Guild Wars 2

I basically stopped playing long before Nov 15th.

I’m a Guild Wars veteran, and I don’t want to see the game fail, but there’s something about GW2 that doesn’t grab me. I haven’t even gotten any characters to max level. I’ve played a bunch of alts to see if I would find that “happy place”, but it just doesn’t happen.

And this despite all the awesomeness in GW2. I love the combat mechanics, the story lines, the races, the artwork, the world, and the killer maps…

GW1 had my attention for years, and I’ve been waiting for GW2 forever, but after playing it for a bit, it’s just… …my desire to play isn’t there. I find myself turning the computer off in the evenings to go re-read books instead.

I can’t pinpoint what it is exactly, but I think that I found GW1 to be more of a challenge to be honest. In GW2 you don’t have to build a group to succeed, you just find a bunch of other players and tag along for a bit. You can find good gear as drops without any problems, etc, which for one thing makes all the crafting professions quite redundant. I’m not motivated to level up, not motivated to get new armors, not motivated to explore (although I love the big maps, it’s just not the accomplishment it used to be). All I’ve been doing in-game lately is farm resource nodes and sell stuff on the trading company – and that gets old pretty fast.

I think the game is too easy. It feels like I’m wasting time when I’m playing it.

The game (and the ANet forums) no longer asks for authentication when you visit from a known IP.

If I’d complain over anything, it’s when my female norn says things with a voice that isn’t actually hers. Quite often, she will yell in a male voice: “URGE TO KILL RISING!”

That really gets to me. There are a few more examples other than that particular line, but it’s the only one that comes to mind at the moment.

To offer a contrasting opinion, I’ve been pretty happy with the voice acting in GW2 overall. We’ve had much worse examples from GW1 in terms of poor voice acting. …plenty of the voiced cut scenes from Prophecies come to mind – not to mention Danika Zu Heltzer from Factions… :P I’ve actually never felt that the voice acting in GW2 was particularly off, but maybe I’ve been lucky?

I also personally enjoyed the “two people in front of a backdrop” thing, as it made the dialogue feel a bit more like a theatre narrative to me – and I thought that was a playful and fresh thing to do for a computer game. A little less serious for sure, but in return – a lot less pretentious. It also makes it more clear who is talking to who. However, I can see where it’s not necessarily everyone’s cup of tea.

I found this funny, and thought I’d just throw it out there.

Turns out that you can log in to GW1 and GW2 and play them simultaneously, even on the same machine (lol). It made GW1 lag pretty badly though, making it basically unplayable.

The screenshot is taken with characters being in roughly the same place; the eastern fringe of the Black Citadel in GW2, and the Nolani Academy mission in GW1.

:)

I like the voice of the norn female a lot, however, it doesn’t always fit the kind of personality I have on my character. She always delivers her lines like a “fierce” character, not like my “charming” guardian would have.

Apart from that, I can’t complain about her. I like that the voice is on the dark side, and loud, like a norn should be.

Hey, we solved the problem we had sending mail to our guildie. Her mailbox was full.

She wasn’t notified that the mailbox was full however, so she just assumed that it wasn’t. Once she started deleting mail however, queued mail started to pour in.

We’re having the same type of problem with one of our guild officers. She apparently cannot recieve mail from any of us other guild members. This is a problem, since we can’t share materials and other things.

When mailing, we get the message ‘mail sent successfully’, but nothing arrives. This happens to all mails except NPC mail – with or without attachments. She can send mail to us, but not the other way around.

Sweet! Finally back in after almost a week of no-GW2 limbo!
Thank you ANet!

I finally got back in after the recovery page suddenly went live! A week of limbo is over! Tears of joy here…