My favorite game ever.
The difficulty in this game really stands out over other games. Instead of games like Oblivion where everything is easy to kill, you will enter the game where most of everything will kill you in one hit. You enter the game as an average joe with no really combat skills. This makes leveling your skills all the more rewarding.
In this game there are many things that you can do that you probably won't be able to find in other games. Any raw meat you find you will be able to cook. You will be able to have long in depth discussions with NPCs with voice dialog. Thats right, no reading walls of text. The quests in this game do include the normal quests where you go and kill a number of creatures then come back and get your reward. But there are also more original quests. Like a quest where you pass out water to all of the rice workers. A quest where you go to an enemy village and pass out drugs to influence them to join your village. There are some really fun quests out there to explore with, aside from the main one.
The story in this game is really amazing and well done. It seems simple enough at the beginning but it becomes very in depth. The king needs money to fund a war with the orcs so he gets all of the prisoners of the land and puts them in a colony to gather ore. This is where you are dropped off. They give you a scroll to deliver the king. Your on your own from here without a weapon or anything. From here you choose to join one of three villages that all provide unique experiences for the game. So, you could technically play the game three times and aquire three different experiences. This makes it very fun.
Its clear that gothic is an amazing game. It is very cheap right now and that makes it very worth getting. I got it for only 4 dollars and it is the best game I have ever played.