The Guild Wars 2 Thread

[made]

I've a problem bros. GF played GW2 on this weekend and is seriously considering playing Asura as a main.

Halp plx

Can you blame her? They are adorable.

 

[Angthoron]

I've a problem bros. GF played GW2 on this weekend and is seriously considering playing Asura as a main.

Halp plx

Can you blame her? They are adorable.

It's like playing a gnome!

 

[Cowboy Moment]

Without any background in GW1, this seemed like a well executed traditional MMO to me. World design is very jrpg-esque, with everything being huge, impractical and full of shiny. The Asura apparently live in a huge octahedron floating in the air, the Charr have built their city around a steampunk deathstar, and the Norn capital is like a bigger version of the Sydney opera house. Thankfully, the art direction is pretty good (and the painted backgrounds look way better than anything in game), so it all looks quite good, if a bit ridiculous at times. The world in general feels quite big, although it's hard to tell whether it's really like that, or just does a good job of concealing its potato-landscapeness.

Combat system seems decent enough, nothing especially revolutionary, but there's a lot of utility skills, and you can get significantly better results by being clever, as opposed to mashing every skill on cooldown. Group battles are a huge clusterfuck with everyone spamming aoe, roughly as expected. I participated in the swamp event with the huge boss monster, and it was total chaos. Hopefully, there is content in the game that requires a bit of group coordination.

Levelling based on events is pretty refreshing. It started to lose some of the charm by the end of the Beta, but as far as I'm concerned, it accomplished the goal of making players group and cooperate naturally. This is really something other MMOs could learn from. I cringe as I recall how much of a bother trying to do group quests was in WoW.

Tried to do WvW, didn't get in. Is it as much of a clusterfuck as it would appear?

 

[fizzelopeguss]

ITT people seriously saying that Diablo 3 is better than Guild Wars 2.

Glad you pasted your [Per] check.

ITT Black tries too hard. As usual.

Lol, you were sniffing up his arse every time he made a post in that thread.

 

[Black]

It's a love-hate relationship.

 

[Berekän]

I've a problem bros. GF played GW2 on this weekend and is seriously considering playing Asura as a main.

Halp plx

Well, I was one of the haters until this last BWE, then I started playing one and well, I'm starting to think I might make one afterall, they feel like they've taken special care of them, the animations, their areas... and they aren't as obnoxious as I thought they would be.

 

[Excidium]

Asura are ugly, overcompensating arrogant fuckers that think they're smarter than everyone else. They're like miniature codexers.

 

[made]

I've a problem bros. GF played GW2 on this weekend and is seriously considering playing Asura as a main.

Halp plx

Can you blame her? They are adorable.

It's like playing a gnome!

Not quite.

Compare:

vs.

 

[Black]

Ye, the one on the left looks really stupid and is just begging to be put down.

 

[made]

ur dead inside m8

 

[Angthoron]

dulfy.net/2012/07/21/gw2-armor-previews/

Obviously image-heavy. And lacking all PvP sets for one.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Daayum that's some ugly ass armour.

 

[Zed]

I'm gonna go Sylvari male thief. So I guess I'll be wearing this shit.

"Oh hay bro, I'm just chilling in my pine cone coat"

"Oh hallo, I guess I'm like a cactus leaf thing. my helmet is suffocating me, cool"

"I'm blooming heheheheheheee"

 

[Berekän]

The terrible dye selection they're displaying at the gallery doesn't help them at all, and I've just browsed a few, I don't want to spoil myself too much.

 

[Black]

Where did their amazing art division go when it comes to armours?

 

[Angthoron]

What's wrong with armours? Only a couple of sets are truly derpy - tree people's armour, Nightmare set, Orrian female plate (how is the second boob supposed to be held in place, exactly?); the rest is ranging from okay to even pretty good (Medium armours w/coats, Divinity's Reach T3 armour set), gas mask set looks pretty lulzy, I can easily imagine the KKK crew using it as their uniform. Issue with screenies are 1) They're lacking shadows; 2) Dyes chosen for most of the sets are dire and in the end indistinct; 3) Static as opposed to actually animated.

Compared to most armour sets in industry at the moment, these are pretty good. For reference, see WoW sets from the last 2-3 expansions that look like shit sprinkled with reflectors, light bulbs and neon radiance. I'm kinda hoping that if nothing else, this will force Blizz to move away from particle effects to actual gear design again, otherwise they might as well make everyone wear shiny gas clouds of different density.

Also, helmets that look decent. Wtf, bros.

 

[made]

Pretty much standard Asian MMO stuff there. I do like many of the light/medium ones tho esp on Azura. My Charr warrior will be SOL it seems...

 

[Angthoron]

Better than GW1 sets!

And I dunno, recent TERA etc looks way more extremely KMMO style than GW2 for the most part. I'm a bit meh with all the cleavage and skin on female sets though, male full-body sets and SUDDENLY LITTLE COVER on plate for the ladies, for example. Methinks designers should start moving away from the idea of "Female char = dude wants to fap" model of thinking. Weird enough, mediums (THIEF of all things) gets reasonable-looking girlywears.

 

[made]

Methinks designers should start moving away from the idea of "Female char = dude wants to fap" model of thinking.

I always thought they do it for fat amerikan gamer gurrrls so they can pretend to be hot at least ingame.

 

[Phelot]

Can you play this solo at all?

 

[Berekän]

Solo as in, never group with anyone? Then yes. But you're going to be playing alongside other players in the events even it you don't group with them, unless you find a server for yourself.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

What's wrong with armours? .

like the rest of the game's visuals they're all over the place, ham fisted attempts at realism sprinkled with high fantasy shite. And why does every set have to HAVE A FUCKING FLAP.

The cultural stuff is the only gear that has any sort of cohesiveness to it.

 

[Angthoron]

What's wrong with armours? .

like the rest of the game's visuals they're all over the place, ham fisted attempts at realism sprinkled with high fantasy shite. And why does every set have to HAVE A FUCKING FLAP.

The cultural stuff is the only gear that has any sort of cohesiveness to it.

Well, that is sort of true - but at the same time I can see where they're going with it. The dungeon sets are part-cultural and part-dungeon-specific, so, say, Cadecus (sp) Manor stuff is human/nobility in theme, while Nightmare is p.obviously Sylvari-themed, and so on, with the exception of "high-level" gear, which is more of "old cultures" and stuff of that nature. So while it looks all over the place, I guess one could say that it's also thematic.

 

[insukk]

Ok, so i'm sitting on the old computer - Athlon 64 X2 6000+, GF 9800 GT, 3 GB RAM - and i would like to know: how is this game optimized?
Are there any chances that this will run decently on my PC?

 

[rashiakas]

GW2 is pretty CPU intensive from what I can tell, so probably not really.

 

[Berekän]

I played it on a Phenom X4 9550, GF 8600GT and 4gb of RAM and it ran fine, I only had a noticeable FPS drop when there were 30+ people throwing spells at a boss.

 

[insukk]

Thanks, bros. I'll give it a try next month.

 

[waywardOne]

I played it on a Phenom X4 9550, GF 8600GT and 4gb of RAM and it ran fine, I only had a noticeable FPS drop when there were 30+ people throwing spells at a boss.

Hah. Those are nearly my specs until I swapped in a 6850 for my dying 8800gt last month.