Nightfall Conquers Cantha and Prophecies?

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fleshvirus
fleshvirus
Frost Gate Guardian
#1
The AI Improvement.
350 New Cool skills that are there waiting for us.
A whole new Cool Storyline.
Beating Music During Combats ( witch whe Love )
Costemizing your heroes ( love it ! )
a new Cool villian.
Smoothened Invoriments and Behavior that some monsters have.
Two new Proffessions that makes the gameplay Even more interesting.
New Challanges like never before.

well people? is it the best of the 3 so far ? *cough* cmon you know it is
maedrarle
maedrarle
Lion's Arch Merchant
#2
I agree. :P

I'm quite satisfied with Nightfall so far. Having completed 100% of the Island I'm giving it thumbs up. Can't wait to see the mainland!
Minus Sign
Minus Sign
Jungle Guide
#3
Too early to say really. All we've seen is the newb island and skill lists.

If I had to choose on what I've seen so far, I'd take prophecies. I don't like this locked door rumor buzzing all over the place. Forced farming to advance quests can be annoying as well. More content in the first too.

Anet is learning from its mistakes where PvE is concerned. Much better voice acting this time around, improvments in the graphics (if not the faces; thats a matter of opinion), the plot of the story appears much improved, etc. UI is unwieldy but much improved over what was there before.

I'm glad to see that the game can adapt and remain hearty. I like the new proffesions and hope they'll breathe new life into Arenas as Rit and (to an extent) sin did. On a whole, I think Nightfall will be a very nice expansion on the original campaign.
coldplay
coldplay
Banned
#4
no. GWP will always be the best of the series.
fleshvirus
fleshvirus
Frost Gate Guardian
#5
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Originally Posted by coldplay
no. GWP will always be the best of the series.
sorry i have to disagree. Because the skills Nightfall offers Can totaly Set your PVP or PVE into new expiriance.

You must think that Prophecies is the best cause it is huge ? well dont whe all
icedragon981
icedragon981
Krytan Explorer
#6
Nightfall has been cool and all but Prophecies will always be my favorite.
Ganik Thress
Ganik Thress
Banned
#7
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Originally Posted by coldplay
no. GWP will always be the best of the series.
He must know, he MUST have played through all of Nightfall.
TGgold
TGgold
Wilds Pathfinder
#8
I'm pretty happy with Nightfall overall so far. I love the hench controls, I *always* have my monks controls out in case I need an emergency heal. It's great
I'm trying to skip the story but get used to the gameplay, I want to save the story for later. But, the graphics are better, and I think the gameplay is more creative. I have done no farming, and getting my titles isn't a challenge at all, just make sure you always talk to the guards near the shrines.

One thing though:
I HATE the dervish hero. the skills she starts with are *painful* as in, inefficient. She made beating Diggings a pain. I just got a friend to play as his dervish and take his actually useful dercish hero.

Also, I think that the PvP unlock packs are going to get a LOT more popular seeing as how the heroes skill sets work.
fleshvirus
fleshvirus
Frost Gate Guardian
#9
since i have Allmost all Prophecies Skills and well every Faction skills.. ive ben experimenting with Koss
strcpy
strcpy
Desert Nomad
#10
"Also, I think that the PvP unlock packs are going to get a LOT more popular seeing as how the heroes skill sets work."

Ha ha, I've been irritated this whole time that the warrior hero has quite a few elites (in fact, all the ones I like to use) and the Monk hero - who is obviously a healer - only had smiting elites. I can not stand playing a healer so I never capped any healing elites, or even bothered to unlock any healing skills outside the ones I got through quests.

I wonder if it will stay this way. Nothing like a level 2 warrior with a full line of elites. I suspect that somthing else will be done, but I'm fine with it the way it is. The newb isle goes by pretty quickly and after that it doesn't really matter.

For those of us who will not purcahse skills it also changes the way we view unlocks. I never cared one way about them before, I do not PvP. This makes unlocks interesting/useful for PvE also. If this stays I would like rune and modifier unlocks to work similar also, but I suppose the way it works now is OK though.
unmatchedfury
unmatchedfury
Krytan Explorer
#11
I know you'll hate me for it, but as far as phrophcies is concerned i found it boring. I got into it with my rit and have gotten about to teh infusion quests.

Its alot of running and killing monsters. not that thats bad its just... prophices doesnt really have the feel i liek in factions. I still like running around in nub isle helping peopel do quests for money,
Sephiroth Istari
Sephiroth Istari
Lion's Arch Merchant
#12
I haven't experienced much of Nightfall at all, but I what I see so far better than Factions. Prophecies is still my favorite, but I need to see much more of Nightfall's gameplay to draw better conclusions.
Reiden Argrock
Reiden Argrock
Krytan Explorer
#13
I think it's A-net has outdone themselves. I loved prophecies, enjoyed factions for the first few weeks alot, then gotta kind of bored but still like parts of it. Nightfall is great so far, and it's only the starter island. At times I even forget what lvl I am because of how engrossing the game is. Specially like the bog. Puts magumma jungle to shame.. oh to shame
KANE OG
KANE OG
Banned
#14
Conquers Cantha.. yes. Prophecies? No freakin way.
Knightsaber Sith
Knightsaber Sith
Furnace Stoker
#15
Well it's only common sense that the newest campaign would have the best features such as the skill templates and the new hero system. But on the basis of what we know of the plot line; I'd have to say Prophecies is the winner.
Shadowfox1125
Shadowfox1125
Forge Runner
#16
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Originally Posted by fleshvirus
The AI Improvement.
350 New Cool skills that are there waiting for us.
Beating Music During Combats
a new Cool villian.
Smoothened Environments and Behavior that some monsters have.
New Challenges like never before.
Corrected some spelling errors. (Pet Peeve)
All of the what I've posted above should be invalid in your decision to choose NF over Factions or Prophecies. It's a new game; Anet has to add new features or the gameplay would be stale. Prophecies is still my favorite after this weekend. But I liked Factions for the fast leveling, but that's just me..
Omega X
Omega X
Ninja Unveiler
#17
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Originally Posted by Knightsaber Sith
But on the basis of what we know of the plot line; I'd have to say Prophecies is the winner.
The plot line looks better in Nightfall than Prophecies.

Nightfall completely dominates Factions so far. And that is the newb island alone. I also believe Nightfall edges out Prophecies so far, right down to the storyline. Though there is nothing like pre sear Tyria.

I will have to see more to make a permanent decision on Chapter 1 vs Chapter 3. But its looking very promising.
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Lord Palidore
Lion's Arch Merchant
#18
Quote:
Originally Posted by fleshvirus
The AI Improvement.
350 New Cool skills that are there waiting for us.
A whole new Cool Storyline.
Beating Music During Combats ( witch whe Love )
Costemizing your heroes ( love it ! )
a new Cool villian.
Smoothened Invoriments and Behavior that some monsters have.
Two new Proffessions that makes the gameplay Even more interesting.
New Challanges like never before.

well people? is it the best of the 3 so far ? *cough* cmon you know it is
1) Falls in with Heroes, but in terms of AI, Factions introduced new monster AI, and the newest AI update is for henchmen/heroes, which is an update for all chapters it seems. So not Nightfall specific.
2) Cantha + Tyria both had their own original skills.
3) They also both had their own storyline.
4) New.
5) New.
6) Falls in with new storyline, but either way, both chapters had their own villains.
7) As far as monster AI and graphics go, all the chapters were made using the same engine.
8) Prophecies has the core professions, and Factions had 2 new professions as well.
9) Prophecies as for challenges introduced HA, GvG, Arenas. Faction introduced challenge missions, competitive missions, and AB. As for Cantha, new challenges = ..Puzzle/Traps in missions?

So basically, they all had their typical and generic new chapter stuff, and original stuff too.

All in all, I do think Nightfall is shaping up well. Better than Factions- probably, as Factions, although ok, was in the bigger picture more of a disaster. Better than Prophecies- much too soon to tell from the preview.

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The plot line looks better in Nightfall than Prophecies.
If it wasn't for Prophecies storyline (which I really enjoyed), there wouldn't be a Nightfall storyline lol .
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Insuscient Ranger
Lion's Arch Merchant
#19
Nightfall is up there so far with prophesis. it OWNS factions like no other.

I like it Also after completing N()()B island.
Fluffyx
Fluffyx
Krytan Explorer
#20
Factions left a lot to be desired, so comparing it to an actual good game is like comparing icecream to crap. :x Yes, factions was terrible I'm sorry it really was.
But Nightfall looks very nice from what I see. The one thing thats bothering me now is just that we now have to talk to people to do the missions, but hey its better then having locked doors.