Guild Wars! Lets hope all MMORPGs go this way!

[Tidus Andronicus]

I usually try to explore everything solo, and use henchmen when ever I can, and I believe that If I'm strong enough Henchmen are all I need... but at this point, I'm only just past Piken Square, and the Dukes Daughter Quest is soooo hard! even with human party members. lol The reward is 2,000exp so I'll get stronger before I complete it.

I can't wait to get out of this desolite area, and explore the lands beyond the snowy mountains!! If you zoom out, its soo amazing how big the world is! and this is just the begining! Its very possible they will add more map with time!

Check out my screens! One is of a landscape, the other 2 are of Lighting, either from the sky, or generated by (SPOILER)those big crystal things that destroyed everything... *wishes everything wasn't soo destroyed and dirty*
I also have a party of Henchmen in one of these. XD

I shrunk these images, cause I usually play in 1280x960 and thats bigger than most peoples screens... lol

[Lindy]

Way to defeat the whole purpose of it by playing it solo D=

It's a hell of a lot of fun just playing it with a few friends since, unlike most MMORPGs, you and a few friends are against all that is evil and JUST you, it just seems so much more epic, and also a lot of fun when you can just say "OH MY GOD DID WE JUST KILL THAT WHOLE ARMY?"

That and the henchman AI is awful, just plain horrible.

The game is so massive though! So many quests, huge areas, so much to do, it'll keep me occupied forever. And, since the new client build added better hardware support, it works ok on my integrated video card now.

[Tidus Andronicus]

I know I know XD Henchmen are terrible... but if you don't want to party with people... these help a LOT!
You really CAN'T always solo in Guild Wars, you'd have to be a god, skill wise to do that...

Actually, more than once, I've partied with people... and totally failed our quest... were as I had NO problem doing it with Henchmen! lol (I must have partied with some really bad people XD)
Sometimes you just need the Henchmen to distract the enemies while you run to the next area. XD

On another note, when I first left the n00b area (old ascalon) I didn't expect to have to battle another group of people that also wanted to get to the new area... sooo yea, that was interesting... I kind of feel sorry for the other group though lol... we totally kicked their arses! XD

[Daggers64]

Nice screenshots Tidus! ^_^/

I like that first one! How/where did you get that high above the terrain? lol
The map looks like a glitch... @_@

Omg, yea, I didn't expect to have to fight other people to move on. lol I'm not in this game for PvP as much, though its fun sometimes.
I was lucky I was teamed up with some strong guys for that, otherwise I wouldn't have made it! <>_<>

[Lindy]

Ahaha, the capacity for heroism in this game is great too, since you're in a huge area with just a few people around, there can be lots of "RUN, I'LL HOLD THEM OFF" moments, s'great fun XD

[Wiegrahf42]

Yeah, remember when Gandalf shouts "YOU SHALL NOT PASS"! to the Balrog in LOTR? Guild Wars has lots of capacity for stuff like that. I love that game. LOVE it. I am the founder of the guild "Legion of Lagumes" (A lagume is any plant that grows underground a chief example being Peanuts) Oddly enough I'm allergic to peanuts hmm. Being a Ranger is awesome enough but with Necromancer as secondary.

[Lindy]

...It's Legume, not Lagume, and a better example of a Legume is a runner bean.

Ranger/Monk is more fun anyway, I prefer being a secondary healer for my party, and having Ressurect on skill 8 is very handy for the latest battles vs the gazillions of Charr.

[KuRt]

So umm.. this more like Diablo2 than Wow?

[Tidus Andronicus]

Well, I haven't played Diablo2... but thats what I hear people say.

I don't really know of much to compare this too... Its unique to me, it is its own game! lol

Guild Wars does remind me of Baulder's Gate a lot, though! ^_^;

Also, XD I just realized that my characters voice sounds a LOT like Spike from Cowboy Bebop! XD

(YAY screenshot taken from in the mountains)

[Lindy]

GW is similar to D2, in terms of the way it works, the towns are like chatrooms on bnet, but when you leave a town, it goes into an instanced form, like the games on D2, but you travel with your party and your party have your own specific instance.

Yes, I know WoW has that too, but this is EVERYWHERE, and while you travel from town to do, do mission to mission instanced, as soon as you enter a town, people are there and you can meet up and party with more people.

Also, there's a handy map system so you can instantly teleport to any town, outpost or mission you've travelled to, but it breaks the current party you're in.

Hahar, I made it to Kryta (at last)!

[Xander]

RO > Guild Wars. =p

[Tidus Andronicus]

Of course RO is the best! lol It will be very hard for any online game to top RO... cept that RO to this day, still costs money... *pfft* (yay private servers!)
But Guild Wars is awesome in its own way too. RO is its own kind of online game. In my mind its hard to compare the 2 games. lol
Its like comparing Anime to Medieval Fantasy. (Unless of course its an Anime about Medieval Fantasy) XD

Yea, I stayed up most the night, last night to make it too Lions Arch! ^__^ I'm sooo glad to see green again!!!
I love the beach areas soo much! and I was soo surrprised to see fish actually swimming around in the water! And the castles around Lions Arch are huge!

[escobert]

I picked it up last week. I hope to get my internet up and running soon :D. Oh I hope I can play this soon.

[Daggers64]

Lol, I'm still in the mountains @_@ but I'm working my way there!
I can't wait to see Lions Arch!

I loves the screens you take Tidus!

One thing about Guild Wars, I hope there is enough map to last us! Half the fun is exploring for me!=3

[KuRt]

Well, maybe this game has better graphics than WoW but WoW is better in every else way. and if you put that kind of graphics into WoW since the wolrd is so frikin´ big, you´d need a mega ultimate superhuman outtathisworld computer..

I personally don´t like this game. (yes i do have tested the game. Over half of the classes are casters :P)