was planned for a long time for Gothic 1, until late of the development. The dumped the idea because they couldn't make the story/plot flexible enough for multiple players. At least that was the "official" explanation, I always wondered how it would be as a coop game, one player taking the role of the nameless one, the other one plays Mud ...

Pladio · June 27, 2007

That might really have been the problem...
An arena might have been nice though.

gaboru93 · July 27, 2007

well... they had the arena in which you could fight some guys to get a guy's trust... they could have made the matches in that arena or something... you know that guy from the arena says that there will be fights soon but that never happens...

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