Everyone has a fighting chance
Smooth animations, fantastic audio quality, and a good UI are essential for making a good game no matter what genre you’re talking about. When it comes to MMO’s it’s hard to find a game that has a true polished feel. A lot of these games try to fill that gap by just reskinning old content, and slapping it on top of everything to make their game seem larger. Then there’s Guild Wars 2. An MMO so polished, it’s actually hard to believe. In fact, it’s still being polished!
The PAX South schedule has been released and it features an interesting panel on the main stage that will be hosted by ArenaNet co-founder Mike O’Brien and Guild Wars 2 game director Colin Johanson. Could it be the long-awaited expansion announcement? A new game perhaps? Speculate in the comments below.
Last week, MMORPG.com looked forward to 2015 and what Guild Wars 2 would bring. This week, I’m going to go in the opposite direction and talk about my favorite pieces of content from 2014. How do they match up with yours?
2014 saw quite a few changes to Guild Wars 2, both good and bad. Now 2015 is right around the corner, and we’re all wondering what ArenaNet has in store. While they have their own plan for the game, there will always be what we, the players, are hoping for. Here’s the 5 things players hope to see in 2015.
OK, so maybe dailies aren’t exactly the first thing on anyone’s wish list to be revamped. Still, despite their relatively small impact, they’re something you encounter every, uh, day, so they’re still important – important enough for ArenaNet to tinker with them for a third time since the game’s launch.
A new blog post has appeared on the Guild Wars 2 site that reveals the brand new Daily Achievement tracker that has arrived with the Wintersday update. Dailies are now divided into PvE, PvP and WvW tabs and, most notably, rewards will be ‘thematically tied’ to the type of daily that is completed. In addition, a new ‘log in rewards’ program has started that combines rewards from daily and monthly achievements along with some brand new things to give players incentive to log in every day.
ArenaNet has announced that the Guild Wars 2 Living Story Season 2 will make its return on January 13, 2015. The story will pick up as the assembled heroes are ready to break the seal on a mysterious cave. Between now and then, however, players will also be able to take part in the annual holiday events.
Being a hero in real life is a lot tougher than you might think, mainly because there aren’t any Ogres or Orcs running around trying to burn villages. That leaves only 1 other option, I’m not counting charities because you should be doing that anyways! I’m talking about video games. They let us don some flashy armor, equip over the top weaponry, and open up quest after quest.
Having successfully staged their first World Tournament Series event in Beijing, China this month, ArenaNet is busy getting ready for its second one – in Boston, Massachusetts.
It’s easy to dismiss Guild Wars 2’s Living World updates as "not enough content" if you’re not a fan of the game, or are anxious for a true expansion to Tyria. I played through the latest episode, Seeds of Truth last night and while it had a bit of an underwhelming finish, it’s plain to see that it’s building toward something big in Guild Wars 2.