Guild Wars 2

I loved it.

I haven’t really played this game very much since I bought it, but I logged in the other day on a whim and was happy to see there was a Halloween event….And I was seriously stoked when I stumbled across the Clock Tower puzzle. It actually kind of re-kindled my interest in this game.

It’s probably one of the very best things I’ve ever seen in an MMORPG. I really hope there will be more stuff like this in the future.

I have been able to do the puzzle on two characters (both were small humans) without picking on the Charr and Norn characters who were in there with me. You guys have just as much right to be there as anyone else. Don’t let them bully you into quitting just because some players lack maturity. If they are lashing out at you and other large body type characters, the problem is with them, not you.

Frankly, they just need to grow up and get over it. The puzzle takes practice. If they put in the time, they will learn the puzzle well enough to beat it. The people who are blaming others around them for their own failure to complete the puzzle are revealing an ugly character flaw. Plenty of smaller characters have been able to complete the puzzle.

Besides, Norn and Charr only “mess things up” in the earliest parts of the puzzle, when it’s very crowded. But it’s so crowded there that ANYONE can end up blocking your view. Once you make it past the first couple of sections, people are spread out enough that it doesn’t really matter because you can just wait half a second to let the larger character get a step or two ahead of you — or if they are slow, you can run ahead of them.

When I was first learning the jumps, I went slowly, even though I knew I wouldn’t make it, because I wanted to be able to see well enough to learn the jumps. Once I learned the early parts of the puzzle, I was able to go much faster — so fast that I was usually the first in line….But even when I wasn’t first, I knew the jumps so well that I was able to do them, even when I was in the middle of the big zerg.