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Gothic II: Gold Edition

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2010

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Quick resume

Gothic II: Gold Edition brings together the excitement of Gothic II and the add-on Night of the Raven to your fingertips!

Global score

94/100

Genres

Action, Role-playing (RPG)

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    Pros

    • Deep immersive world and atmosphere
    • Challenging and rewarding gameplay
    • High replayability with multiple factions
    • Rich story and lore
    • Strong character progression system

    Cons

    • Outdated graphics and interface
    • Steep learning curve and difficult combat
    • Awkward controls
    • Technical issues on modern systems without patches
    • Limited social or cooperative features

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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      "Primarily a solo experience with limited social or community interaction."

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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      "Requires long sedentary play sessions with intense focus; no physical activity involved."

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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      "High tension and difficulty create sustained challenge rather than relaxation or flow."

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    • Sensation

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      "Atmospheric music and detailed environments provide sensory enjoyment."

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Relaxation, Survival, Violence, Fellowship. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Exploration, Story.

    How to use the graph
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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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