phryk 🏴

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpA23XqUnq0

"Hunted by Moonlight"

Holy shit, this is probably the most gorgeous piece of paleo media I've ever seen.

Bürgis, ich werde euch nie verstehen…

There's like 10cm of snow outside of my window and that's more than I've seen in like 2 decades – are we sure the AMOC hasn't collapsed yet with this just being the first sign? :thaenkin:

Gothic is kind of the Trespasser of RPGs.

You know, the kind of game your average gamer never heard about but which inspired the developers behind a vast array of their favorite games.

Without Gothic, we wouldn't have STALKER.

More to the point, without Gothic, we wouldn't have The Witcher, the third installment of which is commonly argued to be *the* best RPG, period (tho I hear BG3 is giving it a fair run for its money these days).

Recently, I began retreading the #Gothic series.

Played through the first game, finished the second one for the first time and am now at Gothic 3, finally having beaten that first fight (which isn't nearly as awful if you deactivate the gameplay "fixes" of the community patch).

Then I went up the lighthouse in the starting village to take a look around and this starts playing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha4zdr1_ht8

If you listen closely, you can hear Kai Rosenkranz stab me right in the feels at 0:44. 😭