Gothic 2 Gold Edition

I finally gave up on this game. Erratic mouse control within the game. Sometimes it would work to open a door or pick up an item, but most of the time it just wanted to punch everything, included the inanimate objects you wanted to read or pick up. That got old fast. One set up / options, you do not have mouse control. You have to arrow up / arrow down to get to different screen resolution or performance settings. To talk / interact with other characters, you cannot mouse click on the 3 or 4 responses your character is given. That would be too easy. Instead you have to use 0 for top response, 1, for next down response, 2, for next down response and 3 for last possible response to choose. Why? With all the GOOG GOG games in my library, life is too short to deal with these peculiarities. Game may be fun, but I'll never know, because the mechanics of the game were too off-putting. Will be uninstalling.

Access violation errors when trying to change settings, white borders on the top of the screen, no mouse cursor, painful controls. Just an abysmal, broken experience all around. Don't waste your time. This is clearly a dated game with a grossly inflated rating due to the nostalgia factor. Avoid.

How can a game released in 2005 have no mouse support? For me this makes navigation too cumbersome to even play the game. Refunded.

What do we love in our RPGs? - Memorable Characters and Story? - Exciting and engaging quests? - A vast, intricate, vibrant, highly detailed and/or original world? - Fun and complex character advancement? Gothic 2 has none of these. The voice acting is atrocious. Characters, including your own name brand store bought prefabricated generic guy are all made of cardboard. The world is... yuck. Even duller than stock medieval fantasy in approx 6 shades of brown. WTF quests with wtf progression and wtf solutions with barely even any pretense and no pay out. Character advancement is an offensively simplistic slog. Your development can't even be measured. It basically amounts to maybe attack animations playing out a half second faster. The story is nothing but a baseless fetch-and-grab played out for endless hours on repeat. There is no world lore. You can't even say there's not anything original because there isn't any world building at all. The combat is senselessly difficult to the point where the devs are in serious danger of making people think they're compensating for some sort of deficiency. One Star Out of Five? NO Star out of anything. ZERO enjoyment factor. BAD GAME.

Was reading on the Steam reviews to buy the GoG version instead, list of problems I discovered IN THIS VERSION inside of ten minutes - Tons of resolution issues, no 16x9 Very few performance options Bugs within the performance menu No mouse support on any menu Game stuck in borderless windowed mode with no fullscreen support Thick white lines along the edges of the screen on all resolutions Cutscenes in tiny 300x400 window in center of screen GETTING TIRED OF PC GAMING, I'M TIRED OF SPENDING AN HOUR JUST TO GET ONE PROGRAM TO WORK. I HAVE L I M I T E D FREE TIME TO SPEND GAMING AND I CANNOT STAND STUPID CRAP LIKE THIS. KEEP THE $2.50 GOG, IT'S NOT EVEN WORTH MY TIME TO REFUND IT.