My biggest fear with The Witcher 3....

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Mummelmann said:

I found the combat in the first game to be a lot more automated; the blazing symbol mechanic for combo and chain attacks paired with the animations made it a lot less immersive than TW 2's system imo.

I've also noticed that they removed the roll from TW 3, but I found that Geralt seems to move incredibly quickly in combat stance; he seems able to skip several meters backwards in less than a second and his strafing is out of this world. Then again; he's not a human so it might be fitting. Overall; I think the combat in The Witcher 3 looks amazing, and the sum of all the mechanics, the size of the world and the seeming life and variety of it all gives me high hopes. This is the first title in a couple of years that has me truly excited, most of my recent favorites has sort of just jumped me out a dark alley (like Mount & Blade, Eador: Masters of the Broken World and Bastion).

That's the obvious explanation for all this He is not a human, he's capable of things impossible for human beings. The fact that he's a universally feared and hated mutant is the staple of the whole world, plot and everything the game and (especially) books revolve around.