Forum Overview :: Guild Wars

Also, what is with MMO developers not wanting to explain how their game works by Rafiki 09/23/2012, 1:04pm PDT Guild Wars 2 takes it to a whole new level by giving you a "Hints" panel that contains no actual hints, but instead brief explanations of how to play the game. They could use a few more hints on how combat works, since it confused the hell out of me when I changed weapons, sold my old one, and then went back to questing only to find out all of my abilities disappeared with no explanation as to why. Later I got a tooltip popup mentioning combos and how I should expirement to find new ones, but I had no idea how I did a combo in the first place and the game didn't feel like telling me. I think a lot of modern developers have confused basic instructions with finding all of the nuances with their gameplay system. It's like if Parker Brothers packaged Monopoly with the board, game pieces, and a piece of paper that said only, "Make the other players go bankrupt," and told you to "discover" all of the other features of the game.

Guild Wars 2 is really well done by jeep 09/09/2012, 11:19pm PDT     I didn't like the beta by Entropy Stew 09/10/2012, 2:48pm PDT         One of the first MMOs in history I did not bother to play the beta by jeep 09/10/2012, 8:45pm PDT     by Bear's fuzzy backside, is that you? by Rafiki 09/23/2012, 12:55pm PDT         Also, what is with MMO developers not wanting to explain how their game works by Rafiki 09/23/2012, 1:04pm PDT             actually this happened to me, yeah by jeep 09/23/2012, 4:40pm PDT     It gets more broken the further up you go by WITTGENSTEIN 09/23/2012, 4:59pm PDT         I just hit 60 so we'll see by jeep 09/23/2012, 7:46pm PDT             Patch today fixed a lot of broken events allegedly NT by WITTGENSTEIN 09/25/2012, 5:14pm PDT                 good because there's 4 maps I couldn't finished due to bugged npcs by jeep 09/25/2012, 6:24pm PDT                     How did you make it to 60, I'm bored at 22. by Rafiki 10/03/2012, 8:33pm PDT                         20-30 is a bit of a grind. Around level 35 you find event chains you can run by WITTGENSTEIN 10/03/2012, 9:17pm PDT                             Also 70-80 is the easiest grind ever. NT by WITTGENSTEIN 10/04/2012, 5:04pm PDT                                 =( NT by Warhammer Online 20-30 grind 10/05/2012, 12:14pm PDT                                 yeah no kidding NT by jeep 10/05/2012, 6:36pm PDT                         How you make it to 80 by jeep 10/05/2012, 6:53pm PDT                             I got to 35, still bored still boring by Rafiki 10/18/2012, 6:52pm PDT                                 hahaha NT by Fullofkittens 10/18/2012, 8:24pm PDT