Speaking of Razorfist, here's his rant on Gothic.
He's not wrong. Catalyst, as I (and he) said previously, is not the first operator to fuck things up. BattleTech's players have long ago seized the game from the official owner and, for all intents and purposes, control it.
That's why Gothic is Dead On Arrival. No one wants what is clearly a Super Robot premise in their Real Robot Mil-SF setting.
Therefore, I have something that those who do find this premise appealing should hear:
Make Your Own Game
Mekton Zeta is RIGHT THERE! Jovian Chronicles is RIGHT THERE! Both games have build systems that explicitly account for the sort of Mecha tropes that Gothic is about. HERO is all about that, from the ground up, as is GURPS. There are other options that better handle the premise than the retards at Catalyst: USE THEM!
You don't need Catalyst's product slop. You can roll your own, and get playing today. You don't need to wait. You don't need to CONSUME PRODUCT. You can just DL some free PDFs--look around; not that hard to find--and go to town.
Hell, RIFTS does this better than Catalyst. You can just play RIFTS!
Catalyst Game Labs is not your friend. They hate you. Stop giving them money.
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