Its fair to say I was blown away when trailers came out. From Witcher 1 to 2, the evolution is enormous, going from a click based combat to fully dodge and roll with a small combo system. Now we (ES fans) all know the tricks to win fights against NPCS, you either fill them with arrow while on stealth and then finish them off, or pick a high place where they cant reach easily and spam strong attacks until those highly inflated enemies (scaling in Skyrim is ridiculous) are dead.Īs for the witcher series they are the opposite of ES games. With the Elder Scrolls game you don't expect much in terms of "evolution" of combat, its stiff linear and iirc the only thing they added to Skyrim was being able to control secondary spells on the non-primary hand. I played Oblivion until Exhaustion and once a year i check back into skyrim for a few modded runs and played the Witcher series since the 1st game came out. I don’t want to make this a Skyrim vs Witcher 3 thing as I both love those games but I can’t think of any contemporaries which would bolster my argument. It’s incongruous to me that there are people who lost interest in the Witcher 3 because of the combat but praises Skyrim to high heavens despite its combat. Now, don’t get me wrong, The Witcher 3’s combat devolves most of the time in rolling/dodging until there’s an opening to strike, rinse and repeat, but it sure as hell’s a lot more involved than Skyrim’s left-click, left hand, right-click, right hand combat. I could understand that standards have changed since those four years but everyone in the staff (except Vinny) fell off it because of its combat even though every thing else is on par or even in some respect, surpasses Skyrim.
The Witcher 3 has been universally praised for everything except its combat and I always wondered why because just four years before, Skyrim came out and blew everyone’s mind although its combat is nothing to write home about either. Inspired by the recent Bombcast, I wanted to ask this question: Why does The Witcher 3’s combat get a lot of flak especially when compared to its contemporaries?
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