Guild Wars 2

Ever get the feeling gw2 is trying so hard to be different from gw1 that they’ve cut off their nose to spite their face. Its almost bon villian-esque how they have so many good gw1 features that they stubbornly refuse to use.

heres to them getting over their need to be unique flowers and prove their creative genius… and just giving us a game that doesnt suck.

Ever get the feeling that some players try so hard to hold on to the past for the sake of nostalgia that they can’t objectively appreciate new games?

Gosh those nostalgic guys feel validated when the game has almost no server population.

Psybunny.8906:

Ever get the feeling that some players try so hard to hold on to the past for the sake of nostalgia that they can’t objectively appreciate new games?

If I was to draw up a feature list that was in GW1 but is missing from GW2 then it would become quite apparent that this ‘nostalgia’ nonsense people keep parroting is simply false. You people seem to propose that it is impossible that a sequel be worse than its predecessor, which is a ridiculous proposition.

Ya I actually gave gw2 a really honest go. defended stomping to my friends saying that it would make the game easier for outsiders to spectate as compared to a prot monk system.

really, i was downright optomistic. but about 3 months after launch i just stopped being able to say it would get better. i was plainly licking at a kitten on a stick waiting for the taste of kitten to give way and reward me with something sweet… and we knew it was kitten the whole way through.

i dont need a gw1 clone, but gw1 did a lot of stuff right and gw2 copied none of that. they could have taken notes about what worked well and didnt and then redone what failed in gw1, instead they just started from scratch, like they were trying to prove they could have their own good ideas.

i almost feel like georgle lucas was involved somehow, thats how terribly dissapointing this sequel is to me.

dota2 is a dota1 full HD. strangely, his community appreciated a lot the new version of it, even if it is quite forever in beta. and look. it has esportz!1!1!!!!!111!!!
gw2 is not gw1 full HD and non-fanboys see where we are now.

I didn’t like Gw1.

I very much enjoy Gw2.

Come at me.

Kugron.5128:

I didn’t like Gw1.

I very much enjoy Gw2.

Come at me.

I’m willing to bet you never played PvP at a high level in GW1.

Nope, sure didn’t. It was also boring as kitten to watch.

Kugron.5128:

Nope, sure didn’t. It was also boring as kitten to watch.

As expected. I propose, then, that your opinion is of less merit than those who have played both games extensively.

I don’t find the need to take seriously the opinions of those who never supported ANET properly back in the GW1 days, sorry.

How elitist of you. “You didn’t play back when I used to play so your opinion is invalid.”

I’m not going to exclude non high end pvp gw1 players in my ‘people i listen to’ list.

a lot of people had some honest criticisms of gw1 and i didnt expect a clone (though for those of us that were in the high tiers it had a lot to offer).

what i DO want is something fun and sort of gw1-ish.

they can have dodging, no mana, stomping… but keep the ‘deck building’ feel and make mesmer mechanic something fun… the interupts perhaps, one steals the ability it interupted, one spikes for damage, one puts it on extended cool down. can you imaginea fun reactionary class like that instead of one that clutters the screen like the illusion garbage we have?

there’s not even bloody body blocking! such a huge part of guild wars 1!

i agree gw1 was hard for the uninitiated to watch, and if you didnt know the right people participating in our pvp was honerous. but they threw the baby out with the bathwater. these issues could have been addressed in an evolution of the game, they didnt have to make a brand new one and avoid any resemblance to its predecessor like it was diseased.

i really think gw1 suffered from the developers lack of humility and need to prove their individual genius. i suspect there was someone involved in guild wars 1, who nobody listened to back then, who is finally being listened to now — and that someone has poor judgement, and deep down they fear this because theyve heard it all their life — and theyre trying to prove dad wrong now but the truth is that anet was right not to pay any attention to them the first time and now theyve gone and ruined guild wars 2.

Kugron.5128:

How elitist of you. “You didn’t play back when I used to play so your opinion is invalid.”

I don’t care about coming off as ‘elitist’, nor do I pretend to speak for every GW1 player. Maybe other people will listen to you, like the guy above. Just not me.