Guild Wars 2

Hey there. Aikata here. I made this .

I honestly haven’t played the game in quite some time, but I’ve always been quite proud of this thread I made. Three years of collaboration, dozens of players working together, over 350 unique songs linked to their original creator’s post for credit and pertinent notes…it’s quite nice. After some searching though, I actually found several posts about another music collection.

http://gw2mb.com/

It has a program that allows you to set macros for different songs and export/import them for sharing through the site. The site has over 2,500 submissions. (Wow)

I hadn’t realized how big macro playing had gotten over the past couple of years. It seems I missed all the drama when Anet sanctioned macro use for playing instruments. Even if you don’t like using macros, there’s an option to export the notation for manual play.

Honestly, it’s a little disheartening that manual play is so overshadowed now. One thing I loved about GW2’s music system is that you actually had your hands on something performing the song, not just throwing some numbers and symbols into a script and pressing play (Lord of the Rings, ArcheAge). It’s the closest you get to feel like being an actual musician in an MMO.

The site itself is well-made though. The songs sound good, though whether or not they individually work in game is up for testing. One thing that is a bit rough is that the manual play script is simply a giant block of numbers and arrows and not curated for phrasing or readability…but I guess that’s simply what the musician in me would want, and the sheer number of songs make up for that low point.

Maybe I should label the thread as manual only, haha. I guess I’m disappointed that skillful players get overshadowed by keyboard scripts now. Oh well, stepping off the soap box now.