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America at last!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: September 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After struggling through this game in German (a language I do not speak), the best game I've played in a long while is finally being released in English.

Best RPG since Ultima7!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: September 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Since 15 years I play computer RPG's. Before or after gothic I never had so much joy with a Computer Game.Gothic is an experience.

A recipe for sleep deprivation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Aside from the less-than-helpful manual and bad choice of accents for voice-acting in the English version (good old boys from the South and Chicago gangsters), I honestly haven't encountered a CRPG this immersive and addictive since Arena and Daggerfall. Like the aforementioned games, this one offers plenty of choices in terms of character building and how you want to approach the overall storyline. The graphics and sound are stunning. The world itself is more alive than any I've seen to date. The combat system is great. Overall, there is enough here to satisfy any die-hard gamer. :-)

Best low-priced game I have ever played!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have to say that Gothic is the best low-priced game I have ever played. The world is vast and complex as it is in games like Morrowwind but for the price it is a much better deal. My only complaint is the fighting keystrokes. It takes time to get used to the fighting keystrokes. But hey, that's half the fun isn't it? Learning how to do everything. Anyway, I would definitely recommend this game to anyone interested in RPG type games.

Gothic is the best RPG made to date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It is a pity that Amazon no longer stocks it! Gothic is the best RPG I have ever played. Somehow it gets under your skin and the fear of death during combat becomes real. It may have a few quirks but it is somehow real enough to exite the imagination.

Must be played with a case of Raid

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: December 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Bugs bugs bugs and did I forget to tell you bugs. The game will not run on NT, XP, win95 (you need to sacrifice your firstborn).
Storyline is ok. Voice acting ok. Sound one dimentional. Graphics circa 1997. Combat system buggy and slow.

My copy crashes every 15 minutes. I'm at the point now that I can't load any saved games. Support is like, well I haven't heard from them yet. I only have about 11 hours of gameplay in.

Everything must be done by keyboard in a clunky inexact interface. I keep getting attacked for taking things when I'm trying to talk to someone since get and talk are the same ctl-up combo.

If you can't keep the enemy 'highlighted' you can swing all day at them and never cause damage. Ranged weapons? You can never tell the range at which they'll cause damage.

Once you learn sneaking, it is useless. Learning lockpicking didn't help my success rate either.

The quests are sometimes incomprehensible. Some of the notes are written in Latin/german/pig-english and don't make sense.

The 8 page 'manual' has a bit of story and explains the installation. In the gothic world you are on your own to learn the keyboard combos. Swimming? Pain in the ... and not worth it. Only did it to figure out how.

I paid $20 on ebay and fell I overpaid for a beta copy by say 16 bucks. If they ever release a patch that lets me play some more I might try it. I was just starting to get into the story.

Yuk

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: January 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The days of just anyone making a video game are gone.
A good game requires more than graphics. It requires people who know how to make a good control interface, and write interesting, creative stories. Support excellence in gaming and save your money.

Next Generation Role-Playing Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this game more than any other role-playing game i've played on the PC (Morrowind, Baldur's Gate, etc.) Right from the start this game is exciting, because the storyline is fresh and new compared to many other PC games.

Gothic just feels real. People look alive and move as if they were. The graphics are beautiful. This game is really enjoyable for the experienced gamer who loves suprises and does not like to be handheld throughout the course of a game. I recommend playing this game as though you only have one life (example: Run from battle when you are low on life, and dont do anything that will get you killed, because it probably will. One instance of this could be challenging a guy who looks ten times as strong as you to an arena fight, then wondering why he knocks you out and takes your money.) Playing with wit adds a lot of excitement to this game. Dont make the mistake of constantly saving and reloading your game.

Gothic gives me the same fun factor as "Zelda a Link to the Past" did for the Super Nintendo. There are even a few similarities in that although the ultimate goal is the same everytime you play, you often have a choice of the path you take to get there.

The best RPG in the world

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Caught in a working colony...might sound boring. The first thought lies. After advancing with the character you're playing this game develops to one of the greatest adventures a computer's ever seen. Brilliant design, sarcastic dialogues, and a perfect story make you having doubts which world is the real one. I even dreamed of this game!
Probably one of the best German games ever, this one could be one of the best up-to-date games international.
Either you got it, or you need it.

A masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the king of all games. Morrowind... pphh. This is much more alive and immersive and the fighting is much better. However it does have the occasional bug but not very often compared to many of the new games out there.

I think its ridiculous that anyone would give the game a bad review except maybe because their bitter about them not being able to enjoy other games anymore because they pale in comparison to gothic. gothic 2 comes out soon (i hope) and it promises to even outdue the original

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