Skyrim or the witcher

[Gamereaper]

Ive decided to play skyrim or the witcher but im not shure wich I should play first.
The most important thing for me in these games are the exploration and the fun in combat.
Pleas let me know wich of these games are better in this two points.

[Death Approaches]

buy both and don't ask dumb questions! it's like choosing between kittens or puppies, or whiskey and women... choice, what choice? Witcher 2 has the most fun combat of all of them, but some people lack manual dexterity and get frustrated with alternating chain attacks, but it's the only one where you feel like really fighting, like if you mess up one sign cast or swing block or dodge, the fight is over, you're dead. (assuming you don't play on noobynoob difficulties but always go for the hardest)

but if you're really truly that indecisive, play Witchers first... all 3 are story RPGs, although the 3rd is a bit like Skyrim in that other than the main quest, the rest you can do as they appear to you explore the world... but Skyrim is endless and with mods, way beyond endless. if you become "one of us" you could rack up 1000s of hours over, who knows, maybe the rest of your life. A certain percentage of us have played Skyrim consistently over a decade, some weekly, some daily. and that's not hyperbole. It's crack in game form.

[Dadpool]

Which Witcher are you referring to?

In terms of exploration; Skyrim > Witcher 1 & Witcher 2 but I'm not sure if Skyrim is better than Witcher 3 in this aspect, because I never fully completed W3.

Pretty sure Skyrim is more fun in terms of combat than Witcher games, at least in my opinion.

[Sukhoi Su-35S]

The Witcher 3 definitely has better combat, as for exploration I'd say the Witcher wins there as well.

[Illtempered]

Originally posted by Sukhoi Su-35S:

The Witcher 3 definitely has better combat, as for exploration I'd say the Witcher wins there as well.

Can't agree there. I'm not a huge fan of either without mods, but Skyrim vanilla definitely does combat better than W3's lock-on cheese.

[Sukhoi Su-35S]

Originally posted by Illtempered:

Originally posted by Sukhoi Su-35S:

The Witcher 3 definitely has better combat, as for exploration I'd say the Witcher wins there as well.

Can't agree there. I'm not a huge fan of either without mods, but Skyrim vanilla definitely does combat better than W3's lock-on cheese.

Dude did you just call Skyrim's combat, the combat that feels like you're slapping enemies with a wet pool noodle, better than the Witcher 3's? The hilarity.

[buttmunch]

Both are great.
Skyrim lets you make any character you want. But the story and characters are the weak point.

Witcher series, you're Geralt. But the story and characters are much better.

I enjoyed both but never wanted to replay any witcher games. I replayed skyrim way too much.

[Ruenis]

Download the Vortex Mod Manager and then download the most endorsed "Collection" for Skyrim SE/AE titled "Gate to Sovngarde," and the answer becomes Skyrim so hard, it's not even close. Just make sure you get Nexus Premium to download the mods faster, and smoothly.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

buy both and don't ask dumb questions! it's like choosing between kittens or puppies, or whiskey and women...

I'ld choose women.... not a fan of spirits in general or Whiskey specifically (whether Scotch, Irish or Bourbon).

[Morgan Fun Gamer]

I say skyrim in my opinion. it has lots of ways to do combat melee shields magic stealth and conjariation and the exploration there is many locations and settlements and cities in the game.

[B1ACK Raevyn]

I personally would play Skyrim. It has waaay more opportunities with mods. Witcher may have more realistic combat, but with mods, you can literally make the combat more realistic and fun in Skyrim. Can litterally make any character you want within your imagination.

[psychotron666]

The Witcher is trash tbh. And you're stuck with a pre made Mary sue character who's only weakness is sleeping with too many women

[~ Fabulous ~]

Skyrim, the witcher is 2 play through at best

[JazzmanEmpire]

I think if you were to split them into categories, each would have wins here and there, but I think Witcher 3 would win overall. Skyrim can only really be enjoyed with a heavy mod list. If you know what you're doing it's fine, but there's a lot that can go wrong, though collections are a lot more popular now. With collections then Skyrim is graphically on par. Combat depends on your flavour, personally the Witcher 3 combat is better for the reason that even in nightmare mode, a skilled player can still defeat the enemies with a bit of smarts (BTW, i highly recommend playing on nightmare mode, but might be hard for a first run)
Skyrim combat has the benefit of playing third and/or first person, but where as enemies in Witcher 3 have set levels like an MMO, Skyrim enemies level with you, so you never really feel like your levelling or that your perks do much. There's more variety of combat in Skyrim, but i guarantee you'll be going stealth archer within ten levels.

Story wise, Witcher 3 is better, mainly because you play as a voiced protagonist who can react to other Npcs in cutscenes, it makes the relationships more personal. Skyrim you have the advantage of creating whatever character you like, race and sex, but you'll find yourself most likely clicking through dialogue after a while, you never really feel engaged at times. Where Skyrim has a lot of fetch quests, Witcher 3 has some compelling content when it comes to choices. Skyrim does have some pivotal choices - which side of the Civil War you fight for, Vampire or Dawnguard, some Daedric quests, etc - but in Witcher 3 they matter more, even give different endings.

If you just like exploring, both are great. Again, Witcher 3 i think has more diverse landscapes, (Toussaint in particular is beautiful) and Novigrad puts any city in Skyrim to shame. The music in both is iconic, the levelling in both is fun, both have a wealthy array of monsters to kill, an extensive lore, and for a completionist like me, both have well over 200 hours of content in a single playthrough.

I've played both many times. I personally pick Witcher 3, but i've invested more hours into Skyrim. If you can familiarise yourself with mods, it'll make either game better, but Skyrim will take a good amount of hours to set up properly. Enjoy.