Gothic 1 Remake

I've just finished my first playthrough of the Gothic 1 Remake and here are my thoughts on the game so far: Pros: - very nice atmosphere - the world feels alive and there are tons of npc's with a lot of character - graphics - the game looks absolutely beautiful - true to the orignal - it's a slow "oldschool" rpg and Alkimia kept it that way which I like - exploration - a ton of interesting locations and behind every corner is something worth exploring Cons: - very buggy at times - I had a lot of quests that were very bugged, some even so bad that I could not complete the quest at all. Also there are very annoying sound bugs (sound complety cutting out until you restart the game) - a TON of walking around for quests - I feel like half of my playtime consisted of walking between camps and to quest-npc's - uncomprehensible quest logs - some quest logs just tell you straight up wrong information where to go or whom to meet, so that can become qute frustrating at times - balancing - magic for example is just straight up unusable at times may it be because it's also very buggy (fireballs hitting invisible walls for example) or enemies just being immune to magic (good luck magic only users) - fighting - sometimes feels a little wonky and all over the place. Hitboxes can be weird as well as the parry or dodge timings - rewards - seem all over the place. Certain very long quests give like 500xp, while some SINGLE enemies give you up to 10k xp. Also the rewards for exploration seem underwhelming a lot of the times Neutral: - voiceacting - varies A LOT! Sometimes it's excellent and sometimes you just cringe everytime certain npc's speak (I am looking at you Xardas' demon) Gothic 1 Remake is certainly not a perfect game, but the flaws it has it outweighs with a lot of charme, athmosphere and fun exploration. The last time I had so much fun just walking around and exploring every cave or interesting looking landmark was with Skyrim and I think that says a lot about this game. If you enjoyed the original Gothic, you will most certainly like the remake. I think with a few patches and more balancing, this game can become one of the best rpg's of all time.