List CRPG ingredients by their importance to you.

Lucky Day said:

this is the reason I can't get into Gothic. I know most at this site are fanboi's of it, and I trust you that's its a great story, however, I just can't get past this. To me the clunkiness makes it unplayable…

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It's already explained plenty times so I'm pretty sure try once more is pointless. But that's wrong its interface design isn't bad and not practical.

It has a very uncommon interface design approach and many players stop play the game before succeed learn it. A very typical example is the inventory management… ha awful interface design… after some hours using it… very comfortable, fact and practical to manage a huge unlimited inventory.

The same for the combat controls, huu lack of freedom, but after few hours you don't even notice and some more hours you enjoy a lot the rhythm controls it involves, without to mention and it becomes very fluid and natural.

But instead of trying Gothic 1 start with Gothic 2 + NOTR, it's much better to discover the series.