Guild Wars 2

I would have loved to see your friend/mentor/ally, who you chose at the start of the game (i.e. mentor for asura, warband buddy for charr [e.g. Clawspur, Dinky]) come in and start whaling on the Sovereign Eye of Zhaitan. I spent the whole fight on my human noble thinking “OK, maybe this is the part where Lord Faren drops down from the ceiling and destroys the Eye all by himself” or “This is the part where my warband charges in and goes to town on the Eye”. But no, it’s just Trahearne tanking it for 20 minutes.

Despite having the perfect voice for it, Trahearne doesn’t even make any amusing quips over the course of the fight. It would have been exponentially more fun if he’d used that dry, sarcastic-sounding voice of his to say things like “Oh, look, he teleported. Again.” or “I really wish he’d stop doing that.” Overall the fight is exactly what I’d expect of an MMO – attacking only the part of a boss which touches the floor for 20 minutes and hoping that it will eventually fall over. And when it finally does, the version of Fear Not This Night that plays is almost too quiet to hear, and it isn’t even the voiced version.

I also had a Vigil Crusader at the beginning of the instance. Every single other NPC there was named, and I had met most of them (some I had never met and I still don’t know who they are), but in a sea of named NPCs there was this one Vigil Crusader. That was his name. Vigil Crusader. I felt sorry for him.