I adore Witcher 3. That said I've always said controlling Geralt feels like driving a boat. God help you for the very few instances that you do platforming.

Same here. I really want to like The Witcher 3, but after trying to play it for 10 hours without feeling any enjoyment, I just gave up.

I'm playing mainly western RPG's like that, but I also couldn't get into The Witcher. The gameplay is fine actually (I played way more clunky games with lots of enjoyment). But somehow Gerald just never clicked with me, causing me never to feel really connected to my character and to what's happening.

It's sad because I can notice how good the games are, but I just really cannot get into it.

It took me 3 attempts at starting The Witcher before I eventually got through it. I had just came off of Dark Souls 3 combat, so the combat in Witcher was especially clunky feeling. Eventually I moved into a new home, had nothing else to do, and proceeded to do nothing but play the game for 50 hours until I beat the game lol. I would say the story is worth it, but I agree that its kinda tough to get into.

I tried to play Witcher 3 and the combination of strange camera angles and very "tradional rpg" style icons put me off (the later is a really sad thing to be bugged by but whatever) - the interface for everything just seemed very outdated

However, I now have a PS5 and i believe the PS5 update has huge improvements including to camera angles etc, so I may give it another go.