Guild Wars 2

I think they should do an expansion spotlighting the concepts of labyrinths, and jumping puzzles.

Make an expansion that unlocks an underground world made of dark tunneling, secret areas and new creatures or races. The one thing mmo’s still miss is that feeling of being lost or trying to figure out where to go—like zelda. It would be very immersive to have perhaps an instances labyrinth map sort of similiar to entering the wvw map.

The map would be huge—hopefully close to the size of tyria now except under it. Whatever the lore or storyline, players would start from a starting point in an underground city. From there, the tunnels would branch out in maze-like fashion. the tunnels lead you to different elevations, open up into beautiful areas or instances—if you can find them.

A main mechanic is that your map doesn’t work. To help you, you can unlock waypoints which will take you anywhere on the map you have discovered—BUT, the tunneling between waypoints is blacked out, so all you can see is your location and surrounding waypoints.

Finding certain doorways to certain other maps would be hidden in diffuculty and progress in diffuculty.

Also, another mechanic is that connecting certain instanced maps or areas will change periodically so when you are leaving an area you will transferred to a random other area inside the map. You can howerver transfer to specific areas you have found the waypoint to. Only by performing specific story line, or map unlocks will you get to go to higher level parts of the labryinth and progress to more rare places.

The laybrinth would also have a limit to the ammount of people on your current map. This is up for discussion as it could be simply a party of five, a lot more, or even you by yourself. Maybe even other players appear as periodic ghosts sort of like Dark Souls.

Another idea would be to have players of the laybryinth be able to craft maps by unlocking places, or finding rare items inside said places. There could even be “Legendary” maps that could be created that would take you to a place that unlocks legendary gear and weapons. Once you have the map you are able to travel to the instanced area which may be a small sort of mini dungeon—or maybe it’s just a nice cave with a shaft of sunlight on a legendary sword—that would be awesome to find.

So basically you are finding new places on your immersive journey, able to level completely inside the map if you want, and earning laybryinth specific weapons, gear and titles. You come across creepy NPC’s selling you items in certain areas and also come across creepy NPC’s that will lie to you and maybe even attack you. I think this type of immersion would be awesome for those of us who just want to get lost in dungeon type atmospheres. There could even be perhaps Spvp and even WvW maps with laybrinth type feel to it.

thoughts?

No. Please God, no. My hope is that A-Net learned their lesson with maze like maps with Cantha and we never have to worry about revisiting them again.