Guild Wars 2

it`s just a game.
I`ll play it until something better comes along or until I have my fill of nerfs and lame bugs.

Killul.9685:

Shear Force.9154:

Calae.1738:

If GW2 fails theres really nothing else. World of Warcraft, Star Wars the Old Republic, Tera and The Secret World are all the same crap. GW2 was the only thing that stood out to be different. It got 3 million people because it was different.

Screwing this up would be like screwing up mash potatoes. They can’t make GW2 fail because if they do they’re idiots.

The Elder Scrolls Online, Age of Wushu (Wulin) if you’re in EU, Blade and Soul, Ragnarok Online 2 probably a lot more, and all of them are going to come out in 2013, currently in either closed or open beta except Scrolls. Hopefully one of those will succeed, altho I hope to god they fix everything broken and add good content to GW2 before they come out just make it sexy like I know it can be.

Scrolls is just going to be a wow clone. They already confirmed the only thing that will make it different is that it’s Elder Scrolls.

The directon they were heading after launch had a lot of potential to make this a great game. Unforunately it’s completely changed and this game has become very bad now.

I don’t know, I don’t think so, so ill judge it when it’s out, at the moment from the dev videos it does look like it’s on a right track.

You need to go back to WoW..
This game is awesome, and judging your statements I would suggest you never gave this game a chance to begin with.

I wont really call this “The reality of it all”. This thread is more like “My perception of it all”. As for your points.

Story
The first levels were great, I loved exploring the choices I made when I created my character. The orders and racial alliance missions weren’t bad, but I felt a bit disappointed that nothing I did beforehand carried over, and it felt like a story on rails, where I was told my story while my decisions were limited to where the NPCs wanted to steer me.

High level the story was terrible, not SOLID bad, SOLID TERRIBLE. Again, no choices from before played any role. Moreover it turned into Trahearne and friends, and there still wasn’t any deep and lasting decision making. The orders also turned for individualistic organizations with differing strengths and ideals into cannon fodder in Trahearne’s orrian assault. I hated it.

Combat
I wouldn’t call it boring, just limited. There is little diversification amongst skills and traits that actually feel like valid options. I feel traits require a good kick in the rear, ANet should take out the boring stuff and add more excitement.

That said, weapon skills being limited to five is a bit of an odd choice. Why not allow a system where you can modify weapon skills with available skill points? There wont be any need to totally overhaul skills or add in new ones, just options to change the functionality of those we already have.

I don’t PvP so I wont comment on that.

Content wise I cant agree more. ANet need to have more options to get the things in game that are important. Mats, tokens, gear, everything should have more than one way of obtaining it. And content needs to be as diverse as possible across the board. Diverse DEs, dungeons, mini games, and all of them should reward your time spent equally.

Trajan.4953:

This game is awesome, and judging your statements I would suggest you never gave this game a chance to begin with.

Really? You’re not adding anything to the conversation. I love this game to bits, but a person needs to be blind to think it’s perfect. Even the designers say that it can only grow from here. It helps them a lot more if we discuss what we would like them to improve upon, rather than sitting back, telling people to go back to WoW, and claiming this game is perfect as is.

Assyrian.4827:

GW2
bad combat check.
bad story check.
bad pvp check.
no GvG check.
and the list go on.
4/10

Compared to what? Sigh…. Will you ppl ever be hapy with an mmo? Ever? Its proably the most solid promising mmo on the market

Nihevil.8024:

I agree with your opinions. You’re probably going to be torn apart by white knights that think the game is pretty much perfect the way it is and/or a moderator will probably ninja delete your thread(like they did mine) or lock it.

exactly what i was gonna say its the one or the other. Agreed with TC but i do like combat except we need MUCH more weapons and tones of new swappable weapon skills.

‘Combat is boring as hell. I have 5 skills I can use frequently’

There are a lot of issues with this game, the above is not one of them – do you realize you can swap weapons in combat? Cos that makes for 10 skils available frequently, not 5