Готика 2 Золотое Издание

Everything about this game is set to discourage you from playing. The terrible controls. The extremely annoying combat. The bugs. The sub-par graphics and animations. The abysmal voice acting (and the voice-over addons coming with the DLC which stand out like a sore thumb). And yet... there is just something about this game, that you let it all slide and once you look past it's many, many flaws, you can't help it but fall in love. The game is extremely rich with content and its world just feels so alive. This game surpasses even such story-rich powerhouses like The Witcher III in terms of making all of the inhabitants of the world have a life and some agency - and the game is a rushed product from a small studio from 2005! There is just so much to uncover here. Every named character in this game (and there are hundrets of them) has something to do, a quest, a story (there are literally thousands of those quests, and all have some background, some plot, none of that "exclamation mark - the rats became such pests in my basement. Bring me 10 rat tails for reward" shit. And the hiddent content! Like when you decide to say: screw you game, i will not do your quests to get into the first city. I will do my own thing, jump down a cliff to get past some overpowered monsters and find a ledge missplaced by the devs that lets me climb up a wall along the coast that has a small spot to jump down safely into the water so that i can actually swim to the city from the harbor part and break the initial quests, and... and then one of the characters in the game congratulates you on doing all that and you get an XP reward! This is just incredible. Love it, for all it's flaws, for all it's shortcomings, this game is just part of gaming history. For it's current price, you just can't not have it.

While I certainly have many more ARPGs to play before I can form a definitive answer, I will say that of all of this genre that I have played - including such games as the entire Elder Scrolls series, Fallouts 3, New Vegas, and 4, the Witchers 2 and 3, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Prey, and likely others - this one sticks out above all of them. I have been playing games since I was 5 years old, and here I am now in my twenties - 15+ years of gaming - and getting to the end of Gothic 2 was the first time, in all of my time playing games, I can EVER recall actually feeling kind of sad that it was about to end. Gothic 2 is one of those wonderful sequels where I would say that it improved on its predecessor in nearly every way, increasing the scope of the series without sacrificing quality. Compared to Gothic 1, there are many more paths to explore in Gothic 2. The factions you can join don't have the same quests like they do in Gothic 1, meaning each faction is actually unique in terms of quests, along with other perks like armors, weapons, skills and other benefits. The game scaled wonderfully in my 39-hour adventure - at the beginning I could hardly kill Goblins without nearly keeling over, and by the end I was cutting through Lizard Men with relative ease. Whether your interests lie in magic, ranged combat, or melee combat, Gothic 2 ensures that you have steady and constant progress, regular iterations where your leveling up feels tangible. On top of this, the combat and magic systems actually take some getting used to and do NOT reward button-mashing or brute-force, so you are actually improving at the game while your character gets stronger, and it's wonderful. The game is relentlessly difficult and does not hold your hand - but it's a satisfying experience all the way through. I could go on too about how the wonderful player-character, the organic story, the distinct characters, etc., But I'm out of room. This game is great!

Эта божественное творение Пираний. Начал играть еще лет в 10, затянуло. Прошел раз 15 наверное... Из плюсов: -Сюжет великолепен. Проработан до каждого монолога( который меняется в зависимости от действий ГГ) -Огромное разнообразие) кроме трех классов, можно побыть пиратом, бандитом, Магом водыогня(иногда даже темным магом можно побыть),охотником, кузнецом, алхимиком... -Достаточно продуманная система боя. Блоки и удары приходиься комбинировать, так как есть мобы, которые забревают быстро. -Система прокачки заслуживает отдельной похвалы. 4 стата, изменения положения руки боевой стойки у оружия в зависимости от уровня. - ИИ достаточно хорошо проработан. Не тупит, если враждебный, то лезет в драку сразу, а иногда приходится убегать, хавая траву. -Куча секретов и пасхалок. Из минусов: да их нет практически.

An absolutely grandious game. In my opinion it is slightly worse than Gothic 1, because the balancing and pacing are slightly worse, but the gameworld is just a marvel to behold. Especially the Maya-Inspired world of the expansion is designed amazingly well.

I came here to give my congratz to Piranha bytes for developing a game like Gothic 2! Its a masterpiece! I got some problems with gothic and Windows 10!