Gothic

Even with mods and patches this game is an absolute buggy mess. I tried to power through it though, but by the end of the game I didn't really feel like it was worth working through the clunky, unsatisfying combat mechanics and unengaging story. Maybe if I had played this game around the time it had come out I would have the same kind of rose colored glasses a lot of people seem to have for this game; I firmly believe that this game has not stood the test of time and there are far better choices from this era of CRPG's. The game feels totally unfinished and so many things about the game hardly makes any sense I won't bother to go through them exhaustively. I will say, though, that it does 1 thing right and I wish most other RPG's did these days, in that similar to some of my other favorite classic RPG's they do not make you feel like the "chosen one" or a hero right off the bat, and you have to slowly struggle your way upward. That sort of progression I find to be really satisfying and is probably why I stuck to it even though I found the rest of the game to be pretty irritating.

so over-all game-experience: buying, trying all kind of settings, finally deleting this piece software

nice graphics for the time (of 2001 standards) but..... to pick things up with ctrl + up is more complicated than it needs to be... there were many other games were picking anything up was a one button thing but this.... and changing the controls is like a headache all on its on...

DO NOT BUY! The game code is broken and will not even start. I guess some things are best just left in the past. There is a Remake coming anyway so go play that!

I'm reviewing this as someone totally new to Gothic, but who enjoys older RPGs and games from the era like Thief or Morrowind. The Good: * Some cool magic spells * Decent world-building * The visuals are well done for the time period * Voice acting (mostly) The bad: * No sense of discovery/exploration. No quests to find, no cool locations to discover, no unique hand-placed gear to loot. * Movement, combat and taking action in general is extremely clunky * Very tedious in some areas, like looting and traveling * Story is incredibly generic and boring, except maybe first 1/3rd * No interesting progression/ cool skills * Still a bit janky/broken even with the community patches currently available (Union + G1CP) This review was extremely cut-down in terms of explanations due to the character limit for reviews on this site. This is just a summary of the big points.