Guild Wars 2: Pre-Release Discussion

[vrumpt]

WTF?!? Felicia Day? Really?!?!? WHYYYYYYYYYY?!

[Vimes]

lol, what's wrong with Felicia? Next thing you're gonna say you don't like The Guild? Blasphemy!

Anyway, it's pretty cool they have a dungeon that explains the story of the Ghosts of Ascalon. I'm actually reading the Ghosts of Ascalon novel right now, which is better than I thought. I'm really appreciating how they manage to bring all the lore from their first game over to the next. All the areas and the continuation of the story. And all the shit that has happened between the two games that will mark the landscape of GW2 (Ghost-infested Ascalon, Dragonbrand etc).

[Takiwaki]

Nice little vid showing some movement during combat on elementalist

[Tonka]

That's pretty awesome.

[Takiwaki]

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/pos...amned-edition/

around 28min they start talking about gw2.

yep better than swotr you heard it here first

[Takiwaki]

http://www.meristation.com/EPORTAL_I...9449/gw024.jpg

[vrumpt]

yep better than swotr you heard it here first

Casey is an idiot and it sounds like he hasn't played a video game in 5 years the way hes talking about that stuff. Wouldn't be surprised if the last MMO he even looked at was WoW.

[Takiwaki]

don't matter as long as it gives guildwars2 more exposure as its highly overlooked, being what gw1 was. I also hope swotr does well but I am honestly turned off by the art direction and poor animations. if they had gone with the older gritty more realistic look, I think i woulda been yeaaaa, I cant wait! anything closer to the cg video

[Zerocool]

All a matter of personal taste and opinion really. Personally I'm looking forward to both, and with GW2 being B2P it means I don't have to choose one over the other.

[vrumpt]

All a matter of personal taste and opinion really. Personally I'm looking forward to both, and with GW2 being B2P it means I don't have to choose one over the other.

i know, one of the main reasons i'm pumped for it. I can just buy it and leave it on my comp forever without having to worry about cancelling a sub when i'm not into it. I mean, every once and a while spend however much on an expac, but yeah, no different than paying for dlc for any other game.

no but seriously, all biases aside, casey schreiner is an idiot.

[Takiwaki]

newly released concept art and renders

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/6/...arksman%29.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/5/...oncept_art.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/7/...mor_render.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/4/...mor_render.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/2/...ess_render.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/a/...%29_render.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/2/...oncept_art.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/b/...oncept_art.jpg

Main story npcs
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/f/f8/Zojja_render.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/b/b3/Eir_render.jpg

[Tonka]

fapfapfapfapfapfapfap

[Takiwaki]

http://www.g4tv.com/videos/54023/The...eview-Special/

[Takiwaki]

Asura guardian animation test taken from the g4 footage

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...guardian-1.gif

[Rulke]

^aweful lot of floating going on...

[Takiwaki]

Yup its pretty awesome, alot of games make the smaller characters float or have more exaggerated movements during ws or casting animations, as its harder to have pronounced animations the smaller and shorter the limbs are. good example the cg yoda fight in star wars, taru backflips says hello ! Tera has it around 1:32 in the vid

[Celeras]

http://www.g4tv.com/videos/54023/The...eview-Special/

Spoiler: show

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3448/whenyouseeitz.jpg

[Tonka]

Not really much in the way of new info, but a nice video to show friends interested in the game:

[Takiwaki]

I was just about to post that lol.

also supposedly some info on Xplay tonite on g4

[Takiwaki]

http://www.once-media.com/guildcast/...8-07-11-11.mp3

nice podcast discussion on the fan day dungeons