Guild Wars 2

I like how in Guild Wars 2, every map is a rectangle. I understand that a certain artistic license has to be taken when making zones in a game (especailly an MMO), that often leads to a zone being surrounded by mountains and/or large hills, to separate it from other zones. We see this in other MMOs all the time, such as WoW. But unlike these other MMOs, Guild Wars 2’s world is apparently made of rectangles, that all awkwardly fit in this weird looking box puzzle

Why is Tyria a world of boxes?

if you think a world with such a diverse 3D-environment, super mario style exploring and a huge underwater terrain is “too rectangly” because the single area maps are arranged on a rectangular grid, then… actually, I do not know what to reply to this.

Does it -feel- like a rectangle when you’re running around in it?

Would you have known they were perfect rectangles if there wasn’t a map?

They are all shaped like rectangles, no it doesn’t feel like it though.

oh for gods sake, learn to search there are many other threads on this topic, all as ridicuous as this one.

http://www.50states.com/images/us_map.gif

Rectangles? What rectangles?

It’s still not nearly as bad as SWTOR’s awful, lifeless and static world.

Despite every zone being a square, the world still feels very connected and alive. And the only time you notice you’re inside a big box is when you look at your map.

Well, tbh, the entire game is made up of polygons, bazinga!