Eurogamer must have been paid off. Seriously, this is a horrible game and I'm sure Gamespy held BACK on that low score. Oblivion had its shortcomings and bugs, but Gothic's bugs are so noticeable, so common, and so annoying that they are impossible to ignore. A lot of crap design issues play part as well.
You have an infinite carrying capacity, and you can take every item lying around in the first city and gain immense amounts of money by selling all of the items off at the next town (there are more items lying around in Gothic than in Oblivion).
Try to pick up an item in front of somebody, you are immediately attacked. They will chase you down through heaven and hell while picking up guards and some random NPCs. However, triggering a conversation with any other NPC will lead to a friendly conversation in front of the embarrisingly large crowd of angry victims. Speaking of horrible AI, any monster can be sniped to death without engaging in any actual combat as early as level one.
This game is not worth any money and feels like the developers forgot to play the game before shipping it out. I'm serious, this game is awful.
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Nov 24th 2006 12:04AM (Joystiq)You have an infinite carrying capacity, and you can take every item lying around in the first city and gain immense amounts of money by selling all of the items off at the next town (there are more items lying around in Gothic than in Oblivion).
Try to pick up an item in front of somebody, you are immediately attacked. They will chase you down through heaven and hell while picking up guards and some random NPCs. However, triggering a conversation with any other NPC will lead to a friendly conversation in front of the embarrisingly large crowd of angry victims. Speaking of horrible AI, any monster can be sniped to death without engaging in any actual combat as early as level one.
This game is not worth any money and feels like the developers forgot to play the game before shipping it out. I'm serious, this game is awful.
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