For starters The Witcher video games are based off of the Polish The Witcher books, six is completely different in their world compared to our real world.

The main storyline quests in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are 100X better than the main storyline quests in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, because the main storyline quests have branching paths with multiple options of choices and consequences you can choose to make.

Ultimately I judge a game by how much playtime I can eek from it. Witcher 3 = done in a week. Fallout 4 and Skyrim = still playing

People, especially PC gamers are playing the PC version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and the PC version of Fallout 4 on PC a lot, because all Bethesda Game Studios developed PC versions of video games have a huge modding community with flexible modding tools, which the PC version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt right now does not.

I still play The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas to this day today still about a few hours a month. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim however, in the next three months will be 1 year since I have not played it. I do occasionally go and look at the The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Nexus mods website section for mods that I might download every now and then.

I can say the same thing as well. I have not been playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for nine months and I can still continue to play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt once I'm off taking a break from playing it.

I honestly don't know how you can continue to play that game, the game has a limited amount of content - and once you're done, that game world is entirely useless to your character.

Unless you're running around playing gwent all day

And that's how it should be at the end of the day. Playing games you enjoy instead of complaining and making comparisons about games you never played.

:/ six is different? Sorceress like banging witchers cause they're sixy and make them tingly...not that different (besides the whole no stds or pregnancy scares). Its a fantasy story, the author liked his character sleeping around so he wrote it that way

And something people don't realize about skyrim when they bash it's story...it never was about the story. Its an exploration/dungeon crawler. Thats not defending it btw, it just honestly never tried to have a branching story or choices. the witcher and skyrim are completely diffferent games, that tried to do completely different things. The witcher has a pretty good main quest, and awesome side quests with a lot of effort put into the writing. Its the major strength of the game imo.

You do know the forums are for people to talk about what they enjoy about playing video games and what they are disappointed about video games having right?

That's why I said it shouldn't be the only factor. There is some connection, but it's not always direct because they're different types of games. I can replay Skyrim ad infinitum, I won't do the same with any Witcher game. I still replay Baldur's Gate, I don't need to replay Planescape: Torment. Doesn't change the fact that they're all excellent cRPGs.


Forum activity: true, but again, TW3 sold millions of copies. I don't know why these players don't post on the official forums, but they have to be somewhere.

What's so different about it? All I've seen are people comfortable with their sixuality and freely engaging in sixual activity for a variety of reasons, all existing in our world. Everyone falling into the main character's bed isn't exactly a new and inspired story.

We get it, we know that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is about exploration and dungeon crawling, but some of us do wish Bethesda Game Studios put more effort into writing storyline quests with choices and consequences like they did for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

I enjoy doing the Dark Brotherhood storyline quests in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion a lot.

All in all I hate Bethesda Game Studios sacrificing the "good" content that they have put in their old previous video games.

There's being disappointed in some aspect of a game you have never played and mentioning it in the game's forum once or twice - hanging around for maybe a day or two, and there's mentioning your disappointment about this aspect in every thread you appear in and even making your own threads about it, and hanging around the game forum of a game you've never actually played yourself for months...

You'd be better off at this stage to just move on and play the game you enjoy.

We don't have sorceresses or witchers who can manipulate our minds to always have six though.

Skyrim has limited amount of content, too. Unless you consider Radiant quests and respawning enemies to be on par with "real" quests.

There's one huge thing that severely limits replay value for me for games like Witcher 3. You are locked into playing a single character type...Geralt. You don't have the choice of creating your own character from scratch and seeing how that character behaves in a game world because the only choice you have is Geralt. Once you've experienced Geralt's story, that's pretty much it unless you want to "reread" it later. Sure, you could give him different choices, but it's still Geralt. If you don't want to play the Geralt character, then tough. It's a huge limitation. It does make it easier to create deeper stories for that character though since the only person that needs to be accounted for is Geralt and his pre-determined background. Only requires a single voice-actor as well.

There's nothing wrong with games like these, of course, and I generally enjoy them very much, but they fill different needs than TES-type games.

So I take it for people who don't play video games that don't have fully customizable male and female Player Characters (PC's), you guys never watch movies? Or read books? Because in movies you can't choose what character you want to be and in some books you can't fantasize the character you want to be.

What story? Tes 3-5 has no choice and a linear main quest (not counting the back path in morrowind if you bork the story). They have always been games about exploration and dungeon crawling. That said i wish they would make a game with more choice and go back to the better story telling that was in the faction quests of oblivion.

It's the modability of the game that ultimately gives it lasting appeal. I love games you can mod to your tastes.

Also there are a ton of twisting quests in Skyrim, sending you all over the place (and you can do them in any order). Makes it feel more complex and freeform.

I do watch movies and read books and enjoy them very much, but I typically don't watch the *same* movie over and over for *years* like I do with TES games and the sandbox Fallout games.

Witcher 3 is like a movie or book that you can enjoy once and maybe reread/rewatch on occasion. TES/Fallout are like virtual worlds available for continuous exploration by a variety of characters.

The "this character has died and the story is severed" message pop up, that's a consequence for the stories you pay if you kill important quest NPC's in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, then there is you can't be a jack-of-all-trades person when you join guilds in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

Then there are some quests that have really nice written text that you can read in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. I also loved that one quest where you go into the light house at Seyda Neen at night to spy on the guy who has "somone's" Gold.

Then there is the Dark Brotherhood main quest storyline that I absolutely enjoy so much to do in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

It's strange to be disappointed by something you never experience and make comparisons about things you know nothing about.

I make comparisons about the dialogue wheel in Fallout 4, because I know for a fact I will be disappointed in it because I have been let down in other video games that have had it other than the Mass Effect video games, which I think are ok with the 4 choices dialogue wheel.

Then there is the removal of the armor and weapons degradation system in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which I absolutely hate so I know I will absolutely hate it in Fallout 4.

I want to maintain repairing my armor and weapons. I don't want my armor and weapons to be invincible.

This is a curious thing for me: I always think it's going to be a deal-breaker and that I'm going to hate playing as Geralt instead of my own character, especially as even if I can't specify my own, I prefer at least playing as female characters. But every time I find myself surprised at just how much I enjoy playing as him. I guess we also got the chance to play as Ciri this time around too, though since that was probably about 2% of the game, it doesn't really count!

I played Geralt as I would any game I owned and found I had to play a male character in, but didn't like him, or his attitude and the dumb things he says, or the very male game world.

All that makes me like Witcher series a lot less than I otherwise might like it. I play it and enjoy the game, but also dislike it greatly at the same time.

From that perspective I feel that I in particular "should" dislike that overall vibe, and that is what I expect to feel, but surprisingly I always really get into it. I guess the story and world are well enough constructed to carry it off even though it isn't otherwise ideal, at least for me.

I'm not sure if that actually made any sense. My excuse is that I got up at 5am because I'm an idiot and I'm consequently unable to think.

I have to agree with Tawnee on this one. Ballows, You had a fair point in your response to me on page one of this thread but you consistently say how much you dislike the game all the way back to November. It's over and over and over and over.