Guild Wars 2

I’m thinking back on my play troughs on this game and I can’t think of a single meaningful character building relationship in the game. Some of the racial ones may have been pretty cool but they were all brushed to the side minutes later. The only actual characters I remember are:

Caith, because she’s a kitten. No Idea what she does or what her deal is though. She is kind of psychotic.

Logan, just because I want him to get eaten by a dragon.

Zojja, because she broke my asura friend’s heart.

There is no character build up beyond that to get me attached to their story. Caith is crazy, Zojja’s a kitten, and Logan’s a traitor/coward. Nothing more we need to know I guess.

Where are the Tali’Zorah’s, the Garus Vakarian’s, the Navi’s and the Dom’s (from Gears of War). This is a great game but really I can’t think of a single thing that it did special. Never once were my heart strings tugged. Just watching a youtube vid of one cut scene from Mass Effect affected me more emotionally than I have felt in 1000+ hours in this game.

at least this game didn’t provide me with an ending that made me want to smack my monitor.
The 5 main personalities are very well described. There are some very awesome personalities that emerge if you go trough different story lines (example: the apple selling charr from Whispers Order).
However trough out most of the story we’re forced to tag along with the most boring character – Trehearne. He is not special nor interesting and the interesting characters had only a few missions with us just to be left alone and forgotten.
The story itself – some parts are very well written (when one asura dies and you have to tell his wife that he died), however badly acted out (asura voice actor at that moment seems to have put very minimal effort), there are some parts that feel very stretched out and some parts that feel epic.
All things counted the story feels like its peaked around level 50 and then stretches out unbelievably, therefore it’s neither good nor bad. It could most definitely have been better though.

Yeah I can agree that the Destiny’s Edge characters are lacking in substance. Order of Whispers story is epic thus far.

People who read the novels probably have a whole different take on Destiny’s Edge anyway. Probably a decent investment to make if you care about lore and story.

Tybalt … nuf said — I want more characters like him, I was doing Whispers last and got very pleasant surprise running with him.

@Zacchary.6183: my feelings exactly, even if GW2 had perma-death.

@Vayne: read them both (more than once) and they are nice, but, in-game implementation is … lacking IMHO … they built them nicely in novels but from the story only thing I’ll definitely remember … Tybalt and his apples
(won’t even try to comment on Trehearne … -.-)

I read all the song of ice and fire books, instantly fell in love, every one of my characters are based around them. I tried VERY hard to read other books but they all sucked in comparison (all the ones I read were recommended by people who loved asoiaf). Now I’m just waiting for the next book to come out and most likely won’t be reading anything else.

randomfightfan.4091:

Now I’m just waiting for the next book to come out and most likely won’t be reading anything else.

I was (un)lucky to read Codex Alera series before starting ASOIAF (and before that “required” read of Amber series) so I’m not that thrilled with them … they are … meh … and I still need to “force” myself to finish 3rd book.

Mirta.5029:

at least this game didn’t provide me with an ending that made me want to smack my monitor.

I did mass effect backwards. Did 3 first, finished feeling like it was just a very blah game so I couldn’t understand why everyone was so choked up about it. I then picked up mass effect 1 and 2. My god they were good. The after multiple runs through of 1 and 2 I understood why people were so kitten at 3. I was kitten to now. Wrex was dead in the preset and so was legion. You had 0 back story as to why you were incarcerated and ofc, that ending. With all said and done though, 1 and 2 more than make up for the short comings of 3 and the stories, as always, were spectacular.

Tldr, on my 2nd play through (the real play through), I was table flipping mad at that ending.