Guild Wars 2

~~a very, utterly, if not blackhole-suckingly TERRIBLE STORY!!!!!!
Seriously, how can this be!?!?!?

I am not joking, the music and the graphic of this game…they are tear-droppingly great. PvP is fun every once in awhile but since this could make another topic let’s drop it for now. The new armors and new outfits that come out on the Gem Store…they just keep breaking the record of looking epic. I have to say these are some of the best armors I have ever seen in any fantasy game. Which makes it all the more ironic that…..this Living Story thing…which I thought, given the attention it gets, is the thing that gets the most development on…actually turns out to be the least enjoyable hours I have spent in the game.

It tells the whole story in a disconnecting manner that I have to fight to not fall asleep. All of the interesting characters are given linear way of thinking and speaking, butchering their could-be-great presentation. I have to question who the writers are. Because to be fair, the entire idea of making Sylvari the dragon minions—-is great! It’s the presentation of this idea that is rubbish. It fails to deliver the surprise and spook that could have been there. Just putting kitten -long boss fights in between dialogues is not the way to tell a story. You are telling the players a 5 minute story with hour long boss fights (ok exaggerating here…but spending 10 minutes soloing a boss to read a 20 second dialogue is definitely no good story-telling)

I have stop here. Have to play some unranked in Skyhammer and 1v1 some turret Engineer and think about how I should better live my life. Have to listen to the Guild Wars 1 OST and some Jeremy Soule stuffs in GW2, too. Have to remember this is still somehow a good game and that the Living Story rubbish did not happen in my life.
Ever.

I really didn’t think the story was that bad.

Loved the voice acting and cutscenes that were in the game.

I also think the Elder Dragons r pretty kittening sweet.

Well..i have to be the weird one..i personally enjoyed the story, and LS2, not living story 1 to much though…

If you keep playing a while, you’ll find GW2 is like that really super hot and awesome woman of your dreams that is just amazing in all aspects, but every time you go to bed with her, she has the most terrible farts ever and they never fail to hit when she is horizontal, whilst being the worst smelling and most obnoxious sounding things ever. Playing GW2 is a lifetime of sleeping on the couch, my friend. Get used to it.

slamfunction.7462:

If you keep playing a while, you’ll find GW2 is like that really super hot and awesome woman of your dreams that is just amazing in all aspects, but every time you go to bed with her, she has the most terrible farts ever and they never fail to hit when she is horizontal, whilst being the worst smelling and most obnoxious sounding things ever. Playing GW2 is a lifetime of sleeping on the couch, my friend. Get used to it.

This is one of the best things I have ever read on any MMO forum.

You must not have gotten to the 600th time you get called boss by a bunch of teenagers. The 599 times before its annoying, but oh boy, by the 600th one it finally gets good! Almost as good as that time you saved the world by hitting 1 over and over again next to a cannon and then had the credit for it go to a walking salad.

At least it can only get better in the expansion (right?)

Living story wasn’t too bad. It’s the personal story that sucks. It gets stale the third time around.

Ferik.3127:

~~a very, utterly, if not blackhole-suckingly TERRIBLE STORY!!!!!!

Oh I knew there was a ‘but’ in there somewhere. Several years on these forums has demonstrated to me that no gw2 praise goes unaccompanied with complaint.

That said, yeah story could be better in parts. I think it’s more a matter of meh mechanics to convey in game story. I don’t think it’s really so much the writers, I’m sure that they write a pretty good story on paper. The problem comes when converting that story into gameplay. But I do think they’ve made some improvements, the removal of the side by side cinematics, the inclusion of a more consistent cast (PS had a lot of characters coming and going), the ability for PCs to be voiced (coming in HoT) etc.
Although I will remark that GW2 still suffers largely from an inability to properly convey the lore of the world and it’s history, and by this I mean when a new player in Queensdale is murdering centaurs there’s no way for them to know about the history of the humans an centaur and why they don’t like each other. Well there’s some ambient dialogue but that’s very easy to miss.

Dante.1763:

Well..i have to be the weird one..i personally enjoyed the story, and LS2, not living story 1 to much though…

S1 had an exceptionally strong focus on gameplay and very little in the way of story. You’d get a handful of lines of dialog, just enough to explain why you’re fighting the Molten Alliance, or Toxic Alliance or Aetherblades (man I wish we had the Centaur / Quaggan alliance…) and then we’d be off killing stuff. In S1 the story was pretty much relegated to FPS territory of serving to justify why we’re killing this new bunch of bad guys.
Although a lot of players seemed to enjoy a more gameplay focused S1

Sizer.5632:

You must not have gotten to the 600th time you get called boss by a bunch of teenagers. The 599 times before its annoying, but oh boy, by the 600th one it finally gets good!

Oh come on it’s probably not more than 30!

Swami.4691:

I really didn’t think the story was that bad.

Loved the voice acting and cutscenes that were in the game.

I agree with the story. It wasn’t that bad, but it was “meh” imo. Just another person in the Guild Wars universe that takes a well-earned spot that we’ve carved out for ourselves.

Though the ending was very boring. I had a greater challenge at the last boss in ESO. I’m hoping they really up the ante for HoT.

I certainly hope you’re not talking about Trahearne’s voice acting. That was rubbish.

Miss Lana.5276:

Swami.4691:

I really didn’t think the story was that bad.

Loved the voice acting and cutscenes that were in the game.

I agree with the story. It wasn’t that bad, but it was “meh” imo. Just another person in the Guild Wars universe that takes a well-earned spot that we’ve carved out for ourselves.

Though the ending was very boring. I had a greater challenge at the last boss in ESO. I’m hoping they really up the ante for HoT.

I certainly hope you’re not talking about Trahearne’s voice acting. That was rubbish.

I’m not exactly trahearnes biggest fan, but this hate in the forums is also too much.
he’s an okay NPC, it doesn’t seem to me like he’s “stealing credits”, and even if, a totally selfcertered kitten of a ally would be a nice change among the usual heroic NPCs.
And the voice… i can’t talk aout the english one, but the German voiceacting is totally okay.
I just don’t like it, that they obviously started with recording for male characters and didn’t finish all dialogoue for female characters. My character a female, I’d like to be consistently adressed as a female and not just sometimes.
if they have to have just one recording male or female, then you atleast call all characters “she”. Or just allow the player to play either a female or male character.

Oreithyia.3064:

I’m not exactly trahearnes biggest fan, but this hate in the forums is also too much.
he’s an okay NPC, it doesn’t seem to me like he’s “stealing credits”, and even if, a totally selfcertered kitten of a ally would be a nice change among the usual heroic NPCs.
And the voice… i can’t talk aout the english one, but the German voiceacting is totally okay.

I don’t hate Trahearne, and don’t think I’m overplaying it or hopping on the Trahearne-haters bandwagon by saying what I said. He’s meh. To be totally honest the thing that would turn my “meh” into like is actually putting intonation and emotion into the voice. It’s monotonous and dull in English. I’ve had to change it to German purely because I get bored hearing it. Whenever he says something that should be portrayed as excited he sounds so sarcastic purely because of the monotony.

The story is fine, it’s just the delivery of the voice acting in many scenes that is horrid. Immersion isn’t that great anyway when you have two animated characters in front of a painted background, but what makes it worse is that for some reason during many of those scenes the presentation is just flat and empty. It’s strange because many of the in-game conversations are excellent, but the cut scenes are often just lacking.

There’s also the very anti-climactic ending after all that’s been done to hunt the dragon. Here’s hoping the future content is more inspired in the delivery.

I can name another MMO which has (IMO) “Great music, Fun Gameplay, good design &” a masterfully-told main storyline, but I can also name other problems which plague that MMO.

No game can ever match up to our full expectations. As long as the game is good enough, that should suffice.

serow.6524:

I can name another MMO which has (IMO) “Great music, Fun Gameplay, good design &” a masterfully-told main storyline, but I can also name other problems which plague that MMO.

No game can ever match up to our full expectations. As long as the game is good enough, that should suffice.

Well, I don’t know; GW2 did advertise itself as a revolutionary MMO, so ‘good enough’ is definitely not the standard it should feel sufficient about.
Because I come from PvP, which is imo the least invested area at the moment but boy, I actually enjoy playing it and still buy things on the Gem Store every once in awhile just to swing those around in PvP matches. This game just has enough fair contents to open my wallet, but I would really like to see the part it invests most heavily on to do some actual deliverance. Otherwise, I am sure I would not be the only one who feels his money is not being used properly to create the extra hedonic benefits