eskiMoe said:One word.
Mods.
The only reason why I played the game.
I agree. While Skyrim wasn't nearly as bad as Oblivion mods make the game 1000X better. The only thing that I want to see desperatly in Witcher 3 is first person view. There is a mod that lets you have a pseudo first person view in Witcher 2 and the game looks fantastic from that perspective although obviously its a bit wonky since it wasn't designe that way from the get go.
An open world game can make a game several times better than it could be as an "RGP on rails" I like those games for a one time play but since there is no room to explore or just go off and do random crap it loses its charm after the first play through. Morrowind is arguable one of the best RPGs (despite the combat) ever made. It was designed for PCs, didn't hold your hand and treat you like a toddler. At the same time you could literally finish the main quest in under 11 minutes (youtube videos showing the metagaming) or you could spend hundreds of hours on a character (mods help alot in that game as well) and never touch the main quest. Skyrim is alot better than Oblivion but I have only done the mainquest twice and I have over 600 hours in that game. Sometimes exploring is alot more fun that redoing scripted quests no matter how good they might be.