the combat is amazing! it just has a really high skill cap and steep learning curve. Its almost an art. again, i can kill a monster 50 levels higher then me wihtout getting touched because of parries, dodge, and using the proper signs at the right time. always have the next sign up in the que and watch the meters carefully.

The skill cap is real!

when i've seen others play they just die instantly with barely a hit on the enemy and they are running like a chicken with their heads cut off in random directions.

I felt quite similar.

My friend whom I played the game with instantly loved the game. I just didn't like it.

Then, after quite a few hours, we finally started trying Gwent, which at first we neither really understood nor cared about. And that was the moment I started enjoying the game. To me, Gwent is still easily the best part about Witcher 3, such a brilliant idea for a game in a game. Trying to get more and better cards is the very thing that helped me get through the game, it really got me hooked.

The only downside to Gwent is that it gets a little boring once your card deck has reached a certain quality and one realizes that using spies and decoys is the best strategy, almost guaranteed to win.

Witcher 4 is coming.....

no way? source? ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh if true then im the happiest guy on earth right now.

 Geralt is a dancer on this game and previous games too, you can use light and heavy attack but you never know what's his next move (kinda like the arkham games) You don't get a feeling of  responsiveness. Even with that flaw, it's a masterpiece btw. The combat music alone is enough for me to ignore the combat itself.

I can only ever play Skyrim like games with a mage character. Anything else just isn't interesting to me. Raiding a castle though with my two summoned monsters and watching them rampage trough everyone is pretty fun.