Guild Wars 2

i didn’t know which board to post it, so i’ll post both on the dungeon and the personal story boards (though i think it concerns all dungeons).

one of the complaints i’ve heard the most on the personal story board about the final dungeon is how, despite being the climax of your story, you may be demoted to a mere henchman of another player during his climatic battle.

and it’s not only in arah. all dungeons have a story mode with a story that supposedly relates to your character and destiny’s edge, and yet 4 out of 5 people aren’t experiencing that story firsthand. one of my friends even said, at the end of one dungeon, “this dialogue would’ve made so much more sense with my character, she’s my mentor”. while i disagreed (after all, my character had been the one showing in cutscenes in all previous dungeons), that made me realize how boring it is for the rest of the party to see this dude taking the role that they should be taking.

dialogue cutscenes are isolated from the rest of the game for that very reason, so why can’t each player load his own character’s model and voice clips during them, rather than having to see a person that may even be a complete stranger?

for the record, i’m actually putting off my excursion to arah for a couple weeks, maybe even a month or two, until you guys finish ironing out all the personal story bugs (which seem to multiply the later you get in the story), and hopefully before then this suggestion is turned into a game feature.

I was actually quite suprissed that the players in dungeons
A) do not have more lines
B) rotate in cutscenes so that the first 2 lines are delivered by player1 and the next one by player 3, etc.

yandere.9176:

I was actually quite suprissed that the players in dungeons
A) do not have more lines
B) rotate in cutscenes so that the first 2 lines are delivered by player1 and the next one by player 3, etc.

you mean “do not rotate”, right? :P

and player rotation would be an even better solution. together with my “everyone gets to see their own version of the cutscene” suggestion, and some clever picking by the devs, you could get the player’s character to deliver some key lines, while having the other characters in the party deliver secondary lines.

everyone feels like the protagonist, and the party feels like it’s the party that made the story, not a single person.

Yeah I meant do not rotate O_o

That is a very nice suggestion.

Yes it would be great if it was as you said. But if you don’t hurry to be the 1st who enters, you are just a mere spectator.

Correction: Being the party leader doesn’t imply that your character will show up in the cut-scenes, it’s whoever manages to enter the dungeon first.

This is the thing that I really hate about dungeons. In fact don’t think I’ve ever been in a run in which my character spoke the lines, which has left me with no connection to the story told there. Funny thing is, I read the book before the game came out so I could better understand and be involved in the dungeons story…look how well that turned out.

bump

last i checked this is still an issue, and still the ultimate kick in the nuts for players that want to see the culmination of their characters’ efforts.

Sorry if I’m sort of necroing this, but I feel this is a relevant issue.

In my guild there are a lot of people that like to roleplay and feel part of the story (not too good past level 50 to tell the truth), but this becomes a bis obstacle when going into story mode dungeons. Aspecially Arah.

We’d all like to be the protagonist, or at least be the “second in command” of a main character that has no charisma whatsoever, but 4 out of 5 people just can’t. They’ll just become the unnamed party of the second in command. Wow, so epic.

Both suggestions in the posts above are pretty nice:
1. Let every player see his/her own character speaking
or
2. Cycle spoken lines between players.

Option 2 would be very nice, but I guess it’s be late to implement it, since it would mean rewite and re-record most lines to give them some sense and allow all five players to talk.
But first option should be obvious for a game that advertizes it’s great persona storyline! And should also be fairly easy do implement, since everyone is watching his/her own cutscene.

This is my biggest beef with the storyline. After completing every quest up to Arah, my characters always end up becoming some character in the background as someone elses’ character takes the stage. It’s rediculous.