Ive decided to post a honest review of this game,no sugarcoats on the bad and praising the good.
I will start with the good :
Ambient
- Nicely designed immersive environment that instantly sucks you into its world as a new player
- Everything about the GW2 visuals when it comes to ambient is on par,even though game is old
- You will never fell you lack atmosphere,from array of : forest,desert,snow,rocky-like maps there is something for everyone’s taste
Toon Creation
- While not that great or offering alot of options,you can still make your hero look somewhat what you wish
- Pick between the unique races you wish to play,sick of being a generic human ? You have a option to play as other races such as a mighty viking,king from tekken ( Charr ) , or saladfingers ( Sylvari ) , jokes aside you really have a decent amount of options to pick from
Soundtrack
- Simply Great
Classes
- All of them fun and special in their own way,you will mostly never get elitist whining about your class in open world PVE
- Pick between heavy,medium or light armor classes for your desire
I will now get to the bad points of the game,but i will mention some good things about the bad in the facts i will list below.
World/Map Exploring Activity
- While fun for the first few maps,it will quickly become a chore,especially if you get no worthy loot for exploring any of the maps
- Can map exploring be fun though Johnny ? Yes sure it can,if your a perfectionist who simply has insomnia if you don’t have everything in order on 100% and enjoy revisiting the old maps of tyria all over again on alts.
- I hate to break it to you but the only 3 reasons you actually need to map explore is :
1. To get Waypoints you will need to circle bosses everyday,do guild missions and get to dungeons.
2. Hero Points,required for completing your heros build ( With EOTM being simply a better and faster way of getting these..yeah you get the picture ).
3. Gift of Exploration which is basically a crafting material for a legend which you get ONLY after you completed the world map 100%.
- Generic repetitive ’’monsters’’ you will fight on your way while exploring but most of the time its five,five f.. enemy types that appear in heart quests all the time,regardless of map type such as : Skrit,Dredge,Risen,Wurms ( Wurms which is literally the same model re-painted green,white,sand depending on what map you face them ) , and Sons of Svanir .
On top of that if you decide not to do heart quests there is no reason to engage in combat with any of the monsters on your way,it basically becomes ‘’Le tour de Tyria’’ where you run for hero points and waypoints.
- The loot is the biggest negative of World exploring,you get nothing no i mean literally you get nothing that would make this chore of a process worth it.
Tyria Dungeons
- I’ll give it this it has multiple paths to pick from story and 3 other ways to finish a dungeon,they can be fun yes especially if done with friends.
- You’ll mostly need to do these for achivs ( that is if you care for AP ) .
- If you plan to be a ‘’dungeon runner’’ forget about Tyria and these sets of dungeons,do yourself a favor an play a better dungeon MMO or play FOTM.
- The limited loot is what kills most of the fun out of these dungeons,kills any replay value these dungeons had.
- If you dont care about loot,then this shouldnt be an issue and you can enjoy Tyria dungeons with no pressure.
World Bosses
- Ever thought of fighting massive behemoths and slaying dragons ? Well thats not exactly what you get here , instead of having random pattern attacks where boss can take down a player in an unpredictable manner they are basically QTE ( Quick Time Events )
- About 50% of the boss fight process is basically the boss being AFK while a zerg reks him,he rises does a laughably predictable attack or does fear then you proceed to zerg him and yeah thats it.
- No worthy mention loot,no actual fun,no reason at all to kill that sad lot of bosses other then them being on your daily list.
Salvage Wars 2
- 90% of the loot you get will get salvaged for ecto,and thats it,sometimes you get lucky with 1 gold exotic piece you can sell,but other then that yeah,salvage wars.
- Unless you own a gem store salvage machine you will actually lose money buying salvage kits to destroy bad items in your inventory ( which is 90% of the loot you get from PVE lol ) .
No Real Means of Getting Income
- Once you hit 80,there really ain’t much to do,as above mentioned World Bosses,Dungeons and Map Explore youd only ever do to get minimal income of gold daily.
- Which leaves you with a few options how to get gold in a decent time manner and all of them include you running with 20 other people in a zerg :
SW Chest Farm : Run behind a bunch of guys with a shovel and a key to unlock hidden chest in the desert while being attacked by 2 out of 3 enemy types in SW,fun fun.
This is indeed a decent way of getting gold,some ppl can do 10-12 gold per hour doing this,but ask yourself a question how long can your mind take this mind numbing boring process.
I find it simply embarrassing that next to all the dungeons and bosses this is the best way to get gold,unless your gonna open your moms wallet and dunk real money into the kitten .
Me myself im full ascended with 2 legends in my hands,i was lucky enough to get gold when dungs where not nerfed,but today this is what yould do if you want more then having a generic trading post exotic set.
- Or do Fractal of the Mist,set of repetitive dungeons where yet again you fight of those same generic monster types you fought in World Explore.
- Fun to a certain point,and loot being decent as of December 2015,if you want some decent amount of fun and challenge ( depending on your frac level ) do yourself a favor and farm this instead of SW Chest Farm.
No Real Goal/Endgame Content
- Once you get your legend and ascended set pick between :
- Fighting 2 monster types in HoT waiting for nightfall to farm a generic QTE boss and depend on full zerg parties !
- Glide around on your glider to get to…? I really dont understand whats the purpose of this but its fun.
- Farm pointless masteries that.. make you run faster in town and make you glide more ?
And grow your epen showing your mastery level !
- Fight in abandoned WvW maps where you will :
1. Once again run behind a zerg to kill another zerg (which can be fun)
2. Be the lone wolf and roam the wasteland ! Search and Destroy every 20 minutes !
- Thats exactly what roaming is like now,every 20 mins you might score a kill,but it mostly turns out into ppl just closing the game before you kill them ( ?° ?? ?°).
- Run out trying to have minimal amounts of fun killing a guy every 20 minutes.
Or become a professional PvP player in HOTM ! So that your epen can grow larger and after your ’’recognized’’ abuse the leagues to farm noobs,yeah! Thats what you get.
Create a Mesmer and dominate the ambers with your stack of rubys that is what being professional gets you!
Sorry for the short rant.
- What you can do really tho after you have everything in GW2 is :
HOT Raid which is actually the only thing worth mentioning that came with this dlc.
Get 4 friends and fight in the PvP Ranked league.
Honestly tho there is nothing to do after you dont need gold lol.
And finally coming down to final judgement and score.
This game is average,a 5/10 right in the middle with its boring gameplay and monsters to no real end game content but tied with great design,ambient,classes and soundtrack deserves a 5/10.
TL:DR
Boring Gameplay,Generic Monsters,No Real Endgame Content,No fun ways of getting gold but tied with good design,immersive ambient and fun classes with sweet soundtrack gives it a 5/10
Johnny
could answer me.