Is Guild Wars an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game)?
Guild Wars has some similarities to existing MMORPGs, but it also has some key differences. Like existing MMOs, Guild Wars is played entirely online in a secure hosted environment. Thousands of players inhabit the same virtual world. Players can meet new friends in gathering places like towns and outposts where they form parties and go questing with them. Unlike many MMOs, when players form a party and embark upon a quest in Guild Wars, they get their own private copy of the area where the quest takes place. This design eliminates some of the frustrating gameplay elements commonly associated with MMOs, such as spawn camping, loot stealing, and standing in a queue in order to complete a quest.
Guild Wars takes place in a large virtual world made up of many different zones, and players can walk from one end of the world to the other. In Guild Wars much of the tedium of traveling through the world has been eliminated. Players can instantly return to any safe area (town or outpost) that they have previously visited just by clicking on it in the world overview map.
Rather than labeling Guild Wars an MMORPG, we prefer to call it a CORPG (Competitive Online Role-Playing Game).Guild Wars was designed from the ground up to create the best possible competitive role-playing experience. Success in Guild Wars is always the result of player skill, not time spent playing or the size of one's guild. As characters progress, they acquire a diverse set of skills and items, enabling them to use new strategies in combat. Players can do battle in open arenas or compete in guild-vs-guild warfare or the international tournament. Engaging in combat is always the player's choice, however; there is no player-killing in cooperative areas of the world.
Players in Guild Wars can play with or against players from around the world in the global tournaments and arenas. And while players are initially placed in a region based on their selected language (so that there is a greater likelihood that others will be speaking their language) they can join up in the always-available International District to form parties and to play with anyone from anywhere in the world.
Originally posted by modjoe86 By reading this thread, I'd have to say that Gameloading is dominating you in the GW argument, and leoteo is looking like a raging fanboi. If GW is an MMO, so is Diablo 2. In Battle.net, you can speak to anyone in the network, but you can only see the poeple in your instance. The only key difference between the two is that you can see avatars in GW's chat rooms. So why is D2 an ORPG, and GW an MMORPG? Riddle me this, batman.
Then explain to me what Gameloading could not explain. By your logic how is EQ2 an MMORPG?
But a better question is, who really freaking cares what those 6 letters apply to?
Heh, I've been lurking around here for years, and everyone is still debating on what type of game Guild Wars is.
I haven't played MapleStory, as it just looks a bit too "cartoony" and cute for me to get into. But, I'm an older gamer, and that's just me.
I didn't think I'd like Guild Wars at first, but I decided to try it and had some fun there. The only thing I really didn't like about it was the fact that everything is instanced (as everyone continues to point out) and there really wasn't a lot of differentiation between characters of the same class. Whereas a game like WoW was too gear-oriented, Guild Wars was the opposite extreme.
Originally posted by modjoe86 By reading this thread, I'd have to say that Gameloading is dominating you in the GW argument, and leoteo is looking like a raging fanboi. If GW is an MMO, so is Diablo 2. In Battle.net, you can speak to anyone in the network, but you can only see the poeple in your instance. The only key difference between the two is that you can see avatars in GW's chat rooms. So why is D2 an ORPG, and GW an MMORPG? Riddle me this, batman.
visual immersion in "chatrooms" but that may not be enough of an answer
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Originally posted by bhagamu Originally posted by hadz Guild Wars is by every definition of the term CLEARLY an MMORPG. Anyone who says otherwise has an agenda.
... uh, what? Does that even make sense? ditto
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Originally posted by bhagamu Originally posted by hadz Guild Wars is by every definition of the term CLEARLY an MMORPG. Anyone who says otherwise has an agenda.
Originally posted by Gameloading Originally posted by bhagamu Originally posted by hadz Guild Wars is by every definition of the term CLEARLY an MMORPG. Anyone who says otherwise has an agenda.
... uh, what? Does that even make sense? its called a fanboi. just smile and move on
yes sir
*moves on*
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Maplestory has got to be the most boring, levelgrinding-based game I've ever played. Unless you want to continually kill mushrooms and slimes to get to level 16, go for Guildwars.
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Is Guild Wars an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game)?
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Then explain to me what Gameloading could not explain. By your logic how is EQ2 an MMORPG?
But a better question is, who really freaking cares what those 6 letters apply to?
Riddle me that, caped crusader.
I haven't played MapleStory, as it just looks a bit too "cartoony" and cute for me to get into. But, I'm an older gamer, and that's just me.
I didn't think I'd like Guild Wars at first, but I decided to try it and had some fun there. The only thing I really didn't like about it was the fact that everything is instanced (as everyone continues to point out) and there really wasn't a lot of differentiation between characters of the same class. Whereas a game like WoW was too gear-oriented, Guild Wars was the opposite extreme.
not real true perfect dark zero looks great but its score doesn't do much to reflect that
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Guild Wars is by every definition of the term CLEARLY an MMORPG.
Anyone who says otherwise has an agenda.
... uh, what? Does that even make sense?
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ditto
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... uh, what? Does that even make sense?
its called a fanboi. just smile and move on
its called a fanboi. just smile and move on
yes sir
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this thread needs this link too
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/98719
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Blog - http://www.pierrecarlier.com/
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Obviously go with the game that has the best graphics.
Maple Story.
Man those are quality graphics, not sure if my machine could handle those. I mean 16 bit graphics and all. Makes The Ataria seem old!
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maple story i said maple story
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ever played. Unless you want to continually kill mushrooms and slimes
to get to level 16, go for Guildwars.
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