I disagree; I have really been enjoying the gameplay.

I actually think the combat is one of the stronger parts of the game. Most of his critiques seem to be minor nitpicks, such as the lack of tutorial and not being able to look at the controls in game, or just plain vague and not explained upon, such as his critique of the combat being only "functional" and "frusterating". The most he touched on that was Geralt taking too long to dodge (which strikes me odd because Geralt has always felt very responsive to me.) or the targeting reticule which can target somebody behind you instead of in front of you, which can easily be rectified by simply pressing ALT as that locks you to your target. Sounds like he was throwing himself into throngs of enemies while playing it like a button mashing hack & slash, and then being surprised.

I think he docked points excessively. I think a good deal of his critiques are due to either his ignorance of the game mechanics or ineptitude game play wise with some of them just being nitpicks in my opinion. If he had mentioned some of the more glaring problems with the game play like the overpowered Quen, underpowered Alchemy, and shorter length than that of The Witcher 1 (Although I doubt he'd know that, seeing as how he seemingly never got past the first part of The Witcher 1) I would take his review more seriously.

mass effect is a shooter though. i'll give you dragon age, the combat in that game is junk. like playing an MMO without the MMO.