Any one else getting that feeling playing this? This is not a bad thing at all, I feel like the open worldness, seeing players in the ACTUAL world rather than instanced off, people coming together to do world events, etc etc, feels like home again :D

Ofc that is why we are in the presence of an amazing game :D

No and I think you should have that checked.

I only got that "urge to play" feeling with 4 games - UO, AC1, WoW and now GW2. Other games like LotRO were nice at release, but it wasn't the same thing (possibly because LotRO was/is just a WoW clone with Tolkien setting).

So yes, for the first time since 2004, I REALLY wish the game would be already released.

5 days for BWE3 and I feel like it's a month away....

There have only been a few games that I had that "this is a good game", feeling about... UO, DAOC, AC, and now GW2.  Each of them had a feeling of a uniqueness for an mmorpg that I just knew would last me for years. You could tell by playing it, the detail ingame, the artwork, everything, that the people who worked on it really cared and gave it their best.  I've been waiting for a long time for another great RvR type game like DAOC was, hopefully GW2 fills that spot.

Having been an old DAoC player, GW2 has the same feel DAoC had.  I can't wait to play! The two beta weekends I participated in with GW2 were awesome! Looking forward to the 3rd one this coming weekend

I keep getting them withdrawal symptoms after every beta weekend event, so I guess it will be the same after this too. Personally I'm really looking forward to spending some time in this game after all the previouse weekends as the game has always run well apart from the odd bug here and there.

Bandit

Nope....

Originally posted by seridan

5 days for BWE3 and I feel like it's a month away....

so true

I've been avoiding betas so I can get a fresh view of the game when it releases.  However, some of the above posters likening the "urge to play" to their AC experiences has definitely got me stoked though.

Yes I got that feeling, but I didn't have it with vanilla WoW because I was playing FFXI at the time,then EQ2 and GW and then LOTRO.

I did play vanilla WoW somwhere in between but somehow it didn't get me hooked, the graphics just made my eyes bleed (FFXI graphics were superior in my book) and the story was meh, anything else just a casualized version of what came before it.

Originally posted by Ognagol

I've been avoiding betas so I can get a fresh view of the game when it releases.  However, some of the above posters likening the "urge to play" to their AC experiences has definitely got me stoked though.

At least try the classes and races :)

Well .. finally people who share the same feelings as me !

For sure and after hearing about Orr and endgame I get the feeling it's going to be around for a long time. I wonder if the term 'Vanilla Guild Wars 2' will be used in the future?

Ah... though I could never get into WoW because something about it bored the everloving shit out of me, I completely understand what you're talking about, My first MMO was one that many people never got the chance to play, It's still out but it's changed so drastically that it just isn't the same.

The game was Conquer Online 1.0. Not sure if it was the brutality of the game, the epic pk system (to this day still the best I've ever seen), The very skill based pvp itself (this term is generally thrown around too loosely), or the intense rivalry type of community that conquer brought out but it was a hell of a game back in the day.  Unfortunately it was cursed with a pretty dumb developer that managed to screw the game up more and more with every single patch, It was always a popular game and still is (though mostly egypt players) which is great but it turned their eye's to straight greed becoming the most p2w developer I've yet to encounter (yes more then pwe)... Anyways ever since Conquer turned to shit I've played countless MMO's trying to find another one that could appeal to me half as much as conquer did, The problem was that the genre was so stale and boring from 80% of all of em trying to rob from WoW that It became pretty shitty.

GW2 is the only one in this entire time that's been able to beat it in every single way, for me at least

Interesting. WoW was my first MMO and it was like a cross between heaven and crack for a while. I never thought I would get that feeling again from an MMO, but I'm excited now. BWE3 will be my first opportunity to play GW2.

GW2 is so boss.

Originally posted by nomatics856

Any one else getting that feeling playing this? This is not a bad thing at all, I feel like the open worldness, seeing players in the ACTUAL world rather than instanced off, people coming together to do world events, etc etc, feels like home again :D

But vanilla WoW was crazy amounts of instanced and singleplayer focused...

Originally posted by infofront

Interesting. WoW was my first MMO and it was like a cross between heaven and crack for a while. I never thought I would get that feeling again from an MMO, but I'm excited now. BWE3 will be my first opportunity to play GW2.

People should not expect heaven. The game is good and so much fun, but having to high expectations will kill any game in the long run.