Sure, it was hack-and-slash in some ways, but it was very much an RPG and a wonderful one at that. First and foremost, Oblivion was a fantastic game. Unfortunately, the crystal ball they used has several flaws, distorting reality.
if I could be bothered to continue I'd ignore the story and all the quests and just go wander about and look at stuff as much as I could without having to engage in another ridiculous dialogue with a bland cookie-cutter NPC, quite probably involving the Nameless Hero threatening to kill everyone in sight for not being 110% perfect like him.Before its European release last month, Gothic 3 was envisioned by many as the RPG that Oblivion should have been, the RPG that was touted as the last hope for hardcore RPG fans on the PC. I really don't like to give up so soon because I'm enjoying the atmosphere and the exploration.
Gothic 3 reviews mod#
And what's with the completely nonsensical dialogues, the endless pointless fetch quests and the boring and confusing overarching story? It feels like a very poor quality quest mod made by some 19 year old 'fans' who actually missed the point and really couldn't be bothered writing anything coherent after spending 90% of their time and budget spicing up the graphics a bit and smoking copious amounts of swampweed. what happened to the Nameless Hero to turn him into such a self-righteous opinionated prat? I just want to punch his arrogant face in during nearly every other conversation. The combat is mostly enjoyable and the inventory and maps and quest log are all improved from previous games.īUT. Granted, it does have the same feel and atmosphere of the Gothic & Risen series, and it does look and sound pretty good - the lighting is fairly impressive, especially at night, and the variety and detail of the landscape and foliage is very pleasing. I'm six hours in and I'm ready to call it a day. So Forsaken Gods is the last one of the pack I've ventured into, trying to have an open mind for the Enhanced Edition after reading all the bad press for the original version. I've also completed the first two Risen games, the spiritual successors to the Gothic series, both of whch I thought were very good. I've dabbled with the first two Gothics, nearly completed the third, and trudged through the abomination that was Arcania, which was allegedly Gothic 4.
Gothic 3 reviews series#
Unless you really want to complete every game in a series or something like I did, otherwise don't bother. Even just attempting to follow quest chains is problematic, descriptions are vague and unhelpful, sometimes quest chains just stop dead in their tracks, often they end with an NPC just screaming nonsensical dialogue leaving you to just wander around or worse back and forth between two NPCs in a disgusting display of length padding in order to acquire information that could have been obtained in a single line of dialogue. Anyways, even with a nonsense story and poor combat again it might have been forgiven if the experience itself was something unique but it's not. Even the main character's personality is wildly inconsistent with every other Gothic game, to the point of hilarity, the tone and delivery of some of his lines tip over into pure comedy. The story is nonsense, even more confusing is that it continues itself from a set of what I assume are bad endings from Gothic 3, I have no idea since they are not how I ended that game. It could be forgiven if this was the only thing that degraded in quality but it's not, everything across the board has suffered.
Gothic 3 reviews Patch#
It's hard to imagine but it almost feels like Forsaken Gods managed to make many of the things that made Gothic 3 annoying to play even worse, the combat for example, I don't know whether it's a result of playing Gothic 3 with alternate balancing on and community patch 1.75 installed but combat alone is just a nightmare, beyond what it was previously. Right from the outset, making an expansion to the already heavily flawed game that is Gothic 3 is a problem, the games engine is just as janky as it was previously with little to no improvements being made.
Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods quite easily makes it into the list of the worst games I've ever played.