https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Mini-Expansion-Vengeance/first#post6473305
Ogres in the desert
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Mini-Expansion-Vengeance/first#post6473305
Or it could just be a visual update to Ogres. That could always be a thing too. (Lets be honest the original ogres don’t look that great.) I would totally welcome them swapping out the old Tyria / HoT models for those gorgeous new looking ogres.
Haven’t seen the new models yet myself – going in-game now so I’ll check it out. However, I always thought that ogres looked way too similar to these guys from GW1 and their Vabbian counterparts who are known to have tamed minotaurs.
Maybe this is Anet’s way to saying those particular giants are not the same as the reworked cyclopian giants of Kryta (which were in GW1, called Hill Giants).
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
I actually prefer the old ogre models, but…
I’m thinking along the same lines as Konig. The posture and proportions of the new models, let alone the size, makes me think sand giants.
Maybe Ogres cross-bred with Sand Giants: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Sand_Giant
I like that there is races of different species. Quaggan have orcas, hylek have itzel. I hope we see different giants.
I like that there is races of different species. Quaggan have orcas, hylek have itzel. I hope we see different giants.
That actually makes the most sense.
I like that there is races of different species. Quaggan have orcas, hylek have itzel. I hope we see different giants.
We’ve always been told 2 things
1. Giants are mostly (99%) gone in the world.
2. EXCEPT, MAYBE, their homelands, the Blazeridge Mountains
for interesting story, there will probably be some. The only variant we know is 100% gone is Lupicus, which is technically a “great giant”. We don’t know how many kinds there are and I look forward to that xpac a LOT. Especially now that blazeridge is HUGE!
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Mini-Expansion-Vengeance/first#post6473305
The Blazeridge Mountains is the homeland of ogres, not giants.
Giants were very varied in GW1 and only the Gray Giants of the Desolation have ever been said to be near extinction. There’s no explanation for why the population decreased so much between the games – or why they went from 12 foot tall tusked and/or horned humanoids to 30 foot tell tuskless, hornless cyclopian fellas.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.