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Originally posted by Xzen
I thought it was ok and kind of typical. I voted "Let me see the results".

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My Norn had fun piecing together his "forgotten drunken night" and I laughed a few times. The gripping losses never really got to me. I never really made any connections with the other NPCs in the story.

A couple of times, the voice file did not kick in and I pretended I was suddenly telepathic :)

"It could have been better"

I'm enjoying the story, but voice acting needs some more work. In my opinion personal story is weakest part of GW2, but still fun =) 

The personal storyline is ok, but nothing special. The human storyline is not awful, but not terribly innovative or creative. The immersion is lacking though to be sure. The cutscenes themselves are fairly immersion ruining; the characters just standing there shrugging their shoulders and miming to the voice acting and fading out to be replaced by another character...sorry just doesn't really do it for me. I would have rather had cutscenes play out in the gameworld with maybe some camera angle changes or something like that much like the vista cutscenes. 

On a side note, big armored warrior npc's with fierce, manly voices are impossible to take seriously when they have pink eyes. If you played the human story line up to the 30's you know who I'm talking about. Ole Pink Eyes left me somewhere between grimacing and giggling whenever he showed up in a cutscene. It just looked unintentionally silly.

Also, anytime an Asura npc shows up I have to roll my eyes :P

Btw, I voted for "It could have been beter"...

I just finished one of the larger battles in the game and I have to say I am disappointed. Overall I feel like ANet didn't learn anything from GW1 in terms of storytelling. the characters are uninteresting, have nothing worthwile to say and most of the time quite bad voice acting. Just now I heard npc talking how he lost all his friends to the undead just 5 min earlier. no emotion, nothing.

the structure of the mission was lacking too. I felt like a delivery boy running from1 npc to another in the middle of an assault. Sometimes the objectives weren;t very clear. go to the center of the plaza, said green text. When I got there.. nothing I started killing random things and after 5 min something triggered a cutscene.

there were a few ok characters, but before they got really interesting they were usually gone and replaced by someone else.

This whole destiny's edge story is boring and badly executed. the quarells of those 5 characters feel like watching 10 year old kids at elementary school.

I feel like ANet should simply admit that they suck at creating storylines and don't waste resources ever again on creating things like this. It simply is not working considering almost evry review said that personal storyline is the worst part of the game. It seems like it is ok that they added it but imo they simply wasted resources. they could have created like twice as many dynamic events intead.

As one feature of a very good MMO, I would say: It is great!

Could it have been better? Of course! The choices could be more forceful and even lead to moral dilemmas. The voice-overs are, hmmm, ok^^

But hey, they have a great ingame mechanism that opens up a lot of opportunities for future expansions!