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Which RPG is better? Skyrim or The Witchers 3; The Hunt?


Me and my friends had a "mild discussion" about which RPG game is better,
Skyrim or The Witchers 3.

I have played Skyrim and Oblivion before and some of the Fallout series.
Things escalated even more quickly right after they started chatting *beep* about Skyrim about it's graphics compared to The Witchers. I say "No *beep* its because Skyrim is old gen and The Witchers is new." Long story short, I just wanna know about other peoples opinion
and it would be even more cooler if you have played both of the games
I haven't played any of The Witchers franchise but if its as good as what people say about it, I might buy it.. maybe.

So.. which game is better, Skyrim or The Witchers?

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All of them is best RPG game. But should vote for The Witcher series.
:))
1. The Witcher
2. Oblivion
3. Skyrim
4. Fallout

Just my opinion

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To go with sankmollen's post, here my 4:

1. Skyrim
2. Fallout 3
3. Oblivion
4. The Witcher

Not saying The Witcher is a bad game but Skyrim has won over 200 GOTY awards... It sort of speaks for itself

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Witcher 3
See for yourself: https://youtu.be/x1CB-dr5u7c


"Relics of ancient times. Lonely cenotaphs. Standing along that melancholy tideland."

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I choose Skyrim!

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I'm not even a big fan of either and I've played them both. I say Skyrim because I can make my character and go all over without being forced to play a bland and boring guy and without being forced to have to sexualize every conversation with a woman that I meet. Sorry, but Tris is boring and there is nothing interesting, in my opinion, about the Witcher characters. I prefer the Skyrim characters over them and even then I didn't feel those characters had much of a personality. I like how big the world is in the Witcher 3, as well as how pretty the graphics are, but that's it. I'm more of a Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age and Mass Effect and Neverwinter Nights fan.

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Seems like we have the same taste!!

I'm forcing myself to play witcher because of its popularity and i had already finished witcher 1 and thought the twist was great. But everything else... gameplay, characters, storyline overall, were just sooo mediocre... i find the game highly overrated.

I do love skyrim, but i never finished the storyline... also didn't interest me enough.
The modding community made me love the game, but on its own, i couldn't play it.

ANYWAY, I've only played dragon age from the ones you've mentioned...
Do you have any suggestion for a game with equally strong character development/interaction, and a decent storyline and gameplay? (I tried Mass Effect for 5 minutes but couldn't get into it, plus i heard people bitching about the ending... should i give it another shot? Also never heard of Baldur's Gate)

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Sorry, but Tris is boring and there is nothing interesting, in my opinion, about the Witcher characters.

Only if you judged them based on their appearance and sexual appeal and missed all of their meaningful interactions with the world. Triss is an old friend of Geralt and a member of the Lodge of Sorceresses. The conflict between her loyalty to an ideal, her conviction to protect the sovereignty of the Lodge and her infatuation with the Witcher makes Triss rather unpredictable at times. Every move they both made in pursue of the answer is morally gray and any "right choice" the player chose might simply be moving a pawn from one corner to another in a political chessboard. But I guess you missed all this.

This reaction reminds me of people who at the first sight of naked female on a bed think an adaption of Shakespeare must be porn. While other people who actually read and understand the lore of the Witcher series know that their characters have the same level of depth as ones of fantasy literature. The only game I've played that could come close in characters building and story telling is probably some late 90s interactive visual novel like Planescape Torment. I would still consider this classic inferior to TW3 simply because it tried too hard to push the anti-Tolkien tropes and lacked the interplay between political intrigue with mysticism that the Witcher novels and games excel at (for those who actually understand the story of these games anyway, not those who just *click click* to kill monsters and *click click* to see tits)

I can understand how the feminists or lgbt crowd, who are triggered by sexualization of females in any way, truly hated this game, because they actually have to roleplay a character from literature, and all his qualities became boring because for them the only interesting character is the one they could identify with. Trust me, with this view you wouldn't be able to appreciate a vast majority of human's creative works, aside from some very genre specific videogame like waifu simulator.




Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? - Winnie the Pooh


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@Grey-Phantom- I would suggest trying Mass Effect again simply because it's one of the few games in the style of Dragon Age. The Baldur's Gate series has won tons of awards and I really loved it a lot, so you might like it. Besides that series, other games you might find cool would be- Planescape Torment, Neverwinter Nights, Bound By Flames, Fallout, Fallout 2, and Kingdoms of Amalur: The Recknoning. They're only games I know of with character development/interaction as well as storyline. Gameplay-wise, some are top down and some are third person, but you might just find one you like.

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