ArcaniA: Gothic 4 Expansion 'Fall of Setarrif' Announced

7
An expansion pack, titled Fall of Setarrif, for ArcaniA: Gothic 4 is in the pipeline, developer Spellbound Entertainment and publisher DreamCatcher announced today.

Fall of Setarrif will pack an estimated ten hours of extra content, with new quests, missions, enemies, environments and items. Plus, apparently "for the very first time in the franchise," you'll have the opportunity to play as other characters.

"This add-on gives us the opportunity to tell the story of the city Setarrif. Besides the story, which is an extension of the story of ArcaniA - Gothic 4, players will be provided with diversified regions, quests and dungeons," said lead designer André Beccu in the announcement. "Players will be able to import their Gothic 4 character and they will meet the old fellows again. But this time, we came up with something very new!"

The price and release date are still to be revealed. If you haven't played Gothic 4 yet, you can download the 1.7GB demo from your friendly neighbourhood FileShack.

From The Chatty
  • reply
    December 9, 2010 2:05 PM

    anyone play this game?

    • reply
      December 9, 2010 2:20 PM

      After the demo, I couldn't bring myself to. The story and characters were so bad it was sad.

    • reply
      December 9, 2010 2:34 PM

      I do (initially I was a big fan), it has allot of issues performance wise, I would wait for the Expansion they are suppose to fix everything with it do not get it now.

      Get Two Worlds II instead it is superior in every aspect and make Gothic 4 look like a demo, nigh and day in every way. Plus there are no issue in Two Worlds II, the recent Gothic 4 patch botched the game I had to revet to the last patch.

      This is cool news I am happy, but I pray to god it fixes the current state of Gothic 4.

      • reply
        December 9, 2010 3:04 PM

        The only major thing I dislike about 2 Worlds is the environment, only desert and swamp and the like, no pretty forests,

        • reply
          December 9, 2010 3:33 PM

          Yeah there is no massive forest lvl like like the starter island with coniferus pine trees but there is a massive jungle island have you been to Eikronas? Its the biggest land mass the swap is part of that massive land mass? The jungle the is awesome.

          Eollas is pretty nice too, just not even close to the size of Eikronas.

          • reply
            December 9, 2010 3:36 PM

            http://www.twoworlds2.com/en/map.html

            Here is the map check it out, you will have to do the stupid age verification then just paste the above link again, Alsorna is the starter island and its pretty big :) shows you just how massive Eikronas is.

            Do you have a boat yet, you can sail around and find soem cool jungle islands too, I need to get my boat.

    • reply
      December 9, 2010 2:41 PM

      I bought and played on Xbox360. I couldn't get past the first part of the game. Game mechanics, dialog, voice acting, even the artwork was just....subpar. I couldn't recommend it.

    • reply
      December 9, 2010 3:40 PM

      my girlfriend doesnt play games at all, but loved this one for some reason. so im going to get it for her if its ever cheap

      • reply
        December 9, 2010 4:04 PM

        Its a good ARPG lite just do not apply the latest patch, get the Hotfix patch manually and apply it.

        The performance takes a big hit on MAX setting(which looks very nice graphically) when you are in towns. On my rig I am always 60 - 55 outside, massive towns drop to 28-35, when it rains I take a hit as well(the rain effect is very cool). If they could fix it up it be a great RPG lite.

        I really hope the add on will be awesome,and include a massive performance and stability fix.

    • reply
      December 9, 2010 6:49 PM

      It was more fun than good. The combat and art were great imo. The story was OKish/generic, but the story telling (main quest line) and voice acting were lacking.

      http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-10-20-arcania-gothic-4-review?page=2

      This review hits it on the nose, although I think they scored it low.

    • reply
      December 10, 2010 9:33 AM

      Game is great fun. Amazing graphics, perfect sense of exploration. Dialog is weak, no story etc but who cares it was a lot of fun to explore and fight. Definitely worth the 28 hours.

Hello, Meet Lola