GOTY is a title that comes with the money paid by the publisher. Never trust anything other than your own experience playing any game.

Bold Prediction - The Secret World Will Be Game of The Year.

Seriously? Are you alright, OP? Do you need us to call an ambulance? Because I think you have a concussion from BUMPING YOUR FRIGGIN' HEAD!

It is, quite intentionally i think, a niche genre game. I am in beta and impressed, but the genre is not geared for mass appeal.

Originally posted by gestalt11

 

The investigative stuff in GW2 is completely opaque.  You have to find it yourself.

TSW actually does MORE hand holding.  Finding secrets in GW2 and there are alot of them. 

No there's not.  Trying to say that GW2 can hold a candle to TSW in the investigation department is over reaching at best.  GW2 beats TSW in many categories.  Investigation is not one of them.

Originally posted by eyeswideopen

Bold Prediction - The Secret World Will Be Game of The Year.

 

Seriously? Are you alright, OP? Do you need us to call an ambulance? Because I think you have a concussion from BUMPING YOUR FRIGGIN' HEAD!

Since you're so aghast at his statement, mind saying what you think will be Game of the Year?  Because I don't think it will win, but I do think it belongs in the running from what I've seen.

is this  thread the comedy channel ?

Originally posted by Shadanwolf

is this  thread the comedy channel ?

If you look at the top of the page you can see the thread title.

Originally posted by jdnyc

Originally posted by gestalt11

 

The investigative stuff in GW2 is completely opaque.  You have to find it yourself.

TSW actually does MORE hand holding.  Finding secrets in GW2 and there are alot of them. 

No there's not.  Trying to say that GW2 can hold a candle to TSW in the investigation department is over reaching at best.  GW2 beats TSW in many categories.  Investigation is not one of them.

Don't argue. That's the one reason I can't believe any hype over GW2. There are so many fanboys they will argue that every part of GW2 is the best experience to come out of not only an mmo game but games in general. GW2 is the end all be all of gaming. Once you buy GW2 you will immediately stop needing food, air, water, and just live on the awesome that is GW2. You will quit your job, leave your wife, disown your children, and lose your family the game is that batshit crazy good. You won't even sleep. There will be so much content, the DE will make you crap your pants and you will actually BELIEVE you are living in the world of GW2. The combat is not only the best of any MMO to date it is the best that there will ever be, it cannot be improved. In any game. Ever. Also the PvP is the best, it is strategic and just requires you to think, every single step. You should really read Art of War to actually play the PvP it's that amazing and complex. And don't even get me started on the graphics, atmosphere, questing, story, balance, characters, oh my god. For 60 dollars....FOR 60 FUCKING DOLLARS YOUR LIFE WILL CHANGE, YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. 

No no no....My brothers, GW2 is the second coming. It won't be game of the year no...oh no...It will be game of the century. Believe it.

Or ya know...atleast that's what I heard?

Originally posted by bcbully

Let me start by saying, I don't think TSW will have the number of players GW2 will have maybe not even the amount Tera has. TSW appeals to a certain taste, an aquired taste if you will. TSW does that taste oh so well, better than any mmo to date.  The ability to create this dish will garner Funcom & TSW critical acclaim much like  "Slum Dog Millionair"  did in the film industry.

Like the taste or not, there is something very special in TSW, something different.  The Devil is in the details my friends, and the Devil is in TSW.

Of 2004.

Not with these graphics and poor game play. Not with the enima jumping character models. 

What taste are you speaking of.  That taste being people who can stomach stale combat for 90 percent of  the time so they can solve puzzles the other 10 percent. Why not play Longest Journey and actually do adventures all the time.  It's not like you're really doing the "FUN" stuff with other people.  

Originally posted by JayZas

Originally posted by jdnyc

Originally posted by gestalt11

 

The investigative stuff in GW2 is completely opaque.  You have to find it yourself.

TSW actually does MORE hand holding.  Finding secrets in GW2 and there are alot of them. 

No there's not.  Trying to say that GW2 can hold a candle to TSW in the investigation department is over reaching at best.  GW2 beats TSW in many categories.  Investigation is not one of them.

Don't argue. That's the one reason I can't believe any hype over GW2. There are so many fanboys they will argue that every part of GW2 is the best experience to come out of not only an mmo game but games in general. GW2 is the end all be all of gaming. Once you buy GW2 you will immediately stop needing food, air, water, and just live on the awesome that is GW2. You will quit your job, leave your wife, disown your children, and lose your family the game is that batshit crazy good. You won't even sleep. There will be so much content, the DE will make you crap your pants and you will actually BELIEVE you are living in the world of GW2. The combat is not only the best of any MMO to date it is the best that there will ever be, it cannot be improved. In any game. Ever. Also the PvP is the best, it is strategic and just requires you to think, every single step. You should really read Art of War to actually play the PvP it's that amazing and complex. And don't even get me started on the graphics, atmosphere, questing, story, balance, characters, oh my god. For 60 dollars....FOR 60 FUCKING DOLLARS YOUR LIFE WILL CHANGE, YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. 

No no no....My brothers, GW2 is the second coming. It won't be game of the year no...oh no...It will be game of the century. Believe it.

 

Or ya know...atleast that's what I heard?

That only thing secret about the Secret world is its leveling system. Which is based on how many traits of particlar weapons you have.  Its there its just hidden. It's why you can't unlock certain quests.  (dumbest thing in the world, there's a note in front of me, i can't read the note until i have a few more levels.. err. abilities in my mace).  

I was thinking about that last night, GW 2 does a better job of both investigating and quest tiers than TSW. 

GW 2, you walk through a town and simply hear people talking about things.  They are talking about the various things in the world. "vampre crypt... i don't believe that". So now you got out into the world and look for it,  no dynamic quest, not yet.  You go down and you start to distrurb the tombs, then its a full on adventure as you go to eliminate the quest.  

Tier Adventuring - a dynamic event starts out with some harpies, and, (because it changes) it can go anywhere from eliminating their lair to preventing them from taking the armory to finding out they work someone much larger.  

I

Originally posted by dontadow

Originally posted by bcbully

Let me start by saying, I don't think TSW will have the number of players GW2 will have maybe not even the amount Tera has. TSW appeals to a certain taste, an aquired taste if you will. TSW does that taste oh so well, better than any mmo to date.  The ability to create this dish will garner Funcom & TSW critical acclaim much like  "Slum Dog Millionair"  did in the film industry.

Like the taste or not, there is something very special in TSW, something different.  The Devil is in the details my friends, and the Devil is in TSW.

Of 2004.

Not with these graphics and poor game play. Not with the enima jumping character models. 

What taste are you speaking of.  That taste being people who can stomach stale combat for 90 percent of  the time so they can solve puzzles the other 10 percent. Why not play Longest Journey and actually do adventures all the time.  It's not like you're really doing the "FUN" stuff with other people.  

 

So you are basing you opinion on your OPINION of the graphics? This is so funny to me. No matter how someone runs or shoots a gun someone will complain. It's your right too I guess. The tech behind the graphics is far beyond most Take the tesalation for example.

Combat? TSW has the deepest combat system I've seen. It's not just 500 abilitites (lol I said just 500) but it's also  the Sub types, Triggers, and Attack Type sysnergies asscosiated with the 500 abilites. Please forgive them if there is not an independent animation for all these possibilties....

Originally posted by dontadow

GW 2, you walk through a town and simply hear people talking about things.  They are talking about the various things in the world. "vampre crypt... i don't believe that". So now you got out into the world and look for it,  no dynamic quest, not yet.  You go down and you start to distrurb the tombs, then its a full on adventure as you go to eliminate the quest.  

Or you could...ya know...talk to a scout and he points you RIGHT WHERE YOU NEED TO GO.

I have two words for you.  Kingsmouth Code.  Now go and give me an example of GW2 topping that.  You won't find one.  Period.

:)

Originally posted by dontadow

 

That only thing secret about the Secret world is its leveling system. Which is based on how many traits of particlar weapons you have.  Its there its just hidden. It's why you can't unlock certain quests.  (dumbest thing in the world, there's a note in front of me, i can't read the note until i have a few more levels.. err. abilities in my mace).  

I was thinking about that last night, GW 2 does a better job of both investigating and quest tiers than TSW. 

GW 2, you walk through a town and simply hear people talking about things.  They are talking about the various things in the world. "vampre crypt... i don't believe that". So now you got out into the world and look for it,  no dynamic quest, not yet.  You go down and you start to distrurb the tombs, then its a full on adventure as you go to eliminate the quest.  

Tier Adventuring - a dynamic event starts out with some harpies, and, (because it changes) it can go anywhere from eliminating their lair to preventing them from taking the armory to finding out they work someone much larger.  

I

curious because I never found this in kingsmouth. I know you can't do some quests before you finish a pre-cursor quest but I haven't ran into one it just wouldn't let me take because I wasn't high enough skill level. During the weekend thing I made one char and just went exploring kingsmouth for the first time had no SP at all aside from what you get initially and I got the quest from the guy at the airport. It said "very hard" in the description but still let me take it. Had plently I found on the group but had to drop another quest to get it but still never found one it just flat out wouldn't let me take due to skill level

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by dontadow

 

That only thing secret about the Secret world is its leveling system. Which is based on how many traits of particlar weapons you have.  Its there its just hidden. It's why you can't unlock certain quests.  (dumbest thing in the world, there's a note in front of me, i can't read the note until i have a few more levels.. err. abilities in my mace).  

I was thinking about that last night, GW 2 does a better job of both investigating and quest tiers than TSW. 

GW 2, you walk through a town and simply hear people talking about things.  They are talking about the various things in the world. "vampre crypt... i don't believe that". So now you got out into the world and look for it,  no dynamic quest, not yet.  You go down and you start to distrurb the tombs, then its a full on adventure as you go to eliminate the quest.  

Tier Adventuring - a dynamic event starts out with some harpies, and, (because it changes) it can go anywhere from eliminating their lair to preventing them from taking the armory to finding out they work someone much larger.  

I

curious because I never found this in kingsmouth. I know you can't do some quests before you finish a pre-cursor quest but I haven't ran into one it just wouldn't let me take because I wasn't high enough skill level. During the weekend thing I made one char and just went exploring kingsmouth for the first time had no SP at all aside from what you get initially and I got the quest from the guy at the airport. It said "very hard" in the description but still let me take it. Had plently I found on the group but had to drop another quest to get it but still never found one it just flat out wouldn't let me take due to skill level

Wow good catch. There are no skill requirments to do any quest or go anywhere in TSW. I did find out that in the Open Beta some quest were locked, which will be open this weekend. 

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by dontadow

 

That only thing secret about the Secret world is its leveling system. Which is based on how many traits of particlar weapons you have.  Its there its just hidden. It's why you can't unlock certain quests.  (dumbest thing in the world, there's a note in front of me, i can't read the note until i have a few more levels.. err. abilities in my mace).  

I was thinking about that last night, GW 2 does a better job of both investigating and quest tiers than TSW. 

GW 2, you walk through a town and simply hear people talking about things.  They are talking about the various things in the world. "vampre crypt... i don't believe that". So now you got out into the world and look for it,  no dynamic quest, not yet.  You go down and you start to distrurb the tombs, then its a full on adventure as you go to eliminate the quest.  

Tier Adventuring - a dynamic event starts out with some harpies, and, (because it changes) it can go anywhere from eliminating their lair to preventing them from taking the armory to finding out they work someone much larger.  

I

curious because I never found this in kingsmouth. I know you can't do some quests before you finish a pre-cursor quest but I haven't ran into one it just wouldn't let me take because I wasn't high enough skill level. During the weekend thing I made one char and just went exploring kingsmouth for the first time had no SP at all aside from what you get initially and I got the quest from the guy at the airport. It said "very hard" in the description but still let me take it. Had plently I found on the group but had to drop another quest to get it but still never found one it just flat out wouldn't let me take due to skill level

For the weekend Funcom had some missions locked and some (as you know) are chained.  The mace reason why he can't get the mission is just him making up a reason as to why.

Originally posted by jdnyc

Originally posted by dontadow

GW 2, you walk through a town and simply hear people talking about things.  They are talking about the various things in the world. "vampre crypt... i don't believe that". So now you got out into the world and look for it,  no dynamic quest, not yet.  You go down and you start to distrurb the tombs, then its a full on adventure as you go to eliminate the quest.  

Or you could...ya know...talk to a scout and he points you RIGHT WHERE YOU NEED TO GO.

I have two words for you.  Kingsmouth Code.  Now go and give me an example of GW2 topping that.  You won't find one.  Period.

:)

 

pretty sure no one here has played every quest from either game so this argument is sort of pointless

Originally posted by Aerowyn

 

pretty sure no one here has played every quest from either game so this argument is sort of pointless

pretty sure there are no ARGs in GW2.  So it's not really pointless.  It's calling out baseless claims.   The funny thing is I'm a fanboy of both games.  But c'mon GW2 isn't the best in everything:)

Originally posted by jdnyc

Originally posted by Aerowyn

 

pretty sure no one here has played every quest from either game so this argument is sort of pointless

pretty sure there are no ARGs in GW2.  So it's not really pointless.  It's calling out baseless claims on a fanboy of another game.  The funny thing is I'm a fanboy of both.

just because TSW has ARGs doesn't make them better than anything GW2 has... so far I enjoy both games but enjoy how questing is setup in GW2 more personally... doesn't make me right or you right just what you prefer. 

Originally posted by dontadow

That only thing secret about the Secret world is its leveling system. Which is based on how many traits of particlar weapons you have.  Its there its just hidden. It's why you can't unlock certain quests.  (dumbest thing in the world, there's a note in front of me, i can't read the note until i have a few more levels.. err. abilities in my mace).  

I was thinking about that last night, GW 2 does a better job of both investigating and quest tiers than TSW. 

  

I

 That had nothing at all to do with it. It was simply locked for the beta. They didn't allow access for all the quests in Kingsmouth this past weekend. Skill unlocks have nothing to do with that at all.

...and you guys are comparing two completely different types of quests. Doesn't even make any sense.