For example, the franchise has finally abandoned its torturous keyboard-centric control scheme -- not because the team has admitted any problems with it, but because players want to use the mouse-keyboard control scheme. The series is moving off of the prison island of the first two games and onto the mainland, giving the designers enough room (three times the size of Gothic II) to actually deliver on the free-form possibilities that Gothic and its sequel promised. Gothic 3 isn't going to promise an open experience and then give you 30 hours of linear dungeon crawls (sorry, Gothic 1), nor is it going to try to offer more than that and simply hand players a game that's so difficult and frustrating that it's a dungeon crawl just to try and play it (Gothic II, we're looking at you and your buggy quests).