Guild Wars 2

I was crushed the first time I walked around in LA. All this senseless destruction… whatever Scarlet’s motives were, nothing could possibly justify THIS.

The memorial walls for the dead and the missing… the woman who lost her father … the mournful variation on “Sands of Kryta” that starts playing … it brought tears to my eyes.

Since there are people repairing stuff, I plan to go there every day (patch or no patch) to mourn for those who died, and to see if there is any progress with the restoration.

(… and also to listen to a totally beautiful variation on one of my favorite songs from GW1).

Way to go Anet! Thank you for making this, and congratulations on totally outdoing my imagination on what a warzone actually looks like after the conflict.

PS: Please please please let there be some sort of quest / activity / thingamabob to help rebuild LA. Rejoin lost relatives, repair a bridge, find shelter for returning refugees, bring food to nearly starved survivors (there is little food in the city), adopt a child…

ahem My fellow geniuses!
I propose that Asura cuteness is allowed as long as it serves as a means to the ultimate end: Asuran World Domination™!

Thanks to cuteness, we are attractive. And thanks to that attractiveness the lesser races will want a cute Asura servant in every home, tree, iron hellhole and ice cave. I propose that as a race we will play happily along, being cute and attractive, pretending to be clever enough to help solve the daily problems, but not too clever that our “Masters” see us as a threat.

Then, when the time is right… Rata Sum will announce the New Asura World Order, and we will be in a position to simply take over Tyria! It will be a walk-over, because those cute Asura “servants” will be everywhere, knowing everything about their bookah “masters”!

I know there’s still some dragons to take care of, and though this will be a challenge for even our best geniuses, I am certain that our superior intelligence will find a way to beat even them. Then, we will put an end to the alcoholism of the Norn, the furries in their iron shelters, the desire for violets of the tree people, and the romances of the humans (a captain of the guard and a queen??)!

Techromancer Luxx – Gunnar’s Hold

Too floppy? Oh no, not in my opinion!

I love the animations on my male Asura so much (/laugh is totally hilaric, dodge is totally awesome) that I try to do them every time I play with the little feller (just like I go nearly every time into the water in LA to hear “Sands of Kryta” play, but that’s another issue).

I thought it was awesome.

True, the instances could use a bit more variety, BUT…
- Your allies are useful (I have seen some personal story content where this does not seem to be the case)
- There were interesting details about the characters that really make me eager to find out more about them (I even went back to Rytlock and Whitebear to see if there was more that I should know about … come to think of it, I need to talk to Eir)
- I loved the snowstorm. And the funny stuff with Rox’ Devourer! Aaand the cutscenes!
- Not all loot and rewards need to be epic. I play out of curiosity, and because I want to be entertained. Not because I want rewards for everything I do. The rewards were a nice surprise to me.

And in the end… I saved a Norn and a Charr from certain death, after their leaders let them down. Badly. THAT is now forever a part of my personal story… (and Anet even made it so that I can replay it on my other characters if I choose so – yay!).

From time to time I am getting quests in the game world to avenge Tybalt (how awesome is that?). I think I don’t have to explain why I go out of my way to complete those EVERY time, even if I was merely running through the area.

Tybalt, old buddy: I pray every night to the Six Gods that you got out of Claw Island somehow.