Is there anything but desert in this game?

First off, I want to say that I love this game (besides having to grind for sunspear pts). However, what this game is lacking is diverse environments....I would say i've uncovered roughly 20% of the mainland, and...nothing but desert with a few 'lush' trees here and there...maybe africa wasn't the best choice of location?

I can kind of agree in a way. I really enjoyed the Shiverpeaks in Prophecies, and was a little dissapointed to see the small amount of snow-covered terrain in Factions reduced to none in Nightfall. Maybe chapter 4?

I love snowy areas...prophecies was really diverse, the only boring areas to look at were...guess where? the desert areas! factions was OK, there was the city which i didnt like, the forest area was cool, and the water area was cool. elona....desert, desert, and more desert

Thats probably the one thing I dislike most so far... I mean desert is better than friggen post ascalon, but it's really getting old. Although, if you look at the world map, all you see is tan-ish blur, so probably desert is the only prominent terrain.

the upper left looks a lot darker so i think its more hellish looking, its probably a cross between the desert and the ring of fire....but still, yeah with chapter 4 i hope we get more diversity

Wait until you reach Vabbi. Then things get freaky.

Not to mention the starter island! It was about 90% forest/rainforest feel to it, and that small center area of the island as desert.

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Cheers!

Next GW chapter will be spent on the Himalaias, with Big-Foots, Snow Ogres, Dwarfs and Gnomes wandering around.

Chapter 5 will be underwater, with sharks, squids, and lots of fishs wandering around.

Chapter 6 will be in space, with NASA rockets and satellites flying, spaceships, pirates, and etc.

Let us wait for an ArenaNet to even confirm the next 3 chapters.

Calm down and play this one first

They are still using catapults...how can they hope to make rockets?

i LOVE deserts! i LOVE the dune series

i liked the desert in prophesies but hated the wilds ... all those nasty pop-ups

factions was ... well the city was kinda boring, the forest was great, and the jade sea was well mediocure.

We'll i've not gotten that far in elona, but i must say i like the savana feel 2 it. Not desert, not forest but something in between. Cant wait to get 2 the other area's.

I LOVE deserts, but so far, Im not connecting with this. Im sure I will eventually though. The story seems good so far, so Ill enjoy Nightfall.

I'm actually enjoying the desert, and enjoyed it even more when it started raining when I got to that fort. (Until I got owned by around 30 Kourmans)

I love the desert so far, I don't know how, but they managed to make it really diverse, every area looks different.

Vabbi Bazaar/Festival of Lyss wins a prize for most awesomely designed area ever, as far as I'm concerned

This is africa, what do you expect, snow mountains ??

Are you kidding? This is the most interesting looking desert area ever. The main land is way more diverse with little exciting things to look at all over the place. Much more engaging than anything in Prophices or Factions in my opinion.

I was orginally concerned about the fact it was one big desert but its the most entertaining desert I could have asked for. Well.. except for a sandstorm

this would be so awesome.

I was bored to tears with the terrain on Istan, really didn't like it...

... but now I'm in Kourna on the mainland... WOW! It's beautiful and I'm loving the massive open areas.

It's yet to top the Jade Sea for sheer beauty, imagination and 'wow' factor but it's still a fantastic environment.

Vabbi should be quite differant... not sure what to make of the Desolation, and of course the Realm of Torment willl be VERY differant.

i got a screenie this morning and the desert had white patches of snow on it!
Tom

post it plz?

personly I love the chapter each chapter should have a different envirment

maybe we have a chapter that is all snow and mountians or all ocean. Bigger world for better play

in the preview weekend istan was all foresty and I have to say I liked it. is it all desert now?

Personally I LOVE the new mainland. Forests are nice eye candy but in my opinion you always know the path which you will be taking through the area over and over... Yuk.. Last night running around the mainland if i didn't like one way hey presto i'll run another way. Harder to get backed into corners when you have somewhere to run. I remember standing in a lake in Arkjok Ward and all the mobs were standing around the outside but not coming into the water. Like an oasis lol.. And in the same area finding fortresses with massive ships and spanning bridges.. sigh.. Lets just say the screenshot button got a workout last night.

Made me realise how much i love the great outdoors

Great job to the design team.. I have nothing but nice things to say..

Oh.. except when i landed on mainland only to find Koss had disappeared with my Golden Pheonix Blade And Strongroots shelter without even so much as a see ya later and thanks for the goodies.. Luckily I found him later and he hadn't ebayed them for money to keep his stylist busy keeping him so mean looking..

Once again great job.. Love it all so far..

One little comment tho... There are times on newbie island when yr primary quest disappears and i noticed a lot of people a bit confused on how to progress. I think a the Primary Goal Or Objective should always be displayed even it means pointing out that a secondary quest requires completion to activate the primary once again.

Just a thought on keeping the new people moving forward.. After all it is the starting area and new people would benefit from easily understood objectives rather then being called Noobs by half the witnesses i noticed last night.

I hope that one day anet actually learns how to create a "fantasy" world. I play RPGs to go somewhere I can't on Earth. The thing I've always hated most about GW is the environments. Their just so bland.

Loved Prophecies....very diverse. Factions, ugg....Hated the cities, It was like looking at those 3d posters. Nightfall, so far, really enjoying it!

Sorry to disappoint you but don't you know........
Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the highest in the world!

There are snow mountains in Africa, friend!

The northwest part is sulfur and all hellish and you get to ride giant worms! FRIGGIN AWESOME! Other than that the other 75% of the game is pretty much the same... I digged it the first few areas, but then it got kinda old.

where is that giant floating castle thingy? so far still nothing but desert, and now a little savannah

Madagascar

Here are the pics:





I have more if you really want but I'd zip them and upload via free hosting, as my cheap free tiscali webspace is really small!
Tom