Guild Wars 2

(No idea where else to put it)

So what’s everyone’s opinion about the story mode and missions? To me it feels rushed and without anything to show for itself.
It is cool that you have branching paths but I think it’s also the story’s downfall.

- Characters are being introduced and disappear 2 missions later.
What happened to my krewe, almorra, crusader slep and more? I’m awfully confused about what keeps happening to all these characters.

- The story feels rushed.
2 missions into joining the vigil I was already a warmaster and a few missions after that we were already retaking claw island. The story “chapters” are happening so fast that it lacks a lot of substance. It would be nice if the choices you made during the story mode actually mattered for a few missions and not just the one after that. (Where are the grawl that I recruited for the vigil? And what about the charr warband?)
Instead of expanding on those characters we get an awful side-story about some asuran demolition’s expert who we only knew for 3 missions, but apparently my character cares a lot about him while the player knew nothing about him. :/

- The voice acting is dreadful
Just listen to Trahearne command the pact. There’s no urgency or power in his voice and he definitely doesn’t sound assertive at all. He sounds as if he’s asking his secretary for a coffee. Was his voice actor too busy trying to maintain a british accent that he couldn’t do anything else with his voice?

- The cutscenes
Yep, 2 people talking to each other is so much better than the cutscenes we had in guild wars 1 where events could actually happen during the cutscenes and where we had groups of people talking instead of just 2 people on the screen. It feels like we stepped back to the 90s in the cutscene department (Scratch that, even pokemon did it better).

What happened to the cool stories we had in every guild wars 1 expansion (Maybe not so much Eotn)? Why did arenanet take 20 steps backwards? At least the combat is great in the missions because the story is definitely not living up to its expectations.

The voice acting is personal preference, I like my charr storyline and feel that it provides a good resembelence to how I feel my charr is as a character. On the other hand my human’s voice doesn’t fit in with my play style and so I am put off by this, but eventually I will play her and get used to the voice i’m sure lol.

As for the story missions at least they provide a break from the grind of 100% mapping and I have enjoyed doing them, they seem a bit spread out though instead of an ongoing story as you say.

I haven’t played all 5 stories so I do not know whether the others are worse or better. I would put it down to personal preference.

My opinion?

Tybalt. ;~;

But other than that (I’m still not over that. ) I’ve been enjoying them for the most part. It seems to drag a bit in the Orr zones, but hopefully it’ll pick up, its probably just frustrations with me playing a rather squishy build and exploring thus being a pain in the rear. Most of the voice acting seems pretty good or great to me, and the character development it gives to your own character seems pretty darn cool (although might not fit your own desires for that characters voice/interaction/what not). I just wish there was more Asuran things my thief could say, like in his starting acts.

And seriously, Tybalt. TT_TT

TYBALT WHY! ;^;