I don't understand why would anybody play Witcher 3 before playing Witcher 2 first.
In any case, Witcher series = Mass Effect >>>>> Dragon Age >>>> Elder Scroll's
Dragon age has weak story, graphics and gameplay. not bad, just consistently average
Elder Scrolls can be fun but is always had forgettable stories and bland characters (similar to Fallout)
Mass Effect was great, can't wait till the next one (I hoped they'd release a stand-alone DLC to continue the ending they added but still a good trilogy)
Finished the 1st one once, the 2nd one 3 times and the 3rd one 1.9 times
[the first time I was getting near the ending but I feared it would be shit
(before I could read about it on the internet) so I stopped, my theory proved right and I left it there, after about 1 year I came back to it and 100%ed it
]
The Witcher is one of my favourite series, I finished the 1st one 3 times (2x 100%); the 2nd one 4 times (once on the perma-death difficulty) and the 3rd one I started playing as soon as it got out, but then I thought I should leave it till August so I can 100% it, but before I could start it up my GPU died