Originally posted by Purutzil

I love people listing counters to the flaws. Ah... people are funny sometimes in defending a game so blindly. Sure, some of those things listed are minimal (or can be 'discounted) but if you can't see the flaw in the game your fanboying over... well... glad EA has some easy targets out there. 

Is GW2 bad? No.

Does it have flaws? Yes, and deny it all you want, your just talking straight from your posture section just as much as haters are making up complaints for a game that are nonexistant.

Of course it has flaws.  Like the fact that if you make a female norse you have to sound like a 16 year old boy trying to make his voice sound deep. (kinda of reminds me of Mulan when she is Ping). 

But doesn't mean that people shouldnt discuss the merrits of real and false complaints.  Or would you prefer that all the GW2 fans should go spend all their time trash talking on SWTOR and TERA like several TERA fans I know do on these forums? Community is important it will make the game better having all these devoted fans arguing for it.

Originally posted by Thodra

Originally posted by Four0Six

Originally posted by eafreak



One Word... B E T A

 

It was. What was different about this beta?..you all PAID to be in it. A genious move by NC/ANet to turn the tables and instead of paying testers or letting them atleast test for free.

Please think before you post. Paid beta? lol no we paid for the game, and as a bonus, we'll get into the beta. Now we paid for the game, and we don't have to pay for it, at release

 

Genius spin, sir!

Character models in Gw2 are incredible.

Rift had the worst character models ever seen in my life.

Issues that I had with this beta were;

1] Dodging, while it works well 1on1 it doesnt when theres more mobs, and most things either come in packs or aggro in a raduis, it made surviving ranged mobs stupidly challenging.

2] Chat, assuming 'Local' is ment to be a entire zone to encourage that community feeling, it makes saying things like 'hello, thanks, good work, and you suck' hard in a small area.

3] Reviving Someone, I often saw the symbol pop up when round people, and doing the right thing id rush in to save them by either killing there mob to help them rally, or simply revive. But then something else would aggro onto me, and trying to cancel saving someones life would cost mine cause getting away is to slow.

Prolly a few other small things, but cant think of anymore.

Game went really well otherwise, looking forward to the next one.

Originally posted by reignjuste

Character models in Gw2 are incredible.

Rift had the worst character models ever seen in my life.

 

I agree. My character looks great I thought.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/Falcomith/gw038.jpg 

wait what? people seriously didn't like the character models??  I don't know where the cartoony comment comes from, they're certainly closer on the side of idealized realism

they'd really rather have "realism" aka the uncanny valley garbage that bioware has been cranking out for years (bioware couldn't animate to save their lives either)

Originally posted by reignjuste

Character models in Gw2 are incredible.

Rift had the worst character models ever seen in my life.

 

rift's were decent enough, but they were dangerously close to looking plasticy and a little uncanny valley 

also doesn't help that rift had no artistic identity of its own, the entire game was a soulless mish mash of popular cliches

Originally posted by Jolander
lag wasn't an issue for me.  i was disconnected twice, and there were 2 points which the voice overs didn't work, but overall this was great.  i can't wait to try the asura and sylvari.  and i had no trouble with the overflows.  if the rest of your group wanted to, they could follow you into the overflow.

This was not true. There were 50+ overflow servers and even when you and the other person accepted the travel to overflow option at the same time you still got spat out into different ones.  I figured a way around it because the actual game Que was bugged and not really full but it wasn't that simple to stay together.

Originally posted by Sector13
The game needs a lot of work. I am truely surprised how much people are praising this game. Compared to ANY action based game, this games combat is a poor immitation. I've had melee mobs hit me from like 10 feet away. I have circle strafed bosses to death with melee from 15 feet away. I've been hit by unavoidable ranged attacks, I've been hit even when dodging. The fact that they force you to rely on a dodge mechanic that you can only use twice in like 30 seconds. It was bad that I played PSO2 for a week beforehand cause it showed that a F2P game that is still in beta can do better then GW2 did in "B E T A". When Sega announced that they were extending the PSO2 beta into the weekend , I ended up playing that more then GW2 even after playing for a week before. 

 

Hmm, I and thousands of others must have logged into a different beta version. I had none of those problems.

Originally posted by travamars

Originally posted by Thodra

Originally posted by Four0Six

Originally posted by eafreak



One Word... B E T A

 

It was. What was different about this beta?..you all PAID to be in it. A genious move by NC/ANet to turn the tables and instead of paying testers or letting them atleast test for free.

Please think before you post. Paid beta? lol no we paid for the game, and as a bonus, we'll get into the beta. Now we paid for the game, and we don't have to pay for it, at release

Yes you bought the game but you bought it this early so you could play the B E T A. So basicly you paid to play the beta.

 

It's really that hard to understand or just trolling?

Your topic points 5, 4 and 3 were the ones that most stood out for me. 

While the graphics aren't horrible, I expected something more. My Charr's body parts would clip through other pieces of armor. 

I didn't HATE the character models, but I was disappointed in them.  I made a Norn and two Charr, and the while playing the Norn, I felt like I was looking at an older Dark Age of Camelot model.  It didn't help that flaws in the coding forced me to turn down my graphic settings in densely populated areas to maintain a decent framerate, so the Norn's textures looked bland.

I expect the framerate issue to be worked out by the time the game releases though, it WAS a beta after all, but I really expected more from the character models. 

I DID turn the graphic settings to Ultra for a short while, and it wasn't much of an improvement at all.  RIFT's detailing and textures are a fair expectation for something that's supposed to be so "groundbreaking"... or TERA's for that matter, since people seem to want more of an "Eastern" flavor in Guild Wars 2. 

I was looking forward to seeing what the actual gameplay version of the Asura and Sylvari were going to look like.  Watching a video of gameplay, and actually seeing it on your monitor are two different things.  I can only imagine that the starting areas and major cities these two races will populate are going to be breathtaking, but aren't quite ready for viewing.

Overflow issues were a real pain.  I would be in the middle of an event with other players, and suddenly receive a warning that my character was being moved, only to find myself teleported to an area I originally logged in.  This is one issue that ArenaNet will definitely have to address, but for right now it's to be expected considering this game is most definitely in a REAL "beta" stage, and not just an early access preview or stress test.

I experienced a few crashes to my desktop, one that locked my entire system up and forced me to reboot.

I experienced a few issues with character responsiveness when I was in a "channel" with a higher population, but it was minute and sometimes resolved itself quickly.  Sometimes I would "rubberband" across an area, but not frequently.  I expect these latency issues to clear up when the game releases.  It's to be expected at this stage in the beta cycle, but I hope that ArenaNet obtained enough information about server performance to clear it up sooner.