/drool

Take that you filthy CGI trailers!

its better then most CGI trailers

I'm in love with Ree Soesbee. Having her on board here makes me anticipate this game even more!

amazing...

Impressive trailer. Heck that dragon looked better than the CGI dragon in the original gw1 trailer and dare I say it better than the concept art. Consider how good A-Net's concept art is that's saying something.

Ree is beautiful

Looks...freaking...EPIC! :D

GW2 got every reason to get over hyped and hopefully it will get even more epic than it get hyped! ;)

The purple and black dragon at the end is by far the most badass looking boss i've ever seen.

Giggling manically like a school girl here.... WOW!!!

GW2 must have some pretty bad ass bosses if that's only a level 47 boss.

Video looks absolutely amazing, and im not even watching this gamwe much.  How the hell is this gonna be free? i just dont get it...

Tears of joy just typed this message

I really have to say this game looks impressive. I wasn't a huge GW1 fan, but I liked the concept. I'm not sure what involvement NCSoft has, but I will say some of the arcitechture in the game looked  similar to something of Lineage 2 or Aion, which is very, very impressive.

To see all that is amazing and the feeling keeps going when you hear that its not going to be a monthly subscription model.

ok the leviathan at the very end scared me hehe

It looks and sounds freaking amazing, as always... but talk is cheap and the proof is in the pudding. I'm looking forawrd to seeing if they can deliver anything close to what they are saying, because if they can then it oculd be a game-changer.

Definitely looks like a winner, but the staging type quests they have seem similar to those in WoWs WotLK expansion. Only problem with that is those you progress can't necessarily group with those who haven't. Anyone know if the quest storyline progression in GW2 will have this problem?

SImply awesome!

*Picks up jaw from the floor*

So awesome. I want it. And I want it when its finished.

wow......just wow. I think im going to cry

I finally have some faith in MMOs going forward.

instant buy when comes out !!!!!!!!

So awesome! :_D

One of the best game trailers I've ever seen. Clearly shows what we can expect to see in the game and not just any CGI trailer that could mislead any buyers jsut by pretty graphics alone. Arenanet surel sets the standard for game trailers

me want me wants

Can't wait to git it hahahahhahah!!!!!!!!

Square Enix, Blizzard: Are you guys watching this? This is how you hype a game with real gameplay video turned into trailer not multi million dollar made CGI that shows nothing of the game except how skillful your artists and designers are.

Its so pretty!  Wow I am excited for this game!

What people don't even realise is how Anet is thinking out of the box and not thinking how much they will make of it... imagine politicians and world leaders thinking like that ? our world and not just game world.. would change and be so much.... so much ... instead this poorly designed fetid place... i might went off-topic, but just imagine that ;) gj anet, i bow to thee.

Beautiful movie.

Still, you only get to pick 4 skills for your skillbar.  5 are pre-assigned by your weapon, 1 preassigned heal, leaving a total range of options of FOUR skills.

I just don't get the hype over a game where you have a choice of 4 skills to put on your skillbar.  It's sad.

Wow, this trailer actually gives in game footage and gameplay explaination.  *Looks all the other game developers so far this year* 

I was already excited for Guild Wars 2, now the days are starting to get longer and longer.

Holy crap.

I sat through most of that video with my jaw LITERALLY hanging....

Ok. It looks fantastic.

But I remember when I saw the AION trailer when it was two years out and I went "OHHHHHHH MANNNNNNN" and couldn't wait to play it.

Then I PLAYED it.

I'll wait til GW2 comes out before I believe everything in a demo is actually going to be in there and working the RIGHT way.

uh-mazing! its the game to beat and to follow come 2011. i hope future MMOs will follow ArenaNet's footsteps 

Honkie, but look at it in other way. Elementalist can switch between all 4 elements during battle so the first 5 skills also change. That's same as warrior or ranger changes weapon set, plus warrior has got chain skills (e.g. 3 skills that u put in only 1 slot) and ranger has got pet, which also got, up to 4, skills.

That was actually very impressive.

@Rhoklaw

They don't use phasing like in WoW. It is scripted events IE centaurs attack a town, players either successfully defend the town or the centaurs dominate it and  player's new objective is to need them out. Either case they will go away for a while and later respawn and resetting the event.

Though remember this is just a simple win/loss outcome, there might be more complex who knows.

This trailer looks good, but its only eye candy. I agree with Honkie, the skill system limits one to 4 skills regardless of the different elements one can switch from. Gw1 allowed one to customize any skills from primary and secondary professions, thus giving it a large scale ability to make thousands of builds. This wont be the case since GW2 wont have secondary professions and  the skills are preset for you. in addition GW2 will have no monks. Finally stuns will be added, main reason I loved gw1 was because this did not exist. Stuns immobilizes one to not move, attack, or use their skills. I don't know about you guys, but don't it look like they are taking away the good stuff from gw1? I am not sold by the trailer for i seen better, besides I cant make any final judgments until beta. 

Eye candy? i can't really say it is.

knockback prevent you from this too and in gw1 some build had chain knockdown...that is worse that stun. :)

SweetZoid, I meant eye candy in mmo standards. Most mmo games, even today look like games from 2003. Also, yes KD chains exist, but A. monks can heal you, B. stances can prevent you from being KD'ed. Even if stances were to exist against stuns, its worse than KD since monks don't exist. 

@SweetZoid

It won't occur as frequently as it did before because there are no more any secondary professions and in that case the only chaining of KDs people can do is between two different professions making sure they knock you down at different intervals. Team work baby team work..."lights a cigar and watches the vid again"

@ Rayth3on

But each profession has much better self-heal than in GW1 and there will be "buffing profession" - there are many names for that. Also Water Magic has big number of healing skills (not only self-heals).

@ Shan_Reaper

It has been stated that any heal other than self heal is reduced significantly. I highly doubt it will be anything like the monks in GW1 system that are completely dedicated to the preservation of the team. Although I love the idea of needing actual skill to play in PVP and not depending on a monk; however, I dislike the idea of stuns which require no skill at all to use. I cant judge this yet, but from what I saw on the warrior and Ele video it is anything but skill. 

OMFG... Awesome... can't wait to put my hands on that... Been player of GW since BETA and i love lore and everything. Arenanet do it again... best MMO

omg this game is going to own.

Holy mother of Mary. GW2 continues to impress. Very much looking forward to the first hands-on reports.

i just hope they deliver the whole thing they say they will.......looks very good tough.

Altough i have my doubts about everyone healing themselfs....sounds like anti-social gaming and not realy in the style of Massive multiplayer online games in general me thinks.

Ah yes gw1 skill choices ...

You're forgetting though Rayth3on, many skills were duplicated for each main game expansion, reducing the overall choices by quite a lot.

Then most people played with a cookie cutter build, and if YOU weren't playing with that build you were a clueless noob and didn't get team invites ...

Basically the majority of the skills were unused by the playerbase.

Stun reqires skill,you can use it to interuppt a skill,get an enemy out of combat so you can finish the other enemy,if it runs away just use stun,if an ally get attacked by an enemy use stun so the ally can run away and heal....and so on,you can do so much with it.

Release date 11/2/11 ? Hyping this up a little early aren't they? I will admit it does look good!

Please oh please dont flop on this one, it should be a true win. *prays*

I am so.. happy.. right.. now... you guys..  : **

I think i have learned not to be over excited everytime a MMO company releases a cool video. :)

wooooooooooo. shiny.

This game is criminal!It won?t let people to leave it and take some air!

All hail GW2!

i am SOLD

A Net, you are so getting my Money

Epic.  This is the most excited I've been for a fantasy-based MMO in a very (very) ((very)) long time!

And to think that last week, I wasn't even really following this game...

Oh please, if people are actually questioning the skills system... please take a look back at the first Guild Wars and tell me that, that game wasn't as diverse as it was because of the skills.  You really have nothing to fear in terms of the skills-it is it's own magical little system that you'll find is unique and fun to access.

OK. I give up. I'm on the bandwagon.

What do we do though when all the evil has been vanquished? Is the game over? Horizons tried to have this story of freeing races and making an impact on the world but you can only do these things once right?

It sounded like they were saying you won't be farming bosses like other mmos, so what do you do when you beat Sir Baddie Mcbaddassofall? Peace covers the land and subscriptions fall?

Constant strife in MMOS is the one of the many spokes in the wheel of recurring play.

All that said...it looks amazing.

Well we finally have a video of an asura using a golem in combat, and they actually PILOT it?! I really wasn't expecting that! I figured the golems would just be pets. Well now I'm certain about my race choice. :D

Surprised to see the crystal dragon at the end though, I thought GW2 was initially about fighting Zhaitan and the other dragons would be saved for expansions...?

beautiful and amazing

If everything they just said is true and will all be in the launch version of the game, then all I can say is...OUTSTANDING!!!

Can't wait to try this one out.

GW2 is the first MMO

^

You win

I hope boss encounters as epic as the dragon is going to be more than simple facerolling.

OMG i just cummed twice. 

The age old Aristotle law of causality has been missing in fantasy MMO's since the very beginning, If they get this right, it could be amazing!

best "buy me" video ever!

where can i stand in line

This is the exact opposite of SWTOR.

And I'm giddy with anticipation.

This is perfect. I love how they underline the SOCIAL aspect of the game as well, not just the grinding portion. The problem will remain splitted shards, where you have to gather all your friends same place.

No split shards, just 3 persistent worlds that people can switch between whenever they want.

Most mmos don't even really let you pick your skills they go you get these 10 skills use them or not you normally wind up using like maybe 5 of those skills and as for the no monks whats the point if everyone gets a heal? why would you need a monk someone gets stunned theirs still heals to go around maybe you should try getting facts straight before you knock it. altho if your running around solo it may become annoying but then again who's to say they wont give you some sort of shield you can pop while stunned to reduce damage or something. if their allowing special skills for when your almost dead its most likely they will have something to help fight back against stuns.

This will be an amazing game! I'm waiting impatiently.

This game just looks so different from anything else out there. It's gorgeous and this fantastic video had me sitting at the edge of my seat waiting in impatient anticipation for this game.

GW2 cannot come soon enough, imo!

dragon at end looks kiddy

but pretty cool vid.

Finally the laws of physic got applied in a mmo!!!

The Dragon got under the effect of inertia!!!

I will just jump on the hype wagon

I am in. 

This is THE game to watch. GW2 is the only soon releasing MMO that looks to deliver. I love the design direction.

I have read the articles, seen the photo's, and watch the videos. Played the first and rather pay for wow or ff11. This game does look good. I like the idea of not grinding. Well, to a point there is much to be said for working for a goal and reaching it, that makes a great game. Here is my question, for many, many months mmorpg has placed this as Number one. I can't help but to ask why, what am I missing, is there a bias? Because this game doesn't look better than ff14.

Aye i agree with Darkholmes, talk is big and graphics are quite good, but many games have good graphics and big talkin'.

The idea of "you change this in the game, then it remains changed for you" means that you can't be fully MMO since the world will be different for you than for other players. It seems to me that it'll be an instanced game again like the first version.

Finally, the "no grind" is good, but then what will make players stay in the game for a long time ?

This trailer is nice, but it brings as many questions as it brings goodies.

^

Sigh...have you done *any* reading up on the game whatsoever? All those questions have been answered in a logical and easy to understand manner before.

And people who are saying talk is cheap clearly can't have dealt with the original Guild Wars much, as they'd know that ArenaNet deliver on their promises. I can't remember when last I experienced a bug in Guild Wars, for starters. They've always delivered high-quality finished products that lived up to and exceeded my expectations.

Bring it!!!!!

How exactly does changing the game world equal instanced gameplay???

Have MMO players been brainwashed?

Its hard for them to figure out how it will work, MMORPG.com will have to do a piece on that in order for it to make sense to this community of forum readers.

Every trailer says something simillar. "We are different", as long as it comes to play this game, that will probably be duller than any other big title. Ofcourse, I hope what she says is true, but we should wait till then.

Every trailer says something simillar. "We are different", as long as it comes to play this game, that will probably be duller than any other big title. Ofcourse, I hope what she says is true, but we should wait till then.

This is the game the game the game the game................

simply awesome all, the design, the score, and the game itself

Only reason I am buying this is to bang that Chick. Just being honest.

You should read all the books she wrote. I wonder if she lieked Henry Miller?

System specs required and when do we get to demo it?!

duno why everyone is running for "instances" nowadays, a pitty.

@ Teala

In 6 days at GamesCon. :P

@ Thane

The game is not instanced. Full open world [ except for Housing and some Dungeons ].

Aww yeah. Gonn be the best game ever. Probably already is the best game ever.

Agreed with all the Ree comments. And she's cool as heck too. L5R misses her! 

Game looks cool. Will pick it up.

@alextodo

actually gamescom not gamescon

Ree Soesbee is hot!!! :D

this should be in the game because they only announce things that are in the game

All the ideas/consepts and stuff they are talking about in this video got my attention,I hope they can pull it all off (in no way is this a dis to the devs). Not saying the CANT, but a few MMO promised this and that and did not deliver. Although I do love they did not CGI'it'up and went with in game/world video.  I know after watching it I put GW2 on my watch list.

We are counting on you ArenaNet !!!

Oh ya, just in case anybody is unsure.  THAT"S GAME PLAY.

Looks like they've got the opportunity to pull off something truly wonderful here. We have to admit that the current state of MMOs today is quite meh. If Arenanet can actually accomplish everything they are promising, and do it well, they could finally be the ones we are waiting for....the ones to take the reigns and lead MMORPGs into the next level...something us fans of the genre have been wining about for years now. That could also mean the end of WoW's reign, too.

GW2 is promising to be really awesome, and just a few more days and we´ll know if it´s true

Dragon at the end:

Deathwing, eat your heart out.

It will be a good game without a doubt. Unfortunately it´s no RPG anymore just a mere MMO. It seems like the focus on real character development vanished in the last years. Today it is only a grind competition to get as fat to the max level as possible. MMORPG´s are really dying :)

any idea when this game will be out in store?

Careful guys... WAR, LOTRO,AOC,AION etc all were ment to be new and innovative.. a well put together trailer with nice music is not what you'll be playing... you'll still be finding little gwens lost flute and helping farmers kill worms just as you do at the moment...  just remember that.  Events that reset ever few hours we saw in WAR and look how that turned out.

(o_o) ... Words can not express the awesome...

Wowee!

ree is my sister in law      naaa just wishfull thinking  lol     what ever game comes out first gets my wallet if not my wallet wins lol

Sluagh_Lord dude.....Ree Soesbee is mine.  Just lettin' ya know, man. If I watch this video any more I'll probably go blind. No...not for the reason you think. Pull your minds out of the gutter, boys.