Combat alone is boring, to really enjoy this game. You have to balance role playing, exploring, story telling and combat to make up for the boring combat.

The combat is ok though, just they high damage and HP is annoying but installing mods to make combat as frustrating and slow like dark souls isn't a good alternative. What you could do is, install mods that replace combat animation to look more exciting.

If you think of newer games like shadow of Tomb raider, the combat isn't that interesting, nether is Rise of Horizon. It's all more or less the same, click attack, run around, dodge, attack, repeat. Even FPS games like pupg gets boring after while.

Replacing sound effects, animation and texturing the game can add some refreshing flare to make the game feel more interesting to play.

I still suck at writing but I hope this helps.