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No offence, but you seriously have something failing in the head.
Okay then why did you seem to be sarcastically complaining about it in the OP? That makes no sense.
If I tell you the game isnt like WoW is that going to dissapoint you then? Or no....because you are hoping it IS like WoW....right?
You're just going back and forth at this point. The game doesnt play like WoW at all. The mechanics are totally different.
Weapons affect your skills. Questing is no where near the same. You can color and dye armor to your liking. There are dynamic events that scale depending on player participation. Swimming and underwater combat is nothing the same. Side activities include bar brawls etc. There are ways to interact with the world, such as throwing your mug of brew you've been drinking at someones head. There are dodge mechanics and positioning matters. The list just goes on and on. I leave it to you to find out the rest of differences.
There are some simularities. The game has classes. The game is set in a fantasy setting. But if this looks like WoW to you, then so does every single fantasy game in existence. Its already long known and understood that GW 1 is nothing like WoW and GW2 will be the same. They play totally differently.
Having said that, does that make you sad its not like WoW? Or happy? I cant tell. You seem to have taken opposite stances in the thread already. You're not really making sense at this point.
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Did you want me to draw you a portrait in exactly how things are similar and why someone might perceive them as the same or be reminded of something with similar features?
Yes Charr look kind of like Worgen, but were a part of the GW universe long before Worgen were added to WoW. Silvari are small....like gnomes. There are no elves in the game, but yes there is an elvish type race. If you think the cities look anything like WoW thats the biggest laugh for me. Oh you mean they both look medieval! OOooohhh......okay. Thats because its a fantasy game.
Similar features? How? What similar features? Like....they both have combat (buts its very different), or that players in both games can swim (also handled very differently). Oh both games have instances too.......
Its an mmorpg. Go figure. But its doing things quite a bit differently which Im more than glad for. Its about time.
Oh I'm not looking for an exact copy of the game. But something that offers me what wow did when I enjoyed playing it. I can go in circles trying to explain it to you but you won't get it regardless. I wasn't whining in my original post, or being sarcastic. I was simply just saying how shocked I was with how similar the game seemed to me. Yes the games have their differences but shit there was even serpent humanoids (aka naga from wow) in that video. That was one of the many things that just said. "Hey, this looks familier... Nice. Although I hope this game isn't too much like it" I stated my very first impression of guild wars 2 based on a trailer. Nothing more or less then that.
There are two kinds of threads that keep me coming back here. One kind has either an interesting point of view on a game, or thought provoking idea. The other.... hehehe priceless.
That being said, I would have read all the posts in this thread, but after I read the first few it dawned on me that they were all constructed of the same kind of letters on a black background. Obviously there was nothing different in any of them, so I quit reading them.
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No, but maybe you should have watched a little more before starting a thread about the whole thing.
If you just watch a vid of any game you would think it looks a lot like many other games. You miss all real differances except clearly visual ones.
The combat in games like EQ, Wow, AoC and Tera looks pretty similar if you just see a vid of them, yet the strategy and how you do the actual combat are very different.
You can't really see how no tanking makes combat rather different since it forces you to keep a closer check on all mobs instead of just letting the tank taunt all the mobs.
What you can see is that the view is indeed the same 3rd person view that Wow and most other MMOs use. You can see that there is mobs around and people fighting them, there is a keybar with some fastkeys under and so on. In that aspect it do indeed look like Wow, or rather Meridian 59 that was the first MMO using those things.
But that is really no good reason to start a thread about it. If you had watched a PvP vid instead for instances you would have seen very different combat from Wows battlegrounds.
Please read up on the game and I gladly will discuss it's likeness with Wow and other games, but right now it is like discussing Mozart with someone who heard the first 5 minutes of requiem, no disrespect meant.
There are indeed some things GW2 have in common with Wow and I personally wish they would have been more revolutionary. But GW2 still is one of the furthest MMOs from Wow that releases the next few year, particularly with good budget and made by an experienced crew.
"I never finished watching the trailer, cause I'm laughing too much in amazement. I just wish I knew why the hell they were copying so much from wow" - taken from OP
Whats funny to most here is that its nothing like WoW. Do your research next time. And Im sorry to dissapoint you. So you might not enjoy it.
Swtor has WoW type mechanics. So there's that if it floats your boat. But even that game has some differences.
You're telling me to get over myself? Are you serious? You created a thread in the GW2 section(after failing by posting the same thing in a different part of the forum) stating your opinion, a skewed one by the way, on how two games supposedly look exactly alike, then refuse to aknowledge other people's responses that trump your uneducated opinion in every way.
You gave birth to a discussion that has no point. You just wanted attention and you wanted to make some people mad. Nobody makes threads like these unless that's what they want. I could go to any other MMO game's part of the forum and type up an entire novel on how that game is just like WoW. And guaranteed there's MMOs like it. But I don't because I'm not looking for attention nor am I trying to make people mad. Get over yourself buddy.
If I wanted attention I would have made more then 3 threads in 4 years. Secondly, I have acknowledged damn near everyone's response to what I have said or did you not read that far? What I said is something I legitmately thought, regardless if it was right or wrong and wanted to see other people's views on it.
The purpose of a forum is to gain insight on something you don't understand, or to see if others might share your opinion or might help you expand on your current ones.
Obvious troll is obvious
I agree with what you said. However I really meant only to present my interpretation and yes I should have watched more of the trailer. But there is no way I would ever do research on a game spending hours on it if it turned out It wasn't even interesting. Worse case, I go and do all kinds of research and get excited for a launch. Spend countless hours then realize the game completely sucks and I just wasted a shitload of my time on something that doesn't work out.
Yes I know you've seen that happen all too often, thus is why I created a thread and wanted to see if I was the only one that had the same thoughts as I did.
No one can tell you what you see, so I'd advise ignoring those jumping on you about what you see. That said, I don't think it's fair to compare everything to WOW as you have, on an artistic level.
I understand what you're saying here, and I don't think it's all that outlandish as things in videos have reminded me of typical fantasy archetypes , again though is it a fair comparison to say it's just like WOW? Not entirely IMO.
Reason being WOW didn't invent any of that. Just about everything within WOW was copied, just like A-net, just like gamesworkshop, just like Verant, just like in some regard Tolkien..
These images are simply what has become staples of the medium, just like green boil faced reptile-like humanoids or space ships are a part of typical Sci-fi vision. We've been conditioned to relate those images with those mediums that's just how things are.
My problem is where people seemingly give WOW all credit for those images, it just doesn't make sense if you're not enveloped into WOW as I said above.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
That contradicts your original post; if you felt after watching the trailer it looked and felt like WoW that is you opinion to make; however wrong it was perceived by the public. But now your stating you can't judge the game by just a watching a complete trailer.. confused? yes please.
I can understand that, no problem. But in future you shouldn't make threads about it in that case. It kinda upsets people for no good reason at all.
My tip is to only start threads about stuff you either have good knowledge about or to ask for such knowledge. Keeps the forum more interesting,
I agree with the OP. It is fantasy-styled avatars in a fantasy-style world. Exactly the same. In fact, as the OP indicates, there is only room for one of these games, the original, WoW. WoW invented fantasy styled worlds and fantasy styled avatars; there never was a game, book or movie prior to that using this setting -
I mean really.....fighting classes, magic classes.....who are they trying to fool?
WoW clone.
You want to know how I gain insight on something I don't understand? I educate myself by looking up information about it. You see the sticky threads? That's all the information you need. Then you can actually contribute to threads that aren't pointless like this one.
And I like how you get frustrated at the fact that supposedly I didn't read far enough into this thread to know if you aknowledged other people. Next time, don't make a thread after watching 30 seconds of a 5 minute trailer.
The only time I would ever make a thread is if I knew quite a bit about it. Ignorant people make ignorant threads. Like this one. You call this game WoW 2.0 and expect me to believe you weren't trolling? That's laughable. Everyone here knows GW2 doesn't look like WoW. Making a thread like this causes a shit storm because of that fact.
Well I am well aware wow took elements from various different games, including the original guild wars from what I've read. But I am more familier with wow then I am of most other games, thus is why I was immediately reminded of that specific game as it was the one that most appealed to me. Perhaps I shouldn't have said what I did in an extreme way cause I definitely didn't mean it that way.
It would be like throwing a ball of paint on the wall, at first it might seem a certain color only throwing one. But after consistant bombardments of the same color and features eventually the thing is going to look that exact color. Even though there's many parts that are still different, the overall look resembles what it was just hit with. In my case I was hit with a lot of wow flashbacks, thus is why I stated what I did. Wow being simply because it's what I'm more familier with, if I played the original guild wars I would have said the exact same thing when wow launched.
What? That was to my knowledge my original post in this thread. I think you answered the wrong post there.
My feeling is still that watching a short vid might give you that impression but that you shouldn't start a thread on how a game looks like another just by that.
And you could judge a game based on a single vid, you shouldn't but that is a different matter.
Kinda upsets people? Are you serious? How could any rational adult get upset because some stranger posted an opinion about a game looking a lot like WoW?
These forums are all about opinion. Don't limit your threads just because you might upset someone with a thought. Believe me... they'll get over it 3 seconds after they walk away from their computer.
I don't believe that, I think you are just trying to get angry responses. If you were posting what you legitmately thought, you wouldn't be so inconsistent.
Everything creates huge amounts of negativity on the internet, that's what the internet is for: Negativity, porn and lolcats.
There is no night elvish area, it's a bright and colorful, nature oriented area populated by plant people, not elves. Everyone does similar classes, long before WoW came out, thank you very much, but their take on them is a bit unique in how their abilities are put together and how they affect abilities of your group mates. By the way, the Worgen were canine based, the Charr are feline and while I have never seen this Gilneas, it's not unusual for steampunk style content to be similar to steampunk in other games or literature, it is after all, what makes it steampunk.
Anyway, it's art design is very distinctive and while they didn't go with a realistic approach, stylistic, like WoW is stylistic, it is definitely not "just like" WoW either. Maybe I don't have your jaundiced eye, but I find their art style, refreshing and different from anything out there. I may prefer a more realistic art style, but I certainly appreciate what they've done and I do not have the gall to call it a copy of WoW when it most certainly is not.
I really cant understand how can u say that for GW2 ....i have played WoW for 3 years and i cant see any resemblance whatsoever
I agree, the problem isn't the OP what he sees is what he sees, discuss that not the OP himself. The problem is those who name call and throw a fit because he said it.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson