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Even though Bethesda RPGs have worse writing, worse graphics, worse gameplay, worse animations and more bugs than their AAA WRPG competitors, they have a certain charm that you don’t find in The Witcher or Dragon Age or even (perhaps controversially) Fallout: New Vegas.
I think it’s something about the idea of being a genuine tourist in a huge world full of all kinds of in-progress storylines for you to get involved in. Characters in Bioware or CDProjekt RPGs are real participants in the worlds they inhabit; even side quests usually tie back to the main ‘theme’. The main story is 30-50%, if not more, of these games’ quality content. In Bethesda worlds, the main story is like 5% of the content. You’re much more free, and your character feels more free, to ‘live another life’ in those games, and to go on all kinds of adventures, rather than primarily the main plot. It’s more of an ‘adventure of the week’ game.
The Witcher is like prestige TV, but Skyrim has the patina of an excellent and long-running procedural; less exciting, and perhaps less grand, but with a comfort and a joy of its own.
Like he said, The Witcher and Skyrim are very similar in some ways but have different strengths and weaknesses. Skyrim is less coherent and consistent because it's trying to make many different characters possible to play where as The Witcher really has one main path with few deviations. I loved both but they do different things, just like how I can enjoy a 6 season show that meanders around and a 10 episode show that's a tight contained plot.
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