What does the video game board think about Guild Wars 2?

I played it at release and loved it. Stopped when the first expansion came out.
I tried it again for 20 minutes or so when it got on Steam, but it felt sad playing it again.

Good if you like WvW. Alright if you want a time sink. PvE raiding is trash. Good class concepts on their release, but now it's homogenized shit because they're too stupid to balance things.

>>713790827 (OP)
stuck with it for awhile but the plot got increasingly aggressively gay and then they removed the login rewards, so i just gave up and uninstalled after ~10 years. the old content is thankfully mostly all still there so it's still solid as long as you stop right around/after path of fire before they started laying on the rainbow extra thick.

>>713790827 (OP)
shitty ability slop, nice environments rendered useless by fast leveling, cringe feminist writing, oversaturated 20 year old server

Would give it a shot if I could go back in time to when it was released, but now it's a bloated mess

>>713791025
>then they removed the login rewards,
Wizard's Vault replacing login rewards is one of the few good things they've changed over the years, you'd have to be an absolute fucking retard to prefer the old login system.

>>713790827 (OP)
It's fun
Good value for your money if you want something you can always go back to

>>713790827 (OP)
It's okay as long as you ignore anything to do with the story, but you can tell ANet should have moved onto GW3 years ago.
First game is still better.

>>713791158
old system
>i log in, they give me stuff
new system
>i log in, they want me to work for it
no thanks.

>>713791228
>work
It's only work if you don't play the game
At which point, why fucking bother logging in at all

>>713790827 (OP)
Miles better than the first game yes still worse than WoW.

>>713790827 (OP)
I used to like it. Haven't played in a long time though

It's shit.

game is on their last legs, 2 or 3 last expansions were dogshit, they even delayed one of these mini expansions.

>>713791489
Way overdue for Guild Wars 3

>>713791346
>At which point, why fucking bother logging in at all
for free stuff, i thought that was clear. i crafted three legendaries with all of that free stuff during periods where i was playing other games. that way, when i came back to check out new patches, i had cool new stuff to use. i simply won't be tied down to FOMO mechanics or compulsory play time tactics.

>>713791228
>ohhh nooo i have to play the game
Yep, sounds like /v/. Just ignore the fact that the rewards are way better now, AND the fact that they give you 10 astral points for just logging in which can purchase a single mystic coin (~2g) or flat gold (1g) or a bag of laurels (1g). Or other stuff once you save up. Maybe if you took two seconds to understand the new system you'd realize that you're fucking retarded.

>>713790827 (OP)
My favorite mmo, I go back and check it out once every few months or so when the itch comes. The latest map wasn't great, it desperately needed a proper final boss rather than just sort of ending on a wet fart, but the one before it was great with cool events.

>>713791519
Gaming just became extremely redundant. Guild Wars 1 came out in 2005-2008 and Guild Wars 2 came out in 2012 when people weren't even expecting a Guild Wars 2. That's barely a 7 year difference compare to now where it's a 13 year difference.

It hasn't been very good for a while. Latest expansions are trash. Pretty clear they've diverted their resources to a new game, supposedly GW3, and left the skeleton crew and jeets in charge to make the yearly mini expansions. Good news is that after End of Dragons it got significantly less woke and every time they fuck up they add some new lewd skin, just a few weeks after releasing their latest patch (possibly the worst thing they've ever released) they immediately followed up with a skimpy bikini so there's that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxTiwKvp348

>>713790827 (OP)
I sunk a lot of time into this, probably money too
There's a lot of bad things about it, for example, dungeons are gatekeeped by meta enforcers and end game consists of standing in public spaces pretending to be afk to show off ugly sparkle armour
Even so I stuck with the game, because I love how big the world feels, I like jumping puzzles and comfy places, and I REALLY love asura. I think I made like 10 asura characters. My favourite part of the game was probably the early asura story missions, where its just a bunch of dorks getting into trouble. The story is the main thing I played the game for, but the writing just got worse and worse. I first realised how bad things had gotten when my misfitting asura character was forced to stand watching a "tragic" scene where a bunch of diverse all-female characters mourned the loss of another, as if I even knew who the fuck any of them were.

The biggest most hurtful thing is what they did to Zojja, my favourite character. The voice actor quit before the first expansion, and so she was written out of the story by implying she was made braindead by the villain, which is just cruel and sad. I was waiting for years for Zojja to finally re-enter the story. When they announced a new expansion where Zojja was finally returning I was interested in the game again for the first time in years. But the writers imply that Zojja was left at home in Rata Sum, humiliated, bullied, and outcast by society because of her injury. That makes no sense. I love Zojja and it's not realistic that my character wouldn't have visited her or made sweet love to her in canon. But the writers are implying I neglected her. For what THEY did to her. Then, the writers say that she trades her memories to join a psychic cult. That's right, all the connection she had to you as a companion, ERASED. It makes me so angry and the only catharsis is drawing cute Zojja porn, but I suck at drawing so I can't even do that AARGH I HATE GUILD WARS 2

I know it's an MMORPG and you're supposed to play with others, but due to personal circumstances it was pretty much impossible to log on at a time where I could play with other guild members. Got kicked out of 2 guilds because I work while they played. I leveled up like 3 or 4 scrimblos and got to a point where I had to find a group to play, so I stopped playing. To this day it's the only MMORPG I can stomach playing. It has a lot of fun aspects. I think MMORPGs just aren't for me.

>>713792393
Why did I read all that shit...

>>713792654
You value me and my opinion?

>>713792654
I personally told you to?

>>713792769
NTA, but I value big-eared asura sluts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSk5E25oDD8

>>713790827 (OP)
Played it in beta, played it at launch and dropped it after a month, have tried playing it again several times over the years since, I just don't like this game at all

>>713790827 (OP)
It's got nothing on the OG, which is brimming with soul

>>713793254
>canonically you go on one date as the commander
>the only option to date a female is a fucking tengu

>>713792932
how big?

>>713793990
The bigger and floppier the better. Down to their knees, if possible.

>>713790827 (OP)

It was kino of the highest order, but had problems in its core gameplay that made it uninteresting to keep playing after 2 years.

But it did a lot masterfully, despite being too different of a game than guild wars 1 that it couldn't be said to be a sequel, it did some amazing things on its own and remains one of my best experiences having played it

There is a reason it's still up after all these years, despite the core problems, when most MMOs fail at their second year.

Anyone who disagrees is low IQ and probably doesn't even like high IQ games like morrowind

Imagine calling yourself a gamer in 2025 but you don't even read most if not all of the morrowind books hahah, pathetic. I hate neo-/v/ so much

>>713790827 (OP)
The raiding meta and community is total ass

>>713790827 (OP)
Thanks to this game now we know what happens if you take out dedicated healers
It just devolves into a extremely cancerous meta of casting a shitload of buffs and what class brings more buffs to the group

>>713793254
GW2 dialogue is so bad that it should be used to scare pedos straight. anybody that thinks they could date a high school aged girl and listen to them talk will want to marry a 60 year old grandma after listening to taimi, gorrik, marjory, and kasmeer ramble about the most banal and vapid shit you can imagine for a few hours.

>>713795174

>>713791528
I crafted 3 legendaries in 2013. I'm over it.

>>713790827 (OP)
It was fun when it came out, I never played any of the PvE gay stuff, I only did sPvP
I got good enough at it to be invited to the first sPvP invitational tournament, but I had to say no because I was in the Army at the time and I couldn't get leave on such short notice :(

>>713790827 (OP)
Turned to shit once the Skyscale was released

>>713790827 (OP)
i don't really care for it, but guild wars 2 dudes are somewhat chill seeming, unlike some other mmo players, so you're alright with me

Most peoples impression of the game are 10 years out of date, citing issues from launch as if they were current or feeling mislead that the sequel had a completely different structure from the original despite all the previews and open tests.

>>713796775
Yeah, someone should break it to them that the game has actually gotten much worse since then

>>713790827 (OP)
It's alright. Probably peaked with its first expansion

>>713796872
kek got'em

>>713790827 (OP)
This is a FFXIV board loser

>>713797191
late stage coomerism

>>713795174
Gorrik is much better than the other three. The biggest problems are Braham and the supporting characters of each expansion

>>713790827 (OP)
>Beat up a bigot
It's trash. Also the devs will literally ban you for wrongthink

>>713797371
every character in the story has huge problems but i singled out those characters because they speak like teenagers. gorrik was the origin of the "Friends Detective Agency" that made me cringe out of my chair, and half of his dialogue is childish crushing on taimi. braham's problems are massive, i agree, but they're different problems.

>>713797191
>retard is now bringing his seething hateboner for xiv to unrelated threads too

>>713790827 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxTiwKvp348

Post Asuras, faggots.

>>713797950
This is the "Nobody likes you kormir" of gw2.
Basically nothing but half-truths from a secondary that somehow becomes the de facto opinion of the uneducated.

>>713796872
lmao owned

>>713790827 (OP)
Least bad WOW clone.

Best MMORPG ever but I don't like to talk about it because the community is really good and prestative and I don't want WoW players migrating to GW2

its okay, but bloated af for new players and the latest expansions have been subpar. still better than ffxiv and wow imo but thats really not saying much

This absolute dumpster fire of aborted ideas is still running? Oof.

>>713797950
what a mess
glad i dropped it a few months into release

>>713790827 (OP)
I understand the appeal but it's not for me. I think the fact that I can come back to it at any time for the most part, and not worry about a subscription I usually keep it downloaded and hop back in for a couple days once a year or two.

>>713798462
>I don't want WoW players migrating to
Smart man.
Smart, smart man. Take it from the FF14 players who had personal experience: courting WoW players is the biggest mistake you can ever make.

>>713798046
dumb bookah

>>713798787
That's redundant.

>>713790827 (OP)
How's the ERP?

>damn no FF14/WoW shitflinging thread on the log? better turn a GW2 thread into one, then.

>>713798196
Nobody liked Kormir
That video is a time capsule of the era, people despised kormir as she was a worse Rurik and Togo and does nothing narratively nor in gameplay
Back in 2008 Kormir was called "the nigger bitch" in pugs frequently, you're a gw2fag trying to rewrite history because she's a negress

>>713798787
What does bookah mean?

>>713790827 (OP)
Horrible progression, I remember getting all my skills by lvl 40 in base game and still having another 40 to go
That shit sucks ass when it happens dood

>>713797191
eww wtf
you're saying i could just log into the game and have my eyes assaulted by these disgusting hambeasts around me?

I've been playing MMOs since 2002 and I've played a lot of shitty ass free to play Korean junk and I've played Japanese games and a load of western MMOs.
Of all of them, GW2 is the one I like the least, it has absolutely nothing going for it, I detest it.
They removed the trinity and offered nothing in exchange, every battle may as well be a solo encounter but you have a mess of other players cluttering your screen for no reason. There are technically some dungeons but the game doesn't do anything to lead you to them and most players don't care about running them because they're worthless and the story isn't interesting anyway.
I've put hundreds of hours into this particular game trying to understand why people like it but I cannot, it's such an empty soulless husk of a game with no reason to exist, just a bunch of collectibles dotted around a massive pointless map. Like go play fucking Mario if you want to platform and collect stuff.
I'd call this the worst MMO I'd ever played but the more I think about it the more I struggle to call it an MMO.

>>713798890
I was there. I saw you idiots start this retarded shit.
You and so many others would rather be a statue in the desert than let a narrative resolve naturally.

>>713798196
>Basically nothing but half-truths from a secondary that somehow becomes the de facto opinion of the uneducated.
???
Everything it highlights happened

>>713790827 (OP)
Base game was fine. Scummy monetization. Giving the playable character a voice and a personality was a mistake.

>>713798929
They'd be regular bunnygirls on your screen. But on their screens, you'd be one of them.

>>713798890
>she was a worse Rurik and Togo
She was literally the same thing. But this time it's bad because
>le racism is le funny

>>713799096
You should look up what a half-truth is.

>>713790827 (OP)
The combat was clearly designed for PvP. It's fine in the open-world, but falls apart in instanced content: press all your buttons, swap weapon, press all your buttons, swap weapon...

Heart of Thorns is peak open-world casual-ish content to this day, it was never surpassed by any other MMO (or by Path of Fire, that's when I stopped playing so I can't comment on more recent expansions).

I hate how dogshit the inventory is. It's bad on purpose, so players buy inventory upgrades from the cash shop.

I would probably still play it from time to time on Steam Deck, if it supported controllers natively. If I'm sitting at my computer, I'd rather play something else.

>>713799157
What is "half-true" about any claim made in that video?

>>713799256
Holy fuck you're stupid.

>making out with your new asura gf
>she forgets herself for a second and bites your ear, hard
>starts frantically apologizing, saying you probably don't know how important earplay is in asura culture, might not be into it, she should have asked you first, etc.
>you cut her off by biting her ear back
>she moans deeply

>>713794795
I don't think I've played a single MMO in which the raiding community wasn't awful

>>713799292
not that anon but it sounds a lot like you don't have an argument and just want to shit your pants publicly until people stop responding.

>>713799292
You have failed to provide a single argument against the video, troon. You need to try a lot harder if you want to be taken seriously.

>>713791792
Watching liberal companies course correct after trying too hard is always weird to me. It’s like watching your girlfriend make you breakfast in bed after she realizes you know about her texting Chad at the office.

>>713799150
But I can't see that shit?

Made for building and gawking at sluts

>>713799495
no anon you need to mod your own game

>>713798854
Terrible, but only because the primary audience for the game are actual biofems instead of trannies.

>>713790827 (OP)
Absolutely fucking hate it. I was a Guild Wars 1 babby but GW2 has eliminated most of the things great about GW1, like Guild versus Guild battles, all other PvP modes, the beautiful character design (there was only one race, the human race, so all effort flowed into these. Everyone of the 10 classes got their own unique armor designs! And there were WAY more of them. And almost all female designs in the classes I cared about were not boring brown buttcapes and baggy pants like in GW2, but very cute/hot/aesthetic looking. Check yourself: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Armor), and what I hate the most of all is that they removed the Magic the Gathering inspired skill system. Again, look in the wiki for the sheer variety.

>>713799572
Oh. Then it doesn't matter to me. Ty for the info, I almost was starting to wonder why everyone isn't speaking out against this shit if this was forced on them.

Is GW1 as good as people say it is? I know GW2 is your typical boring modern MMO shit.
Also kill yourselves FF14troons

>>713799620
>there was only one race, the human race, so all effort flowed into these
All effort still goes into humans. lol

>>713799620
Going from GW1 to GW2 was such a downgrade. I'd love an actual or spiritual successor to it.

>>713799362
>>713799385
He does this every single guild wars thread, he tries to present himself as an authority and then tries to claim the video is a false narrative being pushed by /pol/ or some other racists

>>713799734
Depends on how well you handle dated MMO shit. Even though I've been playing mmos since UO launched in the late 90s, I had a real difficult time getting into GW1 because of the janky movement and combat. Everything else was fantastic though.

>>713790827 (OP)
I liked the story of the first two expansions.
Also I know someone will start seething about this, but I'd be playing GW2 for a very long time if the gear progression was vertical. I don't like the "get all the best stuff within couple hours and then find your own fun" idea of an MMO. Cosmetics should not be the endgame on an MMO.

GW1 is not an MMORPG, it's a lobby game

>>713800061
>I don't like the "get all the best stuff within couple hours and then find your own fun" idea of an MMO.
I mean that's fair, at least you admit it. Without WvW I'd be lost as fuck too because I don't really care about cosmetics.

>>713799734
It absolutely is, although personally I find the combat only really starts to shine against either high level (as in difficulty, not literal level) NPC foes or against humans. For trash mobs in low level areas you will really miss that you have not much to do because your NPC companions probably will kill them by themselves and because GW1 is not an action combat type of game.

There's still a small PvP scene that plays on weekends, and I got my buddy recently to start a playthrough of it.

>>713799362
>>713799385
Play the game.

>>713800071
Like most MMOs nowadays?

>>713800374
>still has zero arguments
>skips straight to shilling
You're not very good at selling your troon slop flop

>>713798995
>bitches about dungeons being dead content
>doesnt know about fractals despite playing for "hundreds of hours"
Lmao

>>713800457
>no, I don't want to learn why I'm wrong
Okay then. Eat a cock.

>>713800550
>zero arguments

>>713800374
>still not one single rebuttal, counter-point, or argument of any kind
i did. i came to same conclusions. last (You) you'll get from me until you stop pissing your pants like a baby and substantiate your POV.

why is some dude trying hard to instigate a fight between gw2 and ff14

>>713800061
there is still vertical progression, it's just somewhat limited and the gap in time investment between ascended and legendary is absurd

>>713800846
no father in the household. lots of them these days. just want to argue for the sake of arguing because that's how they learned to communicate after getting neglected.

GW2 should make a final expansion, about building a big beautiful new great wall and Make Ascalon Great Again by pushing those filthy charr out of rightful human lands

>>713799734
It's a good game, but it's barely an MMO. The game is entirely in the form of small-scale, fully instanced areas. The game is structured around three RPG campaigns that are supposed to train and guide you toward engaging in the various PvP modes. Combat is ultimately about team-building in the form of choosing from over 1000 skills for the sake of one unified purpose.

>>713800509
I know about but the game doesn't direct you towards them in any natural way, you have to seek out a group yourself and guess what? They're shit. You run through, clueless, with 4 other clueless people, bash your head against some boring ass encounters and then walk off with loot.
There's no meaningful party dynamics because the game isn't built to support it. The whole thing is just a waste of time.

>>713801059
Dangerously based

>>713801059
>they start a story about a rebel warband causing a charr civil war, the leader is literally drumpf
>half way through they decide to make it retarded and about dragons and shit again
I had such high hopes back then, IBS was fucked based for the first three chapters.

>>713798995
>There are technically some dungeons but the game doesn't do anything to lead you to them
The game literally sends you an ingame mail for every dungeon.

GW2 and FFXIV are both subhuman trash. Stop playing mmos.

>>713801145
>There's no meaningful party dynamics because the game isn't built to support it.
Still can't wrap my head around the fact that you played for hundreds of hours and didn't figure out that the anti-trinity was abandoned over a decade ago, replaced by something similar to trinity:
boon providers
straight dps
healing

You can heal boon or dps boon, but every all game content needs alacrity, quickness, healers and a certain amount of dps. Steamrolling through broken, abandoned dungeon content thinking you understand the game in its current form is pretty fucking retarded bro.

>>713801487
Both are based.

>>713801438
Yes the game SHOWERS you with a billion notifications every time you level up.
That's not what I'm talking about and I would hope you know that. Compare it to Worlo's gentle build up to Deadmines all the way from level 1 and leading you into that dungeon having it be the payoff to your early game experience where you need to put everything you've learned into practice.
Guild Wars 2 never has anything like this, at any point.

>>713801556
>boon providers
>straight dps
>healing
Oh right if I do my rotation I maintain a party buff that requires no additional thought or decisionmaking on anyone's part. Now that's teamplay!
It's dogshit man.

>>713798995
This post reeks of "I played once in 2012 and never touched the game ever again."

>>713801909
Even better, that is in fact the best way to have played GW2. It was all downhill after the first expansion

>>713790827 (OP)
i really don't like it, but it's one of the only MMORPGs with decent casual PvP.

I really love WvW especially since the server change thing, probably the best world pvp in an MMO since DAOC but there's not a lot of competition on that front.

>>713790827 (OP)
Necromancer was cool for like 30-50 hours. Played main story all the way up to icebrood saga and then got bored on more recent expansions and dropped it.

>>713790827 (OP)
I'm a gay furry but I think Charr are kinda ugly. Uncanny minotaur cats, pick a lane.

>>713790827 (OP)
started terrible, improved enough that I might've recommended it, but has gone back to being terrible again
now they're getting away with yearly "expansions" that are barely better than the side stories they used to do. it works because they're not getting any new blood and are just satisfying the playerbase that only plays this game anyway

>>713800635
>>713800707
>the source is lies
>no argument
My argument is play the game. Which you won't.

Is there a single MMO where every race isn't just a humanoid? I'm sick and tired of every race being
>yellow human with pointy ear
>blue human with pointy ear
>short and wide human with beard
>green human but he's ugly and short
Let me play as a fucking polar bear or something jesus christ

>>713801354
This should be the opposite. The Charr absolutely blew them the fuck out.

>>713802974
>>713802727

>>713790827 (OP)
The charrs owe HUMANITY reparations

>>713802974
WoW has like 10 freakshit races, in fact vanilla elves (blood elves) are not a launch race. Night elves are muscular purple stag people

>>713802974
Charr and Syvlari are pretty unique imo.

>>713802974
This game is the closest you will get, norn are "humans but mommy" but the rest are fairly different while still human-shaped

>>713790827 (OP)
Dogshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxTiwKvp348

Look at how many times they post it.
Secondaries. They don't know anything else.

>>713802974
gotchu sempai

>>713803759
do you know what humanoid means

>>713802920
>Guy literally says he's played the game
>"You didn't play the game"
I've played it from launch and the video is correct as its mostly just screencaps of other people's posts and actual shit ingame

>>713802174
WoW is better.

>>713791534
Some people wanna play a game and not have a virtual job

>>713803008
The Titans*

>>713804465
>i still get login rewards for just logging in, in fact they're better and not limited to what # day I logged in, and have much more options
>UHHH I DONT WANT TO HAVE A VIRTUAL JOB OK?
What the fuck, how did you equate those two things?

>>713802974
The closest thing I can think of is the Druid class in WoW, you literally play as an animal.
A race with an entirely different, non-humanoid shape is a fuckton of additional work, unless they half-ass it. All humanoid-shaped class would more or less share the same armor, and then they would need to create new models for the insectoid race. That's why no one does it.
Not to mention it wouldn't make that much sense lore-wise: how is the cockroach-shaped race wearing pants? Or gloves? Or rings?

>>713791158
it's great for people who actually play
was also hilarious to see the hate for it from people with multiple accounts

>>713804465
>virtual job
Genuinely what are you even talking about?

>>713790827 (OP)
It's the only good mmo worth playing right now. If you enjoy PvP and WvW this game has to offer the best combat in an mmo. Pve is alright but I retired from doing that after getting all my CMs done.
As a new player you will probably get overwhelmed with how much content there is to do, but you can do it at your own phase and always find groups running old content too. There is no fomo chasing besides cosmetics.

>pve
serviceable, meta events are pretty cool, fractals, strikes and raids are pretty good end game content but somewhat limited
>story
literally 0/10 kill myself tier. wuk lumat has nothing on some of these characters and you cant skip dialogue after core its fucking insane.
>pvp
pretty good, especially since its separate from the main game and you dont need gear for it, you can jump right in. problem is high tiers are infested with hackers and anet doesnt give a fuck.
>wvw
its great if you like siege style capture the flag with massive groups. roaming solo is fun as fuck if you dont get jumped by a zerg, but the zerg style gameplay is pretty boring and the meta strats leave a lot to be desired.
>cosmetics
pretty good as of late, more coomer skins added after backlash from wokeness from the last major expansion.

overall its aight.

>>713803881
do you know what humanoid means

>>713790827 (OP)
/v/ros i recovered my account a couple years back and i have the itch, what expansions are worth grabbing?

>>713807298
I came back to the game after a ten year break and bought all the expansions. Played for a week and then quit before I even reached the first expansion.
It's too fucking boring.
Just because every other MMO on the market is shit or dead doesn't make this one good.

>>713799734
Dogshit game that is dead for a reason.
Gw1 troons are just mad that nobody gives a shit about it.

>>713807298
They're all good for their specializations. Path of Fire with the added bonus of mounts.
Actually playing through them? None really.

>>713790827 (OP)
stopped playing it right before the first expansion. I liked it at launch.

>>713809539
>gw1 troons
Projection from a gw2 troon

>>713790827 (OP)
boring garbage that you just faceroll keyboard on

>>713807298
HoT + PoF are the only good expansions, and also happen to be the cheapest and on sale rn iirc.
Then the LWS, specifically 4 for the skyscale and roller beetle. Skip LWS2, 3, and 5 unless you really like the game. These can also be bought with gold to gem conversions.
EoD if you want the third specializations and fishing.

Stay away from the overpriced garbage SOTO and JW.

>>713790827 (OP)
Still playing it, and just doing first expansion, but Im liking GW2, and is better than wow. Even if the writing migh be shit in later expansions, the world of Tyria is cool to explore. And I like the gameplay, profession variety+weapons skills, and the non-human races are good.