Guildwars 2

[Deathstar]

[Aeronwen]

anyone who is still in game might want to take part in the guru screenshot competition



New this Wintersday we are running a Screenshot competition parallel with the Workshop! Take a Wintersday themed Screenshot and post it in the thread to participate. You may only submit 1 screenshot to the competition and it can be cropped but not otherwise touched up in an image editing program. This means no changes to colours, contrast, brightness or otherwise.


Screenshots will be judged based on quality of composition, concept, subject(s), originality and how closely related the screenshot is to the Wintersday theme.

NB! Remove UI with crtl+shift+h and add -bmp to the end of the command line for the GW2 client to get higher quality screenshots.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/76988-wintersday-workshop/

[David]

Got this game early today, it's pretty damn awesome

[Cybran]

Got this game early today, it's pretty damn awesome

Yes, the leveling is fun, but the part after was kinda bad when I played it, maybe the added something new or updated some dungeons to make them more fun, but those 300 hours I spend playing it were worth the money.

[Aeronwen]

Got this game early today, it's pretty damn awesome

It is beautiful, use your awesome arty skills to take a screenie and enter the competition - btw care to share your ign?

[Wh1tE_Dw4rF]

I bought it on launch, played for about a week then gave up and haven't touched it since. Somehow I failed to connect to the game and felt lonely. There was so much going on but non of it felt like I was involved and part of it. Not to mention the lack of dwarves and beards...

[ryozu]

Got this game early today, it's pretty damn awesome

No David, just no. You should play Warband, man. The curse might wear off otherwise...

[David]

haven't really played warband for months now, i think the whole MMO kind of genre is designed to play it with your mates, solo play isn't nearly as fun. There's a bunch of about 5 of us, great fun.

[Aeronwen]

absolutely the clue is in the name - you really need to have a guild for it to be worthwhile.  Even so I found GW2 kind of grindy.

[nedsat]

absolutely the clue is in the name - you really need to have a guild for it to be worthwhile.  Even so I found GW2 kind of grindy.

You found it grindy? I found it easy to level. Just as easy to obtain best gear in the game (at least most of it). So I ran out of things to do rather quickly.

WvW was nothing compared to good ol' DAoC... It is ofcourse unfair to compare any game to DAoC but they did so themself.
PvP was alright but not as fun as GW1 used to be and my friends rather quickly lost interest in the game and PvP gets kinda doll when you're not playing with friends.

On the bright side the whole game experience was very smooth and I had a good time just leveling even though I was soloing most of the time. I wouldn't say it was a complete waste because I had a decent amount of fun but it didn't have that long lasting/keep on playing factor that a good MMORPG should have (imo).

[David]

My only prob with it atm was the key bindings, I like to strafe while attacking and doing that, dodging and trying to press 1-0 and the F1-F4 was a nightmare, so spent about an hour making a new key binding set that I felt comfortable with.

[Aeronwen]

absolutely the clue is in the name - you really need to have a guild for it to be worthwhile.  Even so I found GW2 kind of grindy.

You found it grindy? I found it easy to level. Just as easy to obtain best gear in the game (at least most of it). So I ran out of things to do rather quickly.

WvW was nothing compared to good ol' DAoC... It is ofcourse unfair to compare any game to DAoC but they did so themself.
PvP was alright but not as fun as GW1 used to be and my friends rather quickly lost interest in the game and PvP gets kinda doll when you're not playing with friends.

On the bright side the whole game experience was very smooth and I had a good time just leveling even though I was soloing most of the time. I wouldn't say it was a complete waste because I had a decent amount of fun but it didn't have that long lasting/keep on playing factor that a good MMORPG should have (imo).

Yeah I did find it grindy but I have not put much effort into it at all.  I don't want to have to play alone and actually my guildies are great and would come to me whenever I asked but the cost of travel annoys me.  I don't want to have to spend time levelling or getting gear or working out where to allocate points into anything, I just want to go online and play happily with friends - and that wasn't happening for me because we were all so spread out in teh world.

I loved GW and I loved playing with the guild and the whole community feeling.  I think they lost that in 2 and by trying to make a game that pleases everyone they made a dull game.  atm I give it about 30 mins a week and I don't really enjoy that.  About half my time is spent trying to manage my inventory ^^

David will you share what you came up with for your key bindings?  I had a successful set in GW but it all hinged on click to move.

[Wh1tE_Dw4rF]

My only prob with it atm was the key bindings, I like to strafe while attacking and doing that, dodging and trying to press 1-0 and the F1-F4 was a nightmare, so spent about an hour making a new key binding set that I felt comfortable with.

For a MMO it sure had a lacking amount of available keybindings and general options.

[Aeronwen]

Recently, ArenaNet pointed out that they have been uploading various music and sound clips to their SoundCloud page. You can check out their uploads here.
https://soundcloud.com/arenanet

If anything, you should listen to the voiceover outtakes. Poor Logan, INDEED. Also, I think Zojja has a serious drug problem.
https://soundcloud.com/arenanet/guild-wars-2-voiceover