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CerebroDragon · 01-27-2007, 08:59 AM

Man, I'm really enjoying my time with Gothic II so far. It's so unforgivingly hardcore when it comes to combat - I love it! Makes me grit my teeth in ardour for the trial of the challenge.

Truly a nice change from the relative ease by which I finished Kotor.

Indeed, it plays like a nasty uncompromising medieval hybrid of Morrowind and Arx - though I tend to like the latter games' stories a little more so far. There's a very heavy emphasis on exploration, survival and using your environment to your advantage, which I really like. Makes for a more primally charged experience, that's for sure.

I'm only level 9, chapter two. Been playing in-game now for about 15 hours. It has a gorgeously immersive atmosphere, sweet soundtrack and all. Obviously its not perfect though - the dialogs are a little too simplistic for my tastes, with sometimes no real choices. I also thought the cut scene for the brothel was downright puerile and unnecessary.

I'm not a huge one for kleptomania in most games I play - its a bit of a run of the mill stereotypical thing to do, I reckon, roleplaying a thief being an exception. But in this case, I'm feeling almost goaded into it - especially where health potions and herbs are involved! Can't get enough of them...
Doing it in Ultima however amounts to blasphemy, especically post IV. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

One really amusing encounter that I had recently involved an Orc Scout and a Shadowbeast. I must have reloaded a good 10-15 times trying different tactics on the Orc, jumping up rocks, fleeing and hiding around corners and whatnot - and though the fights were close, the Orc would kill me in the end! I got by him by fleeing into the path of a Shadowbeast unwittingly, stopping to realise that they'd started fighting. I watched under a tree as the Orc made a few solid blows, only to be slaughtered in the end! I jumped with glee into the fray and frantically carved up the Shadowbeast before it could have me for dessert.

I had a darwinian epiphany at that moment.

Anyway, not many posters around it seems - most are probably playing Gothic 3 anyhow - Hmmph!

Needless to say, I'm happily enjoying this.
Cheers,
CD

[ 01-27-2007, 09:22 AM: Message edited by: CerebroDragon ]

01-27-2007, 08:59 AM	#3
CerebroDragon Red Wizard of Thay Join Date: March 2, 2003 Location: Ballarat, Australia. Age: 46 Posts: 878	Man, I'm really enjoying my time with Gothic II so far. It's so unforgivingly hardcore when it comes to combat - I love it! Makes me grit my teeth in ardour for the trial of the challenge. Truly a nice change from the relative ease by which I finished Kotor. Indeed, it plays like a nasty uncompromising medieval hybrid of Morrowind and Arx - though I tend to like the latter games' stories a little more so far. There's a very heavy emphasis on exploration, survival and using your environment to your advantage, which I really like. Makes for a more primally charged experience, that's for sure. I'm only level 9, chapter two. Been playing in-game now for about 15 hours. It has a gorgeously immersive atmosphere, sweet soundtrack and all. Obviously its not perfect though - the dialogs are a little too simplistic for my tastes, with sometimes no real choices. I also thought the cut scene for the brothel was downright puerile and unnecessary. I'm not a huge one for kleptomania in most games I play - its a bit of a run of the mill stereotypical thing to do, I reckon, roleplaying a thief being an exception. But in this case, I'm feeling almost goaded into it - especially where health potions and herbs are involved! Can't get enough of them... Doing it in Ultima however amounts to blasphemy, especically post IV. [img]tongue.gif[/img] One really amusing encounter that I had recently involved an Orc Scout and a Shadowbeast. I must have reloaded a good 10-15 times trying different tactics on the Orc, jumping up rocks, fleeing and hiding around corners and whatnot - and though the fights were close, the Orc would kill me in the end! I got by him by fleeing into the path of a Shadowbeast unwittingly, stopping to realise that they'd started fighting. I watched under a tree as the Orc made a few solid blows, only to be slaughtered in the end! I jumped with glee into the fray and frantically carved up the Shadowbeast before it could have me for dessert. I had a darwinian epiphany at that moment. Anyway, not many posters around it seems - most are probably playing Gothic 3 anyhow - Hmmph! Needless to say, I'm happily enjoying this. Cheers, CD [ 01-27-2007, 09:22 AM: Message edited by: CerebroDragon ] __________________ Diddledy High, Diddledy Low, Come Brave Blood Sheep, You've a goodly way to go. - Brilhasti Ap Tarj