Last year i got myself hyped up to play skyrim again and got bored 4 hours into the game,not the mention annoyed from all the bad dialogue so yeah for me personally it did not age well.
As outdated the graphics of the Witcher 3 will get it will still have its amazing dialogue,characters, and storytelling to hold on to and that's making me picking the side of wolfie boy.

Skyrim, but I think each has its upper hand, possibilities in Skyrim and how a small task sidequest could evolve into something so big is why I voted for Skyrim

Skyrim, because VR and mods.

I expected this to be a closer race, but well, there it is.

Love or hate em, they're almost certainly the two most iconic and influential WRPGs of the past decade.

The end of the 2020s we may well be having similar debates over Elder Scrolls 6 vs Witcher 4, lulz. (Oh who am I kidding, Elder Scrolls 6 is clearly coming in the 2030s for PS7 and Xbox Zero)

Has the Witcher 4 been announced lol? On a Serious note, I think Bethesda has some pretty big shoes to fill with the ES6, which is why maybe we have yet to see it. I mean how can they top Skyrim? Apart from that, the genre has some real contenders now like the W3, BotW, HZD, RDR2, etc. It is a different scene from the one they faced when they released Skyrim back in 2011. It will take a lot to impress the masses the same way  they did nearly a decade ago.

Not yet, but I'm sure at some point in the next decade they'll make it given the runaway success of 3 and now the show haha.

And yeah, that's the problem with not only following up such a popular game but also the ever increasing and improving competition, it's getting harder and harder to blow people away. Maybe that's one reason they decided to sit out a whole gen, so the leap would be more dramatic.

Witcher 3 is such a depressing game, in the good way, because it feels very real. All characters are mean to each other, the state of war is constantly present and the curse brought by monsters and other entities is there in every corner. 

Skyrim is a bit soulless with autistic features. The Witcher 3 is a lot more believable both in terms of storyline and character depth. Give me Ciri over Delphine any day.

I'm not not quite sure what you mean here. I hope you're not using it as a synonym for "bad" as that would be rather rude.

Opinions are good, we all like different things

My experience, I played both the enhanced versions on my xbox X, I would choose Skyrim, no questions about it, but I'm a bit different than modern gamers, I like the freedom and I prefer games with gameplay instead of videos and people talking, in witcher I'd be able to lay down the controller for several minutes at a time, and then I would move 10 seconds and have another cutscene for like 5 minutes or more.

I am against this mentality in videogames, I believe story is great but should be quick clips, like uncharted for example, or like several games where they tell the story while you move the character, and I also hate games when you are not allowed to move at speed, when they force you to walk slow while they are talking, its boring, I play games for gameplay, story helps but don't cut me out of the game altogether.

Skyrim is perfection in this, it allows me to play the game and the story is told anyway.

Witcher has several things I hated not just against skyrim but as gaming in general

1 - The quests you get a bunch just on billboards, that's no fun, I prefer to get quest as I'm exploring the world and talking to people

2 - I am forced to be Gerald, I don't want to be Gerald, I want to be myself in the game

3 - You only get 1 single weapon for the whole game, unlike Skyrim and other rpgs where you have a wide range of weapons

4 - If you meditate, anywhere anytime, you just refill your potions, what? That's cheating, and I hate cheating in games, in skyrim if you run out of potions, guess what you need to find them or buy them or craft them, furthermore if you need sleep you need a bed in skyrim, not just any bed either

5 - auto horse riding, seriously? I laughed when I saw that

6 - A lot of combat feels like cheating, just keep spamming Quen and you are always protected, that feels like cheating

7 - Witcher 3 is not a full open world, its in sections

8 - Story is bland, just looking for ciri that's it

9 - To play witcher 3 it helps to have played the previous ones, same characters and such, but skyrim its like its own story

10 - The most important thing in gaming from the very beginning of history of games is FUN, witcher bored me, its too slow and a bit tedious at times, on the other hand, all Elder scrolls are FUN

11 - I hate the witcher sense, basically several missions you have to find something, you just keep following a red arrow, that's it, CHALENGING? Yeah very difficult to just follow a red path for minutes at a time.

12 - They try to put a lot of naked people and sex in the game, because they assume gamers are teens nerds who have never seen a naked girl before, skyrim respects us and treats us like adults

13 - I found the witcher extremely easy on the hardest difficulty, I've been playing games for 30 years I expected a challenge, I think its too easy mostly because you can just spam the signs all the time. Some people find it hard because they don't even bother to learn how to use oils and upgrades and such.

14 - I like in skyrim that you start out from nothing, you have to build up from a very average guy, in witcher you start out with amazing clothes, amazing weapon, amazing skills

15 - You have 2 weapons for different enemy types, but that's pointless because he automatically picks the right weapon for the enemy type, might as well just have 1 sword and call it a day

16 - Skyrim feels more connected, because you can speak with anyone and everyone seems like a character, but in Witcher people are just there for show

17 - You can rob peoples houses with them looking at you, and you wont get arrested, people will still love you

18 - Skyrim has so much more variety, you could play as a swordsman, or totally different game as a bow and arrow, or a totally different game as a wizard. Witcher you play one way and that's that

19 - You can have your own houses in skyrim