Awesome discussion on what makes for a good RPG. I agree with much of what you all are saying and disagree with some. But I am finding all of it really interesting.
Re. Skyrim, what I found was that about halfway through the game I got really bored with it because everything started to feel the same.
@Warlocke, the combat was the one thing I did not like in Witcher 3. But because difficulty settings are entirely about combat and affect nothing else in the game, I just set the difficulty to the lowest setting and that allowed me to thoroughly enjoy the game. But this only works with the main game and doesn't work with the DLCs because there you are very high level and the combat is super-brutal even on the lowest setting.
I might end up doing that. We will see. I prefer to play games where combat is something I enjoy and not something I need to suffer through, even briefly. I can even put my finger on what it is about Witch combat that bothers me so much. It doesn’t help that it has been so long since I tried it. I just really remember it not clicking with me.
And if they expand the series past Geralt and let you make your own Witcher who is Geralt’s pupil I’d have more patience with it. I don’t know. I like Elric of Melnibone and I like Solid Snake, but colliding then together (which is especially what Geralt is) does not do it for me.
