I enjoyed TSW PvE MUCH more than GW2. Honestely I have not watched a cutscene yet in GW2. Yes they are that silly. Reminded me of a SNES game or something. I watched every cutscene while playing TSW, the content was just more mature and enjoyable for someone my age.

On the flip side, the WvW PvP in GW2 is superior to anything out right now. BUT the queues are stomping that into the ground atm....

My guilmates and I purchased GW2 for the WvW PvP. And the largest group we have been able to get into a WvW is 4 of us.....lol

And when you have servers that hold 2k people, but only allow 100 into the WvW, it sorta is a show stopping ordeal for most of us...

Originally posted by BigCountry

I enjoyed TSW PvE MUCH more than GW2. Honestely I have not watched a cutscene yet in GW2. Yes they are that silly. Reminded me of a SNES game or something. I watched every cutscene while playing TSW, the content was just more mature and enjoyable for someone my age.

 

On the flip side, the WvW PvP in GW2 is superior to anything out right now. BUT the queues are stomping that into the ground atm....

 

My guilmates and I purchased GW2 for the WvW PvP. And the largest group we have been able to get into a WvW is 4 of us.....lol

 

And when you have servers that hold 2k people, but only allow 100 into the WvW, it sorta is a show stopping ordeal for most of us...

I think the servers have more than 2k each TBH. And the limit on the number of people may be more than 100. Your complaint is still valid, just explaining numbers a little bit better. They do need to expand the limit. IMO, ANET should figure out a way to make multiple copies of WvW with a soft cap on the number of players. Say once you have more than 30, you are capped at having 1.5x the amount of people the least populated server. For instance if a server has 30 and the least populated has 20, then that server can't accept anymore people. However if the lowest populated server gets 25, each other server can have 37 people and so on until the cap is reached.

I wish the cut scenes were a little more dynamic than they are. GW1 had more movie like ones, but they surfice IMO. I agree with you that the story may be a bit .. cliche. 

Oh and hi again btw :P 

Originally posted by Tardcore

Well hate to tell you this but GW2 falls into the same trap as just about every MMO. While people like to go on and on about the so called "Horizontal progression", the fact of the matter is, is that the higher you level the better gear you get, which does make a difference reguardless of what some of the more rabid game fans would like to believe. More importantly the higher you level the more ability slots and trait points you unlock. Which means for example the warrior I play on my friends account (which may as well be my account as the insane WvW queues has made my friend abandon the game for now) who is now 27th, feels light years more powerful than he did at even 20th. So I'd say that yes the game does get better later on, mainly due to character progression.

 I've always just said that you hit max, or close to it 'relatively early'.

Under 200 hours.  I'd say that's fair enough.

Maybe it's because I generally think of MMORPGs as being able to sink THOUSANDS of hours into it while still climbing vertically. :)  Maybe none of them work that way anymore!

I'm thinking of things like AC, AO, DAOC, vanilla WoW... I dunno.  Maybe games don't do that anymore, but I've always been very careful to specify that it's horizontal after a while, not immediately.

Originally posted by Raven

Regardless of your opinion on the actual character progression is I must add that the higher level stuff has really saved the game for me, up until 70+ man what a snorefest, the DEs are a pile of garbage, they are ok for the first 20 levels but after the 12938129038th centaur invasion its a bit underwhelming when the novelty wears off, but actually once I hit the 70 areas it did really get much better, I actually feel like there is some proper challenges, I have to actually pay attention to the bosses, events have several phases with interesting mechanics, you can actually feel like there is some fail state going on as opposed to "we just aoed the hell out of every mob lets move on".

The dungeons on the other hand my god they are terrible, I havent done the last dungeon the one in Orr and I am sort of putting all my eggs in the same basket and hoping that one is gonna be interesting, but every other one is just a garbage mob zerg fest ( not from the players perspective but from the mobs ), they really managed to move away fromt he trinity thing when it comes to high level events by emphasising the personal responsability and making you rely on yourself and your tools to survive events, not so much in dungeons.

One of the cool things about the higher level events is seeing people wipe, honestly, seeing people fail simple mechanics really is telling of how they didnt setup the ramping up of the dynamic events all the way to 80 very well, like most people dont understand they will kill themselves with the reflection shields, they just sit there and spam auto attack throughout, they dont use evade at all when the guy is throwing a spear at you that one shots you.

 I thought SE was at least okay. You actually had to plan some things out and pay attention more than simply running around in a couple boss fights. Haven't done anything higher than that one yet. I've already made my thoughts known about how I feel about the other dungeons so I'll just leave it at that.

Originally posted by BigCountry

I enjoyed TSW PvE MUCH more than GW2. Honestely I have not watched a cutscene yet in GW2. Yes they are that silly. Reminded me of a SNES game or something. I watched every cutscene while playing TSW, the content was just more mature and enjoyable for someone my age.

 

On the flip side, the WvW PvP in GW2 is superior to anything out right now. BUT the queues are stomping that into the ground atm....

 

My guilmates and I purchased GW2 for the WvW PvP. And the largest group we have been able to get into a WvW is 4 of us.....lol

 

And when you have servers that hold 2k people, but only allow 100 into the WvW, it sorta is a show stopping ordeal for most of us...

Do you mean graphically? Because I've often heard the SNES era was the pinnacle for single-player RPGs.

Graphically the cutscenes are fine in GW2. They are just silly, story and content wise. Seem more like filler than anything else. Maybe it's just the whole fantasy genre, and the fact I am over it content wise. I compare these to watching cartoon network with my kids or something lol.

TSW cutscenese were more RL, and defintely more mature. Heck my character recieved a blow job in one of their cut scenes...lol :D

And yeah good to see you again too Xpiher. My numbers are off I know, but prob not too far off on the percentage of total server pop to total WvW pop allowed. Least it seems that way.

You typically can tell how a game is right off the bat within the first 2 hours. The 'better later on' statement should only be taken if you actually were undecided and can't really feel if you like it or not. If you weren't big on it right off, chances are your not going to morph into liking it later.

Rift was a game I played and it was alright but I wasn't exactly overly excited for. It was just enough of a middle ground that knowing it had end game that I pressed on and ended up loving it.

Guildwars 2 lacks that end game content and much of what it has is offered right off the bat. What you see is pretty much it when it comes to WvW and PvP. PvE isn't all that much different as you advance. Its one of those games that I honestly feel gives all its cards away at the begining, and if you don't like it in the first 2 hours of play, there is nothing to redeem it later on.