Guild Wars 2

Okay, so I never played the original Guild Wars, but I was looking at the Wiki entry for its character select screen, and the Prophecies one looked awesome! I know it’s a minor, unimportant detail, and it shouldn’t take priority over gameplay tweaks, but we all look at the thing at least once per play session, so I thought it would be fun to discuss what we’d like to see in future

For me personally I’d like:

- Something like Prophecies’ set up, with at least some (selectable) alts actually on screen with the character. If for no other reason than being able to screenshot more than one toon.

- Ability to select the number of thumbnails/characters on display. At the very least, change the max from seven to eight, to accommodate one for each class.

- Weapons on display. I don’t really understand why this isn’t already in. I don’t have a legendary, but if I did, this would be pretty integral to my character’s appearance.

- Some ability to see what each character is carrying, at least in terms of gold and karma, though quick access to hero and inventory panels would be good too (this may be a feature I am unaware of).

Anyway, love the game and this is a minor issue (so please let’s not fight over development resources), but I thought this would be fun to discuss

I think this will be moved to Suggestion forums.

Either way, it might not be the character select screen, but I would love to have the login screen back.

People will counter with ‘’The one we have no is much more efficient and logs you in to the game fast’’ I’m aware people want to login fast and such, but I just like this login screen too much to let it go waste, I have no hurry to login as fast as possible, I gladly sacrifice time to have this screen back, I think it’s awesome art.

Other than that, I want weapons to appear on your characters, and the character selection screen to be more like original Guild Wars, with environment around you, and when you spin your character, you actually spin the whole area.

Good old memories, I really miss that screen but people on GW1 asked for the original screen for a long time and nothing change so I don’t think GW2 is going to be the exception (I think someone said that screen implied some technical problems but I’m not sure).

It took me a while to remember the original character select screen for GW1. Had to flip my mental rolodex quite a bit. I think they emulated Diablo 2’s character select screen at launch, but the newer one let us showcase each of our characters better.

GW2’s original login screen was fantastic. I remember the 1st time I logged in during the BWEs and was super stoked each time that dragon-2 slashed across the screen. Now it’s just a glorified list of links to the website…kinda lame. I mean, I understand the need to inform the players, but maybe bring back the old screen and just add a drop-down window with that stuff in it.