Guild Wars 2

After having gone through the Personal Story with 4 characters (Sylvari, Charr, Human, Asura) I feel that the whole quest line after level 30, once you’ve chosen an Order was really lacking up until about Orr, which then was full of choices about which really nice characters you wanted to get killed along the way to Zhaitan.

The problem was in the lack of recognizing both your characters Race and your previous choices along the way to choosing your Order.

• Sylvari are introduced to Trahearne as if they have no idea who he is.
• Charr who join the Vigil and go to Ebonhawke act as if they have no idea who the Renegades are.
• Humans who join the Order of Whispers apparently forgot all about Caudecus and the things they found out about him prior to joining an order.

The list could go on with several quests involving situations such as these depending on your choice of Race and Order but it all really boils down to the same thing, a lack of recognition of your previous choices.

It tends to really pull away from the story and make it not as engaging. Not to mention my issues with the entirety of the Destiny’s Edge story taking place in the Dungeons and skipping over those on your way to the final Personal Story quest, which is quite easy to do, leaves you scratching your head during the final quest while you run Arah and going “Soooo, when did they get all buddy buddy again?”

Complete agreement. This setting has so much potential, with individual story arcs that are quite fun. But as a whole the personal story is a horribly disjointed mess in which NPCs are introduced and forgotten just as quickly, past actions and acquaintances are completely ignored, and the joy of immersing myself in my character’s culture is quickly replaced with being treated as generic human in a funny suit who isn’t even recognized by her own people anymore.

And that is just unmitigated BS. Anet, you can do better than this. You HAVE to do better. If I had known about this in advance, how the big selling point of the personal story is butchered by a complete lack of coherence and continuity, I don’t think I’d have bought the game at all.