Gothic 3 looks good? From which side, beacause I must have missed it. I didn't like new NEXT-GEN BLOOM nor art direction.
First Gothic and Night of the Raven still look beautiful for me. And by "beautiful" I mean both graphic techniques (or whatever it's called), art directions and music.
Gothic felt dangerous, environment was rather dark and I was scared at my first playthrough to go to forest (well, I was 12 years old at that time
). Great dialoques (different from typical cRPG, btw I'm talking about polish translation, not english which I heard bad things about) and that unsetting music in the wilderness, while calm in Old Camp etc...
Night of the Raven was totally different but not worse, damn it was probably even better. This is how new Gothic should look like. Atmosphere wasn't dangerous but it wasn't calm nor "sweet" (Oblivion) or epic (Gothic 3, Oblivion). It was very (and I mean VERY, I haven't experienced anything like that in another game) mysterious. You didn't know what you'll see in "new world" and that music was GREAT (damn, I lost my original Audio CD that was added to the expansion
). Too bad it was that short, if this expansion would have been 3-4x longer it could be one of the best games ever. And they fixed leveling so you always had to watch for yourself because you weren't uberhero killing army of dragons and orcs by one hand while reading a book second hand.
Gothic 2 was good but when comparing to Gothic or expansion it was mediocre. Story sucks and that destroyed the game. Music don't have any "special" feeling and it's like in typical cRPG. At least dialogues and gameplay were same as in Gothic.
Gothic 3 was a total failure - story, gameplay, combat... I don't even want to talk about this game anymore.
I replayed Gothics (1, 2 and expansion) lately again. They are great as they were. I want MORE.