Friday, June 02, 2006

Gothic II Endgame

I’ve been playing Gothic II almost every evening for the last few weeks and I finally finished the endgame last night. I battled my way through the Halls of Irdorath, figured out the lever/switch puzzle, slew the Undead Dragon, avatar of the evil god Beliar, and saved Khorinis from a fate of never ending war, destruction and death.

I was a level 37 Paladin (strength:163, dexterity:99, two-handed melee skill:100%) with the twice-consecrated two-handed sword, “Holy Executioner”, so it only took me about five or six solid hits to finish off the Undead Dragon but he did manage to knock me down a couple of times, blasted me with fire and I had to pursue him around his lair as he flew around.

Nice armor, eh?

Then Xardas, the Necromancer who saved me from the ruins of whatever happened at the end of Gothic I (I never played that game so I don’t know) and set me on this quest at the beginning of Gothic II, magically appeared and took the power of the Undead Dragon (no longer undead, now really dead, since I just slew him) into himself and after some reassurances that he wouldn’t use this power for evil disappeared again.

I was not so reassured, but there wasn’t anything I could do about it, so I’ll just have to wonder…

What will Xardas do?

And also, it’s not too clear, I did kill all the dragons but is the Orc War over or not?

Obviously, this is a setup for a Gothic III.

I went to Gamespot to see if they had anything on it and, sure enough, Gothic III is scheduled for release in September. I wonder if I'll have to upgrade my video card to play it?

Well there wasn’t anything more to do after slaying the Undead Dragon so after talking to everybody in my ship’s crew we set sail again heading back for Khorinis, or maybe the mainland since I do have a couple of crewmembers (mercenaries with shady pasts) who are not too anxious to see that place again.

Instead of just exiting out of the game, which, by the way, was developed in Germany and Austria and translated into English (including some unintentionally weird and funny translations), I let the final credits roll and had some fun deciphering the credits and Thank You’s which were mostly in German. Who says software game developers don’t have a sense of humour?

Then there was this funny little scene at the end with the ship sailing into the distance where you can overhear the crew arguing with me about what to do with all the gold.

It’s my gold!

I ran all over Khorinis and the Valley of Mines, fought everything from Giant Rats to Orcs, Trolls and Dragons, worked my butt off doing all sorts of quests for farmers, merchants, the militia, a bunch of monks, thieves, mercenaries and other assorted riff-raff; gathered tons of herbs and rare plants; picked the locks on scores of hidden treasure chests; and fought my way through at least 30 nasty grubby caves filled with assorted wildlife and monsters to get all that gold!

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