Gothic 3
Main game
3.32 average rating based on 347 ratings
- Developers
- Piranha Bytes
- Publishers
- Aspyr Media, Deep Silver, DreamCatcher Interactive, JoWooD Productions Software, Nordic Games Publishing
- Series
- Gothic
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Genres
- Adventure, Role-playing (RPG)
- Themes
- Action, Fantasy, Open world, Sandbox
- Steam
- View on Steam
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I can't call it Gothic.
This review is for the PC (Microsoft Windows) version
If you apply some patches, if you turn a blind eye on the combat system (which can be really hard). Yeah, it still has rubbish optimization. It's a really good RPG with amazing open world, amazing soundtrack and good hero growth. Glitched but still very good game. I would tell the game has most beautiful map from all Gothic Saga. Too bad that JoWood wanted to compete with Oblivion back then and rushed the release.
I finally finished Gothic 3 and on a very high note.
It has its flaws, but it brings the series to a worthy ending and I had 104 hours playtime in which the game consistently grew on me. Yes it has problems (save often!) and is still unplayble without community patches, but it also made it into my "Best 100 shelf".
When it comes to a huge handcrafted world with handplaced loot and endless freedom, there is nothing alike. The desert is not my favorite setting, but the other two beautiful and huge environments made more than up for that. It is more that a desert isn't as interesting to look at as other environments. I have yet to play a game with focus on exploring that made a desert fun without cars and even with a car its samy.
Bye, bye, Xardas, bye, bye Myrthana.
Canada is on fire, the US is now in a heatwave (heat dome?) and here in southern Germany we are getting 37°C (98,6 F) today, in a country without air conditioning.
Please stay safe and keep yourself and your gaming equipment cool!
I decided to leave the desert in Gothic 3 and travel to Nordmar, so I can at least see some ice and snow when my attic apartment starts to feel like an oven. Fortunately, my laptop stays relatively cool with this old game, but I have a cooling pad at the ready. Two, actually, one for me and one for my laptop.
Finally reached the desert in Gothic 3 (~55 hours in). They did a good job in making it into a real desert:
But for a guy that has to walk everywhere at least once to get a tiny bit of fast travel and coming from the rich environment before, it is a bit boring to walk through sand forever.
They tried to make up for it with music and sound and overall I am still enjoying my time in the game, but it is my least favorite environment in the Gothic series so far. I haven't seen Nordmar yet, though.
When you can play the first and second games in a series straight out of the box, and the third has you jumping through all sorts of loops to finally have a game that wants to start, allows you to move around, and loads the correct language version... it's just bad.
On top of that, the combat system is even more annoying, not because the combat is worse than in the previous games, but because they decided, for some reason I don't understand, that a character should run slower uphill than downhill, and now if you're fighting an enemy on a hill and the enemy is on a lower level than you, you're just doomed, and I don't mean visibly lower, just a tiny bit lower can make the difference.
Everything that makes the series great for me is still there, but technically it is a big downgrade. Why, just why?