Gothic

When Gothic was introduced - I was wonderful game in it's time. It offered so many things. Wonderful open world design. NPC were following their daily patterns. You could do so many things right away... It felt so alive and good. I played it at least 15 times. Yes, I'm crazy. Better not tell anyone how much times I played Gothic 2... So what happens when you finish it for the... let's say 3rd time? By then, you have seen all the cracks in the "perfect" game. Sadly there are problems with this game. Not many, but there are problems - 2 big ones: Controls are not good (melee combat as well as magic combat). Play it and you'll understand it. I didn't say terrible controls. I said not good - you can adapt to them but there will be unpleasant situations. (I'll leave them for you to find out because you definitely should play this game despite it's flaws) Second thing is just this: game is, at it's core, unfinished. That can be seen in couple of places quite clearly. But it's nothing extreme. It would be cool to see this game with additional year of development. I know that'll never happen. But man can dream.. For the end: there are 3 very very important patches for this and Gothic 2 game that you really need to install if you want to play them on modern systems. Just search the web for them.

One of the best old-school RPGs of all time

20 years and it's still one of the best rpg out there.

I bought it for money and noone is caring about the fact that it is not able to run on current hardware. It is still sold for 20 bucks and for this money noone should be forced to look for solutions only, made by people in their spare time. Don't pay money for it, unless this game works out of the box (what is the least to be expected when paying money for a product).

Timeless masterpiece. Idela for playing on laptop on a couch as you do not need a mouse.