Elder Scrolls Orpheus, a Gothic total conversion mod for Skyrim (lel)

[Outlander]

http://www.moddb.com/mods/orpheus/downloads/gothic-orpheus-21

Welcome. Today I wanted to present to you one of biggest projects ever made for skyrim. The mod is called Orpheus. It'll be a mod set in the universe of the famous German game, Gothic. It'll be total conversion of the game so you'll be able to see a lot of famillar things from Gothic implemented into the mod. The story starts a couple of years after death of the main hero. You'll be able to visit famous location from Gothic 1 and 2. The storyline itself will be based on the fall of the Myrthana. Scattered towns of the kingdom are weakened after the civil war, but that's not the the most prevalent danger. Massive hordes of orcs have started roaming and pillaging lands of Nordmar. Your story begins when you're caught by orcs and forced to sail with them to the nearby islands of Khorinis, where you wait for execution. The game will run on skyrim engine with a couple of tweaks and fixes. We"ll do our best to recreate the dark climate of Gothic.

So, this seems, uh... weird. Too bad it has the shitty TES combat.

 

[Whiny-Butthurt-Liberal]

Why don't you make a thread when the mod is finished and released, which will be never, because gigantic total conversion mods with an interesting idea never get finished and released?

 

[deama]

It's a shame they have to use skyrim's engine; morrowind would probably work better.

 

[Jazz_]

Looks too grimdark to be Gothic.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Human shaped orks

 

[Ismaul]

lel indeed

If I want to play Gothic, I'll play the actual Gothic, not a Bethesda engine abomination.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

I see Alchemy is still alive and well...

 

[Jaesun]

What a colossal waste of time.

Some people sure have a lot of free time...

 

[Orobis]

 

[shihonage]

I hear there's a port of Gothic to Gothic engine. It's called "Gothic".

 

[Alkarl]

When "Trying to get into Skyrim" goes way the fuck past sanity and reason.

 

[Iznaliu]

Why don't you make a thread when the mod is finished and released, which will be never, because gigantic total conversion mods with an interesting idea never get finished and released?

That will happen when you apply the same standards to your total conversion (to Christianity) mod for real life.

 

[Mastermind]

So, this seems, uh... weird. Too bad it has the shitty TES combat.

lol @ gothic tard complaining about Skyrim's combat, which is miles above the shitshow that was gothic (and gothic 2).

 

[ColCol]

So, this seems, uh... weird. Too bad it has the shitty TES combat.

lol @ gothic tard complaining about Skyrim's combat, which is miles above the shitshow that was gothic (and gothic 2).

 

[Ismaul]

lol @ gothic tard complaining about Skyrim's combat, which is miles above the shitshow that was gothic (and gothic 2).

Gothic's combat is way superior. It's collision based, it requires timing attacks and correctly chaining them depending on the starting position of your weapon, there's blocking, the animations change with your improving skill, and the enemies are challenging. It's one of the best 3rd or 1st person melee combat I've ever played. TES melee combat is just slicing jello until the numbers go down enough.

 

[Mastermind]

lol @ gothic tard complaining about Skyrim's combat, which is miles above the shitshow that was gothic (and gothic 2).

Gothic's combat is way superior. It's collision based, it requires timing attacks and correctly chaining them depending on the starting position of your weapon, there's blocking, the animations change with your improving skill, and the enemies are challenging. It's one of the best 3rd or 1st person melee combat I've ever played. TES melee combat is just slicing jello until the numbers go down enough.

Gothic's melee combat is shit purely because of the shitty unresponsive controls. Skyrim (not sure why you're dragging it to all TES games given that the first 2 aren't even real 3d) has blocking (so did morrowind and oblivion) and you can get new attack animations for non-basic attacks with higher skill levels. The enemies are challenging enough if you don't cheese. But that's just melee. Skyrim has great archery and mediocre (but still superior to gothic) spellcasting. whereas gothic has jack shit in those areas. gothic 2 archery literally plays like a mmo except without any special attacks. let's not even get into itemization.

 

[Siveon]

Just to note, this isn't a port of a Gothic game, but a fanmade mod set in the Gothic world. In case that wasn't clear.

 

[Outlander]

Gothic's melee combat is shit purely because of the shitty unresponsive controls.

You have to train your fighting skills in the game and the combat becomes responsive and fluid. Furthermore you have to time your attacks to properly chain a combo. It's a great detector for people who played the game 5 minutes and quit whining "b-b-b-but the combat sucks!!11!!1!!!!" There's also parry and side-stepping to evade.

TES is just clickclickclickclickclclick spamming until enemy dies, repeat.

Archery sucks in Gothic, yes.

 

[thesheeep]

Skyrim... The enemies are challenging enough if you don't cheese. But that's just melee. Skyrim has great archery and mediocre (but still superior to gothic) spellcasting. whereas gothic has jack shit in those areas. gothic 2 archery literally plays like a mmo except without any special attacks. let's not even get into itemization.

That is the most retarded thing I have read in at least a week. And I browse the Codex daily.

I mean, Gothic combat is pretty derpy, yeah, but at least it can be somewhat challenging until you become OP. Skyrim can be played blindfolded.

 

[Mastermind]

Gothic's melee combat is shit purely because of the shitty unresponsive controls.

You have to train your fighting skills in the game and the combat becomes responsive and fluid. Furthermore you have to time your attacks to properly chain a combo. It's a great detector for people who played the game 5 minutes and quit whining "b-b-b-but the combat sucks!!11!!1!!!!" There's also parry and side-stepping to evade.

TES is just clickclickclickclickclclick spamming until enemy dies, repeat.

Archery sucks in Gothic, yes.

There's blocking, evading, sneaking, charging, etc. in skyrim. There's simply no case to be made for gothic based on variety of things you can do in combat. The last "click click click" tes was morrowind, whose combat was almost purely stat based (which many people here would consider true RPG). because of this I wouldn't even compare gothic and TES, the most direct comparison I can think of are the jedi outcast/jedi academy games. They are both pseudo-rpgs like gothic with timing based melee but jedi knight is a genuinely good game whereas Gothic is terrible as an rpg and terrible as an action game. as far as I can tell it's an action rpg made for people who don't like actual action rpgs (IE: diablo).

 

[Mastermind]

I mean, Gothic combat is pretty derpy, yeah, but at least it can be somewhat challenging until you become OP. Skyrim can be played blindfolded.

No it can't.

 

[hivemind]

lol @ gothic tard complaining about Skyrim's combat, which is miles above the shitshow that was gothic (and gothic 2).

shut the fuck up, gypsy

 

[Falksi]

This takes raping good RPG's to a whole new level I didn't think possible.

It's like someone taking a glass of your favourite vintage whiskey, and trying to make it better by adding Rola Cola.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Gothic has such a clunky control that Skyrim is an improvement control and action combat wise

 

[Incantatar]

Gothic has such a clunky control that Skyrim is an improvement control and action combat wise

It's not clunky at all if you spend two hours and get used to it. There are other games you can play for years and still feel the controls suck balls (eg. DF). Gothic is not one of those games.