@nprezzo: Maybe he was talking about The Witcher 3's boring, repetitive copy and pasted quests where you talk to a NPC, use Witcher vision, follow a blood trail and kill a monster. Rinse and repeat, over and over and over in one of the three world environments found in the game.
@turbojugend16: Hmmm I played Skyrim to completion and probably played for 250+ hours, I saw a Mammoth clip on to a tree for a second or two, I saw the infamous backwards flying dragon for about 3 seconds before it corrected itself. The game froze a few times in that 250+ hours but that's about it. Nothing gamebreaking though as I 100% completed the game and all of its expansions. I did get a bug in W3 where I didn't get xp for main quests, having lost about 5000xp before I realised the bug I couldn't progress the main story as I was under levelled (on Death March), so I waited a week and a half for the patch. That was game breaking for me. W3 also had a tonne of glitches but I wasn't too bothered as I understand open world games. Its impossible to test every scenario.
@the_stunkard: I've read some books and watched some movies that would give The Witcher 3 a run for its money in terms of storytelling but its a game. You're right, it has excellent writing but its 'gameplay' is where it falls short, don't get me wrong, its not terrible, far from it, but its open world gameplay, rewards and exploration doesn't come close to Bethesda games.
@verysalt: The benchmark in storytelling. Absolutely. That's it though.
Theft was done better in any Bethesda game. World item interaction was and is still the benchmark in Bethesda games, you couldn't pick up and move an object in The Witcher 3, how is that a 'benchmark'? NPC AI is better in Bethesda games,NPCs also travel and move around the world, they are more or less stationary in W3. Character creation? Nope, W3 couldn't manage that one either. Housing, nope can't do that either, they couldn't even give you chest storage until a patch weeks after release. Item modification and crafting is also far better in Bethesda games, F4 looks to blow even themselves out of the water.
I'm really sorry but The Witcher 3 did not set the benchmark at all outside of story telling and Bethesda aren't slouches in that department either.
@rolento25: The PC is a great platform for emails, databases and spreadsheets but I really don't think gaming is its strong point unfortunately. Consoles have taken gaming to levels that the PC just can't match.
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