Well, this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥...

To start this: Don't buy this game if you enjoyed Gothic 1 or 2 or 3, don't buy this game if you liked any other Piranha Bytes game. Don't buy this game if you like RPGs in general. Don't buy this game if you like games at all. Just don't!

I played it after patching it with the latest community patch and I played in german.

The game starts by putting the former hero in a scenario, which is just plain ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. He acts like he never has in the previous game and does just stupid things. Your old friends don't trust you anymore. You lost your reputation.

The missions you do go from farming plants from dead animals to killing the wife of a merchant, because she slept with his best friend.

By accident I found some weird guy, that offered me some armor if I find three parts of metal. I found two of these already while exploring the poorly designed new version of Myrtana. So pretty much new to this world I had the second best armor of them all. Shortly after this I found a sword that made my damage output overpowered as well.
Following the main quests I searched for people without any hints given and escort them around the map. Pretty frustrating!

So I am strong, armored and rich but all I do is courier service.
I played the whole game in 15 hours, felt like I achieved nothing. The story doesn't provide an incentive at all and dosen't make sense after all.

While I had no problem killing hordes of orcs or humans at the same time one single mage could easily destroy me with one or two spells. Not to talk about the "endboss", that I only beat after setting my HP, DEX and STR to 1000 via console after completely titling. Even after cheating I died quite a few times and had no fun at all fighting this boss. And I played through the Gothic 3 main game quite a lot and am pretty good at using the games mechanics and limitations.

So: Stay away from this game and don't even play it when receiving it as a gift. Thank me later!
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[b]Well, this is bullshit...[/b] To start this: Don't buy this game if you enjoyed Gothic 1 or 2 or 3, don't buy this game if you liked any other Piranha Bytes game. Don't buy this game if you like RPGs in general. Don't buy this game if you like games at all. Just don't! I played it after patching it with the latest community patch and I played in german. The game starts by putting the former hero in a scenario, which is just plain bullshit. He acts like he never has in the previous game and does just stupid things. Your old friends don't trust you anymore. You lost your reputation. The missions you do go from farming plants from dead animals to killing the wife of a merchant, because she slept with his best friend. By accident I found some weird guy, that offered me some armor if I find three parts of metal. I found two of these already while exploring the poorly designed new version of Myrtana. So pretty much new to this world I had the second best armor of them all. Shortly after this I found a sword that made my damage output overpowered as well. Following the main quests I searched for people without any hints given and escort them around the map. [i]Pretty frustrating![/i] So I am strong, armored and rich but all I do is courier service. I played the whole game in 15 hours, felt like I achieved nothing. The story doesn't provide an incentive at all and dosen't make sense after all. While I had no problem killing hordes of orcs or humans at the same time one single mage could easily destroy me with one or two spells. Not to talk about the "endboss", that I only beat after setting my HP, DEX and STR to 1000 via console after completely titling. Even after cheating I died quite a few times and had no fun at all fighting this boss. And I played through the Gothic 3 main game quite a lot and am pretty good at using the games mechanics and limitations. [i]So: Stay away from this game and don't even play it when receiving it as a gift. Thank me later![/i] ヽ( ಠ益ಠ )ﾉ