Guild Wars 2

Hey man, don’t hate on the human-dolyak romance. It’s a time-honored tradition of Tyrian culture.

As for the rest of this… I trust this is an outpour of frustration, and in no way a serious suggestion, ya? Well, I’ve said it before, but since it’s been a while… telling someone you don’t know that they don’t deserve the income that feeds themselves and their families is a very poor way to try to make them interested in pleasing you. If you don’t like the game, you know where the uninstall key is. If you do like the game but just not these parts, yelling into the forum won’t accomplish any more than blowing off steam.

Anyway, moving on to the dialogue… I don’t see what you’re complaining about, especially when you compare with where it was this time last year. The two examples you gave- one was a lightheated minigame NPC how is just there to tease out a chuckle, and one… has nothing wrong with it whatsoever, that I can see. Why would not knowing the contents of their cargo make you jump to the conclusion that they have bad intentions, against literally everything we know about them. Think this through. If we were supposed to be suspicious of the Zephyrites, what should we make of them going out of their way to hold a fundraiser to honor the spirit (not even the words) of an agreement they made with a people they hardly know? Is it all a massive cover-up, for some evil plot to somehow ruin the people of LA by giving them money to rebuild? Do you know how off-the-wall ridiculous that sounds?

Yes, I agree that the writing for the better part of Season 1 was cringe-worthy, including when Scarlet was introduced. By November, though, there were undeniable improvements, and it has just gotten better from there. ANet, at least as far as the Living World is concerned, has built back enough of my trust that I’m happy to give the benefit of the doubt and looking forward to what’s coming next. If you don’t agree, well, it’s a big game. Go find something you do like instead of ruining your time focusing on something you don’t.

So a guy who really loves (in the platonic sense) his pet dog would be perfectly fine, but a guy who is the same towards his dolyak is cringeworthy?

Taimi knows the Zephyrites are honest in their goodwill by their actions, not what’s in the crates (which while she cannot identify it, can identify that it’s not harmful or at least for harmful intention). If you cannot see this in her dialogue then the fault lies not with the writer but with you not seeing implied words in sentences – something people do everyday in their life to shorten the sentences they say and write.

To your comment about giving the villain backstory 2/3rd of the way in… you know that most stories may not give the villain backstory until the last couple chapters right? You realize that “2/3rd of the way in” is when the villain was introduced to players, right? While their delivery was pretty poor, when they decided to deliver the reveal or the backstory wasn’t.

I’m more bewildered by Trader Aerin, who spends a rather large amount of time dashing about talking out loud to…nobody.

At least Taimi and Trader Owens are directing their dialogue at somebody, even if the somebodies cannot respond. It’s really no different than my attempts to befriend the skittish stray cat who hangs around my porch.

Aerin is talking to someone: himself. He even lampshades this by saying he’ll have to stop talking aloud to himself (“I may be a stranger but that doesn’t mean I have to be strange”).

I think everyone here has talked aloud to himself at one time or another. If you say otherwise then I don’t believe you.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Aerin is talking to someone: himself. He even lampshades this by saying he’ll have to stop talking aloud to himself (“I may be a stranger but that doesn’t mean I have to be strange”).

I think everyone here has talked aloud to himself at one time or another. If you say otherwise then I don’t believe you.

I often play as a mesmer; how would you know what to believe and what not to believe?

Of course we all talk to ourselves. Didn’t Gandalf say that it was a habit of the old, they chose the wisest person present to converse with?