If it takes a comunity patch to be good then it was not good.
The game was pushed out by the publisher (JoWood) too early due to greed and then they and the dev Piranha Bytes had a divorce from that debacle. From that split JoWood had the legal rights to the Gothic name, damn it all, and also PB could not fix what was broken with any more patches. However the community has stepped up and because of their patches they have pulled out most of the diamond that was in there behind all the rough (bugs). Some engine problems remain, but all in all it has turned out to be a very good game. IMHO the graphics are even better than in Spellbounds Arcania, even after all these years.
