I was looking forward to GW2 and going to buy it until I saw the people I most respect in gaming put this together. It's a pretty detailed 10 page anaysis by some hard core gamers with inside access. Made me decide to pass. See:

http://www.teamquitter.com/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=27150



EDIT: Messed up my previous attempt to make this post. SORRY.

im glad all this speculation by just a couple of people is enough to turn you away, means the rest of us enjoying GW2 at the same time as TERA wont have to deal with you guys.

so ty :)

Wow you read 10 pages so fast.

Why not enjoy both?

well ive heard you spout just about all of that before (i skimmed the section titles, seen it all before).

and ive offered videos and blogs as well to counter just about all of that, including my own first hand experience. but ofc its in favor of opposing views to yours so they obviously dont count, right?

so im just glad you so easily leave us alone to enjoy our game :D

Well, the combat system is, aside from being the standard tab target MMO, very simplistic.

You have a small handful of skills and no chains lol. They allow you to "switch between specs" (For example, a warrior can switch from duel wield, to using a bow) and each "spec has different skills", but this doesn't change the fact that each spec has very simplistic, and small amount of skills. So combat seems even more of a ZZzz fest then normal.

Dynamic quests are kinda neat. Add a little community (you don't dislike players showing up and killing mobs around you, you enjoy it because it makes life easier and everyone gets an equal reward).

But outside of that, it's your standard tab target MMO. Go kill something here, pick something up there, use your favorite 3 or 4 tab target skills to kill mobs, blah blah.

Substandard graphics compared to the likes of Blade N soul and Tera.

I don't think GW2 will be a "Bad game", but it's just another MMO. The same stale tab target combat us veteran MMO players are starting to get bored of.

Also reading the review you posted, sounds like there is a huge problem with "Elite skills", special skills that are so powerful that anyone you're fighting against either has to try and run away or use their own elite skills, or die.

Sounds an awful lot like Shadowburst / Lightburst from aion. The good old /HAHA I win button.

One of the few things GW original had going for it was pvp balance, but if these elite skills are as bad as they say they are, then balance goes right out the window.

Then what does GW2 have? Oh a fancy quest system..

/clap
/clap
/veryslow
/clap

A TL;DR Version of the post would be something like...

>I LOVE THIS GAME
>IT'S NOT LIKE GW1 SO I DON'T LOVE IT AS MUCH

ill admit that most players will default to tab targeting, but it isnt necessary in the gameplay they implemented. i played as a hammer wielding warrior and i didnt have to actually target anything, it was like TERA with a hint of WoW to dumb it down a bit lol

but the dynamic events were amazing, in my opinion. people have claimed that theyre just like rifts from.... well rift, but thats completely false. in rift, a.... rift, opens and you kill stuff then it goes away. in GW2, you get randomly sucked into a quest chain starting with a basic kind of boring gather quest or something and it leads into massive battles involving NPCs, bosses, and ofc other players that happen to show up. the world is literally moving and it flows very well (if not a bit quick however).

but yes, after trying TERA and reading about the new additions EME is implementing i feel as though TERA will be a better game. but that shouldnt write GW2 off automatically, it will still be a good game and good enough to be the MMO most likely to dethrone WoW. will it? probably not, but it is the most likely.

Who is this dude? The OP, Tormeanted, you know the guy too retarded to even spell his own name correctly. Honestly how stupid can you get?

Not only is your link from a community looking VERY foward to GW2 and was taking a negative spin on the game opposed to the "top 10 awesome things about GW2" they made previous to that. Alot of things have been updated and half of his "flaws" are false now anyways.

You have to be trolling, I refuse to beleive anybody is really this dumb.

Yay a fanboi..... sigh


EDIT: Curse* .... sigh...... some people are so fail. Ironically so.