Their buddies became guards doing their bosses dirty work and exploiting the weak. The strong and ruthless became Barons living in luxury and comfort on the top of the food chain, so to speak. The player is not an acomplished hero (that was actually quite fresh at the time), but rather a scoundrel and a weakling at that, a condemned prisoner thrown into a chaotic world of a mine valley, where old veteran prisoners rebeled, killed the King's guards and assumed control. Gothic is a single-player fantasy action role playing game made by Piranha Bytes, a small German game studio -a big heartfelt thank you goes to the developers also, after all nothing would be possible without them creating these diamonds- and released in 2001 in Europe mostly, but let's just not get into tiresome details about that crap. Thank you guys, you absolutely rock! It's also an open invitation to all old-school fans of one of the greatest RPG classics of all time, not excluding certain younger players who seek a gaming challenge.
This is meant first and foremost as a big thank you from me to all good folk involved in Gothic Saga games modding community, and particularly to a bunch of very crazy, resourceful, creative, knowledgeable, dedicated and passionate people from the Russian modding community, for giving us all hardcore Gothic fans the opportunity to experience our very favorite role playing game in a way we could have never dared to imagine in our wildest dreams before.
