Keep rolling them. Don't care, guy. People will just be like "Witcher 3 is bad because combat is bad. Feelsbadman"
Most of them never really explain why. It's bad compared to what? Skyrim? Combat in Witcher obliterates those ES games. It's not even close. Objectively speaking
I beg to differ. Clearly, the basic melee mechanics are better in
The Witcher, wowever, I think it's difficult to compare
The Witcher's combat, which is primarily focused on sword attacks and dodges with the occasional power/comsumable, to
Skyrim's which is entirely freeform. Sure, a melee dragonborn will be stuck doing the same lame dance of hitting, backing off, and hitting again, but that's not all you can do. Mages will be figuring out good spell combinations, stealth people will be finding every nook to hide in, and even melee people occasionally have the chance to plan their route of attack. That said, none of the combat paradigms in
Skyrim are that great, but the fact I can freely switch between them means I can more readily find a combat loop that I find most fun.
But what
Skyrim (and other well-designed open world games, but
Skyrim to a greater degree than most) has over
The Witcher 3 is a far greater degree of emergent combat scenarios. I'm not talking about individual encounters; those definitely suck. No, what
Skyrim has over
The Witcher 3 is a world explicitly designed to enhance the game, not just house content. In
The Witcher, I'm never going to run into a band of Stormcloaks, quickly become outmatched, run headlong into a bear, lead that immortal beast into the middle of the Stormcloak hoard, and then find some river to hide in. This may not happen very often in
Skyrim, but it happens enough that any given playthrough is bound to have a few unique memorable moments. Ultiamtely,
Skyrim works, not because its base mechanics are any good. They really aren't. It works because the world itself is part of the gameplay. This simply isn't the case in
The Witcher.
