Guild Wars 2

Male or female? Norn? Asura? Charr?
Where (s)he come from?
Who is (s)he? What’s his/her name?

It’s what happen when you want everyone to be “The Chosen One”.
You make a black hole in the lore and say “this, it’s you” to everyone.
But what if two or more people try to roleplay together?
Millions of people for the same role! Schizophrenic.

There’s three way to design content : in, around, out.

Making everyone “The Chosen One” is the IN method. It let the lore with eternal holes.
The OUT method is acting like people are just witness of what happen.

And there’s the AROUND method. Why Arena.net don’t use the AROUND method?
What’s the AROUND method? It’s when the player is not “The Chosen One” nor a simple observer.

Example. Do you remember Omadd’s machine? They choose the IN method and the player is “The One Who Had The Vision”. If they have done it with the AROUND method, the player and two NPC have had the vision (like Taimi, who was already in the machine, and Braham who tried to pull her out too). The player is involved in the events, but he’s an optional character and roleplayers/futur lore content can skip the player presence if needed.

Didn’t Taimi see a vision also?

Examples of these black holes in lore perhaps?

Squee.7829:

Didn’t Taimi see a vision also?

No, you pull her out before such could happen.

CureForLiving.5360:

Examples of these black holes in lore perhaps?

It’s not an issue – currently – as the OP makes it out to be, but because of these things, there’s almost no reference to the potential PC individuals for early PS storylines you don’t do, and similarly you get zero references to our GW1 PC.

In the future, this will become a bigger issue, with the need to draw back to whomever it was that did all this awesome stuff, or they can just avoid a need to draw back to it like they’ve done with GW1.

Dang, when I clicked on this thread I thought Anet was gonna provide us with hats and scarves ala Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor.

I suspect they will do in GW2 what they did in GW1. “Group of adventurers”. So I doubt it will be any big issue.

I’m really not seeing the Doctor Who connection, unless they slip the TARDIS into a map or something.

The Risen could try evolving into Daleks…compare “This one, kill!” with “EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!!”

Alkonium.9164:

I’m really not seeing the Doctor Who connection, unless they slip the TARDIS into a map or something.

I heard the original creators of Doctor Who were smoking something funny.

I think that’s the connection with the original post.

For the title : the Doctor have many faces and few people know what he look like. Even his friends can’t recognize him sometimes because of his body changes.

A “group of adventurers” don’t work well. Imagine you’re in GW3. What history will be teached? That an “adventurer” was second to command of the Pact, of an unknown specie, with an unknown gender, member of one of the Order but we don’t know which one, with an unknown name, but he help defeat Elders Dragons, had a vision of how Tyria and the Elders Dragons are linked and organize a G5 with the major races.

In real life we know people from ancient history. The Durmand Priory have archives of everything but never mentionned this character? Nonsensical.

The history will most likely focus on the first in command of the Pact, Priory, order of whispers and the Vigil. The third, fourth and fifth in command of the Pact probably helped defeat elder dragons as well. Who are they?

No one reads my posts of how I handle it. Just look at all my posts here. Thanks and have a nice day!

Seriously no one stopped and think of a “we all did it” angle?

I think the problem being addressed is that we can’t ALL be the second in command of the Pact.

That said, what I expect will happen is that according to the histories there were five to fifteen Pact commanders that between them accomplished everything that happened in the Personal Story. The Living Story is actually the more complicated of the two to reconcile – the way I would probably play it in ArenaNet’s position is to have the five to fifteen PCs form a guild that went around Tyria putting out proverbial fires after Zhaitan’s death, with the ‘biconics’ being absorbed into that guild.

Kulvar.1239:

For the title : the Doctor have many faces and few people know what he look like. Even his friends can’t recognize him sometimes because of his body changes.

A “group of adventurers” don’t work well. Imagine you’re in GW3. What history will be teached? That an “adventurer” was second to command of the Pact, of an unknown specie, with an unknown gender, member of one of the Order but we don’t know which one, with an unknown name, but he help defeat Elders Dragons, had a vision of how Tyria and the Elders Dragons are linked and organize a G5 with the major races.

In real life we know people from ancient history. The Durmand Priory have archives of everything but never mentionned this character? Nonsensical.

I’m reminded of Dragon Age. They kinda had the same problem at least in the first game and it’s kinda expansion, the second game the PC could only be a human named Hawk (so they basically did a Mass Effect). I think they just went with referring to the PC by his or her title (Warden-Commander, Hero of Ferelden etc.).