The writing and quests are clearly superior in TW3. But people are overlooking one thing: the game doesn't innovate shit and it's just a Bioware game done right. Whatever negative is applicable to the Mass Effects it can also be applied to TW3.
For example TW3 dialogue system is just a better looking dialogue wheel and it's fundamentally the same as the one from F4. Yep, the writing is way better in TW3 but you cannot say this is the best RPG ever when you don't even have full control on what your avatar is saying.
Well, this is easily excusable because you are playing as geralt. Within that characters range youll find you have plenty of options tho. Writing is not merely better, writing is very good to excellent for a very big strech of the game, tho there are some weak parts, its still stellar compared to anything weve gotten in years.
Then the game doesn't give a fuck about your choices and especially the ending is just pulling rabbits out of CDP's ass. At least F4 is more honest in this department because they don't even bother to implement ending slides (probably out of laziness).
Game does give a fuck about your choices tho, you literally shape the world with them. determine the fate of nations, of your own character and of that every mayor character in the game.
But there is one department in which TW3 simply dropped the ball. The combat mechanics are completely shit: over-abusing powers and clicking buttons without any logic whatsoever. There is no rhythm and rarely a specific sign is required. On par with Arkham shit.
Id say arkham shit was better and more fitting for its own setting. But still, combat in TW3 isnt bad, it just isnt good. Its comfortably sitting on that gray area when it rarely bothers you to do it, but it also rarely excites you too.
And this is unacceptable considering that TW3 is combat heavy and it was released in the same year as Dark Souls 2.
Sure, but DS2 has only combat to fall back on, if it botched that itd be the biggest piece of shit of the year. And im still buthurt the game will break physics and logic to track the player and kill it in the most retarded and unfair ways, at the very least the witcher 3 doesnt do that.
To be honest, F4 shooting mechanics are mediocre but they feel way better than TW3.
Well, there are no real shooting mechanics in TW3, only the shitty crossbow, so i dont know what the fuck that even means.
I cannot believe I'm saying this after I struggled with simple aiming in F4 but at least headshots are still skill based.
Like they were in fallout 3. Also you were the one that complained about fallouts 4 combat not being player skill based, so what the fuck.
The world in F4 doesn't make sense therefore TW3 wins by default. On the other hand, F4 is cluttered with loot while TW3 world is cluttered with MMORPG shit quests.
But they arent mmo shit quests, mmo shit quests send to you a field full of respawning enemies to kill X number or kill enemies till Y shit drops, which is exactly what fallout 4 does, the only difference is that fallout 4 does it in a "murder everyone to proceed to the next stage" fashion. All witcher quests have decent context, a lot of them have good dialogue and even some of them have very good surprises in them. But sure, when its a game as big as TW3 there are bound to be lower quality quests, even those have good context.
I somewhat prefer loot to retarded quests - less waste of time.
But fallout 4 is full of retarded quests, every quest is retarded, every piece of loot is retarded, or need i remind you the weapon with unlimited bullets?
Anyway, I don't really care which is better. Neither one of them is providing a good RPG experience.
But witcher 3 is, its providing you with a good RPG experience as a set character.
By what standard?
Witcher 3 can be many things, but bland? =/
That can be said about every single game ever made. But ill agree, witcher 3 is severely flawed in many respects, itemization and character system being particularly big offenders, but also the characterization (or lack of it) of some antagonists.
I understand why someone would prefer one over the other but honestly, I couldn't care less if I never play another Bethesda's Fallout or CDP's Witcher.
Fair enough, but your assessment is still shit.