Both games can be compared based on similar features, such as the open world. Lets do some brainstorming here:
- The witcher has an open world as do SkYRIM .. however for some reason the map of witcher is quite bigger than the skyrim's. However the scale of all things in SKYRIM looks enormous, mountains, reivers, ponds, paths, EVERYTHING. Whil in w3 large open world ... but with some many downscale mountain peaks, rivers, ponds ... everythin in w3 world seems tobe like shrank. I dunno for example I look from a distance the biggest mountain on skillega but when actually go near it ... it is so small I dunno I have this feeling
- In w3 you're already predetermined character and in SKYRIM you choose who or what to be. All the rest plays the same, quest giving, quest executing quest finishing. It is just that in SKYRIM it is so streamlined and weak story telling. while in witcher the side quests compared to side quests of skyrim .. sorry but bethezda have a lot to learn.
- Actually the story of skyrim V is a cliche... sorry but I am also an elders scrolls fan and oblivion and morrowind were much better in every aspect, except graphics of course.
I play skyrim because of the setting and that I can be anybody and just explore the world for the sake of it, but the main reason for replaying the game is not the QUEESTS or the story IT IS DUO TO THE MOD ability of the game. Where the tools give creators the freeedom to invent whole main story quests. This is where w3 is lacking in terms of modding.
I WISHED really wish that CD RED can give to the community the tools to create more additional content, not only visuals, sound or gameplay tweaks.
FOR EXAMPLE - I love and adore VELEN region especially with STLM and Project destiny ... it is like the game never being downgraded with the lighting ... SUCH ATMOSPHERE such immersion. However, I wished that we had the tools to create quests. So anybody may create any kind of quests for specific region ... for example I would love to pay some kind of monthly subscription just to have some kind of CD red supported fan made quests for the reagions. The fans of SKILLEGA to have constant new quests approved by CD red the fans like me to have interesting quests for VELEN region and all that from fans to fans. For sakes .. something like CONTRACT but made by the community THAT WOULD BE SO AWESOME.
All in all w3 an SKYRIM are different in only 1 way, in skyrim you choose who or what to be and in w3 you already know who and what you are. The rest is the same:
- you decide how to approach main quests or side quests
- you explore the world how you want
- you craft shit (well in skyrim much more as being a gameplay mechanic and in skill tree)
- IN both games we have great story lines, but executed in different manner.
For example I played the main story of SKYRIM ONLY ONCE but still play it for the never finished side quests and for the mods and the world I can mod on and then again to explore IT IS freaking fun. I will play the main story line of witcher for the 4th time cuz I can play and the turn out and finish will be SOOOO ridiculously different than the other.
It might seems contradicting, but in SKYRIM you have like WARRIOR way, mage way and of course an ARCHER way of completing the quest. and to be honest mage or warrior with one or two handed is fuking boring. STEALTH ARCHER ... damn you can never get tired of watching that arrow in slow mo from 190782301981 meters hitting the knee of the imperial soldier. ARCHER in skyrim, everything else seems so boring, mage boring because of the horrendous console UI event with SKES script that didn't help much cutting the action of the game by oppening menus so frequently.
BUT IN w3 you have one characted but so different ways of playing the game, you can go with only swords skills, only sign skills, or with potion skills ... or you can mix all of them or just part of them and each time the game play so freaking different, especially when you play only on DEATH MARCH ...
1st play On patch 1.08
2nd play on pastch 1.12
3rd replay on patch 1.22.
4rth platy to come now with patch 1.31 I damn it will be so different I will play the quests so differently and will be a whole lot different experience where that in SKYRIM is the SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME with one play of the game. BEcasue you may choose at the end to become a a mage ... yeeeeey not that it is bad ... but it takes from the thrill.
and each patch of w3 played so differently.
SO CD RED if you are able please gives us the tool like we have in skyrim to create content from fans to fans that woudl be so awesome I would create so many interesting little quests just dedicated for my favorite region >..... VELEEEEEEEN .. cuz there is no other place like VELEN
and finally the w3 mod community is not that active... cuz after patch 1.22 barely my fav mods are updated for patch 1.31... which is kind of sad
CD RED don't let community loos interest in this mod ... cuz they can keep the sales of the game on a good ratio