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Drake14
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Where did they come up with the name gothic?
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Post Sat Apr 03, 2004 4:10 pm
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I think it has something to do with the buildingstyle (also called gothic ) that was used most in the medieval times.
Post Sun Apr 04, 2004 9:43 am
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It can also have something to do with the socalled Gotic-novels. In those novels there are many medieval dungeons and castles. Those novels where very populair in the end of the 19th centurie.
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they probably are from there taken indeed
Post Sun Apr 04, 2004 12:16 pm
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But Gothic-novels were more like the first horror-stories. You can't call Gothic a horror game.
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Well it isn't horror but it keeps you in suspense. Close enough? I mean the people then were scared if you even talked about an angry god, so horror
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Post Sun Apr 04, 2004 8:02 pm
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You might be right, Orcs and Dragons are pretty scary too.
And the enormous amount of blood when you kill somebody
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quote:
Originally posted by Sem
But Gothic-novels were more like the first horror-stories. You can't call Gothic a horror game.


Well if u actually put urself into the heros position and in his world then u realize it is actually hardcore horror like even from the beginning u see skeletions everywhere laying around dead also some big molerats that arent even rats but big ugly meatballs ugh they look a little bit the monsters like in Doom 3 i saw on some screenshots and after u wander at night in the forrest and see some shadowbeast omg i wouldent want to see them irl even i nthe game they can scare the h*ll out of you if u dont expect anyone
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Well isn't that an other thing that made the game so great? That you were scared to go in a cave, turn around a corner , afraid of what or who might be there. the not knowing anything. That is just what gothic2 was missing.
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Post Tue Apr 06, 2004 8:39 am
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Gothic as such does not relate to horror movies or books in any way. It's simply that some writer or whatever wrote a book of that style, named like it, and atfer that every moron publisher and critic and whoever else started to call and relate the word "gothic" with that style. Gothic as such is really a style, used in medieval times, and in a way most easily relates to that period. You read the title and immediately your thoughts go towards the swords, platemail, knights, dragons, magic..
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If I'm not mistaken
   

There was acctually a people called the Goths? and they had their own style and when it was adopted and called the gothic style, I suppose now it has expanden to music and clothing and building and whatever aswell, ohhh and completly white people hanging around at the bus-Stop with alot of spikes in their lips thinking they're true to the Gothic style
Post Tue Apr 06, 2004 10:37 am
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The game has nothing to do with those goths (I think). Besides they aren't that bad, I had a friend wich was goth and I knew his goth friends and nothing wrong with them.

According to me the name of the game has something to do with the medieval build style or the gothic-novels.
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the game has nothing to do with goths indeed the game was named probably after the time when the gothic building style was popular
Post Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:53 pm
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See, I told you
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Re: If I'm not mistaken
   

The real "goths" have nothimg to do with the "depresses" and sometimes gay, people who like to listen to sisters of mercy and dress in ridiculous ways.

The real goths were divided into Visigoths (from the west) and Ostrogoths(from the east) and were germanic tribes that were also responsible for the fall of rome, and settled on almost all europe thereafter. Since this game is from germany and has a real goth feel to it, i think the name is adequate

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There was acctually a people called the Goths? and they had their own style and when it was adopted and called the gothic style, I suppose now it has expanden to music and clothing and building and whatever aswell, ohhh and completly white people hanging around at the bus-Stop with alot of spikes in their lips thinking they're true to the Gothic style
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