So You Wanna Be a Witcher?

The thing that I really like about Witcher games is that enemies don't scale up and you can always do secondary quests , make your character strong and can come back to kick their asses . It's also perfect way to handle open world and fits perfectly with story driven game . Skyrim was great but main problem of it was that , enemy scales up with you and even in secondary quests you have to travel long distances which opens up entire map and once you are done with them then game becomes little repetitive .

1- Open Map

2- Fast Travel

3- Do Quest

4- Collect reward

In Witcher 3 you'll progress with story , yes you can go to other islands but enemies there will be more difficult and there are point of interest on each island that allows you to explore the island on which you are right now , world opens up as main story progresses .