[Ralf]

Thanks to jab for putting theses questions together:

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What I really missed in Gothic towns - A bakery. There were a lot of bread around but no place to bake it. Not logical.
And a sewer system in a town is a must be imho.

You are right!
I assume it´s too late for putting one into the game- but since most houses now posess an oven, it´s reasonable to belive they bake their bread at home.
No real sewer under the cities- but something else...

All the suggestions (not much questions in this posts) have been forwarded - but please beware, that for some of those, it´s allready too late.

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What do you guys think of bard NPC's in taverns?
I would also love to see a rumor system. NPC's talking about things that happened all over the world like "I've heard the capital is burning" and etc.

Love it- and if all goes according to plan, there should be some in the game.
A rumor-kind-of-system ist in.


Hi Ralf . Any news about the Risen website?
What can we expect from it? in-game screenshots ,artworks,videos?
Are we going to find out the system requirements?

Still waiting for DS to get the agency locked. There where some hickups in choosing the right one- but I hope it will be done by the end of the year.

Screenshots will hopefully give you a good image of what to expect in terms of graphics. Ingame Videos will be out a little bit later down the road.


Ralf, when will you begin recording the voices? Can we expect any familiar actors to return from the Gothic series (especially from G1/2)? I'm talking about the english version, which has quite the changes in the cast during the series, notably the hero and Diego in G2, and the entire cast in G3, breaking the continuity big time (well, for me). I think the actors in G3 sounded quite dull. It's true, that in the previous parts the voice talents overacted sometimes, but when you don't have Mass Effect-like closeups and facial animation in the cutscenes, you can only depend on the voice acting to provide true emotions, feelings and humour.


We haven´t started casting yet (all the dialogue should be locked first).
I assume the recordings will take place by the end of winter and there is no reason why not to cast some of the actors you know from the Gothic-games.

[Demonium]

You will use some voice actors from Gothic...thats cool

Ralf what about AA? All Gothic games hadnt any option for Anti aliasing...Why?
For performance reasons? Will there be any AA option in Risens menu?

[[>Silverback<]]

[...] Ralf what about AA? [...] Will there be any AA option in Risens menu?

Some good (old ) news for you:

[...] - The engine assists antialiasing and HDR-effects [...]

[Argenguy]

Zitat von Powaz Beitrag anzeigen
What I really missed in Gothic towns - A bakery. There were a lot of bread around but no place to bake it. Not logical.
And a sewer system in a town is a must be imho.

You are right!
I assume it´s too late for putting one into the game- but since most houses now posess an oven, it´s reasonable to belive they bake their bread at home.
No real sewer under the cities- but something else...

All the suggestions (not much questions in this posts) have been forwarded - but please beware, that for some of those, it´s allready too late.

I remember that in Gothic III some fireplaces had a dome, so you can bake bread in them, or those were bread ovens that were built inside the houses, so they can work as a fireplace as well.

[Lockywolf]

Hi, Ralf.

Once i asked you about open-sourcing G1. You told me that you still sell the game itself - and don't want to make it free.

I understand you, but maybe it is possible to opensource just _the_engine_?

So any one who bought the original game could just copy the data files - and ones who don't have the data would just have some 7years old code.

I hope i'm not too impudent

[Michael Rüve]

I understand you, but maybe it is possible to opensource just _the_engine_?

Cannot be done for simple legal reasons. Per several contracts we are not allowed to publish the source - no matter whether we want to do it or not.

[mkreku]

It´s way more elegant allready than anything we could do on G3- so I hope you might like it anyway...

Am I really the only one who liked the interface in Gothic 3..? I thought it was great! The only thing I didn't like was the way the log handled the quests: they were too inconsistent with the amount of info they contained. Sometimes they failed to mention where you got the quest and who you were supposed to talk to or even what you were supposed to do!

[Bastardo]

Does anyone at PB have any opinion to share about Forsaken Gods and its issues?

[[>Silverback<]]

Does anyone at PB have any opinion to share about Forsaken Gods and its issues?

Official statement:

Gothic ® 3: Forsaken Gods released

Essen, 2008-11-21 Today JoWooD Productions Software AG, publisher of our
games Gothic II, Gothic – Night of the Raven and Gothic 3 has officially released
their new game Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods (date for German market).

We have agreed to their usage of our registered trade mark „Gothic“.

However, to aviod any misconceptions about the game itself we have to state that we
have not been involved with its development in any way. All development was done
by the Indian based company Trine Games who have been hired by JoWooD for this purpose.

There has never been any contact between us and Trine Games. We do not know
more about the game than anyone else – in fact we have bought our copy of the
game at a local retail store only yesterday 20th of November.

Piranha Bytes have been busy developing their upcoming fantasy RPG named
“Risen” since 2007.

Pluto 13:
Pluto 13 GmbH
Ruhrallee 63

45138 Essen

HR Essen B 17856
tel. +49-201 80672-0
fax. +49-201 80672-22

contact: Michael Rüve (managing director)
Company web page www.pluto13.de
For more about „Risen“ see: risen.deepsilver.com and www.worldofrisen.de

~192 words

[Source]

Distance (to G3FG) is (maybe) very important here...

[foobar]

Does anyone at PB have any opinion to share about Forsaken Gods and its issues?

Allow me to translate what Michael Rüve said in the german forum:

Since just now there is an official statement from us to that:
http://www.pluto13.de/index.php?navtarget=1&lang=en

You will not get more than that on an official basis. It is not our game. Any other posts of members of Piranha Bytes on that topic would be purely private opinions.

Personally, I doubt that you will get more than that, private or not. Any critic could be easily misinterpreted as gloating.

EDIT: Damn, too late.

[SlamDunk]

to aviod

It's "avoid"

[Powaz]

Hi, Ralf, when we'll we get new info about Risen. Artworks or something.

[Demonium]

Ralf what about Motion capture?

Are you going to use again motion capture for the animations...?
How much does all this gear costs?
(i am not thinking to by one...just asking )

[Ralf]

Does anyone at PB have any opinion to share about Forsaken Gods and its issues?

Well- it seems that the gods have really been forsaken. At least when it comes to user-comments
But no. No opinion. We wish them well.
We hope that everything will be will fine when Trine will put out a patch.
But so do you...

Hi, Ralf, when we'll we get new info about Risen. Artworks or something.

Na- not at the moment.
But who knows-christmas is coming soon...

Ralf what about Motion capture?

Are you going to use again motion capture for the animations...?
How much does all this gear costs?
(i am not thinking to by one...just asking )

A nice middle class car. That´s for sure.
We used it in places at the beginning of the project- but now we animate a lot by hand. Just works better with the system we are using now...

[Demonium]

A nice middle class car. That´s for sure.
We used it in places at the beginning of the project- but now we animate a lot by hand. Just works better with the system we are using now...

LOL...Do you have to suggest some good program for animating? (except 3ds max...)

By the way, another question...

Are you going to put any dinos into the game? Or lizards?

[Michael Rüve]

It's "avoid"

Right.

[Vontrippen]

My question isn't about risen but only a personal curiosity:
The add-on of G3 si now out.I what to know(if is possible) some impression of the game.So what do you thik about the game?
Thanks!

[Rashnu]

The add-on of G3 si now out.I what to know(if is possible) some impression of the game.So what do you thik about the game?

http://www.pluto13.de/index.php?navtarget=1&lang=en

You'll find their statement in the above link. I doubt we can expect anything else.

[Maladiq]

We have agreed to their usage of our registered trade mark „Gothic“.

Ok, someone please explain me what rights on the gothic series does pb hold and what rights does jw. I am confused.

Ralf, will we see sexual dimoprhism in beasts is this game?

[foobar]

Ok, someone please explain me what rights on the gothic series does pb hold and what rights does jw. I am confused.

Well, as I understand it, the trademark "Gothic" itself belongs to PB (to Pluto13 to be precise). But Jowood has been granted the right to use it for further Gothic-Games. If this also includes a theoretical "Gothic 5" or if such a game required a new license from Pluto13, I do not know. But at least for the Gothic 3 Addon and Gothic 4, Jowood may exploit the brand as they want.

Ralf, will we see sexual dimoprhism in beasts is this game?

No. Ralf said so in the german thread.