A nameless hero becomes a legend!
Myrtana, a world in upheaval: overrun by orcs from the dark lands in the north, King Rhobar is defending Vengard, the former stronghold of the humans, with his last troop of followers. Chaos reigns without: rebels are offering resistance, and the Hashishin of the...
Myrtana, a world in upheaval: overrun by orcs from the dark lands in the north, King Rhobar is defending Vengard, the former stronghold of the humans, with his last troop of followers. Chaos reigns without: rebels are offering resistance, and the Hashishin of the south are openly collaborating with the orcs.
Rumours that the nameless hero of Khorinis is on his way to the mainland spawn both hope and worry. Whose side will he take? Who will feel his wrath, who enjoy his favor? Only one thing is sure: his deeds are going to change Myrtana forever...
Liberation or annihilitaion – the fate of the world of Gothic lies in your hands! Create your own individual gaming experience through different solution paths.
Dynamic, action-packed combat system: choose between Fast Attacks, deadly whirlwind close combat, or shooting from a distance.
Immerse yourself in the most colorful and authentic fantasy world of all time – Myrtana awaits you!
Specially designed easy combat system
Clear main goals-story driven yet dictated by player's choice
Huge free-roaming world - virtually no boundaries
Advanced human behavior AI for hundreds of individual characters with full audio dialogues
Countless side quests for the player to choose from
Over 50 different monsters and animals and dozens of human enemies
Over 50 different powerful spells and over a hundred different weapons
This game is fun to a certain extent, however, if you have been spoiled with high quality RPGSs (like Gothic 2) this might leave you a bit disappointed. I'm quite sure that I would have enjoyed this game much more I hadn't played Gothic 2 a few years before it. With that mindset in mind (lower your expectations) this game can be fun, but to me it was never appealing enough to replay it - unlike Gothic 2 where I spent at least 500 hours playing it and I feel I would still love it after all the time spent on it.
If we take 2 things like this:
1. community patch is mandatory for this game - it's unfinished without it
2. you do not look at this RPG as "Gothic" game
Then this game is... average.
3/5
Combat controls are bad - and that no patch can change, believe me.
This is the first Gothic game that I played as a mage from the beginning.
Meleee combat is THAT bad, believe me. When I have to play as a mage - it's bad.
Everything else is - meh, average.
But if we compare it with Gothic 2. It's piece of.. well I don't want to swear.
It's one of the worst dissapointments in my life. Piranha Bytes did very bad job.
Very very bad job. After wonderful Gothic 2, this is just... yuck
Take a big breath and play it as "Generic RPG" game - maybe you'll like it like that.
Use magic from the (almost) beginning - you won't regret it.
You will regret it when you unlock best magic late in the game and you won't have anything to kill with it.
Yes, it's a bad game....
It`s the last game of the series and honestly not the best. Bugs, lags, shattered plot without memorable characters and overhelmingly feeling of nothingness in this big world and finally a terrible melee combat (trust me, if you want to play with melee build dont try shitty 1h swords or shields, use 2h weapons with long range). So, my litany of fails is quite long but I really like this game. The best thnig is music and atmosphere of Myrtana, Northmar, Varant and freedom of roaming between them. This game could be great but it`s not. You can clearly see it when you enter to towns, a tons of fedex quests and nothing plot-friendly or interacting with this great universe. Overall i truly recommend this game. It could be a masterpiece but nonetheless you get a solid atmospheric title with your best friends from previous parts of the game and you can make a final decision about destiny of Nameless Hero.
If you would want to be completely unbiased: Gothic 3 still has so many flaws that keep it from being perfect that it could only really get 4 stars.
However I will, as always, give the fifth one for what I believe it can gain if someone really takes a personal liking to the game and sees how ahead of it's time the game actual was - and partly still is.
I can't even describe how well designed the core mechanics to realize a virtual world actually are. Sure, they have aged a lot, never were too in-depth. But in the context of what you can do, how npcs behave and react in all their details - and how you can affect them and the world is actually quite well done even for todays standards.
The game itself is... I think calling it a singleplayer mmo does fit a lot. You can explore, collect, quest, talk, fight very, very much - all to get that sweet progress and reward. It is pretty run-of-the-mill, but the world building and npc dialogues still make it charming and enjoyable. But of course that is a point that is quite a matter of taste. In the same vein a lot of the feature could be praised for existing in a well-served fashion, albeit being used fairly surface-level. There are also some things you may enjoy for what they are, but all in all will objectively be rather "meh" - like the battle system.
Now, I guess every review has to mention how, yes, the game was a disaster back in 2006 (still somehow played through it), but has been patched to be a proper game with some neat qol even.
If there are still bugs or more content you want, you can google for that, as well.
Still, the game will always feel a bit rushed or unfinished at parts, the latter mostly in terms of scrapped locations - it can be improved as mentioned above, but you may always notice it at some points.
That being said, I can't really praise enough how the game still manages to perform so good with what there is. Albeit being a bit aged by now, you certainly can have a lot of fun with it, still.
There is a saying that “if something is perfect, then why change it?” That happened with Gothic 3! While we had the masterpieces Gothic 1 & 2, the developers gambled and tried to copy some successful rpgs games by western studios, but unfortunately failed miserably! Gothic 3 has not the spirit of the previous games, it is just a general-bland RPG game, with poor (main) plot, most npcs were boring and the while the world was very large in many situations if felt uninteresting (quantity vs quality). To make matters worse I was one of the many that played the initial versions of Gothic 3 which was a buggy mess and it felt like torture to play it! Now with all the patches and extra contect it is a good RPG game, (not a good Gothic game) so instead of 2 stars, I put 4
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