Guild Wars 2 (PC)

[jonneymendoza]

http://www.massively.com/2010/06/09/arenanet-reveals-traits-and-warrior-class-for-guild-wars-2/

New video and some info. if you have not played the first one, the first one was an epic game. Its a bit similar to World of warcraft but its free to play and the game worlds are done in what they call "instances" where you and up to 7 other players can play together like coop and do missions and follow the storyline together.

However, there are places like towns and cities where you can meet up with 1000's of other players and trade, chat and team up to play a mission. These towns pretty much act like online Lobbies.

Excellent game with around 40-50 hours worth of game time to complete the story. There is also around 4-5 expansion packs too adding new content and worlds into the base game. Excellent game and more "fun" then world of warcraft as its not as repetitive as that game. You still level up though but only up to level 24 instead of level 80 in World of warcraft.

Official website http://www.guildwars2.com/en/

 

[jonneymendoza]

New video http://www.guildwars2.com/en/media/videos/

 

[jonneymendoza]

Hi. I played the beta over the weekend with two chars. One was a male Mesmer (level 6) and the other was a female Human Elementalist (level 10). Below are pros and cons of the game so far

Cons:

• General Performance (On a build up area/city or a large battle, frame rates are poor. I’m seeing as low as 10fps with both my cup and GPU on idle and hardly being used).
  
• Game Breaker bug (If you are in a WvWvW battleground map and get DC, you CANNOT log back in as you get an error saying the map is full! This will happen to any place where the map u was playing is a highly populated map but Arena Net are aware of this as they responded to my forum post about it)
  
• WvWvW battleground que(i manage to get in once early on Saturday and then got kicked out and lost my character, see previous con. After trying to get back in battlegrounds on a new char, the que was too long.)
  
• Login (As some people may have been aware, the login system was very very flaky. I manage to login fine an hour before official green light of the beta but after that I could not login at all on Friday night. Saturday Morning it was fine but then later tried Saturday evening and didn’t work. Throughout Sunday it was fine though but I hope they fix it permanently. I can deal with que’s on certain servers but logging in? That needs to be sorted.)

Pros:

• Best Graphics and art style in any game I have played (dynamic weather, night and day, fog!!).
  
• Fantastic World designs (Just go and take a look at videos of Lions Arche. I was speechless when I saw this place!).
  
• Great Combat (More dynamic then many other mmo’s I have played and even better then skyrim).
  
• WvWvW(I can see myself spending weeks just playing this game mode. Literally 10000’s of people battling it out across a gigantic game world with the ability to get supplies and build various defensive weapons to defend your castle/base. A level 1 can participate! This is because everyone’s health and damage abilities are level 80 but you can only use the skills/weapons you have unlocked yourself).
  
• Dynamic Events (This is fantastic. No more of the old quest type system found on basically every mmo you play nowadays! Dynamic events happen randomly in various places in the world. I spent hours just doing them! )
  
• Story mode (Story mode is instance based. It is basically a personally story mode where u go to a particular place and load up the instance. The story mode is brilliant from the small bit I played. Finally a MMO that has a compelling story mode that’s similar to a typical single player RPG game. I did a few last nights but did not want to do a lot to ruin the experience when final game comes out.)

As you can see I really enjoy this game. Elementalist is a fun class. Lots of abilities and Mesmer is not bad too. For next beta I will try two different classes again and see how it goes. I cannot wait for this game to be out but from my experience so far, this game is maybe 2-3months away from release IMO as there is a few things that need to be ironed out as noted on my Cons. One being a game breaker.

 

[jonneymendoza]

Games out and i am astound that none of u lot have not tried this. You are missing out big time!

This is like the witcher2 + skyrim + WOW + never done before stuff rolled into one

Any Online gamer who loves RPG's are bloody missing out on a fantastic game! Many of u lot now have a pc!

 

[BobbyBox]

No one cares, at least you are enjoying it Jonney and that is all that matters.

 

[jonneymendoza]

There has been a large influx of PC gamers in this forum. some loving games like skyrim and witcher 2 and its kind of a surpise these same people have not given this game a go