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In the Witcher 3, You're stuck playing Gerald. In Skyrim you can roleplay pretty much any character you want.
But it's the modding community of Skyrim that wins this battle hands down for me. It gives the game infinite replayability that the Witcher 3 just cannot compete with.
Massive new land mods, armors and weapons, new quests lines, even expansion size mods like Falskaar and Wyrmstooth, to total conversion mods like Enderal, that in fact just got an English release less than 24 hours ago. You can get it at enderal.com
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And i think i am actually more excited for the Daggerfall(Unity) remastered than ESVI
The Elder Scrolls is the best at allowing you to choose how to interact with the world by choosing what kind of character to build and how to go about exploring the world. On the downside, the main storyline in each of the ES games is pretty "meh" and the graphics of this series, due to the engine which is long past its useful lifespan, are pretty atrocious.
The Witcher series takes ES weaknesses and makes it their primary strength. The stories are just fantastic, even the side stories. Full of character, emotion and depth. There are few or no flat characters in a Witcher game unlike Ulfric Stormcloak or General Tullius who are flat as piece of paper. Unfortunately, you can only play as Geralt (and a little as Ciri) and his skill sets are nothing to get excited about unlike the vast choices in ES.
So just like the argument between Star Wars and Star Trek fans, I'm going to be Switzerland here and remain neutral. I love SW and ST both equally, and for completely different reasons, and the same of TES and Witcher.
Witcher 3 is a good, but very stagnant game that won't ever change or be updated. No content will ever be made for it. Its pretty much dead in terms of development.
That makes Skyrim vastly better than Witcher 3 could ever be, because Skyrim will always have development and keep on growing. Well until the next Elder Scrolls, but even then, content will keep being made for Skyrim (like Morrowind and Oblivion).
Witcher 3 will be dead far sooner (barely anyone plays it as it is, compared to early on. But tons of people still play Skyrim) than Skyrim will, even though Skyrim came out quite some time ago.
Games that allow modding (Bethesda games, Starbound as two good examples) are far better successes than non-moddable games. I DID have a lot of fun with Witcher 3, but then the fun stops. The game becomes dead. Stagnant. Never changing. Where as, Skyrim and Starbound I have so much added to it (especially Skyrim), it rivals many MMOs in terms of content.
Bethesda knows how to make good games that people will play for a long time. The guys behind Witcher 3 knew how to make a good game, but a game that has a short lifespan.
My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul
The whole "Vs" is kinda pointless, since it's like apples vs oranges. As @H0urg1ass detailed, they use a totally different approach. ES clearly wins the character building and the open gameplay (not to mention the massive mod support), and can win those because of the fairly average writing, which never was their main goal.
Witcher has a great writing, story, characters, etc. (especially if you like the novels too), but that takes its toll on the free character building, the open gameplay. Not even W3 has the vastness of the ES games, but Witcher's main focus is on the story anyways. (and as the video says, the first Witcher was like being on the rails
Whether you prefer Skyrim over W3 is another story tho...up to each own.
I must of went to half a dozen stores, and nobody had it in stock or it was sold out. I was about to give up but then I went into a small hobby shop on the way back. In the back where all the board games and D&D stuff was, there was a small shelf with a few PC games on it. And guess what was there staring me right in the face. Daggerfall! I grabbed the box and was like wtf 80 bucks? At that point I didn't care, I bought it and went back to campus for my next class.
I remember sitting at the back of the class, opening up the box and reading the manual. That fresh new cardboard box smell. Ah how I miss it.
Not everyone will like playing both games - we all have preferences - but we should celebrate both.
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