As you and other wise individuals say it, if there is something you're good at, that you're a specialist in, stick too it and make it better. And man, many of the decisions in the Witcher make Ornstein and Smough fight look like a square dance.
TW2 showed combat was certainly not the most important aspect of the game in both titles, as the players were given an option of easy, medium and hard. In contrast, the games challenge and combat is an enormous part of Dark Souls. Two similar goals, to different ways of achieving them. Newton and Leibniz anyone (well not quite an apt comparison but... />) Though I see both as playing a CRUCIAL role as the next step in the Genre. These are indeed the Lewis and Clark of this my generation. I guess Planescape and Ultima were Erik the Red, and MaGellan />