To Aaron McLeran: (Drums)
Dear Aaron McLeran,
First of all, thank you very much for bringing individual music to this game. Music plays such a big part of so many peoples lives, we appreciate all your hard work!
When I saw the horn and harp all I could envision is the possibility of making bands within guilds someday. Then you came out with the drum!
This is my question: Are you going to take this any further or is this the best GW2 will do with music?
Dulfy described the recording ability of the drum as “primitive.” I see there is a slider for people who want to tune out those obnoxious souls who live to create nothing but ruckus, so is there now justification to making a folder within the GW2 file for just music? Perhaps ABC formatted music?
Not everyone is talented enough to play music in “real time” but synchronizing music playable by party members is not outside the realm of feasibility. So how far will GW2 take this?
Thank you for your time.
Yes: Absolutely thank you for bringing music into the game. The instruments and the wintersday bell game are some of my favorite items/activities in-game.
I like this question. The music is starting to feel like it could be a larger alternate style of gameplay/mini-game, approaching the RPG elements so often left out of MMOs in favor of hack and slash elements. I see this as a form of play with a function (aesthetics of art) vs something like costume brawl where it’s like… what is the point of this mechanic besides getting my daily.
It’d be nice to have a similar sort of mini-game to the wintersday bell choir with instruments from the gem store. Could be single player or multiplayer with a variety of instruments or multiple parts for the same instrument.
Or maybe put in quests whose rewards are scrolling in-game sheet music or are otherwise musically related. In some places I miss the sprawling multi-zone questlines of GW1 (in other places it felt like the most tedious thing imaginable), but a questline/achievement run like this could be ridiculously fun. Sort of like the Belcher’s Bluff activities. You could pull in the one man band in Divinity’s Reach and Marcello DiGiacomo — oh and Maklain the minstrel in Orr. Maybe even the singing Lionguard in Gendarran (IloveyourandomLionguard), or any of the myriad of other musical NPCs in this game. Maybe the singing Zephyrites, too.
Perhaps a busk mechanic where people can easily donate money to you or demoralize you to the point where you have a 10 minute debuff for instrument playing. Or maybe moralize you into getting some sort of buff instead of money..? Something like that, where you risk something to gain something.
tl;dr Yay music.
Clove Zolan – Bringers of Aggro [Oops] – Blackgate
I’d love to see a “sync” option (similar to the dance books) where you can all stand around with various instruments and “tag” another player. Once tagged, they can join in the song with their instrument and play their part.
Example: I’m playing the drums and someone walks up with a bell. I then target that player and “tag” him. If he accepts the tag, he begins automatically playing the bell to the beat of my drum. And then do this with each extra instrument that shows up.