Guild Wars 2

Just to get it off my chest, my male Norn’s plotline and dialogue were so awful I just can’t bring myself to keep going with the story. I assumed both were written for teenagers, possibly by teenagers (or interns?). IIRC there were also many occasions where the dialogue options provided were immediately contradicted or did contradict something my character had just said.

One other thing I found really distasteful about my Norn’s story: Apparently my character is an antisocial, binge-drinking moron, and I don’t get any choice about this.

It’s not heroic, it’s not interesting, it’s not even funny.

I may have found this amusing when I was 10 or 12, but I’m three times that age now. In fact, at this point in my life I know a few people who’ve been killed or injured by drunk drivers, I know of people who’ve killed themselves while driving drunk, I know at least two who’ve slowly destroyed their lives with excessive drinking, I know of someone who drowned while intoxicated and I even know a few dickheads who still think it is hilarious to steal or destroy things when they’re wasted.

Don’t get me wrong, I still drink regularly, but this rubbish just isn’t funny or interesting, and probably shouldn’t be referred to as “epic”.

There were other issues with the male Norn storyline but I’ve seen these mentioned many times for most of the storylines so I won’t go into them here.

TL;DR: Everything about my Norn’s storyline (except perhaps the voice actor) should be scrapped. It’s dull, nonsensical and in one part quite inappropriate.

Got dropped last night with the Ancient Karka down to about 10%. Could not get back online at all for about 45 min. Couldn’t even log into the forum. Incredibly frustrating experience.