Gothic 3 is underrated

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I remember trying the game out a while ago and picked the game up pre-owned the other day for five pound. I've been playing the game non stop I'm totally addicted to it. It makes Oblivions gameplay feel pants.

I'm playing the game with the update 1.12 and I notice no glitches or bugs that everyone goes on about. The game even runs very smooth on my PC and the graphics are very next gen.

The combat is great a lot of people say it's bugged but they mustn't realise every monster requires a different tactics to defeat it. The only annoying thing is the fact the game seems to read from the harddrive a lot and when the game does this I get little pauses. If it's a virtual memory thing then I guess another 2Gb my prevent it. 4Gb of DDR for a game. lol I guessing it's more of a memory leak.

Saying that the game may be underrated and dislike by many but the Gothic series seems to have one hell of a fan base. I guess it's another marmight game. :D You either love it or hate it. I'd say it's the best single player RPG I've played in years.
 
i played around with it, idea's are good, but too much is flawed with it, lots of kill certain number of whatever type creatures and one of a pack will run off for no reason and not come back. luckily most of them are semi bugged to the point you could check a forum and know exactly where the last retarded creature ran off too.

some fights were fine, but the spamming pretty much destroyed the game, played it without patches IIRC, and gave up aswell. if creatures couldn't spam attack and there were a lot less glitches i think it woulda been a great game.
 
i think the point is, spamming attack works better than anything else. Only played the demo myself though so *shrugs*
 
Surfer said:
hrmm so the combat is fixed then?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVPu7Pw5ius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ST_ON9Xm7Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB36-kRr5jo


spamming attack 4tw! :D
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The reason the person got pwned in them video is because he sucked. Monsters that attack so fast you don't get a hit in and die are killed by keeping them at a distance with your weapon and not allowing them to get to close. I kill them with long swords and BastardSwords very easily.

That's why I say different tactics are used for each enemy. Orcs can be killed easily by dodging a swipe from them then darting in with swipes of your own weapon very fast and then they can't hit you as you preventing them from doing so.

If I suck at a game I never go "It's not my fault" and blame it on glitches.

It reminds me of when kids play games and go "GOD DAM THIS GAMES CHEATING".
 
I got this around Christmas time, but made a rather elementary mistake. I got it at the same time as Neverwinter Nights 2, Marvel Ultimate Alliance and the FEAR expansion. NWN2 and FEAR got played, Marvel and Gothic3 have been put on the backburner. Mind you, one day I'll trawl through my games and give a cheer :)

I did load it up, but it was a bit chunky and combat felt awkward. I have a reasonably powered machine (E6400 and X1800XT) so I was a little surprised. Can't recall which patch I used though.

By the time I get around to it again (WoW :(), I'm sure there will be hundreds of patches out :)
 
Gothic 2 was the same - unplayable until a year after release when most the bugs had been addressed. Tried 3 again the other day and its still stuttering at very low graphic options.

As for the post saying the combat was not glitched - he must be joking. Before the patches wild boars nearly always killed you if they got a hit in. With the stun a hit gives you, you never had time to do anything. You just watch as a weak creature kills you. The patches so far has addressed that, but will try it again in a few months hoping they will sort the stuttering.
 
I've been trying to play it, just the other day, and I like it and hate it at the same time. The game appears pretty solid underneath, but damned the graphics are buggy.

Trying to get it to run 1680x1050 with decent settings is like trying to run the marathon without stopping, whilst running over molasses.
 
Played it - loved it - tweaked it, played it, couldn't put it down!

Just giving it a little rest then I'll go back and play it as the 'bad guy'! You are spot on - completely underated - unfortunately the initial release was buggy as hell and poorly optimised which put a lot of people off - real shame as when it works well it's awesome (yes I thought it was far better than Oblivion)

I loved the fact that with the Gothic series it's not just the character that improves, but as the gamer you improve as well. I really like the fact that each monster requires a different tactic to beat. When you become a mighty hunter you can bring down dangerous beasts - not by wading in with +50 armour and a sword of ista-gib, but because you've learned their weakness. (And if you mess it up you get pwned - even when you think you're great :p )

The quests were engaging and varied. The different areas are as varied as their population.

Awesome game, but like the X3's of this world you only get out what you put in - and that prevents a lot of people from making it 'over the hump'

For those of you with performance issues - have a look on the JoWood Forum - the technical forum covers everything you need and will make all the difference!
 
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Yeah, the forums help, unfortunately little on there get rid of the large amounts of stutteryness, just help it. I really think this game could STILL be great (re-reviews etc) as it looks great, and the game underneath seems pretty solid, but it really really needs an engine optimisation and bug fixing patch. It should not be stuttering on pcs like mine in siggy, and its not really right that for decent performance you pretty much HAVE to tweak the ini.
 
What Hard Drive are you running - stuttering usually means a disk problem - because the levels are completely seamless it puts a massive strain on your drives - worth thinking about how you've got them set out - basic house keeping and even adding an extra for some Raid 0 goodness - people are forever upgrading their GFX cards for the latest games - finally the humble HDD gets a look in :D
 
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