HoloDust on 16 March 2016
Yep, still the king.
While I think that open-world action-RPGs have never really peaked (unlike some other genres) and there is (in theory) still a lot of possible growth (in terms of quality of games), I'm afraid with mainstreaming we're getting further and further away from proper games in genre, but Gothic still stands firmly after all these years as the very best.
Piranha Bytes should really do remake of at least first 2 games...I posted just yesterday video of Enlighten tech that would fit in Gothic perfectly:
