Anyone here still play this?

[Grim]

Nothing to see. Anyone here still playing?

[Lantyssa]

I've been into it lately.  No PvP, and sporadic on which characters I'm playing though.  Maybe I'll finish one of the campaigns eventually.

[raydeen]

I've got the original and have been thinking about picking up the box with the two expansions. This was another game that seemed really fun at first and then went meh.

[JWIV]

I have all three expansions, but it's currently uninstalled and I'm not sure I feel like putting it back in.  I caught myself about to start grinding faction in Eye of the North to get Asuran Armor and realized that my brain was going back into poopsock territory and I could spend my time doing things that were actually fun.

 

[Lantyssa]

I have all three expansions, but it's currently uninstalled and I'm not sure I feel like putting it back in.  I caught myself about to start grinding faction in Eye of the North to get Asuran Armor and realized that my brain was going back into poopsock territory and I could spend my time doing things that were actually fun.

If you can catch it on a weekend they're offering increased XP it seems to fly by.  I did that for the Norn and basically with clearing one area a couple of times I got rank 5 and my Norn Armor.  Mostly I go about doing quests and mapping areas, or collecting skills and trying out builds.

[Nebu]

If you enjoy collecting, this is a wonderful game to play.  I leveled a bunch of different toons up to 20 just to get a variety of playstyles.  After getting all the powers available for one of them, I quickly lost interest.  GW is a wonderful game in the short term and the lack of a monthly sub fee makes it an easy choice to pop in and out of. 

[schild]

This game was *so close* for me that I have more faith in Guild Wars 2 than most of the stuff on the near-horizon. GW2 sure is taking a long ass time though.

[Lantyssa]

Given the too-early releases we usually see, I'm okay with that if it's a good game.

[Nevermore]

The same skill swapping system + persistent world, please!

Edit: Oh, and I'd like to be able to jump. 

[BitWarrior]

My wife and I honestly really loved Guild Wars - the art direction was nothing short of breathtaking, the server system was fantastic, and the easy of entry was great. It was a game which really kept the notion of "Simple to start, difficult to master".

That being said, a persistent world would have been much better and felt more alive. I think they'll be doing something like that this time around. The fact that we haven't heard anything from them for a while is probably a good thing - I would much rather they come out and say, "Surprise! We've been developing awesomeness, and it's nearly done!" rather than pull a Mythic and hype the shit out of it for years and raise the expectation bar so high it can never be reached.

With a toning down of companion NPC requirements and perhaps taking a stab at doing real RvR, there might be a chance for something amazing here. I can't wait until they start letting us take a peek.

[Fordel]

Something about quests in Guildwars was always 'off' for me. I would always end up starting a escort without realizing it, or not understand how the lever works the catapult or whatever. I also never quite got the feel for the 'tanking' in GuildWars.

There is also the issue of overlapping 'bonus quest mobs' if you take too many quests at once.


I love pretty much everything else though. It runs on toaster powered PC's, it has a dynamic and entertaining class/skill system, the abilities themselves are unique and balanced AND NO FUCKING FINITE MANA

[Ingmar]

Something about quests in Guildwars was always 'off' for me. I would always end up starting a escort without realizing it, or not understand how the lever works the catapult or whatever. I also never quite got the feel for the 'tanking' in GuildWars.

There is also the issue of overlapping 'bonus quest mobs' if you take too many quests at once.


I love pretty much everything else though. It runs on toaster powered PC's, it has a dynamic and entertaining class/skill system, the abilities themselves are unique and balanced AND NO FUCKING FINITE MANA

And henchmen/heroes are made of awesome, and for some reason the Pokemon skill collecting tickles some base part of my brain.

I always go back to this game for about a month around Christmas for some reason. Probably because it actually plays well on my laptop on the sofa at the in-law's.