Guild Wars 2: Pre-Release Discussion

**Guitarman** · 2012-02-13 17:57

play the free ~30 levels of WoW if only just to get a feel for the controls. Being comfortable with a skill bar will go a long way toward your enjoyment of GW2, imo.

**richardd** · 2012-02-13 18:08

gman, are you going to play this? my MMO syndrome is coming back and i need to satisfy it, lol. i am torn between this, tera, aion (although maybe not), and the star wars game lol. its hard to get a none biased opinion on reviews on comparing and contrasting of these particular games

**Syntex** · 2012-02-13 18:21

Originally Posted by richardd

gman, are you going to play this? my MMO syndrome is coming back and i need to satisfy it, lol. i am torn between this, tera, aion (although maybe not), and the star wars game lol. its hard to get a none biased opinion on reviews on comparing and contrasting of these particular games

As someone who has played 2 of these that are out this is what I can tell you.

GW2 is your best bet if you're willing to wait. Aion has a good system of Abyss Points but because you can lose some from dying people end up doing the 'safe methods' of earning points rather then being out and fighting to keep it until they can buy their rewards. The game is also rather grindy and a lot of people I talked to(because I considered playing again when I got bored of WoW) said they log in a few times a week for a specific event and lot out. My experience is also with just the first few months of launch and not with the most recent changes though.

Starwars to me is very linear and boring. Voice acting is nice along with choose your own adventure chat even for someone like me who skips reading every quest. I just felt it was a wow clone. I know the term is used very loosely but it's over-hyped and quite boring. I got to level 14 and wanted to quit. I got to level 48 in aion before that happened to give you an idea. Some people love it but others hate it.

I say wait for GW2 as its gonna be awesome. Also if you don't like it you would have spent no more then the initial game cost because of no subscription fee and not dumped another 15,30,100+ on the game through monthly payments which is nice.

**Takiwaki** · 2012-02-13 18:26

Don't hate me for this but, I tried TERA beta this weekend. Logged in and was greeted with a generic entrance cut scene, plopped off by the typical exclamation npc to get started on my questing of killing 3 awesome trees. This lasted about 10 minutes, then I logged.

Not bashing TERA, but this is negative/positive effect guild wars 2 gameplay had on me. Playing starter areas in gw2 even though it might be a masked kill quest, had meaning, like there was a purpose behind it that you can actually see affecting your surroundings. NPCs running around taking part, dying, running, fighting. Story wise also totally fit with the surroundings and lore on every little detail.

The one thing I love is the way quests actually come to you, For the most part you do not have to constantly run back to an npc to activate or turn in quests to get your reward. I really love being able to just be running around seeing an over taken camp or town and just decide to rush in. Boom quest appears automatically. Whats cool is that when you are able to finish off that event successfully you are not just done and you have to now go find something else or go back to town to take another quest, you are automatically pointed in a direction toward the next objective since all the events chain. I save the outpost, I must now head down to where the enemies are originating because they will build up to attack again.

Its so smooth in the way it works, I cannot tell you how fun it is not to waste time having to "take leves" or "head back to town to get more tags" or wait till you hear that awesome campaign music.

I had that mentality of trying to find another mmo to fill that void till GW2 releases cus it was so far away, no good. =/

**ringthree** · 2012-02-13 18:41

Originally Posted by Syntex

Not to mention the XP time from 1->2 is the same as 59->60

Streamlined leveling time will change it for sure.

XP amounts are largely irrelevant to leveling time. I always thought this was a red herring to get people excited but in the end it doesn't mean anything.

**Intrinsic** · 2012-02-13 18:52

Watched that last video and was shocked to see an old classmate of mine. Might be time to reconnect.

**Dantrag** · 2012-02-13 19:34

Hook us up w/ some beta keys D;

**Kuya** · 2012-02-13 19:35

I desire all the beta keys

**Kuishen** · 2012-02-13 19:38

^

**Guitarman** · 2012-02-13 19:38

Originally Posted by richardd

gman, are you going to play this? my MMO syndrome is coming back and i need to satisfy it, lol. i am torn between this, tera, aion (although maybe not), and the star wars game lol. its hard to get a none biased opinion on reviews on comparing and contrasting of these particular games

day 1 baby. Charr probably. I always regretted not being Galka back in the day, so i'm jumping on the big beefy characters this time.

star wars is floundering already, and aion is trash so avoid those. Haven't been too impressed with what ive seen of tera so this is it. Hope you pick it up!

**Dragir** · 2012-02-13 19:39

This was on the previous page and all, but I don't want it to be missed... particularly everything
addressed after 5m:31s (click to start watching the video from there). It's everything I'm going
to love about Guild Wars 2 and everything FFXI opposed.

**Guitarman** · 2012-02-13 19:46

The developers being so passionate about their game is a strong selling point for me. It bodes well they're not just there doing a job, they seem to enjoy what their doing.

**richardd** · 2012-02-13 20:03

thanks for the perspective you guys

and yeah i might pick it up lol

tera is only 5 bucks to preorder and get the code, so i'll probably just buy it and see how it goes. but this one looks the most appealing to me lol. i just want to play a game with a huge playerbase and you know.. some sort of legitimate challenge, lol. like low manning tiamat pre-salvage days or something

**Guitarman** · 2012-02-13 20:13

let me know if you do. i'm always down to punch faces in.

**Celeras** · 2012-02-13 21:08

Originally Posted by Takiwaki

Don't hate me for this but, I tried TERA beta this weekend. Logged in and was greeted with a generic entrance cut scene, plopped off by the typical exclamation npc to get started on my questing of killing 3 awesome trees. This lasted about 10 minutes, then I logged.

Not bashing TERA, but this is negative/positive effect guild wars 2 gameplay had on me. Playing starter areas in gw2 even though it might be a masked kill quest, had meaning, like there was a purpose behind it that you can actually see affecting your surroundings. NPCs running around taking part, dying, running, fighting. Story wise also totally fit with the surroundings and lore on every little detail.

The one thing I love is the way quests actually come to you, For the most part you do not have to constantly run back to an npc to activate or turn in quests to get your reward. I really love being able to just be running around seeing an over taken camp or town and just decide to rush in. Boom quest appears automatically. Whats cool is that when you are able to finish off that event successfully you are not just done and you have to now go find something else or go back to town to take another quest, you are automatically pointed in a direction toward the next objective since all the events chain. I save the outpost, I must now head down to where the enemies are originating because they will build up to attack again.

Its so smooth in the way it works, I cannot tell you how fun it is not to waste time having to "take leves" or "head back to town to get more tags" or wait till you hear that awesome campaign music.

I had that mentality of trying to find another mmo to fill that void till GW2 releases cus it was so far away, no good. =/

If youre going to quote my LJ you should at least give me credit! (joking but i echoed everything you said

) I agree 100% about TERA, obviously.

**vrumpt** · 2012-02-13 21:20

I had pretty much the same experience as you Taki, though i think i managed to stay on for a bit longer than you.

**Fairy-Killer** · 2012-02-14 00:56

I have about ten friends eagerly awaiting this game. I cannot wait to join up with them and begin destroying quests day one. I'm going to attempt to get Killer as my player name, but if not, I'll do Killashu. What is everyone else going to name their characters?

**Dragir** · 2012-02-14 01:05

ohi Killer. You won't be the only other former Fairy/FFXI player in Guild Wars 2, not by a long shot. Got a group of old friends lined up to play on day 1 (or before, of course :D). Let me know if you're inter'sted. Evilmanta, Iraphine, yada, yada.

**Takiwaki** · 2012-02-14 01:19

I think everyone here will be playing first chance they get lol

**Guitarman** · 2012-02-14 01:20

Worrying about getting a beta key first, however that happens

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