Witcher 2 or Skyrim

Agree!

I agree. m playing witcher 1 itself is far better than skyrim.skyrim has poor combat system.

Witcher II has a great storyline, atmosphere and is extremely pretty. One of the best cRPGs released in the past few years. The problem however that some parts of it are just terribly designed. It has a whole bunch of "artificial difficulty" including some shoddy combat and the inability to use potions (which should be your greatest resource) inside combat. Plus the boss fights can be a pain in the arse and were more annoying than anything else, plus quick time events (eeewwww).

Skyrim is a Bethesda open-world game. If you've played any of their games you'd already have decided if you like the genre or not. I'm personally not a massive fan and found games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. to have a much better atmosphere, storyline and a world that felt open and "living".
I also believe level scaling is one of the worse things to happen to RPGs.

EDIT: I'm not usually caught up in cut-scenes but that new introduction that was included in the Enhanced Edition has to be one of the best use of CG I've seen in a long time, it's just gorgeous.

The Witcher 2, my dear friend. And then after a some time - Skyrim.

I have both games and I would go with skyrim in terms of the amount of gameplay hours. I had Skyrim for console and put over 320 hours on it before I sold it and bought a PC copy during the summer sale, and I'm still not bored with it. Its not as good as Morrowind or Oblivion but it is still fantastic. With the Witcher 2, (spoilers? Wouldnt really consider this a spoiler)I have only 40 hours on that game over 2 play throughs (one Roche, One Iorveth) and after you do those two, which are the main decisions of the game, there is really no incentive to do another play through. Also, in terms of story, i edge Skyrim. The Witcher 2 story is overrated, and not that great. Skyrims main story isn't that great either, but the faction storylines are very good, and more than make up for the Main story.

Both good games, but very different.

I'd say, pick up the first witcher. If you like the atmosphere, gritty and dark story. Go for W2.

as if recommend oblivion over morrowind for storyline

I got Skyrim on Xbox, haven't touched it in 3-4 months. No replay value without mods.

Witcher's decisions change entire acts. Act 2 can be played with 2 entirely different storyline, on entirely different locations for example. So no, you aren't right about replayability at all.

And I would rather play a game again where the combat system actually WORKS.

Like I said above, Skyrim without mods= NO replayability.

replayability i think skyrim and witcher are the same to me :P
skyrim: empire or rebels
witcher 2: empire or rebels
both sides are different quests and outcomes
skyrim does have a waaaay longer playability overall but both games have my full support:P

if u nevered played /// nevermind

Oh I dare you to kill a chicken and see if nobody gives a shit.

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never played witcher 2 but I hear its great and wanna pick it up soon. Had to play skyrim on xbox cuse computer was dead during that time so the lack of mods didn't help but it got boring.

Plus, some major mods might be in a somewhat complete form by then, so you'll have a better game to play.

I see why you don't get paid for it.

I have played some Skyrim and it was seriously lacking depth. The quests are very uninspired and quite boring so there's not much to do aside from exploring. Skyrim's combat is also awful, not sure if some mods have fixed that.

I haven't played The Witcher 2 so I can't really compare the two. But based on what I've played Skyrim, it's not as good game as people make it seem to be.

apparently you havent seen some of the mods for skyrim :D