Glad to see that this is confirmed to be coming here. :)
Also, the Gothic 2 mod The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos has been quietly added to the Upcoming list as well:
https://www.gog.com/game/the_chronicles_of_myrtana_archolos

The Gothic Reloaded mod looks to be much more enticing and true to the original, especially after that godawful playable teaser from 2 years(?) ago.

gothic-reloaded-mod.org
Wishlist entry

Truly this is the age of remakes.

What does this even mean?

Company:
TEST DEVELOPER / TEST PUBLISHER Voted.

This is one of my favourite rpg saga, i have the three games on big box and also on gog (because the expansion of Gothic 3 doesn´t count), the screens looks impressive. We will see the improves/diferences with the original.

Looks interesting, hope ends decent

Even more depressing when you realize most of 'em are inferior to the originals. Good luck to the fine folks at, uh, TEST DEVELOPER / TEST PUBLISHER.

Real talk, isn't every Piranha Bytes game a remake/reinvention of Gothic with a slightly different setting/story? Even Elex failed to distinguish itself and boiled down to the exact same 3 faction game play with nothing exceptional to add, except an awesome setting. The leader of the warrior faction is still a dick, and new players are still going to be shoehorned into the fighter faction because it is the first one and only one you truly encounter for a while. I mean I have seen almost no difference in any of the Piranha Bytes games at all, and I have played all of them. Risen was essentially a new remake of Gothic. I just don't understand all the love for overly simplistic faction systems, virtually nonexistent story, and terrible controls. Hard pass.

Wishlisted. I hope it turns out well.
An overhaul of graphics and UI really can't hurt.
Just one question: will In Extremo still be in it?

will buy this is why we can't have nice things :P

Gothic and Gothic II are some of those games where a remake is just utterly pointless.
The remake surely will be an improvement in a couple aspects (graphics, controls, etc) but what it's going to lack, if the approach in the playable teaser is of any indication, is the soul of Gothic.

There's just something about the end 90s/early noughties 3D graphics, the "acquired taste" control scheme, the clunky UI, the rough, very German, non-prosaic tone in dialogue/conversation and the overall gritty "everyone for themselves" atmosphere that I think just cannot be properly replicated or recreated in a modern context, and especially these days where everything needs to be politically correct and doesn't offend.

Gomez' female sex slaves? I'd be really surprised if they make the cut or even just are alluded to.

To be honest. They could remake the game in a very sensible way. Just keep the Gothic 1 quests, add minor quests in accordance to the already established quests (so developers have a general idea on how to structure quests). But before doing any of that, try to create quest structures, like the way on how dialogues are presented and unfold to the player. For instance, you could easily be able to completely remake Gothic 1 with The Witcher 3s gameplay, just set up quests in accordance to the features The Witcher 3 offers and base anything around those gameplay-axioms. If the developers communicate properly it would take about 2 months of preparing and discussing so all the old and new quests are made before the first line of code is written. Development would be so much faster because all the ideas are already prepared so the quest developers have a general idea on where things are heading and how those gameplay elements are ought to be used by the player. There are a couple of examples for this, the most famous one is Breath of the Wild, where they pre-planned all the ideas for years before actually making the game.

If you add features in accordance on how lifely the world should be I don't see any problem on keeping the classic "3 factions formula" yet still presenting new things to the player to keep things less generic and more fresh. The Witcher 3 was so interesting because it had interesting quests ideas, yet everything else was rather predictable and boring. The game itself felt like a equilibrium of keeping things fresh yet still had old and familiar gameplay and narrative elements in it.

I've never been able to play Gothic 1 very far into the game before all the crashing, and the very-sucky (to me) "combat controls" got to me and I would stop playing.

[Gothic 2 - also crashes a lot, so same - same - but the "combat controls" work decently enough.]

[Gothic 3 is one of my very favorite open world RPG's, and I've played it through a number of times. No issue with the controls / rarely crashes.]

So... I am really looking forward to this.

If the crashing is mitigated, and the controls revamped into something I can work with - then I'll finally get to play this gem.

(Assuming the price is right, and all...)

Looking forward to this one!


P.s. I hadn't heard of that Gothic Reloaded mod, but looking over its website - it says it's a graphics overhaul - which, to me, means the controls I can't stand would probably still be the same. So, not looking at it with as much interest...

It means we're getting older and have actual income and refuse to let go of our past and willing to rekindle that love.
I disagree, I too an old gamer but I surely realize that 90s wasn't perfect. The 3D graphic of that era is turd, the control can be tiresome. The feel is because we're younger with more imaginative mind that fill the holes better than our current more cynical age.

I actually actively pushing for mods for better graphic and control. It feel better to recognize something or someone immediately rather than looking at some pixelated jaggy item that sometimes blend with the background because it's blurry af.

Yeah, that was actually pretty dark in a game that was mostly quite light-hearted...could easily be interpreted as PB making fun of sexual violence. I agree that it would get them in trouble today.
Personally I don't have any interest in the remake and doubt it will be worth playing. The only aspect of Gothic 1 that bothered me and should be easily fixable are the controls, and that's not enough to justify a remake. Other elements I regard as flaws (especially the tedious last third of the game, with its focus on dungeon-crawling and non-stop combat) couldn't be changed without making a different game.
In general I find it interesting how many remakes there seem to be nowadays, maybe an indication that video games are stagnating/have regressed and not really surpassed the "golden age" of the late 1990s/early 2000s.