Guild Wars 2

I would like to take a moment to discuss the ways story is presented in this game. Not the content of the story, just the way it is delivered.
At the start many complained that the story is too hidden in the world aside from the Personal Story. These voices have become lowered over time. Especially the Living Story has come a long way in storytelling.
There are several ways GW2 presents stories, ranging from very obvious to hidden:
- books lying around, e.g. in the Durmand priory.
- text only conversation with characters
- scripted dialogue scenes with our character and another
- ambient dialogue
- game graphic cutscenes
- art cutscenes
if I forgot any, please feel free to add. Also I would like you to share your opinion, which you like best and which you don`t find engaging.

I just finished the Queens speech instance and I have to say it was a HUGE step forward in the way of storytelling. No dialogue scenes, all dialogue was ambient which means it doesn’t take control away from the player and you can still follow the conversation very well. The game graphic cutscene at Scarlets reveal has been reported to be off on lower graphic settings, but worked wonderful for me. The art cutscene was gorgeous. I think by now the Arenanet artists have noticed that we do love these concept art style cutscenes (we got to rewatch the film noir one from the investigation). The whole instance was just the most engaging I have ever encountered in this game. The little jokes were appreciated, exploring was rewarding, it was just really well done. So much so that I honestly regret that I can’t replay it with every of my alts. I’m looking forward to the final instance for this content. Keep up the good work.

Please do work with this style of "game engine cutscene’ like you did for GW1 – it really does come off better. And I’m sure it does come up with some extra work to get it to work properly. (And some systems it still doesn’t . . . )