Guild Wars 2

I love Guild Wars 2.

I love the story. I love the lore. I love the engine.

And I find myself thinking, for some strange reason,

“Can you imagine how epic it would be if they took the GW2 engine and made a Star Wars MMO?”

And now I cannot look at GW2 the same way again, because I keep wanting everything to be Star Wars.

No, there is no rhyme or reason. I just think it would be awesome.

I for one can’t wait for a better and newer engine to be purposely build for this style of game-play. By the way you do realise SWOTOR uses the HeroEngine which is 2011 and GW2 uses a modified version of the old GW1 engine?

Here is a quote from ANet on the engine.

“Guild Wars 2 uses a heavily modified Guild Wars game engine which includes support for true 3D environments, more detailed environments and models, better lighting and shadows, new animation and effects systems, plus new audio and cinematics engines and a more flexible combat and skill-casting system.⁷ It uses Havok to provide destructible environment and ragdoll animation of creatures⁸ and Umbra’s occlusion culling technology.⁹”

The problems with using such an old engine (Havoc began in 2000) is highlighted by the terrible camera controlls and possibly the culling and lag issues we suffer. What they’ve done with the game IS amazing, no doubt, but I don’t think Star Wars would benefit over what they used. To be honest I think the art style of GW2 is what carries the game, whoever was in charge of the overall look of GW2 I congratulate you!

Perhaps something like this?

Gold Two: The guns – they’ve stopped!
Gold Five: Stabilize your rear deflectors… Watch for enemy fighters.
Gold Leader: They’re coming in! Three marks at 2-10!
Gold Leader: It’s no good, I can’t maneuver my camera
Gold Five: Stay on target.
Gold Leader: My heads in the way i cant see them!
Gold Five: Stay on target!
Gold Leader: I cant i’m a Norn i have clipping problems with the canopy
Gold Five: Gold Five to Red leader, lost Tiree, lost Dutch.
Red Leader: I copy, Gold Leader.
Gold Five: It came from… culling!

If you want a star wars mmo, how about you go play SWTOR?

cargan.5689:

Perhaps something like this?

Gold Two: The guns – they’ve stopped!
Gold Five: Stabilize your rear deflectors… Watch for enemy fighters.
Gold Leader: They’re coming in! Three marks at 2-10!
Gold Leader: It’s no good, I can’t maneuver my camera
Gold Five: Stay on target.
Gold Leader: My heads in the way i cant see them!
Gold Five: Stay on target!
Gold Leader: I cant i’m a Norn i have clipping problems with the canopy
Gold Five: Gold Five to Red leader, lost Tiree, lost Dutch.
Red Leader: I copy, Gold Leader.
Gold Five: It came from… culling!

Yeah this is about it, the camera in this game is so bad i hope they NEVER use this engine for another game.

JP’s as Norn/Charr are like beating your head against a wall.

Lexandro.1456:

If you want a star wars mmo, how about you go play SWTOR?

I think the OP wants a Star Wars MMO with many of the same sensibilities of Guild Wars 2. For example, more active combat, no trinity, that sort of thing.

Apparently the OP loves Guild Wars 2 as an MMO and loves Star Wars as an IP and wished to experience something which combines the two. Sort of how I feel about Lotro.

I think that game had mad potential and greed killed it. I love Lord of the Rings, but I find I can’t enjoy the game.

Thats simple because George Lucas is a money grubbing {insert expletive here} with no real talent and one of the worst directors ever. Hell Edd Wood was a better director than Lucas is now.

That means anything with his name on will be a guaranteed kitten thats only there to milk “fans” of the franchise. I honestly mean that. If you can go watch the “behind the scenes” exerts from the recent films. It shows just how bad a director he really is.

As it pertains to the game, it means that anything with Star Wars in its title is going to be a crap and not worth the effort, because Lucas ALWAYS has final veto/approval.

Disney owns Star Wars now, so I’m hoping for some good things. I don’t think there will be another Star Wars mmo in a long time because that would compete with SWTOR. Battlefront 3 has some promise, but force users take a back seat in that franchise nor is it an mmo. Coincidentally I found this thread by doing a Google search for Star Wars mmo using gw2 engine.

I too, love the gameplay of gw2, and I would really love to see it with a Star Wars skin and story lines. Gameplay is the most important part of gaming, then comes story. This is where SWTOR failed miserably. The gameplay sucks. GW2 is a “one of a kind” game and I love the combat and variety of classes. A necro is nothing like a guardian which is nothing like an elementalist, etc… Versus bounty hunter being the imperial equivalent to the republic smuggler. Boring.