Humans and Orcs may fight, but in the end Dolphins will construct a series of breathing aparatus and invade land. They'll start with the beaches and towns along the river, and then move inwards. Once both cultures are turned to pets, they will have no reason to go to war; they will only either play fight or fight to the death for the amusement of the dolphin upper classes.

I, for one, welcome our new dolphin overlords

(this is obviously just a joke ;) bless you for gifting)

SEND LOTS OF PRETTY HUMAN BOYZ FOR ORC LADIEZ TO SNU-SNU!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/Veteran_Curmudgeon/SnuSnu_has.jpg

ORC LADIEZ BE HAPPY AFTER SNU-SNU, BEAT ORC BOYZ UNTIL THEY STOP SILLY WAR.

Of course, after the Orcs have retreated all over the Kingdom of Myrtana monuments would be erected for the victims of a great Snu-Snu sacrifice.

http://mimg.ugo.com/201012/9/6/0/134069/cuts/futurama-snu-snu_480x360.jpg

Yes the bizarre controls are present in Gothic 1.

Huzzah! Now I'm even more excited to play this one :D

Only if you pretend it never happened and therefore cannot be used as a comparative example.

both parties pick their best fighter and have a best fighter vs best fighter. and see who wins.

If I had my way, the humans would grant orcs lands within their kingdom (possibly an island or islands). If the orcs have centralized government (i.e. one leader), there would be joint government between the human king and the orcish king, each would have to give full faith and credit to the other's laws and within the other's jurisdiction. There would be a third party mediator chosen by alternating sides every three years to resolve any disagreements. If the orcs do not have centralized government each tribe would be setup as its own nation state and be required to select a spokesman for the human-orc counsel (as outlined above).

Also, in exchange for granting the orcs lands within human kingdoms, orcs would become the nation's premier monster killers, as there are tons of extremely dangerous monsters to fight in Gothic and this would keep them busy.

Finally, there would be common games, feasts, education (teach the orcs how to farm), and trade facilitated between orcs and humans soas to keep the two sides interested in peace.

Disregard my entree, I just got Gothic 1.

My predecessor set himself an ultimate quest for awaking the humanity. To achieve it he created orcs in a hope that a brutal, raging enemy would unite the human race and teach them how to be better. That was a gruesome mistake. Humanity does not tend to be better. They tend to be the best. In every single aspect. They saw the brutality of orcs and it just encouraged them to be become even more brutal than the greenskins. The rich and powerful were supposed to share with the poor and thus begin the golden age of humanity without injustice, poverty and hate. But instead they forced them to work for them, fight for them and most important of all - die for them.

This madness must be stopped. I just took over but I am capable of ending the conflict. I could just erase the orcs but that would be against everything I believe. They are sentient beings after all. No, I just need to... refocus both nations so that they won't have any reasons to fight each other. All I need is to grand both of them an adequate enemy. My predecessor didn't realize that orcs actually shouldn't have any interest in invading the human lands. Orcs live in wilderness, they don't need fertile soils, thriving cities, beautiful gardens. They are savages they just need a good fighting. Why shouldn't I provide them a challenging enemy right where they live, in the wilderness?

As for the humanity... they will need something more sophisticated than a bunch of berserkers. The enemy should be terrifying, devilishly intelligent but without the intention to completely destroy the humanity. No, the enemy will tend to exploit not annihilate! And most important of all they will be masters of disguise. Otherwise they will just encourage the humanity to become even worse.

That's it! I will plant one enemy for humans just inside their thriving cities and the other will challenge the dominance of the orcs in the wilderness. However, both enemies will be limited in numbers. Quality over quantity! It will be very difficult to kill them but on the other hand they will not wreak havoc! They will just keep both humanity and orcs occupied so that they will not see a point in fighting each other. This will end this pointless war!

I can beginning the creation of... wait a minute! How should I name those two races? Let me check the log... my predecessor was giving names for his creations with an alphabetical order, I think I will stick to it. Let me see... here it is, the list of a few last creations:
- orcs
- polish kielbasa (I think, I'm hungry)
- quantum entanglement (a great invention, too bad that no mortal acknowledge its presence so far)
- roasting of coffee beans (and thus my predecessor finally managed to complete his ultimate quest for awaking the humanity)
- schooner glass (now I'm also thirsty)
- tax (and after that my predecessor should be fired immediately but nooo, the management said: "let's give this guy one last chance". Needless to say his next invention was the worst disaster ever)
- UHT milk! (they drowned him in that as a punishment)
That leaves me with "V" and "W". Let me think...

...and thus the age of vampires and werewolves began...

Thanks for your giveasay! Here is my humble effort to promote it a bit more
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/how_does_one_make_a_gift_aka_gifting_on_gog_for_dummies/post31

Concerning the way to end the war between Orcs and Humans.
Apparently they need a good old Tyranid Hive attack to have someone they could play co-op against.
Another option would be a big big big amount of vodka, which should bring them back onto friendly terms. This, however, is a little dangerous as it could also potentially lead to drunken fights thus bringing hostility back. However, again, if the amount is REALLY big it should be enough to carry them beyond the stage when they are capable of fighting and everything should be alright eventually (peaceful and sleepy for a while, at least).

An unnamed hero suddenly appears and after a lot of adventures he unites humans and orcs.

"Wat iz dis 'Agrimend' dat humie spoke of, liutnent?"
"Might be some sort of flashy shoota methinks! We should ask da next 'umie we meet before we chop its head off, boss!"
"Dat I call advice! Let's find another humie boyz, WAAAAAAAAGH!"

I'm not participating in the contest, by the way :D

I would create a hybrid race between the humans and orcs called the Humorcs... using SCIENCE! (or magic or something, I dunno... whatever works.) Then everyone would get along 'cuz they'd see we're really all the same and junk and whatever and stuff.


I didn't win, did I?


EDIT: Ok, I know the contest is over but what if I added a cyborg?

Orcs and humans could take the war to a computer screen:
http://www.blogcdn.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/2012/04/ah-warcraft-4-13-12.jpg