kohan69: I honestly wanted to join the New Camp, but I did one of the side missions "wrong" and didn't have a sleep spell to impress one of the Gurus, only later I found that in the corner of swampcamp is a 5th guru who you can impress by making one of the workers come work his shift.

But that was well two hours at least, in the game, and didn't go back.

I hate the politics and atmosphere of old camp, but the mages seemed cool, and Diego is a true homie. I stole everything there, and got myself a two-handed blade that does 61 damage, NICE! way better than anything I was "supposed" to have at my level yet.

I killed the Rice Lord in the new camp RIGHT AWAY. I didn't carry water ONCE. I ran around the ledge to the right of him, so he wouldn't have a chance to ask me, then I climbed up, and went to the top to the camp, on my way back down, I carefully jumped off on the roof of the Rice Lord, and took out every from the roof of it (I stacked up on arrows, it took a little while)
and I got myself an awesome spiffy longbow, at like Level 5.


It often feels like that I'm doing what I'm not yet supposed to yet. Like killing an Ice Golum at level 10 and the game tells me "You can't equip this spell, it requires 245 mana" My mana is only 15, LOL. But it's very exciting that the game LETS me do it, it makes me feel like a conquered a LOT when I kill 30 orcs by exploiting the terrain and making them stuck in the water, etc.

I'm really enjoying Gothic, sidequests and explorability are amazing, but the game remains in focus.
Last week I put 30 hours into Skyrim, and I cannot say the same for Elder Scroll's games.