Let's start off with the bad: It says "item on cooldown" rather than something that makes more sense if you run out of potions. The action is what ends a round so if you want to heal you should move first and then drink the potion. (not explained in the game) The game is lacking on teaching you the game mechanics. The movement can screw you over due to having bad pathing, you'll need to manouver your character through empty rooms as just clicking the door on the other side may make your char. go through poisonous vapor. (a bit unnecessary to have to "micro manage the path" when you're just heading through a room) The good bit is that it is quite fun, looks nice and has a nice musical score too, of the kind you never notice in game unless you listen for it and when you do it's good. One thing some may find off-putting is that there's a rule (pure RNG) at the start of each character going into the dungeon, I've gotten "more gold", "one extra movement" and "hero takes 20% more damage" so it can screw you over a bit...but I have no problems with that mechanic. (if you would you now know about it) Looking at the text it seems like I'm not happy with it (considering the amount of text about the negative things) but that is due to me wanting to explain as well as I can what I found annoying and those things will get less annoying (prob. even disappear) as I get the hang of the game and its mechanics, so I'm happy with my purchase and I'll be playing more of this. (even though my first run seems to be going down the drain)
Gave it a shot and it firstoff refused to give me full screen, when I finally (after being forced to hear the story) it let me in to settings I got full screen but going in to key settings and choosing controller I don't know what to do to be able to use it. (I had to use KBD for movement in the menus but hitting enter made I swapped to KBD again....) Not sure if this is a Win 10 issue or what it is but, as it didn't work for me at all, basically, there's only one mthing I can give it and it is as far from a thumbs up as you can.... Not sure if it's a Win 10 issue but if you don't hear that it works I'd adviwse you stay away from it as I will...
As a first trial of a point'n'click this is prob. one of the best to start with, I only got stuck around 3 hours into it and needed to find some solutions to not get frustrated. (one of the ones needed I was sure I already did which is why I got stuck on it) After that, once I got more used to putting more info out of every conversation into my mind and focused more the rest of the game was a lot easier. What to say about it, nice story spiced with a bit of humour, nice graphics that suit the game and it's style very well, voice-acting was more than well enough done, I personally enjoyed the game a whole lot. (which is why I bought Primordia which is a harder game for a n00b like me but it also has a whole lot more LOL moments)
Since I was one of those who bought the original Gothic, after finding it advertised as a coming game inside some other game from JoWood, which didn't release Gothic, I suppose they were going to but never did. (I'd guess it was inside either Chaser or Arx fatalis) I played the game and loved the gritty atmosphere and as soon as I saw that Gothic 2 was on the way I was eagerly awaiting it and bought it upon release. The atmosphere isn't as harsh as the initial but the world is so much bigger that I think they're equally good, both in their own respect. I've played through it more than once and I've always wanted to play the extension, was close to getting it and the homemade english translation that was available, but I never found it available here in Sweden so I never got it. (now I'll finally be able to play it too) What's there to say about the game, it's a big world you can freely roam, like the first one the story is pretty good as well, it's however not really an RPG in my opinion, more an action/adventure since the storyline, as soon as you've chosen your path, is the same for every "class". (which I honestly don't mind, wouldn't give it a five star rating if I did, would I? :)) Apart from bugs - which I've luckily enough never did encounter many of in this or the original, I had fully functional mouse in the original, unusually enough - the most common complaint is the interface, I suppose it's a love/hate thing, I love it, I like being able to time the left-right blows. (Gothic 3's more "normal" clickfest did however turn me away from that game, it also felt too big, you lost focus) The aiming on multiple enemies isn't perfect, even if it was worse in the original, but few games are perfect and I can live with that. Scenery is very nice, animals have their own life, NPC's also seem more living than in other games, the pathfinding of enemies is brilliant, just because an enemy runs out of your viewfield won't mean that he'll just come strolling back without remembering being shot, he may find an alternate route and attack you from behind when you focus on those you can see. All in all it's a very good game, with a lot of gaming time if you go out exploring and IMHO it doesn't get boring or tedious to do that, it is fighting for the third spot in my personal top ten list, the first and second spot are way ahead of everything else though and it'll take a small miracle to replace those two, but maybe one day a game will, so far it hasn't happened and I'm glad that there are games like Gothic /2 to be there fighting for the places behind.
