Witcher 2 is fairly challenging and the prologue level is pretty slow paced (it takes like 3 hours to finish the prologue), so I can understand how that might have dissuaded you. The pacing is alot better later in the game though, and the combat gets alot easier as well.

As for your apathy toward medieval fantasy, I can understand that, there are alot of similarities between medieval fantasy series, but then again the same can be said about sci-fi as well. I'm starting to feel that way about sci-fi, where I feel like most new sci-fi IP are just copying previous sci-fi IP, which leaves me with little desire to play/watch new sci-fi IP. That feeling kept me from playing Mass Effect for years, then some of you guys convinced me to play the ME3 demo recently and I enjoyed it, which made me want to play the whole ME series.

I will say that Witcher is pretty different from other medieval fantasy series though. The tone is darker and more adult, the elves and dwarves both have alot of differences from other medieval fantasy series, there are alot of unique monster designs. The concept of Witchers themselves is pretty unique among medieval fantasy series, there's nothing really like a Witcher in any other medieval fantasy series I've played/watched/read.

I was expecting Game 4 to beat Below, but that's not the case so far. I just don't see the appeal of Below. The character is so tiny I can barely see what's going on on my computer monitor, don't even know how it would be possible to play the game on a tv. The combat is apparently Dark Souls hard combined with permadeath. That combination of difficulty seeing, combat difficulty, and permadeath just sounds frustrating to me. Oh well, to each his own I suppose.

Double sided cover? That'd be interesting. #BlueTeam