My biggest Guild Wars fear.

pingo · March 2005

1: That the game won't have an "enouge" appealing story. This was a real killer in WoW. So a retarded farmer wants me to travel half the game world to deliver a stupid magic ring, because he cut his leg while chopping wood. WOW!!! That is so epic! OMFG amazing quest storyline, omg!1111! Enouge with the WoW bash, but how can anything in WoW be a quest when nothing changes in the world! Its more linear and straight forward than a Final Fantasy game for gods sake.

Even in mindless grind MMORPG people at least had the possibility to explore, progress and level where, when and how they wanted it too. In WoW people follow and invisible train and do quests here and there and there, and gets the same experiences/rewards/quests/stories/amount of xp/ - And in conclusion experiences everything in such similiar way that it could be compared to a normal single player game. Bah! So much for the golden aspect of MMORPG being "open ended"...

NOW enouge with the WoW bash. But will GW run into similiar problems?

I have to be honorst - The missions I have done(in the october event) was pretty crappy. I mean - Great cut scenes and map layout, but the stories and characters itself was not really.. "interesting". Im quite affraid about this, because while Guild Wars will without a doubt have a cool PvP system, a new IP/Licenes needs a cool world with memorable characters.

The enviorment and characters are beautiful. But I hope that Arenanet just wont forget to make a cool story.

Diablo had a dark and gloomy story with impressive CGI cut scenes, in an all raged war between heaven and hell. Since some of the guys where on the Diablo staff, I hope they will put their experience to good use.

But Arenanet is not a high profile company. I can not imgine NCsoft giving them fundings to make their own crazy quality beautiful opening trailers like WoW has.

At least its a positive thought that Guild Wars has been spared the syndrome of stupid Tolkien/Dungeons and Dragons/High fantasy rip offs. No elfs, no orcs and so on.

Hopefully it will open room for a more uniqe world.

2: Content. Im a PvP fan, mainly. Trust me I am! But seriously - I seriously think that even though PvP in GW rules, that im gonna go cold at some point.

Im scared that people wont go back and fight in the PvE structures when they have completed the games 25 missions! I seriously dont think that GW will have tons of rare and cool looking equipment, things to collect and so on.

We must remember that the game has no crafting and so on. Its pretty much limited to combat. And we wont have weekly content like other MMORPGs. That has been the cost of no fee! So people are pretty much stuck with what the game has until an expansion comes out 6-12 months later!

Diablo 2 still has a hugh chunk of players that still enjoys the game, and Diablo 2 have been out for so many years. Diablo 2 is a living proof that you dont need long crappy lvl grinds like WoW, EQ2 and so on to keep players hooked!

I just hope that items, wise their will be things that will take years to obtain. Of course not godly items that will imbalance PvP, but just cool looking, and trophy items.

But as a PvP game I think it sounds amazing.

The War of the Worlds concept is simply going to kill anything else if you ask me. Its genius to let the European community fight against the americans and Koreans, but we will probably get our butts kicked by the Koreans;)

I just like to do PvE once and a while.

otherwise I think it might have been a fuse.

Other online RPGs, like NWN just has godly Role playing nazi communities. No doubt their open ended module system also has kept players hooked.

But more simply slashers like Dungeon Siege simply died. I know DS has a little cool and hardcore community, but still. I think GW is meant for much bigger things.

And then you had Diablo 2 which is still being sold allot, in the year of 2005. 18 Million copies sold and still going strong with breaking all similiar competition! And that is amazing considering all that has happened to D2 through the years with hacks and so on!

There are so many thousands(probably more) of uniqe builds to try in GW, just like in D2, so there will probably be tons of template ideas upon release. The depth here is amazing.

But as far as hard and near impossible PvE content im affraid that GW might be lacking. I hope their will be special raid bosses in GW, or bosses that simply wont be able to be killed in years due to the required tactics and skill needed. Just like WoW, even though thats a bad example, considering that that games hardest boss has already been beaten by a group of korean gamers.

It seems crazy that GW is already comming out in April. I seriously dont think there will be enouge content to keep players interested.

Xardasteo · March 2005

1 things 4 sure, it will OVERKILL WoW, in gameplay, Graphs (TOTALY) and in quest/story-line, the quests are serious, not about a farmers leg ::::01::

semantic · March 2005

And we wont have weekly content like other MMORPGs. That has been the cost of no fee! So people are pretty much stuck with what the game has until an expansion comes out 6-12 months later!

They are going to have a team dedicated to adding content on a regular basis. I know lots of games promise this and only a few deliver, so we will just have to see how well ArenaNet does.

the games 25 missions! I seriously dont think that GW will have tons of rare and cool looking equipment, things to collect and so on.

There are 25 missions, but around 70 areas to explore. And I think they're adding lots of gear, so there will be a wide variety of stuff to find.

I'm also very curious to see what the high-end content looks like. We haven't seen any of it yet, so I'm pretty optimistic about it being very challenging for high level characters.

Gats2k6 · March 2005