Gothic-3 posts

In 2008, publisher JoWood released Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods, a stand alone expansion pack for its fantasy RPG title. However the game from developer Trine Games was released with a number of issues and bugs that caused it to receive mostly negative reviews from critics.

Today JoWood released Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition via Steam. The original game has gotten a graphical and audio makeover from developer Mad Vulture Games. It also has a "completely revised gameplay and combat system" along with other improvements and changes. As we mentioned earlier today all of the Gothic games on Steam are currently on sale from now until Thursday. That includes this title which is now on sale for a mere $2.50.

The Steam download site always has some kinds of special sales and/or pre-order offers. This weekend the PC game download site has put two of GSC Game World's S.T.A.L.K.E.R. first person shooter games on sale. The titles, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl and the most recent game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat, can be purchased together for just $9.99, a 75 percent savings, until Monday.

Steam also has Arcania: Gothic 4, available for pre-order. The fantasy RPG sequel from publisher JoWood will let people download and play the previous game in the series, Gothic 3, for free if they pay in advance for Gothic 4. Finally a number of European countries can now purchase games on Steam via the Paysafecard system. People who use the system to purchase either 20 pounds or 20 euros of games on Steam will be able to get a free game, Portal, from now until August 26.

We have known that Risen is supposed to be released on October 2 for some time now but now it looks like it's truly official as publisher Deep Silver has now announced that the fantasy RPG has gone gold for the PC. Sorry Xbox 360 owners; you folks will have to wait until next year to get your Risen taste.

This is the all new game from developer Piranha Bytes who previously created the first three games in the Gothic RPG series. The last game in the series, however, had some serious bug issues upon release. We just hope the "gone gold" announcement today means the game is truly complete and we won't have to deal with a massive patch to fix stuff they should have completed by now.

Santa Claus may be jolly, but he's also nosy and quite vengeful. He makes a list then checks it twice, and definitely spies on you to determine whether you've been naughty or nice. If you've been a pest in 2008, do all the good deeds you can before Christmas to avoid seeing any of these under your tree come December 25.

Last year's release of the fantasy RPG title Gothic 3 was pretty much a disaster. The final version shipped with a ton of bugs that made the game unplayable for many. Publisher JoWood dumped the game's developer Piranha Bytes as a result.

Now it appears that the just released expansion pack to the game, Gothic 3: Forgotten Gods, was also shipped with a number of issues that even a couple of patches have yet to solve. The game's official message board has posted up a statement from JoWood executive producer Michael Kairat who basically apologies about the game's release. The expansion was developed by India based Trine Game Studios. Yet another patch is expected to be released soon that hopefully will fix some of the problems.

The statement also says that JoWood plans not to have the same thing happen again for the next full game in the series, Arcania: A Gothic Tale, that's being developed by Spellbound. JoWood plans to have a beta release of the game before it's scheduled ship date of late 2009.


[Via Voodoo Extreme]

The Gothic RPG franchise got served a detour with Gothic 3 in 2007. The game was released with tons of bugs and issues so publisher JoWood dumped the game's developer Piranha Bytes and moved on, even deciding to rename the next full game in the series, Gothic 4, to Arcania: A Gothic Tale.

But before that game is released in 2009, JoWood will release Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods, an expansion pack to the 2007 release. Developed by Trine Studios, the expansion will add new locations, quests and monsters to Gothic 3 and is also designed as a story bridge between Gothic 3 and Arcania: A Gothic Tale. The expansion has now been declared "gold" and will ship to stores on Nov. 21. JoWood's US subsidiary Dreamcatcher Games will handle the North American release

Gallery: Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods

Trailer shows off the graphics and gameplay of Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods, the upcoming expansion to Gothic 3 role-playing game.

Download HD Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods Trailer (22 MB)

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Publisher Jowood's recent history with the Gothic series of fantasy RPG titles has been...interesting, to say the least. The last game in the series, Gothic 3, was developed by Piranha Bytes (now known as Pluto 13) but apparently Jowood was not happy with the final product when it was released in the fall of 2006. In May 2007 Jowood announced it was severing their ties with Pluto 13 and later announced that the next game in the series, Gothic 4, would be created by another developer, Spellbound Entertainment.

While there has been no release date mentioned yet for Gothic 4, Jowood has now announced that there will be an expansion pack for Gothic 3 this fall. The expansion is subtitled Forsaken Gods and according to the press release "will answer many open questions and guarantee a seamless step to Gothic 4." The developer of the expansion is not named but the announcement did say that Forsaken Gods's dev team will be scanning the game's offical message boards and "will incorporate as many of the fan-wishes as possible."