Guild Wars 2 V2: GOTY 2017 or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Arenanet - Games

Those dragons look badass.

Also gonna repost this again: [url]http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Interviews[/url] It's a big collection of all the major interviews and stuff. Lots of juicy info nuggets hidden away in there.

[QUOTE=DuncanFrost;34029824]I love the fact that Valve and Arenanet are in the same neighbourhood. Bellevue seems like an awesome place for game studios.[/QUOTE] In my experience, Bellevue is the most amazing place ever for anyone in the industry.

2017 is a bit optimistic, don't you think? :v:

I had a dream that GW2 was supposed to go in to open beta this week. I woke up disappointed :smith:

CAN NOT FUCKING WAIT FOR THIS AND STILL I AM WAITING FOR OVER 4 FUCKING YEARS FUCK!

[QUOTE=kirederf7;34034540]CAN NOT FUCKING WAIT FOR THIS AND STILL I AM WAITING FOR OVER 4 FUCKING YEARS FUCK![/QUOTE] We all are, man.

I haven't heard much about this game, but I played and loved the first one. Where do the instanced areas start and the multiplayer world begin? Like in GW1 the cities it what I'd consider the multiplayer areas, but everywhere else was sort of a 4 player dungeon crawler. [editline]3rd January 2012[/editline] Or is it similar to (I hate comparing games to another) SWTOR, where the singleplayer experience of your own character is instanced, but the rest isn't; also. How voice acted is the game.

[QUOTE=The very best;34035346]I haven't heard much about this game, but I played and loved the first one. Where do the instanced areas start and the multiplayer world begin? Like in GW1 the cities it what I'd consider the multiplayer areas, but everywhere else was sort of a 4 player dungeon crawler. [editline]3rd January 2012[/editline] Or is it similar to (I hate comparing games to another) SWTOR, where the singleplayer experience of your own character is instanced, but the rest isn't; also. How voice acted is the game.[/QUOTE] It was more like 8 player instanced except for the early areas which were 4 or 6. And in GW2 it's more like SWTOR, The maps are persistent, the towns are persistent, the dungeons are instanced.

GW2 is loads better than SWTOR though...

[QUOTE=kirederf7;34036446]GW2 is loads better than SWTOR though...[/QUOTE] Nobody said it was/wasn't...

[QUOTE=The very best;34036587]Nobody said it was/wasn't...[/QUOTE] I know, I just said it is.

I haven't played the original GW. Read up on GW2 to see what it was all about and i'm so excited I can't wait until it comes out. I hope the specs for the game aren't too high or i'll be in trouble :smith:

[QUOTE=DerpHurr;34037445]I haven't played the original GW. Read up on GW2 to see what it was all about and i'm so excited I can't wait until it comes out. I hope the specs for the game aren't too high or i'll be in trouble :smith:[/QUOTE] They said that they are trying to make the game as scaleable as possible, and at one point, they had a build running on an older laptop of theirs. Don't worry too much about it, I'm sure Arenanet will make sure everyone can play GW2!

[QUOTE=Grasp;34039945]They said that they are trying to make the game as scaleable as possible, and at one point, they had a build running on an older laptop of theirs. Don't worry too much about it, I'm sure Arenanet will make sure everyone can play GW2![/QUOTE] I remember reading somewhere that if you were able to run Guild Wars, you could most likely run GW2. I'll have to look it up.

[QUOTE=DeandreT;34040091]I remember reading somewhere that if you were able to run Guild Wars, you could most likely run GW2. I'll have to look it up.[/QUOTE] I do believe the quote was along the lines of: "We had to scour E-bay for old graphics cards in order to test whether or not they could run it, as no store could provide us with such old cards" Iirc, they got it working properly even on cards that were considered "old" a year or so ago. So that basically means anything that runs GW1 decently will be able to run GW2.

Day one purchase, motherfucker.

Guild Wars 2 - Collectors Edition - Collectors edition

[QUOTE=Miskav;34040519]I do believe the quote was along the lines of: "We had to scour E-bay for old graphics cards in order to test whether or not they could run it, as no store could provide us with such old cards" Iirc, they got it working properly even on cards that were considered "old" a year or so ago. So that basically means anything that runs GW1 decently will be able to run GW2.[/QUOTE] This. However, this does not mean that they are neglecting the high end of things.

There's a screenshot of somebody playing on the lowest possible settings, it looks hilariously bad but it means that almost everybody should be able to play if they want to.

[QUOTE=DuncanFrost;34045987]There's a screenshot of somebody playing on the lowest possible settings, it looks hilariously bad but it means that almost everybody should be able to play if they want to.[/QUOTE] Found it. [img]http://i.imgur.com/OY9Oq.png[/img] oh god oh god my eyes! Can't really tell the difference between a jagged horror and everything else. Everything is a jagged horror.

Oh dear god my eyes [editline]4th January 2012[/editline] make it stop

I like how they all have their names out, except for the few people that for some reason decided to remove them

[QUOTE=Newbienice99;34050417]I like how they all have their names out, except for the few people that for some reason decided to remove them[/QUOTE] That was from the closed beta.

[QUOTE=Newbienice99;34050417]I like how they all have their names out, except for the few people that for some reason decided to remove them[/QUOTE] It's from the closed beta, they can't have their names in there or they'll get kicked out for breaking the NDA.

[QUOTE=DeandreT;34040091]I remember reading somewhere that if you were able to run Guild Wars, you could most likely run GW2. I'll have to look it up.[/QUOTE] Well I had this old shitty e-machines computer that could run GW. Got a new computer since then, not TOO great, kinda old, but its wayyy better than that old e-machines.

[QUOTE=DeandreT;34050654]That was from the closed beta.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DuncanFrost;34050753]It's from the closed beta, they can't have their names in there or they'll get kicked out for breaking the NDA.[/QUOTE] Oh I just assumed it was an ANet taken picture, because of all those ANet player titles

[QUOTE=DuncanFrost;34050753]It's from the closed beta, they can't have their names in there or they'll get kicked out for breaking the NDA.[/QUOTE] I'm hoping to see a lot of new media now that it's closed beta. Most content will probably be removed/censored though.

[QUOTE=psychojake;34057188]I'm hoping to see a lot of new media now that it's closed beta. Most content will probably be removed/censored though.[/QUOTE] That picture was from a Facepuncher who had a friend in beta, we probably won't get much other than that because it's all under NDA atm. But the results of this beta will determine the public beta date. Which means we can expect to hopefully get to try out the game without having to travel across the country.

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