I mean, take a look at these pickies which makes your palms go "drip":
And we're not talking them Oblivion screens that look good at a distance - on the contrary a closeup in-game looks even better than the screens. And the game design is even better. I fuck you not! And it was released two years before Fallout 3. My, my...
Anyhoo, me got some inspiration in corresponding with this senior guy at Pirhana Bytes, hearing about how they started up in mum's basement, the discord with their publisher, eventually leading the demise of the Gothic series, and so forth.
Sometimes, replying to an email can mean so much.