Guild Wars 2

I’ll preface this by saying the following:

• The most memorable, challenging, and fun content I have ever played in GW2 was the Mad King Clocktower jump puzzle.

Needless to say, I like jump puzzles a lot, and consider myself pretty bloody good at them.

I am hoping that this jump puzzle ‘dungeon’, whatever it is, will be the most difficult jump puzzle ever conceived within the GW2 engine. I am also hoping that this dungeon will be worth the time investment, comparable to actual dungeons, and that there will be rewards worth the time investment. The Mad King Clocktower gave you an exotic pair of boots when you finished it the first time on a character, and while that was nice, I think it’d be even better if we could get exotic prestige items (possible ascended), fancy skins, and more. I know so far that we get a title, and while that is nice, I hope achievement hunters aren’t the only people who will do this. I hope that the rewards are so awesome and difficult to achieve that someone will see you running around with them and go “Hot dang, that guy must be a real pro at jump puzzles”. That’s the feeling I want coming out of this.

This is an extension of my feeling that nothing in this game rewards skill appropriately. Fractal skins would, except that you can win the lottery and get one on your first L20 run, or you can beat L48 repeatedly over multiple days and never see one. The prestige is almost there, but still misses the point. I am hoping that the Super Adventure Box doesn’t fall prey to this mistake, and that skill at jumping puzzles is truly rewarded.

This is a really exciting time for me, hearing about this content, and I only hope that it lives up to my hopes, and the hopes of those others who look forward to this content in the coming month(s).

If those super adventure skins are the reward then I envision myself spending 100’s of hours in this puzzle if that’s what it takes… though I doubt it will… it only took me 4 tries to get the mad king jumping puzzle.

I agree that the mad king puzzle was the best content in this game so far. I can’t wait to see what awesomeness is in this new world.

I never got past the 3rd step in mad king T_T Stupid norns.

As a Charr I have to oppose this new mega jp. :’(

Viking Jorun.5413:

As a Charr I have to oppose this new mega jp. :’(

You can do it! One of my mains is a max-size Charr and I rock jump puzzles!

Would dearly love an Ocarina that plays 8-bit music as a reward <3

Those “super” skins are amazing.

I want a super staff and a super greatsword.

In fact, I want them all. I`d even pay for them, they are that awesome.

If you change your in system clock to exactly 16:14 PST, April 1st (You need to take off the case and get a screw to wind it, it’ll be the golden ticking mechanicism), you’ll be able to activate the jump puzzle early to see that it’s actually a pretty simple straight forward zone that’s only special because it’s sparkly. Except Charr. Charr will have to crouch jump every single time to make it through. Of course, since crouching isn’t in this game anymore after someone gave a developer a Halo Hello in sPvP, you have to make due with kneeling instead only to jump right when it’s between a polite curtsy and accepting knighthood from the queen.

Now when you actually complete the puzzle, yes, you do get rewarded with a skin, but it’s only a temporary skin that will vanish unless you buy an ingame fuel source called a Nethium, which lets you power your fancy skin for a whole two days (Or, to help fix the dire situation in tier 7 of WvW, two and a farthing, seeing how tier 8 is pretty well balanced and barely anyone complains anymore after the mods banned most of them).

Again, since the skins are sized for humans, asurans will look like they’re wearing their boyfriend’s jacket (even the male ones, since this is the 21st century, and we should be over such silly notions of enforced gender roles), whereas Charr will look like they’re wearing a woman’s speedo (and there actually isn’t such a thing as a female Charr, they’re just a male Charr talking in falsetto). As for the Norn, well, Norn simply can’t complete jump puzzles anyways, so it doesn’t matter.

Hopefully that answers that question.

Actually, the guy who was designing a new very difficult platforming thing, said it would be like a game within a game, and that all character models would be the same. So I don’t think you have to worry about charrs and norns and the like.

I just hope it’s not like Griffonrook Run. I’m never doing that again.

Gaiyeerishima Cat.1082:

Actually, the guy who was designing a new very difficult platforming thing, said it would be like a game within a game, and that all character models would be the same. So I don’t think you have to worry about charrs and norns and the like.

If that’s true then I bet we’re going to control golems or similar in some kind of miniaturized environment ala diorama.

pixieish.9627:

Hopefully that answers that question.

Thanks for a hilarious post.

You definitely live up to your forum name.

As long as it’s not a timed JP, I have hope for the Super Adventure Box. Timed JP’s are just too much stress and pressure. Not. fun. at. all.

Honestly I just want to walk away from this with a greatsword skin, and if it’s fun, well…. bonus.

What makes you think The Super Adventure Box is a jumping puzzle?

It has a Nintendo controller, and “a game within a game” sounds like a gw spin on an old Nintendo game to me. With “adventure” hopefully being the key word, makes it sound like an old school Zelda adventure style mini game. That’s what i was thinking anyways.