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So, what made you interested about GW2 ?
Corthagath
Member Posts: 291
in Guild Wars 2
so, as the question goes on the title ... what made you interested about the game. i guess i could add more options to the poll but theres not really that many available spots. tell us what kind of things made you want to try this game out. if the list of answers arent what you were looking for, then please add your two cents... now go ahead
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None of those.
- Non Trinity game Play
- The Mists, Guild vs Guild
- Innovative pve
I've been watching this game closely since I've read about the dynamic event quest sometime in April I guess...so that is my answer...there were no info about mists, enviromental weapons, gfx etc ...
I've never before had any interest in GW1...but since I've read about GW2 I've bought prophecies and nightfall ( Dervish is the most amazing class of all time in any game for me;) )
good job ANet getting me on your side;)
I think I actually spent way more time reading and theorycrafting about MMOs than playing them
I would honestly say ,that if not for the released videos,i wouldn't give GW2 a second thought.So it was the early marketing trailer/video that at least got me interested.
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Dynamic events sounds like we're stepping ever closer to capturing the variety of human GMs.
Important facts:
1. Free to Play games are poorly made.
2. Casuals are not all idiots, but idiots call themselves casuals.
3. Great solo and group content are not mutually exclusive, but they suffer when one is shoved into the mold of the other. The same is true of PvP and PvE.
4. Community is more important than you think.
GW1 (:
I want to reborn as a Sylvari.
Its always the same thing for me in any new mmo; a video showing off the various zones and landscapes usually in some sort of dramatic fly bys
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lol you kinda missed with your categories lol...
1) promise of a meaningful persistent intriguingly complex massive PvP (talking about WvW ofc)
2) boosting/debuffing system which practically and quite stealthily offers a tantalizing promise of a mmo which is not (GASP!) as time-dependent and linear progression-based (read "grind") as what is the norm so far (yes, WOW is a blight that never should have happened and EQ creators were short-sighted D&D geeks who never played any other PnP RPG and thus copy-pasted its linear progression system which was ultimately condemned by its creator Gygax himself - RIP and I bow to you master).
1. The leveling is much higher
2. The ability to craft in many ways
3. Fun new character choices
4. One purchase price and you own it.
5. Highly upgraded grapics.
6. Dynamic content.
7. MMO feel without the cost.
8. High budget with a great Manifesto video instilling the dev beliefs behind the making of the game.
9. The previous games from which this game comes from are all excellent and are still supported years later.
10. The video of the HUGE dragon running around in game was SICK!!
The #1 reason I got interested was because it's the sequal to one of my favorite games. It already sounds like it's going to be way better than the first one (which I originally thought would be impossible).
I voted "all of the above" and add that I am genuinely interested in the story, active combat with non-trinity roles, the opportunity to play the various races of the land (so, I guess overall lore), and no sub fee like the first.
What 1. drew my interest was researching for a new MMO on youtube and this one had the most interesting way of telling a story using the storyboard artwork.
2. What clinched it was COMBAT. Reading up the blogs and the reworking of the assumptions in MMOs eg healer and trinity I was thinking, whoa the designers read my mind
... plus it looks good and looks actiony/acrobatic.
3. The rest just slots into place... 3-way world combat (finally ffs!), art, lore, dynamic content etc... keeps getting ticks for each features and b2p seems like a secondary consideration, "Hey I'll take that too." !
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014633/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Seeing that first vid from Gamescon of how much fun the level 1-2 dynamic content looked had me hooked.
"Why grind to get to the good stuff?"
For me it's the innovative ideas that ArenaNet are implementing into their game like: the dynamic content replacing the regular MMO trash quest, the removal of the holy trinity and how they are bringing back the fun RPG elements into the stagnant MMO genre. Kinda funny that I first heard about Guild Wars 2 from their Manifesto Trailer and dismissed most of what they said as false promises, but then I saw those promises in actual gameplay footage and immediately changed my tone. ^_^
Recently I started playing my first MMO (LOTRO) and I wondered to myself, apart from the subscription fees why didn't I want to play these games? Well after 3 days of playing that game I answered my own question, because LOTRO already started feeling like a boring grind and I really didn't care to pay attention to the story. Which is a shame, because I play RPGs like Mass Effect and Vampire: The Masquarade Bloodlines to be immersed in the story & lore.
real vampire roleplayers can say all they want about bloodlines being just plain horrible game with crappy story but i loved it so much that i played it through with 3-4 different classes. i think they did good job with the game, i wonder what kind of mmo the vampire game is going to be (yes they are making mmo that is from this series)
Actually no, they could have done a good job on Vampire: MB, if Activision weren't such big dicks and allowed them to finish the game before forcing it to release. Something I'm glad NCsoft isn't doing with Guild Wars 2, because the last thing I want is to be excited over a broken game. Heck, I was only able to complete the game a couple months ago, after finding the 70 something-th patch. Ending kinda sucked.
And speaking of Vampires... I've already heard about the World of Darkness MMO from a video interview I saw a while ago (halfway in). Also mentioned it a lot in this thread I started a while ago. It's definitely an MMO I'll be following, until release.
Hmm.. How to reply to this thread.
I'm interested in GW 2, but at the same time I'm not. The developers seem to glorify this game as some kind of second coming of MMORPGs, but it's hard not to buy into the hype, because you got a good team on the saddle here, so you can expect good things.
Suffice it to say, I remain neutral, with a positive outlook.
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You can't really use that against ArenaNet, since they are not really the only studio proclaiming their MMO to be the 2nd coming of the MMORPG. Well I don't really blame these studios for trying to sell their game's innovative features... It's the reason why I'm on these forums in the 1st place. ^_^
The marketing side is glorifying, but even that's done to a decent standard?!
No, the key imo if I'm not eating someone else's BS is first "examining assumptions" of MMOs and providing information first about the MMO. ArenaNet have done that very well and clocking a good time at this point in the race.
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014633/Classic-Game-Postmortem
-Dynamic Events
-PVP
-no "healer"
-BTP
now: GW2 (11 80s).
Dark Souls 2.
future: Mount&Blade 2 BannerLord.
"Bro, do your even fractal?"
Recommends: Guild Wars 2, Dark Souls, Mount&Blade: Warband, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
so far everything that has been mentioned and shown to us in the demo and in the blogs and interviews has expanded my never ending desire to buy this game.
That might sounds pretty general, but its true
I am actually going to reply to this as, "What made you do all your research in GW2?
And hilariously, it was the 5 bar weapon slot, and how it interacts with picked up objects. My initial dream went to places like, "ZOMG I CAN'T WAIT TO PICK UP A SHARP ROCK AND JAM IT IN TO A GUYS LEG" But it is a little different
But after that, everything is history and the hype has grabbed me.
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What originally got me interested in the game was a forum discussion with Jeff Strain just after the game was announced. He had many interesting ideas. But that was of course because I already played the first game, so that is what I am voting.
What got me interested ofc was GW and ArenaNet - I think ANet is one of the few companies with the guts to try things out differently, and make it work, like the one-worldserver idea, the background streaming patching leading to no server downtime, the wide variety in skills, the graphics look etc.
What aspects I like most at the moment is the Dynamic Events, the graphical style, and the world vs world PvP that the Mists promises.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
im interested in every single thing except for the instanced maps like gw1 has, but that wont stop me from getting it and enjoy it