Witcher 3 vs. Skyrim

[nirvana_sth]

reading some people claiming Witcher 3 is better than Skyrim, made me mention my thoughts about it as well.
so far i enjoyed Witcher 3 - the first game i found to be addictive for me since Castlevania LoS 2. recently almost every game i purchase or try to play make me feel boring in the fisrt 10 minutes of gameplay. even DA: I could not entertain me enough to keep playing it.
I was hyped about Witcher 3 when it was announced and offered for pre-order roughly a year ago.
but, as much as i have been enjoying it so far, its nothing like Skyrim.
firstly, Witcher 3 is not a true Role Playing Game, you can not create your own character, its all Geralt.
secondly, Skyrim had its unique atmosphere, an ancient story with relative dialogues, while Witcher 3 uses more modern dialogues. How on earth we could know the meaning of "arrow to the knee" if it was not for the Skyrim?!
in Witcher 3 im collecting God-knows-what herbs from all over the place, and i dont even know if i have a use for them. giving the regen nature of swallows, i doubt if the alchemy is anything as cool and as effective (and off course as vast) as the Skyrim. Breathe under water potions, walk on the water potions, 50% fortify potions, God, alchemy was crazy in Skyrim.
in Skyrim you had factions, sects and clans to join, something which is missing in Witcher 3.
again, an essential factor of RPGs which is non existent in Witcher 3 is a full development of your character, you can not choose to be a mage, or a necromancer, or a warrior, you are what you are, a witcher which is kinda everything with less depth.
Crafting was a major thing in Skyrim, i have never seen it in any other game such as Two Worlds: 2 and Witcher 3. you could enchant your stuff too, like adding fire and lightening effects to your dagger! wow that a ♥♥♥♥ in Skyrim!
Skyrim had other factors of RPGs too, like dungeons, loots, properties to own, unique items with specific history and more.
i like combat in Witcher 3, but i liked the Skyrim combat more, it is like an offline version of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare!
you could steal in Skyrim, you could execute enemies from behind using stealth, you could raise an undead army of your fallen foes.
fantasy history of Elder Scrolls is much bigger than many other similar titles, it may even be comparable to the Lord of the Rings. you had deities, gods and their hard core followers.
story in Skyrim imo is much darker than Witcher 3, though i have not progressed that far in the latter, so my argument may not be valid there. but receiving a contract from the assassins' sect to murder a poor ♥♥♥♥♥♥ who mourns the death of his sister on a river bank is way cruel man, way cruel!
i had my moral challenged there, but i did it anyway, and it still shocks me to this day.
i may add, Skyrim could be scary at some points, specially when you are new to the game and even fighting a simple bandit could be much of a challenge, and then a dragon appears while there is a giant chasing you because you annoyed his mammoth...

TL:DR;
Witcher 3, whilst being a very very interesting and fun action adventure game with elements from RPGs, is not anywhere close to the scale of Elder Scrolls series, especially Skyrim.
Skyrim was in production for 6 years, Witcher 3 at best was in development for 3 years.
stop throwing hatred towards Skyrim, Skyrim > Witcher 3 in any way imaginable.
I do not care if Witcher 3's world (which is not a united world, its like divided by 4 sectors) is bigger than Skyrim. Skyrim was a unique experience, and if you think Witcher 3 is very unique you would be better try to play Two Worlds: Two and see for yourself.

p.s. where are all my frames per seconds gone? Witcher 3 has some serious issues.

[CrankyQuack]

Messaggio originale di Rekalty:

Tells people to stop comparing games, writes half an essay about comparing them. Brilliant.

hahaha best post of my week so far. So true!

[Chyote]

Hey may be, after Geralt's story ends - we could get a RPG of another character?

[Skyforger]

I very much doubt there will be up to 100k players playing this in 4 years time like skyrim at peak times, skyrim to date still withstands the test of time. No way will as many people put hundreds to thousands of hours into this game the same way they did skyrim.

Though both games are great in the end.

[Wolfe]

I find this to be much more enjoyable from a combat and exploration standpoint. Story and characters are also much, much better, not to mention far superior animation. Skyrim had laughable animations. I also really like the music in this game, whereas Skyrim's score felt like generic fantasy music.

Skyrim, as a whole, felt lifeless and boring. Every village was small, every dungeon was seemingly constructed from the same limited tile set, every character in the game was voiced by the four people they got to voice the entire game, and the combat was embarrassingly bad.

Combat in Skyrim was you flailing your weapon at a dude who didn't react at all to your hits while he just stood there and occasionally swung back. Dragon fights were exercises in tedium, you just spammed attacks at them while they stood there and occasionally flew. You could brush off their fire breath like it was nothing. Also, magic in Skyrim was useless and scaled very poorly compared to melee.

I gave Skyrim about 70 hours of my life before I got bored. Now granted, I haven't played the first Witcher, but at least TW2 and 3 improved upon each other. Skyrim is almost just a face lift of Oblivion. It has the same bad combat and animations, and the same uninspired quest design.

[GunmanX]

This game can't hold a candle next to the quality of Skyrim. People will be playing Skyrim for many years to come when this game will be an after thought.

[CrankyQuack]

Rather then making these posts all the time and just boring/annoying people lets just put it like this.

They're both RPGs, both great games, they do things differently.

To each of their own. Just don't bash it against other people, that makes you arrogant.

[Luxury Taco]

I've put 200 hours into Skyrim. Witcher 3 DESTROYS it, why is this even a debate?

[Luxury Taco]

Play Witcher 3 for 2 hours, and then go log into Skyrim and you'll realize how good Witcher 3 is. Skyrim was great for its time, but Witcher 3 is another level.

[Horo]

People will be playing The Witcher 3 for many years to come. Mainly because of the attitude CDPR have to supporting their games. The Witcher 1 and 2 had patches/DLC for a couple of years after their release. However they weren't nearly as well-crafted or ambitious as this game. So, we now have CDPR planning at least 16 DLC for TW3. I don't think that happened with Skyrim? They without a doubt will be releasing modding tools, as they did with both their previous games, so mods will be available. I personally could not enjoy Skyrim as yes it had an open world, but it felt copy-paste, all the colours were really dull. TW3 makes me want to explore, as this world is so vibrant, full of life and things to do with actual terrain variation. Not to forget that every quest, side quest and witcher contract involves interesting characters/monsters.

[Swesal]

Messaggio originale di Rekalty:

Tells people to stop comparing games, writes half an essay about comparing them. Brilliant.

[The Drunken Heathen]

Wrong.
W3 is deeper roleplay, actual moral choices.
Lol, if you think Skyrim is darker then idk where you been.
Really dude. Skyrim combat.
Witchers are a set character, so i agree about character development but thats not what the games about in terms of gameplay.
Again, the moral choices in W3 are wayyyy bigger. You could save or destroy kingdoms.
Also, play the game on hardest difficulty then talk to me about dragons in Skyrim lmao.
Crafting and alchemy are much more intuitive and if you havent noticed W3 is much more realistic, the weapons and most armors are usable in real life, so no there shall be no lightning Dragon Claw that is also a magical staff that spawns Draugr Deathlords.
Also unlike in Skyrim alchemy is needed, for monster hunting and such.
W3 has dungeons and better ones too there not all the same, the only thing you cant do is own land, and besides you are a vagabond anyway.
I have 480 hours in Skyrim, by far my favorite game, but it is almost like CDPR made a list of everything Skyrim did and made it a billlion times better and added new stuff.

P.S: Arrow to the knee is an old norse saying, means that you stopped adventuring and settled with a wife and kids mostly, and the Witchers are a guild, and dude there is very little originality in Skyrim atmosphere and lore (in SKYRIM NOT ELDER SCROLLS). If you look into Norse myths, ways of life, and gods you would see that the devs ctrl v that sh*t, lol comon man how did you not figure out all Sovngarde was was Valhalla, and Talos is a copy of Thor and Ysgramor is copy of Odin.

[Vega ALyrae]

Why are morons comparing this to Skyrim? Gtfo here with your stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Do research next time before you buy the 3rd game in an established series.

Skyrim was the most overrated game in the Elder Scrolls franchise. Not to mention its combat is laughable just like the rest of the games in that series. That being said it's a great game.

Congrats tho maybe Witcher 3 won't have 100k people playing 3 years later, but at least I'm playing a game instead of just jerking it to the latest mod that makes an old game's graphics look better.

[Nihil in Ruina]

Cannot compute. Skyrim is 3 years old now and released on the PS3 and Xbox 360. It's a whole different generation of games now.

[Ash Wolf]

They are both very good games, though different in many ways. Just because they are "open world" does not mean they are meant to be compared. Yes, I absolutely love creating my own character in an rpg. It is even better when they are used in cut-scenes like Mass Effect, Dragon Age and such. However, Geralt is a bad-ass, and I don't mind playing as him.

[rekina]

Skyrim was single-handedly the worst game ever I've played in my life, period. I hate WoW but Skyrim was even worse than WoW. Zero fun, straight up boring game play.