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 I must also note the incredibly outdated control scheme which has you press two buttons at a time to do a single action.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.

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

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Can't give more than 1 star to a game that wont load. I've tried all the patches and mods but nothing makes the game load.