Guild Wars 2

This is pretty awesome! It would help keep people up to date, too, for those who don’t read the patcher (Autoplay) or who don’t look at the blog posts/forums.

it’s a good suggestion, I like it. Remembering the latest post from Anet about this I’m quite pessimistic about them evolving the system. I feel no love for the lore-lovers in this game since there is not much to collect in this department. Not even legendaries have a legend so to speak of. (I’m sorry about this pessimism, I’m quite frustrated at the moment because of this)

I fully support this idea.

I am bumping my old post to provide just another updated concept of replaying cinematics since this is from the recent update. Didn’t feel the need to post another thread.

The image attached shows a way to provide background story as well as replaying the cinematic present during Dragon Bash. Other cinematics and stories would be in their appropriate event tab.

Yes, This is really good idea. And simple to implement.

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Definitely

Lets explain a bit how I see it work.

Every character in account who has been created previously from the date the event happened will have the living story written in its personal story window.
This means that if a character has been made after one living story event, will not have the previous events written

Outlaw.3421:

I am bumping my old post to provide just another updated concept of replaying cinematics since this is from the recent update. Didn’t feel the need to post another thread.

The image attached shows a way to provide background story as well as replaying the cinematic present during Dragon Bash. Other cinematics and stories would be in their appropriate event tab.

I support this. A lot.

Great idea. Just brilliant. I really want to see a lot of the Achievement panels cleaned up because it’s all so messy right now. It’s hard to find and follow your progress on Achievements. This is definitely an idea worth implementing.

Yes, the achievements panel is a bit of a mess and it will only get “worse” with more living story chapters.

The living story chapters achievement categories should really be in some sort of collapsible subfolder, at the very least, although I like the OP’s suggestion a lot more – this would solve so many problems and also allow players to have access to additional information in-game. It would solve several issues at the same time.

New and Improved Achievement Panel UI
Learning about achievements has never been easier! Our revamped UI will make it simple for you to keep track of specific achievements and rewards. You can also look at individual achievements in detail to find point breakdowns, potential rewards, and helpful tips.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/july-09-2013/

I wish they provided an image of the new design. Very interested to see what it looks like. I guess they could still show a teaser in the next few days, but it is a step in the right direction.

Based on the quote from Colin Johanson: “We’re also looking into options that would allow players to experience the story sequences that will go away as the story moves forward for those who missed them, but this is still a ways off as we look at various options.”

I felt that it was appropriate to show a new design on how replaying certain events could work. This can work on the instanced missions from Flame & Frost, boss events like Canach, the recent instance of the Queen’s Jubilee as well as a few other things.

I 100% support this suggestion. It’s needed!

Bumping because of the discussion in this thread. It’s a great suggestion that could work really well as a Living Story recap mechanism, as well as to potentially introduce other lore in form of books etc.
Anything is better than getting lore and stories outside the game.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

it’s a good suggestion, I like it. Remembering the latest post from Anet about this I’m quite pessimistic about them evolving the system. I feel no love for the lore-lovers in this game since there is not much to collect in this department. Not even legendaries have a legend so to speak of. (I’m sorry about this pessimism, I’m quite frustrated at the moment because of this)

Very good point concerning Legendaries. This is also an issue with the new Ascended Weapons. I was very disappointed that they didn’t give us any story nor any explanation about them. There was no quest or anything, just suddenly(!), these very rare, extremely valuable materials are all over the world.

Tyrian population: Why should we craft ascendeds? Are we going on some epic quest? Will the gates to the Crystal Desert open? Can we go through Ascension like in GW1? Are the Gods themselves giving us materials/means to fight the dragons? Have any of the Orders found something about ascended items that will make them better weapon to fight the dragons? Did our excessive Mists travel (Fractals) cause these materials to become more common?
Anet: Naaah, just craft them cause exotics aren’t the best gear anymore.
Tyrian population: …

Love this… my first time seeing this thanks to another thread link. I really hope that somehow, someway this can be implemented almost just like that. I re-read those stories for fun and or reference from time to time. It would be nice if they were all in one place

Nice work!
Hope we can see it ingame, soon.