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Nice thing about GW2 though, you don't have to stick around. You can go do something else and when you get bored of it you can come back to GW2 withoug feeling guilty for leaving in the first place!
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I hated Diablo 3 yet apparntly millions of other people loved it and hyped it up. Each to their own. GW2 obviously delivers what a lot of players want in a game. If you arent one of them then sorry, just wait for a game that does suit you.
Except this post and even your initial post are just rude. I question as to whether or not you are interested in why people are excited as opposed to just gaining attention and making a troll post.
Also, you don't understand innovation. Innovation doesn't necessarily mean "giving you something that you've never seen before".
It means introducing something that is new to the status quo of whatever subject you are talking about. For instance, early cars had a crank where you cranked the engine to start. Eventually a starter and key was added. Simple and small developement, not really ground breaking at all but a new addition that added to the functionaltiy.
GW2 expands upon traditional questing and expands upon the "public quest". It also makes it so that groups comprised of different classes can be successful without having to rely upon "healer/tank/Damage dealers".
These things are small. Like the key. But this slightly altered quest/event system frees up players from going to and from ! givers and allows them to make a decision as to whether or not they want to participate. In addition, if one actually finishes the event there are additional events/information that can grow from that initial public quest.
The idea is to make each event/quest a more organic happening and integrate it into the world in a way that is more seamless. That makes sense with the world.
Additionally, the idea that players can don different weapons that unlock specifric skills to that weapon,regardless of class, allows many players a chance at expanding their character.
And that's pretty much it. Bits of innovation here and there that make the gameplay more palatable to some.
No reason to go insulting people by calling them fanboys just because you dont' get it.
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on the topic of some people not understanding the GW2 hype, if you don't truly understand what is wrong with most mmorpg's these days it's not a wonder you don't understand why so many people are hyped about the game.
it surprises me, that he didn't like the feel of GW2 but, he plays something that most concider a flop game
quirky combat mechanics, battle sound is terrible and slow, but hey to each his own I guess.
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GW2 is waaaaaaay overhyped. Now don't get me wrong, I preordered and I have to prevent myself from overplaying BWE3 because I want to wait for release. I LOVE THIS GAME, but holy flying batman is it overhyped.
It's a great game, but I can see why people wouldn't like it (and please point to a game where everyone on this site will have the same consensus on). There is a lot of varied and interesting MMOs in the pipeworks, so I think everyone should calm their crotches and look forward to whatever. Since GW2 is attracting so many trolls, its sometimes difficult to tell between someone who doesn't like the game and a schmuck. I don't know where I was going with this.
Now that Ive been able play the game somewhat extensively..
Its a beautiful,well made game.But as I said,its nowhere near the hype that the media and fanbase propeled it to.
I am enjoying it,but nay..
it is not the second coming.
Where is this game overhyped? Here on this website maybe, but honestly I have not seen anything else. Of course now that it has a release date there are adds all over the internet, but nothing else. I have seen no television advertisements, its not on the news, radio, and Letterman has said nary a word about its existense. If it was truly overhyped it would have been on The Big Bang Theory by now!
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yea if I had not turned many of my friends onto the game they probably would of never heard about it.. month before swtor came out I saw billboards, tv commercials, every gaming site had full page advertisments it was everywhere.. so only place I see it talked up a lot is here and its all by people who have played the game.. so not sure how you can call that hype at all.
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becouse when npc tell you that a village is under attack its actualy under attacks, not like in any other games where you just go and kill mobs on the field
and there are other types of "quests" some are rly funny
I suppose I could have started another topic but a lot of people, a lot, have said it's "Not the second coming, Not a game changer, etc" in this topic, a lot.
Hype can be beautifull, and emmersive, and full of love. I couldnt be more hyped!
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Funny thing is, I have never seen a post from someone who like GW2 saying it was the "second comming", that came from the people who hate GW2.
Its like you guys couldnt find anything substantial to pin on us, so you had to start making things up...lol
I dont hate the game at all,I enjoy it and will most likely buy it..
its the over exaggeration of words such as this very post that cause an equal reaction.
People with their overexaggarated excitement and comments about the game made people in the dark think it was something to behold.Its a good solid game which will be successful,but its not anything fans led me to expect..
This topic and the responses it generates should explain to you about the hype surrounding GW2. People are talking about it. You, the op, came into the GW2 forum and started talking about it. In a couple hours this has generated 10 pages worth of people talking about it. Hype on this forum isn't solely based on people loving or hating the game that is GW2. In this case, I am inclined to believe that it is simply about the amount of activity that surrounds this game. People who hate the game are trying it. People who love the game are getting others to try it. WOW brought MMO's mainstream (In my opinion). For all that it is and love it or hate it, people know WOW. Guild Wars 2 is becoming known to people. Love it or Hate it, people are talking about it. That is what is generating the hype about it. It might die down after some people try it and don't like it. But only time will tell. For me, Its the MMO i will be playing.
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I'm sorry but the only one saying anything about the second coming is you. Fans of a game accept its flaws and strengths.
Yes of course, the OP had absolutly nothing to do with it.
I think a lot of the hype is due to the fact that the game is the first game that releasing in a solid state for many years. Rift and Tera was not in bad states or anything but neither of them had close to the polish GW2 have.
That GW2 also mixes oldtime exploration with some new ideas doesn´t hurt, and that it is the first MMO in a while releasing without a raidbased endgame. Not to mention 3 factions PvP.
It is not really that some things are exceptional but the game is good and solid all around while all other games releasing after Wow have had many downsides.
I have so far enjoyed it more than any other MMO the last 10 years, partly because I missed exploration games but also because it doesn´t have any annoying bad points. Of course bad things might appear later but so far so good.
Meh, I don't see it either. The only thing it really does different is getting rid of the trinity. However, as expected, it just turned the game into a massive zerg fest :
It feels entirely too arcade for my taste, but oh well I'll keep forcing myself to play it this weekend to hopefully get to some of the more interesting content.
You both have very strange sense of humours?
I'm only replying to catch up to you in posts!
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I think someone forgot The Secret World when it comes to polished newly released games.
Also, Tera wasn't a new release when we got it, so that shouldn't really be included in that list, considering it had been out for 2 years beforehand?
Rift is an exception, from an unknown company comes the most polished MMO ever at release (Including GW2 in the state it is in beta.)
But no, the hype does not come from polish, it never has. It comes from the things GW2 promises to have, which are somewhat different to what we've been getting in other MMO's.
Hundreds of thousands, or millions, of people bought Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, World of Warcraft (Vanilla,) Warhammer and The Old Republic, none of which where at a high standard for polish.
My point is, GW2 might be a very polished MMO, but that's not where the hype comes from.
Game's hype is righteous! Get over it.
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^This should have been anew topic
This has disrail stamped on it!
I suppose I could have started another topic but a lot of people, a lot, have said it's "Not the second coming, Not a game changer, etc" in this topic, a lot.
Funny thing is, I have never seen a post from someone who like GW2 saying it was the "second comming", that came from the people who hate GW2.
Its like you guys couldnt find anything substantial to pin on us, so you had to start making things up...lol
I dont hate the game at all,I enjoy it and will most likely buy it..
its the over exaggeration of words such as this very post that cause an equal reaction.
Yes of course, the OP had absolutly nothing to do with it.
I doint see where the op exaggerated,I agree with him for the most part.lol nice.
I'm trying out an engineer now to see if maybe that gets me into it a little more trying something different.
I havn´t had the time to try TSW yet so I decided not to mention it, no.
I however disagree with RIFT, in my opinion it was a lot less polished at the release day than GW2. Trion did however put an amazing work into fixing it up fast but that is another story.
As for Wow it actually weren´t that hyped at launch, it took 6 months after launch before that happened but by late 2004 standards it was really polished.
Polish is not what gets a game hyped but it is really important to keep the hype surviving the first few days in beta.
As for AoC, Tortage was actually pretty polished up and that was all we were allowed to see before launch.
TORs hype was really more due to the fact that Bioware have many fans and that EA put millions into commercials before launch.
WAR is a bit of a mystery, even if the lack of polish really wasn't it´s problem. It´s problem was the fact that Mythic cut out half the game 6 weeks before launch including the entire endgame and patched in some crap about keeps. It actually kept the hype goint until people hit T4 and noticed that.
But as I said, polish is not the only reason but it helps a lot. Not all polished games will be great but all great games must be relatively polished. If you for an example say different about Wow then you didn't play EQ2 at launch a month earlier.