Guild Wars 2

I’ve mostly left my personal stories untouched, because of how buggy they were. They just remind me of the corny GW1 cutscenes. Remember when your Character would be talking to a friendly NPC while your minions/henchmen/heroes are fighting that very NPC? Or you are being attacked throughout the scene by mobs, but acting like nothing is happening? Or you are a female/male character who is suddenly a different sex? It was so ridiculous.

GW2 is better, but not by much. It seems nothing was tested or player feedback not listened to.

In the Charr personal story, we recruit new warband members. They often never show up in the next missions. This is a bug, an old one, and still exists today. Missing NPCs.

In some personal stories, the dialogue/voice acting is messed up and the NPC says our lines, or we say the NPC’s lines. Misplaced Faith is one, where your character says Emer’s line, then Emer says your line threatening herself. She then responds to her own threat and answers… it is ludicrous.

Maybe I’m over-simplifying how ‘easy’ it is to simply patch wrong dialogue and place the correct voice actors in. Or make NPCs show up. But I would think 6 months would be enough.

Lastly, NPCs respond with incorrect attitudes. For instance, an NPC may honor you in the personal story with praise, but then when you manually interact with them, they give you generic dialogue like “you want to fight?”. They just honored you, and now they are acting like you are a stranger that kitten them off.

In the Charr personal story, your own Warband recruits respond like they never met you. They disrespect you. But when the story triggers them to talk, they suddenly are your loyal members again. Their voices even change.

Would be nice to have the details thought out and kept constant. Not looking like someone said “this is good enough, who cares, just release it like this”.