Which RPG is better? Skyrim or The Witchers 3; The Hunt?
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wolfgangvonposakilla — 10 years ago(December 15, 2015 09:28 AM)
Skyrim (the elder scrolls in general) has so many flaws and issues in areas where the witcher excells.
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The witcher has difficult skill-based combat with a limited healing system. It's Challenging and satisfying.
Skyrim is a piece of cake. Before long you're one-shotting everything, and if you're ever in trouble you just hit pause open your menu and drink one of the zillion potions you've gathered. At around ten percent game completion you're already overpowered making the other 90 boring and unnecessary.
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I should mention I did play the witcher 3 on a higher than normal difficulty, so I don't really know how hard it is normally. However my brother Played Skyrim on master difficulty and only like 20 percent into the game he too was one-shotting everything. - Combat
Few games have succeeded in making first person melee combat interesting and refined, Skyrim isn't one of them. The best tactic in skyrim is usually just rushing your enemy and spamming attack. If you try to block or "fight clever" you'll just make it worse. In a nutshell combat in skyrim is pretty dumb.
The witcher is in 3rd person which allows for strafing and dodging, creating skillbased combat where there is actually somehing to master. It allows for more dynamic combat on a bigger scale. - presentation.
In skyrim you spend a great deal of time listening to longwinded monologues from generic NPC's for trivial quests. There's hardly any unique characters, way to few voice actors and almost none who do a good job.
The witcher uses a dialogue system that makes you a part of the conversation. The writing and voice acting is infinitely better and there's a ton of very unique characters. - General content and gameplay
Variation on quests and enemies is very limited in skyrim. Most of the time is spent in generic dungeons that go on forever, where you fight 1 or 2 types of enemies per dungeon in groups of 2-4 per room/corridor to fetch something and return it to the questgiver.
In the witcher there is almost nothing that feels generic. Loads of different enemies with greatly different attack patterns/styles. Many unique enemies. A variety of gameplay elements mixed in quests. Big scale battles - Immersion
The witcher feels "real", The characters, the politics, The scope of the game, the size of the city, the large amount of random NPC's.
Skyrim feels like a videogame. Whiterun is supposed to be the capital of Skyrim and there's like 10 houses and 20 people. The main city in the witcher 3 (Novigrad) is like 30 times as big. The battles in The witcher look like battles. In skyrim there's 10 people battling 10 other people at most.
I'm not saying Skyrim is a bad game. I was impressed at first sight and enjoyed it for a couple of weeks. But after a few weeks it got repetitive (same generic quests, enemies and dungeons over and over again), I felt I had seen everything the game had to offer even if I only did like a tenth and since there was no more challenge being completely overpowered I just put the game aside.
Skyrim offers some things that the witcher doesn't have: a high level of customisation and freeform exploration, allowing to play as yourself and not as a preset character. but the novelty only lasts a short time.
The witcher, while also having a few hiccups and missteps, is in general absolutely the more enthralling, challenging, refined and varied game.
Thus in my opinion making it better.
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Grey-Phantom — 10 years ago(February 05, 2016 06:16 PM)
Dragon Age origins is still my favorite. Though skyrim has an insanely immersive open world and the modding community really makes the game what it is now, I feel like DA:O character development and choices made it more worthwhile for me to play. I never finished skyrims main storyline Just never cared to
As for witcher 3. I'm in witcher 2 now, act 2. Never got around to playing it. Its not very appealing when you're a gay man and the female nudity to male nudity ratio is off the charts. I'm fine withgeralt being straight, but I would appreciate a penis here and there if there is going to be that much female nudity.
I have the same problem with GTA actually But the modding community helps. I wonder why there aren't that many mods for witcher.
Is skyrim just rlly easy to mod, or was it out of love for the game? -
Grothendieck_s_Pocket_Healer — 10 years ago(March 14, 2016 09:54 AM)
The Witcher 3, it's not even close.
Better Story: TW3's story actually has some degree of complexity of philosophy and political intrigue, supported by well designed quests. Skyrim's side quests are repetitive and the main quests were too cliche, there was neither tension or originality. This aspect of both games has a vast difference that I am amazed people even think they are comparable.
Also,
Better gameplay.
Better graphics.
A fairer comparison would be between Skyrim and some Bioware game like Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?- Winnie the Pooh
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Skyrider01 — 10 years ago(March 16, 2016 12:57 AM)
As ive played both, id go with Witcher 3, simply because its more playable, especially in the combat system. I was most disappointed in the more primitive looking combat system of skyrim 5 after play Witcher 3
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user-37-118581 — 10 years ago(March 16, 2016 03:25 AM)
Hello, for my part my favorite is Skyrim because you have so many mods, you can add many things to the game which changes it completely. Besides, i love Elder Scrolls, so that's another reason to choose Skyrim.
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wildfire160 — 9 years ago(April 23, 2016 05:55 PM)
I`am playing both The Witcher3 and replaying Skyrim(to complete the dlc) atm ..
For me Witcher is better but only because as a newer game the graphics and gameplay are imo much better,however if both games had come out on a level playing field then I actually prefer Skyrims customization a lot more ,and the mods are way better too..
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timmyp-98035 — 9 years ago(April 23, 2016 06:07 PM)
Witcher 3, but both aren't that great. Skyrim (and all the other Bethesda) uses enemy level scaling which is an incredibly lazy from a programming standpoint. The stories in Bethesda games are really stale too
Play Dragon's Dogma over both.
PS: Yeah I know you think my suggestion is different, but I promise you there is at least a 50-75 percent chance you will greatly enjoy DD over those games. If you dont mind graphics, and can deal with early 2000 graphics, play Gothic 2 and forget the rest for awhile. -
TomsWindow — 9 years ago(September 12, 2016 01:05 AM)
Skyrim
The Witcher 3 is a game that tries to be both a story-driven and open world RPG, but in my opinion, it doesn't fully succeed at either of those aspects. Don't get wrong, Witcher 3 is a good game, but just not a great game in my opinion. First of all, the world of Witcher 3 for just felt kinda empty at times when you're not interacting with any essential NPCs and there isn't that much freedom. It's pretty to look at, but doesn't fully come to life for me in terms of immersion. I know lots of people will disagree, but that's just how I felt.
I also thought combat was pretty dull at times. In Witcher 3, pretty much all you do is spam dodge and slash. Very rarely do you have to switch up your tactics. Not saying that Skyrim's combat is great by any means, but it at least made up for its simplistic combat by allowing you to wield a variety of weapons. Whereas in Witcher 3, you can only use a sword, and that's it, which eliminates the possibility of creating any builds.
Not to mention if you are under-leveled for a particular weapon, you are literally incapable of equipping said weapon until you meet the level requirements. Even if your current sword is broken and you are at the brink of death, Geralt will not even attempt to use the higher level weapon. Oh well, I guess it's better to give up and die, right? Plus the amount of damage that you do with a weapon is confined to that level, which means that you will inevitably outlevel your weapon, therefore your weapon will eventually become useless to the point where regular enemies will be using better weapons, and you'll have to find one that matches your level. Even that special sword that Vesemir gives you at Kaer Morhen before the attack, eventually becomes useless, which is dumb and thus you can never grow attached to any of your weapons. Even Skyrim got this right, where as long as you are high level in your skills, you can do a lot of damage with essentially any weapon.
I also hated how the 5 choices that determine which of the 3 main endings you get, are mostly
the trivial and some near logically inconsequential interactions with Ciri. Like, whether or not you played snowball with her, or if you allowed her to indulge in her tantrum by destroying Avallach's lab.
Almost none of your actions anywhere else matters, and virtually no decisions can be made on the battlefield, making it impossible to alter your path in the climax. Every other decision that you make either have absolutely zero impact or are just briefly mentioned during the still epilogues, which was disappointing given that I kept hearing about how there are 36 different endings in the game, when it's really just minor variations on 3 endings. Not to mention I hated how the decisions determining the endings are completely black and white, which goes against this series' established reputation.
For example, a decision that is actually grey is in
the Baron. If you choose to free the spirit, then the spirit will free the children from the crones, but do so and Anna dies, and the Baron hangs himself. If you chose to kill the spirit, then the kids are assumed to have been killed, but the Baron and his family receive a better resolution.
Those are actual grey decisions, because neither are particularly happy both have pros and cons. I had hoped that the rest of the game would follow this structure but that's sadly not the case here, because all it amounts to are
the 5 interactions with Ciri that you would never have guessed were the major decisions where if you picked the wrong dialogue options 3 times, then Ciri doesn't make it out, and Geralt goes on a suicide attack, that's it.
Sorry for the long rant, but that's just how I feel about the game.
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Smokey_T — 9 years ago(September 12, 2016 09:57 PM)
Witcher's voice acting and characters were so god awful i did the intro tutorial got to the first quest place and gave up.
For want of a better word it was GAY.
Skyrim is pretty awful too in the voice acting department, but it only half as likely to make your girlfriend/spouse/significant other leave you when she sees what you are wasting your time on. -
ProOctane — 9 years ago(October 27, 2016 05:31 PM)
As a franchise I'd say the Elder Scrolls over the Witcher series.
For a single title I'd go for the Witcher 3. Skyrim had a poor story which for me is just as important as game play in RPG's.
It was also a little too sandbox for me which isn't a bad thing but I always felt disconnected from the story itself whereas the Witcher 3 open world also never felt like it strayed to far from the main objective if that makes sense.
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Alexander_Joshua_Davis — 9 years ago(January 11, 2017 11:41 AM)
Skyrim without a doubt the openness of the game/freedom, detail in the world building, lore, dialogue, etc music/atmosphere.. lack of "edgyness" (Game of Thrones modern bullsh*t that preys upon basal and low level emotions etc)