Guild Wars 2

So after not playing gw2 for 6-7months i returned and it was hard to get back into the game for some reason so i decided ill make a new guardian character.

Played him for a week, now hes a lvl 80 guard with a couple of armor sets and a exotic heros greatsword and a rare heroes staff, his ascended armor set is also coming along the way ( there are timers on crafting deldrimor steel and bolts of danmask stuff..)

The leveling,exploring and doing small chapters of the personal story was simply great!

but now im left with just exploring the zones,hunting for traits and ascended gear crafting and dungeons.

For some reason i feel bored.

Then, just for fun, i decided to make a new sylvari ranger (all my other characters are human, and i never played a ranger before) and i decided to take a different approach

First of all, im going to take it aaaaall veery sloowly, witch seemed to be extremely rewarding.

I’m going around talking with “named” npcs, taking in the scenery, seeing so many small details i never noticed before.

I learned what it means to have a wyld hunt as a sylvari, i learned and seen the pods where they awake, i learned about the plant that makes sylvari weapons and armor..

Ive seen a little asura from durman priory recruting people for the haloween event

i also seen a human playing mad king for little quaggans…and then suddenly the real mad king shows up sets the human imposter on fire and starts telling jokes about sylvari (plant puns)

All that and i haven’t even gotten my first POI!?

There is soooo much in this world to see ,hear, explore,experiance and i think people (as i used to do as well) just rush trough it all,thinking they already seen and done everything theres to do in the map….well..poi,vistas and hearts arent the only things to be done i a map.

-back to my ranger now-

Vukorep.3081:

-back to my ranger now-

Eeeehr… What exactly stops you from doing the same reading and watching on your lvl 80 guardian?

a wierd sence of progression, as a newly created character the world is unexplored, i could watch and read as i go along the way towards pois and vistas that i “unlock”

as a lv 80 guardian half of the maps are already finished, id have to simply walk around those maps for the sore purpose of reading and watching things that happen around me

idk, im just wierd like that :P

It’s a good idea with any game, especially RPGs.

It’s kind of what made so many people’s childhood seem so much better than today when it comes to video games. I understand fewer games were streamlined, and instant map travel wasn’t really a thing in the past, but that’s not all.

When I go back today and play old games that I played as a kid, I find that I’m beating most of them in an hour or less. I might even surpass my past progress in a game and think, “Wow, so I really was too stupid to figure this out?”

However, what is a 1-hour experience now used to be months of being engulfed in every corner of the map, replaying the first level a million times, doodling characters/objects from the game instead of doing my homework and fantasizing that I will find a secret in the game that nobody else has found.

I played a lot of game demos over and over again.

Truth be told, the best way to experience a game is to not stress about experiencing it to the fullest. Else you’ll find yourself watching hundreds of youtube videos, rushing to max level and freaking out whenever a new temporary dungeon comes out and nobody has posted how to do it yet. The funny thing is, while doing that you’re missing thousands of dialogues and neat locations.

On the flip side, if you stop and smell every rose twice, you may never make it to the top. You might not ever experience some of the endgame content at all. However, if you don’t let that bother you, you could transform all of that stress and burnout into months or even years worth of enjoyment.

There is still merit to both play-styles though.

That’s pretty much my approach to any computer game, especially RPGs where there is a lot of side content to explore. I’ve played Skyrim off and on for about two years now and last month I met the Graybeards for the first time. Then I finally got around to talking to the guy about joining the Dawnguard, too.

Then I started a new character.