Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is a great – no… fantastic – game with a lot to offer, but Renown Hearts can sometimes feel like a chore.

What Renown Hearts tend to be

Press F to disarm that trap. Press F to take the fallen soldier’s badge and deliver it to the NPC. Press F to light those torches. Do it a bunch more times. Or you can kill a bunch of kitten. Gee, wasn’t that exciting.

What Renown Hearts SHOULD be

Disarm that trap with a micro-game where a wrong move can hurt you. Follow clues to discover hidden objects. Play a small game against a player or npc. Or you can kill a bunch of kitten.

Are any current Renown Hearts examples of good design?

Yes. Absolutely. There are some perfectly fun, interactive Renown Hearts, such as Golem Chess, juicing frogs to throw at Poachers, hitting targets with ballistas, throwing snowballs at children, running bags of rabbit food and avoiding angry bunnies. Etc.

The problem is that this type of Renown Heart is the minority.

What I mean to say is

In the future, give us FEWER, BETTER Renown Hearts with higher rewards rather than many bad Renown Hearts with lower rewards. Give us little mini-games that we can come back and re-experience just for the kitten of it. Give us Hearts where we can say “hey, I can see why the soldier needed my help disarming that trap – that was difficult” or “well, that was just INTERESTING.”

+1 New and fun content is never a bad idea.

I like hearts that have an option.

Get in this worthless dredge suit and go punch ineffectually at various items and Dredge was um.. “fun” once. Now I just take the option of killing dredge the old fashioned way. Catching Krennicks kegs was fun once, but I’m glad there are other options.

Too many of the gimmick hearts are “fun once”. After 6 chars I just want to murder Bjorns bunnies. I want to stab Joten with chunks of ore instead of trading them.

Pressing F to do things is technically interactivity. Otherwise the hearts would fill up when you stand near them

Sorry to call out a technicality heheh, I’m just having fun, I do agree with you for the most part.

agreed 100% hearts get boring the 2nd or 3rd time usually (depend on whihc heart it is)

@Teofa the keg catching for some reason i just cant figure out between having done it one 2 or 3 chractes tried a lot with all of them i think i managed to catch 3-4 barrels total, but i dont mind is fun trying, so one of the better ones imo