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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
I'm curious to see how some people are finding the site. Many probably come due to their interest in the Gothic series. I know that's how I found this little corner of the Internet.
I remember downloading the Gothic demo from Fileplanet back in October of 2001. I was feeling bored and was looking for something to play. Since the person who posted the file wrote such a happy blurb about the game, it piqued my interest (Well, what do you know? Fileplanet is good for something!). I wasn't sure I'd like it, since back then I loved isometric games and was adverse to playing games with 3D graphics. I must have been truely bored since I installed it anyway, despite my hesitation, and started to play. I was immediately sucking in. The characters, the world, the story, the depth! I couldn't stop playing this darn 3D game! Everything was so pretty! The controls made sense! It was challenging! It was... alive! You can imagine my consternation at finding a 3D game that was actually interesting! How could this be? After Ultima 9 I didn't feel like touching any 3D games with a ten foot pole, nevermind playing one. But it was so much fun to play Gothic. "It must be mine!" I said to myself. Thus started my quest for a release date. Enter GothicDot.
Since GothicDot was the only place that seemed to have up-to-date news, I lurked around, then eventually joined the forums a few months later. I've been here ever since.
So, what brought you to the 'Dot?
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Bigpapa
Stranger from north
Joined: 22 Oct 2001
Posts: 930
Location: Strange place. |
Gothic!! What else 
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Dez
King of the Realms
Joined: 08 Jan 2003
Posts: 455
Location: Fortress of Tell Halaf |
The answer is Gothic.
Like Val I downloaded a gothic demo and fell in love the game soon after.So while i was searching some info regarding gothic, i stumbled in this place and here i have spent my time since then... 
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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
Just a games news whore and I used to regularly troll the 'net for the latest. Not quite sure how I found it exactly but I would go from Blue's to Shacknews to RPG Vault to RPGDot and so on. At some point, I began starting here and the others faded from interest.
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Cm
Sentinel of Light
Joined: 26 Jan 2003
Posts: 5209
Location: Missouri USA |
I found it looking for the Arx walkthrough. It was on the game disc to come here, and I found this to be the only site I want to post on. 
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dteowner
Shoegazer
Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 7570
Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
I think it was from the official Wiz8 site. I used to tinker with Vault Network's Wiz8 forum, but went looking for a better home when they combined with IGN. "Better home" is an understatement. Wouldn't miss the Dot for nothing these days.
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Krzychu
Hidden Character
Joined: 25 May 2002
Posts: 1738
Location: It is my little secret. |
Hey, I remember this thread! Last time it came out that most people found it through Gothic.
In my case, Gothic of course.
I was given Gothic as a present (I wasn't really interested in this game - never planned to buy it). Played Gothic. Loved Gothic. Got stuck in Gothic. Looked for a solution. Followed a link to RPGDot. Got stuck in forums.
To think how different my life would be if I didn't get this game...
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Mercenary
Helpful Friend
Joined: 25 Nov 2002
Posts: 2874
Location: Chromanin |
Gothic. I recived the game as gift also as Krzychu, and decided to try it. Got lost in the imense world without a map and only knew that i'm in Sect Camp so I looked for a map ... and found it here. Needed help several more times and then I joined the forums.
It might have been different. My memory is blurred its some time ago =)
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Lord_Brownie
High Emperor
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
Posts: 575
Location: Unfashionable arm of the spiral galaxy |
I think I found it through Google while looking for RPG/CRPG stuff. Instead of finding this sight through Gothic, I found Gothic after finding this site. I bought it along with a few other games after I discovered them here (Divine Divinity, Wizardry  .
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Jaz
Late Night Spook
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 9708
Location: RPGDot |
Gothic led me here, too.
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Danicek
The Old One
Joined: 15 Dec 2001
Posts: 5922
Location: Czech Republic |
Wizardry 8 (I was looking for help with a quest, btw it was my first RPG).
I'm playing RPGs and using this site since. |
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Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:13 am |
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
Gothic 
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Sem
Solid as a Rock
Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Posts: 3386
Location: at the Dot |
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Originally posted by Val
I remember downloading the Gothic demo from Fileplanet back in October of 2001. I was feeling bored and was looking for something to play.
About the same here, although the date was different, about a year or two later, and also the game, Gothic 2. And I wasn't bored, but just wanted another game that was similar to Severance Blade of Darkness and besides G2 I could only find RPG's with that horrible view from the top, instead of the over-the-shoulder view. And I downloaded it from Gamershell and not from Fileplanet.
Besides everything mentioned above, it was the same for me.
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