Guild Wars 2

Kiith

So, the debut trailer has been released for this. Having never played the first one, i cant say much about it, but this trailer looks very nice. Graphically its fantastic, and the art design is pretty damn cool.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gc-09-guild-wars-2/54628

GothPunk

Guild Wars is great, I'm pretty much right at the start of it though but I'm enjoying what little of it I can fit in. I think Guild Wars stands out due to it's art direction and style, and Guild Wars 2 looks to build upon that. I can't get over how good all the new MMO's look. I think that the story sounds a bit weird though - ancient dragons that live under the sea only to rise up against everyone? They sure as hell look awesome though.

Guild Wars 2 is confirmed subscription free as well so happy days.

Spunge

Guild wars was my first mmo so it has a place in my heart.

Was really addicted to the game for a year or so.
The PvP was great, arena styled and not about lvls or gear just player skill and the skills you chose and teamwork. The PvE was good too and there was an actual story to follow.

The fact it was a one time payment and no monthly fee was pretty great as you didnt feel pressure to play and could take a break whenever. I sure got my moneys worth.

Nihilist21

Oh my, from the trailer it's going to be exactly what the majority of the community is hoping for.

Spunge wrote: »

Guild wars was my first mmo so it has a place in my heart.

Was really addicted to the game for a year or so.
The PvP was great, arena styled and not about lvls or gear just player skill and the skills you chose and teamwork. The PvE was good too and there was an actual story to follow.

The fact it was a one time payment and no monthly fee was pretty great as you didnt feel pressure to play and could take a break whenever. I sure got my moneys worth.

I can resonate with this, played it heavily for a good 2 years - I think my main character has something like 10'000 hours. I quit about a year ago though, the trailer has made me want to take a look back though.

Ivan

Not a great idea releasing info about this around the same time Blizzard reveal details on their new expansion, as most of the WoW fanboi's will instantly dismiss it...

but holy crap this looks amazing.

I always loved guild wars, for what it did for pvp. My only issues were that it seemed too flimsy and superficial. Guild Wars 2 looks like a more robust MMO and if it keeps the core ideas from Guild Wars then it should go a long way, at least in my book.
Cant wait.

Samurai

Nihilist21 wrote: »

I can resonate with this, played it heavily for a good 2 years - I think my main character has something like 10'000 hours.

10,000/24 - 416.6 days! out of 730! gtfo :pac:

Assmaster_Kronk

I'm watchin this one pretty closely, already ordered Aion before i saw the trailer for this and the games look uncomfortably similar, NCsoft might regret releasing a free to play MMO so soon after their "revolutionary" pay-monthly MMO:(

Nihilist21

Samurai wrote: »

10,000/24 - 416.6 days! out of 730! gtfo :pac:

I played it heavily for 2 years, however in total I played for just over 3. So in actual fact it was 416 days out of about 1'200 days, that sounds so much better now doesn't it.... *cough*

Phototoxin

I'm wondering about it... by the time it comes out I will be married... if I have free time (LOL! prolly not due to having animalistic sex :pac:)
mgiht try it with the missus and a few friends..

bnt

There's a new GW2 video out, introducing the races and their styles. Hopefully, by the time it comes out, I'll be able to afford a new PC and have the time for that ... :cool:

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/

delta36

Roll on the Asura! Technomancy!
Also, anyone who's played and the Eye of the North expansion

the ending cinematic sets up a lot of hints as to what happens in GW2, so it may be worth finishing!

<Not a storyline spoiler but..

brainiac

Ivan wrote: »

Not a great idea releasing info about this around the same time Blizzard reveal details on their new expansion, as most of the WoW fanboi's will instantly dismiss it...

but holy crap this looks amazing.

I always loved guild wars, for what it did for pvp. My only issues were that it seemed too flimsy and superficial. Guild Wars 2 looks like a more robust MMO and if it keeps the core ideas from Guild Wars then it should go a long way, at least in my book.
Cant wait.

It was already announced as in production about a yar and a half back. Just happened to be the first official trailers.

I stil play Guild Wars these days, have it almost 3 years with breaks in between. Still love farming, cant wait for 2 .

BeansBeans

Oh my god, i loved Guild Wars, definitely my favourite MMO after SWG.

The races trailer left me very confused. Tyria is a different world yes? But wasnt a region called Kryta in the first one? Also Charr are a race from the first one no? (but oh my god theyre playable so happy)

I cant wait for GW2. But some bad points, the art style is lacking. Ok i dont see how they could surpass the first games art, but it was the heavy asian influence to the fantasy world that set it apart.
This is just looking ah a little generic apart from the huge headed little people.

I really hope they leave the pvp format well alone HOH and the guild battles are the best mmo pvp ever imo. I really enjoyed the casual PVE in the first game too, it was fun and it got me all the skills i needed to pvp so there was reward in it without hours and hours of grinding .

Edit: ah its the same world just 250 years forward.

bnt

Here's a video about the in-game voices, showing the artists behind them. They're scoring quite a bit of geek cred by getting Felicia Day (Dollhouse, The Guild, Dr. Horrible) to do the main Asura character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te4FK_6JLwE

Seaneh

I tested the origional and while I liked it my friends didnt so I never got too into it afetr release, this looks even better though.

bnt

In the last few days, there have been several bits of news about GW2, via the new ArenaNet blog. One interesting development in the Design Manifesto is the way Spells will work: you'll have five general spells + 5 weapon-specific spells. They also say the PvE experience will be more interactive e.g. you'll stumble on other parties doing their own things, or hear rumblings from far away ...

PS to answer a previous question: Tyria is both the name of the world and a continent on it. This is because the continent was the "world" of the original GW Prophecies, but then they figured out that they needed more continents for the sequels. The other continents are Cantha (Factions) and Elona (Nightfall).

Kryta is the region of Tyria where players of the original GW end up after crossing the Shiverpeaks. It's also the scene of the Bonus Missions and the Eye Of The North expansion. All recent storylines are set there, including those setting up the GW2 storyline, such as the Shining Blade / White Mantle War.

CelticDemon

Guild Wars ,

Now theres a blast from the past for me.
Was actually my first mmo *tear wellowing in eye*.
Will check out the new one.Am looking for something good to get
back into.
Too much MW2 and BFBC2 has my head wrecked:(

Kiith

Warrior gameplay video was released recently. Actually looks really nice.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-guild-wars-2/101100

Dcully

Looks very nice.
Didnt like GW at all, always felt like a single player game.
Questing in the world was a lonely experience and just seemed like a poor mans mmo.

TheDoc

Dcully wrote: »

just seemed like a poor mans mmo.

it was, hense the freeness.

They have to instance the world as they literally cant afford to upkeeper hardware and servers to allow everyone running together in an interactive world.

Lone Stone

Is it me or does it just look like aion to much even the combat looks like aion's.

Kiith

New video released, showing the Ranger.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ranger-skills-guild-wars-2/701719

Splinter

ah guild wars... I played that for a long time with a group of folks from ireland. An cullacht.

This does look fantastic i must saw but guild wars itself was boring to me and it was the social side that kept my interest

Blue Badger

ah I really love GW1, and I can't wait for 2 to come out. Got pcgamer magazine today and read the piece on it. From what they're saying about the new way questing will be done it going to be amazing!

Gunmonkey

Just read that article too, sounds great. Will be a massive pain for them to get it working well as after 10 minutes I know someone will have found a way to glitch/ exploit it.

Also, the way they manage abilities and how you gain new skills by travelling the world hunting masters and lost tomes and such, a lot better than hiting rats for 27 hours until the blue bar goes to the top and you learn how to rain fire from the sky somehow???

Blue Badger

I'm still not sure about the new skill-bar changes. I'm wondering if they'll have made it too simple, which I think will take a lot away from the game

Bobzer77

Ivan wrote: »

Not a great idea releasing info about this around the same time Blizzard reveal details on their new expansion, as most of the WoW fanboi's will instantly dismiss it...

Did they release the trailer when Blizzard revealed details about cataclysm or did Blizzard start talking when GW2 got some attention :rolleyes:

Dcully

New dev manifesto vid

http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/72657/PC/Guild-Wars-2/Developer-Diary/Manifesto

Kiith

Damn that was a good video. If nothing else, their game world looks amazing. I'm not gonna get too psyched about it, as i've been bitterly disappointed by MMO's too many times before, but i'll remain quietly optimistic about this one.

Dcully

Kiith wrote: »

Damn that was a good video. If nothing else, their game world looks amazing. I'm not gonna get too psyched about it, as i've been bitterly disappointed by MMO's too many times before, but i'll remain quietly optimistic about this one.

Quietly optimistic is my stance too.

Bulktohulk

Going to be playing this during the week. I'll be sure to have videos and impressions up for you as soon as possible.

Dcully

Come on spill the beans on how you be playing? Gamecon?

Bulktohulk

Dcully wrote: »

Come on spill the beans on how you be playing? Gamecon?

Yep got a press pass to Gamescom. I've an interview organised with ArenaNet too so will have plenty of GW 2 stuff online during the week.

Bulktohulk

Ok guys, got a fair amount of awesome Guild Wars 2 footage that will be online later today.

Bulktohulk

http://www.glimpsedog.com/content/347-epic-guild-wars-2-footage.html

High quality videos are taking a bit longer to process than I thought. I've stuck up a short LQ video though and some quick impressions. Hopefully I'll get the HQ versions up tonight and my full impressions article tomorrow. Enjoy the video anyway.

Dcully

Tonnes of GW2 stuff from Gamecon here

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/this-gamescom-compilation-information-streaming-t6651.html?s=25990f34a89d7dd519acca7c52f98b79&

Looks mighty impressive, nice to see some real gameplay footage.

Gunmonkey

Wow thats a lot to get through.

Also, you see in the video "character creation", the 4th class is Necromancer

Trishtan

I was excited for Guild Wars 2 until I read this http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/4466/Heals-for-Everyone.html

Every class is getting healing spells? Sounds rather dumb to me. Didn't whoever made Fallen Earth try this and it sucked the big one?

bnt

Trishtan wrote: »

Every class is getting healing spells? Sounds rather dumb to me. Didn't whoever made Fallen Earth try this and it sucked the big one?

Well, they said they're trying to break the old stereotype of the dedicated healer, the character that sits back and heals while everyone else does the fighting. Bo-ring.

I didn't even know that when I started - who'd want to do that? One of my main GW characters is a Healer / Elementalist, but one set up for fighting. (She walks softly and carries a big staff.) So I joined a multiplayer mission with a bunch of strangers, got stuck in, and got moaned at for not healing everyone else. I had my hands full at the time, what did they expect? :pac:

Trine

bnt wrote: »

Well, they said they're trying to break the old stereotype of the dedicated healer, the character that sits back and heals while everyone else does the fighting. Bo-ring.

I found playing a dedicated healer in GW anything but boring. It was constant action, constant thinking, micro management, high pressure and you were one of the most important parts of the team...I'm talking PvP, I never bothered much with the PvE aspect.

Haven't had time to watch the videos or read up, but there really is no Monk class anymore? It wouldn't bother me though, from a PvP point of view there'll be a class that is superior at healing and will essentially become the standard healing class. For PvE I think giving every class having healing capabilities is a good move. Anything to make PvE more fun with less waiting around for a specific class is a good thing in any MMO I think.

Trishtan

I love playing the dedicated healer class. Every MMO I've ever played I've been the healer. Most people just flat out suck at being a healer, they don't have the attention or patience to keep an eye on everything going on around them.

As Trine said, a healer is the most important part of the team.

Kiith

Just watched those video's from Gamescom, and i'm impressed. It looks really nice. This is definitely one of my most anticipated MMO's, along with The Old Republic and (to a lesser extent) Black Prophecy/Jumpgate Evolution.

Seaneh

Any more on this yet?

Gunmonkey

PC Gamer have a nice write up on this in the current issue, most is stuff we know but some nice tidbits of new info:

- Dungeons have 2 modes, Story and Exploration. You have to play Story first and Exp unlocks after finishing it. Story has cutscenes and a big main boss, Exp has no cutscenes and is set after the first run where you deal with the consequences of defeating the boss and such, also more quests appear and more options to explore. this is the mode you wil repeat for items and such.
- Dungeon bosses drop items you trade in for your gear sopecific for your character, no running the same boss 50 times hoping for the Pants of Explosive Fury drop and then not get ninjad by some tool.

Also, [ur=http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/hall-of-monuments/]Hall of Monuments is open[/url]. Just enter your old GW1 character name and it shows what items you can transfer to GW2 when it launches. Not sure if you need Eye of the North to access (it first launced iin EotN) but a nice addition.

Kiith

I have to say, this is fast becomming my most anticipated mmo in the near future. Even The Old Republic doesnt appeal to me as much as this. It looks bloody amazing.

Dcully

Kiith wrote: »

I have to say, this is fast becomming my most anticipated mmo in the near future. Even The Old Republic doesnt appeal to me as much as this. It looks bloody amazing.

Im with you on that, however like yourself ive been let down so many times by new MMO`s.

Kiith

Dcully wrote: »

Im with you on that, however like yourself ive been let down so many times by new MMO`s.

Ya, and i'm sick of it :mad: One of our anticipated games has to be good. Surely, by the law of averages, we are owed a good one at this stage? I mean come on!!

/rant

Dcully

Well i have my hopes pinned on GW2 and Old Republic.
Ill probably get the wow expansion meanwhile.

Bobzer77

You can check what your achievements in GW1 will get you in 2:

http://hom.guildwars2.com/#page=welcome

Btw anyone interested in helping each other get through the rewards?

If so add Bobzer Notsa

I never managed to kill Glint and that missing sword is a black stain on my prophesies map

Gunmonkey

Thought it best to dredge this thread up than start a whole new one.

Arenanet have confirmed the Guardian as the next class after it was leaked in a "Best of 2011" article on PCGamer, with a full reveal set for Thursday.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/showpost.php?p=518576&postcount=140

Glad you’re excited. :-) We’re excited as well. No need to kill your F5 keys over the weekend. We will have a full reveal of the guardian, along with all the goodies (pics, videos), next Thursday. :-)

Looks to be a sword and board warrior with buffs and such, as Guardian classes usually are.

delta36

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Thought it best to dredge this thread up than start a whole new one.

Arenanet have confirmed the Guardian as the next class after it was leaked in a "Best of 2011" article on PCGamer, with a full reveal set for Thursday.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/showpost.php?p=518576&postcount=140




Looks to be a sword and board warrior with buffs and such, as Guardian classes usually are.

Nice! About time they released more info about the game!