Guild Wars 2

this game comes recommended from GOD

Do want!

I'm going to be honest, I've not played an MMO yet that's managed to hold me for any significant length of time — but this looks excellent. Visually it's wonderful, something I remember Guild Wars 1 could lay claim to. The gameplay also looks much more palatable to me, with real-time combat by the looks of it and a less contrived approach to quest structure. The world also just generally looks like a really nice place to immerse yourself in, and I hope there's lots of fun incidental stuff (like you might find in, say, Fable).

Definitely keeping an eye on this.

It doesn't only look amazing, it also seems to do all the right things and be very much different to WoW. It's been a while that I was initially excited about it and it's looking better than ever. Might even make me play an MMO again!

I played Guild Wars with a group of friends and it was a blast. But the one thing I didn't like so much was that you got to level 20 so fast, I kinda like levelling. Looking forward to this one though.

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Engineer: An adventurer profession. Uses guns, both pistols and rifles, as well as a number of technological gadgets for offense, healing, and control. They can place turrets down on the battlefield, equip backpack kits that allow them to use mines, grenades, tools, and medicine, and equip new weapons into their hands using weapon kits, from flamethrowers to "pulling" cannons.

That's me sold on this game right there.

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That's me sold on this game right there.

i don't know, it's kind of hard to beat the ranger's ability to torch a field and the fire arrows through it to let them catch the flames.

After playing numerous mmo's because of cool bullet points where I've dreamed up how the feature is gonna be so awesome only to be smacked in the face with how they really did the feature, then im not gonna get psyched at all before i see this in action myself.

Consider a tad lag (which all mmos got), then all of a sudden arrows that catches fire mid air doesnt really compute anymore.

Did you ever play PlanetSide? That was an MMOFPS and the lag was actually not an issue at all most of the time. They're working on a sequel right now too which should be even more testing considering the added strain of more complicated technology. No idea how they did it but the latency was no worse than you might find in, say, a game of Battlefield. As such I'm definitely of the opinion that real-time action in an MMO is perfectly possible if the developers actually bother to prioritise it, which the Guild Wars 2 guys seem to be doing.

I agree though, having never enjoyed an MMORPG before my breath is most definitely held. But considering how much I've enjoyed some single-player RPGs (mostly Fable and Zelda) I'd love to see a truly epic online on I can actually enjoy.

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After playing numerous mmo's because of cool bullet points where I've dreamed up how the feature is gonna be so awesome only to be smacked in the face with how they really did the feature, then im not gonna get psyched at all before i see this in action myself.Consider a tad lag (which all mmos got), then all of a sudden arrows that catches fire mid air doesnt really compute anymore.

i'm pretty sure that projectile measurement isn't going to be a problem,as it worked in the original guild wars. i played the first one for a long while, and i have absolute faith that these people can do this stuff right.

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Did you ever play PlanetSide? That was an MMOFPS and the lag was actually not an issue at all most of the time. They're working on a sequel right now too which should be even more testing considering the added strain of more complicated technology. No idea how they did it but the latency was no worse than you might find in, say, a game of Battlefield. As such I'm definitely of the opinion that real-time action in an MMO is perfectly possible if the developers actually bother to prioritise it, which the Guild Wars 2 guys seem to be doing.I agree though, having never enjoyed an MMORPG before my breath is most definitely held. But considering how much I've enjoyed some single-player RPGs (mostly Fable and Zelda) I'd love to see a truly epic online on I can actually enjoy.

Yup I played planetside, and coming from quake (at that time) I felt it was really laggy, but also very fun =) The lag-feeling might have been because i always played quake on lan and you cant really compete with that ping.

no words can describe how real shit just got

goddamn journalists. i nearly set my apartment building on fire for this?!

Ten things I learned from the Guild Wars 2 beta weekend