Guild Wars 2

One of the items I whole heartily agree on in Bugnutin.1957’s “New games in 2014. can GW2 keep up?” thread was the comment:

“- Living story was good, but if you miss one episode you feel disconnected already. how about an ability to replay the lost episode with reduce reward?”

I (like a lot of others I’m sure) work a lot of long hour shifts with insane deadlines, especially during our busy times, so I have and will to continue to miss a lot of the living story events.

I’d love to see Anet implement this, make it like an instanced personal story after the fact type of thing, just so I can experience the event and get the achievements with a possibility to get any of the minis, recipes, skins, etc. (nothing game changing) that I may have missed.

It’s a good idea, except for a lot of the events need a lot of people to complete. So they’d have to be scaled down. If Anet liken the LS to a TV show, perhaps it’s time for GW2 Tivo’s

I think it would be difficult to add a replay feature for many of the chapters considering the the whole world scale they are implemented on. For instance, one of the events in the Queen’s Jubilee patch was running the beacons in Divinity’s Reach while another in the same patch had hot air balloons all over Tyria. There was also the challenging the Queen’s Champions and escorting the Emissarys in different zones – all of this in addition to the Pavilion and Gauntlet instances/zones. Certain achievements from all these activities were required to get the bonus skins or items.

They would pretty much have to create a copy of the world for each chapter. I just don’t see how they could realistically do this.

I do like that they are bringing back certain dungeons in fractal instances and I have favorites that I’d like to see come back.

It’s a good idea minus the previous LS drops… Aside from the account bound things of course.