Posted on: December 30, 2018

Mirae

Games: 145 Reviews: 2

Different but good

The first two games are true rough gems with reasonably sized open worlds and a somewhat dark and sarcastic sense of humor. Gothic 3 is NOW a good game, but it is not what the fans expected. The release state was terrible and made the game unplayable - therefore the bad reviews online from that time. The GOG version now includes all the official and unofficial patches and it makes the game well, with minimum amounts of bugs and glitches. But about the game itself. The graphics are solid and even now the world looks ok, though you can see the age of this game. The majority of the quests are just "go there", "kill him", "bring this" with some interesting quests now and then and some very difficult ones without a wiki. The melee combat system is not good and is a dumbed-down version the previous ones and the reason why I give it just 4 stars. It is just bad. The ranged combat is a lot better and it is actually great! The world is now huge. Or was considered huge at the time, still it is probably smaller than something like Skyrim but it is a really impressive world with a lot of caves, dungeons and hidden areas to find and explore. The best loot cannot be just found by some creature or in a specific cave but requires you to find more chests of a specific type (old for mages or heavy for fighters) and with each additional chest you get a noticeably better gear up to the "legendary" items. A solid strength is its over-the-top voice acting. German voice acting is occasionally so bad it is amazing and the English one is just solid (main protagonist voiced by Crispin Freeman [e.g. Itachi Uchiha]). The music is just amazing and the sound design is great, though not perfect. Overall the game offers plenty of fun, a big open world, solid RPG system, great ranged combat and below-average melee combat. Maybe worth it without a sale but totally worth on sale! Also, it has educational value for language learners as it offers plenty of voiced lines in different languages.

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Posted on: December 6, 2011

Lifthrasil

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Games: Reviews: 45

Doesn't live up to the great name

All in all Gothic 3 isn't a bad game. It is actually quite enjoyable, once all patches (including the inofficial community patch) are installed. But it just isn't as great as its predecessors and it feels unfinished, even with most of the bugs removed. Too much emptiness, some NPCs seem too generic. One keeps running into situations where one has the impression: "Ah, here the designers had a nice idea - and then ran out of time and didn't implement it fully." Summary: lots of potential wasted. If you're a hardcore Gothic fan ... you probably already have this. But if you are new to Gothic, rather start with 1 and 2. Their graphics may be worse, but they still are far superior games.

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Posted on: July 14, 2022

luopeiyu

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Games: 1 Reviews: 1

Favorite games

RPG with the highest degree of freedom in history, seamless map, open world game, I like it very much, very immersive. If you have the patience to play, you will find the real charm of Gothic 3, with many fantastic details. Players from China wish the Gothic Dynasty series more and more excellent, and hope that the Gothic Dynasty 3 can have a reset version.

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Posted on: April 21, 2018

JudasPhysicist

Games: 147 Reviews: 5

Unfinished product

I leave this as a warning to players who might think that the first 2 games are good and thus the 3rd is also good. Unfortunately it is not, the game development was rushed and the game was shipped in an unfinished state. Even the community patches can't save the broken state this game is in at. The only thing this game is good at is giving a good scenery and an amazing sound track. If you are looking for a spiritual Gothic 3, try Risen instead.

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Posted on: April 18, 2015

chargervj

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Games: 156 Reviews: 6

Frustrating!!

This really should be one of the greatest RPGs ever made. The world is absolutely beautiful (better than anything in the Elder Scrolls series), the plot line is very immersive, and the faction idea brilliantly set up. It's a game you really want to finish and keep exploring, But, Believe what everybody says. It is horrendously (for me personally, unacceptably) buggy. It has THE worst map in any RPG game in history. Seriously, the map is useless. Which can make finding things you've already been to a dozen times still very difficult, even in the late game. The frustration caused by this is immense, and it's a baffling oversight by the game developers. The combat mechanics are AWFUL. You'll still be swinging merrily at a creature nowhere near you while a creature quickly pegging down your life is ignored (despite best attempts to change the view to it). This should be such an amazing game, but it's faults end up outweighing it's positives, especially as the game wears on and you just become exhausted on searching on forums for bug issues and how to find locations (seriously, nobody in this kingdom has come across the concept of marking something on your map?! Go and kill the monster outside the town? Fine. WHERE THE #$#* IS IT!). Seriously, despite 3 stars, I would probably say don't bother, especially if like me you don't have a great deal of patience for blindingly obvious flaws in game design.

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