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Thursday, 16 February 2012

Bootae makes a Guild Wars 2 post that is not totally full of bile and loathing

OK so as everyone knows, I am hugely cynical about Guild Wars 2. I played the first game and I think it's hugely over-rated, despite what it's rabid fanbois say. Which actually is probably why so many GW2 fans are quick to say "but yeah GW2 is a totally different game!!!".

However, this blog post from the GW2 devs about PvP has gone a long way to increase my level of /care. I've now upgraded my interest from utterly indifferent to moderately intrigued. Which is quite a feat considering the game's WoW crowd pleasing, clown vomit, childish, emo and horribly generic art style. I bet there's a blindfolded busty angel somewhere.

The screenshot below however did not make me hurl.


This one does though...


And don't get me started on this shite.



Anyway, I must admit, that's an impressive list of PvP, RvR (or WvWvW?) features and if it doesn't turn out to be mainly dev speak or just plain broken, then I might actually be persuaded to ignore the cutesy crap.
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9 comments:

  1. Eric17 February 2012 at 02:19

    I can over look the Asura cruft given all the other "checks in the right boxes" I am seeing for GW2 .. I never played the original .. but damm.. GW2 is really lighting up my interest.. and first picture you posted above made my old DAOC heart strings sing ..

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  2. Skitzy17 February 2012 at 20:43

    The Asurans are definitely the Gungans of Guild Wars marring an otherwise pretty amazing example of world building and story telling.

    I wish ArenaNet would learn from Lucas's mistakes, realize their error in cutesiefying their game and obliterate the Asurans in a horribly painful fashion.

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  3. Lovepump18 February 2012 at 07:39

    You need more traffic on this site: GW2 is right up there with Duke Nukem, dancing & prancing inside a beautiful castle of hot air.

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  4. Anonymous18 February 2012 at 20:54

    Sure GW2 is offering the best MMO PvP to date without a monthly sub, but look at these screenshots from 2008!!!! They are too pretty!

    Is what I took from this post.

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  5. Bootae19 February 2012 at 10:01

    Fairly close, you need to change it to "on paper the PvP sounds very good". As we don't know yet if it will actually compare with DAoC, EVE or pre-trammel UO yet.

    Plus I'm allowed to not like a game because of the way it looks. Would you play Club Penguin if it had good PvP?

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  6. Anonymous19 February 2012 at 11:09

    Thou shalt not suggest GW2 be not the MMO messiah!

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  7. Bootae19 February 2012 at 13:09

    Oh I do think GW2 will be a good game, but not the 2nd coming no. For me it's like Final Fantasy games, I will never ever play one because they look like something designed for 9 year olds. Which is why my daughter thinks they look great :D

    It's not the quality of graphics that turn me off certain games, I can cope with basic graphics if the gameplay is good, but the "style" of the art does matter for me. Probably one of the reasons I stuck with WAR for so long.

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  8. GettCouped20 February 2012 at 02:48

    Yessssss Yessssss... Let the power of Arenanet consume you.

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  9. Anonymous23 February 2012 at 19:09

    boots , slaught ere , yes its really me posting on something , as you know i am daoc fanboi and GW2 looks like to me what mythic should have done with warhammer and totally looks like daoc 2 and please my friend please , never ever mention daoc and eve in the same breath again ;)and to me it doesnt at all look like they are pandering to WoW at all , you can kill people in this :)

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