Guild Wars 2

I’m a little late picking up this game, to be honest I wasn’t attracted to the series. Sandbox mmo’s have always been a turn off for me. To much hassle for well… hardly anything.

However I decided to give this game a chance, and lets face it. Perception is reality and the strongest example of this is first impressions.

I see a game that COULD of been awesome. Maybe it still could be, a patch here and update here. The game needs some content and I’ve got a few suggestions and critiques. I’ve been thinking about this post for a while now, so it’s a read but I’ll try to make it worth reading.

I want to start with the games UI and general utility.

Wow, what a disappointment. This game is lacking some programing. Lets start small
The most used item in this game by far THE MAP! Ff you even want to think of it as an item. It’s an rpg after all. Dear god, are you telling me I can’t even set my own way points?

…. Do you know how annoying that is constantly reopen my map to make sure I’m going the right way, or while on a farming run I get turned around and end up heading a short while out of my way. I don’t like having to open up the map all the time just to go wherever. I don’t like using the teleport function as I’m new to the game and I want to get a feel for everything the game has to offer, so I walk and farm everywhere. HOLY CRAP NO MOUNTS! lets not get going on that, I know that’s a sore issues for a lot of people here, but lets face it… it’s flipping annoying.

Moving on let’s touckitten bindings, target locking, auto attacking, and the camera.
This IS FUNDAMENTAL for EVERY SINGLE COMPUTER GAME HOW DID YOU F THIS UP! HOW?!

Lets start with some basics here, auto attacking is a “skill” so to speak… interesting idea I guess. It just doesn’t feel fluid though…. Sure once you START attacking the auto attack just keeps going…. Sometimes. Sometimes… it just stops and you gotta restart the combo again in between abilities. Lets recap this… “AUTO” is an abbreviation right? Or did I flunk out of preschool? I dunno at least I think this term is short of Automatic attacking, right? Can someone explain to me… why the game decides to stop? Is this like some built sympathy mechanic that my character feels bad about crushing the centaurs head in and decides nahhh I’d rather not. The auto attack is flawed even more so for ranged users. If I double click a target I want you to attack it… I want you to MOVE INTO RANGE AND ATTACK IT! I don’t want you to stand there and scratch your manhood and ask me now what?
Auto pathing… This should really be an option. Click a spot on the minimap or ON the map, Maybe even hold right click, wheel opens with open… Move to area, alert danger to area, alert area down ally etc etc. Cause lets face it…. you don’t always need to press fwd to move. Lets give some lazy options here. Sit back and enjoy the ride, go grab a snack take a leak, come back, right on I’m there, sweet.

This is just a few I’m sure other players have come up with DOZENS of things this game lacks as far as the ui. But I’m going to end it with my big pet peeves, this is a first impression and I want to move on.

… and this forum sensors out words for kitten… really can’t even say caaackatoo without you thinking I’m talking about my junk.

Does it bother anyone that the bear… is well… a mini-bear? They are so tiny in the game… Now I’ve seen bears in real life… the only small ones are cubs. A full grown bear is about the size of an average human, on all fours…. when they stand up they tower over even the tallest men, weighing up to 2000lbs. 2000 pounds…. can you imagine. I look at my brown bear and I think… of all the bears why did I get the runt of the litter. Now lets go to the wolves… again sizes here. Wolves are large. were talking really large here, can you tackle a moose? a timber wolf can. These things are slightly larger than your German Shepard which is about 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 feet tall. larger species of wolfs wolves are around 5-6 feet long…. Why does my wolf look like it’s going to lose a fight to a collie.

Look I’m the fricken expert on animals here, but holy crap the pet models are kittened small.

>_> not to mention I’ve seen kittenatoo’s larger than this games Eagle. The cosmetics of this game are kinda lame. I expected more out of it.

I’d appreciate it if the game developers did some research into the animals they are trying to create before just piecing them together. Get out of your office, stop staring at pictures of animals online and reading Wikipedia and go to the zoo, go on a hunting expedition. Do some real research on what these animals look like…

Granted I don’t expect them to find an ice drake but hey… At least they would have a better idea on how to make it’s model after they’ve seen some real animals.