1) the races – why are there 5 races? Why, tell me why? It makes to difference which race you play except visual.
I’ll assume you don’t play a lot of video games, particularly not ones with competitive aspects (with the exception being asymmetric multiplayers games which you might want to look into, seems more your thing). The races are designed to be only (or mostly in this case since you do have racial abilities) visually distinct because if they didn’t do so mechanically they’d limit how people play (i.e. is someone wants an Asura Warrior… Oops no Norn are the strongest, got to choose Norn or everyone will shout at you in LFG).
Can anyone explain to me why we were evacuating civilians each time the miasma thined? I mean once it got thick enough we had to run or else we would die.
So how did any civilians survive? They learned not to breathe? LA should have looked like an etermination camp from WW2 – there should be bodies everywhere not survivors.
Ludo-narrative dissonance. It one of those things people do to make the game more fun. Unless you wanted the Escape from LA to be a single non-repeating event?
3) Why do we level up? We get scaled down anywhere we go so it makes no difference if there were 80, 200, 30, or no levels at all.
I assume you haven’t played GW2 too much. There’s a big difference between a level 80 in a level 10 map then a level 10 in a level 10 map. The scaling is also a very good system (although I do think it could scale a bit more…), since it means that you don’t out-level content. This is what happens in games like WoW, you level up and the content becomes dull and boring since you’re one-shot-ing everything. Friends can’t really play together if the one is at max level etc.
Yes there is, why do you think people kept complaining that Necros don’t have support skills? Certain group make-up do increase group effectiveness, which I do believe is the meaning of synergy, 1 + 1 = 3. Sometimes a class might sacrifice individual ability to boost group ability but again that is synergy.
And although hardly ever used, there is the combo system.
Don’t even try to tell me that stacking Might is synergy coz it’s not.
But by definition it is. The entire groups effectiveness is raised past the sum of it’s parts.
Many skills in GW had synergy with one another, there was class synergy and multi-class synergy.
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Now multi-class synergy – what I mean by that is skills from different classes working well together for mutual benefit.
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Now I could go on and on but you probably get what I mean. We do not have such skill synergy here in GW2.
I think I get what you mean, you want a far more restrictive system in which only specific abilities and specific classes work well together and people who don’t play those classes can… reroll I guess?
Have you ever heard of ‘bring the player not the class’. It’s a thing that came up in WoW. The problem was that they had very strong class synergies, so some classes simply weren’t optimal and were thus kicked to the side. The design idea was to ensure that classes have similar capacities to contribute to the group, so that no one would be discriminated against because of their group. Granted GW2 isn’t exactly there (i.e. Necros and very little support) but I definitely prefer a system by which I’m not kicked out of a group for playing a necro or a ranger.
So to each their own.
2) There is no failure – we cannot fail at all. How do you expect anything to be challanging if we can’t fail no matter what, but simply try and try again untill we get it right.
Your idea of failure is odd. Especially since you used the words ‘simply try and try again’. If we can’t fail then why do we need to try again, doesn’t the very idea inherently imply a failure. Unless you want rogue-like elements such as perma-death so that failure is permanent. I like being able to fail and try again. Judging by the popularity of games such as the souls series other people also like to fail and try again. Mind you I do think GW2 would definitely use a massive difficulty spike in it’s content (again soul-series) but that doesn’t mean you can’t fail.
