I thought I'll give ya a treat. 1.5 hour of leaked beta footage. Sure, it'll get removed fast. I wonder if this is against the forum rules. Well, only one way to find out!
http://www.justin.tv/archive/archive_popout?id=285836649
In my opinion:
Awful lot of kill x quests, where numbers go around 15-30
Environment is pretty but mundane - still beats elwyn forest. I'm glad that there are valleys and terrain is not just a flat piece of map.
Fighting looks actually good - I was really doubtful of the animations but it seems they come off good. The only problem is that bigger enemies use the same set of moves so all the "swords connecting" thing looks shitty as hell. Still, it's not as bad as I thought.
Fighting - boring, fights themselves are just boring, it's copy/pasted from wow or other mmos and nowadays just feels slow and clunky. Again, however, it's what MMOs always did and it worked so far...
Voiceover - some shitty lines, some choices with no impact. Quite good actually, a step up from pages and pages of text. In not sure if that helps as much. A nice thing but nothing gamechanging.
Verdict: It's much better than I expected, actually. Sadly, despite of all the glitter, it is only as good as WoW. And bringing nothing new (in terms of gameplay) to the table, it will be quicly abbandoned and fill fade. I won't buy it and I see no reason to buy it, unless you are fans of the old MMO forlmula and just want more of the same. Conbat is also too clunky now but it might be fixed. But it still will be boring imho.
The game isn't bad, the problem is that it isn't good. Animations and cutscenes might improve, sure. But the core mechanics are boring and stale, no matter how much polish you put on them they are just same shitty combat mechanics and same time filling quests.
I'd rather see GW2 playing with improoving on public questing by making PQ more dynamic, then watch improvement over wow quests by adding voiceover to them.
http://www.justin.tv/archive/archive_popout?id=285836649
In my opinion:
Awful lot of kill x quests, where numbers go around 15-30
Environment is pretty but mundane - still beats elwyn forest. I'm glad that there are valleys and terrain is not just a flat piece of map.
Fighting looks actually good - I was really doubtful of the animations but it seems they come off good. The only problem is that bigger enemies use the same set of moves so all the "swords connecting" thing looks shitty as hell. Still, it's not as bad as I thought.
Fighting - boring, fights themselves are just boring, it's copy/pasted from wow or other mmos and nowadays just feels slow and clunky. Again, however, it's what MMOs always did and it worked so far...
Voiceover - some shitty lines, some choices with no impact. Quite good actually, a step up from pages and pages of text. In not sure if that helps as much. A nice thing but nothing gamechanging.
Verdict: It's much better than I expected, actually. Sadly, despite of all the glitter, it is only as good as WoW. And bringing nothing new (in terms of gameplay) to the table, it will be quicly abbandoned and fill fade. I won't buy it and I see no reason to buy it, unless you are fans of the old MMO forlmula and just want more of the same. Conbat is also too clunky now but it might be fixed. But it still will be boring imho.
The game isn't bad, the problem is that it isn't good. Animations and cutscenes might improve, sure. But the core mechanics are boring and stale, no matter how much polish you put on them they are just same shitty combat mechanics and same time filling quests.
I'd rather see GW2 playing with improoving on public questing by making PQ more dynamic, then watch improvement over wow quests by adding voiceover to them.
