The Dink Network

I'd just like to say that I did get around to playing a seriously patched version of Gothic 3, and I have to rate the experience as being fairly meh. Even patched melee combat was still pretty crap, and a lot of the higher tier fights are pretty much impossible unless you sink a TON of points into magic and learn magic regen (whereupon you become a walking engine of endless death). It just wasn't anywhere as good as Gothic 2 where you could play strict warrior or mage and still kick copious amounts of ass if you were skilled enough.

Dark Messiah was fairly fun, though the story was total crap... I think I even blogged about it years ago.