Gothic

[Zingultus]

I love Gothic!

My favourite is Gothic 1 because it has such a great atmosphere, although graphic is not as good as in Gothic 2,
but that's not important.

Gothic is one of the first RPGs I ever played and I liked it right away.
Control is maybe difficult to understand, but when you're used to it you'll kick ass.

I played Gothic 1,2 and 3. I can tell you that the first to episodes are great, but in my opinion : DO NOT TOUCH GOTHIC 3.
It's graphics is great, no question, but Piranha Bytes changed the whole combatsystem and factions.In G3 you do not press e.g "space" + an arror button to hit your enemy. You just klick,klick,klick on your left mousebutton until your enemy is dead, very boooring.
Also you cannot "choose" a faction to which you would like to belong.In G3 you earn rep for 3 factions (Rebels, Orcs and Assassins), but even when you're bad with Orcs, because you do some quests for the Rebels against the Orcs,they won't kill you on spot.For example: When you chose to fight for the rebels, you have to destroy some Orc cities (on orc side you have to destroy the rebels' hideouts).So when you've destroyed a city, you travel further and you come to another orc city, you can walk into it, talk with orcs, do quests and stuff, although you destroyed an other orc city some minutes ago... they just still like you - strange heh? But I think, that they will start to hate you when you destroyed a number of cities, but I don't know excatly, because I didn't finish G3.
In G1 and G2 people would have been pissed off if they see e.g an mercenary in Khorinis (capital and home of the paladins).

Of course you can try G3, but I wouldn't touch it. This new combat and faction system just killed that game. That's what I think...

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