Steam has had special sales for many games until the 4th. As I looked over some I saw Gothic 2 Gold and some pictures which brought back lots of memories. The game is smaller than Morrowind, so why am I'm drawn to play it as much? There are various reason but the biggest strength of Gothic games are you are not only allowed to step into and experience a whole new open world you can change it. Quest don't just affect your standing with the NPC or faction you helped or harmed. Several quest in a row could have large obvious ramifications like not being allowed into certain towns/areas, nearly destroying entire faction, liberating a town from orc control with town wide revolutions, or leading orcs to a human rebel hideout to destroy it and subjugate the humans, the latter two coming from Gothic 3.

Not saying Gothic is better overall. I like both of them, but one thing I've felt is the TES quest often seem to only change dialog and NPC reactions to you. The main quests in both TES and Gothic games have you affecting the world some, but the other TES side quest make the world feel static. Morrowind had quests where you could build your own house/outpost and that was fun because you changed the world. I want more of this. Don't get me wrong, the TES games offer a larger sand box filled with more diversity than Gothic, but what good is a sandbox unless I can shape and mold things in it.

The changes don't have to all be epic. Take the Oblivion quest where you help a couple sons on a farm to fight of some goblins, saving their lives in the process. Instead of the sons simply greeting me with a high disposition greeting and the dad giving me a quest reward, I want them to invite me over for a drink/party that night, heck the dad seemed to be an alcoholic I'm sure he would offer me something. At the party, perhaps in slurred speech the would tell me, "You have a place to stay anytime you're want friend." I would surely do this if someone saved my kids lives. This example came from off the top of my head. I just asked myself as an NPC WWMRB, what would my reaction be.

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