Guild Wars 2: Divinity's Reach Video Preview

SBFord

During last weekend's beta event, we took the cook's tour around the Human stronghold of Divinity's Reach. We've got a tasty video tour of the city along with a bit of reaction to what we saw. Check out Guild Wars 2: Divinity's Reach Video Preview.

Zooce

Huge city, beautiful gameworld.

NPC's didn't seem very impressive though, no more interactive than WoW townsfolk.  

kosac

nice... big streets like main street in Moscow.. flying flowers... (Looks like someone returned from the moon).. map like Mournhold from Morrowind... this is realy innovative

El-Hefe

i like the ambient sounds.

Paragus1

Good video.   If this video is any indication on the size of the races cities, this game could possibly have some of the largest MMO cities we have seen.

BadSpock

MMO cities - you're doing it right.

David_Lopan

Not bad, looks good. Still think Stormreach from DDO is bigger, but  the districts sre instanced. Can't wait to play.

ZeGerman

Normaly i would say a large city is a bad idea.  But thats because anyone who played aion at launch understands you dont want to have to wait 5 minutes to take a barge from one useful part of the city across huge amounts of useless crap to get to the other part of the city thats actualy useful. 

 

What i love about this is there is stuff to do all over the city its not just the merchant area tons of crap then the quest area like most MMO's

Mephster

@Bill Murphy - How big is Divinity's Reach compared to the other main cities ?

pretice

Anyone know if they turned down the graphics for the beta or if the broadcaster had the graphics turned down?  just wondering.

Ankur

Nice huge city but doesn't seem much is going on in there. Streets are mostly empty and deserted.

BillMurphy

Originally posted by Mephster

@Bill Murphy - How big is Divinity's Reach compared to the other main cities ?

 

It actually feels bigger than Hoelbrak and Black Citadel, but it could just be because of the scope of DR.  I do think they're all generally the same size.

 

@Pretice: This was on High, but not "very" high, recorded at 720p.

Xzen

Looks nice!

orbitxo

uugh just found out GW2 wont have any mounts- I LOVE the WP system 100%, but i like mounts to see scenic routes in ANY mmo game. sad actually GW2 w/o mounts is like a home w/o DSL.

disappointed

 

Caponestyle

HEY BILL MURPHY, if your going to show off the graphics show em off proper buddy. Id abosuletly love to see the city on the highest settings possible in 1080p

micaelmorais

Nice city, i cant wait to play in there and see for my self......do you played the game at max settings??

because graphics looks average..

Creslin321

My only fear is that, at the last minute, they decide to just turn the cities into quest hubs and create an incredibly bland, circular "ground-station" to use as the social hub for every race.

evilastro

Can't wait to see an in depth look at the Sylvari and Asura cities.

Ankur

Originally posted by Creslin321

My only fear is that, at the last minute, they decide to just turn the cities into quest hubs and create an incredibly bland, circular "ground-station" to use as the social hub for every race.

City already has class quests, crafting quests along with other side quests. So plenty of questing inside city to keep you busy.

Creslin321

Originally posted by Ankur

Originally posted by Creslin321

My only fear is that, at the last minute, they decide to just turn the cities into quest hubs and create an incredibly bland, circular "ground-station" to use as the social hub for every race.

City already has class quests, crafting quests along with other side quests. So plenty of questing inside city to keep you busy.

 Heheh I was just poking fun at the utter lack of decent social hubs in SWTOR .

evilastro

Originally posted by Zooce

Huge city, beautiful gameworld.

NPC's didn't seem very impressive though, no more interactive than WoW townsfolk.  

 

You'll be pleasantly surprised. Most NPCs are scripted and will do a number of things if you hang around long enough, even interacting with each other.

DJJazzy

Originally posted by Zooce

Huge city, beautiful gameworld.

NPC's didn't seem very impressive though, no more interactive than WoW townsfolk.  

On another video city tour that I saw there wasn't any player commentary. So you could hear all of the ambient sounds and townfolk talk. You'll be pleasantly surprised on just how the npc conversations liven the place up.

I don't think you'll ever see an mmo city with the interactivity of an Assassins Creed game for example. That would kill most everyones computer I think.

micaelmorais

Originally posted by DJJazzy

Originally posted by Zooce

Huge city, beautiful gameworld.

NPC's didn't seem very impressive though, no more interactive than WoW townsfolk.  

On another video city tour that I saw there wasn't any player commentary. So you could hear all of the ambient sounds and townfolk talk. You'll be pleasantly surprised on just how the npc conversations liven the place up.

I don't think you'll ever see an mmo city with the interactivity of an Assassins Creed game for example. That would kill most everyones computer I think.

 

assassin creed is epic, i hope they learn alot with this game xd,

someforumguy

Looks awesome. Nice to see Prince Rurik having district named after him Can't wait to see Lion's Arch though. From what I've seen in older vids, that city might even look more impressive. I really hope that Lion's Arch will function as the main hub for all races in the game.

Oh and on a sidenote : I don't think the humans moved from Ascalon to Divinity Reach? Ascalon was destroyed in the searing (start of Prophecies in GW) and those ppl from that city were refugees hidden in some villages I think. You encounter those after you reach Lion's Arch. I remember only Divinity Coast in GW1, which is just a mission area.

illyana

ive seen alot of divinitys reach already and it's purely awesome

but i cant wait until ANET opens up Lion's Arch!

Falcomith

Come on April 10th prepurchase! I am so looking forward to the betas and the game release, when ever that is.