I played the demo at ComicCon, and was kinda bored the 10 minutes of doing PvE questing EXACTLY LIKE WOW. But after watching this video, I'm ready to give it another shot!

If only a game can be as cool as it sounds on paper... if only. We shall see.

 

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Today's announcement of the Kung Fu Panda Island Adventure xpac sealed the deal for me. GW2 can't get here fast enough.

With no monthly fee, that alone will make this game worth the purchase. Since the game automatically equalizes you when you enter PVP (like many/most console FPS games), that alone will keep me amused for a few months minimum.

No fee + PVP purely skill based with no gear advantages = total win.

 

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Will there will still be some level advantages in that higher level has a wider array of abilities (or whatever this game calls them) available? That's the way all the games I've seen that "equalize" in PvP instances have done it so far.


Definitely looks like the last MMORPG I'll be playing one way or another. Either it won't live up to anything close to how it seems in theory and I'll be done or I'll be playing it off and on for a long time.

 

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So for every quest you went to a quest giver and he had a marker floating above his head and then you had to run back to the quest giver to hand in that quest? I know that to complete many of the DE's it will be similar to the other quest types found in all other MMO's and fulfill similar parameters, Kill X number or do this or that. Yet, the simple fact that I am not set into running back and forth to complete quests, with the exception of the Personal Story line which does follow a normal quest system, and can just explore the world and do questing when I see fit is what has me excited. I mean watch Part 2 of the TB video and all of a sudden he comes across a little fort, helps reclaim the fort, the fort gets controlled then he moves right onto an escort quest. He has the OPTION, something that many have been crying about in MMOs becoming to linear in leveling path, to do the escort quest or to continue to explore the zone and find possibly another DE in the area.

Also the world is not a static world, not doing a DE can have dire consequences that changes what parameters then must be met. This isn't some BS phasing, the world can actually change before you as bandits can all of a sudden take over a town and then branch out from that town. Using the TB video, if he hadn't gone up to help recapture that fort, that fort would have been claimed by those attackers and used to launch further attacks.

This level of exploration for me is what has been missing from the MMO Genre and it is one of the primary reasons I enjoy playing other single player RPGs, like Fallout 3.

As you said, we shall see...

 

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half of those to me are turnoffs and/or useless to convince me.

 

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Rift was billed as not being a static world too..you will have to defeat the rifts / invasions or they will overrun the town and remove your quest hubs!!!! Uh..yeah..quest hub overrun? Go take a dump..all will be well when you are done.

Hopefully GW2 improves on "the world is not static" routine! We can only wait and see.

You see you fail to understand, as most normally do, that there are no quest hubs. The DE's are the "quests", the only normal quests like those found in traditional MMOs are the personal story quests. You don't run up and get a quest from a quest hub giver, all you can do is run up to a scout that will show you were possible DE's are taking place.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_event

As has been said, we shall see...yet you can see this in action in many of the videos out there.

 

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So in essence you are no longer running from town A to quest stop B in order to kill five of mob C to bring back to npc D? Now the focus of the game is to explore and change the landscape by your actions however you see fit?

Wow, that sounds so boring compared to MMOs nowadays!

 

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