GW is a: ???

Gedscho

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

the Zen Men

Mo/W

Build Wars

Boy U Is Leet Dood, We All Really Suckzorz

Lasareth

Lasareth

Aquarius

Join Date: Jun 2005

Somewhere between Boardwalk and Park Place

Quote:
Originally Posted by samarium
Haha, you have no idea. Play a REAL mmorpg and then get back to us mmkay?

I liked that MIRPG dealie, but let's do IMRPG instead because it doesn't feel as silly to say.

-sam
http://ffxi.killvoid.com/users.php?m...ea2157906a536d

Presumptuous people make me giggle.

Still doesn't change that GW takes time though.

theclam

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by thorizdin
For the OP, who wasn't convinced about GW's FPS lineage. Let me ask, name another RPG, on or off line, that has active dodging.
Diablo 2.

It's an online-only RPG. The controls aren't direct enough for it to be action (click on something and automatically attack it, as opposed to pressing a button every time you want to attack), although it is realtime. It's got the stats and character progression of an RPG. You play as much of a role as in every single other linear RPG every released.

It's not massively multiplayer, any more than Diablo is. It's basically as massively mutliplayer as Diablo, except the interface to trade and find parties is done in the ingame engine, rather than a chatroom. It also can be a single player game, albeit an online-only single player game. You don't have to group with anyone at all, except for the searing.

Quote:
GRIND-WARS

Grind Ridiculously Introduced Not Done Wisely And Really Stupid
You don't have to grind at all. Just do quests and missions and you can easily beat the game without doing any grinding. Players don't have to get the best weapons or runes, and the best armor is affordable without grinding. You should try playing a real MMORPG, where there just aren't enough quests for you to have a max level, competitive character, without spending time grinding.

kuramaroze

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

Grind? Unless you want fissure armor, or want to pay insane amounts of gold for crappy weapons, there is no grind. Collector weapons are the best, and you'll naturally find upgrades for it in the game. Playing the game, the average player can get 3/4 of their skills, a set of forge armor, and a set of 15k armor easily.

Its hard to classify guild wars.

MasterQu

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Barbarian Nation

W/R

Alright I call it a SOC

Sims
On
Crack

work for u? Works for me!

Jk.

Forboding Angel

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

guys guys guys


anet termed it themselves as a: CORPG

Cooperative Role Playing Game

Sagius Truthbarron

Sagius Truthbarron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Animal Factory [ZoO]

A/

Is it just me or do people keep making the same topics OVER AND OVER again?

MasterQu

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Barbarian Nation

W/R

Quote:
Is it just me or do people keep making the same topics OVER AND OVER again?
Deja-vu all over again

Divinitys Creature

Divinitys Creature

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Somewhere between the Real World and Tyria ;P

The Gothic Embrace [Goth]

Quote:
Originally Posted by theclam
You don't have to grind at all. Just do quests and missions and you can easily beat the game without doing any grinding. Players don't have to get the best weapons or runes, and the best armor is affordable without grinding. You should try playing a real MMORPG, where there just aren't enough quests for you to have a max level, competitive character, without spending time grinding.
There is grind for PvP players like me and many others who need all the skills in the whole game in order to develop counters dynamically ready for the next GvG match or entry in Tombs, wihout having to earn a skill point or capture before we can counter a specific build. We feel like that because in the days of Beta we had UAS and it was a PvP utopia. We want that again so have to grind out 5 characters with all the missions even after doing all the free skill quests 3 times over to get all the skills and of course capturing the 90 elites. We class that as grind. Faction was there to let us gain skills etc through PvP but it takes ~7 hours to get a skill that way compared to 25 minutes by PvE (14 mintes for my guild).