Should i get this version or Forsaken Gods?

[Dracula]

Never played Gothic 3 or any Gothic game for that matter.
I have played Risen 1 and Elex 1 and i enjoyed them very much,so i'm familiar with some of Piranha Bytes work.
I was watching this youtuber/streamer Sinatar (RIP) playing this game and i kind of liked it,the soundtrack is very beautiful and the graphics looked pretty good,considering how old the game is.
From reading the description of both games it seems that on paper Forsaken Gods is the superior version due to the revised gameplay and improved graphics but after reading some user reviews i'm not sure.

[kris.aalst]

Er... Forsaken Gods is utter crap. For more details confirming this statement, just use Google or whatever internet search engine you prefer.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Forsaken Gods is not a "version" of Gothic 3, but a separate game made by separate developers. It's been one of ex-publisher JoWood's attempts at squeezing something out of the Gothic IP by giving away Piranha Bytes' Genome engine and Gothic 3 assets to external developers in order to have them create more Gothic content.

[Oneeyed]

Originally posted by Morgott:

Never played Gothic 3 or any Gothic game for that matter.
I have played Risen 1 and Elex 1 and i enjoyed them very much,so i'm familiar with some of Piranha Bytes work.
I was watching this youtuber/streamer Sinatar (RIP) playing this game and i kind of liked it,the soundtrack is very beautiful and the graphics looked pretty good,considering how old the game is.
From reading the description of both games it seems that on paper Forsaken Gods is the superior version due to the revised gameplay and improved graphics but after reading some user reviews i'm not sure.

Please no. If you want to play Gothic 3 then buy Gothic 3. Forsaken Gods has just the title Gothic 3 in it too but is a different game which is the worst crap ever - besides ArcanIa A gothic tale.

[Slayni]

Both.

[Stormmaster]

If you want to play Gothic 3, play Gothic 3. I highly recommend Community Patch for bug fixing and Parallel Universe Patch for engine optimisations (reduces loading time, removes stuttering).

Forsaken Gods is just a waste of time in my opinion. I had a "pleasure" of playing it back when it was released (I bought a retail DVD). It was buggy as hell (even more buggy than original Gothic 3 before patches), optimisation was horrible, graphics were more "technical" on paper, but looked worse. I don't remember how much I played it, but not much. I don't remember anything about the plot, other than it was very questionable from common sense perspective sequel to Gothic 3. And I've never played it ever since. So when Gothic 3 got released on Steam, it felt obvious why it was normal version and not the Forsaken Gods. Better stay away from it, play real Gothic 3.

[kris.aalst]

Originally posted by Stormmaster:

Forsaken Gods is just a waste of time in my opinion. I had a "pleasure" of playing it back when it was released (I bought a retail DVD). It was buggy as hell (even more buggy than original Gothic 3 before patches), optimisation was horrible, graphics were more "technical" on paper, but looked worse. I don't remember how much I played it, but not much.

Yeah, I had that same 'pleasure'. I do remember how far I played this atrocity: up until a main quest NPC went missing. I used the console to teleport me to him and I found myself somewhere in a 'limbo' environment where a lot of NPCs were just 'parked', either because they were no longer needed in the game or because they were supposed to appear later on.

A bit of googling told me it was a very common bug and most likely it wouldn't be the last gamebreaking bug I'd encounter, on top of the numerous small bugs (and let's not forget a completely different personality for the nameless protagonist) so I quit and never looked back.

[Dracula]

Originally posted by Stormmaster:

If you want to play Gothic 3, play Gothic 3. I highly recommend Community Patch for bug fixing and Parallel Universe Patch for engine optimisations (reduces loading time, removes stuttering).

Forsaken Gods is just a waste of time in my opinion. I had a "pleasure" of playing it back when it was released (I bought a retail DVD). It was buggy as hell (even more buggy than original Gothic 3 before patches), optimisation was horrible, graphics were more "technical" on paper, but looked worse. I don't remember how much I played it, but not much. I don't remember anything about the plot, other than it was very questionable from common sense perspective sequel to Gothic 3. And I've never played it ever since. So when Gothic 3 got released on Steam, it felt obvious why it was normal version and not the Forsaken Gods. Better stay away from it, play real Gothic 3.

Thanks for the advice,i've decided to buy the og version.

[Stormmaster]

Also the Gothic Universe package on Steam consists of Gothic 1, Gothic 2 Gold Edition and Gothic 3. Without any extra rubbish. Was a great buy for me, especially because iirc Gothic 1 wasn't available separately back then, and I specifically wanted to have G1 and G2 on Steam.