Guild Wars 2

With all the negative threads I’ve read, I just wanted to take a moment and give my own impression of things so far. Keeping in mind I’ve only just begun and haven’t seen anywhere near all there is to see, I’m loving this game. It seems like a new, fresh spin on the mmo market in general. Just seems to me like we’d seen everything there was to see mmo wise and Its nice to see that I was wrong.

The world is gorgeous, the quests are unique and inventive, I love that there’s no real spawn camping as everyone seems to be able to work together on kills. I’m sure there are negative aspects of community kills too, I’ve just not seen them yet. True, there are things I could live without, but I won’t voice them here because there’s always things you could live without in every game. Besides, something I don’t love, maybe someone else does.

Anyway, great game. I’m having wonderful fun and can’t wait to see what’s around the corner.

game is great!

only some boss/champion events are a bit messy because too many players gang bang it.
everything else is nice!

I agree. I was going to make a similar post just now, but nice that you did it first.

I can imagine that, despite the fact that Arenanet likely understands this vocal minority crowd would storm the forums with their end-of-the-world complaints, it still must be a tiny bit disheartening to hear all of the QQ.

I think they’ve made an amazing game, with a depth and attention to detail that allows their collective passion for what they were building shine through. I find the combat fun and interesting and the world amazing to explore. So refreshing to see a PvE environment built with such a strong emphasis on exploration.

There are a lot of small areas within the game which need to be iterated on, but I think the most important (and amazing) thing to remember is that this is just the freakin RELEASE content. This is just the backbone of systems that Anet can now build upon for the future, and that is the really exciting part to me.

Some positivity is always great. Forums are generally a place for people to complain about stuff, especially when the game is new since most of the happy players are too busy playing the game.

I think the game is great, it’s a fresh take on the MMO scene after every new MMO seems to be trying to imitate WoW, and I just hope Anet stick to it. I agree on the point above, what excites me more than the games current state is its future.

Yeah I agree, Wyvers. It is a fresh take, and for once I think Anet’s success rides on their ability to not cave in to the vocal minority and instead stay true to their intended design.

There will always be the End of the World prophets, people who believe if the game doesn’t meet their expectations to the fullest, it is doomed. Fact is, no game will ever meet everyone’s expectations.

What I try to understand, when I decide to buy a new game, are it’s core mechanics, like, if I had to use a couple words to describe a game, what would those be? If this question gives me a positive answer, I’ll stick and do my best to support the game and it’s developers.

I do believe GW2 is an excelent game, with great quality content everywhere, but what made me stick to it was the core features that they told us the game would have, since its early development stages.

Because I focus on those, bugs and minor inconveniences won’t affect me. Sure, I don’t like getting one shotted by bossed, sure I do believe there is some balacing issues around, sure the waypoint costs should be lower, sure, I do think my necro could have a couple more flashy weapon skills, but those are not major core mechanics or caracteristics, those may change anytime, and even if they don’t, they won’t affect my enjoyment of the game itself.