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8/19/12 2:11:24 PM#101
Originally posted by agnostic4eve [mod edit] Because it wasn't close to "all or nothing" in my post. You have been crying and lamenting for multiple posts now about how you don't have a choice about playing, You have complained that you have been looking at threads for days yet can't find anything to like. If you already have the attitude to "decide to have a nice drink with your wife while playing a video game for the remaining three hours of the night. We can be cooperative, laugh and have fun" then you don't need this thread at all. If that's your goal when you play GW2 it'll be damn easy to achieve... ...and there were already about a dozen easy-to-find threads on the first few pages of this forum that would've informed you of that. A lot of people think it's a very fun game. Either you will or you won't when you play, if you play. Getting bent out of shape when someone calls you out on your posts in this thread - trust me the issue is with you not me. Have a nice day. |
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8/19/12 2:16:05 PM#102
Originally posted by Aerowyn We were all bought by Arenanet to advertise this game and what we say holds no value since all we have to say is scripted by Arenanet and we get paid to do so. And there are absolutly no facts whatsoever to backup this games hype. I mean comeon, unless he personally plays the game and sees this for himself, then it will remain hype and thus never be fact regardless of the coreographed videos and the trained Arenanet employees who come on this site and go "ya its true, I've seen it with my own two eyes >.>" |
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Digna
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Joined: 11/19/05
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. |
8/19/12 2:16:27 PM#103
The only real facts regarding the game as far as people liking disliking: 1. Some folks have played it for X number of hours/days/weekends (and some beta testers longer) 2. Some people like it and think it will 'go'. THE game for them. 3. Some think it isn't very different from other games in it's basis.
That's pretty much it. No one actually knows whether it will go on to be a b BIG title that no one will want to be without. Nor does anything know if it will prove to be 'just another game'.
I base my own (hopeful) opinion on it being a game I can enjoy on the fact that shortly after I started my 1st BWE, I knew I wanted a completion bonus based (mostly) on exploring every corner of every map. Haven't felt that way since my 1st MMO 18 years ago. Will that do it for everyone? Not at all. But it does do it for me.
OP - Let your better half play, watch her game for a couple days and roll an alt in the off hours. She can always come back and play with you if you decide you like it a few days in. Down-level scaling, ftw. |
Originally posted by Stx11 My goal was to stimulate a positive conversation about the pro's and con's of the game. If you feel the need to "call me out" for doing so, so be it. If you mistake that for crying, oh well. That's just your internet rage speaking for you. |
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8/19/12 2:18:59 PM#105
Originally posted by agnostic4eve
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8/19/12 2:19:20 PM#106
Originally posted by Jimmydean No, what you have there is a nice collection of logical fallacies backing you up. The last 8 years of releases are not important because this is not the same game as anything to have released in the last 8 years or even remotely similar, nor is the market itself. Also; as you are so willing to constantly remind everyone you purchased the game that sort of gives you away. And at this point I'm really done my discussion with you. You change the subject and then complain that people aren't following you and then use the 'but i bought gw2 as well!' card to try persuade people you are being honest when you are not. I called you out on you saying GW2 was like SWTOR when it came to the amount of information available prior to launch and you have been proven otherwise. The hype is also entirely different as most of the 'hype', if you can call it that, for GW2 has been done via word of mouth as oppose to being from the developers, not to mention the amount of video footage available of all the differeny systems that have been described by the developers but.. If you want to continue to make yourself look untrustworthy then keep posting your misinformation so even more can see. |
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8/19/12 2:22:59 PM#107
Originally posted by grapevine I guess both people could be right. The trinity is the fact that you can do all 3, but its not dedicated or holy because everyone can do everything... |
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Thanks Graey, I appreciate the response. I also liked Rift, but after a while it did get a little stale. The new Trinity feature of Guild Wars 2 does seem like an "On the fly" advancement of the Soul System from Rift. |
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8/19/12 2:26:39 PM#109
Originally posted by Meowhead yeah you explained that way better. Makes sense though. I can see how people still want to call it both though. First we would have to define trinity or holy trinity. I still think it has some trinity hence your soft example. But as for holy..definitely not. |
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8/19/12 2:27:49 PM#110
Originally posted by Graey it's not the holy trinity because there is no straight tank or healer role.. you can argue all day control and support have some tank and healer "mechanics" but they are not tank or healer roles like in holy trinity games. I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg |
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8/19/12 2:34:30 PM#111
Originally posted by agnostic4eve I would agree it did. I have stopped playing for a couple months now. I log on here and there to check on things. I do like their update cycle and I will definitely purchase the expansion. I don't have a lot of time so I'll mostly do a lot of solo work. It would but I'd say its a more evolved form or rather a horizontal form of the soul system. In that one character instead of switching out souls to do healing, dps, or tanking...can just do all 3. The ranger could just 2h sword it up while healing his pet..never really needing to switch skills. Honestly I don't switch them much lol...I'm sooo lazy :)
However you will quickly meet death if you dont switch out your pet when it's health gets low haha...and you will die a lot...i mean a lot lot lol. So in Rift you have to wait till out of combat, switch to dps from heals then carry on or respect to be more efficient in one or the other etc. GW2...switch to short bow to long bow, then cast poison shot, switch to a 1h sword and horn call those pesky birds to fly in and peck the opponent..which is super funny. All while your bear..name him cuddles is tearing the goblin bandit a new one. |
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8/19/12 2:40:08 PM#112
Edited: realized my mistake. this wasn't the thread i thought it was. SORRY OP! |
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8/19/12 2:42:09 PM#113
Originally posted by Aerowyn Yeah I know that but I'm looking more on the outside of how this is worded. In which you have the trinity tank, heals, dps, but yet your one toon is the trinity. So in respect you are all able to be a trinity but not in the traditional restrictive way. I agree and disagree lol...weird eh. Yes I would agree its not holy...definitely not that. More so as meow said soft..yes soft.. lol. So again I see why some say it is and some say it's not. Holy I would agree it is not, but soft trinity when you look at it then yes it is. But to a varying degree. Someone has to be the center of attention but since its everyone then what 20% tanky, everyone heals themselves so...15% heals and the rest dps cause let's face it we are all trying to kill what ever mob we are facing at that moment. And you know people go to that death stance or whatever with a quickness. |
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8/19/12 2:52:05 PM#114
Originally posted by Graey but that's just it there is no tank or healer period. So you can't just say you can be all 3 when two don't even exist. There are pieces of what you may call a tank although very loose since there is no aggro control or taunt type skills and pieces of what you would call a healer but not enough to say the game has healer or tank roles at all which is why you have control and support.. So it's not just saying one person can play all three of the holy trinity when two of the 3 aren't really even there. I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg |
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8/19/12 2:52:24 PM#115
Originally posted by agnostic4eveI'm sorry. My bad, based on: Originally posted by agnostic4eve maybe/hopefully you are really looking for answers as opposed to 2/3rds of the "Make me like GW2" posts we've seen. One of the big differences between GW2 and RIFT (or most any WoW Clone) is while you can Spec and Gear to be more effective at Damage, Support, or Control - your Character is never exclusively performing that function in a group. Boons (Ally Buffs or Support) are often applied while using a Weapon Attack (Damage) as well as Conditions like Blind or Cripple (Control). There are no Aggro Taunts to keep a Mob's attention on a character. Also most everybody can survive 1-2 attacks from a mob but will be 2-3-shotted if they try to "go toe-to-toe" without avoiding attacks through movement, dodging, and the occasional damage avoidance ability. So where I really see the difference is everybody can and is most effective when they understand and are able to play all 3 roles pretty much at the same time.
Some have accused GW2 of having nothing more than zerg mechanics in group play and to someone who hasn't played in a group I can easily see where that perception comes from, but one of the things I love about the game is how dynamic and strategic combat can be. People stepping up and "taking turns" at protecting the group, or dropping Combo Fields to boost damage, or clearing Conditions while giving others time to recover and heal themselves back up - all while staying mobile dodging mob attacks or AoE and being able to cast on the move... I just find it so much more visceral, exciting, and simply fun than any other MMO combat I've played. |
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8/19/12 2:56:10 PM#116
Originally posted by Aerowyn Oh I see what your saying. Granted I did give percentages of how much I thought there were of them. But yeah now that you explained it like that I can see what you're getting at. I'm thinking since you can heal and you can hold the attention not necesarrily the agrro of a mob then they still exist in a way. Since in theory if you can heal even yourself then your doing one of the trinities. But again I see what your saying. Then what would you call this...hybrid system of roles haha. |
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8/19/12 2:57:14 PM#117
RIFT's soul system didn't solve the trinity for one reason.
No one still wanted to tank, they can switch to a tanking spec, sure, but why? |
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8/19/12 2:57:36 PM#118
Originally posted by Graey i just call in enjoyable combat:) I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg |
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8/19/12 3:02:52 PM#119
Originally posted by Aerowyn Touche' Aerowyn...touche' You win this round Wyn, but I'll be back...whahahthahahahahahaha...cough gack..swallowed fly gack... |
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8/19/12 3:12:41 PM#120
Originally posted by agnostic4eve My gf was playing this Flyff game online. When one day she asked me if I wanna install the game and play with her. I wasn't really loving the idea of playing the game I don't have any interest in, but since she wanted me to play a game with her I installed the game and played with her for few days (or shall I say, she was boosting my ass for few days xD)... I still didn't like the game, but I played it... Ofcourse I kept getting myself killed all the time, but well :D The game can be really stupid to you, but you can still have fun in it with your wife, it's only a matter of how you look at it "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." ![]() |
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