Guild Wars 2

I’m a huge fan or Guild Wars and have been around since the beginning of GW1. One thing is really starting to bug me about GW2 and I felt the need to address it with this little thread.

The story.

It lacks depth and comes off as a minor inconvenience more than anything. When I first started playing in beta, I was expecting dialog between NPCs that felt realistic. Dialog where your character would be recognized and options that had an impact.

Right now the story is spread too thin and has no substance.

I understand that you may need a better team/budget for things like new animations and voice acting, however, here are ideas that shouldn’t require much and would make a huge difference:

1. Give us books. I don’t mean literal novels in the game, however, where’s the updated versions of dungeon books like what we had in GW1? I was hoping we’d get libraries in places like the main cities, where we could chill at, open a book and start reading a few pages worth of information about the lore.

2. We need more depth with character & NPC interactions. NPCs should be able to recognize your character based on your personality setup. We should then have options to choose from that’ll change subjects in the dialog – much like real life.

3. This very important… stop allowing us to repeat dialog and personality options. Any kind of dialog that offers an option to choose from (which would change that dialog) should NOT BE REPEATABLE. If you truly want a story that’ll impact us the players, then you need to offer one-time interactions that give players that sense of importance. This is even more valuable for personalities.

4. Personalities. Where are they? We have no indications of them other than some little icon in our hero panel. You must be joking…

Fixing that stuff requires teams willing to write awesome loads of stuff for us to read and perhaps design some cool UI to support the depth (books). New animations and voices are a side thing that’ll be a plus to see in later development…

As for right now. The depth of writing material is great place to start.