With worse Quests and Characters. 

Perks were Nice, useless, but nice. 

They need to Fix the loot system too. One of the few game where i dread opening a Chest. 12 Gold coins and a piece of cloth. Im one of those guys who just has to open and loot everything too  

The witcher is amazing XD  They are amazing developers and are for gamers unlike some developers which is why this comment shocks me because they usually dont say things like this.  Or at least that im aware of

How could I forget Lydia. Stupid wench.

For me The Witchers > TES.

i agree. skyrim was a glitchy soulless mess.

Being generic got them great sales though. Generic stuff seems to sell as long as you do it first or best.

Or you know they are making an open world RPG and they are explaining the lessons learned from the market leader in the genre. And explaining the areas that they thought were lacking and they can improve apon.

Your lack of knowledge doesn't really have any baring on the intentions of the developers when making comparisons to Skyrim. I don't think anyone can honestly say that their assesment of the strengths and weaknesses of Skyrim are anything but spot on. They are making an Open World RPG comparisons to Skyrim and Bethesda games in general are innevitable. Personally I find the honesty in assessing the competition in the genre from TES, Fallout: NV, Gothic (yes they discussed multiple games not just Skyrim) etc is refreshing in a world where Devs usually have to talk through a thick PR barrier which prevents them from saying anything negative. And honestly they have said more negative things about their own last game than they have Skyrim. This is just another case of sensationalist gamz jurnzalizzim that has taken quotes out of context to generate hits.

I wouldn't say generic, but overrated is more like it.

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.