Guild Wars 2

It is a matter opinion… I personally did not feel like I paid for a fifty dollar game and have been off in other games until a living story update or something… which I will play then return to some other game since I get the feeling it will not have staying power.

PVE : The maps are more complicated to explore but honestly the story for HoT can be cleared in maybe 5 hours… meta events have been to me kinda boring and are not a new feature… they are just more complicated and eat up more time (this may have changed since the last time I actively played the game was in December I think?

WvW was killed off during the original run of HOT however their recent fixes may have remedied that…. so no comment there.

PVP : Cannot comment here as the last time I played this and took it seriously was before the pro game league design focus… however I will say that there are far too few maps for this game type.

But take this as my own personal opinion, because I like you left the game.

Bottom line : I purchased a Guild Wars 2 expansion and instead got a Metroid game with a Guild Wars skin on it…. I hate back tracking during a first play through a game and now it is just a back track simulator now. I’m sorry Samus… you cannot go through that door… got grind for a upgrade… I mean jump in your space ship and fly to the planet you just cleared and find the upgrade then fly back.

I cleared the story in 3 days…. I replayed LS season 2 to find that it was longer than the content I paid $49.99 I will be back for LS3 to see if that happens to change my mind but I doubt it.

I blame the developer being inspired by bad designs from Mario 64 and Metroid Prime. Want to go to the next level? Well go through this level ten times and find a star in a different location each time! This does not increase replay value for me…. it makes the game boring unless you have a interesting story to tell or something else. I want to replay content because I choose to not because I am forced to do it over and over until it is worn out.

Story cleared in less than 5 hours. Expansion was kind of over for me in 4 days after the launch. WvW was kind of a ghost town… leaving you with what? A bunch of meta events for things I do not need…. my ascended gear I got from not crafting at all and simply doing fractals back when I cared about fractals is more than enough gear. So I feel I got like maybe $25 out of the $49.99 I spent on this expansion. Maybe Living Story season 3 will fill in that void for the rest of it but until then I rank this piece of software as still a beta.

I honestly feel that the expansions PVE would have been better if the maps were designed as normal maps. It just feels like if they were normal maps we probably would have got more land to explore and possibly double the amount of maps…. designing this must have been a pain in the butt.

Anyhow it only took me two days after the launch and only because my party ran into bugs on launch (expected) to get through these maps. While I do not play much anymore I hope that when they finally do get around to a living story season that if new maps are added they are nothing like these.

It felt too short to me as well. Having purchased the core game ages ago I feel that $49.99 warrants a story at least the length of the original or at least the length of the Guild Wars 1 expansions. Maybe it could have been longer if what we got were regular maps instead of these multi layered maps. But on the other hand I do feel that the team decided to make a expansion last minute in the middle of living story season 2 because the rest of the expansion just does not feel right. The WVW map for example seems like it would be great for gliders but instead I find myself running around a empty map… or perhaps the enemy left by the time I walked up and down stairs.

It also does not help that some of the plot thrown in for the map events never completes as there has been (at least for me) not enough players in the new maps to begin with… maybe that will change now that people got their Halloween event fix out of the way.

all I have to say to this is…. Shenmue 3 has a release date… but there is no release date for Guild Wars 2 : Heart of Thorns or the return of SAB. I never thought I would be able to type those words.

Also Blade and Soul has a release date…. never thought I would type those either. At this rate I am expecting them to release in December… or maybe next year.

I rarely run meta builds but the fun is when they start using “verbal abuse” because they lost to something that isn’t just that…. I enjoy when someone immature whispers with enough fuel to warrant clicking report verbal abuse… and without a response at that fun times.

they aren’t anymore over powered than anything else… build to reflect projectiles back. Works every time.

I have noticed this playing around Metrica ever since the end of Season 1 of Living Story

has this song always been there or was it just randomly added at some point or misplaced?

I have not had any lag in any of the events lately.

I think I have had enough Scarlet…. may she remain dead. They can have her in a flashback without her lame laugh if they want to flesh out the character more than the skeleton it was. But other than that no thanks.

I like the living story before they started doing them every two weeks. The content that was more like one time per month was far superior to the later zerg fests.

If they go back to that format it is fine but I would seriously rather a lot of it be permanent content rather than being able to play some awesome dungeon (molten facility) and then it become a little piece in Fractals with nerfed difficulty unless you grind fractals…