Guild Wars - Love it!

All I can say is wow... awesome (not the other wow).

The thrill of hunting for items, the fun of building up your character the way you want, finding the awesome elite skills, exploring beautifully designed areas (such as the forest around aspendale and the like), the thrill of the victory in PvP when your build works, the nail biting groups that were so close to dying by you scraped through with teamwork.

Really, considering all things about the game, it's flawless, particularly by market comparison (of which there is none of it's class). It really sets the standard for non-subscription based online role players, I feel.

What else do you LOVE about the game?

(too much hating lately).

I think you left out the end sarcasm tag somewhere.

j/k

Yeah it's pretty good, GW. Don't mind the negativity, its easy to get a bit jaded with the game when the hours clocked up reaches up into the thousands.

Hope you keep enjoying it.

I love the art, it's one of the best I've seen, I like the fact that there's no grind to become more powerful and stuff, and the alliance battles are just fun fun fun. I wasn't really much of a PvPer during Prophecies but Factions really got me into it!

I promised myself that when I first saw Maguuma Jungle and then the Crystal Desert that I would explore the whole area with my mesmer. Both places are beautiful...

And now there's a title for it^^ 20% to go!

I really miss presearing. I need to make a new character.....

Pre-searing was awesome yes, the visuals there are incredable, same with Shing Jae area also though, if not more! (lots of hills etc...), so pretty and wonderful.

I also love how the variety of weapons is so VAST! I'm heavily into the community etc (though relatively silent), and I still see new things I haven't seen before every time I play it. Full kudos for that.

The way I see it, with the coming add-on's, it can only really get better and deeper. Can't wait for them, but I'm not sick of the first two chapters yet.

Finally,someone else who absolutely LOVES GW!


Or, is atleast confident enough to say it.

Its a great game. One year ago I would have given it a 9.75 now probably a 8.5 if adding in factions.
Someone needs to tell anet its ok to buff and take a break from nerfing long enough to at least wipe the blood off the bat.

Nothing beats the feeling when a random group really pulls together and gets through against the odds - bonus points when everyone decides to just go right on to the next thing together. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I remember teaming up with an awesome fun group with my second character and we ended up going right through Kryta together. It was a blast.

No monthly is FTW. Pre-sear was nice...bye bye.

:S ... a nerf is a buff in a balanced game... they only nerf when something isn't sufficiantly buffed... i.e, Elementalists Vs. Warriors...

Ya I agree this is a great game.

I was amazed in my noobie days and I still like this game. Whenever I see negitive posts about GW I want to flame em but I know I can't and shouldn't.

Yeah, this game was incredible when I first got it, I didn't have to pay a monthly fee and I got the ability to have all these skills and join into this whole new world without grind.

If I could only choose one thing I like about this game as opposed to others such as WoW, it would have to be the lack of grinding required to play.

I loved the original Guild Wars - the content, the storyline, exploring with my primary character in pre-Searing... I remember going out of the way of quests just to see what was around the bend... those were the days.

If I complain now, it is only because I still love Guild Wars and hate to see it performing more poorly than it could be. No specifics, enough threads on them already.

I like the variety of the whole thing. The versatility of each profession keeps the game-play fresh. The PvE areas are fantastic (for the most part) & when they called Tyria a "Continent" they meant it! Some of the missions are really fun, such as the Ft. Ranik Mission (Damn Charr Snuck up on me...!) & the Iron Mines (for the variety of enemies you face). I've just started getting into PvP & AB's are a blast!

The Holiday events have been pretty good - Loved "Mad King Says" and the Snowball fights!

The content is good. While the story isn't stunning, like Planescape: Torment was, the rest of the content is really, really, good. (But ANet, please hire Chris Avellone as lead designer for episode 4, say 'yes' to his ideas, however weird, and give him the resources to pull them off.... oh, and tell DirectPlay that they might want to consider hiring Mark Morgan for a unique soundscape which goes very well indeed with Avellones visions).

The thing that got me with GW was the graphics, though. It took me five jaw-dropping minutes in pre-searing, and I was hooked. I proceeded to showcase pre-searing to two of my friends, and within days they'd bought GW too. (ANet, it's not too late to release an open 10-hour demo of GW: Prophecies! You WILL draw in new customers, the graphics are still impressive, even after a year & the release of Oblivion.)

Also I've been impressed to heck and back by ANet support. I've followed the neverending moan-fests here on GWGuru since just after release, and also reported a couple of bugs & bots, and ANet have always reacted very fast. I've never seen a company as on the ball as ANet (although just before the release of factions and some time after it was obvious their resources were stretched to breaking point).

Stability and netcode. I'm used to those being the weakest points in any given PC game. I'm EXPECTING games to crash now and then, and the netcode to be borderline dysfunctional - but both have been 100% since the day of release. I used to think Steam was the top-end of content delivery, with xbox live a distant second, but whatever ANet call their content delivery engine (anyone know?), it's better.

No issues here with Guild Wars, anyone who has read my GWG event guides would know of my love for this game.

My only issue is the people who continue to use the word "Godly" against some items... there is nothing godly in this game

It's the art direction for me.
From giant murals in the ruins of Ascalon, to the truly unique inhabitants of the world (Tengu, Skales, Grawl, etc), GW is an artistic tour de force.

And even though the waves are a little ropey, I've never seen ANYTHING like the Jade Sea in a game before.

Truly breathtaking flights of fantasy, especially when compared to the rather generic worlds of Everquest, DDO & WoW.

Im happy to say I love GW... ive not played one other game since purchasing it 10 months ago, ive finally clocked 1100 hours, and Im still going strong I know there is a lot of bad stuff said, but it is good to point out and realise that actually, we do really love the game!