Guild Wars 2

CETheLucid.3964:

knives.6345:

Oh and dungeons here have specific drops – meaning say Item A only drops on Dungeon A, and item A is needed to upgrade/craft certain item – which encourages players to actually run the dungeon – not just specific dungeons.

GW2 has exclusive dungeon gear, weapons and armor that you can only get by running that particular dungeon. So. Yeah.

As a bonus, it’s not some absurd RNG drop. Enough tokens gets you what you want free and clear.

knives.6345:

As you may have noticed, those are “minor” impacts, but it builds over time – thus creating an environment where players would actually want to participate to gain advantage over others. They are actually encouraged to participate. Note: Encouraged, not required.

Nothing in this game “requires” you to do anything. Nothing in this game will give you a clear advantage over another player that they can’t also reasonably work for.

One of the reasons I like GW2 so much is because of this. In my opinion, that kind of thing in traditional MMOs is really stupid.

From the sound of it, you must hate this game because it runs counter to that standard.

I mean there’s legendaries and ascended gear, but that’s the last tier of the time sink in this game and even these aren’t WoW or RO level in time needed.

Maybe you want more of a traditional MMO where you can work to be a degree better than the average player based on the time you put in.

You know what though? That’s okay. People have different tastes and likes. GW2 is an MMO that caters to a starved audience that wants something a little more accessible.

If you want to be able to put in lots of time to be objectively superior stat wise and gear wise to someone else who can’t play as often as you might be able to…

That’s okay. There is an endless stream of these kinds of MMOs for you to try out. But GW2 won’t be that kind of MMO.

Problem with dungeon gear is – the stats are present to other gears. Exact stats. Unless you’re in it for the skin, one can simply buy + transmute – no incentive to run dungeons at all.

And I don’t hate the game – I play almost everyday in a span of few hours. It’s just parts of the game felt really pointless at times. It’s like I don’t find the motivation to do WvWvW – simply because, what’s in it for me? my team? and my server? The moment I get out of WvWvW area, all efforts are left there. No impact on the bigger world.

Valanga.5942:

Vayne.8563:

Well, seems to me on patch does someone must like the content, because I keep getting put into overflows. I mean consistently.

Sometimes I’m on overflows for days and days after a patch hits.

Again, you’re on the most populated server of the entire game, if you didn’t get any overflow in patch day, i’d be worried…
But have you ever tried to guest into the less crowded servers, the ones people open threads about on daily basis, asking for merge because they are empty? I’m sure you’ll not have any overflow there, even on patch days.

Vayne.8563:

You must have pretty low standards, because the story in Guild Wars 1 was cliche too. Whether you liked it or not, if you can’t admit it’s cliche there’s not much else to talk about..

Since you praised the Living Story in more threads than i care to remember (yep, calling it Story, but now i see it’s more convenient to call it World), and how much a good character Scarlet is, and now in this very topic you said that games like TSW, AoC and The Old Republic don’t have a good story… Well, i wouldn’t be sure who’s the one with pretty low standards…

But anyway, it’s your opinion, and it’s as good as his, no less and no more.

Way to misquote me. I never said SWToR didn’t have a good story, I said I didn’t play it. Thus I couldn’t comment on the story. I said I didn’t play it for reasons other than the story.

I call the Living World the Living Story because that’s what it was first called and habits die hard. The fact that Anet changed it is actually easy enough to check if you feel inclined to do so.

TSW’s story was very much ruined by the fact that your character wasn’t voiced, which means most of what you heard was a monologue. Even then I didn’t say it has a bad story, or even that I liked Guild Wars 2’s story better.

I haven’t complimented the living world much at all, if you bothered reading any thing I’ve written.

All I’m actually doing is providing counterpoint to people who like to prejudge stuff, or use exaggeration to try to make points. People make comments all the time that are, in my opinion, completely unreasonable and very much overstated.

It’s funny how if you try to be reasonable and like wait for content to ship before you bad mouth it, people take it as if you love it.

I’m just willing to wait to see what happens. Of the living story so far, I’ve liked parts of it and haven’t liked others, which I’ve also said before. I don’t have a problem with Scarlet, but I don’t think she’s academy award material either. All I’ve said about her is that she serves the purpose of the story admirably.

If you consider that high praise, I don’t know what to tell you.

One wildstar beta key and i’m out of here ….

But not really. But really. Maybe. Probably.

Fix my WvW and add GvG in the next 3 months. Wildstar PvP looks far too interesting to stay in this unevolving PvP game with the focus on everything but.

Oh uh yeah, video looks meh.

#Don’tcareaboutlivingstorybecauseIhadathesistodoandmissed14weekswithnowaytoreplaycontent

Baels.3469:

One wildstar beta key and i’m out of here ….

But not really. But really. Maybe. Probably.

Fix my WvW and add GvG in the next 3 months. Wildstar PvP looks far too interesting to stay in this unevolving PvP game with the focus on everything but.

So if I can score you one WS beta key we can reduce the BG blob by one?

BRB… phone calls to make…

Corpus Christi.2057:

It is sad to see how easily satsified the masses are. Truly.

Couldn’t agree more. Not surprising really though when you look at other popular entertainment such as music and films.

Britney Spears, zombie horror ghost films from America, champion trains in Queensdale.

The dregs of each industry.

Baels.3469:

One wildstar beta key and i’m out of here ….

But not really. But really. Maybe. Probably.

Fix my WvW and add GvG in the next 3 months. Wildstar PvP looks far too interesting to stay in this unevolving PvP game with the focus on everything but.

Oh uh yeah, video looks meh.

#Don’tcareaboutlivingstorybecauseIhadathesistodoandmissed14weekswithnowaytoreplaycontent

Hey, the guild im in is on blackgate too[AOL] /Poke

I think that video games are one of the best possible media for story telling. They have the interactive component, the visual component, the ability to insert yourself into the story and live it. They have text and speech and video. Video games imo should be the holy grail of story telling. Unfortunately they have fallen far short. The best writers just aren’t there, and they are trying to appeal to the tween boy level of story not a mature intelligent story.

Some of the story lines in SWTOR for instance were very well done. They executed the potential fairly well. Unfortunately the game had literally nothing else going for it. Even WoW had a fairly in depth and intelligent story. The presentation was lacking due to walls of text. But if you sat down, did all the quests in an area, listened to the dialog and read the text the story itself was fairly continuous, and compelling. Wrath of the lich king especially continue the story from the original game and did it very well. Cata told an overall story but also seeded in other great stories such as a full indiana jones movie.

GW2 on the other hand started off strong with the personal story and then fell flat and never recovered. Scarlet has not helped matters. The story isn’t believable and the pace is far to slow to hold interest. Scarlets back story would have made a pretty decent opening act imo, if it was done ingame (not in a blog) and was a single release. The alliances were almost all absurd and nonsensical and greatly detracted from the story.

There is a reason we wait until the entire book is done before buying and reading it. People lose interest. Even TV has figured that out, seasons are being released all at once because people lose interest half way through or stop watching when they have to wait 3months just to figure out one plot point.