Guild Wars 2

I’m a relatively new player, there are many things I don’t know however, I have to ask. The splash screen for Hoelbrak appears to show skyscrapers in the background. Including – if I’m not mistaken, the tallest parking tower the multi-verse has ever seen.

Does anyone have any insight to share?

there is a crane as well

You should see the load-in screen for the Straights of Devastation. Shows what looks like a pair of ruined skyscrapers there as well.

As for any insight on those… I think it’s just artwork, to be honest. Great civilizations have risen and fallen (like the human kingdom of Orr, for example) but the art shown in those splash screens doesn’t always match up quite right with it.

There were a few threads long ago the discussed what seemed to be source images that the art team traced over. The one thread I quickly found was this one.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/S-V-Concordia-on-Frostgorge-loading-screen/first#post1817858

I never saw the original home city designs before they were scrapped. Poss related to those?

Otherwise it’s just the usual case of concept art not being true to the game, which is pretty standard anyway.