Gothic 3

Don't be fooled by people saying it's great game. It is not. RPG game but with no good story? With terrible characters and quests being ALL simply go and take/kill missions? So maybe good fighting? Nope. As terrible as it can be. Even with max lvl lonely wolf can kill you with ease because of unstoppable combo. Animals are much bigger treat than most powerful orc warrior. What is great? Beautiful world and really great music. That's all. And even that world feel bad as cites are simply copy and paste locations with no climate, with no background stories, no lore at all. And so called old ruins. Same everywhere... Pros: +music +world (beside cities) Cons: -fighting -story (no story) -quest (mmo like) Worth trying? Well, maybe. Honestly I don't regret travelling trough that beautiful world. As a walking game to relax you can try it. BTW community patch is a must have but it is NOT a savoir. It makes fighting with groups of enemies very hard as they constantly blocking all your attacks.

this is what happens when you rush a Game dont try playing this without patch 1.74 and the other Mods its buggy as hell and down right brocken.... shame :/

I love this game. The graphics are aging but the story and gameplay are excellent. Also, the dev console codes/cheats allow more replay enjoyment - once you understand a couple things: To give yourself Coins: give It_Gold x x is the number of Coins (gold/money) you want added to your inventory. Some of the keyboard keys have different assignments in the G3 console: the hyphen key '-' is swapped with the forward slash key '/' so you have to type SHIFT+/ to get an underscore '_' in the console. the letters 'y' and 'z' are also swapped. Reference: http://www.worldofgothic.com/gothic3/?go=g3insert_trinkets To get the dev console while in-game, you have to edit the ge3.ini file (at your own risk) line from 'TestMode=false' to 'TestMode=true'. Path: [Game Folder]\ini\ge3.ini

The game is really good, I even think its better than Gothic 2, which is the holiest title from the series which everyone seems to worship. Gothic has always been about exploration of its massive sprawling game-world, with the story, dialog and quests having always been something I would never considered to be remarkable among the series. Yet these are the exact things criticized in Gothic 3, with little to no consideration giving to this games superior and massive world-design. I find this to be somewhat silly. The world of Gothic 3 is quite literally among the best of all RPGs. However the areas which you start in are not too impressive. I suppose this can be discouraging to perfectionists. You must venture out further into the world to truly appreciate it. The landscape is phenomenal, and always offers something new to discover. I would even consider the overall experience to be better than Skyrim. Yet coincidentally, both Gothic 3 and Skyrim share many similarities. Most of which were original to Gothic 3. For example, Gothic 3 was the first 3D-RPG you could hunt wild animals such as deer, it was also the first to offer arbitrary interactions with certain objects in the world which would allow you to chop wood, or rotate a roasting pig over the flame, or sweep a floor, or mine ore from a cave. This game also seems to be the first RPG with crafting stations you could interact with. Really quite remarkable to think all these things were done 5 years before the release of Skyrim. Yet many seem to forget this. The criticism for this game is certainly legitimate. The quests seem to be a just little more generic than its predecessors but nothing is a deal breaker for me. The actual game-world more than compensates for this. I believe many people are overacting here. There are of course other things which seem to be designed poorly. The character models and animations in particular are also quite ugly. But again I am personally not too discouraged by this

Playing in 2024 with the fan made community patch, update packs, parallel universe and union plus installer makes gothic 3 a great experience. Melee combat can be frustrating at the beginning but you can really feel the progression once you level up a bit and learn the timings. Soundtrack absolutely nails it in this game.