Guild Wars 2

What dirt does Scarlet have on Caithe?

We dont know. She never says… probably because their lore team would rather write a short story about it then put it actually in the game…

Lol c:

Parisalchuk.9230:

We dont know. She never says… probably because their lore team would rather write a short story about it then put it actually in the game…

You’re probably right..which makes me die inside a little.

wAIT…….hold the horses…. THERE IS A LORE TEAM?????

She probably has some incriminating images of Caithe’s body unleafed :U

veasna.3675:

wAIT…….hold the horses…. THERE IS A LORE TEAM?????

Yeah, they write short stories, post them up on the website, and then make no attempt to have them worked into the actual game.

veasna.3675:

wAIT…….hold the horses…. THERE IS A LORE TEAM?????

Contrary to the overall state of the game, apparently there is one. BobbyStein has been around on the forums, but sadly he only chooses to post in an odd isolated Scarlet-is great thread…

Short stories were good, bravo writers, but c’mon, put that in the game! just how many people read the blog, 0.001%?
Dirt on Caithe is a step in the right direction, though. Its the only thing that made me tiny bit interested in Scarlet. What’s worst, I’m pretty sure that the story they have for us is ok, but with the current snail-slow plot pacing and very poor character presentation, it’ll be years until we get anywhere. And with so many plots (with seemingly more potential) left unfinished from Personal Story, Dragon lore, Destiny’s Edge and GW1, I don’t really see the point of wasting time on Scooby-Doo-ish villains like Sparki, Slick and Scarlet.

Parisalchuk.9230:

We dont know. She never says… probably because their lore team would rather write a short story about it then put it actually in the game…

You make it sound like they actually thought of something. To me, I only see the whole “I know a secret but wont say it because I got stopped” as a move to take when you can’t actually think of a reason.

Player Character.9467:

veasna.3675:

wAIT…….hold the horses…. THERE IS A LORE TEAM?????

Yeah, they write short stories, post them up on the website, and then make no attempt to have them worked into the actual game.

How do you suggest ANY of the existing short stories be written into the game?

Why would anybody know What Scarlet Saw, when the only other person who was with her is dead (and she’s definitely not going to tell us yet)? Why would Rox share her deepest traumatic experience with us, basically for no reason? How would we ever find out about Canach and Blingg’s meeting?

Also, a bonus: those stories would not work as cutscenes. They would be terrible. Do you really want to see an in-engine scene where they try to convey details via emotes? Ugh. Plus they are very dialogue-heavy, so they would need to be voice acted. And there are usually at least one of them weekly – so you’re asking for a long (4+ minutes) scene, voice acted, not in-engine, which means cinematic like Marjory’s or Faren’s Capture. Every week.

So they would need to be written ingame. So we’ll be reading walls of text ingame.

Listen, the stories are linked on the launcher. Players who want to know about them will click through to the website and read them. Here’s a shocker for you: players who don’t want to read short stories aren’t going to read short stories ingame either.

That’s still bad storytelling.

Xalugami.2096:

Parisalchuk.9230:

We dont know. She never says… probably because their lore team would rather write a short story about it then put it actually in the game…

You make it sound like they actually thought of something. To me, I only see the whole “I know a secret but wont say it because I got stopped” as a move to take when you can’t actually think of a reason.

I smell either a fake-out or bad retcon on Caithe’s past incoming.

Serbaayuu.3051:

Player Character.9467:

veasna.3675:

wAIT…….hold the horses…. THERE IS A LORE TEAM?????

Yeah, they write short stories, post them up on the website, and then make no attempt to have them worked into the actual game.

How do you suggest ANY of the existing short stories be written into the game?

They shouldn’t. ANet should start designing stories that work in a video game. It’s not that hard. Many video games have decent storytelling. Why doesn’t GW2?

She does know EVERYTHING, forgot that already?
She knows the whole eternal alchemy Thing blah blah blah…

So much room for so much Story… but all that turns out is… well… yeah… THIS… or better nothing… yawns

If you pay attention to the dialogs in the new dungeon path you will notice that …

That btw. really made me a bit angry. Why would you add something that …

And for kitten’s sake, connect somehow to the rich lore of GW1 already! -.-’