Guild Wars 2 Trailer

[Illuminus]

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/

Oooo, yes! I just love the art direction. Right now i couldnt even be bothered with Aion knowing this will come out at some point!

[digitalErich]

They had me at 'airship port.'

I missed out on the first GW...how focused was the game and gameplay on the loot grind? Are we talking WoW where your gear essentially makes you 3-4 levels higher or more subdued like in WH?

[Gwinny]

Hah, that story is painfully cheesy. Beautiful environments, though, and some of those areas look more open than the mazes they disguise as landscape now. The robots following/hulking above people - is that indicative of a proper pet class being introduced? (Though that's basically what heroes are anyway...) This is pretty much a day-one purchase for me since I've gotten so much enjoyment out of the first.

[Illuminus]

Originally Posted by digitalErich

They had me at 'airship port.'

I missed out on the first GW...how focused was the game and gameplay on the loot grind? Are we talking WoW where your gear essentially makes you 3-4 levels higher or more subdued like in WH?

No, Guild Wars gear did absolutely nothing.. it was just for the looks. The huge amount of spells and skill made it so unique. Also, up to now i think GW still has the best structured PvP out there.

The problems were that it was heavily instanced, no real crafting and the lack of... jumping? With Guild Wars 2 they attempting to solve these problems. Oh, and they still doing the same business model, buy the game and you play forever, no subscription fee!

[Illuminus]

Originally Posted by JRR006

Hah, that story is painfully cheesy. Beautiful environments, though, and some of those areas look more open than the mazes they disguise as landscape now. The robots following/hulking above people - is that indicative of a proper pet class being introduced? (Though that's basically what heroes are anyway...) This is pretty much a day-one purchase for me since I've gotten so much enjoyment out of the first.

The game is open world now like WoW and other MMO's.. but they will keep instances for missions and the like. So hopefully no more invisible barriers and such . And yea, Guild Wars storyline was always cheesy!

[digitalErich]

Interesting...I may have to check it out this time around. Hell I'll pay $50 just to run around those environments.

[Deadend]

Originally Posted by Illuminus

No, Guild Wars gear did absolutely nothing.. it was just for the looks. The huge amount of spells and skill made it so unique. Also, up to now i think GW still has the best structured PvP out there.

The problems were that it was heavily instanced, no real crafting and the lack of... jumping? With Guild Wars 2 they attempting to solve these problems. Oh, and they still doing the same business model, buy the game and you play forever, no subscription fee!

Gear sort of mattered. Once you got to the lv 20 stuff the gear was about balancing. You could get armor with light protection against everything, or make armor to be more focused on say... not taking fire damage.

I found the crafting system to be just as good as most games, where the crafting system exists as a time and money sink and for no other real reason.

[Mason]

Originally Posted by digitalErich

They had me at 'airship port.'

I missed out on the first GW...how focused was the game and gameplay on the loot grind? Are we talking WoW where your gear essentially makes you 3-4 levels higher or more subdued like in WH?

To clarify, there wasn't "better" equipment, just different sets of modifiers. Equipment might be better for certain builds, but there was no vertical progression. After the quick trip to level 20, no one is numerically superior to anyone else. It all came down to the skills you'd picked and how well you played with your team.

[Mason]

Originally Posted by JRR006

Hah, that story is painfully cheesy.

Weirdly, isn't it the exact same story as WoW:Cataclysm? Undersea dragons wake up, raise a continent, and destroy the world?

I'm not terribly enthusiastic about them adding more playable races. GW avoided a lot of fantasy tropes and kept a sort of mature tone, and GW2 seems to have gone in a very different direction. Still, the environments seem just as memorable.

The reduced instancing is probably a good thing. I liked the instanced missions, but the overworld could've been sharded like cities. I just hope that they don't adopt a more traditional server architecture, since one of the best parts of GW was that everyone was part of the same world. I quit WoW rather than try to deal with the hassle of rolling characters for every social group.