Guild Wars 2

Sylosi.6503:

Sorry, but your post makes no sense, if I put someone in front of SC2 who has never played they will be just as clueless about the decisions as they would for GW2, they don’t know why a player uses one type of unit against a certain type of unit of his opponent, they would need knowledge of the game, the decisions behind the actions of players in SC2 (or LoL) are no more visible to players than they are in GW2.

Nope. SC2 is far easier to understand at a basic level. A large part of that has to do with the fixed overhead camera angle. Another is that people can get a rough idea of how powerful a unit or spell is based on the size/graphic. It’s obvious that Zerglings are weaker per unit than the Ultralisk. Lastly, there’s more phases in a SC2 game that allow the commentators time to explain what will happen or what has happened.

Lifeson.4352:

Antipode.2518:

I’m surprised people still boast about questing in GW2. It seems like a clear case of the emperor’s new clothes.

I recently tried to pick up GW2 again and got instantly bored of collecting apples, trapping fish, and killings spiders. Removing a quest giver doesn’t suddenly make boring quests more interesting.

Tera: Horrible quest text, but combat makes the quest activities fun.
WoW: Bad quest text, but quest activities much more varied.
SWTOR: Great story cutscenes, but quest activities boring.
GW2: No quest text/bad story cutscenes, and boring quest activities.

Add in that GW2 has the least amount of leveling progression (very few ability upgrades), I get bored faster than any other MMO I’ve played. I do want to hit max level eventually, and appreciate the lack of sub, but I can’t stand the leveling in this game.

Let me introduce you to the 5 D’s of questing: Deliver, Destroy, Defend, Drop, Discover. Wow has them, gw2 has them, there is nothing different, except for the odd bombing run or whatever in WoW. What seperates wow from gw2 is that gw2 got rid of some of the quest text and having to run back and forth to an npc.

Sure, but that’s an oversimplification. There clearly are games that have worse leveling than others despite having the “5 Ds”.

I still remember cool quests like the Titan quest chain in Stormpeaks, or the quest that has your invade Undercity alongside your faction champion. The activities that you did during those quests felt relevant to the universe.

Why not just removed the advantage from ascended gear? Grinding should only be for aesthetic upgrades.

eisberg.2379:

Antipode.2518:

I’m surprised people still boast about questing in GW2. It seems like a clear case of the emperor’s new clothes.

I recently tried to pick up GW2 again and got instantly bored of collecting apples, trapping fish, and killings spiders. Removing a quest giver doesn’t suddenly make boring quests more interesting.

Tera: Horrible quest text, but combat makes the quest activities fun.
WoW: Bad quest text, but quest activities much more varied.
SWTOR: Great story cutscenes, but quest activities boring.
GW2: No quest text/bad story cutscenes, and boring quest activities.

Add in that GW2 has the least amount of leveling progression (very few ability upgrades), I get bored faster than any other MMO I’ve played. I do want to hit max level eventually, and appreciate the lack of sub, but I can’t stand the leveling in this game.

Maybe you need to get past Queensdale? -.-
And WoW quest activities? They are the same as GW2 Heart Quests.

Hey, I made it to Kessex Hills!

The dynamic quests in the first two zones were no better than run-of- the-mill MMO quests. Kill bigger/waves of monsters, escort, or a timed event to help someone do a mundane task. None of them changed the environment in any significant manner. Kessex Hills felt like escort quest after escort quest.

The quest activities in WoW have greatly improved over the years. I quit before Cataclysm, but the quest variety in Northrend had by far the most variety of the MMOs I listed.

I’m surprised people still boast about questing in GW2. It seems like a clear case of the emperor’s new clothes.

I recently tried to pick up GW2 again and got instantly bored of collecting apples, trapping fish, and killings spiders. Removing a quest giver doesn’t suddenly make boring quests more interesting.

Tera: Horrible quest text, but combat makes the quest activities fun.
WoW: Bad quest text, but quest activities much more varied.
SWTOR: Great story cutscenes, but quest activities boring.
GW2: No quest text/bad story cutscenes, and boring quest activities.

Add in that GW2 has the least amount of leveling progression (very few ability upgrades), I get bored faster than any other MMO I’ve played. I do want to hit max level eventually, and appreciate the lack of sub, but I can’t stand the leveling in this game.

That award is for ***PC***-only.

GOTY hasn’t been announced.