Guild Wars 2

At least we’re not addicted to drugs or alcohol and in and out of rehab all the time or having to appear in court for assaulting the paparazzi.

Yeah, this game disappointed me so much with the story. I go from killing Abaddon with my own two hands and feeling the joy of sending him back to hell to killing Zhaitan with a cannon and it wasn’t even challenging.

At the end, I was like, “I certainly don’t feel like I’m doing anything important. I just operated a cannon that shot him down, anyone could’ve done that.”

well the alternative to the cannon is auto attack and dodge…. so well there is no real difference…

my problem is with the currently minigames driven storyline

Tachenon.5270:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Ronah.2869:

The character is born as a hero who later becomes a member of an Order and gets promoted so that at the end he/she become a simple filler in a big army with some to no responsibilities at all who kills the huge dragon threat spamming skill No 1.
What do we do now? Living Story.

So we dropped from The Hero of… to Mr. Nobody in 80 levels

This is a first in all my RPG games playing history.

Frodo went from Hero to Zero after the Ring of Power was destroyed. So what’s your point?

There was only one Dark Lord. There are bunches of Elder Dragons. And Frodo wouldn’t have a Ring of Power because in the Guild Wars universe Bilbo would have had to answer 100,000 riddles, collect 100,000 fish scales from Gollum’s garbage bin, complete the Balrog’s Bounce jumping puzzle in Moria, complete Sharky’s Shuffle in Isengard, learn the Misty Mountain Hop while blind-folded, dig 500,000 taters and 250,000 carrots and slaughter 100,000 rabbits for the Gift of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit, mine and refine 9,000,000 chunks of mithril silver, and then defeat the Risen Smaug to get the kitten thing and then it would be soulbound on use.

My day has been made. Thank you.

marnick.4305:

Think positive. Kormir is a god now. That’s something right?

Nobody likes Kormir…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxmkAoLC6_4

I like it this way. I never understood the point of an MMO where your character is the hero of the day- because so is every other hero out there.

“I single handedly led the armies that destroyed the dragon!”
“Amazing! So did I!”
“…”

It is far more believable for them to both say “I was a part of the armies that destroyed the dragon!”. No, you aren’t the hero of the day… but neither is anyone else. You are all a part of something much bigger than you or anyone else!

So yea, I prefer this method of telling the story.

Tolmos.8395:

I like it this way. I never understood the point of an MMO where your character is the hero of the day- because so is every other hero out there.

“I single handedly led the armies that destroyed the dragon!”
“Amazing! So did I!”
“…”

It is far more believable for them to both say “I was a part of the armies that destroyed the dragon!”. No, you aren’t the hero of the day… but neither is anyone else. You are all a part of something much bigger than you or anyone else!

So yea, I prefer this method of telling the story.

“I’m the Hero of Shaemoor!”
“Nuh uh. I am. Logan Thackeray said so.”
“What a coincidence! He said I was the Hero of Shaemoor.”
“Hey! Me, too!”
“…”
“Get a rope!”

I don’t understand how you can be born a hero. What actions have you taken to become a hero at birth? then you saved millions of people from extinct and you’re just somebody now?

Makes no sense.

are you people even reading what other people said before you?

Amadan.9451:

are you people even reading what other people said before you?

No.

I just read the OP and I agreed with him. Not everything has to be up for discussion man.. especially when it’s true period.

Tachenon.5270:

There was only one Dark Lord. There are bunches of Elder Dragons. And Frodo wouldn’t have a Ring of Power because in the Guild Wars universe Bilbo would have had to answer 100,000 riddles, collect 100,000 fish scales from Gollum’s garbage bin, complete the Balrog’s Bounce jumping puzzle in Moria, complete Sharky’s Shuffle in Isengard, learn the Misty Mountain Hop while blind-folded, dig 500,000 taters and 250,000 carrots and slaughter 100,000 rabbits for the Gift of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit, mine and refine 9,000,000 chunks of mithril silver, and then defeat the Risen Smaug to get the kitten thing and then it would be soulbound on use.

Well played, but you forgot to mention that Bilbo would only be allowed to mine one chunk of mithril silver per day.

Amadan.9451:

Vayne.8563:

The story is only the beginning. They even TOLD you that in the scenes. If you think all heroes do nothing about heroic stuff…think again.

Right now, we’re doing other stuff. Fighting dragons isn’t important but helping keep the peace isn’t a bad job for a hero. Nor is throwing your support behind a potential captain’s council candidate.

I think standard heroic fantasy has been done to death. Frankly I wish there weren’t even dragons in this game.

sorry, i didn’t explain myself very well.
i think the politics could have had a lot of potential and it is very original for an on line game, and i don’t always want to fight dragons.

what i want is:
if i have to vote for this or that character my choice should be made story wise, not because they add one dungeon or the other.
also, i should do things like supporting because the story take me to it, not because i browse the achievement panel and see what’s next to do.
i don’t even mind a non linear story, and i like the fact that despite a bigger threats people still fight and plot agains each other, it is very good stuff, but i don’t feel involved in any of this, the storytelling is not compelling enough to make me care about.

when flame and frost started i was more interested in what was going on, and the memento collecting or the sign post building was just a part of that (although i shouldn’t be finished because i reached the 75 point of the achievement but because i built every sign post and found the memento for every npc who required it, like a scanvenging hunt. i loved the halloween scavenging hunt more than any other minigames added so far).

Ah I see. You’re a bit like me then.

I’m not voting for a character for a dungeon or a discount. I’m voting for a character I want to.

The thing is, I have different characters and different characters of mine support different candidates. For example, my human necro is a power hungry, control freak who supports Evon Gnashblade. My sylvari ranger and mesmer both support Ellen Kiel, who they like and trust.

I simply made the choice to play that way and that’s how I play.

With achievements it’s harder, but there’s definitely a hard line between what I know and what my characters know. Some of my characters wouldn’t be interested in the survival game at all…those characters won’t do it.

Keep in mind I have a lot of characters.

I even turn off the map markers on some characters and walk around without a check list of things to do. Makes the game much more enjoyable for me.

yeah Vayne, i recently decided to do so.
on a side note i know the future of the living story will be brighter, and i like the concept, i trust anet enough to know that when this lviing story arc will be finished and we will have the bigger picture everything will make sense.