Guild Wars Gets a Bad Review

So, there I was browsing the internet when I stumbled upon this review from a FiringSquad blog that isn't kind at all concerning nearly all aspects of Guild Wars.

Basically, the reviewer found the game to be quite dull and using the same battered formulas from any mmo.

"In conclusion, Guild Wars is a decently mediocre game which I would not recommend to anyone unless they must play an, at best, decently mediocre mmorpg at any cost. If I had to do it all over again, I would have looked elsewhere for my Holy Grail of games."

I can't say I agree with the reviewers opinion. GW is certainly not a Holy Grail, but it's a game that I like and that I actually keep playing.

What more can one expect from a no-montlhy-fee game that still gets regularly updated?

Well, there's GW2 in the horizon...

Bad Review is the perfect phrase.

The Review of the game was Bad, meaning they did a very poor job at analyzing it and its key features.

Those two lines sum up the review.

Yeah, I too care about what some random user posted to an internet blog.

Woo, great review.

bad review? retarded review more like....

Bug Fixes and poor skill balances =/ regular updates.... those are just poor lazy attempts to keep us interested in guild wars...

So it's ok that guild wars has been abandoned by the development team and everytime their is a bug they respond with "We are busy working on Gw2, we can't spend time to make your current gameplay more enjoyable but don't worry, in 2 years, you will be able to play one kick ass game!"

Now let's see where this guy goes wrong.

Did this guy play with his graphics on minimum or something?

That, sir, is why you failed.

That just made me loose any respect I had for this guy. Seriously, has this guy never heard of the idea of managing your health and energy?

NO WAI!! Humans adapt? This is preposterous! [/sarcasm]

My review of the review: EPIC FAIL.

LOL "You even had to manage the red bar and blue bar" What did this guy play, some junk where you could aggro the map and hammer attack bar and still win?

There's no better game reviewer than the players that ACTUALLY played it themselves...

- Ganni

No, he failed here.


Just roflmao....

I think he was playing the wrong game. o.O It really doesn't sound like Guild Wars at all, minus the generic elements thing. Helpful players? Bad graphics? What is he playing, WoW?

Yes, Warcraft has bad graphics... lol

http://www.wowhead.com/?screenshot=view&3.32248#24911

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32837

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32336

http://www.wowhead.com/?screenshot=view&3.32253#24916

http://www.wowhead.com/?screenshot=view&3.32332#27714
Look at the detail on those weapons.

QFT!

QFT!

QFT!

QFT!

I don't think I need to add more.

Actually, I think the problem with most reviews of this sort is that the reviewer probably just gave the game a couple of hours.

Just think back to the first couple of hours of your playing GW. You'll have a handful of attribute points, maybe 8-16 skills spread over 6-8 attribute lines. That is in no way reflective of what GW is anything about.

The problem is that few reviewers would give the hours to play the game till they had 100++ skills and 200 skill points.

LMAO!

This review is a complete and utter joke.

Guild Wars Gets a Bad Review????

Noob game designer don't know how to play GW???

I know only thing NO Taiwan ,HK GW player want to play GW2 if GW2 use many regions on server(like US,EU,ASIA or other)

In Taiwan,HK Server,all city is like deadman living City.more and more Taiwan,HK GW player leave GW because

1.NO CM on magzine,TV=NO player know ,listen what GW is
2.BAN IP(except IP in Taiwan,HK)
3.buy GW:EN on NCTAIWAN SERVER

=No bonus mission pack
=Many Taiwan,hk GW player is very angry(Why buying GW:EN do'nt get bonus mission pack)
=many Taiwan,HK GW player want NCTAIWAN & Anet get out Taiwan,HK and get to hell

After hellgate:london release,rare player play GW (rare player buy ,sell the thing in ASCALON,LA int1 before 1.5 month)

Hell- I didn't even sear for two weeks (moderate play) when I first got this game. That's how long it took me to get used to the basic mechanics. I wonder if this guy even made it that far.

Critics are so ciritcal when it comes to games.

But seriously, there's always going to be some person that just doesn't like the game, or expects the perfect game to come out of a company's budget. QQ on their part really. It's why when I want a review for a game, I rely on one person, and one person alone. Myself.

make account on that site and 3-2-1 spike with "Joshua plz fail less" or "Joshua fails at life".

wow, retarded review of a nearly three year old game... fail...

He wins GW, we can all stop playing now.

AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!! My eyes! It's so Smurfy, I can't handle it.

The horror....

Wouldn't it be sort of boring if it wasn't like this?

Certain characters excel at different things....wow...
Killed different monsters with different techniques....wow

Maybe he was looking for a MMOPONG?

Ok that is it, the game totally /fails, a green experience bar, the nerve of the designers....


Bad graphics?

http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ScreenSh...ndex=27&Set=63
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g.../display/11859

Yup, WoW hands down.


If this guy was serious, he is seriously a moron.
I actually think he was joking though, nobody could be that stupid.

I warned them, "If you do not use the lavender experience bar, someone, someday will write a blog and say that the colour is just totally wrong."
Did they listen?
No, of course not!
And look where we are today!

*quickly inserts the Universal Sarcasm Symbol(tm) to avoid any confusion between these comments and a genuine post*

OF course that was sarcasm.

A pink Exp bar with a pimp hat with a feather on it would of been much better.
That was not sarcasm.

GW gets bad reviews cus its from a different mold.
The only reason to give GW a bad review is because izzy doesnt love the assassin.

It's a very weird review.
I'm really curious what he'd say about all the other popular online rpgs if he wasn't impressed with a system involving health and energy, nor with the landscape design. Perhaps he only played the beginning of the very first game.
Really strange.

BTW. Gaile, I petitioned for the xp bar to be a pair of jazz hands that slowly become brighter and shake when you level up. That's what the UI artists get for not listening to my incredible bleeding edge suggestions.

He was looking for a MMOPONG.

A trash review by a random nobody on an internet blog. He fails to address even the legitimate criticisms of this game. Probably just some WoW fanboy.

The two parts that made me lol-

It's energy, gee, so tough to remember, and omg, its not mana, like every other game...

The one bad thing. >_<

Oh my gorsh IceFire.
I forgot about him saying the community was the best part of the game.
I figured it out now.
He's Bizarro Superman.

LOL.....I bet that he uses a dark yellow experience bar.

That's about the same as calling a new FPS unoriginal because they use guns.

I think typically in order to write a decent review you have to get past beginner island.

That "review" was so hilarious I was in tears from uncontrollable laughter. I actually thought it was a joke or a parody, but after I managed to control the maniacal laughter, I realized this guy/gal was quite serious. So many things wrong...

Please name an MMO with graphics that are more than marginally superior to GW. I dare you. I cant think of one off the top of my head. I also wonder if this guy was running on minimum settings due to a 56k modem, a P2/P3 machine, having like 128 ram, or like an 8 meg graphic card. Aside from certain creatures that are supposed to look like blocks (The Apocrypha comes to mind,) I cant think of anything in GW that looks blocky O.o

These sentences, along with the entire rest of the review, makes me wonder if any of the following apply to him/her:
1. Is this person on drugs?
2. Is this person highly delusional in general?
3. What games does this person like, if any?

It. is. an. rpg..... I'm thinking, this guy should be playing a different genre of games all together. Thats like.... saying a first person shooter shoudnt have guns. *sigh*

Like I said... its an RPG, since when do RPG's not have managing health and energy? Anyone?

OMG! ITS GREEN! BAD RATING FOR GAME! OH NOEZ! </sarcasm>

Right, because its so much more expensive for the typical MMO player to buy a couple of campaigns than to buy a full priced game, an expansion pack or two, and pay $10-$20 a month, Riigghhhtttt....

Well, in the real world, if a human is getting beat over and over by an opponent, and he/she takes forever or never at all figures out why, or in general, when a human cant adapt to a situation, its often referred to as mental retardation.

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What? You want us fighting in space? Modern buildings? Where? I want this reviewer to come here, tell us where else to fight, instead of whining. And come to think of that, alot of areas did not fit that template at all. Domain of Anguish in particular comes to mind.

Wait, what? The one nice thing he had to say about GW wasnt very accurate, or at least very skewed in perspective. Unfortunately, the GW is infested with those of extremely elitist mindsets, and not very helpful outside of Wiki.

That made... no coherent sense at all. What demonstrated this? And if he is refering to the paragraph before, how in hell did it do that? Also, sorry to burst this guy's delusional fantasy bubble, but in both real life and in video games, there is no such thing as absolute perfection, and if there was, things would become boring quickly.

I bet that guy is one of the 16 guests and is laughing his ass off right now.

Mmmmkay. I've read the review and well... I feel the complete opposite. GW'S graphics aren't the best, but they're pretty good. I'm curious how long he played. If he's totally new at the game, he needs to spend more time in it - the fun starts at max level. How he found the player interaction good though, I've got no idea, since the community is very cookie-cutter and there's a ton of idiots.

Lost all credibility. GG.

Umm, you want good video game reviews?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/arti...sassin-s-Creed

Have fun.

He is going to do GW:EN soon. Oh, I can't wait.

Blogs suck.



That is all.

I will be the first person to make an FPS that has no guns! Instead, everyone will carry fruit, which they must throw at one another. However, the ultimate weapon shall be the pointed stick!

He's really brutal with his reviews, and so far I agree with them.
And despite the fact we both agree on all the things about the game that weren't fun, in the end we both liked the game.
Yes, it's hard to tell. But he actually dug Assassin's Creed.