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RE: Is Gabriel Knight 3 the most underrated game? - kamineko - 09-29-2025
Not so much underrated as maligned.
I remember in late 90s there was a kind of preconception against 3D adventure games in general, the mustache puzzle just gave a legitimate reason to lash at GK3.
I bought GK3 as soon as it came out and enjoyed it almost all the way through. It was surprising to read all those negative opinions later.
What spoiled it a bit for me was not the infamous puzzle but the part near the end when we go to the underground temple and the action starts to resemble the ending of a certain Indiana Jones movie. Now that was anticlimactic.
RE: Is Gabriel Knight 3 the most underrated game? - Jen - 09-29-2025
I liked it
I liked it then and have nothing but fond memories. Even the stupid cat hair mustache. It was good for a laugh, or maybe a wince, but it was memorable. I had no idea there was such virulent sentiment against it.
RE: Is Gabriel Knight 3 the most underrated game? - Pluto - 09-29-2025
I think all GK games had final part which was different than rest of the game. And in all cases I didnt liked it so much and always thought it can be done in better way.
RE: Is Gabriel Knight 3 the most underrated game? - Johnny Nys - 09-29-2025
I quite enjoy the entire GK trilogy, and when I first played GK3, I was completely blown away by the story, far more than its two predecessors. Only during a second playthrough did I realize what I all missed the first time around: all those conversations you can eavesdrop on, every character is doing SOMETHING at every time of day. You can progress the story without discovering everything, which was also the case with "The Colonel's Bequest". So being very careful to avoid the triggers, I went around keeping tabs on everyone and find out all their little secrets. You don't have to answer any questions about it all as you have to do as Laura Bow, but it's still fun to snoop around.
I just wish it was easier to run on newer systems. I can get it to start up al right, switch up some settings to get rid of the flickering black squares, but then it still crashes as soon as I get down in the hotel lobby...
RE: Is Gabriel Knight 3 the most underrated game? - Geisterfaust - 09-29-2025
Not gonna lie: I kind of love GK3. Still replay it every other year or so.
Even though I realise that both GK1 and GK2 are objectively better and more well-rounded games, I do feel like GK3 gets a lot more hate than it deserves. I mean, yes the cat moustache was stupid, but was it worse than the awful cuckoo clock/door knock puzzle in GK 2? (At least the cat moustache was silly enough as to be funny in a very adventure gamey way...)
I also think that what GK3 really excelled in was its sense of exploration and detective work. Sneaking around the rooms, collecting finger prints, tailing the suspects around the valley - it all added to a real sense of immersion in the world in a way that I honestly haven't seen in a lot of other similar games. And of course, Jensens writing is top notch, Robert Holmes music is superb and the voice acting entertaining.
The 3D graphics are admittedly not great, but I think I disliked them more when the game first came out... Nowadays I find them charmingly clunky more than anything. If there are ever talks of a remaster/remake one day, polishing the graphics and making the cat moustache puzzle optional would probably be the only things I'd suggest changing...
RE: Is Gabriel Knight 3 the most underrated game? - Lucien21 - 09-29-2025
If only that was the worst cat/animal puzzle in the genre.
Once taped a phone to the back of a cat in Secret Files Tunguska
Used a Rat as a bomb in Nibiru