Several thousand hours in gw2. Really liked it.
I hope they keep the stuff I liked. Solo friendly but other people are around to casually join up or whatever. No level grinding. No gear grind.

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Several thousand hours in gw2. Really liked it.
I hope they keep the stuff I liked. Solo friendly but other people are around to casually join up or whatever. No level grinding. No gear grind.
Maybe a little less storage management, though.
how else are they going to sell more inventory slots? :D
Truly that the core, if you look stuck or having an hard time, passing people often help.
Of course arenanet are in the best position to make a new mmo, I can't wait. Gw2 made me get into illustration.
I can see why. The loading/travel screen art blew me away on release and still does now.
I don't often get my hopes up for new games any more, but I kinda have for this.
Guild Peace when?
I'm cautiously optimistic about this one. I loved GW2, even though I haven't kept up with it in a while, so I'm interested to see what they are planning for the sequel. Orr also seems like a fun setting. I live the descriptions in GW2 of Orr pre-sinking. (Also, the gods (presumably) saying "we promise you magic" is funny, considering how horribly that ends in this case.)
However, GW2 is dripping in style, and I love the painterly style it has. I'm not seeing that same style in this trailer. It looks kinda generic, tbh. (The design of the mount is stellar, though.)
Also, being set in the past means that the Sylvari don't exist yet, and the Charr are still the "great enemy", so those two are out. We seem to have gained Kodan as a playable race, though (probably means no Norn as well, since they would have quite a bit of overlap). Also, this seemed like the perfect chance to give the people the Tengu they have wanted, but playable Tengu remains a dream, it seems.
I’m hyped for this for the most part. But you pointed out what I felt but couldn’t put my finger on: the visual style does look kinda generic in the trailer. I hope that they evolve this into a more unique or stylized style.
I'm excited for this but really upset that the beta is in FALL OF 2027...
And like most mmo launches, it’s really just an EA launch with the real content to be reworked and added later.
Fashion Wars 3!? In this economy?
Oh damn??? Looks like MMORPGs aren't dead after all. I would have loved to see some gameplay but it's nice knowing there's an honest to god new mmo being made by a big studio.
Sure hope they're not dead, FF XIV is thriving!
Same with gw2 and wow but we're talking 21, 16, and 14 year old games here lol, every "major" new MMO since those 3 has died... it's not exactly inaccurate to call the genre dead.
Shout-out the return of Gloria Victis next week too, best pvp MMO I've ever played, the sieges are insane.
Speaking of ffxiv, if I had a penny for every MMO trailer with tapestry artwork I've seen come out this year, I'd have two pennies, etc
(FFXIV Evercold trailer being the first one)
When GW2 came out, lots of GW1 fans didnt really connect with it.
Hope we GW2 fans are not gonna feel the same about GW3.
But even if GW3 was not made for GW2 audience, we are still getting another one.
Both current GW games are different and good.
I look forward to playing 5 years after release once ANET has changed their mind about core design choices a few times, fluctuated between unique classes and homogenization, and exhaust their thesaurus to be different than other MMOs. I know that sounds sarcastic, but I really do like GW2. I actually have it open on the other monitor right now- I'm in Mistlock smelting mithril ingots. I'm not sure why ANET has such a difficult time sticking to design choices, but eventually it seems to work out.
Wow. Pretty excited to see this. I loved GW2 a lot.
I hope the combat has stronger identity in this one. Really love GW2 but the combat felt very flimsy and each identity seems like tried to be different from usual rpg roles and never had a solid identity that felt as good as classic roles.
GW1 hands down is one of the most creative online RPGs
GW2 has nothing of what made guildwars fun for me
hopefully GW3 is a mix of both ? open world MMO with the skills system of GW1
I'm genuinely very excited for this, but I have to ask: What use is this video as far as an advertisement? What does the video add beyond what an official headline with GW3 on it couldn't? There's no gameplay, information, nothing but some pretty pictures and a voice-over. The most I could gather is there's some form of rock climbing, there's mounts, and there are classes. But even some of that might be off.
Yeah aside from the mounts this looked like some generic unreal engine demo using generic assets.They’d be better off just showing the logo until they have some actual content to show.
Kinda par for the course for guild wars PR though. GW2 had some weirdly bad promo videos.
It shows off:
And I've probably missed a ton of things. Once you really start looking at it there's actually a lot going on.
But I want to be a planty people ;_; Still amazing though!!
haha same, as a sylvari main from my first day, I'll miss my glowing salads, but oh well, as long as they keep GW2 alive...
Can't wait! Looks like Kodan will be a playable race?
I've never really played any GW games, but a honest to goodness new MMO from a experienced studio is exciting! For so long the genre have been awash with kickstarter scams like Ashes of Creation or multiple Ultimas, it's encouraging to have some hope.
Damn. I'm only like three expansions and a bunch of living world episodes behind.. shit
Fuck yeah, gw2 is my favorite mmo I've ever played, and its not even close. I'm so excited for this.
Since this is set in Orr, I'm assuming it'll be another time jump, as it looks quite different!
I wonder what their plans are for GW2 to make sure certain content remains accessible with a dwindling population. Fingers crossed for some kind of heroes system like in GW1!
Rumors are its a prequel to the first 2
considering Orr is destroyed and the gods show multiple who are dead, its definitely a prequel.
This may put us timeline wise into The Guild Wars the games are named after.
I will miss sylvari though, not many fantasy races I love as much as I do sylvari. Maybe some timeline nonsense in gw2 will give me sylvari.
I love tree people! It's an under served niche!
A prequel seems like it would be unnecessarily putting themselves in a narrative box.
It would be far more interesting to me to either do a time jump forward, or go someplace else. They have the mists in the setting already to explore.
They say in the website that it takes place over 1000 years before gw1. I was looking over the known timeline a little, and I can't help but notice that about that long ago is when the god war happens, the one which banished abaddon.
Also worth noting that it looks like abaddon is one if the six gods shown (also potentially dhuum instead of grenth?). If that second one is true it would put us a few decades before the god war happens, which sounds plausible?
The only thing that was interesting thru the whole show to me (or at least not monumentally disappointing-- looking at you SF6). I played 2 for a long time in the beginning. Definitely interested in seeing how they think they're "revolutionizing" mmos.
Also, blizz needs competition so double yay.
I am excited for the next installment. I will most likely preorder the game, I have thouroughly enjoyed their current games and are willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I wonder how action orriented they will make the game. I saw some speculation that it will be a lot like warframe.
I loved 1, and I thought 2 was a very good evolution of that. I'm excited to see where 3 goes. I know a lot of people didn't like the Living Story stuff, but I thought it was good, if a bit long winded. I'd like to see a refined version of that. I'd also like to see a little more team play. I don't necessarily want a full TANK/DPS/SUPPORT role designation, but I would like to have the ability to lean a little more into those archetypes, all of the classes in 2 felt like DPS mains with a little other flavor sprinkled in.
Would be nice if they can make a good mmo. Feels like the genre has died off.
I was thinking about this other day. I genuinely think it’s because of how we interact with the genre that has largely killed it. Everything is min maxed to no end and almost everything is essentially a chore to meet that goal. The genre use to be fun to just play around in and be social but it has really lost its touch. I’d be so happy to see a revitalization in the space.
I mean, gw2 kinda sounds like what you want? Like it’s pretty chill, no need to continuously grind, hit max level and that’s it. Anything new added is account progression, and even then most of it isn’t important outside of that expansion’s story or to get better rewards from the maps for that expac or etc, save for a few masteries needed for a few specific raid encounters, and some that get double introduced (like mounts that are introduced in one expac and featured heavily in another) give a bonus if you have both which is cool but not necessary. Like 14 years of content so there is plenty to do, and today they said they’re commited to 15 more years, and while they’re pausing the next expansion for gw3 to get released, they are going back to base game to fix up a lot of stuff to make it better (and even adding physics based rendering)
It’s a game I can stop playing for months, come back and keep enjoying without needing to learn something new (unless a balance patch really fucked you up) or unlock new stuff or get new gear just to be able to play.
Plus WvW (bigass siege style PvP) is a pretty cool game mode and they’re developing a new map for that finally which can be a pretty chill PvP mode.
I guess my point is also why I am stoked for GW3, Anet has learned a lot and I don’t think I could be bothered to play an MMO not made by them at this point.
Neat. I had an account issue trying to get into GW1/2, so, uh…this might be a nice reset.