Gothic 2 Gold Edition

RPG means "role playing game", what means that you take a role of a character, that you lives his life, or part of it, and that is Gothic 2, you live the nameless hero's life, you do what you want. The game itself is in third person, you can play in first person, but is only useful for seeing more closely. You can configure the controls, something recomended because de default ones are awkward, personaly, my control scheme is like the Elder Scrolls saga, is much better that way, you know, WASD and all that. Talking about the combat system is a bit hard, is something that you must experiment, you must control the "clicks", is not a button mashing game, doing 200 "clicks" per second doesn't do nothing, you must "click" in the precisely moment to do a combo. I recommend to deactivate the "Gothic 1 controls" setting in options, these are very difficult and a bit confusing. The world map is small compared with other actual RPGs, but is very very detailed, you can see the people working in the farms or in his particular things at day, then, some ones go to drink some beer at night in the tabern or simply to sleep. Some of hese people will give you quests (there are many, like 130 or so), like kill some wolves, find a specific item and other quests much more complex, the game is very varied in this term, no problem with that. The leveling up siystem is very rewarding, you start slowly, but with the passing of time, you will see your character getting more and more powerful, you will pass from having serious problems with a single orc, to beat several with little effort, between these two action you will spend many hours, but belive me, is very rewarding. Every level, you get 10 learning points that you can spend in your basic stats, improving your skills or learning new ones, the system is very realistic, because instead of increasing the skills with the UI, you must search a specific character that can teach you to improve the skill you want, for example, you ask a blacksmith to teach you to forge your own weapons. The skill system doesn't have many complications, from the typicals like one-handed weapons, two handed, bow or crossbow, to others that you must learn like sneak, pickpocket, pick locks, create runes, alchemy, forge weapons or taking trophies from dead monsters. In terms of looting, weapons are numerous, you have swords of all kind, axes, hammers, bows and crossbows (some of them with magic properties), not so much with the armors, although I like that there are many, this is a realistic detail, the armors are difficult to get, definetly, you will play many hours with the same armor. The rest are rings, belts and amulets, typical looting, but there are some cool items that lets you do some useful things, like steel bars to forge swords in real time (I mean, you need to put that bar in fire with the corresponding animation, nothing UI based), pick axes to get minerals, guitars (nothing useful but funny), food that you can cook and more that I can't remember right now. The bad thing is the inventory, is very chaotic, the items are sorted by the own criteria of the game. The graphics are outdated now, but very solid, blocky characters, good textures (there is a HD texture pack) and a very good orography, sometimes you will see some glitches here and there, like rocks and trees not properly located, minimum problems, the truth is that the game is very polished, there are very few bugs, and you can solve them with a community patch, I finished the game with 65 hours and i haven't found any bug. The sound is very good, little to say here, plays his role perfectly (I found very funny the grunt from the lizards), but the really good part is the music, with beautiful ambient pieces, especially those related to the expansion zone. In definetly, if you like RPGs in his adventure form, without complex rules and stats, this is your game. The pros: - The world, very well detailed. - The NPCs. - Excelent difficulty curve, very rewarding. - Solid graphic engine and very polished game. - Again, the million of details. The cons: - Maybe too difficult at first. - Awfull controls. - You can't keep playing after the main quest. - Impractical inventory.

Great story focused RPG back then, still holds up well nowadays if you want a change of pace. Combat is something you have to get used to at first, once you get it its fine, default controls in general are somewhat cumbersome, but nothing you can't get used to. If you're interested in an early 2000s Witcher game, check both Gothic 1 and 2 out, highly recommended!

Gothic 2 always had a good place in my memory. Old engine sadly does not cooperate well with new, way more advanced systems but with some basic mods it will run as normal. Slap some DX11 mod/addon for updated graphics and it does not require a remaster. Whenever you see an error to why it does not run, than just google the issue and solution will be there. Took me 3 hours of my day to fix it and was more dedicated than doing some hardcore content in MMORPG's There are plenty of mods that add new adventures. Always have it installed on my PC even if I don't play it. Will recommend it to anyone who enjoys RPG.

Gothic 1 & 2 are one of my favorites game ever! I'v put 60+ hours in both of them. An interesting thing is that I first played Gothic 2 and then Gothic 1. Made the story more interesting in a strage way. The thing is that Gothic, as with A LOT of "gog", you have to play them back then. When they had something new and not when you got spoiled by phicics, insanely high production value of other comercial games, etc. Gothic is the type of game that has a terrible first impression. For me it was hard. I remember I easily got killed by the 3 goblins in the first 5 mins. Then I got to a guy on a bench and I remember how bad was the voice acting. A friend of mine told me to "you really have to play it" so I gave it one more chance... and damn I don't regret it. It's the type of game that makes you think. I really was the "unnamed hero". I really was there. I really TRIED to get into the town. I really tried to become an apprentice so I can gain access to the higher town to talk with a dude and so on. It really gave me a lot of freedom. I was also not told where to go or what to expect. Sometimes I just explored only to get killed by some strange skeleton I never encountered. It wasn't like on another VERY overated RPG that people like to kiss in the ass... you go to a new zone you see "level 7-12". No. The whole WORLD was at your disposal. I feld that whatevar I did ment something. I feld that whatever I did I gained something and I wasn't forced on doing it... like in this new crappy "Arcania" game. I really liked that when I walked into someones house, they ran at me telling me to leave. if I stoled something they knew about it and they would hit me. It really feld like something. I feld like I was there.

Play this game thoroughly before you judge it. It's one of the most massive, focused, and challenging (and i mean it) RPG experiences around, with a huge, deep world filled with complex quests and item. The combat is really difficult in the beginning, but it gets much more enjoyable as you progress through the game. The graphics are ok for 2001, and they suit the scale of the content. Quests are complex, and plentiful, therefore giving much appeal to the exploration-oriented gameplay Featuring over 80 hours of gameplay (main quest+some sidequests) with plenty of replay value, this is one journey that you shouldn't miss.