Gothic

I really enjoyed my time with Gothic 1. Particularly in the opening sections. From the music and sound design to the overall feeling of the world. But most of all I love the feeling of character progression this game gives. When you start out, you're nothing but a peasant who can barely hold a sword, hell you struggle to kill a single lizard-chicken thing. But as you level up and grow by increasing your weapon skill, your character will start to hold the sword a little better. Your hits will do more damage, your combos will flow much more elegantly and those lizard chickens? You'll be able to handle them with ease. Then the wolf will be your main adversary until you can increase your power again. It's great and really sells the 'zero to hero' fantasy. Sadly as you dry up the world of quests and finally commit to joining one of the three factions the game will take a turn for the worse, becoming much more linear as you follow the main questline to it's rather lacklustre destination, fighting a boss with the most fitting name of all. I must also note the incredibly outdated control scheme which has you press two buttons at a time to do a single action. You'll get used to it pretty fast, but it's still rather cumbersome. Still, it's a solid game that's well worth playing through and I recommend it to any RPG fan.

Okay. First, the biggest "cons" you may experience firsthand: FPS capped. Look for the 1.08K fix and install it (you may want to consider in installing some texture mods to enhance the experience). Second: as you may have read at other reviews, the controls are a little clunky. Just customize it in setting. Third: steep learning curve, which can only overcame with practice, practice, practice. If take those three things into consideration, I promise you may experience of the greatest RPGs of the new millennia.

Nie umiem pisać recenzji, dlatego całkiem krótko: BARDZO DOBRA GRA!

The roots of all it had a weird control system, but once you get used to it you can play it with one hand 😎

[b]PL[/b] Gothic to taki klasyk, że aż głupio nie zagrać. Gra jest bardzo rozbudowana, mimo, że Górnicza Dolina jest dość niewielka, to na samym początku wydaje się bardzo rozległa. Większość czasu spędzamy robiąć różnorakie misje, zlecenia od innych postaci, bijąc potworki i biegając po całej Kolonii. Co by nie mówić, to bardzo długa przygoda, jak na dzisiejsze czasy, mi zajęła aż ponad 30h. Polecam serdecznie. Dziękuję społeczności Gothicowej, za jej wkład do tej częśći, za poprawki, a nawet całkowicie przebudowaną zawartość dostępną do pobrania i przeżycia przygody w zupełnie innym środowisku. [b]EN[/b] Gothic is such a classic that it's stupid not to play it. The game is very extensive, even though The Valley of Mines is quite small, it seems very vast at the very beginning. We spend most of our time doing various missions or quests from other characters, beating monsters and running around the Colony. No matter what I say, it's a very long adventure, in today's times, it took me over 30 hours to finish. I heartily recommend it. Thanks to the Gothic community for their contribution to this part, for fixes and even completely rebuilt content available for download, and a adventure in a completely different environment.