So it seems I wasn't thorough enough with a few entries. I make sure to include them in part 3!

Very nice work. Just one note on the hero's crime: They also had some cut dialogue where you could talk to Diego and tell him what crime you committed. I don't have it clear in my mind but it's in the Definitive Edition, I think it went like this: 1. Armed Robbery (grants you +3 Dexterity) 2. Fight with a king's guard - hero tells Diego he was "challenged" and he never could pass up on a challenge but unfortunately the king has "many guards" (grants you +3 strength) 3. Wrong words to the wrong man - I think the idea was that the hero criticized the king's politics in a tavern and got arrested because of it (+3 Mana) 4. Innocent (+1 to all attributes). Also, about Abuyin's message: I think PB had long planned for Rhobar to lose the war - mostly. Also "returning" is refering to Myrtana, it sort of hints at the fact that the hero probably originates from there or that he was there at some point. Even the credits theme with the ship sailing into the sunset is called "Returning Home". I wouldn't necessarily call it a retcon, "evil" still won - maybe it was what Abuyin perceived as "evil", just like many others, which is the orcs and the hashishins.

5:04 the entry might've referred to the hidden note left by Saturas in the old new camp that teases NoTR.

The Dragon Lords reference got me laughing haha! Nice video as usual, looking forward to the next layers!

The Nameless Hero's crime could also refer to an earlier draft of the game, where Diego would ask the player about the crime he commited. Then the choice would influence the starting stat of the player. Here are the 4 options and their effects: - Plead Innocent (+3 Str, +3 Dex, +3 or so mana) - Brawl with the royal guard (+5str) - Spewing anti-king rhetoric on the public square (+5 Mana) - Theft (+5 Dex) Also, the Car in Jarkendar was a leftover from Pyranha Byte's scrapped Sci-Fi first person shooter, left in the game either out of negligence, a reference or an easter egg. In fact, that Valley was used as a tesbed for said game, hence it's linear nature.

About the elements of the dragons: If you want to project the classical 4 elements onto the dragons it makes more sense to give the air element to the ice dragon (cold wind) and let the swamp dragon be the water dragon. I could also imagine that the devs wanted to make up their own elements since the classical 4 elements are overdone. Since we see 2 fire dragons and a bunch of dragon eggs there might also be different breeds of dragons and the swamp dragon could simply be a crossbreed of an earth and a water dragon. And I don´t think Abuyins vision get retconned. Rhobar lost the war against the orcs. Every city in myrtana is controlled by the orcs and everyone loyal to the king is in hiding. The war is basically over and only the nameless hero can make a change since he hasn´t found peace.

I remember in Dexter;s dialogue without NotR, that he gives you a chance to run, and he was paid by the seekers to hunt the hero.

I never clicketh on an internet video so swiftly!

Xardas's tower was never an issue in G1, in fact it was supposed to be initially located on the hill similarly to the fort ruins (Ur-Shak), so there weren't intentions to hide it, but it would make sense to hide the tower in G2, because Xardas didn't want the mages to know where he is. So it would make sense to put him in some cool cave instead, or even his tower could be located in some cave or something like this, which would make it even more atmospheric and logical.

3:40 makes sense more according to the Chinese pentagram of 5 elements 6:20 I really wanna commend the extra effort to clarify that, it's refreshing when the misunderstandings is clarified 18:00 the opposite is true, its precisely because of that, they need to recruit more people, and who else to recruit in the colony than the one who already helped so much...

Maaannn!!! Here we are 20 years later and I didn't know the Valentino's ring story :)))))

"Fire mages can see Xardases tower" was refering to Gothic 2 where you can literally see xardases tower from the monastery

This is getting better and better! It’s really amazing that after so many years I still find out new things about Gothic from vids like this! 🤘

More of these, please! Great work!

excellent content, thank u for doing these videos

Really good and interesting video, keep up the good work!

Nice vid, I'm waiting for the next part, thank you for a good job. Danke schön und hallo aus Russland :3

Another great vid! Big hug, bro.

These are the things I have learned most about over the years, by just exploring if i exclude gothic 3, but I gotta say that there's things that i will not understand any time soon. Like the hermit easter egg. If we put his words into practice, then Gothic would be spelled Oohhcc.. I don't get that xD

Exotic funfact for better reach - in the polish dub, when asked for directions, the guard of the bridge that leads to the Old Camp replies that the Old Camp is UNDER the bridge. We are still debating whether this is just a translation error, making him look like a drunk, or some joke-allusion to the fact that you can literally see the camp from the bridge and asking for directions is stupid xd

Great work, thanks!

Regarding 8:01 - I remember King Rhobar, in G3, saying that NH was sent there just as a test for him to pass and show that he is truly the Chosen One; so that would actually make him not guilty of any crime.

Great content :D

technical limitation... lack of manpower... so on and so forth - g3 having desert instead of swamp

Again awesome video,i commented on this few hours back but somehow can't see my comment (maybe i deleted it unintentionally) Connection between Sleeper and Crawlers could be due to orcs sacrificing crawler for Sleeper soul to use it as vessel and then that vessel mutated into our beloved Archdemon 🤔 Thats my personal theory, i saw it somewhere and liked the idea ⭐

At some point in the iceberg You have to say a few words about LARP Gothic ;p

I think you got the dragon elements wrong. Ice is clearly air. Air is (mostly though) cold like when you use a fan, or when the wind blows in the summer. Swamps are mostly known for being wet and muddy -> water.

Lets pretend that 'swamp" dragon is actually Water dragon and ice dragon is actually "Air dragon" - you know, air... cold... wind... lets just pretend xd

Can't wait for Tier 3 and the Car in Jharkendar entry, which i'm sure is totally different than the Jharkendar Car one

I never clicked on a like button so fast!

11:36 You are divine! Etzala

Iss mal ne Wurst, Bruder.

Ah yes, Gothic 3, the game that let you scramble the whole timeline and allegiances by deliberately corrupting your save-file at the start of the game.

Fantastic!

18:50 that's the topic for Gothic 3 remake xD

42 and "What was the question" are referring the Hitchhiker's books, and not the movie as the movie hadn't been made yet.

Nett gemacht

Ich hab den Drachenlord einspieler gesehen du Schlingel.

I have never clicked on a notification so fast!

Hab mal von einer Theorie gelesen dass Snaf ein Kannibale ist und deswegen Fleischwanzen isst, die immer in der Nähe von Skeletten rumkriechen.

not true. what was the question was used by gaddafi in some interview