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Guild Wars 2 - How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Golem - MMORPG.com

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited December 2018 in News & Features Discussion

imageGuild Wars 2 - How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Golem - MMORPG.com

After years of apathy towards the marvels of the Asura, one moment gave me a reason to reconsider my reticence. Simply put, a little Golem stole my heart. That’s right, a glimmer of humanity among these walking inferiority complexes sprung into Living World episode, A Bug in the System made me look at the Genius Operated Living Enchanted Manifestation in a different light.

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  • BitterClingerBitterClinger Member UncommonPosts: 439
    Not sure how many people are going to get the reference in the title.
    ScreenageredBuschkatzeSamhael
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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,060
    The Asura are my least favorite race to play for the simple reason that fashion wars is impossible on the little bastards. Everything clips on them. 

    But I do love them as NPCs. They're hilarious jerkasses. 
    BitterClingerBuschkatzeEvilGeek
  • exile01exile01 Member RarePosts: 1,089
    right out of the trashmil
    AeandermeonthissiteBuschkatze
  • winghaven1winghaven1 Member RarePosts: 745
    edited December 2018
    Asura are meant to be narcissistic and self-centered. With a big superiority complex. Taimi to me, like Rox for the Charr, are so out of place that it bothers me. Why have unique races that break the norm when the main characters you make for them are one dimensional and broken up to create some "cute-factor" to them. Take the badass Charr for example. Warforged, chaotic, and unruly. But now Arenanet decided to forcibly place someone like Rox with gigantic anime puppy eyes to ruin your experience of em in every recent season... Why

    Taimi isn't as bad of course. There's some good writing put forward with her. I just don't get how much could go wrong after guild wars 1. Things are only gonna get worse, I guess
    Buschkatze
  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,936

    BitterClinger said:

    Not sure how many people are going to get the reference in the title.



    Well, if they see "the big board" then all will be clear.
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  • ThupliThupli Member RarePosts: 1,318
    edited December 2018
    Blish is not gone...mark my words!
    Screenagered

  • Octagon7711Octagon7711 Member LegendaryPosts: 9,004
    I love the Asura as NPC characters ingame but have had little desire to play them for some reason.
    Buschkatze

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  • MardukkMardukk Member RarePosts: 2,222
    Story in MMO's should be almost non-existent. Open world, create your own content....thanks.
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  • TheDarkrayneTheDarkrayne Member EpicPosts: 5,297

    Mardukk said:

    Story in MMO's should be almost non-existent. Open world, create your own content....thanks.



    Sounds shit to me. There's a reason sitting around a campfire and hearing other people's stories is a treasured activity. Imagine sitting there telling yourself a story. You'd be locked up you madman.

    I prefer a good story... thanks.
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  • CaffynatedCaffynated Member RarePosts: 753
    The asura are one of the worst races in MMO history, second only to the Loli furry girl races that plague Asian MMOs. Nothing ANet does could possibly redeem them.
    BuschkatzeThupliSamhael
  • LimnicLimnic Member RarePosts: 1,116
    Well this all makes it feel awkward to be someone who's always been a fan of the asura, their technology, and their style.

    Generally saw them as the embodiment of curiosity. Hubris is itself an element expressed by all the races. Lion's Arch was/is itself an example of this. Both in the context of historically being a symbol of a time when humanity in the game were so full of hubris they couldn't see their loss before they'd already been served it, and to the modern ages of GW2 where it was struck a major blow yet again leading to it's rebuild.

    Perhaps they have leaned into caricatures of the races as they've gone on with the plots because it's easy to do, but I don't tend to like it when it's applied so liberally across the entirety of a race in any media. More so if it's a sort of filtered down perception players build of a given race based on isolated factors of the game.
  • ThupliThupli Member RarePosts: 1,318

    Limnic said:

    Well this all makes it feel awkward to be someone who's always been a fan of the asura, their technology, and their style.



    Generally saw them as the embodiment of curiosity. Hubris is itself an element expressed by all the races. Lion's Arch was/is itself an example of this. Both in the context of historically being a symbol of a time when humanity in the game were so full of hubris they couldn't see their loss before they'd already been served it, and to the modern ages of GW2 where it was struck a major blow yet again leading to it's rebuild.



    Perhaps they have leaned into caricatures of the races as they've gone on with the plots because it's easy to do, but I don't tend to like it when it's applied so liberally across the entirety of a race in any media. More so if it's a sort of filtered down perception players build of a given race based on isolated factors of the game.



    I love their story, their tech, and their culture. I just cant get into playing one for some reason. I really like playing Charr and Sylvari the most. It's been hard for me to get into the other three, even though my main is a human!

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