Depending on my mood, G2 + NotR is my favourite game - it’s at least in my top 5. The cohesion and atmosphere of the gameworld is unrivalled in my opinion.
It can be hard but I never had to do the grinding a lot of people describe. It’s a different mindset than the typical western RPG and you need a different approach. That first orc? Run like hell back to town and have the guards and townsfolk kill it for you. I’d suggest those that ran out of mobs hadn’t explored far enough - and when you encounter something scary, you run like hell.
Possibly. What didn’t you like about Oblivion? If it was scaling monsters and a world where your choices didn’t seem to really matter, than Gothic might be for you. If you want more spells/items/etc. then Gothic is inferior in that regard.
The biggest difference between the two for me was the sense of exploration. Oblivion was larger and supposedly had all handcrafted dungeons but it’s obvious they just went ape shit with the ol’ copy and paste keys. Entering a random dungeon you found in Oblivion was mostly pointless and almost always with out risk thanks to the leveling system. In Gothic it’s dangerous, exciting, and possibly rewarding in unexpected ways. Gothic makes exploring eff u en.
Oh and if you decide to try Gothic 2 (and I recommend you do) make sure you start your game with the Night of the Raven expansion. Can’t recommend that enough.
I thought the McDungeons in Oblivion were a lot of fun. There’s inevitably some sameness with such a huge amount of content, but the variety of creatures, traps, architectural styles, and loot, made wandering into a random mine/cave/ruin/fort one of my favorite activities in the game.
I finished Gothic 1 and loved it. Just loved it, warts and all. I didn’t get around to Gothic 2 until a year or so after its release and the game just kicked my ass. I completely ran into the wall where I couldn’t keep up with the higher level monsters and I’d killed all the easier ones. I gave up on it.
But I seriously get the desire to play through Gothic 1 every now and then.
Yep, this is exactly what I did, and the game broke at like 95%. I wanted to punch and kill things. I spent all that time pulling mobs from the cities, slowly liberating them on my own, and I guess the devs didn’t expect that.
I’m a huge fan of the series though (finished 1, 2+exp), and I need to be done with the third by the time the next one is out. The patches seem to fix a lot of stuff, so maybe it’s more playable now.
The community patch is now the official patch. One more is announced, but it can take months until it´s released.
G3 Universe comes with G2 Gold, which means G2 with an already included NotR. Installing them alone is unfortunately impossible. Most people in this thread are talking about G2 vanilla. NotR increases the difficulty level quite a bit, adds a new world with ca 30 hours of content and several 100 little details to the old world.
The only useful mods for G2 Gold are a texture update and a difficulty changer.
Yeah, I didn’t even try to install G3 until I had upgraded my comp. This based on Desslock’s recommendation that you need a beast of a machine to run it smoothly.
