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always makes me laugh how people are apparently too manly and/or serious to be able to bear the presence of this bow.
Yup, the same thing happened at release with ppl complaining about mesmer and purple butterflies effects… it just didn’t suit their manly man aesthetics.
I also have a sneaking suspicion ppl complaining about it being “childish”..are probably 15-25 and desperate to prove how adult they are.
You know, it has nothing to do with being too manly or serious, or young.
I’m a 44-year-old man. I’m confident enough in my masculinity to wear pink shirts and ties. I’m old enough to think the idea of a bow that shoots rainbows is sophomoric and unrealistic – even in a fantasy setting. I’m at ease with purple butterflies. Anyone you meet who knows me would tell you that the last descriptor they’d use for me is “serious.” In fact, my girlfriend frequently complains that I don’t take things seriously enough. So you’re wrong on all of those counts.
Now, I can’t speak for anyone else, but I just think that you don’t have to have the fluffy bunny stuff in a game carrying the “Guild Wars” name. I have no objection to the bow itself. I object to it firing rainbow pretties. It is, frankly, stupid and very, very childish.
And the point in my previous post – anyone else’s opinion notwithstanding – is that Guild Wars has always been better than that.
It has never been in the same group as what I view as lesser games like WoW, Aion, Perfect World, Forsaken World, and all the other cookie-cutter MMOs (which GW2 really is – despite how much they want to say it’s different) that pander to the angsty teens who wander around clutching large pink kitten dolls and think it’s cool.
Any fantasy game requires a suspension of disbelief – a very high suspension – to be effectively immersive. For that immersion to work, things in the world have to make sense.
Like it or not, GW2 is actually fairly dark in its tone. Let’s think about that.
- Bandits are everywhere
- Lion’s Arch is an entire city of pirates (you know, CRIMINALS)
- The Cursed Shores are full of dreary and depressing areas (to say nothing of undead Quaggan, for Kormir’s sake)
- Dwarfs have been all but wiped out
- The Black Citadel is quite possibly the most depressing example of reckless industrial abandon you could find. DETROIT would get depressed in the Black Citadel
- Humans are a diminishing race – what’s left of them are in a constant struggle for survival from enemies on all sides
- Norn are REFUGEES, living in a diminished state from 250 years ago – and now with the latest update they’re being driven further into exile from their homeland
- Two giant Elder Dragons have risen so far (Kralkatorrik and Zhaitan). Four more are coming.
- Entire swaths of Charr homelands have been turned into dead zones called the Dragon Brand, and Kralkatorrik’s crystal minions lurk the land – attacking anyone they come across
- With the new rumblings in the northern Shiverpeaks driving Norn and other species south, it is likely that a third giant Elder Dragon (Jormag) will rise very soon, indeed
- Evil Asura are running experiments on living and unwilling test subjects
- Ghosts infest Ascalon and attack any living people who enter their domain
- Centaurs – once often friendly toward others – now kill humans in their own homelands on a regular basis
- The Nightmare Court consolidate more power
- The Gods have left the world, and animals drink water from the altars of the holy places
And yet… even in these dragon-cursed times there are still bows that shoot unicorns and rainbows, mesmer shatters sending butterflies out, areas of immense beauty, children laughing and playing… perhaps your immersion needs a peoples suppressed by the darkness to feel right. Mine needs people rising above it and still finding frivolity no matter how bad it gets.
I’m older than you are too.
I’m a 26 year old female, I like pink, rainbows and cute things as much as I like ‘masculine’ things like beer and games like gears of war 2. I think it’s your perception that anything pink, cute or consisting of rainbows is ‘Angsty Teenager’ stuff personally I think it’s quite a narrow minded attitude.
You seem to think that I object to the bow, the color pink and cute things. That tells me you either didn’t read everything I said or didn’t understand it. This is about in-game context. I never once said that anything pink, cute or consisting of rainbows is “angsty teenager stuff.” Not once.
You probably want to re-read what I said. I said the rainbow effect (NOT the bow itself) seems to be ANet attempting to pander to those angsty teenage types who prefer other games which I consider to be beneath Guild Wars (most of which are filled with silly, stupid, nonsense things that are incredibly immature).
I said that I wear pink. In fact, I’m wearing a pink shirt right now. It has nothing to do with color or masculinity or age. I said that I don’t object to the bow itself. I said that I object to the the silly rainbow effect of the bow and how it doesn’t fit the world it’s in.
That’s not narrow-minded, it’s a simple truth that GW2 is a dark game, with dark themes and dark tones. Are there pretty places in GW2? Yes. Are there children laughing and playing? Yes. Are there pretty weapons? Yes.
Are they in context with the game’s tone? Yes.
In the real world we have death and destruction on a regular basis, but we also have great beauty, charm and elegance. All of that, however, contextually has its place in our world. A bow that shoots rainbows does not have a contextual place in the world of GW2 (to say NOTHING of Guild Wars).
Thanks so much for trying to give me a lesson on mythology and color, but I don’t need it. Further, unicorns have never – ever – appeared in Guild Wars. There are none in GW2 – except for that bow. So, now that you’ve mentioned it, in fact I do object to the unicorn bow, because unicorns are unknown in the GW universe. That means that there is no context for a unicorn bow to exist in the GW universe.
Maybe try look beyond first association and appreciate things on their own merits, if you still don’t like it that’s fine that’s your opinion but don’t compare people who do like those kind of things with ‘angsty immature teenagers’. The fact that you feel you are superior to those who do like those things is the immature attitude here if anything.
So I can have my opinion and that’s fine, but if you don’t like what my opinion on things and what they equate to is, it’s not fine? And mine is the immature attitude. ’kay. 
Also, Not everything needs to be serious within the game. In reality we have wars and awful things but we also have adorable, beautiful things. Nobody complains about those things ruining immersion in reality.
It just needs to be contextually valid in the world I’m supposed to be getting immersed in. Rainbow projectiles are not contextually valid in the GW universe – and certainly not when nothing else in the game looks anything like the effect of the bow’s ammo.