Character Screen

Was just reading through riverside and noticed a "remember the good ol days thread," and thought how could Anet combine old with New?

If some of you remember the character selection screen housed your characters in front of a burning crackling fire, that i think signified the burning fire by the weaponsmith in ascalon. All of them would be present, no stupid boxes with just their faces. When you picked one they walked towards you, and it was pretty cool.

How about Anet brings that back, but adds a little bit more to it. Instead of a fire, its your guild hall, or somewhere else interesting. When you click your character of your choice, they either do a funny or any type of emote. /salute, /bow, /wave, /dance, or something interesting.

Your thoughts??

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Good idea, however I would prefer being able to choose our own background in the character select scene, otherwise if some were forced to have the original, they would moan and groan. Good idea on the walk forward/emotes thing.

~Zeth

I remember the little encampment with the fire. I'd forgotten that your character ran towards the camera when selected. I do miss that one.

Having a selectable login would be nice. I think Anet may be more interested in keeping the current release splashed across that pane though

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Never had that, got game too late. sounds good

O man it was good, when you picked a warrior, he would run up, and just be a savage like, "IM READY TO FIGHT!"

Good times.

aaah old good times

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I came too late to see that too..fairly frivolous, but I like it.

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Archlord does this, it's about the only thing I did like about the game..

Selectable login screen would be amazing. Nostalgia FTW.

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Would be the perfect gift.

(Right next to pre-NF)

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Everybody suggests it, and I'm always for it. I miss Ye Olde Prophecies screen!

The emote idea is good, too.

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I would love to be able to choose which screen I used. Sadly, I came in right when Factions was launched, so I never saw the above mentioned display of firey-goodness. But boy it sure sounds nifty

/signed, I'd love the ability to choose a character selection screen

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Just before Nightfall came out (when they 'redecorated' the client Elona-style), I was personally both excited, but also a bit miffed. Why? Because I got into GW when Factions came out, so I was quite fond of being greeted by the 'Welcome to Cantha' tune and the Asian-esque backdrop. When this was changed without asking, the first thing that popped into my head was "Hey! Wouldn't a client with a campaign-specific background selector be sweetass!" I posted it on my guilds forum, they liked the idea also. I didn't pursue the idea further because I was always reading/hearing about complaints that anet doesn't listen to us...

But anyhoo, further on from that, I also thought that considering many people take character screenies on the select screen, it would be a great addition to be able to select different famous background scenes from each campaign, 'pose' your character/use emotes, select which armor they wear & which weapon they wield, show/hide their mask/helm/weapon/cape etc etc. So basically turn it into a mini photolab! Probably a dumb idea, but I thought 'd share it while the thought was alive... =o)

Like a few previous posters, I too missed out on all select screen versions prior to Factions, and would love to be able to have the option of experiencing those...

I haven't been around long enough in GW to have seen that interface (for me it was always the square boxes).

I do remember a very similar character selection screen in Diablo 2 however. That version wasn't for selecting ur character but for selected which class you were going to play. I remember how whne u selected a class the char would walk fwd and do their particular emote (warrior would walk and roar at you, sorc would step fwd and cast lightning over her head, etc.)

The version in GW sounds very similar to this and I would certainly enjoy something like this... it would add alot of flair to the character selection.

Except, instead of the traditional burning fire, we should have a different kind of screen depending on which campaign your character is in, and separate screens to access characters that are currently in a different campaign.

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loved it =p

/signed. I want the original music back!!!

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It brings back memories(and memories of characters I deleted)

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Miss the good old days

also /signed for the selectable backgrounds - would be nice to have one for each area of the game (e.g Ascalon, North/South Shiverpeaks, Istan, Kourna, Battle Isles etc)

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I too remember the first selection screen, for what it was it was a neat concept.