Gothic 2 Gold Edition

I've been an avid Gothic fan since Middle School, having played through the vanilla versions of Gothic 1 and 2 several times each. I've never found another game series that is as atmospherically immersive. A few months ago I decided to dive back into the series and slew through Gothic 1 in about a week, after which I decided to try G2 NOTR for the first time. Initially I was extremely annoyed at the MASSIVE criticals that every enemy delivers while my sword had the effectiveness of a twig.. but with time it became extremely rewarding. The expanded world of Jarkendar is a great addition to the story and offers a compelling continuation of a variety character arcs from Gothic 1 that brought me a wonderfully new yet nostalgic experience. The Bandit's camp is like an inbredation of the Old and New Camp's from Gothic 1, but located in a swamp as if paying a little homage to the Brotherhood as well. I only wish Gothic 3 had carried on in a similar fashion.

This release as some issues with resolution adjustment, you'll have to install mods (e.g. DX11) to fix this, visit the forum here or go to worldofgothic. There are also texture, shader adjustments mods available to give it a better look, however I'm unsure of repercussions, I got a outofmemory volilation error which killed my save and well I discontinued playing it. About 10 hours in review The game for its time is pretty neat, theres no hand holding, fend for yourself, which i can appericate, but thats also a double edge sword. Progressing in this game seems abscured at times. Its probably best to review a walkthrough to get a better sense of what the game is implying. I think there are some "pitfalls" in games progress. So an example, I was applying for apprentice of hunter. He requires 6 wolf pelts. However I've ventured out and already killed most wolves in that region. The bodies fade and the enemies dont spawn (until the next chapter on higher level. I think). Furthermore you can only have one proffesion out of the hunter,lockpick?,smith, and alchemy as far as I can tell the masters will not train you there on out. This is why I think it would be best to review a walkthrough at least to get you started. There is otherwise a good "harshness" and critical thinking to it though, You can be confronted by a thug that'll beat the crap out of you for your gold, should you venture in a shady area or trespass. You can venture out the wildreness and the animials will beat the crap out of you. You can talk to somebody wrong and they will beat the crap out of you. And yes the combat is wonky, but it has it intituitve design based on the time of open world game pioneering (my opinion its better than Morrowind's sodding combat). It offers a mouse free control experience, this is somthing a laptop gamers can benifit.

Is it possible to play fully patched Gothic 2 vanilla without DLC Night of the Raven as well as with DLC? Or you can play only Night of the Raven version?

Gothic 2 is probably my all time favorite game. I've played it to death over the years, but currently forget how to move on from Chapter One to access the key (and gateway) to Jharkendar. I've gone from Cavalorn to Lares to Vatras and back again for numerous hours now, trying to remember how to solve the Arms Dealer quest with sufficient proofs. And hence my complaint: RPGs are great for entertaining quests, but when the means to solving those challenges is obscured, and one is left to trial and error without a clear recourse if clarification is needed to resolve the quest, the game becomes too much like reality: hard work with empty results for thankless effort. Playing is no longer fun! It's like trying to pay mundane bills when you don't really owe anything yet, but your credit card is due and the payment must be processed or you get penalized and can't move on--or something like that. At least gamers have places to escape for answers on GOG and Steam.

Improvement over gothic 1 in every way