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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.

The Best RPG in 2001 so far!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: October 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Finally non-German speaking Role Playing Fans can enjoy a great RPG experience - ... we rated the game with an overall score of 90%! A must for every RPG Fan, Gothic is the RPG that Ultima 9 should have been!

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. :-)

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.

joshua

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

initially i found the controls for this game difficult--it relies on an keyboard heavy scheme. after an hour of game play the controls become more intuitive and eventually the game interface became second nature, but this takes time. the game itself is great. it is a third person role-player that reminds me of rune with a stronger story line. the graphics are great, the story line had some holes but this didn't detract from game play. the world enviroment is open, and this is wonderful for players who like to explore.

Suffering from insomnia? This is for you!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: December 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hello Folks,

I've played all day and night but it still took me a total of at least 60h to get through this phantastic game. But I still wasn't cured. I've just finished Gothic for the second time (this time as a magician).

I really must say that I never came across any other game that combined brilliant 3D Graphics with such an exciting story. I never wandered through such a vast, beautifull and living world. Every Stone, every tree was placed by hand and so this game really sets the benchmark for both story and graphics. Another amazing thing is the sound. I don't believe I ever played a game with surround-sound as brilliant as this.

I installed the latest patch and didn't experience any stability Problems at all. But I think Gothic needs quite a lot of RAM to run properly. After all, If you're looking for a game with a huge state-of-the-art 3D-World with meadows, forrests, Rivers, Mountains, Caves, Castles and Towns, that lets you go to where ever you want (or at least to where you will not immediately be killed by beasts or just anyone else), THIS is the right game for you. No "map-change", no "Levels", just you and the story.

The camps are full of people that have their own plans for the day, that talk to each other, sleep at night (at least most of them), go to work in the morning or talk to each other. Funny thing here: The NPCs really do talk to each other. NPCs also can also assess you carachter according to weapon, armor and strenght (yes you can SEE how strong a person is!!). They will act different according to whether they "think" they can deal with you or not....

Believe me, this game IS highly addictive so I better stop gushing or I will immediately start playing gothic again....

JUST GO AND BUY IT!!!!

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.

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.

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.

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