Gothic 3

I know Gothic3 is a kind of love-or-hate it affair. Yeah sure, it has its problems, but I just love it. One of the best RPSs ever, great story, great setting, great feeling. If you can overcome its shortcomings, than you'll love it too.

Despite technical issues, this game is so great! A very large world to explore and many RPG components like sleeping, smithing, eating and reputation. The level-up and skills is quite original and awesome. For example if you need to be more strong in weapon, you need to buy a trainer with golds and xp points. Also this game have three finales, depending on what are you doing ingame. A "must have" is the Community Patch (v1.75 at the moment) that fix many bugs unsolved by the dev team. Also there is a Quest Pack too, a very large number of quests added by the community. As I said, this game have some trouble like stuttering expecially when you travel to another zone (like in a new city). However, in my case, the stuttering is gone after 20 mins of gameplay.

Despite not being a finished product, Gothic 3 has TONS of hours of epic gameplay. I loved everything about the game. The combat, the spells, i love everything about this game. I recommend to play with AB(alternative balancing). AB makes far harder to have a god in mid level gameplay and fixes some ballancing problems, Finished the game as a water mage and have more than 200 hours of gameplay. Gothic 1 and Gothic 3 are my favorite games of the franchise.

I've downloaded a lot of the mods (Community Patch, Quest Pack, Content Mod, Update Pack, and some other minor mods) but the game is still barely playable - and that only if you're determined enough. What I got within ~2 hours of playtime: -Combat is absolutely awful, with basically two buttons (attack and block), and somehow manages to be even more janky, unresponsive, and frustrating than G1 and G2 - even with combat mods supposedly making it better. I'm not exaggerating, It's the worst combat gameplay I've ever seen across multiple genres. It genuinely feels like it was pieced together literally a day before the release. Sadly, that's one thing mods can't fix. -Mediocre voice acting (especially on non-main characters), forgettable music, and subpar voice feedback from the world (combat, animals, actions, etc). -World doesn't feel alive since it barely changes, characters often don't react to things happening around them and it's too big for its own good, meaning it's often pretty barren anyway. -Story itself isn't particularly original, the "big bad guy" Xardas is revealed almost instantly and human race is "in grave danger" from the get go. -Quest Journal is basically a copypasta of dialogues you've already seen and that's it, incredibly lazy. -Teleport Runes literally within the first minutes of the game. Pick literally any other game out there, this one is not worth it even with tons of mods. I don't see any reason to ever play this "game" if G1 and G2 exist.

Really good classic