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End. Game.

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And now for something completely different...

February 08, 2023

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Guild Wars 2: Day 3

February 06, 2023

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November 10, 2022

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November 08, 2022

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The Lightsaber of Damocles

November 06, 2022

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1 + 1 = 4

November 04, 2022

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Jedi Days

November 02, 2022

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Star Wars The Old Republic: Day 3

October 30, 2022

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The highs are high, the lows are low

October 28, 2022

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Final Fantasy XIV6
Guild Wars 218
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Neverwinter28
Requiem6
RIFT12

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End. Game.

Seeing as there was a gap of two years between my last run of Guild Wars 2 and this one, it might sound like I'm stating the obvious when I say it could be a long time before I return to this game. Throughout my time in GW2 I've had mixed feelings about the game. I started off pleasantly surprised at how much better it was than I remembered from the first time I played back in 2012 or thereabouts, and I remain wholeheartedly impressed by the design of the open world experience. The early levelling in this game is first rate and really showcases the ways in which MMOs can be different from single player games. It's great. Up to a point, and that point is where the main story really takes over, and if I had to do GW2 all over again, knowing what I do now, I wouldn't even have done the later stages. From level 60 onward the main story is over long, over scripted and departs entirely from the freeform dynamism that is GW2's greatest strength. If this is how the expans

Out of the loop

The storytelling in Guild Wars 2 is at its best when it's not trying to tell a story. I've spent a lot of this run doing the personal story, which I am now going to refer to as the main story, because that's a more accurate description of what it is - GW2 's equivalent of the MSQ in Final Fantasy XIV , the Epic in Lord of the Rings Online or the class stories in Star Wars The Old Republic . As I've said in previous posts, a lot of the story doesn't work. What's interesting is why it doesn't work, and I think this has a lot to do with how playing through the main story is so at odds with the rest of the Guild Wars 2 experience. I've talked before about the core loop of this game - enter a new zone, complete Hearts while checking off points of interest and vistas, dive into events as you come across them if you're in the mood to do so, repeat. While it can get a little mechanical at times it's extremely well done and keeps things moving at

Guild Wars 2: Day 3

Me: Okay, so I'm back in Guild Wars 2 for the first time in 2 years. It'll probably take me a while to work out what I should - GW2: Hey, here's an arrow to show you where you can go next! Go go go! There's usually a settling in period upon returning to an MMO after an extended period away, during which I work out what I'm supposed to be doing and how I'm supposed to be doing it. How long this takes varies from one game to another. In the case of Guild Wars 2 , the first part took about thirty seconds. After clicking through a series of sparkling icons notifying me of log-in rewards and suchlike, I glanced at the UI and saw a prompt telling me where I could go to discover a new location. After being briefly sidetracked into a nearby event – which I subsequently remembered I'd done before – I decided to do just that. This quite smoothly got me back into the habit of using the map to look for places I'd never been to and activities I hadn't compl

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