Guild Wars 2

Shagaz.6209:

3. Our choices should matter more. Orders too. Get rid of the Pact.

Yes, one thing I didn’t like is that choices later in the game felt very shallow – kill this monster or that one with a cast of random short-term NPCs – and the end was the same for everyone. I’m okay with killing the dragon ultimately but I would have liked to see a Vigil member’s ending, a Priory ending and a Whispers one. That would only be possible if Victory or Death was solo content like the others, but many people have complained about the forced grouping at the end, so that wouldn’t be a bad thing.

In my first playthrough of The Battle of Claw Island, when your mentor stays behind to hold off the dragon so that everyone would have a chance to escape, one of the first things I thought when that happened was, “And there’s the birth of my next worst enemy — the undead resurrection of my mentor…”

Perhaps that’s a bit too cliche, but when you’re dealing with a dragon who creates platoons of zombies to fight for him, it seems kinda… I don’t know… logical? expected? that he would take your mentor and turn them into a champion that you would be forced to deal with at a later date. Who wants to see Tybalt turned into the very thing he was trying to protect Tyria from?

As far as the point of “my choices should matter” — last night I finally did the “Eye of Zhaitan” quest on my Sylvari and it annoyed me to no end to have Carys & Tegwen not know who I am. Especially when Carys says, “And then I went to Orr to rescue Tegwen… well, myself and Trahearne.”

Um, no. I did that with you — I don’t remember Trahearne being there at all.

It’s sad. I think the PS has a lot of potential. The overall idea isn’t really THAT bad (in spite of Trahearne annoying so many people). The PS feels like it’s still in rough draft form to me. I think parts of it feel pretty well fleshed out and other parts feel like it got past the first round of reviews & revisions and was promptly stamped with a “FINAL VERSION” mark across the top and pushed through the system without a third and fourth look.