My favorite storyline in any guild wars setting has to be in guild wars beyond when you deal with the ministry of purity, you actually see a organization that you can’t label as completely good, or completely bad, its hard to determine! The story also questions the player asking what theyve really done besides killing to solve the affliction, and really when we look, that’s all we did. This storyline questioned the player in terms of morality and it.showed a darker, raw side of the story, showing that to clean up something so horrible, you couldn’t save everyone, and this really made players think as this went away from bad guy fights good guy. Anet I know you can make really interesting stories, i loved this one, but I feel like you guys were holding back, I’d love to hear some dev input on this, I love you guys, been playing since gw1 beta!
Cmon Anet! I know you can do better
Ya Anet can make good story but it seems Act 1 was a bit too unorganized with parts of the story. One being that they should of some how shown what happened to the people we meet before we joined the order later in the story after we joined the Order. Another being their lack of separating the Main Story from the Personal Story at Claw Island. Main Story Wise Trahearne was going to be the Main character for that part of the story but the issue is they focused too much on the Main story aspect rather than the Personal Story which is our character point of view of the Main Story. Also, they should of at least introduced Trahearne earlier in the Personal story for all races and have him foreshadow the events of Claw Island before we joined the Order which would of made his appearance in the story less of a excuse for people.
(Currently now people are using only Trahearne as their reason for the Personal story being bad but it not Trahearne but how Anet handled introducing him without all races to know him better before Claw Island and how they focused too much on telling the Main Story rather then the Personal Story)
Currently now people are using only Trahearne as their reason for the Personal story being bad but it not Trahearne but how Anet handled introducing him without all races to know him better before Claw Island and how they focused too much on telling the Main Story rather then the Personal Story
Clearly you’re far more forgiving of the whole Trahearne issue than a lot of the other people voicing their opinions, and that’s fine, but you probably shouldn’t speak for why other people take issue with him and the personal story. His introduction is a problem on its own to be sure, but that doesn’t address the more offensive issue of taking the player out of the main character role. And there’s no differentiation between a “main story” and a “personal story.” They’re one and the same.
I have no issue with Trahearne at all. I actually like him because unlike most of the Main characters he understands his position better than the others. Ya his personality is bland but I’ve seen plenty of bland personality characters like his in many games already that people usually need time to get to know first.
The separation of the story from Main and Personal is basically how each character is categorized.
Main Story: Logan, Caithe, Rytlock, Zojja, Eir, and Trahearne
Personal story: Our Character
Personal Story is just our perspective (point of view) of what is happening in the Main Story.
like the first part of our personal story before we join the order.
Main story: What the members of Destiny Edge did before they went to be reunited.
Personal Story: What our character did before we joined the Order.
The Personal story is just our character point of view of the main story like that side character you see all the time in a Main Story of a video game that pops up a lot and makes important events happen but people never get to know until another story is released telling this side character side of the Main story.
I would love to see those inconsistencies removed from the story. Like Sylvari can’t become corrupted but it is implied that the Priory mentor is corrupted etc.
Those are quite bothersome. But anyway EdwinLi pretty much nailed it for me. I can fully agree with that.