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What A Differance A Week Makes.
Bannne
Member Posts: 244
in Guild Wars 2
GW2 gose from not being on the hype list to number one spot. Now people are starting to see that GW2 is not like GW1,it's a full mmorpg with vast open worlds and underwater world with story mode and full voiced.
The recent long awawited info from the devs has just confirmed what many of us who have been following this game already knew..GW2 will be a force to be reckoned with in 2011.
It stayed low and let that other overhyped game ride the waves of hype, only now is it beginning to show it's true potential.
Keep it coming ArenaNet.
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Yes it is quite amazing to see, especially since Arenanet has only released a very small portion of information on the game and not many fine details. Hopefully when they announce the other things they won't be disappointing.
Past: Can never go back to Wow.
Present: Nothing interesting out.
Future: Looking forward to GW2.
Players like me knew this for a long time. I have been following GW2 since they day the announced it. Its a surprise for a lot of players and more for those who never played original GW. But rest of us knew from day one that GW2 will be a full fledged MMORPG.
Heso o kamedomo oyobanu -- Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Good times.
"If all you can say is... "It's awful, it's not innovative, it's ugly, it's blah.." Then you're an unimaginative and unpolished excuse for human life" -eburn
Well, it is Arena.net afterall. They know exactly how and when to do things. And above this its another important caracteristic from arenanet: They know how to create original ideas that give a new meaning to mmorpgs in gameplay, socialization and achieving the interests ot their clients.
Most of the super-hyped games right now have only one cool idea in common, the combat style taken from fps games. Although some of those games have some new really cool things we must give credit for (ex: Vindictus that has not only a lot of realism in using the scenario as weapons but it has many other things too), there are other games that, imho, dont have nothing new to show us beside that one feature (ex: Tera still follows the flow of quests, storyline is made with quests too, and many other things that, imo, it doesnt deserve to have so much a hype since its going to be P2P too -.-").
And we all know how tired we are from playing so many mmorpgs with the same exact features over and over again. Arena.net just brings new things to the table for mmorpgs, things that other companies dont have the patience, nor the creativity, nor the courage to try implement in new games.
It has been an exciting week for GW2 news. I will admit though that I am a little disappointed as to how far removed from GW1 the game is, the only common factor now is the lore. Everything that I loved about GW is gone; Removal of low max lvl, removal of secondary professions, removal of heroes/hench and what seems a dumbing down of what was a complex skill system replaced with less player choice.
I respect Anet and know that what they will deliver is going to be good, for an avid GW fan though it means a total rethink of expectations.
I have no doubt from reading what we have seen so far that GW2 looks to be an exciting game and a breath of fresh air in the MMO genre, I'm just a little in mourning for my own preconceptions of what the sequal was going to be.
And imagine, they already told us two things that could be seen as negatives...
-No henchmen/heroes
-No multiclassing
Still they made everyone enthousiastic about their new game. I can't wayt to learn more. Many things they announced are exactly what i was looking for in other games but never found. WvW with more then 2 sides (3 currently). Class system, no more endlessly using the same rotations. Event system. Graphics. Story telling. Open world. competitive PvP tournaments.
For now they took the good parts from the orriginal GW and added a lot of new and innovative feautures to it.
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
yep !i recall gw1 having been second only to wow and not one month but years!that was then
with a corpg.now with next year mmorpg gw2 i wouldnt be surprised if it become number one
i wonder what kind of tech they ll be using to send us a massive game like this lagfree.cause lets face it
their idea are great ,but for most of them to work they will have to adopt some of the newer free techno from microsoft
like heavy use of remote differential compression while gaming probably ,or even the newer tech from ms called donnybrook
etc.it will be fun to see witch tech they use.one thing is sure if they use what as been used in the past with the idea they have !
this game will be a lagfest!so we ll have to wait and see what solution they come up with to deliver us the game lagfree!
Still a long way to go but so far it is looking pretty sweet. Still more GW2 goodness to come!
I think they've made it very different to distinguish it from the expansions. They didn't want to make just a better graphic and more races version of GW1 - I like the fact that it's completely different, because that way we have two really great, but refreshingly different, games to play.
I don't know how exactly that hype meter works, but I expect it to change again with other game companies to reveal their data. Nevertheless, it was a sweet week with all the revelations, and there's more to come with the revealing of the other classes.
I'm so hoping a beta will follow this year, I remember the beta weekend of GW, I was impressed with how good everything looked and smooth everything played.
That was a great year anyway, with a GW, WoW and EQ2 all appearing within months from eachother. I thought every following year would be like that, with new MMO's pushing the limits to ever retreating limits into new areas and innovations... boy, we've had a meagre few years regarding that. Hopefully next year will break that chain.
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."
Click on the 'Hype' tab (next to forums) for GW2, then you can vote - the votes make an average and that's the hype. Since the new info, everyone's been hyping 10 ^^ so the score goes up.
As for next year, only GW2 needs to come out for it to be an amazing year
I really think this is the start of a new era of MMORPGs
EDIT: A long overdue new era
Ah, thanks for the tip :-D
And you're right, it's time for that same feeling of freshness and progress in the MMO genre that it had years ago and that the singleplayer game market still breathes.
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."