GWAR: When Guild Wars and Warhammer Online Merge
I can’t say that Guild Wars has ever clicked with me. It’s one of those games that I intellectually like, I appreciate its parts, but never have gotten hooked on it the way I’ve seen others get addicted. But in my enthusiasm for the upcoming Guild Wars 2 I became willing to give Guild Wars Classic another shot, especially since the Massively group’s been running missions on Thursday night.
Therefore, Syp Tsunami — the greatest-sounding character name EVER — was born, a Necro/Elementalist sporting fashionable Hot Topic threads. I rushed through pre-Searing Ascalon over the course of an afternoon and caught up in time for the group runs last night.
It was… okay. I mean, it’s one of those things where everybody knows these missions like the back of their hands, so they blitz through them and you just follow along like a faithful puppy, triggering perhaps one skill before each skirmish ends.
There was one thing that happened: as our party was watching one of the cutscenes (which I do love, even though all of the characters move their mouths like they’re puppets and have someone’s hand up their butt) someone’s phone rang really loudly over vent. That spawned a whole lot of cutscene commentary:
“Prince Rurik, it’s for you!”
“Tell them I’m… indisposed. Fine, I’ll take it. Mom! I’m in the middle of a cutscene! No, I’ll do that later! Yes, I studied for the test. Fine! Bye!”
“Prince, the Charr…!”
“One second, I have to give Arnie a buzz, he’s my ride to the DQ today. I have the afternoon shift.”
- Posted in: Guild Wars
-1 point for not using a pic of the band GWAR
Uh…interesting. This had ZERO to do with Warhammer Online. Came up in my Google Alerts, and I was like…what?
Then I read it, and I am still like…WHAT?
Anyways…Guild Wars rocks, and being on that tail end is definitely not any fun. I was a launch player, and the game has something most other MMO’s do not.
A feeling of a reason to be in that world as you level.
Bioware can go on all they want about “story”, but GW really did this first and GW2 will trounce that whole SW:ToR story deal.
Aww, they should not have blitzed through like that… when I know there are newbies in my group I always let them take the lead and discover things on their own. If they wander off to that area I know is a dead end, oh well.
I haven’t been able to catch up with the Massively group for the past few weeks, but I hope to get back in there with y’all – even with an alt – before you’re finished the storyline!
Heh, I had to read that over. I didn’t remember Rurik getting a call from his mom :p
I think I enjoyed Pre Searing the most when I first started. I still like to make alts to run through it. Some people actually keep characters there, I always thought that might be kind of fun while trying to get the title.