I have been playing GW2 for a month now. Everything in the game seems to be well done. But only the personal story contents feel a bit weak. Since the story has been done and will be hard to change, so maybe arena net could improve the aspects on the upcoming expansion.
First of all, the character development is not really good, I don’t really see myself invest into what happened around me. The cutscene does not bring emotion to the players as it needed. There are couple moments I thought using in game cutscene would be more appropriated.
For example, in the quest where you defended the claw island, the action picks up when enemies invade from the beach. All we got was a text saying undead is coming. It would be nice to show in game cutscene where undead emerged from the water and storm the beach. Also, putting a few lion’s arch soliders being slaughter and running away would do the job to set the mood.
At the very end of the quest, where the players’ mentor sacrifices him/herself should be more dramatic and emotional too. Don’t just show the door being shut. Show what the mentor was thinking at the time before he/she charge into hordes of undead. The camera angle during the cutscene could pan out to the top slowly for showing one person running into hundreds of undead.
Also, for making players care about characters. Maybe try to give them more personalities. Like in GTA, where everytime you go in and pick up a mission, there is a cutscene showing what those characters were doing before you show up. Different character should chat differently too, don’t just chat about what’s going on at the very moment. Those characters should have different hobby, and they should occasionally brings up what they do for fun and what they do for living to spices up the conversation. It doesn’t have to be in cutscene, maybe just few random lines or two when the player is running with them.
GW2 is a very fun game, it’s very hard for me to see certain aspect that’s not on par to the best. The story and character development does stick out like a sore thumb. Hopfully arena net could read this and maybe they could improve GW2 in the next expansions or patches.
You should really go in and use the [ s ] texttexttext [ / s ] (minus the spaces) to cover up your spoilers.
EDIT: I point this out, because I’ve had one of my own forum posts deleted for not using the forum tools; even though I noted everything with spoilers. So I guess just a friendly FYI
haha, this game is rated T, if they let you kill him, you would probably hear the voice of trahearne screaming, and you would have to imagine the rest yourself.
When you’re a tree for that part, you get a special cutscene where Trahearne recognises you and is grateful you have showed up… then your mentor introduces you to him :\kitten/p>
