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Revisiting Guild Wars 2 - Jumping Back Into Tyria After So Long An Absence | MMORPG.com
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Revisiting Guild Wars 2 - Jumping Back Into Tyria After So Long An Absence | MMORPG.com
Lowry details what it's like to jump back into ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2 after so long an absence.
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Other games should learn from this. Make leveling easy and fast. GW2 and SWTOR does this and I still play these games. I just have lots of alts because leveling is so enjoyable as opposed to never reaching max level in some games because the leveling is just too grindy.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
The Steam release showed that whilst the community seems very helpful towards new players on the whole, it's often actually counter productive. Classic example is the 'commander tagged' player that proclaims " Join me new players for events, I'll help you" And then proceeds to fly around on their mounts as fast as possible between events, and basically one-shot everything in a beginner zone. It's impossible for a) new players to keep up with the fancier mounts on their temporary raptor, and b) get a hit on the enemies at all, both leading to a frustrated experience for them. But to be fair this it to be expected, a lot of the game (especially base game) has devolved into 'hungry hungry hippos'.
It's great players want to help, just unfortunate many see help as "here, I'll show you how to play it [i]my[/i] way' and not actually letting new players breathe and enjoy the thrill of discovery/figuring things out for themselves.
Blame the clowns who just can't stand not having them, regardless of need.
- oil painting UI, really ugly and confusing
- oil painting map, really ugly and confusing
- the playable races, some are really ugly and deplorable
- the art style and time period of the game with the Victorian Industrial architecture and whatnot...
I can't get past those things so I could never experience the nicer things about the game, provided the game has such.
All in all, the game to me feels like a studio tried to create WoW without creating WoW but making everything just as cartoony and over-the-top and yet somehow different and yet somehow very unappealing. Kinda like Retail WoW - the new graphics made the art style very hard to relate to, but the Vanilla WoW graphics had some charm to them that I just can't put my finger on... is it the low polygon models, the low resolution textures... there is just something that makes it look better than many newer games like FF14, ESO, Guild Wars 2 and many more.
If not for PoF's Mounts, GW2, would have been sunset by now.