so what about skyrim vs the witcher?

Skyrim won with OP.

I would say get the Witcher 2 now and while you play the heck out of it Skyrim gets fixed with patches and mods from the community. When you get Skyrim later you will have a more refined game and a huge selection of mods.

My vote is for Witcher 2 as well at the moment, as Skyrim is quite bugged.
I would suggest, get Witcher 2 now, play it until you have finished it and maybe Skyrim is patches well enough until then. You would get it cheaper by that time anyway (okay, depending of how many hours you play a day *gg*)

I'm not getting Skyrim for another five months or so. From what I've played, the interface is a horrible, horrible mess, and there are quite a few other aspects that need fixing. It's probably up to the modding community, as usual.

Morrowind and Oblivion are two games that will always be installed on my PC. (along with hundreds of mods). However, I won't buy skyrim unless the DRM is removed. I'm also not happy with the lawsuit. It wreaks of a greedy cash grab at someone else's expense from a company that was already doing quite well. Additionally, the DRM is a hard sell given how well Oblivion sold with a simply CD check. They should know better than any how little DRM was needed for their products.

Some folks just want to enjoy a good game. I bet Skyrim will be good, but I won't know unless they convince me the company behind the games is worth investing in.

On the other hand Witcher 2 pulled DRM out when every company under the sun is racing to put it in. They also release new free content when other companies either stop development completely on older products, or try and charge for an expansion or DLC.

So in simple terms of choosing to give my money to a company for its efforts to customer satisfaction, I see one company doing things that harm consumers and in some ways the industry as a whole, and another company doing things to reward consumers for being their customers. Skyrim may be the best game since pong, but I'll not find out when they can't behave as a company.

I don't expect everyone to agree, but these are my reasons.

Incidentally, I'd drop about $100.00 U.S right now for a Skyrim collector's edition if it was 100% DRM free. That is my biggest drawback, and it only strengthens my reservations about the legal issues with the word "scrolls".

/IMHO.

I have been a fan of the series for a while and was really dissatisfied with the menu at first, being really used to the old menus. The quality of the gameplay and level of immersion allowed me to forget about this problem quickly. I am not trying to convince you to pick it up right away but I know what you mean and it dissapeared really fast.

Witcher 2

I played skyrim today and oh gawd its terrible UI is the most consolised POS i have ever used and the gameplay is pretty crap too, Also im unsure about this but i dont think theres any hot keys.... Im sure there not stupid enough to miss that

Hmm. I found this :

http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15803