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Posted February 04, 2012
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Profanity: I'd recommend to still install Raven for your first time, the difficulty is amped up, but it adds a lot. It will make your experience much more enjoyable, in my opinion.
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Fifeldor: I finished the vanilla G2 about 5 times, spent 2 years of my youth playing it and last year I decided to give it a go with Raven installed as well (the GOG version). Needless to say I consider it an extremely hard game which made me sweat. I can't remember if it was fun or not, it was definitely different (new locations, some changed old locations, new NPCs), but it was a lot harder than I used to remember it.
Well, it's one thing to not have a choice to install Ravens (You didn't, right?) and after some time be all nostalgic about "clean" G2. It's a different thing when you have both G2 and Raven in one neat GoG install. From what I know Ravens only add, both content and difficulty.
Posted February 04, 2012
All this gothic talk makes me want to replay them,dammit....

must...last...till...risen2...
Post edited February 04, 2012 by Paul_cz
Posted February 04, 2012
You can get them all together in a set called Gothic Universe, inc at least one expansion iirc. I bought it in game for about €6 awhile back. Even though I still have the originals, it was nice to get up to date patched versions. On saying that, G3 didnt have the community patch, so you would need to get that seperately.

I would suggest you play G1, its a great game.
Posted February 04, 2012
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skomand: I'm really interested in Gothic, but I'm wondering: how essential is it that I play Gothic 1 before Gothic 2?
Essential enough to reconsider and play Gothic 1 for starters.
Some may say that Gothic 1 is even better than Gothic 2. But for me Gothic 1 + 2 is like a one big game really. You can't split them up, they are part of the same.

And this is solely my humble opinion, the choice is yours.
However I have a feeling that you might have already knew the answer before creating this thread :)
Posted February 04, 2012
I'd play them in order only because Gothic 1 is so. damn. clunky that if you play anything else first you'll never be able to get into the first game.

I mean, you get used to the controls after a while, but they are utterly ridiculous and created by crazy people.
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