“Skyrim was generic” says Witcher 3 game Director

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Snovalo said:

It's a great game with generic tendencies.

It's characters and quests were definitely generic and unmemorable....

It's combat system lacked any real depth, but still incredibly fun in its simplicity...

It's been awhile, but the story was pretty close to generic ish too iirc....

But besides those flaws, the game is fucking fantastic....

 

Yes, they should learn from their flaws, but also learn from their strengths....

If they want to look at skyrim as generic, they should definitely not ignore what makes it great at the same time, else they could have a unremarkable game themselves

“Exploring of the world is cool…and for sure we need to learn from them, how to make an open world – how to make the feeling of open world.”

they talk more about it in the video, but they very much are trying to take lessons from what Skyrim did well.