They say Gothic is the series that laid foundation to many series today and they praise it to heavens. I would say that the game is good considering when it came out, but sadly I was not having a good time with it. This was my first time playing the game, and before this I had never heard of the games.

Firstly there was a lot of problems to get the game to work for me to even play it. I managed to run it, which is more than most, but the game still kept crashing quite often. It would seem Steam sells this game broken and I have read that it works better on other platforms. I downloaded mods that made the game bearable to say the least, but it was still very annoying.

Secondly, it's a very, very corny adventure in a game with an original setting (prison colony surrounded by a one-way magic barrier) with different factions to join and some different ways to play it. There's a lot of rough touches to admire about it for sure, like how weapon animations change as you get better training, but I still thing it's very rough around the edges and even for an old game I don't think it's good.

I have you know, I actually completed the game. I am a gamer who doesn't like leaving games unfinished, even if I don't enjoy them. I am glad I managed to finish the game, but I will never, ever, touch the game again. I do hope the other Gothic games are more tolerable.