Guild Wars 2

Which one is better the classic mad king says with emotes or the dungeon variant that plays with the skill bar.

I think the dungeon variant could have been adapted to be used as a global game with some changes… the dynamic skill bar makes it more of a game of reaction, especially if the difficulty was adjusted slightly and made bit less predictable.

The one with emotes is nice too and naturally had a lot more variety in terms of moves… but that is just a technical question, since all the animations could be reused.

My first time in the dungeon I didnt even realize I had to use the skill bar and was using Emotes, I was wondering why I kept taking damage even though I did the action. The second time I joined a group and that part was already done.

I prefer the typing variant. I’d rather not have to scramble to identify which of the random icons that have appeared on my hotbar is the one I’m after when I know exactly what I’m suppose to be doing. At that point it becomes less of a ‘perform the emote in a timely manner’ game and more of a ‘find the emote in a timely manner’ game. The latter just feels far less satisfying to me, and more prone to frustration.

Plenty of people still fail the typing game, so it’s not like it’s necessarily too easy.

Well… Don’t see why both couldn’t be used?

I’d rather emote, it’s easier. Some people are just not fast enough to read changing skill bars :P

The changing skill bar one was straight up dumb, by the time i found the right one it would change just as i went to click it. Not to mention the skill bar one was confusing because the tooltips showed up like the “1” attack skill where it shows more than 1 thing in the tooltip so its hard to see which one it actually is. When i did manage to click the right one it would, for some reason, play a different emote. All the skill bar one did was screw you over. This one would have been better if some of the emotes weren’t combined into a single button and used all slots rather than changing on the bar.

As for the emote one, it wasn’t too bad but i noticed something kind of fishy during it. Almost every time i seen people doing the correct emote even before the mad king told us which one to do. He would say “mad king says” and people would begin using the correct one. I did it a few times and didn’t see any pattern for it at all except when he says a little story then mad king says, but people were also doing this on the ones where he only says “mad king says” and nothing else. This one was pretty neat and gave some laughs when people used something when the mad king didn’t say mad king says and got layed out.

am i the only one, but my skill bar didnt change .. i had my normal skill attacs in the dungeon O.o

Absolutely the actual emoting.

Having to hover over skills, waiting for the tooltip to pop up, reading it (and not getting confused by the strange way tooltips are currently formatted) and then pressing the right one, all under time pressure, is not fun, it is combat.

Using the oft-neglected emote functionality instead is amusing, unusual and reminding us that there is more to an MMO than pressing 1,2,3 and typing “Champion up!”

Amen.2630:

am i the only one, but my skill bar didnt change .. i had my normal skill attacs in the dungeon O.o

It randomly chooses someone in the group to do it, i did the dungeon a bunch of times and was only chosen 2 or 3 times.

I never once saw my skill bar change in the dungeon.

I ran it enough times to get two exotics, so….I was in there quite a bit.

I liked the dungeon one better. It’s really easy to match the debuff to a skill since each one was distinct. My only problem with it was the fact that it couldn’t be interrupted. So I’d sit there while all the mobs got burned, unable to tag for loot. Woe is me. the typing gets annoying in the middle of combat, even if it something simple. One small mistype and do it again, slower so that you don’t mistake again, would take longer in a dungeon instance.

I liked the dungeon one better – but it was pretty amusing to see the amount of people fail on /surprised.

I prefer the commands.

It’ll be good if there was an emote panel for those having a hard time typing, but I prefer chat commands.

I’m the kind of guy that will use emotes mid-battle without barely losing any efficiency at all.
And, you know, you have to laugh every time you finish someone, with the @ and all. You just have to, so you must get fast at that, or you won’t /laugh @ the next one.

In the dungeon: even if you were selected for the game there was no true consequence for not completing it, and most just ignored it. I think it should of been party wide, scattered randomly thru out the dungeon and if you didn’t complete the emote, you died

In town: It seemed to be mad king says for the visually, hearing, and mentally impaired all you had to do was look to the upper right side of your screen to see the meter counting down from what the mad king said. (and type exactly what the meter said too) He doesn’t need to bounce around for the game to be fun and there was no element of surprise as he said mad king says… then paused at least a minute before giving the actual command.

I much preferred the mad king in GW1 still, but that’s just my opinion

Emotes. I’d rather type a command than have to try and locate the correct skill on the skill bar while the skills shuffle / randomize.