I am a youtuber who likes recording Lets Plays. I was planning on doing a Lets play on Gothic since there wasn't many english lets play of it. I wondered why that was. Then I Played It. OH GOD. The controls are a nightmare. When you go to options and look at the controls, it only tells you a quarter of them. The rest is unknown and up to the player to find out. So you keep slamming your head into the keyboard hoping that your character would pick up something or talk to someone. This is some of the most disasterous controls I have ever played in any game ever. I couldn't figure out anything. I had to go on the internet several times in order to find out what the controls actually were. It was such a terrible experience. But... I still want to give this series a chance. I will not be returning to play Gothic 1 anytime soon due to it's horrendous controls. If anyone can actually help me with the games controls please do. I am baffled of how people are able to play it. Hopefully, Gothic 2 3 and the Risen games by the same developer have a more accessible control scheme for players to ease into. The game has to be good and I believe the people who know what they are doing. I'm sure Gothic is a really enjoyable game once you get the controls down. But unfortunately, this gamer is skipping this to go to Gothic 2.
Blood 2: The Chosen (Blood Group as it's called here) has become one of my all time favorite shooters. It is a wicked combination of the violence and gore of Doom with the witty and darkly hilarious humour of many black comedies from the 80's and 90's. The gameplay is timeless and the silliness of the game is what makes it shine. There is a pretty funny part where you are riding an elevator and almost the whole level is just that elevator. Blood 2 breaks conventional standards for FPS games by being very meta and being over the top gory. BUT. There is one problem. The game barely works on newer computers nowadays unless you get dgVoodoo and a bunch of community patches. Be prepared to go through pain when you try and set this thing up. I personally had problems with mouselook, cutscenes skipping randomly and hideous lag. But if you manage to get help from the community and set it up fine, Blood 2 is one of the greatest and groundbreaking shooters I have ever played and I feel this was a clear inspiration for the 2016 Doom game. A must have.
