Heresiarch
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- Mar 8, 2008
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Gothic 3, with patch 1.6 installed, harddrive defragged, latest drivers installed etc. This game is just bringing me severe headache. This is one grand example how a game with interesting concept and design can get ruined (at least scarred) by awful execution.
The first thing is its engine is simply awful. I've a decent PC, e6300 (OC'ed), HD 3850 with 512mb vram, and 2G of ram. I can play other sandbox games like Oblivion and Two Worlds very smoothly. The FPS during G3 gameplay is excellent, but the stuttering while moving around is horrible, my HDD reads like crazy for every 30 steps I made, and the stuttering not only occurs during wilderness, but also in caves and cities and during combat!
Next thing is the combat. Oh my god, I've already read a lot how awful the combat of G3 is, and my initial thought was "huh, click-fest doesn't bother me", "I can handle G1's combat, why not G3?" and "duh, you guyz don't have skilz". But after playing the game myself, I just realized that when both the bad sides of button-mashing combat and Oblivion-ish tactical combat are mixed together, you get the brilliant spawn of G3 combat.
I mean WTF, you can stun lock any human enemy till the end, animals can stun lock you to death with attacks more rapid and faster than smashing the light punch key in Street Fighter or King of Fighters, and big fat ogres can dodge your attacks like WOW rogues while rapidly swing their big hammers faster than said rogues wielding daggers.
Last but not the least, the loading times. I'm one of the few person who can tolerate the long loading time in the unpatched Witcher, even though during Witcher it takes at most 10 seconds for me to load the biggest map. But G3? Guess what, when I decide to load a game, I would turn on my PSP, play a Kirin training mission, to wait out the ultra long loading time. And thanks to the fantastic combat, I die a lot to all those crazy rapid comboes, so I need to load a lot too.
There are other quirks I would like to mention like the horribly horrible voice acting (humanoids screaming sound like being ass raped), bugs (people spawning underground, over the walls, etc), and others. But the technical problems and the combat is what really kills the game for me.
I mean seriously, the game looks good, the scenery looks even better than oblivion, the C&C and roleplaying is much more interesting than most sandbox RPGs out there, the world design is good too - but when half of your playing time is consisted of loading times and stupid combat, then whatever gem hidden inside would just dim away.
BTW, I've read someone said Gothic 3 doesn't have copy & paste dungeons....guess what, I've seen at least two caves with the exact layout!
The first thing is its engine is simply awful. I've a decent PC, e6300 (OC'ed), HD 3850 with 512mb vram, and 2G of ram. I can play other sandbox games like Oblivion and Two Worlds very smoothly. The FPS during G3 gameplay is excellent, but the stuttering while moving around is horrible, my HDD reads like crazy for every 30 steps I made, and the stuttering not only occurs during wilderness, but also in caves and cities and during combat!
Next thing is the combat. Oh my god, I've already read a lot how awful the combat of G3 is, and my initial thought was "huh, click-fest doesn't bother me", "I can handle G1's combat, why not G3?" and "duh, you guyz don't have skilz". But after playing the game myself, I just realized that when both the bad sides of button-mashing combat and Oblivion-ish tactical combat are mixed together, you get the brilliant spawn of G3 combat.
I mean WTF, you can stun lock any human enemy till the end, animals can stun lock you to death with attacks more rapid and faster than smashing the light punch key in Street Fighter or King of Fighters, and big fat ogres can dodge your attacks like WOW rogues while rapidly swing their big hammers faster than said rogues wielding daggers.
Last but not the least, the loading times. I'm one of the few person who can tolerate the long loading time in the unpatched Witcher, even though during Witcher it takes at most 10 seconds for me to load the biggest map. But G3? Guess what, when I decide to load a game, I would turn on my PSP, play a Kirin training mission, to wait out the ultra long loading time. And thanks to the fantastic combat, I die a lot to all those crazy rapid comboes, so I need to load a lot too.
There are other quirks I would like to mention like the horribly horrible voice acting (humanoids screaming sound like being ass raped), bugs (people spawning underground, over the walls, etc), and others. But the technical problems and the combat is what really kills the game for me.
I mean seriously, the game looks good, the scenery looks even better than oblivion, the C&C and roleplaying is much more interesting than most sandbox RPGs out there, the world design is good too - but when half of your playing time is consisted of loading times and stupid combat, then whatever gem hidden inside would just dim away.
BTW, I've read someone said Gothic 3 doesn't have copy & paste dungeons....guess what, I've seen at least two caves with the exact layout!
