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Thanks, I ended up getting both. I can see why people like Souls. Very well put together, though I don't think the combat is anything revolutionary. However, it feels like there's a ton of variety, and the game itself gives you a lot of positive feedback and negative reinforcement to mold you instead of letting you half-ass it like a lot of other games. I still think Witcher 3's combat wasn't that bad compared to Souls, though, especially with a combat build. The controls are certainly more intuitive there, Souls' combo to kick/break guard feels rather unnecessary, along with the jump attack and jumping being completely separated.
I agree about the lack of weapon variety in the Witcher 3, but that's no problem considering the lore and combat upgrade paths. In the original Souls, at least, there is no progression with any one weapon, besides; you're stuck with the same moveset for any one weapon, too, there's just lots to choose from and permute. I have to disagree about the movement part, though, if you use combat lock/target switching (soft locking using the left stick to target your next attack) there is none of that "imprecision" in combat, and even outside of it, it's not random, it's just clunky if you're used to Souls where your character has zero rotational inertia and can turn on a dime. Even then they patched in pseudo-Souls-style spinning as an "alternative mode" for movement in the game options. The only part that bothered me particularly with movement in the Witcher is that it isn't actually full analog, so you do get the clunky start/stop behavior which is different from the inertial thing. Movement is also partially camera-based like it is in GTA, so using the right stick for fine movements is necessary (outside of combat). As far as difficulty goes, TW3 can be just as "hard" on higher difficulties as Souls. You definitely have to dodge and riposte/counter as well as chain/switch your attacks dealing with larger groups of enemies. Bosses can get very hectic, too, if you're playing a dodge-'em damage dealer build. The thing is there are a lot of paths to go through TW3; unlike Souls, there isn't a unified difficulty or vision for its gameplay, so you can play it out lots of different ways. The path of least resistance for most people seemed to be going with signs, but all Quen and no countering makes for a boring game. All in all, I think that if they had made TW3 in the style of Souls, retaining the same mechanics but designing the entire game around one set difficulty level and really honing that in, I don't think people would be leveling the same criticisms at it, but Souls came first and was more well known for it, so even then you'd hear complaints along the lines of "it's not like Souls."
GMG has 20% off right now on purchases $10 and above (code is SPRING20P). There's always G2A and Kinguin for less, but you're getting into shadier territory for not much more off the price.
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A botched PC port the greatest PC game of all time? Say it ain't so.
Interesting. Can't think why it wouldn't work just setting the monitor to 60Hz. Turn g-sync off if you have it. Only had this monitor a short time, and haven't encountered issues with the high refresh yet.
Don't know why it would be an issue now when Dark Souls 1 (30 FPS), Dark Souls 2 (60 FPS), and Dark Souls 2 SotFS (60 FPS) all work fine with G-Sync on.