Guild Wars 2

I’ve been off and on GW2 since it’s initial launch, and I had been underwhelmed by It’s lack of End-Game and rather poor storytelling towards the middle and end of the Personal Story.

Things the game has done great, other it does poorly, and Living World content, being Living Story was by far the weakest. The characters, story, it was all very mediocre at best.

Being an MMO, naturally, stories mean very little. WoW didn’t become huge between 2005 – 2008 based off It’s story, which I’d say majority of people could care less for, and still do. Stories in MMO’s were usually left up to our Asian friends, be it Koreans or Japanese.

I always gave credit to Anet for trying something new, and somewhat succeeding at it, if someone better was at the helm for writing. I know very little about the Lore surrounding Guild Wars, but what I do know is pretty kitten epic in It’s own way, and It’s a shame that doesn’t translate well into the game… At least, at first it didn’t.

An example would be Warhammer, which has been around longer then I have, and It’s backstory is grand, and trying to tell that story in games is extremely difficult to achieve.

LS is what had me stop playing, I wanted more from GW2 – New areas, new races, new factions, new skills, new bosses, new dungeons, new/better world bosses, more challenging fights, more sPvP modes, CTF, more sPvP maps, more weapons and armour, more sets to obtain, better skins, better designed armour and weapons, better MEDIUM ARMOUR designs!

List goes on, and on… But LS was always the biggest issue for me. I thought it a waste of money, time and effort. Who cares about a story in an MMO – Give us more of everything we actually want.

Though with the addition of Season 2 I am noticing something different. The characters are becoming more interesting, the stories in which are being told are slightly better, Taimi is absolutely ADORABLE. I’m starting to think that stories can indeed be a big part of an MMO when done properly, and so far it’s beginning to interest me.

Having LS open up new areas, reshape existing ones, introduce new enemies, dragons, factions, new items, new things to obtain, and tell a better story is something I can absolutely get down with. I mean, it IS free content, and that in itself makes ArenaNet the most generous studio I know of, and this industry as of late, generosity is something EXTREMELY RARE.

That generosity has put ArenaNet in my personal favourite development studios, right up there with the legendary Kojima Productions. That there says a lot.

TL;DR – Whoever you got in charge for LS content is doing a good job.

I love that keyboard warrior-esque thing I had going there this morning. Thankfully there be a TL;DR