u/copsincars

Wpadłem na pomysł, że będę sobie wpisywał w książce datę, kiedy ją przeczytałem. Ciekawy jestem, czy ktoś tak już robi?

I grew up in a part of Poland that looks almost exactly like Bohemia in this game. Same rolling hills and mixed forest, same field patterns, same layout of villages built around a church, same food, similar dialect words, similar folk customs that survived into living memory. Riding into Rattay for the first time felt less like discovering a setting and more like driving to my grandparents' village. I know what that mud smells like after rain.

So I'm curious how this lands for you. Is medieval Bohemia genuinely foreign, or does it just read as generic "Europe" from movies and fantasy? Do the villages feel like a real place or like a theme park?

I ask because Red Dead 2 is the mirror image for me. I know the American West well, but only through Hollywood, through westerns and books. I recognize every visual cue and I still have no instinct for it. I couldn't tell you what that air feels like, what those distances actually mean, or whether a town like Valentine is plausible or a fantasy. It's familiar and completely foreign at the same time.

Is KCD that for you, or something else entirely?

EDIT: I did not expect so many replies, thank you all very much. Some thoughts after reading them.

Almost nobody says the landscape is foreign. The thing which breaks it is always the castle. u/reillan wrote it best and then half of the thread said the same on their own. So in my opinion the real difference is not geography, it is how old are the buildings in the place where you grew up. u/Pumpiumpiumpkin described it perfectly from South Africa: walking up to a castle is for him like walking up to the pyramids, because both are older than anything he has ever stood next to.

Two comments deserve more attention than they got. u/dildozer10 from rural Alabama is the only person here who answered about culture and not about terrain: the land and the villages felt like home for him, but the classism was a shock, and he felt most comfortable with the nomads. And u/SeeingPhrases from Ontario noticed the chicory flowers and wrote that the glaciers made their hills flat, which is the most precise observation in this whole thread.

Also u/thbigbuttconnoisseur actually answered my question about RDR2: the distances there are strongly compressed, and towns like Valentine really existed in this size. This is exactly what I wanted to know, so thank you.

Again - thank you all for the input, really interesting.

I mean I would never waste my time on any other game with such a clunkiness. But there's something special about Gothic. Like it's a feature not bug. It's immersive as hell even though the game reminds you it's just a piece of a broken code at every step. And yet I sank again. I just can't figure out the magic behind this title.

So... I can get one of them. I already have 7900XT PC, PS4, Xbox X, Switch 1.
Frankly - I don't need another console (huge backlog). But I want one. I want the best possible expierience with GTA6 (will switch to PC anyway) but also don't want to miss neither PS or N exclusives.

First world problems. I know - kind of ashamed.