Guild Wars 2

Its rather annoying to be a shiny good guy as is everyone else. Cant be a merc looking for payday, cant be a real necromancer, cant be an assassin. Sure the mainstream world is about saving the day, but where are the profiteers, where are the people who work for themselves for their own benefit. I much more enjoy the greys, than the flat white and only white, the only black are the bad guys in game. Its the greys that make a compelling storyline. EQ1 is the only game so far that I have played that really does the bad guys right and makes the game make sense. You have the good races and the bad races, and some that have both in one. The white, black, and greys. Having just the white, and only the whites makes the overall fairly dull. I will play it a bit more and see if I can get anything out of it, but right now I am rather bummed.

Whats the deal with the so called dynamic combat system thats so revolutionary? It still seems exactly like any other mmo. Auto-attack with some bonus powers. Have designers not figured out that that mode of combat is <yawn> … sorry just woke up, was talking about combat, right? Really, Skyrim and the Elder Scrolls series(oddly enough they are de-evolving the online version back to akittenauto-attack system) and to a lesser extent Tera are the only games to evolve combat to a fun and interactive experience that actually involves some skill and not a mind numbing auto-attack and wait for battle to be over type game. Hello designers, it isnt 1998 anymore. We can go outside the box and have a little more interactiveness in a game. A target reticule for shooting and figuring out where the target is in relation to your weapons reach isnt new or hard to program, I think Wolfenstein did it 20 years ago.

Sorry just a rant on the inability of mmorpgs to evolve into something more interactive and less boring. The capability is totally there but the designers refuse to use it for some reason. grrr

Are there any RP servers?

I am relatively new to the game. I have played around with a few of the races, watched the opening intros. While gameplay seems fine, the fluff surrounding the game needs work.
Why is everything so happy? Seems to me every story I have watched so far is a hero saving the world. I want to be a bad guy. Why is my thief or necro a hero? They should be shunned by the common folk of the world if not outright attacked by guards if they reveal themselves. I want to play a dark knight character and help the downfall of the human races. I want to be a Charr and eat humans and norn and have the midget big eared guys for dessert. As a tree dude, I want to be part of the nightmare court and help corrupt the forest. Why are we forced to be goody little two shoes characters? Yeah one can RP as a bad guy but all the quests and storylines go the other way. “I am Dorn the Conquorer, eater of worlds, desolator of cities, Ally to the Centaur, but here, let me help you put out that hay fire those evil bandits lit up in your field.” Wheres the option to kill the woman and set the windmill on fire depriving the great city of ground grain? Grrr We need an adult MMO that lets people be what they choose, not what is scripted.

My biggest complaint so far.