Guild Wars 2

Just read Joseph Skyrim’s post, and it gave me this idea:

What if we could add in something similar to story plot points, or the equivalent of mini-dungeons throughout the world?

It would really be quite simple: just have separate instances in which players are completely by themselves, unless they have a party (like dungeons and story plot points), but still make the instances function akin to events in the real world.

This way, you could add more in-depth living story options that are more than just

1. Something bad is happening
2. Better do something stupid to cause something really bad to happen
3. Something really bad happens
4. Really bad guy appears
5. Kill really bad guy
6. Wait to repeat the cycle all over again

I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s nice for farming… But I rarely ever play PvE any more because it seems like it just recycles the same old story every single event. If I do play, usually it’s just to explore Tyria (which actually is a good bit of fun).

Anyhow, just wanted to throw my two cents out there.

So, like, the Personal Story? Because you kinda just described that.

Like the personal story, but, y’know… NOT the personal story. :P

Arganthium.5638:

Like the personal story, but, y’know… NOT the personal story. :P

So ANOTHER Personal Story.

Chessrook.8643:

Arganthium.5638:

Like the personal story, but, y’know… NOT the personal story. :P

So ANOTHER Personal Story.

Yes and no.

Yes in that the instances would be very similar to story lines. I was also thinking that in the hero tab, we could add another section to accommodate these events. These events would also share the unique flavor that we enjoy from personal story events.

No in that we could repeat the instances as many times over as we wanted, although, like any other event, we would have to wait for a period of time before the window for starting the instance would open again. Personal story doesn’t have this option. Once you’ve completed part of the plot, you can’t decide “Oh, I think I’ll go back and do that again”. And it wouldn’t make sense for ANet to do that, anyways; the contradictions would be somewhat absurd.

Arganthium.5638:

Chessrook.8643:

Arganthium.5638:

Like the personal story, but, y’know… NOT the personal story. :P

So ANOTHER Personal Story.

Yes and no.

Yes in that the instances would be very similar to story lines. I was also thinking that in the hero tab, we could add another section to accommodate these events. These events would also share the unique flavor that we enjoy from personal story events.

No in that we could repeat the instances as many times over as we wanted, although, like any other event, we would have to wait for a period of time before the window for starting the instance would open again. Personal story doesn’t have this option. Once you’ve completed part of the plot, you can’t decide “Oh, I think I’ll go back and do that again”. And it wouldn’t make sense for ANet to do that, anyways; the contradictions would be somewhat absurd.

Actually, I think it would be cool if people could select the step they want to be on in their personal story (assuming they’ve already completed that step) and redo it (without the completion award) just to relive it, if they wanted… It’s one thing to reread the description but it’s another to re-experience it (even if the choices were now locked in because you’d already done it before).

Not that this should be a top priority or anything, there’s lots more in the game they should do first… but if it’s not hard to squeeze in, I think it’d be kind of nice (OK, maybe SOME reward.. and a hardmode option where everything is lvl 80.. and and and ^.^).

callidus.7085:

Arganthium.5638:

Chessrook.8643:

Arganthium.5638:

Like the personal story, but, y’know… NOT the personal story. :P

So ANOTHER Personal Story.

Yes and no.

Yes in that the instances would be very similar to story lines. I was also thinking that in the hero tab, we could add another section to accommodate these events. These events would also share the unique flavor that we enjoy from personal story events.

No in that we could repeat the instances as many times over as we wanted, although, like any other event, we would have to wait for a period of time before the window for starting the instance would open again. Personal story doesn’t have this option. Once you’ve completed part of the plot, you can’t decide “Oh, I think I’ll go back and do that again”. And it wouldn’t make sense for ANet to do that, anyways; the contradictions would be somewhat absurd.

Actually, I think it would be cool if people could select the step they want to be on in their personal story (assuming they’ve already completed that step) and redo it (without the completion award) just to relive it, if they wanted… It’s one thing to reread the description but it’s another to re-experience it (even if the choices were now locked in because you’d already done it before).

Not that this should be a top priority or anything, there’s lots more in the game they should do first… but if it’s not hard to squeeze in, I think it’d be kind of nice (OK, maybe SOME reward.. and a hardmode option where everything is lvl 80.. and and and ^.^).

Actually, thinking about it, that sounds like an interesting idea. I think a way to implement it would be for the game to include some “Asuran” device that allows you to go back and relive those memories, kind of like how we have golems and portals and whatnot.