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I really wanted to like this game, but

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: March 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The controls are the worst configuration ever invented. And it is boring monotonous and repetitive. I have yet to get past the first level of experience...and I have been playing for 4 hours and only have 170 exp. Inventory management is just insanely difficult, trying to swim with the mouse is an excercise in drowning, the game is naauseatingly dull. and Tedious. And Monotonous. and repetitive. I installed this game and uninstalled it three times. So I really wanted to give it a chance, but this is just a waste of time which is fine if you have nothing better to do with your life, but if you only have a few hours you are willing to devote to computer games weekly, pick up something better written and thought out and entertaining like the Baldurs gate series, or wait for something like Dungeon Siege. Oh this was just plain pathetic. Its not that its the worst game in the world...its like one of those mediocre television movies that feels like you have seen all the actors play all those parts before and none of it is interesting or entertaining enough to rehash it, but you can't change the channel or turn it off...this game is torturously bad...in fact its so bad anybody who is willing to take my copy, i will pay you.

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.

Should be in the bargain bin

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: January 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The look and feel of Gothic give you the impression it is not a new release but 5 years old. The structures are blocky and the character movement is stiff. The game is controlled entirely through the keyboard. There's no graphical interface to click on with the mouse, the only thing the mouse is used for is for looking around. Playing a video game through the keyboard is as much fun as configuring your CMOS. The 18 page instruction booklet (weigh your Baldur's Gate 2 manual against that) gives one the impression there isn't much to the game. I only made it through 20 minutes of Gothic before uninstalling it. Save yourself 20 minutes and skip this game.

MORE BUGS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this game and I am extremely disappointed. The box recommends a Pentium III with 600Mhz and I am running a Pentium III with 800 Mhz along with all the other requirements, so I was completely prepared to run this game. I have installed many games on my computer and have never had a problem. But I installed it 3 times and could not get it to run right once. I therefore am going to return this game tomorrow.

One Star says it all.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: April 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game is very, 'buggy', with cumbersome and illogical keyboard controls. I could not use the mouse effectively. Never could get the game to run correctly on a 1.6 GHz machine with 512 Mb of RAM and a 64 Mb GeForce4 Video Card. A Shame 'cause what little I could see looked very interesting. Game originated with some obsure programers in Europe. With this sort of effort they will no doubt remain obsure.

Boring game with horrendous controls

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 16
Date: January 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you love LONG segments of nothing but talking this game is for you. Half this game is you trying to extract the right info from people and only one tenth of what they have to say is useful. The rest is the standard "shooting the breeze" that game makers think creates "atmosphere". Gothic held some comic value for me as I started to see it not as an adventure game, but as a bizzare excersize in making boring people get to the point. This is a useful skill to develop in this world so I give Gothic an extra star.

Why do game makers feel the irrational need to make you learn a completely different control system for every new game? Gothic is the worst in this example of this trend. Sure there's SOME key binding customization available--just not for the actions you actually want. Not only are you banned from binding actions to mouse buttons, but Xicat breaks new ground in game control idiocy by forcing you to hold down TWO(2) keys to do practically everything.

Poorly paced

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The fact is that I'm tempted to rate this game even lower than I have. But I have to give some credit where due - the scope of the game is impressive, the graphics, though mixed, are effective overall... generally, the sense that there is a real and entire world available for the player to explore makes me *want* to like this game. And I've tried for hours to do so.

But there's no getting around the facts that a) the control scheme is absurd, making combat or even simple inventory management near impossible, b) the acting, particularly by your own character, is so bad that you'll cringe before selecting responses to dialog, and c) the pacing is so slow that you'll spend the first few hours either engaging in the more or less random combat experience, or waiting for something... ANYTHING to actually happen.

I paid retail for the game because I was excited to see a new 3D single player CRPG. But this game just makes me furious. Save your money, save your time, save your patience for something else.

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.

This is a bad one

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: March 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This was a poorly thought out game. There a numerous bugs, which have kept me from playing for more than a few minutes at a time. The company's tech support does not respond to e-mail, and judging by other reviews, I'm not the only one. The graphics are okay by mid 90's standards. The control interface is horrible. There are no patches. The gameplay itself seems okay, but it's not really worth the hassle. Buy something else, it will save you lots of frustration and show these game companies that they need to start producing quality products.

Good game, but with strange and crippling flaws

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a good, open-ended roleplaying game. It has great graphics, and the world has a very "real" feeling, but it is marred by a few flaws. First, since the game was translated from German, at times the manual appears to be written by a junior-high age gamer. For example, the actual manual description of the sleep spell is:"zzzZZZzzz". Instead of telling how the game works, the manual spends half its space giving little hints on how to survive. While this is useful, it would be better if told to you during the game. However, my biggest gripe about the game is the controls. The game basically uses the direction buttons, the mouse, and the control key. There are a few other keys that are used, but by and large to do something you hold control and press "up". If you hold control and press "left" in front of a chest, you'll try to pick the lock. The game doesn't tell you how to do that, you just have to figure it out. The manual leaves a lot of things out. For example, I was trying to buy one thing from a merchant, but I could only buy ten of them, unless there were eleven of them, in which case I could select ten items, then the last one, then send ten items back, leaving one for me to purchase. It SHOULD NOT be that difficult to buy one item from a merchant in an otherwise realistic/intuitive game. I don't like learning this game via trial-and-error, because decisions you make will permanently alter what is going on in the game. For example, I challenged a person to a duel (not to the death) in one arena, he beat me unconscious, took my money, and refused to ever fight me again. None of this was explained to me before I challenged him. This is an allegory for this game - you make one mistake because the game and manual didn't warn you, and the game holds it against you for the rest of the game.

This is not a bad game, it just doesn't play as smoothly or intuitively as Morrowind, and so I'm playing Morrowind and not Gothic. If your computer can handly it, I strongly reccommend Morrowind.

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