There are plenty of things to roll your eyes at Eragon. And if I recall the evil horde army was basically just orcs with even less personality. I never read or saw the film but there's a funny review of it on YouTube.

I love TES mainly because it doesn't try and be realistic which I think stems from its origin as a world that was formed/has formed to adapt to video games rather then video games made from a preexisting world if that makes sense. In the case of the Witcher, the books came first then the games. The world was already established by the time they started making video games. Me personally, I couldn't get into Dark Souls mainly because I play RPGs for a world, for a story. Some people like the pure challenge aspect of Dark Souls which is certainly a valid reason, it's just not what I look for. It's also why I put down Dragon's Dogma because there's absolutely no world, no story beyond slaying dragons and listening to really shitty "ye old english" dialogue.

I'd recommend you skip Mark Lawrence's stuff. The main character is this absolute butcher who makes really shitty allusions about people being pieces on a chess board (never heard that before). But it's weird because one chapter he'll just butcher knights single handedly (his shallow supporting characters conveniently elsewhere) then in another chapter try to be charming and roguish. While it's not out of the question that you could be terrible and charming, my main problem is that he's great at all of these things. He fails at nothing. He wants to climb the ladder and unite the land and seeing as the last book is called Emperor of Thorns I'm guessing he does so.