An absolute insult to the Gothic series...
But unfortunately in Gothic 4, beside the graphics everything else is a big set back in the series:
The Story is extremely shallow and boring, NPCs are poorly designed, their A.I. has got terrible; remember stealing in previous Gothic series was a crime and if they saw you they would attack you? no more in this game, you can take whatever you want whenever you want!! ; and thanks to their terrible voice acting, even the most important NPCs are easily forgettable even while you are playing!
The world may look huge but when you see there's nothing to do there other than some boring,repetitive and disconnected quests, just killing and looting without a purpose, you realize that how empty it actually is.
But the Worst part is the Character Customization...
Usually even the worst RPGs have a decent character customization in order to cover-up their weaknesses but here, Gothic 4 is an exception!... This is probably the narrowest and the worst RPG character-customization i've ever seen; nowadays even most of the Action-Adventure games have a deeper CC than this game has!
It's truly a shame to see Gothic's character-customization which was one of the bests among the RPGs, has become something like this...
SO generally they've ruined it...
With Gothic 4 they've ruined a great series that Pirhana Bytes made and worked on for years.
Personally i'm done with this game as long as the developer and the publisher stay the same; If you are too then don't worry.
This was just a shell of Gothic but do you want the true Gothic? you can find it in another game with a different name! (definitely looking forward to Risen 2)