Guild Wars 2

Skritt: “Quick! Kill iiiit!”

i wonder what if there’s a risen merchant,…

“GOLD, GOOD!!!”

xD

anyway, “THANKS FOR PITCHING IN”

TIME to STRIKE!

I disregard most of these lines, but every time some ditsy Sylvari says “All things have a right to grow” I want to turn around and say, “No, they don’t.”

Better than Moon Boots.

Less violets, I say, MORE VIOLENCE.

I honestly tune out most of these things so I just don’t notice them anymore. The only one I can’t seem to is that Norn woman in Hoelbrak that yells,

“Take heed! I haven’t taken leave of me senses! I’ve seen creatures of metal and steam!”

Really, lady? I thought we covered why they were there years ago. Get with the times.

I also would like the npc’s to talk less frequently. It’s not that I don’t enjoy what many of them have to say, but when I’m camped for a while crafting, browsing the TP, whatever, it does get a bit wearisome to hear frequently repeated phrases. At this point I do have my dialogue turned completely off unless I’m doing something in the game that’s story-driven. Turning off the dialogue has been a breath of fresh air.

I’d also like to extend this request to the job-o-tron backpack, Log-r-Tron, Mine-r-Tron, and Reap-r-Tron. I love what they have to say, but I don’t need to hear their puns every-other-gather… especially when I’m farming.

OT: the phrase that makes me ‘gag’ the most is, “Everything has a right to grow.” This is mostly because of the sheer hypocrisy of the statement coming from NPCs who want you to go out and kill stuff.

~EW

nosleepdemon.1368:

Let’s play detective!
Alright! I’ll be Marjory!
Duhuhuh if you’re Marjory, you gotta let me give you a kiss!

…

Literally 5 seconds later

Let’s play dete~POW!! You shut your stupid mouth!

That bit of dialogue is like the super banana of dialogue.

My ears! How are you?! <<< Love that one

Jaher Dal.9503:

I miss the moaning lady from DR… lol

I heard some moaning in DR few weeks ago. Like real porn tier moaning added to background sound channel. Shame that I can’t recall where exactly it was.

While we’re on the subject of annoying repetitive audio things, I haven’t read any news about the air leaks on the captain’s airship after they said they’d be looking into it.
I’ll just go back to craf- PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF ting and PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF wait i guess.

I would LOVE to be able to turn off all the silly one-liners that characters and NPCs say all the time, without having to ALSO turn down “Dialogue Volume”. I keep Dialogue Volume turned all the way down because the one-liners are sooooo annoying after awhile

It’s a shame, because I wind up missing out on storyline and event dialogue that would be interesting – but the one-liners and player shout skills and all the other noise going on just make it not worth it.

“This place…changes you”
“You could say that”
“Liar!”

Thankfully, with the resting of the Desert Borderlands today, those are three conversations I won’t have to hear for a while.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

~snip~ For example the SW guy who babbles about Mordremoth attacking the pale tree. He has one line and repeats it every 30 seconds. ~snip~

Dear heavenly Dwayna — did you time that? Is it really 30 seconds!? I know I have heard more than I need about talking cabbages, but 30 bloomin’ seconds is really, really frequent. Can you let me know if that’s actual timing — I’d appreciate it.

Aren’t some of these conversations triggered by player proximity? I thought that was what was happening with the three I mentioned above from Citadel in Desert Borderlands. The NPCs are all close to the WP and it seems to trigger every time someone arrives – sometimes the sample will stop in the middle and start over as a new person runs past.

Time between varies but even if no one appears to arrive or even leave, it still repeats (had checked before on what was basically an empty map no one coming or going). Sometimes it would be about every 30 seconds, other times it might be a minute or 2?

There is a reason “if Mordremoth can attack the mother tree in the grove, it can attack anywhere” is a running joke since Silverwastes was introduced…

“Eat my dust” I hate that line so much =/ It’s so lame.
Makes me regret making my Mesmer a male human with that signet granting me swiftness every few seconds.

Randulf.7614:

“The clock is ticking and Tyria is at risk. Hurry along now”

I think the only item a NPC patronised me to the point of almost being offended lol

The only reason he’s offensive is that his race isn’t playable.
Harmph.

I think ideas are like cream, good ones rise to the top.

May the stars guide Anet in reading your post and potentially making changes.
Or else, let’s play investigators! I’ll be Kasmeer ok?

I……ENJOY PIE!

If we’re really playing investigators, I get to be Rytlock Holmes.

“Take heed! I haven’t taken leave of my senses. I’ve seen creatures of metal and steam!”

“Life is a trial. Koda, the judge, kodan, the jury.” I love that one

On the contrary, I specially despise all the pseudo enlightened verses the Kodan spits.

It remembers me the coven my mother used to get to my house and all the new-ageish self-help pseudo-science condescending yet delusional garbage they talked all day.

A throwback to crafting in the old LA:

“Excuse me, where are the outhouses here?”

drunkenpilot.9837:

A throwback to crafting in the old LA:

“Excuse me, where are the outhouses here?”

The old Canal Ward dialog: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Canal_Ward/dialogue

Although, now…

Adventurer: " Hey, which way to the outhouses?"
Citizen: “We don’t have outhouses. We… well, we had water closets, but now… now I don’t know.”

Gaile Gray.6029:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

~snip~ For example the SW guy who babbles about Mordremoth attacking the pale tree. He has one line and repeats it every 30 seconds. ~snip~

Dear heavenly Dwayna — did you time that? Is it really 30 seconds!? I know I have heard more than I need about talking cabbages, but 30 bloomin’ seconds is really, really frequent. Can you let me know if that’s actual timing — I’d appreciate it.

I’m not sure why you’re asking that. You only have to stand near the SW guy for a few minutes to observe the issue first hand, just as you must have stood near the cabbage char to hear his particular dialogue. As Lunacy Solaci pointed out, the time varies according that what triggers it, but the minimum time between repeats seems to be 30 seconds. It’s these minimums that need to be increased.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I’ll see if I can learn anything about it.

Sooo…. uhm… (shuffles feet)…. anything new?

Ardid.7203:

On the contrary, I specially despise all the pseudo enlightened verses the Kodan spits.

Probably because the Kodan mistakenly call the status quo BALANCE.

The Elder Dragons are as much a part of the world as the seas and the sunrise. That the world moves in cycles doesn’t mean BALANCE has been overturned, only your short-sighted status quo. The World IS. Deal with it.

I want to see a band of “evil” Kodan who grasp the larger reality. Heretics with useful secrets/intel on the Elder Dragons because they’ve looked out across the larger wheel of events and seen into and through this season of Dragons to the hope beyond.

LETS PLAY INVESTIGATORS. I’LL BE KASMEER.
OKAY. THEN I’LL BE MARJORY.
IF YOU’RE MARJORY, YOU GOTTA LET ME GIVE YOU A KISS.
UH.
COME BACK!!

Every. Minute. I’d have shipped these kids off to some never-visited corner of the WvW maps long ago if I had the power.

“You heard—you heard Gra—you heard Grast, hold the —-You heard—you heard Grast, hold the line—-You heard Grast, … Send the intruders to Grenth!”

Roundabout.1752:

Death, good. As someone who has recently lost a brother and a friend to suicide, that tagline turns my stomach every time I hear it, so may the stars guide you just doesn’t bother me at all.

Well, that was dark, darker than reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar in this context. Sorry for your loss.

NPCs should have their dialogue words pooled and then randomly assembled when you talk to one. So for example you’d get “I pray by Ogden’s challenge, but the looking spirits have a right to rarely grow rich violence! I answer I’ve taken leave of my help. Greetings.”

That should keep things nice and fresh.

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Jaher Dal.9503:

I miss the moaning lady from DR… lol

I heard some moaning in DR few weeks ago. Like real porn tier moaning added to background sound channel. Shame that I can’t recall where exactly it was.

THIS!!! Omg this!!! I thought I left a browser on a porn site when I heard it! Which could not happen because I never visits those sites… kappa

I think she’s yawning, if we’re thinking about the same NPC. There is a ridiculous amount of random grunts, laughs, yawns, and other guttural noises in the background chatter.

Why have I not clicked on this sooner, it’s pure gold lol.
MAY THE STARS GUIDE YOU. They guided me here finally.

I liked the one about Sylvari and salads back in old LA.

Tanith.5264:

I disregard most of these lines, but every time some ditsy Sylvari says “All things have a right to grow” I want to turn around and say, “No, they don’t.”

Exactly, have they seen Mordemoth? Wait.. never mine this explains everything. Restrain every sylvari who says this.

I do think the dialogue should be and is needed, but it is indeed too often.

Less violence? I say…more violence.

Right now a pair of Anet peeps are probably looking at this thread:

“What else have you found so far?”

“What haven’t I found? This thread is amazing!!!”

“Oh… I didn’t see you there.”

This happens in many places but in the DR bank it is the worst. Not only do they repeat this over and over, but all the vendors/tellers say it. Monotonous much?

Fluffball.8307:

NPCs should have their dialogue words pooled and then randomly assembled when you talk to one. So for example you’d get “I pray by Ogden’s challenge, but the looking spirits have a right to rarely grow rich violence! I answer I’ve taken leave of my help. Greetings.”

That should keep things nice and fresh.

Somehow random wording dialogue feels creepy to me .

Tanith.5264:

Right now a pair of Anet peeps are probably looking at this thread:

“What else have you found so far?”
“What haven’t I found? This thread is amazing!!!”

And then they repeat it every 30 seconds until the other people in the office run out screaming.

The kodan in LA by the repair anvil freaks me out ._. Just selling junk/ salvaging etc and I hear.

“Life is a trial, Koda the judge and Kodan the jury” over and over.

Whenever I hear ‘May the Stars guide you’ I get World of Warcraft Auberdine flashbacks – in 40 years when we are all ancient the world will be full confused old people quoting NPC conversations to each other

And oh my God that pair of Asurans in Rata Sum – I was there sorting through three guild banks and all my characters over the weekend, in any upcoming Golum uprising im really hoping they make a bee line for Accountancy Waypoint and scare the ever living kitten out of them.

What bugs me is the drunk woman NPC you hear when your at the Black Lion Store in Hoelbrack. She sounds so pathetic. I wish the devs would give us a way to permanently silence individual NPCs rather than just having to disable all of them.

“Wow! That’s some nice armour!”
“Thanks!”
“Thanks!”
“Thanks!”
“Thanks!”
“Thanks!”
“Thanks!”
“Thanks!”

nosleepdemon.1368:

“Wow! That’s some nice armour!”
“Thanks!”
“Thanks!”
“Thanks!”
“Thanks!”
“Thanks!”
“Thanks!”
“Thanks!”

OMG. I was in DS and trying to interact with a vendor when all these soldiers standing nearby said that. They chat zones must have overlapped the vendor’s and I clicked them by mistake. All of them. At the same time. But not the vendor. Thoughtful design. (slow clap)

Does “violets, not violence” make you really wish you could punch that npc in the face?

See, video games DO promote violence!

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Tanith.5264:

Right now a pair of Anet peeps are probably looking at this thread:

“What else have you found so far?”
“What haven’t I found? This thread is amazing!!!”

And then they repeat it every 30 seconds until the other people in the office run out screaming.

lol! If working at ANet could only be like playing GW2 sometimes…

I’m imagining some hilarious possibilities already…starting with trying to find someone to taxi on that has some empty spaces in the parking lot…then ‘crafting’ the morning pot of coffee…near the incessantly chattering npc…having the door to the restroom get stuck…having a sign up in your face, that you can’t take down, telling you to do your tasks for the day…

Oh, and while we’re on the subject of DS NPC’s…

I forget her name, but she’s at the anvil right at the start. And she greets everyone thusly:

“I’m busy. See that anvil over there? Repair your own gear.”

Pardon the Realm of Torment out of me, Little Miss Sunshine. It was my work that got you and your anvil this close to Mordremoth. I am the Commander of the Pact, so address me with more respect or I’ll have Rytlock shove you and your anvil so far into Mordy’s brain you’ll be witnessing his memories as an egg.