[Dino]

Gothic 1: The beach with the fire lizards... if you fuck up and forget your fire resistance gear you're dead. DEAD

Gothic 2: I'm surprised no one mentioned this... every single place which has a skeleton mage in it. Again if you screw up once it's all over and you die IRL.

[Maladiq]

I like skeleton mages in G2, especially in notr. If you have proper gear and stats, they become springs of unlimited XP

[Dino]

Yeah they're fun up to the point where they freeze you and you die.

[Ratamahatta]

Yeah they're fun up to the point where they freeze you and you die.

yeah true, especially after you successfully fought with his several summoned skeletons for quite a while...

[Nikolai81]

In Gothic 2 it can be very dangerous to take the quick path to Sagitta's cave in the early-mid game, because you need to navigate past a pack of wargs on your left-hand side and a shadow beast on your right-hand side. I've died several times by accidentally going too close to the wargs. I bet that forest has one of the highest death rates in the game, due to all the goblin skeletons as well.

[Maladiq]

In Gothic 2 it can be very dangerous to take the quick path to Sagitta's cave in the early-mid game, because you need to navigate past a pack of wargs on your left-hand side and a shadow beast on your right-hand side. I've died several times by accidentally going too close to the wargs. I bet that forest has one of the highest death rates in the game.

Keep as close to the mountain as possible.

[Nikolai81]

Keep as close to the mountain as possible.

Yes that's the path with least risk, and it's quick as well if you start out by the mercenary camp. Still, I usually find myself taking the risky path through the forest, from Sekob's fields, because it's the quickest one if you're coming from the west (which is very often the case).

[birkebeiner]

most dangerous place in my opinion is the forest near the old mine. once i was trying to go to the old camp and i turned ooops i snapper looking at me from my back of course i was a noob then good old times...

[McGruff]

Obviously it all depends on the level you are when you hit certain areas.

I remember getting smoked the first time I went to Jack's lighthouse in G2. I learned to avoid that quest until I had more xp pretty quickly.

I agree that the path through the forest towards the old mine in G1 is instant death for a low level character.

Those phantoms are one of the reasons I've never tried a hardcore game of Gothic 2.

[Kraszu]

Gothic 1: The beach with the fire lizards... if you fuck up and forget your fire resistance gear you're dead. DEAD

But they do turn pretty slowly so you can use speed potion, and attack them from behind.

I always had the most problems with snappers. There is a pack of them in the road to old mine in G2.

Gothic 2: I'm surprised no one mentioned this... every single place which has a skeleton mage in it. Again if you screw up once it's all over and you die IRL.

I don't recall dying In Real Life while playing Gothic.

[Dino]

I don't recall dying In Real Life while playing Gothic.

That's why the saves exist. You just reloaded, that's all.

[Maladiq]

I don't recall dying In Real Life while playing Gothic.

'Cause no one's left to tell the tale.