The game begins from the premise that there was an argument between our nameless hero and Xardas, his mentor and the guy who helped him along the series. Obviously, an expansion set in the same realm as the original game is supposed to have a lot of common elements with its predecessor, but unfortunately in this case it’s only a massive copy. Being stressed by a strict deadline, the dev team decided it was for the best to just recycle everything instead of creating something new. One can’t help but feel some empathy here, since the time allocated towards Forsaken Gods’ development was laughably minimal, and the results show. That’s essentially what you get with Forsaken Gods, but with an added layer of bugs on top. The story was boring, combat was a joke and old companions were soulless quest dispensers.

In all, it was a lot bigger, but with that everything felt watered down. The game world was huge, the quest tally was huge, the character population was huge, and stats, items and spells were innumerable. Gothic 3 tried to improve the formula by making everything bigger. It was a story-centric RPG that was the anti-Morrowind of its time, with great characters and passable role-playing.

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