People tell me things like “But Commander Keen, she’s the next major NPC, and we’re going to vote for her and all this and that…” and I go inworld and wonder where all that is.
The living story is a severe disappointment to me. Oh I guess I missed that interview… I was too busy looking for the story, the lore IN THE FREAKING GAME!!! I love the lore of Guild Wars, stop making me feel like its a ‘dumb game’ I am hassled into playing… And then we have to run a race that is there for… what? Why am I playing Mario Kart? What’s the story connection? And then I have to meet a series of random Skritt hanging out in caves and mountain tops next to kites… why?
– Maybe there is a why, but other than the signs of Flame & Frost, it was never told inworld. 10-30+ press-F-to-win entries that have all the meaning of… what? Why am I gathering random crystals? Why fix signs? Why approach hologram generators? WHY? You just go in there and have a huge list of achievements to check off. Its like watching Scooby Doo – we could play these in any order and they would make just as much sense. … Just that its got no relation back to the core Guild Wars lore…Įach of these two week updates, on resolving, neatly leaves us largely where we were at the beginning. Meanwhile Elona, Cantha, and about a million dragons sit idly by seemingly forgotten… while we play with Steampunk air pirates for… I don’t know why… After all of this, the impact is going to be a choice between Commander Keen and Random Cat: which will have all the impact of deciding which of two possible fractals they will release first (presuming the idea for the other will make its way in at some undetermined point). Instead, to have any clue about what is going on, you need to watch SOTG interviews, and read websites.Įverything is episodic – 2 week long chunks that wrap up with little to no impact. They can’t even be bothered to put the plot, what shabby little of it there is, into the game. I’ve actually started playing LESS GW2 as a result. They seem to have completely forgotten their own setting’s lore in favor of chasing context-less quick patches that have nothing to do with this setting. I see all the signs of a focus on short term shinies and addictive repetition and no signs on larger plot development. “I think most Guild Wars 2 fans are blown away with the updates.” I’ve been meaning to hold off on my opinion blogs until after finishing my build guides, but its getting harder and harder to hold back my growing frustrations with Guild Wars 2. That is what I’ve been feeling is what has happened to this game as a whole… I suppose it is fitting that last night in a cold river way up in the Shiverpeaks, my character was attacked by a shark, and to get away, I jumped over it.
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