Dark souls and the witcher 2 already make skyrim redundant for me

Much better combat, story, lore etc imo

Edit and replay value, challenge, less bugs (if any at all), no hand holding big arrows showing you where to go (darks souls specific)

To be honest I would expect a 2014 next gen AAA title to surpass a 2011 title in many ways, however the Witcher and Elder Scrolls are too different for such a comparison...

Why I dont like Skyrim ? The combat mechanics. It sucks. Damn. IMO combat sucks in Skyrim. I like fast paced and dynamic combat with variety.

If some people here played KingdomsOfAmalur, maybe they'll understand. KoA combat is so good, much more dynamic and enjoyable and a lot of variety.

CDPjkt devs said they'll improve TheWitcher combat mechanics, making it more fluid, more dynamic. In TW2, it was just "roll, attack, roll, attack". Not many options to change your playstyle. I hope they do. Introducing a "parry" mechanic would surely improve dynamism of the combat.

As much as I respect CD Projekt RED, I just can't get into The Witcher series. I played both games, but I wasn't compelled to keep playing them (but The Witcher 2 looked amazing in 3D with 3D Vision).

the witcher is one of my most higly anticipated games, but it will never be a skyrim killer, you can hardly compare elder scroll games with other titles. They are very unique games with alot of possibilities and alot of different play styles.
That's why alot of people don't understand how to play the game.

Pretty much anything's a Skyrim killer at this point, unless you played it on the PC with the modding community, it just wasn't that great of a game on consoles.

The Witcher 3 looks promising regardless, my only experience with the series was a Gaikai demo of #2 & I enjoyed the combat.

Skyrim is terrible, even with mods. Can't believe so many people like it

TW3 won't let my wife create a female mage character (or ANY character, for that matter), and ultimately become a master thief-mage, who can command...and kill...dragons. So no.

Doubtful.

Skyrims underlying plot is classic choose your own adventure lore. You can get lost just discovering the very ground you walk. The Witcher story, works off dark and brooding scenarios. I like them both

Skyrim was the victim of dumbing down and there are a load of ways to exploit the broken leveling system but the Witcher franchise doesn't come close.

TW2 was a major step back imo. The combat was reduced to rolling and mashing attack whereas it was a cool and unique timing based combat in the original. The controls are also terrible compared to the first game and for some reason, the camera is focused on Gerault instead of the 10 enemies that surround you in every fight. The targeting is broken. The leveling system is broken meaning the first 10 or so hours are brutal but you become a god late game. Oh...and stealth only works half the time due to the crappy controls...

The only improvements I can think of are the graphics and having actual relationships instead of those ridiculous cards.

The Witcher 2 was a mess but the original was brilliant.TW2 is basically a harder version of Dragon Age 2.So many little things brought the game down for me. I mean, how do you add a tutorial that's worse than just winging it?

So I am interested in how TW3 turns out. Hopefully they fix the combat and some of the other issues that killed the last game (which inexplicably received rave reviews).

Stupid, it doesn't need to kill anything. Witcher has its own lore and advantages. Honestly, it isn't even the same style of RPG. Stupid comparison.

Skyrim is nothing like Witcher 2 so not really.

Over 50% is PC. RE9 was the same

From this moment henceforth, Xbox hardware shall simply just exist but have no significant bearing from a business standpoint or from a gamer culture standpoint. It will simply be there for the people that want to have it and that's fine if they're selling it at a high price and actually making money off each sale.

But they should never ever again be Xbox fanboys anymore than they should be Lenovo laptop fanboys it's just a piece of hardware that exists to serve a purpose for niche group of people.

I’ll say this. Cyberpunk had a tumultuous start on console. Even if it had sold like crazy, that whole almost unplayable fiasco and being given no questions asked refunds made a lot of people not look back.
When it comes to PC, people are a lot more forgiving of things like that, especially on Steam, because of the return policy. I really think console manufacturers should implement the exact same refund policy. Was it played under X time? Refund it. It makes people take that risk on games a LOT more than on console. Bought this game and it was broken? Refund it. They said they fixed it 3 months later? Buy it again. It’s fixed but just not fun? Refund it. On console you don’t have that luxury. Was it downloaded? GG. No refund. Lord knows my Steam library is full of “I’ll try it” games that I loved and I’m glad I can take a rush on. On console, specifically PlayStation because I’m not buying Xbox games, I take calculated risk. Known developers. Shinobi, Ninja Gaiden ragebound, stuff like that. Obviously big exclusives and games too. I would have never tried Little Bookstore on PlayStation, but on Steam… why not? Hellish Quart? Why not. Buckshot Roulette? Why not.

this is why console sales matter, folks.