Guild Wars 2

Guild wars 2 is a pretty good game. I think there’s a few changes that can be made, but overall, its well made, the gameplay is active, and it feels like there’s usually stuff to do. The story is immersive and the world is believable, except for one glaring exception:

Mounts! And I’m not talking about player mounts. If Arenanet wants to keep players walking, that’s fine. Being able to pull equines out of one’s nether regions on command has always been an odd feature of other MMOs anyways.

The thing is, from a world experience perspective, it’s absolutely loony that no npc has ever thought “You know, that animal runs pretty fast, I’mm sit my behind on it and let it do the work.” Its just one of those technological things that comes with civilization. You craft metal pointy things and someone runs someone else through with it, you cut down trees and make shelters so you’re not getting rained on. You have a strong tame animal, you hitch it to wagons and sit on it and let it do the work.

Its just a glaring hole that animals aren’t used in such a way in GW2. I mean they put things to haul on dolyaks, but they didn’t think of putting themselves on one? It doesn’t make sense. Its fine that horses seem to not exist, but Asura could easily ride moa, and there’s some expertly trained moa. Its impossible that a race that has figured out laserguns never thought to plop their butt on an animal so they don’t have to walk.

There’s a lot more of animal powered things that should be commonplace in such a world, and simply don’t exist, and that’s crazypants. NPCS should get mounts.

There are carts in this game, and they’re clearly made to be pulled by an animal (or centaur), but you never see one hitched up to them. I think they simply don’t have a way to do it and make it look/move right.

While it would make sense that it should be happening, the work needed to make it happen “on camera” is likely on par with the work to add a new weapon to every class. If so, I’m okay with it only happening “off camera” for now, so they can add more important features to the game.

Yaks are all but ideal and only live in snowy areas. They can carry around 70-80 kg of stuff before becoming extremely grumpy, a norn would probably weigh too much… not to mention the fact that norns can transform into animals themselves and would probably rather do that. There used to be horses (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Necrid_Horseman) but they’re extinct. The asura lived underground and had already invented golems by the time they were forced on the surface.

Those horsemen are interesting.

I don’t think this would take much work though, it’s certainly not on par of adding new weapons to each class. Its just some new character models. If you can make a centaur you can make a dude riding a horse. : P

Its just so weird that they did this. I mean I guess they were trying to validate not having player mounts, but player mounts don’t need to exist for npcs to use mounts. Deer, dolyaks, cows, moa, other humans, there’s a metric ton of animals that could be rode.

Mounts would seem to be one of the things that least need to be addressed in this game.

I’m not asking for player mounts, I’m pointing out the lore doesn’t support mounts not existing in lore.

Rukh.9287:

I’m not asking for player mounts, I’m pointing out the lore doesn’t support mounts not existing in lore.

We’ve come to the point that a forest boar that is slightly bigger than its brethren has BLOODSTONE dust on it.

I think it’s fair to say lore is dead and buried by now.