What the hell is wrong with this game?
I recently conpleted gothic 1 on switch and it was really great, enjoyed it very much, now playing 2, again on switch. I'm like 10 hours in and what I feel most of the time is frustration and not much else.
First and foremost, what the fuck is this power spike? In gothic 1 it was more or less reasonable. At the very beginning you were killed by vast majority of creatures until you got some strength boost and just a little better weapon. Then you could more or less freely explore the world. Sure there were some monsters which gatekeeped you from some areas and whole orc realm is pretty much closed, but that's how it should be, perfectly fine. And weapons you get/are offered are adjusted to your current level.
In gothic 2 almost wherever I go I get stumped either by bandits or monsters too strong to be killed. I'm tired of running around and killing fucking field raiders or bloodflies, which are still not that easy to defeat and if I don't get critical strike well... too fucking bad. Due to this I'm at the point where I don't even have anything to heal myself with and every healing herb is like a little piece of treasure. When it comes to weapons I was merely able to exchange the knife from cavalorn to some sword which does 45 damage, although the difference is not very noticable in practice to be honest. And guess what I have 35 str and to get somewhat of a decent weapon I need like 60 and now I need to spend 10 skill points to get 5 strength instead of 5, which means 5 whole levels xD. For quests which don't require me to kill some bandits or beat the guards I get like 100/200 exp and I need several thousand. Good luck with this shit. And the reward for one of the first quests that I did was a pirate sword which requires 60 str. Thank you gothic 2... thank you for such a great weapon which I'm not even able to use. What's a point in giving it to me then. Well maybe I can buy something? Of course, I can buy fucking swords and axes which require 150 str... Again what's even a point in giving me that? Power spike in this game is I believe the most awful in any video game I've played in my entire life.
The second thing, quests themselves. I don't even know anymore what are all of them about. I get so many so quickly it's impossible to get immersed and remeber all of them. Sure there is a journal, but I have like 30 of them, what's the point in giving you so many of them and many of them are not easily doable in my current state. In gothic 1 it was split between 3 camps, so the player doesn't get overwhelmed. Here after going around Khorinis my head started hurting.