Guild Wars 2

I feel, being someone who played in the betas and heavily for the first year of gw2’s life that the storytelling has taken a long step back in terms of maturity and development.
We had a complex team of npcs to push the story, all with thier own problems and evolutions. Nowadays we have a new team of npcs pushing the story that feels as if it is written in a preteen direction. The two, Marjory and Kasmeer being the dominant npcs in such, are lesbians which would have been edgy half a decade ago, but now that dying horse has been thoroughly beaten by the media, and aside from that sexual preference should never find its home in the forefront of storytelling. The way Caithe and Faolan were written was very well done, and thought one could argue if plants could be lesbian, thier play of femininity leaves you to assume that thier relationship is just that. Did we really need a reiteration of the same type of relationship in the story from a different light? should it be in the game at all? no.

The other characters i couldnt tell you much about since they have very little in thier story to care about other than the fact that Brahm is Eir’s son.

What we saw before was this dynamic range of storytelling between the races, the tenuous friendship and pact of destiny’s edge. They were enemies by nature, friends by duty and in the end they were bound by something greater than both. We saw them split apart at the seams and dissapear into thin air, where it should have branched into all directions of content and story where we followed them all in thier exiles, and became further involved in bringing them back together despite thier conflicts for the better of tyria.
All in all, the new story feels as if it was written by an inexperienced feminist if i may be so bold as to say.

I think that they can do better than this and we, as players, should let them know instead of sitting in the sidelines. We all enjoy guildwars and we should expect higher quality and ( hopefully) more mature storytelling.