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| DarkZero 1215th Post
 
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|  "Re(2):Guild Wars" , posted Wed 27 Apr 14:29
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Is this game actually good?
I'm not into MMORPG type games, and I heard that in Guild Wars the way most stuff is goes like "click on target, watch automated attacks run until target dies, click on new target".
But that's just what I heard.
I honestly have no idea. I literally got roped into it and I really don't know much more about the game than what I read last night. Basically, it boiled down to this:
1) I get the game at cost. ($10 off)
2) I get a $10 gift card back in the mail.
3) I get a preorder item in-game.
4) I get an instant seven man guild, all with the preorder item equipped.
5) No subscription fee.
Much like my last purchase (Samurai Warriors), it's cheap, it's worth a weekend or two of fun, and I can always come back to it whenever I'm bored. Seems like a decent deal to me. For those that are wondering what the game's like, it starts at 3AM EST tonight and I'll probably play it for three or four hours, so I'll tell you what it's like.
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| DarkZero 1217th Post
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| "Re(3):Guild Wars" , posted Wed 27 Apr 21:19:
Played about two or three hours of Guild Wars (though somewhat broken up) so far. Not entirely sure what my opinion is of it, but I'll definitely be putting the rest of the money down for the retail copy.
The characters are a mixed bag. Some are kind of cool (Mesmers, Rangers, male Monk, female Necro), most of the others look horrible. Either American games look like crap and Korean and Japanese games look much better, or I just totally don't understand the non-Asian video game aesthetic.
Unless you already have a guild, most of the early levels feel like a single player game because most of the newbies aren't smart enough to group up. On the one hand, this is terribly boring, and I wasn't the only one who said "Holy crap! People!" when I stumbled across a place that wasn't instanced (note: for most of the game, if you aren't grouped, you are ALONE,as if almost everything is instanced). On the other hand, the instancing allows you to actually make subtle changes to the world, which is a gigantic change from a game like World of Warcraft or Ragnarok Online, where every achievement feels completely hollow and the storyline is rendered as thin as the leadup to a ride at Disney World.
For instance, in the first area I went to, there's a little girl who wants you to find her flute for her. Once you do that, she starts to follow you around and talk to you. And later on, you can actually give her presents and change her appearance, which also changes her dialogue. This sounds ridiculously simple and low key, but it's simple and low key in an Ico sort of way, and it felt more satisfying than conquering any swarm of monsters in World of Warcraft.
Unfortunately, the only real drawback to the game is that it's just like every other American PC game: Buggy. So far, in just a couple of hours, I've seen key NPCs disappear in the middle of a quest, quest markers lead me to NPCs that aren't there, quest dialogues tell me to go north to confront monsters that are actually to the south, and NPC allies get stuck in walls. It also has all of the usual pathing problems that Ragnarok Online's "click on the monster to attack it" system always had. Sometimes the monster runs past you while you're attacking it, sometimes your character loses track of the monster in close quarters and just stands there, and other times your character just stands around being attacked, even though you've engaged the monster in combat. It's not horrible, but it's kinda shoddy and amateurish, just like every other PC game that isn't a billion dollar megasequel like Doom 3, Half-Life 2, or World of Warcraft.
I can't really review the battle system until I've seen more of it, though. WoW's system looked very robust at first, but twenty hours later I was just spamming my class's designated uber combo over and over.
EDIT: BTW, my current character is a Warrior/Necromancer named Scarlet Brave. Yes, I lack originality. I'm horrible with names.
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| Pollyanna 1053th Post
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| "Re(4):Guild Wars" , posted Thu 28 Apr 06:43
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The characters are a mixed bag. Some are kind of cool (Mesmers, Rangers, male Monk, female Necro), most of the others look horrible. Either American games look like crap and Korean and Japanese games look much better, or I just totally don't understand the non-Asian video game aesthetic.
Yeah, I agree...but I was relatively pleased with Guild Wars. For an American game, it was an amazing landmark to be able to create a character (at least one) that I didn't hate. When I played with a friend's character maker on Everquest 2 (for God knows how long) it quickly turned into a contest to make the ugliest character possible after realizing that there was no way to make someone decent looking.
So the first step is: I can create a character that looks decent in a world of mostly ugly people. Still, with the American online game crowd, I'm sure a lot of people will go for making ugly characters anyway...cause they're "hard core."
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| Siegfried 428th Post
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| "Re(9):Guild Wars" , posted Tue 3 May 00:04
World of Warcraft lets you make really cool/pretty characters, as long as you make human females, dwarven males, night elf females, gnome females, orc males, tauren males, troll females and undead females. Also, unless you really are trying to, you won't get any ridiculously coloured outfits. Most armor come in sets over a few given levels, so at lvl 25 you might pick up bracers and gloves of a set, then at lvl 28 you can finally wear the breastplate and have a matched set... if you haven't changed anything since then.
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My hired mercs bug me out all the time. I've had one stuck in the terrain for no good reason, forcing me to re-instance the zone.
Same happened to me 3 friggin' times. Odd because it never once happened in all of the beta. Had a guy even fall right through the map. Wish I had taken a screenshot of that.
Still playing Anna Crow and Dash O Pepper, but at odd times. You can still try to hit me up for free stuff. My storage space is constantly full.
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