The biggest mistake of the publsiher/developer was to make the Defaiult Controls like Gothic 1.
To you guys that have the game all you need to do is set Gothic 1 controls OFF, till you get used to the game and game world, it is a LOT to get used to.
Once you understand the leveling and get orentated, if you want to turn the Gothic1 cotrols back on you can anytime.
You will find one of the most realistic combat modes, you have seperate keys for Block, Right swing and Left swing allowing for reall cool combo moves depending on your skill levels.
You must learn each monster's, human's or animal's fighting style, ie animals can't be blocked, but you if you dont block with agaisnt humans or monters you die FAST.
Shame you guys missed out on a great game while the graphics do not match Morrowind, the quest are much better you feel like your really talking to different NPCs with different personallities.
The new Radiant AI Obliviin has comes from seeing how well Gothic series AI, which they were doing back in 2000 with Gothic 1.
The terrain is great too much better than Morrowind, much more like climbing real mountains.
I liked Morrowind but was let down by the lifelessness but Gothic's biggest asset is it is very alive with personality, especially for an inde title that was so popular it is now releasing a 3 title in the series later this year, my guess Q4.
It honestly is a pretty hardcore RPG, but if you can set the contols to NON GOthic 1 and dont try to go far off the road till your maybe 10th level (just doing quest in the first town) you will come away with one of the best RPG experiences you have had.
PS No problems with setting potions hotkeys or setting Quick save in the ini .
Oh yeah it has one of the coolest features in the console I have even seen, you can Inhabit any person or creature even a Dragon to mess around with an play very cool, but dont wonder off to far from your charater he will disappear and you will lose him forever, without a reload.
