people are counting on you to make things work, ANet, shout-out to Ree
. cute girl
Joshua Oreskovich
21 May 2012 at 5:17 pm PST
Also of the 3 ( I haven’t played Tera), my money is on GW2 being the best overall entertainment. I don’t trust eastern game companies to “eventually” come around to their senses. The designers of GW2 are obviously going for a fuller experience including largely non-combat more niche market. Tera will make more money maybe, but I’m voting for the dreamers.
the biggest part that is still missing in GW2 (aside from an interesting story), is AoC’s ability to deliver an artistically cut “vision”, GW2 still suffers from cartoon-y “chaotic-stupid” tropes and lacks contrast, culture, history (that isn’t written by a high school novelist) and meaning.
Their story won’t deliver this, it can’t. It’s the bottom of the barrel of social connection. But if they spent the next year or 2 fine tuning their world with meaning beyond .. “kill stuff” and it’s “for the greater good”, and inserted some psychology, history, myth and mystery beyond whats behind door #1 I think they will blossom into something much better.
For now though my money is still on the Arenanet guys to hold the torch after Bioware died.