lagrange7: Hello Everyone,

i am desperately searching for Gothic 2, but without the addon. Every shop only sells the gold-edition, but i read somewhere the gog-gold-edition has an option to select only the vanilla-version to install. Is that true? I already own several gold-editions and would hate to spend another 10$ only to find out i still cant play the basegame.

Thanks in Advance

lagrange7: Hello Everyone,

i am desperately searching for Gothic 2, but without the addon. Every shop only sells the gold-edition, but i read somewhere the gog-gold-edition has an option to select only the vanilla-version to install. Is that true? I already own several gold-editions and would hate to spend another 10$ only to find out i still cant play the basegame.

Thanks in Advance

fragonard: The GOG version used to allow a choice at installation but it was removed several years ago for some reason. I have heard that at least a couple of GOG buyers have been given a DL link to the old version after they contacted admin,

KaKarnage: I never saw any resolution here, were you able to get the vanilla version installed? I tried twice to play NotR and the first time hit a quest sequence bug on the first quest to go to the monostary, and on my second playthrough I just hit a wall where I couldn't kill anything, everything could 2-3 shot me and it pretty much was not any fun any more.

So, if I could play the vanilla version that would be so great, the expansion pretty much ruins the game it seems...

FightknightHERO: There is a an add-on that fully restores the Gothic 2 classic experience (without Night of the Raven expansion)

here you go
https://www.worldofgothic.de/dl/download_230.htm

i played both and frankly Yharkandar feels a bit out of place in a Gothic setting
(Mayan Ruins? in a medieval fantasy Germanic world?)
but honestly Dex is absolutely useless in Gothic 2 classic
and smiting too, you can only forge plain swords which sell for a pittance (100G each)

frankly my favorite add-on of Gothic 2 is Gothic 2: Nostalgic Edition
which adds the jump animation from the first game, adds some Gothic 1 armors into the game
and adds a companion system into the game which i found to be remarkably satisfying

i know it works in German but haven't tried in English yet
https://www.worldofgothic.de/news_2511.htm

it should work since it doesn't add any dialogue into the game, but it does add a free bits and pieces
Features
•Wasteland Mod is integrated and improved.
•Fizzban Scriptpatch is integrated.
•Some parts of Sargon's script patch are integrated.
•Almost all unsightly bugs, a lot of exploits, glitches, graphic errors, logic errors and NPC errors have been fixed.
•Corrected thousands of faulty objects in the worlds.
•Embellished worlds, which increases the atmosphere and made some places accessible and expanded.
•Some content that was once planned has been added.
•Many improvements and adjustments of balancing, logic and much more.
•In the menu a security question as to whether you really want to start a new game.
•Extended options menu. (Blood details, random locks, etc.)
•Extended character menu visible.
•Some "old" sounds added / inserted again.
•Guildless playthrough possible with individual new armor and learning the magic circles.
•Some optical and graphical adjustments (better performance).
•Many new and "old" monsters, armor, weapons and spells have been added.
•Nostalgia bonuses when recognizing or meeting old characters from Gothic I.
•Meat frying is now possible with 1x, 3x, 10x, 25x or everything.
•New animations, talents and functions (e.g. shield parade, chopping wood, roasting around campfires, filling hookahs, •making arrows and bolts)
•Three optional (full) companions that adapt to the level and can be individually equipped for a completely new playing •experience.
•Permanent bonuses can be used immediately.
•Changed animation of some weapons (e.g. pirate swords).
and much more ...

eolsunder: yep keep us updated, would be nice to know if support is still doing this. Also if they do provide the link let us how how it changes the gold version, is it a seperate game, is it a option you choose from the game directory, etc.

ChrisSZ: I'm also tempted to play Gothic 2, would be my first time ;-)

I finished Risen 1-3 and Elex, on easy to middle difficulty settings. Is Gothic 2 (with the NOTR stuff) really that difficult?

I'd rather play the full version, including NOTR. But only if it is not unplayable difficult.

Gunseng: As of December 2020 they are still doing it. You can download an old installer which allowed you to select whether you just want to install the base game or everything. Sadly, this installer is only available for the English version of the game.