I was pretty underwhelmed by the Griffin fight though.
Looks like that was merely the fight to introduce you to the hunting aspect of the game more than anything.
Yeah, seems like a tutorial and stuff. I wouldn't think the rest of the hunting will go QTE when the monster's health is like only 20%. But overall, i think the combat is gonna be better. I like the new effects of the signs. The 2nd game have many flaws i think we can agree on that and that is why CDPR made a full combat rebalance, but even the mod was very flawed too.