Guild Wars 2

This trailer really is the perfect mesh of the original, extremely time consuming painted cut scenes (ie: the ones right when you make a character) and the in-game engine cut scenes. One of the best cinematic trailers in video games… your team should be really proud.

All future cut scenes must be like this! Jack your expansion up with them.

Also this should have been your commercial. Instead of the Zhaitan spoiler

Marketing tip:

Step 1. Contact google and have them play this before videos on youtube. Instant another 3 mil copies sold.

Step 2. Then put all the money into PvP >=D

Step 3. Push E-sports with a new balanced and well funded part of the game.

Step 4. ????

Step 5. PROFIT!!!!!

I have to agree. While I understand the appeal of showing off in-game graphics in the trailers I appreciate ArenaNet’s more artistic style trailers like this one far more. This artistry is part of what sold me on the game in the first place. Hoping to see more of it.

Agreed with the OP, I absolutely loved this trailer. Definitely one of my favorite GW2 cinematics so far.

Amazing trailer, it was even better because it didn’t include dredge or harpy fractal!

Trolling aside, artistically speaking, it is gorgeous!

Gorgeous trailer! Big /bow to the team. I keep watching it over and over again, haha

Wow, thanks for bringing this video up. This is the first time I have watched it and I agree, it was well done. Thumbs up!

If only the game was like the trailer………….

Solid Gold.9310:

If only the game was like the trailer………….

You mean painted? Because all the stuff in the trailer is in game already so I’m not sure what are you getting at.

Best trailer. You guys are amazing

It’ll be great if more fractals where more similar to what we see in the cinematic, though.

A giant mossman? The underwater statues reacting? A surprise at the gate in the urban fractal? A straight beam you have to avoid instead that hard to see wiggly tentacle-like stream thingy in the jade maw? Now those things would have been cool.

Who knows. Maybe one day they’ll have time to make “4th boss” versions of each fractal that surprise players with more variety. And maybe even a longer version of the jade maw that has some of those Kanaxxai-like demons, that may appear as a normal fractal.

For example, get to the swamp as the 4th fractal, and as players approach the wisp trees, a colossal mossman raises from underwater behind them. He thrashes the trees with his axes and breaks a rock wall in a cinematic, revealing a swampy valley, and players are forced in, and must fight him while running away in an endlessly looping swampy corridor filled with traps and dire wolves as the mossman chases them throwing giant axes at them.

Yeaaah. That’s an instability for you.

As much as I enjoyed that trailer, I’m now disappointed. The trailer makes Fractals seem way better than it is. So I watched it thinking they’re getting a nice revamp. Then you tell us the trailer is from the original Fractals release. Thank goodness this wasn’t up then, as I’d have been even more disappointed with Fractals all this time.

Matthew Oswald.3082:

There are some pretty exciting cinematics coming in the future…I hope you guys will receive them as well as the Fractals piece.

Yes please, I liked the “old” style of cutscene Ascalon Catacombs had as its intro… if changing to this new flavor makes producing cinematics, similar to the trailer, faster (by comparison) than the hand drawn concept art ones which we have seen all too little of and by proxy means we see more fancier cutscenes that have same spirit as the hand drawn ones… yes please absolutely more of them.

Not only is the trailer an amazing to look at but it feels like a natural advancement of the concept artsy style we have seen before.

Edit: if you ever find that your team has nothing to do… as unlikely as it would be, it would be nice to see some kind of cinematic added to the beginning of every dungeon story mode the first time I saw the AC cinematic most dungeons felt like they were missing something because of a lack of similar intro. So if you now have tech that makes producing fancy cinematics easier.

How come whenever I do fractals its not that epic :’(

Matthew Oswald.3082:

(Somewhat related) There is a plan to allow people to playback cinematics through some sort of story UI. This should help people catch up on what they missed.

That sounds amazing.

We ready have an item that plays a scene… But ts not skippable, and takes up precious bank space :P.

I loved this trailer btw C:

Got to give credit where credit is due.

Amazing video, guys. Would love if this level of quality was consistent across the board but I guess it’s hard with the kind of schedule you’re working.

Loved the trailer. If only the content was as good.

Matthew Oswald.3082:

(b) all our cinematics have the ability to be skip-able. Sometimes someone forgets to flag a cinematic as skippable :0

I can think of at least one that needs some fixing. CoE Path 1, ending cinematic, where the Submarine punches through the wall. Please fix this.

I believe there’s another 1 or 2 dungeons that do the same thing, but this one comes to mind and I have to watch it every kitten time I do CoE P1.

Dromar.1027:

How come whenever I do fractals its not that epic :’(

Because you don’t press the jump button often enough.

Seriously, try it .

GW1 factions cinematic trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcFEe2odAuo

Fractured trailer – simply Amazing!

Nike.2631:

Dromar.1027:

How come whenever I do fractals its not that epic :’(

Because you don’t press the jump button often enough.

Seriously, try it .

It’s true ;D.

It’s even better if you’re a female Sylvari, for additional epicness.