Mummelmann said:
He's right, it is. Quests are mostly boring and repetetive (go into tomb, kill dead guys or go into fort, kill bandits or necromancers etc). The whole conflict between Imperials and Nords seemed tiny and inconsequential, the main story is thirteen on the dozen and the whole series suffer from the same problem as the newer Fallout games; a large open world not worth exploring.
You'll find interiors that look the same, they contain the same enemies and loot.
Skyrim is a lot better than Oblivion in this regard but there's still something to be said for smaller, more compact world with a lot more diversity, there's a long way to go.
The Gothic series beats the Elder Scrolls in many ways here.
The Witcher 2 does seem a lot more unique, its miles ahead on dialogue, story, characters (name a single person you cared about in Skyrim, they're all cardboard cut-out's), the combat is tons better, the alchemy and magic system is more difficult and balanced, the economy is challenging, some quests are actually hard, its near impossible to become overpowered, Skyrim is teeming with bugs etc.
Not to mention how much better it looks, to think that Skyrim arrived a full six months after The Witcher 2 and basically looks like shit in comparison is sad. Yes, Skyrim is free roam and open world, still no excuse for textures from 2000 (we're talking the flat and unflattering fare from the original Deus Ex here), animations that make the early Pinocchio seem limber and physics and nature with no logic, depth or any kind of sense and direction.
Skyrim is, along with so many other 7th generation games, incredibly, massively overrated. The Witcher 2 is brilliant, its a lot more linear than Skyrim but that's a good thing, there's no sense in having a vast open world if there's nothing worthwhile to do in it, unless you count visiting 200 places with three module sets of textures and five enemies and picking flowers, worthwhile.
Also, the "perk" system and new skill tree in Skyrim is ridiculous, the UI is ghastly and the overall mechanics are so watered down that one might as well stop calling it an RPG at all. APG is more like it, Action Playing Game. Or CIMPG, Clusterfuck Inventory Management Playing Game.
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