My favorite RPG of all time, this game perfected building your character, there is zero quest markers! You have to figure everything out by yourself, looking at quest journal that your character writes, each quest probably has at least 2 ways to complete it, with diffrent results, rewards and making new enemies or friends along the way. For example there is a quest to find an orc weapon, however orc is kind of an end game enemy, so you go exploring after you hear from a wall guard in the city that an orc was sighted along the wall not so long ago and so you go to check it out and there it is, a cave filled with skeletons and missed arrows, in the middle there it is, the weapon. Second thing that i think this game does perfectly is open world - It is quite small in today's standards, BUT it is not accesible for you at the beginning, there are reasons why you cannot go and explore dangerous areas, well these are really dangerous, you need to train, level up, find equipment and the map opens up and oh boy is the map good. A LOT of things to find, secrets, enemies, items, weapons, artefacts, quests, NPC's going about their life. Such an experience, if you don't mind a bit clunky (but extremely fun if you learn it) fighting, a bit outdated graphics YOU HAVE TO GIVE THE GAME A TRY!

Gothic 2 with its addon "The Night of the Raven" might be the best fantasy rpg I have played yet. It is a direct continuation of Gothic 1 and I recommend playing Gothic 1 before diving into Gothic 2. The combat mechanics are a bit rusty, but it gets better once you get a fighting skill to at least 30% as your moveset changes at that threshhold. While you will be squashed like a bug in the beginning of the game by almost every enemy, you will get stronger constantly and that progression is really satisfying. Gothic 2 and it's addon managed to make me truly curious about several of its mysteries that start to pop up rather early in the game. The world of Gothic 2 is absolutely marvelous and you will learn to navigate it without a map the more you play. You do not need a minimap or compass to know where you are going and that is something I dearly miss in newer games. There are no quest markers either, so you will have to listen to what the people and signs say, or you stumble upon your target by chance. The music is simply amazing and has a unique tone to it. This is no flawless game though, you need community patches to get it running on modern systems and to fix the giant load of bugs that plagues the vanilla game. If you buy it on Steam and use the workshop, you will be set up in 2 minutes if you know which mods you need though, so thats great. I can not recommend Gothic 2 Gold enough.