Gothic® 3

good game!

Very underrated chapter of gothic . shame i didnt play it before because people everywhere saying its "very bad and before was better" actually for how much i played its enough to say its good ... its just different in first and second gothic you play your own game and do quests for money and items but in gothic 3 you do quests for money/items AND fractions - you are playing double agent for rebes or orcs and trying to gain reputation for each city and fraction by doing favors and quests for orcs or rebels etc. Im playing with latest community patch ofc and alternative ballance and optimiaztion so i dont have lags and freezes like it was before in 2006 ... maybe thats reason noone liked it before (i remember i installed it 2008 and it was so much lags that i couldnt stand it and deleted it ) But now its great game with all patches

Buy it, Go to Click4Gameplay's YT channel and mod it if you want to enjoy one of the best RPG's ever created

It`s Gothic. Not as atmospheric as the second one but with the community patch gets there.
Best series ever made imo.

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Best game I ever played fr

It is an amazing game that lets you explore and enjoy the world.

This game comes from STEAM ver. 1.60. You have to download patch 1.75 to play this game properly.
Then everything is ok. This is hunting simulator mostly with lots of quest to do from which some of them are funny :)

Doesn't work, even after reloading I was unable to move or draw a weapon

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Still an awesome game. Bought orginially on DVDs and again on steam. Still fun to play.

u cant play this game without cheats , combat system very unbalanced and the story line is very bad , big disappointment , you better go and play gothic 1 and 2 or wait for the gothic 1 remake

Combat system is total crap. Clunky as shit. At least the sound and graphics are nice.

Back then it was good stuff, now it's hard to swallow. It's more of a nostalgic title.

HELLO THIS GAME IS SHIT BECAUSE I CANT PLAY ITS SO DIFFICULT FOR ME

One of my favorite games. Sometimes i just want to hop in, level mage and clean the map like im playing some MMO.

It's unplayable without mods (fan patch + parallel universe + ini tweaks to increase distance view), but they are fairly easy to install (or just get a torrent/gog version and put it into game folder).

ok, i have a few stories for better understanding what you will deal with

CASE #1

I, with my loser hero who gets beaten senseless by various fantasy ostriches and wild boars, embarked on a journey across different locations. Given that I couldn't adapt to this utterly broken combat system with its strange timings and hitboxes, I carried a sword more for intimidation than actual fighting. The only skills I upgraded were lockpicking and pickpocketing, and the only weapon I could somewhat handle was my bow (because archery was the only thing that more or less worked, if you don't count fireballs and rain of fire).

After picking up some quests from Montera, I stumbled upon a small orc outpost nearby. The local orc, even while calling me underdeveloped, was enough nice to me and advised not to wander near the castle that was close to the outpost.
The castle was called Gotha , and it was either inhabited by some ancient evil or cursed—who knows. But one thing was certain: there was a lot of gold and chests there, just waiting to be looted. Stealing was second nature to me, and since the entire guard of Cal-Dun was already chasing after me for looting their warehouses and homes, I decided—no one would bother punishing me for robbing Gotha , isn't?
Besides, curiosity always got the better of me in games like this.

Near the walls of the cursed city was a cave, and I bravely rushed into it. And stumbled upon an army of undead. Dealing with zombies was easy—they were slow, so I just ran away, shooting with arrows, ran away, shooting etc until they fell to the ground with that broken ragdolls. But skeletons were tougher—arrows didn’t affect them at all, which meant I had to fight with a sword... in which I was a complete fucknut.

Panicked, I started running through the tunnels, only making things worse as more and more undead chased after me. Wounded, I barely managed to escape the caves with an army of undead on my tail. So I couldn't think of anything better than leading them straight to the orc outpost.

A very, very long battle ensued between the orcs and the undead. Idk if orcs was happy with my gift, but what bothered me the most was that I wouldn’t get any of the experience points for the killed monsters, as the orcs would do all the work. So, like a rat, I ran up behind each skeleton and finished them off.

Thus, I lured out the entire castle’s inhabitants, even a giant winged demon, which the orcs took on... or rather, onto whom I lured him so I could attack him from behind. For this, I gained a ton of experience and completed quests I hadn’t even taken. On top of that, I looted the demon and found some secret artifact, which turned out to be one of five that you need to finish the game .
Even more:
After clearing the caves, I accidentally found a teleport stone to a plot-critical location that you need to reach near the end of the game. And thats it?
Nope.
Then, when I stumbled upon the rebel base a long time after this, they showered me with gold for freeing Gotha , and they settled there themselves. Roaming around the restored Gotha , I saw that the orc outpost had been cleaned out by humans, and I thought about looting it. But instead, I found a orc prison and in prison was... the dimwitted, medieval defective Bruce Lee of this universe, butthole in knight armor, motherfucking Gorn.
Last time i saw him before that he leaving the village at the begining of the game with words: i need check it out, no worry, 5 min, lads
What proves me, for third time now, that he is stil the most useless mercenary piece of shit in entire series.
He failed again. And even resistance clear out the orc outpost dont wanna release him
Bravo, Gorn, what a legend

And that’s, ladies and gentlemen, was just one damn city.

CASE #2

I fought in the arena in a desert city. And two champions were sent against me at once. Considering that I hated the combat system up until the final credits, I couldn’t handle these two morons. According to the rules, the arena should have pure man-to-man sword fights, without some kind of fucking Houdini stuff like magic or bows. But I just couldn’t make it work.
After maybe 15 fucking tries I just tossing an innocent little fireball on that assholes. And... it worked. Threw another one—great, still working.

After killing one of the opponents, the arena quest failed. Ah, I realized— KILLING with magic wasn’t allowed, but USING it was. By the sixth attempt, I figured out the exact number of fireballs I needed to leave the champions with just enough HP so that a light sword strike would knock them out.

And that’s how I won. Leaving the arena happy, I went to the arena manager for my gold. And... then the spectators of the fight attacked me.
Ah, so USING magic wasn’t allowed here after all. After knocking out one, two more came running at me, and so on. The weirdest part was that I litterally dying around 20 times from those two champions just 2 minutes ago, and now in panic, I was flailing my sword at angry fat merchants and blacksmiths like its nothing.
But there was more and more and more of them, i was scared that all city will avenge me for breaking rules of arena fights.
I saved.
Close the game.
In the next day i load it.
And...everything was ok.
Yep, it was 12 unconscious bodies, but they...forget about i beat them up?

And after knocking out at least 12 people and drinking a lot of health potions, I finally made it to the arena manager and got my gold not losing a reputation.

CASE #3

I found in Nordmar (the final and hardest location in the game) the only dark troll in the entire game. After a long and grueling battle, I killed him. Opening the "inventory" of the dark troll, I expected to find his hide to sell...
Nope.
There was a shovel.
Just a fucking shovel.
Inside him.
...

I think that sums up Gothic 3. The fact that I completed it is a miracle.

It’s unfinished, unpolished, and full of bugs. It’s... awful.
But still its generates stories or just create that "great adventure" aura around.

Piranha Bytes didn’t disappoint and delivered one of the worst combat systems I’ve ever dealt with.
There are plenty of fetch quests like "collect 10 *whatever*" or kill 10 monsters. The game quests feels like some average early 2000s MMO.
By halfway through the game, you realize that the loot in the chests is utter garbage and not worth the hours spent fighting mobs.
When you get your hands on magic like fireballs, the game breaks, and all swords, halberds, bows, and crossbows become irrelevant. Moreover, in the last 30% of the game, I didn’t use them at all.

The music is good, but this damn battle brass every fucking single time a fight starts drives me insane. The same melody for every battle, of which there are hundreds.

But I still completed it. Why, I don’t know. I unlocked all the locations and gathered all the teleport stones, collected all the Adanos artifacts and 12 chalices... and I still don’t know why. Maybe I’m a masochist. Maybe I’m an idiot. But I completed it.

If I could leave a review that’s neither negative nor positive, but mixed, I would.

The game was too big and ambitious for 25 German nerd developers, their publisher was garbage, and they had too little time to develop it. They even made one of the endings (which, by the way, is canonical) with a walk into the forest with Xardas and a black screen with "to be continued" because they simply didn’t have time to finish that ending.

But I won’t be too harsh, I’ll give it a plus.

It has its own charm.
I like the exploration and the atmosphere.
I like to complete the quest BEFORE I take it.
The feeling of the great adventure like in first two games is here too.
And... I like to abuse the broken mechanics, thing that all Gothic series are based on.

It’s really only for a niche audience.

Amazing game with awesome atmosphere.

Where Guru

abysmal dogshit that no amount of mods can fix

Fun game but more bugs than the Amazon. Thought Germans did it with precision.

I love this game. Check out the mods on youtube for the enhanced experience. C4G has a good tutorial for mods.

Been played this game years ago and restarted last month, Still enjoy the game. But make sure you got the patch before getting all exited