Can we have a link to where they said there will be personal housing? It would be great if they added it but I don't quite believe it.

Originally posted by Kabaal

It's the Gingers I feel for.

    I have red hair and I have not played a game (where you can't customize your characters hair) or movie where a red haired person is the main character. At least there are some games with blonde main chars.

Originally posted by just1opinion

Wow that's weird.  All the things the OP cites as "dislikes" are "likes" for me.

 

Guess it takes all kinds to make the gaming world go 'round.

Same here.

I've gotten to the point where I don't bother arguing with people about aspects of GW2. I like everything in the game, I know for sure it's what I like, I'm not going to be let down. Then they argue and say it happened to all these other games and everything the developers say is just to make hype. All I can say is sorry your expectations for those games were so high, but I like what I've seen from the game, there's nothing that will disappoint me.

It really all comes down to personal preference. I know people hate seeing this but it makes sense:

You don't like it? Then it's not the game for you, find something else that'll suit your interests.

Originally posted by zephermarkus

Originally posted by grimm6th

Originally posted by CookieTime

Originally posted by zephermarkus

any mmo developer that doesnt show for e3 is hiding something or they know being compared to swtor was going to make them look bad sorry but arena net chooses the lower conference instead of the bigger ones and imo it's because they cant run with the big dogs. I really would like to know what videos your watching cause all i have seen is the same pve one and some class videos that are about 45 secs- 1 min long.

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And yep.. SWTOR was there too. Big dogs ey?

same thing happened at PAX prime.

Like i said it was their first time out with a demo of course they one the award. sorry gamescon and pax arnt shit compared to e3 and arena net hasnt showed up once.

People at E3: 45,600

People at Pax prime: 67,000

People at gamescom: a whopping 245,000 people.

Don't believe me? Google it.

Originally posted by zephermarkus

That wasd liek the first time they showed the game off course they wer going to win the new wer games always win the awards apparently u don't know how the judging works.

??? Well, I was super pumped when I saw Kirby Wii at E3 but it didn't win any type of award...

Originally posted by stevebmbsqd

Originally posted by gaeanprayer

Originally posted by stevebmbsqd

Originally posted by Pigozz

Hyping and not living to your expectation is caused by misinformation

What Ive seen on this forum and what I still laugh at are people that heard something in a brief intervirew/trailer and get hyped and creating increatable content in their heads, without actually reading on something about the truth

Thats why people got overexcited about rift, about warhammer about conan and about pretty much every MMO released so far

I always read as much as I can about games I want to play and I can say Im pretty objective about what is possible and what not - afterall Im a programmer as well

Now when I say I am hyped for GW2, I mean Im looking forward to play dynamic contents because I know to the tinniest bit how they work

Im looking forward to play bar brawls which I supposed would be similar to skill changin in underwater combat

Im looking forward to my Story because I know the way it looks and plays

Im looking forward to play minigames (even tho Im NOT expecting much yet, since I havent seen any gameplay of it)

Im looking forward to just explore the world, because it looks absolutely gorgeus

Im looking forward to the sheer amount of combat possibillities (traits, weapon switching)

and etc etc..

And I know this game will be succesfull because lots of these features werent in any previous MMO released (plus its B2P - succes guaranteed)

howgh

 

You don't "know" anything. You have read about things and have an idea about things....... but that is it.  You haven't played it yet or experienced it yet and therefore you don't "know" anything.  I am not trying to flame you but the only things you have seen or read are the things that they have wanted you to see.  Often things that seem great on paper or look great on released videos don't necessarily translate into fun when actually experienced.  All you have to do is ask my six year old kid..... he watches TV and asks for everything that he sees in the commercials.  It always looks fun....but when he gets the toy........ it isn't quite the experience he expected.

I don't know why you think other people can't 'know' something about this game. Some of us are testers, some of us have traveled to PAX and other conventions to play, etc. Believe it or not, some of us truly do ~know~ what we're hyped for. 

 Sure, if you are a tester you would know..... but then again you shouldn't be telling us about it.  If you travelled to a convention...then you tried an experience that was prepared for you..... a limited experience that was presented to you so you wouldn't "know"..........  Next time try reading all of the posts before commenting.....

 

Wait a minute, so now if it was experienced, but only a little it doesn't count? We could use the example of visiting a country you used earlier and say that you only took a tour with a tourguide through that place. Even though it was "limited" you still experienced it and got a pretty good idea of what it's like.

But anyway, when you've played a game, even a demo, you pretty much know how it plays and what to expect from it. Even from watching videos you can tell how it's like. I don't get where your going with this "know" stuff, but it seems like you think they're just showing us something that really isn't. However, this is a big budget game with amazing people behind it, I'm 99.99% sure it's going to turn out how it is in the demos and what they say it is.

I've always wanted to try this game but I never wanted to pay a sub fee. Now it seems I get my chance!

The engineer reminded me of the game Arcanum. It's pretty much a steampunk game where it's a fantasy world but it's beginning to have an industrial revolution and people are moving from the old magical ways to the new mechanical.

So the engineer reminds me of the struggle in that game between magic and technology where one can prove to be just as good as the other but people like to push for new things. So yes I agree with the op that the engineer doesn't use magic. It's the profession pushing for change away from the old ways of magic.

I will play an engineer, but for one of my alts. I'm a magic/mystic guy at heart so I'll definitely play those types a lot, but it's always nice to try something new and completely different from everything else (really really different!).

I only worry about how really different it is. At this moment I can't picture it in the GW world with all of the other profs  and races, I have to wait for the next demo to see it. (and I can't wait)

Originally posted by Bhorzo

Depends on what your definition is of "too much hype"... ?

 Exactly, hype is just how excited people are for the game and how many people are excited for it (in my opinion). People decide what the hype is, and if it has a high hype, well then people are excited for it!

I wasn't expecting Anet to be #1 but I was expecting like top 3 or something. Anyway, congrats for them, this really shows them the support the mmo community is giving them!

Good for GW2! I excited for both it and SWTOR, but GW2 seems a bit more exciting. I just hope that people who voted for GW2 don't have such high hopes that when some expectations weren't met with exactly as they were thinking they freak out.

GW2 really does seem to deserve the hype it's getting, but lets not get out of hand. It's gonna be good, but it's not going to be the perfect, wow killing MMO some think it will be.

I vote for Arena Net. Very honorable and trustworthy. Guild Wars FTW!

Absolutely N-O-N-E!

Guild Wars 2

I Love You!

The #1 reason I got interested was because it's the sequal to one of my favorite games. It already sounds like it's going to be way better than the first one (which I originally thought would be impossible).

Originally posted by Trollarama

Some of the AOC was good but I'll have to give the title comfortably to Guild Wars.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oFGagjD18o&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mc0OSVrhoE&feature=related

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBuxs6oxZ4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5X6zUdmTTc&feature=related

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vgfaUkLK6Y&feature=related

 

 

 I loved Jeremy Soule's music from Guild Wars as well. However I liked the Eye of the North songs better:

Beyond the Northern Wall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cY2h1BR2YA

Under the Dark Span (Asura Theme): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb_qOaLm5q4

Song of the Shiverpeaks (Norn Theme): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULyRcptyjj8

Originally posted by ComfyChair

I actually kind of take for granted that guild wars is always there to play with no downtime at all. It's going to be strange if guild wars 2 has downtime in it! Not because i plan on playing 24/7, but if i want to play, it's nice not to have to go 'ahh, guess i'll try tomorrow then' :)

 I take it for granted too. When I try other MMO's and find that their servers are down or they have very few updates, I realize that Anet is really different from these other companies. Also, I'm sure that GW2 update times and downtimes will be about the same as it was in GW1.

I feel that they should have 5. One for each race I guess. 8 would be way better but I'd be content with 5. Any less and I wouldn't be too happy...

Originally posted by Reizlanzer

I believe the answer to that question is no, they want the advantage players have over each other to be skill reliant rather than gear reliant.

 

However, you should know that your weapon choice great affects whatever bonus you have. We know that there are different weapon types, like Ghostly and what not - and they have different effects like more damage at night.

So, a rarer weapon won't provide you with new skills but will provide you with a more complex method in which you can choose to execute your damage. Also, picking up objects in the environment will likely play a role - considering they change your weapon slot abilities. I imagine picking up a rock and tossing it for a small stun would be viable =p

 I didn't think about it that way. That puts my question out of the way.

What I really wanna see though, is how many traits there will be, and how in depth it will actually go.

I wonder if certain kinds of weapon types will produce new skills. Like, will a rarer type of axe do some different skills than a noobish one?