Will they enable jumping in this version?
One of our priorities in developing Guild Wars 2 has been to make the simple act of moving around and interacting with the world an enjoyable experience for our players. We often refer to this as introducing "joy of movement" into the game. This means being able to jump and swim freely, but it also translates directly into combat.
OK, this looks good. And I thought I was done with MMOs.
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Will they enable jumping in this version?
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One of our priorities in developing Guild Wars 2 has been to make the simple act of moving around and interacting with the world an enjoyable experience for our players. We often refer to this as introducing "joy of movement" into the game. This means being able to jump and swim freely, but it also translates directly into combat.
Yeah I played GW1 for about 3 years and it was awesome but I did literally about everything in PvE mode...and I couldn't invest enough time to really get my worth in PvP.
but for F2P it was very good value...better value and worth than any game I've played to date.
GW2 looks fantastic so far. I think arenanet is the only company trying to make their own MMO now instead of copying WoW. I've been keeping up with GW2 info and the new quest system and combat systems all sound great. The combat definitely sounds like it will be less automatic and require more involvement on the players part, and the questing sounds way more friendly to both groups and solo people, as well as sounding way more interesting than the quest systems we have now where nothing you do impacts the world you're playing in.
Then of course my fav thing about GW is the lack of level/gear grinding. According to arenanet it's going to be easy to achieve good gear and max level in GW2, so that leaves more of the game to play at the higher levels with good gear instead of continuously trying to get better gear. I think this is a great idea because they can design a lot of dungeons to play through for fun and challenge instead of making a tiered raiding system that focuses 99% around getting new gear to get to the next level.
So far the class videos look great too, I've noticed the have 8 silhouettes in the main screen for classes and so far the 3 classes they have revealed are classic classes. I'm personally hoping all 8 classes stay the same, but mostly I just want them to put ritualists into GW2 because they're one of my fav classes from any MMO I've played. All of the skills are more user controlled though it seems, like active blocking and being able to charge your attacks to different levels. This is what I've been looking for in a MMO, a more in depth combat system that isn't button mash happy like WoW.
If only it had real pvp.
One thing I saw that was pretty awesome was that if a elementalist drops a ring of fire on the ground, rangers behind the fire will shoot fire arrows through it. How stuff like that can help out your party, make their attacks more powerful is pretty awesome. I played nuker mostly in GW1, but aside from laying down heavy attacks, there wasn't much that I could do to really help out the team.
What is "real pvp"? You mean the fact that you're actually killing other players instead of... uhh... wait. What?
Guild Wars has one of the best PvP systems in MMOs to date in the fact that it's nearly all skill based instead of being mostly gear based like everything else.
Real PvP as in having a purpose. Killing other players? Might as well put in arenas. Killing players and not having a purpose is called "cookie cutter" pvp. Put in just as a afterthought and no real direction.
Make it have a purpose, like true pvp should be, effects outcome of things in game. For example control a certain area and gain access to certain pvE dungeons or areas. Stuff like that. Just to say a game has pvp and balanced classes is not enough anymore.
Any MMO can put in a PvE storyline, but putting in a Pve and PvP story line makes for the perfect MMO. Few have done it, and its the holy grail on MMO people look for.
Real PvP as in having a purpose. Killing other players? Might as well put in arenas. Killing players and not having a purpose is called "cookie cutter" pvp. Put in just as a afterthought and no real direction.
Make it have a purpose, like true pvp should be, effects outcome of things in game. For example control a certain area and gain access to certain pvE dungeons or areas. Stuff like that. Just to say a game has pvp and balanced classes is not enough anymore.
Any MMO can put in a PvE storyline, but putting in a Pve and PvP story line makes for the perfect MMO. Few have done it, and its the holy grail on MMO people look for.