smek2: If you believe any of those rose tinted, nostalgia induced reviews and want to buy any of these games... don't!
Here's what will happen. Fanboys will tell you this is the greatest western RPG series ever made. You'll buy either G1 or G2 or all of them.
Smart as you are, you'll then download and install every patch known to exist. Then you'll realize that, on top of archaic controls, you'll have to deal with constant crashes and bugs. For example, you will try to finish one of the earliests quests, only to realize you can't finish it, because the game will crash wit an "access violation" EVERYTIME you try to enter a certain area.
You will then google your heart out and try every solution proposed. Only to realize that none of them work.
You then will regret the money you spend when you could have just played Morrowind or The Witcher.
Or, you'll heed my advice and refrain from buying any of these games and save yourself some bucks and a lot of sanity.
Seriously, i tried Gothic 1 and Gothic 2 and tried every solution known to man and both games crash constantly on modern systems (in case of G1 game breaking even).
Don't trust those reviews. They're not real reviews, in a sense, as it is 2017 and most people use Windows 8.1 or (shudder) Windows 10.

UniversalWolf: Gothic 1 and 2 are great games. They're so good I like to replay them every few years.

smek2: If you believe any of those rose tinted, nostalgia induced reviews and want to buy any of these games... don't!
Here's what will happen. Fanboys will tell you this is the greatest western RPG series ever made. You'll buy either G1 or G2 or all of them.
Smart as you are, you'll then download and install every patch known to exist. Then you'll realize that, on top of archaic controls, you'll have to deal with constant crashes and bugs. For example, you will try to finish one of the earliests quests, only to realize you can't finish it, because the game will crash wit an "access violation" EVERYTIME you try to enter a certain area.
You will then google your heart out and try every solution proposed. Only to realize that none of them work.
You then will regret the money you spend when you could have just played Morrowind or The Witcher.
Or, you'll heed my advice and refrain from buying any of these games and save yourself some bucks and a lot of sanity.
Seriously, i tried Gothic 1 and Gothic 2 and tried every solution known to man and both games crash constantly on modern systems (in case of G1 game breaking even).
Don't trust those reviews. They're not real reviews, in a sense, as it is 2017 and most people use Windows 8.1 or (shudder) Windows 10.

bushwhacker2k: [...] I love this series to death.

theinkandpen: Absolutely agree, but not so much for the bugs.

Mechanically, these are some of the worse games ever produced. It is unfortunate, because I can see how the developers meant well and wanted to create something deeper than usual hack-an-slash combat.

Unforunately, all that resulted was mechanics which penalise the player to impossible degrees, and make the game completable only by exploits or bows and arrows.

Truehare: Funny, I completed them without exploits and barely using the bow... And I just love the way my character fights terribly at first; it only makes it all that much more satisfying when I become a badass later.

I really wish Piranha Bytes had stuck to their guns on that design choice, it's simply brilliant.