Guild Wars 2 - General Discussion Thread

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Well a trailer has finally been released, the start is mostly concept art in motion but it does eventually show you the game engine running:

www.guildwars2.com

Check it out.
I know theres a few GW fans lurking around here so what are your thoughts guys?

Personally I'm a bit disappointed with the graphics I sort of expected better... as is it only looks marginally better than Guild Wars did (which is not to say its bad) but yeah it looks pretty samey. One thing that looks fantastic are the level designs, some amazing looking stuff there, they've really gone to town on the concept art and brought it to life.

I'm worried about this game... I hope its a return to form. I miss how brilliant Prophecies was.

20/08/2009

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slicingman

Skarteh said:
slicingman said: I just bought GW1

Oooh rly
You get Prophecies?? Thats the BEST!
Love the starting area too... pre-searing ftw.

Got the platinum edition so... no...
www.guildwars.com/

I'm just a bit concerned about my DL limit...

07/09/2009

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Skarteh

slicingman said:
Skarteh said:
slicingman said: I just bought GW1

Oooh rly
You get Prophecies?? Thats the BEST!
Love the starting area too... pre-searing ftw.

Got the platinum edition so... no...
www.guildwars.com/
I'm just a bit concerned about my DL limit...

Thats Prophecies with Eye of the North tacked on.

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slicingman

Ok, i dont know anything about this game cept it was cheap and you dont have to pay to pay to pay to pay to pay to pay to pay to pay to pay to pay to pay to pay to play...

I got talked into it on myds by Redean

I havent played a mmo before so i decided i will since i wanna be a multiplatformer.

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Skarteh

Well its a very good one so get in there.

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slicingman

Waiting for the post from Melbourne... bought it on Saturday :S

Will prob show up when im working like usual

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Skarteh

slicingman said: Waiting for the post from Melbourne... bought it on Saturday :S
Will prob show up when im working like usual

Why not buy it on Steam :/

07/09/2009

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slicingman

Havent you picked up on my 12gb limit yet? and my isp being POS bigpond?

07/09/2009

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jogman_72

should i get this?

07/09/2009

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Skarteh

jogman_72 said: should i get this?

Hells yeah

07/09/2009

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Doyl

slicingman said: Havent you picked up on my 12gb limit yet? and my isp being POS bigpond?

But bigpond have lots of unmetered content on steam, POS or not that still means free content.

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DoYL said:
slicingman said: Havent you picked up on my 12gb limit yet? and my isp being POS bigpond?

But bigpond have lots of unmetered content on steam, POS or not that still means free content.

But it only has selected free steam content... and their downloads section is normally bare of anything that i want/need, game patches for real games etc.

08/09/2009

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Redean

i reckon we should start a MyFrag Guild to carry on over to GW2
Also from what I heard questing is gona be slightly different, instead of talk to a guy with a ! above his head you can get quest by say overhearing guards warn about a centaur attack. Also GW2 is apparently gonna to have persistent world so everyone you do and everything you don't will have an effect on the world creating a heat of the moment type gameplay which I personally look for in MMO's and RPG's

13/09/2009

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Chazzy

aw that means i'll have to pay attention, plus i hope thats not the only way to get those certain quests cause lots of people play without sound or while listening to music.

i sure as hell hope its not persistant. that would be just ditching their current ways which works so well and everyone likes. also it would be turning into WOW which is their enemy!!!

aw fail
QUOTE: Guild Wars 2 Q&A - Part One Feature TVG interviewing ArenaNet www.totalvideogames.com/

"In Guild Wars 1 everybody played on the same servers, which means that there are hundreds of thousands of people in the world. That means that if you make a friend today, you're not necessarily going to run into them again unless you add them to your friend's list and make an effort to meet up. So in Guild Wars 2 we're keeping the instanced aspect of the game, but we're also adding a persistent world on top of that. We're going to have the outside 'explorable' area as a persistent world so you'll run into the same people over and over, but when you go into a mission or a dungeon it'll be instanced, so you'll have benefits that Guild Wars 1 got from instancing."

i suppose thats not too bad, so only general expoloring and normal quests will be persistance.

13/09/2009

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Redean

Chazzy said: aw that means i'll have to pay attention, plus i hope thats not the only way to get those certain quests cause lots of people play without sound or while listening to music.
i sure as hell hope its not persistant. that would be just ditching their current ways which works so well and everyone likes. also it would be turning into WOW which is their enemy!!!
aw fail
QUOTE: Guild Wars 2 Q&A - Part One Feature TVG interviewing ArenaNet www.totalvideogames.com/
"In Guild Wars 1 everybody played on the same servers, which means that there are hundreds of thousands of people in the world. That means that if you make a friend today, you're not necessarily going to run into them again unless you add them to your friend's list and make an effort to meet up. So in Guild Wars 2 we're keeping the instanced aspect of the game, but we're also adding a persistent world on top of that. We're going to have the outside 'explorable' area as a persistent world so you'll run into the same people over and over, but when you go into a mission or a dungeon it'll be instanced, so you'll have benefits that Guild Wars 1 got from instancing."

I would think some quests still would be talk to a guy kill some monsters and what is wrong with a persistent world?

I also saw something about World PvP which would be like casual GvG in GW1

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Chazzy

Redean said:I would think some quests still would be talk to a guy kill some monsters and what is wrong with a persistent world?
I also saw something about World PvP which would be like casual GvG in GW1

well nothing wrong with it but some times i would like to play a game with JUST my friends and not other randoms running around.

13/09/2009

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Redean

Chazzy said:
Redean said:I would think some quests still would be talk to a guy kill some monsters and what is wrong with a persistent world?
I also saw something about World PvP which would be like casual GvG in GW1

well nothing wrong with it but some times i would like to play a game with JUST my friends and not other randoms running around.

That would be a RPG with multiplayer added in, MMO's are all about meeting new people and stuff but I understand where you coming from as GW was meant to break MMO stereotypes

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Chazzy

Redean said:That would be a RPG with multiplayer added in...

not really, i didnt mean it quite like that, though i did. it would just b good to be exploring a place with just your group, even if it is friends or randoms. itd almost be distracting having other people walking around.

anyway i guess everyone has their own opinion. we'l see how it is when it actually comes out.

13/09/2009

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Redean

Chazzy said:
Redean said:That would be a RPG with multiplayer added in...

not really, i didnt mean it quite like that, though i did. it would just b good to be exploring a place with just your group, even if it is friends or randoms. itd almost be distracting having other people walking around.
anyway i guess everyone has their own opinion. we'l see how it is when it actually comes out.

yea we will see, I have faith in ArenaNet and i don't think they will botch GW2, be glad they delayed it so they can put more into it.

UPDATE:
A new trailer has been released giving us new info on all the races
www.guildwars2.com/

There is also a new page about each race! www.guildwars2.com/
What are you waiting for check it out!

05/12/2009

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Chazzy

finally a proper trailer. the last one was just a bunch of moving concept art i thought.

05/12/2009

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Redean

Chazzy said: finally a proper trailer. the last one was just a bunch of moving concept art i thought.

It did have some ingame footage, but yes this one is mostly ingame footage

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Skarteh

I remain underwhelmed by the graphics but I can see they are taking this game very seriously which is good. Epic friggin wait so I'm glad they're using that time well

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Redean

Skarteh said: I remain underwhelmed by the graphics but I can see they are taking this game very seriously which is good. Epic friggin wait so I'm glad they're using that time well

I'm actually really excited they are putting alot of effort into it, this near the top of my must have list

06/12/2009

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Skarteh

Its at the very top of mine

MW2 and L4D2 would probably have contested its throne before their release but they made me die a little inside.

At least I know that GW2 is PC only and therefore has a very very low chance of disappointing me!

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Redean

Skarteh said: Its at the very top of mine MW2 and L4D2 would probably have contested its throne before their release but they made me die a little inside.
At least I know that GW2 is PC only and therefore has a very very low chance of disappointing me!

wiki.guildwars.com/ Too bad it wont be out for maybe a year or so.

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Skarteh

Yuh 2011 no doubt about it. If there's 2 dares, it'll be the last one or later

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