My Final thoughts... 

It's been a horrid year for MMO's, actually it's been a horrid few years. I feel like I've been playing the same game with different skins for several years now. Very few offering much of any noticable difference, some do offer minor things but all in all at the core most MMO's have just been rehashes with less and less content. 

With that said though GW2 has changed that for me. No it's not a messiah lol, but it is an MMO that truly offers a different experience at it's core. It's an MMO that has found satisfactory solutions for many of the problems many MMO gamers have had for years. It's an MMO that appeals to several audiences all at once. It's not the messiah of gaming but it truly is the something new many of us have been asking for over the past few years (Being generous here). 

I've played pretty much every MMO on the market for a few months at least (Most of them for free lol!) with very few exceptions. The only ones to hold me for any length of time were UO and FFXI after that sadly the only other ones were DFO and APB. Many mmo's had features I really like/liked but few had the core elements to keep me. Now we have a new MMO just over the horizon that looks as if it will finally keep me entertained for some length of time... GW2. 

No, it's not perfect. No, it's not the Messiah of gaming. No, it will not cure cancer. I don't even truly consider it revolutionary. GW2  is simply the first truly unique experience we've been given in a rather long while. At it's core it is different from other MMO's. It's core in PvE isn't about competition, its about fun and cooperation while PvP is about Fun and small scale and large scale team work. Class doesn't matters, you can play with the people you like rather than those that simply have the class/job/skill you need. It's a game that rewards you for exploring and gives you structured content for when you want it. 

It's a new MMO, finally. 

I cant take it anymore, its 22:48 and the game launches between 06:00 / 09:00 if iam correct.

Sleep will bro's and sister's as our wait is over within 10 hours :)

NN all !!!!

10 hrs to go... maybe 7 if we're lucky ;)

That said, was a cute article. Not sure I would say it was a "great year for gaming, though" I'm thinking more "a potentially great year that so far hasn't really delivered." But different strokes for different folks and all of that.

what time does it start?

Originally posted by Myrdynn

what time does it start?

 

http://gw2status.com/events/5-3-day-headstart

Originally posted by Hodo

[mod edit]

And like when have I ever bought a game based on reviews from a gaming site?  Never.  You apparently are the only one actually listening to them.

LOL just love all the haters last minute responses. Like i've said before, i hope the mods don't have alot to deal with while the rest of us are enjoying this gem of a game tomorrow! I wouldn't get my hopes up tho, someone's bound to start mass posting nonsense again.

Thanks for your positive responses about this on this site and good luck to your mods this weekend!

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by Grimlock426

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by odinsrath

my final thought ....looks like rift

 

good thing it plays/feels nothing like it:)  although I did liek Rift... games are nothing alike aside from both being fantasy

I disagree.  Do I think Rift and GW2 are the same?  Heck no!  However, to say they aren't similar at all besides being Fantasy is not correct either.

Rift events are indeed similar to GW 2 dynamic events, not the same, but similar.

The graphic stylings are similar in both games, not the same, but similar.

Some of the classes are similar, again, not the same but similar.

Both games are themeparks, so again, similar.

It's not genuine to say they aren't similar at all.

I played both games very extensivley.. obviously way more so with Rift since I played it for 9 months.. but they play/feel nothing alike OVERALL you can nitpick features here and there and say some are similar but the overall feel of the games is nothing alike imho

As is often the case lately I would agree with Aerowyn....

on a personal note, I hated the way Rift looked and love gw2 so I can't even begin to imagine how they look to similar to you.

Originally posted by jommybgood

Originally posted by Torvaldr

Originally posted by Nadia

prepurchases are still possible

heres the 3 digital sites ANET lists for NA  (my hong kong friend prepurchased yesterday using DLGamer)

https://buy.guildwars2.com/en/retailers

Digital	GameFly.com
	GreenManGaming.com
	DLGamer.com

 

Just an FYI...

GameFly is only selling the collector's edition at the time of this post.

GreenMan is selling both for $60 and $80.

DLGaming is selling standard for $56 ($4 off) and the deluxe edition for $75 ($5 off).

Actually You can enter the code DERHE-RRDER-RINGE at GreenMAn and get the price to 48.00! Dont know if anyone already made a post on this, just sharing to make sure! 

Nice.  That is a good price!  There is a warning there that keys purchased after August 8th won't include the head start.  I wonder if the other digital purchases are the same.

edit:  I checked again.  The GameFly and DLGamer sites still include the 3 day head start.

Very excited for the headstart! I have been playin MMOs since EQ came out, only EQ and WoW held my attention for multiple years, everything else was lucky to get a few months from me. 

GW2 does indeed bring back that feeling of excitment and fun. It just feels really good and fresh much like EQ did and WoW for me. 

As for a great year for gaming eh....that I do not understand.  In the MMO scene aside from GW2 what has there been really? I guess MoP for those still into WoW. 

Also do not see how someone can compare Rift and GW2 aside from the most basic surface level details. I bought Rift and could not even get through my first month with it because it felt so bland, to me it felt a lot like WoW without any of it's own real style, just far to much whitebread for me :P

So yea GW2 has a TON of hype but at the same time I get it. TOR also had a lot of hype and I held out on that one until free weekend pass...I lasted a few hours and found the game miserable and cheap feeling. Just an example there...but if after so so many years and so many games GW2 brings back that magical feeling for me and others I think they have something special, something that has been missing from games for a long time. 

Oh dear, with any other game you would have posts from people asking how much the publisher paid for that article.

Not a single critical remark? Not a single person on the staff that has another opinion? Not a single member of the MMORPG.com staff that likes something else than another themepark? Not a single man or woman here that has a different taste? All assimilated?

Time to rename the website to GW2fans.com me thinks ...

Originally posted by Larsa

Oh dear, with any other game you would have posts from people asking how much the publisher paid for that article.

Not a single critical remark? Not a single person on the staff that has another opinion? Not a single member of the MMORPG.com staff that likes something else than another themepark? Not a single man or woman here that has a different taste? All assimilated?

Time to rename the website to GW2fans.com me thinks ...

Well... even you must admit the list of complaints and negativity surrounding GW2 as a whole is pretty lacking. I mean even you came in and couldn't seem to find more to complain about other than the lack of complaints lol. 

We can't all be schills, this is just one of those titles thats grabbed most or at least intrigued them enough to see how things go. Game isn't faultless, but there don't seem to be any major glaring deal breaker flaws. 

Originally posted by Aerowyn

point taken.. was more or less just pointing out  the poster said it looked like Rift but actually playing the game is really nothing like Rift in how it plays:)  imho of course

Aside from the fact that you get forced into a group when a Dynamic Event (Rift/Invasion) opens up near you, don't say a single word or interact with anyone in your group/raid, are given a series of stages to complete, and then everyone goes their separate way with no sense of actual community once the DE/Rift is completed.  

But yeah, other than that....

Originally posted by RebelScum99

Originally posted by Aerowyn

point taken.. was more or less just pointing out  the poster said it looked like Rift but actually playing the game is really nothing like Rift in how it plays:)  imho of course

Aside from the fact that you get forced into a group when a Dynamic Event (Rift/Invasion) opens up near you, don't say a single word or interact with anyone in your group/raid, are given a series of stages to complete, and then everyone goes their separate way with no sense of actual community once the DE/Rift is completed.  

But yeah, other than that....

Lol, so true. GW2 is a decent game, but this gushy, omg I can t sleep stuffis well a little sad for grown men/women IMO. I ll play it, but it is going to be a very casual experience. Never cared for the pve at all, WvW is good, until PS2 is released, then it will become a coaster for my beer.

Originally posted by RebelScum99

Originally posted by Aerowyn

point taken.. was more or less just pointing out  the poster said it looked like Rift but actually playing the game is really nothing like Rift in how it plays:)  imho of course

Aside from the fact that you get forced into a group when a Dynamic Event (Rift/Invasion) opens up near you, don't say a single word or interact with anyone in your group/raid, are given a series of stages to complete, and then everyone goes their separate way with no sense of actual community once the DE/Rift is completed.  

But yeah, other than that....

How does the "other" system create a sense of community?  I've been playing RIFT since launch and have met and chatted with a lot of nice people on my server.  Faeblight has a great community.  Sometimes I don't talk to others during zone and rift events, but that hasn't inhibited our sense of community.  It sounds like a hollow claim you're making unless there is some sort of evidence to back that.

Originally posted by RebelScum99

Originally posted by Aerowyn

point taken.. was more or less just pointing out  the poster said it looked like Rift but actually playing the game is really nothing like Rift in how it plays:)  imho of course

Aside from the fact that you get forced into a group when a Dynamic Event (Rift/Invasion) opens up near you, don't say a single word or interact with anyone in your group/raid, are given a series of stages to complete, and then everyone goes their separate way with no sense of actual community once the DE/Rift is completed.  

But yeah, other than that....

how about trying the game before making rash generalizations about it.