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This might get me hit by a couple of flames, but it’s gotta be said.
After playing through most of the Star Wars: The Old Republic class stories, and then coming over to GW2 (because I’m just an MMO junkie when it all boils down), I gotta say that the personal story in this game was horrible. Not just horrible, it was astoundingly disappointing.
The beginning was pretty good, some bad dialogue every once in a while, but I was the Slayer of Isomir (even though there were a few other people fighting him at the same time…), I saved the Mists from Jormag (thankfully not a shared phase this time), and did a bunch of other awesome stuff, like turning into a Wolf and gnawing the kitten out of a Jotun. I was a little let down by my complete inactivity during cut-scenes and not being able to choose what my character said to their mentor and others a-la TOR, but I could live with it. Then I chose my order, and it was pretty kitten interesting still, for a while.
Then Claw Island came, and the hilariously incompetent commander therein, with Trahearne just coming out of the woodwork. The story got so bad I only finished it to say that I’d done so. Trahearne is, sadly, a copy paste definition of Mary Sue. There’s nothing he can’t do (except fight effectively, even with his fancy Greatsword (As a Necromancer! Actually, that might explain his total suckage in combat)), everyone looks up to him, he’s a great leader even though he wasn’t aiming for the role, he’s humble yet confident and all butterflies and rainbows. And his dialogue is terrible! I think I winced at least once every time he opened his mouth, his lines had almost no emotion behind them, they were stilted and awkward and horribly delivered. It’s not bad enough that he completely hijacked my entire personal story, he had to butcher the dialogue as well. During his little 80’s movie inspired speech to the Pact, I just muted his kitten and read the text instead, skipping ahead when I finished a “page”.
Who is this guy? Why do I suddenly never see Eir again even though we were total buds earlier in my story? Why is the story suddenly about Trahearn’s Wyld Hunt in cleansing Orr instead of my hero helping the Vigil slay Zhaitan? Why am I, the supposed Hero of my own story, suddenly some little bookworm’s sidekick? What the hell happened to Forgal since he was “in the embrace of the dragon”? Why does nothing I do matter anymore?
If ANet is going to hype the story aspect of the game, then they need to learn to walk their talk, because it was pretty terrible.