Based, underrated detective game. Respects time period and players intelligence. I only played C&P before and I would rank them about equal. Cases still rely heavily on red herrings and unreal coincidences, but I have faith that logic is intact. You just need to pay attention. Not everything is put into your journal. I suggest writing down your own notes, because fun factor relies heavily on putting it all together yourself. Unfortunately it ends abruptly. One second you are finishing 3rd case, and the next you are seeing end credits after underwhelming finale.

I can get behind the opinion that acting and story is well made, but lets not buy into popular opinion that old games didn't have compelling story and Kratos was just violent brute. People praising walking and talking sims really just don't like video games.
Combat is button mashing and waiting for cooldowns. Hard difficulty makes it even more tedious, by giving enemies stupid ammount of health. GoW camera is another fail and idk where to even start with that.
Puzzles are insulting and boil down to throwing axe at colored circle.
Just make GoW3 and Ascention work on PC, because I am not interested in Ragnarok at all.

Gothic 2.5 - new map, new story.
We got lots of quality of life mechanics/patches you would expect from new game, but not necessarily from mod:
I've never felt stuck with dozens of quests I didn't know how to finish, which admittedly was the case with G2. There are quests at every corner, but just don't run around collecting them. If you complete them one at a time, you likely won't even have to use extremely well done journal.
You get separate learning points from leveling and from items. Overall less buggy and mechanics are well explained.
What keeps this gem from fame is lack of english dub. I vouch for polish dub and you should try it over silent dialogues.