Guild Wars 2

Again, another opportunity lost to make the player the hero.

I don’t really care if my necro can build a bone bridge. Or if my mesmer can create portals over remarkably long distances.

I do care that once again, ANet creates a conundrum that can only be solved by super-powered NPCs.

ANet should focus on the player, giving us puzzles that can be solved by skills the player has.

After all, Marjorie and company are going to get mighty lonely without us…

Why super npcs? just cause they got some skills we dont have? I never saw Marjorie turn into lich form or dead shroud does that not make us super PCs by the same standards?

Not just that but in the final fight against Aerin you’re the only one to engage in the fight, the others are just keeping the adds at bay.

Begin the hero doesnt mean you do everything alone. Thing about it. I doubt Rambo knows how to fly a plane or forge a gun, or craft bullets or forge his blade or create explosives etc… so he too needed the help of others to ultimately accomplish his heroic deeds (chose rambo at random, insert your favorite hero here if you wish)

Yeah I dunno, I feel like the game as a whole has just lost that for the player character. It’s an MMO after all, it’s hard to feel like the savior of the world when the majority of other beings you see in the game are also that.

I guess I’m just saying that I don’t really see the point in approaching GW2 from that perspective. The story presentation in GW1 and GW2 has never been perfect. I mostly enjoy the gameplay.

NPCs always have been more op than the player:
Anise in human story lvl 10 prison (spawns 15 clones or so against the guards).
enough said. ^^

We must have played different living story episodes.

Because in mine, I’m the one that sun dashed, lightning leapt, and wind jumped to the Inquest dampening devices to make it so that the lazy ladies could just portal across.

Pretty sure it wasn’t super-powered NPCs that saved the day there!

Filaha.1678:

We must have played different living story episodes.

Because in mine, I’m the one that sun dashed, lightning leapt, and wind jumped to the Inquest dampening devices to make it so that the lazy ladies could just portal across.

Pretty sure it wasn’t super-powered NPCs that saved the day there!

dont forget finding that rare lightning crystal to hop across that chasm while jory was mouthing off instead of making that bone bridge