EP: Research - Arcania: Gothic 4

Another game within the dark fantasy genre I've been inspired by is the 'Gothic' series, in particular Arcania: Gothic 4. Oddly there's not a lot about the architectural designs or use of lighting that I find particularly interesting. However, I feel like the use of environmental location for the cities, villages and pieces of architecture are great. There's a varied range of cliff-sides, mountains and rivers that are used to surround the places of interest in the game.

Gothic 4, in my opinion, has quite wishy-washy lighting that looks quite bland and ordinary and I think it's a shame they haven't used obscure or dramatic lighting to add some personality to areas. Despite the vistas being great, the lighting lets it down for me. It may sound too harsh but I do think the game looks great in terms of structures and their locations, I just don't enjoy the lighting as much as the rest. I want to make sure that I pay attention all 3 of the aspects of my game level's visual style that are important to me:

• Location
• Architecture
• Lighting 

My 'Arcania: Gothic 4' Inspiration Board