The thing is, official canon is not decided by the audience but by the creator. G1-G3 are all the canonical gothic story; archolos can only be considered fanfiction by that definition, because whoever has the actual rights to gothic gets to decide the canon. I don't think there is any denying though that everyone who played archolos will see some characters of gothic 1 in a different light going forward, and i honestly will be disappointed if marvins development will not be reflected in the remake ( at which point archolos will be able to be considered canon). you see the sense i'm trying to make here? headcanon/fancanon can differ from official canon, and official canon always requires acknowledgement from official sources.
The thing is, official canon is not decided by the audience but by the creator. G1-G3 are all the canonical gothic story; archolos can only be considered fanfiction by that definition, because whoever has the actual rights to gothic gets to decide the canon. I don't think there is any denying though that everyone who played archolos will see some characters of gothic 1 in a different light going forward, and i honestly will be disappointed if marvins development will not be reflected in the remake ( at which point archolos will be able to be considered canon). you see the sense i'm trying to make here? headcanon/fancanon can differ from official canon, and official canon always requires acknowledgement from official sources.
imagine me_irl saying "SPEAK ENGLISH YOU LEGITIMATE SON"
Bin jetzt auch umgezogen. Lassmich ist orgendwie auch ein viel schönerer Name als Lases.