April 2006 PC Gamer

Big_Iron

Big_Iron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

The Edge

Tormented Weapons [emo]

On the back on my latest PC Gamer was this ad...



Also, there was a small preview inside. Here's just a snip:

"...during my visit to ArenaNet's office I thought an artist was using one of Faction's lush concept paintings as his monitor's desktop background...until it started moving."

Cjlr

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

SMS

E/Me

I bet those nipples attract a lot of male customers.

Andy_M

Andy_M

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

Worthing, UK

(Don't fear) The Beaver

Hmmm, so the people from Cantha don't look that Asian at all ?

dargon

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

The Seraphim Knights [TSK]

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Probably depends on the artist, that picture doesn't look like it was done by the same artist as the other guildwars art.

Andy_M

Andy_M

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

Worthing, UK

(Don't fear) The Beaver

But if thats the same assassin that's plastered all over the official site, the other artist doesn't make her look oriental either ? And from seeing the Assassin models in the pvp weekend she doesn't look like one either. Way too well-built. Looks more greek/latin to me. And the rit looks more arabic/turkish/indian, in my opinion of course.


Then again this is the company that decided to have Devona dual wield in the intro movie, got us all excited and then turned her into a hammer warrioress.

Nevin

Nevin

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Join Date: Jul 2005

Nipple Spikes: 10 Energy 4 second recharge
Elite Deadly Arts Attack. Fire pin needles from over exagerated nipples at target foe dealing 25..85 damage and causing Bleed/Deep Wound/Cripple for 60 seconds.

I still can't get over the best part of their poster art.. The assassins in game don't have that hair color or hair style.. Hahah.

neoteo

neoteo

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2005

Macau

www.exilesofdarksteel.com

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you can say it marketing and that they do it for money , but only a lot of inspiration can do what they are doing ...

Zegorzalek

Zegorzalek

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2005

The Last Platoon

Have to concur with Andy_M...definitely much more athletic/fitness model looks...the assassian we got to try looked almost fragile and waifish.... I personally would like to see a fit assassian rather than a stick ninja, but that's just me. Definitely nice art for sure...

Frost1069

Frost1069

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

Behind You!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy_M
Hmmm, so the people from Cantha don't look that Asian at all ?
lol thats what i though from the artwork too....its like they wanted to make them look slightly asian but not TOO asian...lol...some of the in game faces from the preview event looked asian-esque though(well the male at least, i didn't check out the female face options)

Raziel665

Raziel665

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Defenders of the Blackblade [DotB]

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nevin
I still can't get over the best part of their poster art.. The assassins in game don't have that hair color or hair style.. Hahah.
Haha, lets try making the necro armor on the cover, or get Mhenlo's tatoo's... Wait, how about that Warrior armor?
Your point fails.

Inari

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2005

Israel

What nipples?
This reminds me of the Tifa arguments from FF7AC when it came...

Anyway, the art does look great, and I have one question/ Since I didnt really got into the new chars in the pvp weekend, do the Assa have a skill to throw all those small daggers from her armor?

Manic Smile

Manic Smile

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

Hawaii

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Come on guys...you've all seen what Asain people look like in Anime...and those are by Asians...

btw...why?

lyra_song

lyra_song

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zegorzalek
Have to concur with Andy_M...definitely much more athletic/fitness model looks...the assassian we got to try looked almost fragile and waifish.... I personally would like to see a fit assassian rather than a stick ninja, but that's just me. Definitely nice art for sure...
So the current assasin is NOT fit? You call THAT fragile?!?! She looks rather butch to me...(ignore the hair cut)



I used photoshop to increase the contrast to make the 6 pack more obvious. Im sick of people calling the girl Sins skinny/anorexic/ or as you call them "stick ninja"

Glob of Noobloplasm

Glob of Noobloplasm

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

lf guild

WTF is she going to do with all those knives? Seriously.

hot though, i think ill buy it just because it has a ridiculously hot chick on the box. Just like the several other circumstances where I did the same thing. *points to stack of un-used PC games*

Smooth criminals Anet.... Smooooth criminals

heavy metal rules

heavy metal rules

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

cape cod, ma

{bkr} bad karma ressurection

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cjlr
I bet those nipples attract a lot of male customers.

her navel is telling me to come closer. ..oh i can't wait for factions..

Hockster

Hockster

Banned

Join Date: Jul 2005

Why can't the in game characters look like the artists renderings?

Meneldil

Meneldil

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

United States [KS]

[none]

R/W

Awesome. But I won't ever make a primary assassin. RANGER ASSASSIN FOR THE WINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNN!!

Andy_M

Andy_M

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

Worthing, UK

(Don't fear) The Beaver

Quote:
Originally Posted by lyra_song
So the current assasin is NOT fit? You call THAT fragile?!?! She looks rather butch to me...(ignore the hair cut)



I used photoshop to increase the contrast to make the 6 pack more obvious. Im sick of people calling the girl Sins skinny/anorexic/ or as you call them "stick ninja"

Hate to say it but that piccy just proves they ARE stick-ninjas.

ScuZZ

ScuZZ

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

Clan Eternal Legion

Mo/Me

If anything that makes em look more anorexic. Here have a piece of pie!

lyra_song

lyra_song

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by ScuZZ
If anything that makes em look more anorexic. Here have a piece of pie!
-.-;; *sigh* I think its because the assasin has a very boyish build (lean, muscular, smaller breasts, less feminine animations) compared to the softer lines (Bigger breasts, full waist and butt) of the female core classes. Assasins are the butch lesbians and the core classes are the girly girls.

The cover art of the assasin will probably a NPC or a Henchman thats why her face/hair are not available to players.

Big_Iron

Big_Iron

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Join Date: Dec 2005

The Edge

Tormented Weapons [emo]

Quote:
Originally Posted by lyra_song
The cover art of the assasin will probably a NPC or a Henchman thats why her face/hair are not available to players.
I bet you're right. Cynn is one of the covers for Prophecies.

fiery

fiery

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Join Date: Oct 2005

maryland

InYurFace Gaming [IYF]

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Hope you guys know the "female assain" is actually a MALE assain and a "male assain" is a MALE assain. Ponder on that. Gte ya hormones in line.

Mournblade

Mournblade

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

Houston, Texas

Dawn Treaders [DAWN]

W/Mo

I could do with a 4-foot poster of her hanging in my room... *pants*

Mordakai

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hockster
Why can't the in game characters look like the artists renderings?
Is this a serious question? Because it's much easier to draw a hot girl for the back of a magazine than it is to render on a computer screen with the hundreds of other things in Guild Wars.

EDIT: That said, if they added this poster in the CE, that surely wouldn't hurt sales.

boxterduke

boxterduke

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Join Date: Jun 2005

Walking the ruins of Ascalon

DVDF

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Very nice ad but why the hell the real assassin character in game is so ugly and skinny.

MadChaz

MadChaz

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Join Date: Mar 2006

erm....SHITHOLE

N/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodyDotNet
I bet you're right. Cynn is one of the covers for Prophecies.
...if u are refering to the female necro on the box of the first guildwars....that isnt Cynn.

Cynn is the elemental main caractor.

the female necro main caractor i do believe is called Eve.....who is the incredibly hot chick on the box for the first guildwars. (which i have to admit did kinda make me wanna pick up the box in the first place )

Mordakai

Mordakai

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Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by MadChaz
...if u are refering to the female necro on the box of the first guildwars....that isnt Cynn.

Cynn is the elemental main caractor.

the female necro main caractor i do believe is called Eve.....who is the incredibly hot chick on the box for the first guildwars. (which i have to admit did kinda make me wanna pick up the box in the first place )
And create a Hot Necro, right?

ghostlyranger

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by boxterduke
Very nice ad but why the hell the real assassin character in game is so ugly and skinny.
and their armor is crap, totally not asian look.

just some mortal kombat shit

Big_Iron

Big_Iron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

The Edge

Tormented Weapons [emo]

Quote:
Originally Posted by MadChaz
...if u are refering to the female necro on the box of the first guildwars....that isnt Cynn.

Cynn is the elemental main caractor.

the female necro main caractor i do believe is called Eve.....who is the incredibly hot chick on the box for the first guildwars. (which i have to admit did kinda make me wanna pick up the box in the first place )
Um, I'm not. There's an Ele box with Cynn on it.

logan90

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by MadChaz
...if u are refering to the female necro on the box of the first guildwars....that isnt Cynn.

Cynn is the elemental main caractor.

the female necro main caractor i do believe is called Eve.....who is the incredibly hot chick on the box for the first guildwars. (which i have to admit did kinda make me wanna pick up the box in the first place )
The female necro on the cover is Eve, you are correct.. But you are also wrong.. The other person was talking about Cynn on the front of the box, which is on some of the American boxes for Guild Wars. Different regions got different covers. He was talking about Cynn the elementalist.

EDIT: In the 2mins it took to type this someone else said it..

Big_Iron

Big_Iron

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The Edge

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Here's the box art with Cynn..

Kool Pajamas

Kool Pajamas

Forge Runner

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Maryland

Mage Elites [MAGE]

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Originally Posted by Nevin
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New condition: Stiffness

Diablo???

Diablo???

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Seattle

SPQR

N/R

This is why I bought the game:

PieXags

PieXags

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

The Infinite Representation Of Pie And Its Many Brilliances

Quote:
Originally Posted by lyra_song
-.-;; *sigh* I think its because the assasin has a very boyish build (lean, muscular, smaller breasts, less feminine animations) compared to the softer lines (Bigger breasts, full waist and butt) of the female core classes. Assasins are the butch lesbians and the core classes are the girly girls.

The cover art of the assasin will probably a NPC or a Henchman thats why her face/hair are not available to players.
The problem with the assassins is that both male and female versions look like really really really weak guys. The female looks like a sissy guy, and the male looks like a sissy guy. I don't care how many knives you put in awkward places all over someone's body, that still doesn't cover up the fact that they look like sissies.

Cjlr

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

SMS

E/Me

There were three boxes for the orginal game... One with Eve and Stefan (?), one with Mhenlo and Cynn, and one with Reyna and that mesmer lady (Sebedoh? Althea?).

I gave it a real close look when I was in Syracuse, and they had all three of them. Took me a while, and I had to dig a bit, and people looked at me funny, but I found one of each.

I was surprised to find them all. I had assumed there were three box designs, but I didn't know they were all distributed to the same places. When I got GW there was only the one design, the one withe Eve and Stefan.

Hey ANet, why didn't Canada get different box designs? I saw no box variety anywhere! Well, I can't speak for British Columbia through Manitoba, or the maritimes, but still. Ontario and Quebec only got one stinkin cover design. One! I was outraged.

But then I went and played the game, so I forgave them.

Corth

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

Sentinels of Eternal Souls

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodyDotNet
Also, there was a small preview inside. Here's just a snip:

"...during my visit to ArenaNet's office I thought an artist was using one of Faction's lush concept paintings as his monitor's desktop background...until it started moving."
Sweet, so they are doing another fully rendered cinematic! I was getting worried that they wern't!

Manic Smile

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordakai
And create a Hot Necro, right?
well...yea, acutally but that's probably just me

Mako

Mako

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

Midgar - Sector 7

Star Scar Reunion [VII]

N/Me

Wow.

Stab me bb

KvanCetre

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

The Madison Scouts

E/Mo

So women who are constatly running, fighting monsters, training to fight, etc aren't supposed to be lean and fit? I don't get the logic here. It seems more like a "What I want" rather than "What is realisitic to the character design". Are they going to have huge muscles? No, they fight with daggers... and I just can't picture an assassin lifting weights...

If you're going to complain, complain about the muscular difference between Men and women warriors... theres no way the women warriors are constantly swinging hammers for hours with those arms.

This thread kinda makes me wonder if people realize that eating some healthy and excercise lead to skinny people. Remember, the people of Cantha don't sit on their butts playing a game for hours, they don't drink hundreds of calories of pop/soda daily, they most likely don't have access to high-sugar food, and probably eat a lot of fresh vegetables and candy canes. Well, assuming they eat anything other than candy canes.. I know my current characters haven't had anything to eat since December.

Candy Canes aside... does anyone else realize that these people are running almost all the time? When they're not running, they're fighting. They stop for a few breaks here and there to get parties... but seriously, why would they be anything other than skinny?

Cjlr

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

SMS

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by KvanCetre
Candy Canes aside... does anyone else realize that these people are running almost all the time? When they're not running, they're fighting. They stop for a few breaks here and there to get parties... but seriously, why would they be anything other than skinny?
Well, I know that mine spend an average of 23 hours per day standing around on a pillar...