Any Gothic (the whole series) fans out there?

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Being an avid RPG fan, of old and new I'm curious about this series, it seems like a marmite game series.

Thing is I tend to like marmite.

I've heard that Gothic 3 with the community patch is cracking, how does it compare to Oblivion in your view?

A summary of your thoughts of the first and second games would be great.

I've heard 4 isn't a *real* Gothic game, but is still decent, but has an almighty bug that can prevent you from completing it, is this still the case?

Any thoughts appreciated :)
 
Gothic 3 is a great game with the community patch and to be honest it needs it, however G3 suffers from stuttering even on high end systems with SSD's. Gothic 3 also has a lot more varied areas than oblivion and better quests !

However if you haven't i'd recommend you play Risen as the first half will blow you away ;)

As for oblivion it's awesome with mods but then it just becomes a fustrating experience of trying to get them all to work together. I prefer gothic 3 as with gothic 3 i can play for hours but oblivion gets uninstalled pretty quickly.

Less said about Gothic 4 the better, oh and they removed Gothic 4 from the expansion because it isn't really a gothic game :(
 
Neil79 said:
Gothic 3 is a great game with the community patch and to be honest it needs it, however G3 suffers from stuttering even on high end systems with SSD's. Gothic 3 also has a lot more varied areas than oblivion and better quests !

However if you haven't i'd recommend you play Risen as the first half will blow you away ;)

As for oblivion it's awesome with mods but then it just becomes a fustrating experience of trying to get them all to work together. I prefer gothic 3 as with gothic 3 i can play for hours but oblivion gets uninstalled pretty quickly.

Less said about Gothic 4 the better, oh and they removed Gothic 4 from the expansion because it isn't really a gothic game :(
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Thanks Neil.

Have you any experience with Gothic 1 and 2?

I really did like Oblivion when it first came out, but find it not worth bothering with now.

Yes, I am looking at the pack, it's £20 on Steam and £30 from the river shop...
 
Lots of experience with 1 and 2, 2 was brilliant and will always have a place in my gaming past :D.

Oh and Gothic 3 Expansion is going to have a complete overhaul soon with a stuttering fix, that's due soon. Probaby just what u need :), so go for Gothic 3 and Gothic 3 Expansion but do not play the expansion till the ehanced edition is ready
 
Neil79 said:
Lots of experience with 1 and 2, 2 was brilliant and will always have a place in my gaming past :D.

Oh and Gothic 3 Expansion is going to have a complete overhaul soon with a stuttering fix, that's due soon. Probaby just what u need :), so go for Gothic 3 and Gothic 3 Expansion but do not play the expansion till the ehanced edition is ready
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Are these all community patches?

Have you got a link to the best(iyo) web site for it?

I just need to finish off Two Worlds II and The Witcher, but my mouse is hovering over the "Add to wishlist" button in Steam for this Gothic pack :)
 
Mr Krugga said:
I only really enjoyed Gothic 1 and 2 (with the expansion pack), and Risen.
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Good to know that Gothic 1 might be worth a bash, I've been watching a couple of videos for Gothic 2 and must admit I like the game world and its diversity from what I've seen.

I've had Risen in my wishlist for eons, never seems to come down in price on Steam, I can get the disk for £12 elsewhere though. I really enjoyed the demo, and almost bought it straight after the demo play through.
 
Paul_cz said:
Gothic 1 is great, Gothic 2 with expansion is amazing, Gothic 3 with community patch is very good, Risen is amazing.
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I've just bought Risen for £8.95 on the strength of your recommendation, if it turns out to be crap, I will hunt you down, I will find you, and I will cast several spells upon you!:)
 
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Paul_cz said:
Gothic 1 is great, Gothic 2 with expansion is amazing, Gothic 3 with community patch is very good, Risen is amazing.
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Exactly my thoughts. Gothic 2 (with the Night of the Raven expansion which integrates into the main game and is not something tacked onto the end) is my favourite RPG of all time. Although quite old now I think it has also aged well.
 
It goes G3 > G2 > Risen > G1 for me. I'm a sucker for openworld games and G3 was best in that aspect. As others have said, with the community patch G3 is a really fun engrossing game. Played it through twice patched up. The others were fun too, but Risen could have been better if it didn't run out of steam just over halfway through as the first two chapters were really good.
 
+1 Risen. Manage to play it maxed out on my laptop (quad core Q9000 and a ati hd4850).

I'm on Chapter 2 and things are looking up for my mage :D (finally got some spells lol) Graphics are very good, quite a lush vibrant world.

Might get Gothic 3 after ive finished it.
 
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