I'm wondering... did anyone enjoy Gothic 3?
I have the game, but I found the story-gameplay too frustrating to run all over the world trying to figure out the plot and where I was to go next to get what item.
Did anyone finish the game? Does it get better? If you did like it, what did you like about it and how do you think it compares to Gothic 1 and 2?

I finished it and enjoyed most of it, though not as much as either previous game.
I only really loved liberating the human cities.
Also feel it quickly becomes too easy after completing one of the three parts of the continent.

It was alright taken on its own (post community patch), but pretty lousy for a Gothic game. It definitely lacked the plot coherence of the previous two games, and after clearing a third to a half of the game world just started feeling very repetitive.

Heyyo,
I HATED Gothic 3... the combat was abysmal, falling through the world... argh! Of couse I played it maybe a month after it came out.. the official patches were pure crap.. dunno if the community patches make it playable.. but I'm sure they do.
I just ignored Gothic 3 and treated Risen as its replacement. That game's plenty playable. Combat can get frustrating though when enemies can sometimes attack faster than the player, so that makes for insanely frustrating moments.. later on in the game when you start upgrading your guy though? it becomes more of a rarity minus a few human fights... I did also find that double handed weapons are useless since with sword and shield you can eventually use bastard swords and even two handed swords in one hand.. and also with two handed weapons you can't block animals. :P

I love it :-)

Gothic 3 isn't my favourite, certainly, but with the Community Patch it certainly shows promise and had some enjoyable moments. Risen was not nearly as ambitious, and in some ways it was worse off for it. I hope that Piranha Bytes eventually feels brave enough to try such a project again.
What I loved about Gothic 3 was the immense scale. It felt like you could do anything--in the alchemy and forging systems alone there were dozens of recipes and blueprints to track down and make from ingredients collected from across the land--but it was so large that the focus became lost. In the other games every populated location felt unique and interesting, but the sheer volume of them in Gothic 3 meant that most didn't have that huge amount of polish.

I enjoyed it very much but never finished it. After 40-50 hours of gameplay you're basicly unkillable and doing fed-ex quests gets old very fast. Great world to explore though.

Their next game, Risen, was the polar opposite; it shipped in a highly optimised state (it runs better than Gothic 3 would on the same system despite having vastly superior graphics) and is largely bug-free; of the handful of bug fixes listed for the first patch I only ran into one of them while playing the game in its release state. :)

Yes, Risen really was a far cry experience from the G3, and a most enjoyable one at that. Apart from the dialogue issues (you could talk your way into a snag and couldnt finish a quest), it was a relatively bug free game. And even if it had some annoying bugs, if they had been fixed in the first or second patch, it would still be all well and good. Sure hope G4 will not be another disappointment.

Ugh, no I didn't. Gothic 3 was absolutely horrible. The only thing I liked about it were the graphics which were stunning for the time. I tried my best to enjoy it, but I just couldn't. I don't enjoy "Stun-lock or be stun-locked" gameplay.

I got Gothic 3 on sale at D2D and it has managed to capture my attention pretty well - considering my system doesn't really like Gothic 2 (though I can get it running at about 80% in linux - better than the crashfest it is on my Windows 7 install) I am happy I get some Gothic in :).
I played the demo for Risen a while ago (when it was launching) and couldn't get into it, though with my play experience on Gothic 3 I probably could immerse much easier now. With the Gothic 3 Community Patch many things are smooth as butter, though there are some serious frame rate issues for such an old game :/

When will GOG add Gothic 3? Does anyone know any news regarding this release?

I wouldn't expect Gothic 3 for a while yet, unfortunately; it's still being sold for much more than that on other services, with the cheapest being Steam at $15 (which is still above GOG's highest price point).
Besides that, GOG never specifically talks about future releases until they actually appear on the site, and there's rarely more than the vaguest hint of what games are on the way.

Gothic 3 is still priced high? I picked up the Gothic Universe collection on retail disc last year for $10, which why I'd be surprised if an individual game from the series would be more than that.