You do you. I quit The Witcher 1 after around the same time because I couldn't keep up with the endless stream of long winded quests that weren't really interesting at all, accompanied by cookie cutter melee gameplay. I mean what is the very last thing I want to do in a fantasy RPG? Using melee. And especially switching swords every 5 seconds due to contrived reasons to make the combat slightly less shallow.
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