Best way to start in Gothic 3

[MidnightShade]

I was wondering can you go to other cities first, and finish the cities in any order or is there a certain order to things? In my first game, I jumped off the 1000' waterfall and swam accross the bay instead of going to Montera right away and got to Lago the bay desert port. Could I have done the missions there and others in the desert? I went back to montera, thinking I might be missing something, It seems everybody does Ardea--Reddock--Cape Dun--Monterra Can you go to other cites before Montera and actually do the quests there, or would it just be too hard?

[Maylander]

I personally like to do all side quests in all cities before liberating any of them, that way I have a high level and loads of good stuff before I start liberating cities, which is quite tough to be honest. You can do quests whereever you want, whenever you want, so just choose whatever you like. :)

[Corwin]

Like you I swam over to Lago early on and I'm collecting all the teleport stones before doing much else. I do a few quests here and there, in no particular order and simply explore as much as I can. Eventuall, I'll complete as many quests as possible, but I enjoy free-forming rather than completing a game section by section. There seems to be no RIGHT way to play, so do what you enjoy!!

[JemyM]

If you talk to everybody in each city you enter and pursue quests before going somewhere else, you will naturally be lead through several cities in a certain order.

Eventually the lead start to drain and you will have world-spanning quests that can be done in any order you like.

I personally do all side quests and leave them when I got the "liberate" quest. I intend to go back and liberate later when I know for sure there's no subquests leading into a city I have slain.

I have done all cities in Myrtana, all but 2 in Varant and none in Nordmar, only leaving a few "come back later" quests and the ones I did not want to do.

[HellFireXS]

The first thing I started doing was exploring and doing quests for some levels and when I got strong enough I set out to crush the Rebellion, so far Reddock, Okara and Nemora are all gone.

Now I am unsure what to do but I'm going around to towns and doing quests hoping some one will tell me where to go next.

[curious]

jesus Corwin i swore you were at that stage back in november! is that typical of your gaming style? i would think that would be the equivalent of reading one sentence at a time in a book. though i know of at least one other person who has propositioned that style of intake.

[Bartacus]

jesus Corwin i swore you were at that stage back in november! is that typical of your gaming style? i would think that would be the equivalent of reading one sentence at a time in a book. though i know of at least one other person who has propositioned that style of intake.

I don't know for sure, but I thought Corwin was a reviewer too and that implies to get your own favourites for the little free time you have.

[bjon045]

Errrr.....Corwin made that post in November. Some dude just dragged up this old thread.

[nameless hero]

I just go as I please. I went were the road took me, and were quests were found. But overall, my goal was to make that $10000 gold (i think it was that) so I could get that shiny Paladin Armour.

[Zaleukos]

I'm going to play as a Hashishin mage next time round, so I'll probably do Ardaea -> Reddock -> Cap Dun -> Lago -> the rest of the desert.

[Maylander]

I usually make the mistake of waiting too long before going to the desert - I often wait until I am level 30 before going down there, and it becomes a bit too easy. Sounds more reasonable to follow your path than to do everything in Myrtana first.

[Dez]

ardea -> cap dun -> montera..thats how my journey usually begins, after that..well depending on my character either to north or south..:) btw if you have courrage, you could walk towards vengard and all the way to NORDMAR :) Just walk past the hunter's cabin near faring and walk through the woods..

[Maylander]

Yes, up near the ogres. It's very hard at lower levels though, most beasts will kill you rather fast.

[Zaleukos]

In my last playthrough I went to Nordmar earlyish (lvl 20 or os) with an archer type character. It was a bit frustrating to take on the local wildlife one critter at a time... I cant recommend it.