Things happen in this game whether or not you'reĭriving them, and that's a rare pleasure.
The shepherd may run over and beat it to death with his staff, or the wolf may kill him and flee back to the forest. If a wolf wanders into town, it may attack a sheep People go about their daily life, gossiping in the streets, farming in the fields, sleeping in their beds at night.
If you can get used to the awkward gameplay and the off-putting main character, though, there's an excellent game in here. Gothic II is constantly pitting you against opponents that are way out of your league, giving you no way of realizing you ought to be fleeing other than You die a lot in this game, and it's rarely because you did something stupid. The inventory screen is very difficult to use, monsters jump on you and kill you while you're futzing around with it, and the gameplay forces you to futz around with This is something that annoys me under theīest of circumstances-if I wanted to commit to a realtime shooter with no AFK tolerance, I'd be online, you know-but in Gothic II it's excruciating, because Combat is realtime and there's no easy way to pause the game. German Ponytail Man around the room until he's looking directly at something, at which point its name will pop up on the screen and you can click on it to take/use it. You basically use the arrow keys to run Mr. The 3D environment is fine, but the movement mechanism is rudimentary at best. His lines are all bland and neutral and all you can do is click your way down the dialogue tree until they've all been delivered.Īnd then there's the controls. You can choose different courses of actions for him, but not different conversational options. and he has noĭiscernible personality, nor any way for the player to imbue him with one.
Torment the game designers just didn't want to bother with it.) Forget gender and race, you can't so much as change the color of his hair. (The character having no name isn't even a plot point, a la Planescape You're still saddled with a single character you are unable to customize or even name. Unfortunately, despite building on some of its predecessor's strengths, Gothic II hasn't addressed any of its weaknesses. Richer quests with multiple solutions to each. It's very much more of the same, only with better graphics, more interactive NPC's, and Lowlights: Uncustomizable PC, poor controls, slow paceįirst things first : anyone who loved Gothic is going to love this sequel. Highlights: Plentiful and flexible quests, fun exploration, immersive gameworld detail If you don't think any of the above situations apply, you can use this feedback form to request a review of this block.Computer Game Tips Computer Game Cheats Computer Game ReviewsĪn immersive CRPG with memorably open-ended problem-solving, weighted down by interface glitches and a main character you have little control over. Contact your IT department and let them know that they've gotten banned, and to have them let us know when they've addressed the issue.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from an area that filters all traffic through a single proxy server (like Singapore or Malaysia), or are you on a mobile connection that seems to be randomly blocked every few pages? Then we'll definitely want to look into it - please let us know about it here. You'll need to disable that add-on in order to use GameFAQs.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from work, school, a library, or another shared IP? Unfortunately, if this school or place of business doesn't stop people from abusing our resources, we don't have any other way to put an end to it. When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it. If you don't think you did anything wrong and don't understand why your IP was banned.Īre you using a proxy server or running a browser add-on for "privacy", "being anonymous", or "changing your region" or to view country-specific content, such as Tor or Zenmate? Unfortunately, so do spammers and hackers. IP bans will be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis if you were running a bot and did not understand the consequences, but typically not for spamming, hacking, or other abuse. If you are responsible for one of the above issues. Having an excessive number of banned accounts in a very short timeframe.Running a web bot/spider that downloaded a very large number of pages - more than could possibly justified as "personal use".Automated spam (advertising) or intrustion attempts (hacking).Your current IP address has been blocked due to bad behavior, which generally means one of the following: