Now in fairness Skyrim was my first open world gaming experience and like sex, no matter how bad it was you're always going to remember it as being pretty good - but that said I still think that in terms of the gameplay Skyrim has the edge. Don't get me wrong, I love Geralt (not literally but....
) and his bawdy adventuring - but half (plus) way through, with a thousand secondary objectives that bring little progression in terms of exp etc left to complete, I'm getting a bit worn down by it. Frankly, and this is a thing that never happened in Skyrim, I'm simply getting a bit bored with it.One problem is that I'm a completion purist. It bugs me to see those little boxes with red X's in them, to see quests left undone, to have quests failed etc. I've tried to complete each side quest as I reach the given or similar level (this maximises exp and makes for a more satisfying level of competition from the game) but it's been really difficult - I pick up loads of quests either way above my level or down below it - and it's taking forever. I imagine I've played hundreds of hours already - twelve plus weeks at an average of say two a day - and I'm not taking forever to do each quest, but I'm simply seeming to add more and more quests as I complete the ones I already have. In consequence I'm not getting through the main story at a satisfactory rate. In Skyrim there seemed to be more balance achieved between main and side quest activity, though looking back I do now remember that I did indeed complete the main quest significantly before completing all of the side quests. Perhaps this is the route I should take now with the Witcher. I'll think about it and let you know how I've decided to proceed!
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