Gothic II: Gold Edition

Possibly my favourite RPG ever.

Masterpiece. For me one of best games ever made. I play it once a year

One of my absolute favorite games of all time. I still compare every other RPG to this game and truly will never find another game like it.

One of the best immersive sim rpg ever.

This is my first ever contact with RPG games, back when the game came out I got the demo for the game from gaming magazine. I played that demo that only had the farm and a small part of the city over and over again until I ended up with 20 hours from that small demo of the game. Later got my hands on the CDs for the game.

Gothic 2 just like game before it has a beautiful hand made world, ncps that have schedules and jobs to do during the day that make the world alive, the monsters hunt smaller monsters during the day to eat and sleep at night, the well done characters some come back from the first and some are new.

The story is sectioned in acts and which each act monsters respawn to signal that time as passed, in the later acts more difficult enemies appear on the map. With every act there are sub quests available from npcs in the world.

Playing as the nameless character makes you immerse even more into the world. Leveling up takes you from getting beaten by some dude in the docks of the city with a stick to being able to solo a full team of orcs later. Progression is well done in this game. You don't feel like a superhero, just an ordinary man who learns to fight better and better over time.

The main cast of characters really feel like your friends, a feeling cultivated over the last game and not rushed like current day games when you do 1-3 missions with them and then they die expecting you to feel sorry. Nope, that's not the case here, you really feel the friendship behind the actions and words of the main cast of characters that help the nameless hero, even more if you played the first game before.

The combat is a bit weird compared to today's games, but at that time it was awesome especially for me who also had contact with the combat in the first and in this one there were made some improvements.

I can continue to write on and on about this game and how perfect it is, but there is no point to that. You either buy it and enjoy it now or not know what a truly good RPG is and continue living a life without that knowledge.

is not as good as the 1st one, and thats a shame, still is a good game from the early 2000.

The best sequel to the best rpg, which was able to not only repeat the best of the first part but also bring a lot of great innovations

Fuck Beliar.

This game so nice but need remake

The immersive design.

Amazing game.

Very good

The only one that works for me is the Night of The Raven expansion. It's not the same Gothic II I remember but it still holds up and sucked me right in. Not sure if this is considered better than the OG Gothic II but it's very good. same basic gameplay.
Has sort of a Zelda vive to it but way more depth. This is actually better than Zelda.

Fun and difficult, another one of the best rps of all time!

Steam says that I spent 9 hours plaing this game. All these 9 hours I was trying to launch this game. I've tried everything. It doesn't work on windows 11. It doesn't work on windows 10. It doesn't work with any workshop modes pretending to fix launch issues. It doesn't work in any windows compatibility mode. It doesn't work on ubuntu. IT FUCKING DOESNT WORK.
While torrent version works directly from the box. Fuck you, developers.

One of the best RPGs ever.

Absolute masterpiece!! (pt2)
Both mechanical and canonical continuation of Gothic 1. If you haven't played Gothic 1 yet, I highly recommend you do play it before diving into Gothic 2 as many places and people carry over from the original story. Although, its not very hard to adapt if you're going to try this without any Gothic experience at all.
Gothic 1 and 2's worlds are highly immersive, simple yet effective for its time. No menu clutters, no "our chosen one has arrived" shenanigans, no needless tutorial windows and (most importantly) no kindness for the newcomer. You are no one. You are just another commoner like everyone else and you have to work your way from the bottom to climb the ladders of hierarchy to become the chosen one.
Gameplay mechanics also reflect this very well. From the start, you're barely able to hold a sword; let alone swinging it smoothly. You're barely able to kill a wolf, let alone skinning it. You have to learn how to wield a weapon from a teacher, and the more you learn the smoother your weapon movements will be visually, and mechanically you can chain more attacks after each hit. You have to learn how to skin animal parts separately from the hunters who specialize on those animals, they'll tell you in dialogue the process of cutting those parts carefully; only then you'll be able to get those as loot. This is just tip of the iceberg of The Gothic Learning Curve.
Once you get past the initial learning barrier, the game feels like taking a walk in the park. Places will feel familiar, tasks will feel intuitive and enemies will feel like regular foe which you have slain thousands already. You WILL slowly transform into that hero, not chosen from start but has earned to become one. This game is a gem of its time and has aged suprisingly well.

The furthest I've gotten in this game is about 3 seconds into the startup animations and that was a victory after nothing but crash on starts. Spent hours trying absolutely every fix recommendation on the internet and I cannot get this game to play. Why does there even need to be a 3-page, 20-step, third party fix half written in German for a game to work? I dunno but that seems like an inherent problem with the game that should be addressed and it didn't work for me anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP40AZDGIvI

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ЕСЛИ ТЫ НЕ ИГРАЛ В ГОТИКУ, ТО ТЫ ДАЖЕ НЕ ГРАЖДАНИН!

One of the best games ever!

Best RPG ever!

community of this game is for some reason much more stupid than in other games. It's like gothic games are some kind of a magnet for people with 2 digit IQ.

About the game: pretty bad actually, G1,G2,G3 - all of them are like 4/10, but also very old so we were playing them as kids and i those times we had very low expectations, so we felt like game is awesome - it wasnt.

Hands down best game i've ever played

Really love Gothic 3. Wanted to play 1 &2 and did. Both good games. I played this with the Night of the Raven expansion included and never knew whether I was in the main game or the exp. It was that well integrated. This game is a bit too hard for me, true about most rpg's and I cheat a bit to be competitive. Still die a lot.... a lot but if I play smart I can hang in. Great story in this game and I did not see all of it going by a playthrough i've since watched on YouTube. Voice acting was superb as was music.

A really great sequel to the first Gothic. I immediately started this after finishing the first one. I played with the Night of the Raven expansion, not knowing it was going to be a much harder game than the 'Classic' release.

The story didn't quite have the same hook as the first game and I think the NOTR expansion content may have diluted the experience a bit, but I enjoyed the atmosphere and the experience of overcoming the difficult challenges in the game.

Where the game really shines is in exploring the world and engaging with the various NPCs and factions. One of the best experiences I've ever had in a game is going back to The Valley of Mines and seeing how things have changed. It's so brutally difficult that you really have to avoid most enemies. A perfect 'behind enemy lines' experience in a desperate situation. Without spoiling anything, the game feels super rewarding where you progress enough to overcome the massive obstacles that were in place before.

I think I may have enjoyed the game more without the difficult expansion and injection of content, but I'll have to try the classic version out to know definitively. I would recommend that players trying the game for the first time (after Gothic 1) play Gothic 2: Classic first.

IMPORTANT: It's also a very old game so you'll need to switch the game to workshop mode in Steam and add the union patch. I would also recommend going into the .ini files and capping the FPS to 60 because, at least for me, the game runs at 256 FPS otherwise. Running at this rate breaks certain boss fights (the health regeneration is ticking too quickly) and also completely blocked progression for me at one point because I couldn't climb certain ledges or pull certain levers properly.

Super enjoyable overall and I feel like there's a ton of replay value here.

10/10

One of the best games ever made.

been playing for years

the old weight of hardness and gothic buildings inside

this game fire af it has problems launching ignore the neckbeards saying this game dev sucks cuz they raised prices, all u need to do is go into the properties of the game and switch the betas to worlshop and subscribe to the 2 most popular mods on workshop, so get this shit when its on sale and ignore the crybabys who couldnt take 10 minutes to google a solution

AMAZING SEQUEL! That being said, perhaps the story is a bit more generic than in Gothic 1, but despite this, it does expand and carry on past themes of the story, which feels good. I never played classic Gothic 2, only Night of The Raven. You get a lot more exploration of things from Gothic 1, as in "The Gods," and background information with the King and the war, not to mention that it is immensely bigger than the prequel. Definitely a "must play."

I can not recommend a game that crashes without the mods or whatever they want you to do to play it. Games should play without needing to bother with mods to get it to run.

Good

Timeless classic

Legendary game every RPG lover should play

The game produces an error message whenever launched

There isn't a game that I would recommend more than Gothic 1 and 2. They we're ahead of their time then, and now, 20 years later, they are still some of the best games one could play.

Nostalgic and fun

Gothic 2 is my all time favourite game in my school days. Still worth to play this game !!! waiting for remastered..!!

Gothic and Gothic II, what's there to say, their classics, exemplary, and distinguished must own games.
Still very playable to this day.

I'm a long-time gamer, but for some unknown reason, this game passed me by. I had an incredible time with the story, the locations, and the amazingly well-thought-out game mechanics—something you just don't find in modern games anymore.
Thank you for the great Journey!

Don't buy this on steam. I've tried literally every single "community patch" and obscure german, polish, and russian website with patches from the past few decades that in theory add support for W11, DX11, and ultrawide monitors. Literally nothing makes this run on modern hardware. I used to run this game on my cobbled together trash computer in the early 2000s, but it's an enigma for modern hardware.

Don't waste your weekend trying to get this running.

I think its one of best rpg from 3rd view simple legendery all episodes waiting for remake. :D

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An iconic game albeit some technical drawbacks that could be mostly settled with some community add-ons. I played with the must-play overhaul of The night of the Raven, with Unity and with a controller support community add-on. Didn't bother to better the graphics, needed cheats only 2-3 times when got stuck. So melee is basic and one should not play the game for that gist. I loved twists along the story that revealed more of the open world than was expected until that point. Now waiting for Gothic 1 remake

One of the best classic RPGs, with a huge long term modding community

Amazing game

It's a really decent sequel. The open world has become even bigger, especially thanks to the expansion. Countless number of characters, including the ones from the first part. Here, same as in the first part, there are always several ways in which you can finish your mission and the choices you've made can then have certain consequences in later chapters (for example, if you give the thief guild over to the city militia when you have your first chance, you won't get extra side quests from them in later chapters). I'm also amazed at how many different reactions the characters have depending on your behavior. For instance, after becoming a member of the Water Circle, if you kill too many innocent people, then you'll have a unique dialog with Vatras, where he'll tell you that he's disappointed and ask you to explain yourself, and at this point if you tell him to "get stuffed", he just won't talk to you anymore and he'd even leave your crew in later chapters if you invited him. I like this variability.

Also, I'd like to separately highlight controls in the game - it's better than in the first part, although it'll still take you some time to get used to it. The inventory also looks much better, which cannot but rejoice.

In contrast to the first game, here TNH can brew potions - a new mechanic. There is also a new powerful experimental spell that you test for one alchemist - it causes a victim to lose memory. Which means of course that you can just beat some quest guy, loot him for a quest item (a key for his chest etc.), then cast a spell on him and it'll be as nothing happened (otherwise he'll have an approprite reaction to your recent actions).

There's also a small detail with one of the items you can get - one of the character's head. You can basically carry a head and after a while it'll rot - the item's icon will change in your inventory. If you try to swim away beyond the sandbox boundaries, a sea monster will kill TNH which I find a much better solution compared to one where there would be an invisible wall that prevents you from going too far from the islands (as it's done in Gothic 3, for instance).

An interesting fact related to the Night of the Raven expansion - you can't progress through the game without beating it. Because, it's not just a DLC, it's now an integral part of the game and you can't repair the Eye of Innos without traveling to Jharkendar first and obtaining the Claw of Beliar. This addon also introduces a new pirate faction and some unique wild beasts.

As I see it, if you enjoyed the first game, this one will surely grab your attention, too. I haven't noticed any downgrades compared to the base game, only upgrades!

One of the best first RPG games, strongly recommend it