The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

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Where is Gothic bugged? Have you played the unpatched release version (1.06l)?
Gothic 3 was plagued by massive bugs when it came out, but after 6 years of updating it is almost free of bugs!

Anyway, when I'm talking of Gothic I mean the first two parts of the series. They are BY FAR better than everything out there.

It's not floral-fantasy mainstream like TES: "Ooooh, dear traveler. Where the path?"

Gothic is a decent and immersive RPG about story depth and harsh atmosphere, not about walking around in a neverending world with 08-15 story, kill monsters again and again & skill your hero using tables of numbers!

I rather play a good game with some bugs than a bad game without bugs.

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

The game is just unfinished. See how many ideas Piranha guys had, arena, so many interesting quests that were unfinished and abandoned (the early trailer is good reference here). I personally like Gothic 2 with addon more than Gothic 1, it seems more completed and actually really, really enjoyable. I bet I spent over 2000 hours in Gothic 2, if not more. Gothic 1 is just terribly unfinished and unpolished. The game had a LOT of potential, for example the unfinished mine, you could put so much stuff in here.

As I already stated: I did not say that Gothic I is terrible, along with G2 they were my first PC games ever. I just don't see a reason why some people call it a masterpiece. I always felt that G1 is still in alpha version when I played it.

kill monsters again and again & skill your hero using tables of numbers

Uhm, Gothic series are actually pretty much like that (like most of the RPG games). Isn't it what's really important in RPG games? You can't reject the fact that you don't kill monsters and don't gain those learn points (whatever they were called) in Gothic.