PC User Reviews

Terrible game Positive: - Music Negatives: - Stupid quests - Stupid dialogues - Completely different attitude of the main character - Inconsistent with the story - A lot of bugs 2/10

I firstly played this game four years ago and it was a disaster-robbed version of GOTHIC 3 with a lot of bugs and fool quests sometimes but still I finished it, Now I bought it again in ENHANCED EDITION and many things changed, The game graphics is greatly improved, Stability is very nice, No bugs at all and it looks like a solid data disc for perfect game, The group which repaired the game did very good job here - 8/10

Game for the premiere time was unplayable. After patching game is ok and the general game quality is similar to base Gothic 3. Story is not very intersting

This datadisc was a disaster. I usually finish all my games, but this datadisc was so stupid and buggy that I had to uninstall it. Real garbage.

Vorab: Die 5 Punkte nur dank der offiziellen Enhanced Editon und der Content Mod. Ohne diese verdient das Spiel höchstens 3 Punkte. Offiziell endet die Gothic Saga mit Gothic III (so zumindest die Aussage des original Entwicklers der Serie: Piranha Bytes). Aber das hielt den Publisher Jowood nicht davon ab, die Gothic Kuh mit einem neuen Entwickler weiter zu melken. Das Resultat sind Gothic III: Götterdämmerung und Arcania. Für die Fans der Reihe gehören diese beiden Spiele nicht mehr zur Lore und das aus gutem Grund. Bei Götterdämmerung wurde ein absurdes Spiel geboten, unspielbar in seiner Ursprungsform (Quests nicht abschließbar, Abstürze und fehlerhafte Übersetzungen) und verwirrend im Spieldesign. Doch die Gothic Community wäre nicht die Gothic Community, wenn sie nicht dafür eine Lösung hätte. Einige Modder haben das Spiel doch tatsächlich spielbar gemacht und zwar mit der (mittlerweile offiziellen) Enhanced Edition und einer Content Mod. Ich habe mich dazu überwunden es zu Ehren der Modder einmal durchzuspielen (Spielzeit circa 20 Stunden) und muss sagen es war wirklich verblüffend. Verglichen mit dem original Spiel vom Release ein völlig anderes Erlebnis. Keine Bugs, Quests werden erklärt, neue Waffen, keine Abstürze oder falsch übersetzte Dialoge. Man muss allerdings sagen es bleibt trotzdem noch Götterdämmerung, ein Addon ohne wirkliche Neuerungen. Keine neuen Perks, keine neue Spielwelt (dafür eine überarbeitete Gothic 3 Map ohne Nordmar/ Varant) und kaum neue Items (und wenn dann sind diese Großteils von den Moddern erstellt). Die Quests sind zudem verwirrend, Dialoge viel zu kurz und die Hauptstory sehr fragwürdig. Fazit: Wer das Spiel als eine große Gothic 3 Mod sieht (dank Enhanced Edition und Content Mod) kann durchaus Spaß haben. Als eigenständiges Spiel fällt es durch und ist ein Schandfleck der Gothic Reihe - die aber zum Glück mit Gothic III endet.

This game makes me angry, it's the weakest entry in the series, doesn't respect lore and is buggy as seven hells.

Tiens, une fois n'est pas coutume, j'alais épingler et clouer au pilori, rouer et pour finir (en beauté) empaler le bien connu développeur Piranha Bytes (avant de le jeter à la vindicte populaire afin qu'elle démembre ce qui reste...) pour cette chose nommée "Gothic III Forsaken Gods" qui se prétend "jeu vidéo" de son bien triste état... Eh bien, non, pour une fois, ce n'est pas de leur faute, ils n'y sont pour rien... c'est en effet une autre bande de cons qui s'est occupé de ce Gothic et ma foi, ils ont dépassé leur "maître"... j'ai rarement vu un tel étron technique qui rame comme un porc sur une carte graphique de 2015 (R9 380) et pourtant il s'agit d'un "jeu" de 2008 ! pour situer les choses, Dragon Age Origins de 2009 tournait comme un charme avec une "simple" 6870 ! c'est ce qui sépare un développeur triple A d'un branque Z--- (Z triple moins) je suppose ! Le plus effarant, c'est que ça tourne toujours comme une patate (y compris en... 720p !) après l'application d'un gros patch (pour l'époque) d'1,5 Go, boulotté par un autre studio censé améliorer la "performance" (et corriger les bugs !) de cette bouse, d'où l'appellation "Enhanced Edition". Le patch daterait de 2011 et depuis plus rien, car de toute façon, un étron reste un étron, inutile de le polir et le repolir, ça reste de la merde ! Mais pire que les saccades permanentes, c'est le jeu entier qui est de toute façon injouable puisqu'il se passe au ralenti avec une latence incroyable dans les commandes comme si on jouait à un jeu Stadia ou PSNow ! il faut le voir pour le croire ou plutôt ne pas le voir, car ça n'en vaut pas la peine... De toute manière, le jeu reste un "Gothic", c'est-à-dire une sorte de soit-disant "jeu de rôle" très psycho-rigide dont la difficulté bien tarée et l'injouabilité sont légendaires. On donne deux coups d'épée, on est déjà "fatigué", les combats sont complètement foireux et l'interface, la présentation générale sont sévèrement, dramatiquement, lamentablement à la masse. Quand elles ne sont pas à l'ouest. Autre exemple frappant s'il en est et hallucinant avec le simple fait suivant : sortez votre épée au début du jeu dans le village et une meute de villageois se précipitent pour vous botter le cul aussi sec ! le monde ouvert (bien moche de surcroît !) est très générique, fade et perclus de clichés usés jusqu'à la corde. On ne va pas s'appesantir davantage sur cette daube qui figure d'ores et déjà dans le Guinness des pires daubes jamais démoulées ici et là : la poubelle attend...

The single worst computer game I have ever played, which is a bold but accurate statement. Forsaken Gods was made by an Indian games company after they bought the rights to the Gothic franchise, so don't blame the original Gothic developers for how bad this steaming pile turned out. It completely ignores all of the Gothic series lore, taking the story to places it should never have gone. I would not recommend playing this game even if someone paid you to do it.

Somehow never played this before despite being a Gothic fan. So fantastically bad :D A third of the big world from Gothic 3 (so still a sizeable world) copied in, but with like 80% unnamed NPCs, only a bunch of really really bad quests (Skyrim ones look like high art next to this), the worst dialogue writing I've ever heard in any game, horribly imbalanced combat, and not much goodness at all :D But I kinda enjoyed the overall atmosphere (which is just Gothic 3 copycat), because I spent quite a lot of time playing that game as a kid. Still, 100% forgettable and a total waste of time until you're a moron completionist like me.

I thought that there can't be anything worse than Gothic 3 and boy, was I wrong. Graphics is for some reason much uglier, everything looks plastic and unnatural. Quests are even more horrible than in G3, dialogues are unimaginably crappy, typical dialogue goes like this: -"Hey, I have a quest for you. Find my sword." "Fine, I'll do it" (after finding sword) "I found your sword." - "Thank you." Combat is horrible, because it's the same clickfest from G3 but limited by your stamina. If stamina is at 0, the only thing one can do is run. Typical fight: click, click, click, click, click - run in circle like an idiot, waiting for until stamina increases - click, click, click, click - wait until stamina.... The world is empty and besides main quest there's basically nothing to do. It is completely normal to go through huge forest and not encounter a one single enemy or anything interesting. The ONLY GOOD thing about this game is that it wasn't developed by Piranha Bytes, because any developer who develops such a horrible, horrible abomination deserve to play it in hell for eternity.

No words. Maybe it has few good ideas for storyline and quests but even without bugs and errors Forsaken Gods is only for hardcore fans of Gothic 3. The big, rich world of Myrtana is now boring and almost empty, voice acting souns extremely forced and also lack of Varant and Nordmar hurts. Hate to admit it but this is just a waste of money and time.

I bought this thinking it was Gothic 3 + an expansion, but it turns out it was just the stand alone ''Forsaken Gods'' expansion.. Where to start.. the game as a whole feels like an RPG full of clichés with nothing new to offer, the voice acting is horrible, especially the main character, the script isn't better and the story is god forsakenly awful. Get it ?? The only thing I enjoy in the game right now is the nice scenery and graphics and sometimes a little of the fighting game play. I paid 2 $ for the game and wouldn't wish it on anyone, good day !

Very similar play to Gothic 3 (no surprise). Game save/load times are greatly decresed from Gothic 3. However, there are gamebreaking bugs (such as certain characters being absent from their designated areas) that can occur even at the beginning, yet won't be know until being hours into the game. For my example I was missing Gorn. The only preventative measure to this issue is to literally run to every city and check if all the required main questline characters are there, and this is time consuming/challenging at best. The game would range around an 8 for overall playability for me, but given that the missing character issue ruined 40+ hours of game time (I like to take my time and do all the available quests in each area. Plus I restarted the game a 2nd time to start over and did it again in a streamlined way before I discovered the character was missing and I just hadn't done something wrong (I try to play w/o guides and hints when I play). The issue was actually bad enough I couldn't complete the game (and kept reappearing despite repeated installs) so the score is halved.

There is very little that needs to be said about this. IT DOESN"T WORK. I bought this in late 2012. Installed it and tried to play. Couldn't so anything and it CRASHED. So four years after release the developers never fixed this garbage, but Steam still sells it. This is not a game, its a FRAUD! AVOID at all costs! May I remind you that 5/10 in my present scale is truly a 0/10 according to standard reckoning. Even respect for the process of game design cannot extend when a game is as fundamentally broken as this. THE GROT REVIEW CRITERIA: After a long time writing reviews like an anus, think its time to set a few bad habits straight: Stop insulting designers. Show some respect for the design process and getting games in circulation. Hence (1) No Red scores. (2) Game scores as follows: Bad Game 5/10. Poor Game 6/10. Mediocre Game: 7/10. Good Game 8/10. Great game 9/10. Stella Game 10/10. To get 10/10 it must be a game that can be (theoretically) play-able for 1000+ hours. Not only great but near endless fun. Games may be bad or poor but making them should earn respect. Thus even the worst POS will still be a 5/10. 0/10 no longer exists in my vocabulary. Yellow is the new red. For the sake of accountability: you can reply if needed: Orctowngrot: Tim Rawlins: ****

My review is based on the Enhanced Edition from Steam. I just finished playing Forsaken Gods and honestly I did not find that many bugs if any noteworthy ones. I play games for the Gameplay and the story and I played Gothic 3, so to finally after many years, to buy the standalone expansion was a must. I cannot understand the low score people give this game, but I guess most of it is based on the original edition and not the Enhanced one. If you like me loved the game and the story of Gothic 3 and even the Gothic Saga, then do not cheat yourself out of this experience. Forsaken Gods is the final link between Gothic 3 and Gothic 4. Just make sure you get the Enhanced Edition, then you should be flying. vanAndesen

Im not gonna say its the worst game in the series, because i dont even consider it as a part of the glorious Gothic franchise. Im gonna say though that its one of the worst games ever made. Im giving it a 0 due to the amount of bugs, which might make the game LITERALLY unplayable. If you even get this thing to work, you might not even be able to beat it, because the quests and NPCs are bugged. Even if they ever fix the bugs, it still has terrible gameplay, story, art design, everyhing. Its just a failure.

First and foremost. I am an avid fan of the Gothic universe. I love all of the games... except this one. MORE bugs that require the download of a 1.5GB community patch, the dialogue is HORRIBLE, the voice actors are amateurs who did not take the time to put an effort into their emotions, the main story as well as the side quests lack any sort of direction and are entirely redundant and not very well planned or written. Aside from NPC's and Quests; there is hardly any new gear. This game is a disgrace to Gothic overall and shames Dreamcatcher/JoWood. THANK GOD Piranha-Bytes had nothing to do with it as it would have further tarnished their reputation after JoWood FORCED them to release Gothic III when it wasn't ready. BOTTOM LINE: Not worth your time, or money. If you want to give it a go, look at more of these reviews or go find it somewhere for free, but don't waste a single penny on this shabby attempt at a Gothic game, I'm stripping it from my library as a Gothic game, all the others are fine but I'm not even going to bother to sell this excuse for a game, it's going straight into the trash.

I actually really liked it in its present state now that it's been patched a lot. Freeing Orc held towns is great fun. It's also huge (probably where they went wrong in being too ambitious). Still got a lot of bugs but I could get round them. Certainly gave me a lot of fun for a long time.

Piranha dumped JoWood because they blamed them for a buggy game. However, on my Alienware Desktop that I ordered last year (2010), Forsaken Gods crashes non-stop in the first 5 minutes. No matter what I do, it will not run. However, the original Gothic 3 runs okay. Bugs taken into account, I am glad I got this as a bundle for $5 with all existing Gothic Games on steam. Gothic 1 is great. Gothic 4 is definitely fun. Other than that, I would avoid the other Gothic games all together. Piranha thought they were improving on a buggy game, but ended up creating a worse one by changing things and adding more bugs. This game is simply non-playable.