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420:
You forgot one vote option:

- Wasn't impressed enough by GW to even consider getting the expansion.


--- Quote ---That's a load of crap.  It has half (and maybe that generous) as much content as the original game. 
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You're being way too generous if you compare the number of classes, feats, missions, creatures, armor, weapons and various item mods.

-420

Mo:
Well I was impressed with Guild Wars for a number of reasons.  It has outstanding graphics.  The action is very well paced, the interface is excellent.  The multiplayer functionalities are obviously superb.  However the PvP is not well put together and not very streamlined with the RP.  The barriers of entry to high level pvp is also excessively large.  Anet caters to the powergamer and leaves the casual gamer in the dust.  Unfortunately for Anet, they don't seem to realize that there are an order of magnitude more casual gamers than powergamers and GW will never reach the levels they thought it would while alienating this large majority.  As  I've mentioned in other posts they could have added a few more pvp options to make the pvp side of the game more enjoyable for the masses.  As it is, GW was a great RP game.  Too bad I finished it and the pvp is not fun.  Now that I've discovered Factions to be more expensive than most first-rate full game titles, there's no way I'm gonna get it, though it didn't look bad.  Marketing oopsie by Anet/NCsoft.

Elessar Telrunya:

--- Quote ---Well I was impressed with Guild Wars for a number of reasons.  It has outstanding graphics.  The action is very well paced, the interface is excellent.  The multiplayer functionalities are obviously superb.  However the PvP is not well put together and not very streamlined with the RP.  The barriers of entry to high level pvp is also excessively large.  Anet caters to the powergamer and leaves the casual gamer in the dust.  Unfortunately for Anet, they don't seem to realize that there are an order of magnitude more casual gamers than powergamers and GW will never reach the levels they thought it would while alienating this large majority.  As  I've mentioned in other posts they could have added a few more pvp options to make the pvp side of the game more enjoyable for the masses.  As it is, GW was a great RP game.  Too bad I finished it and the pvp is not fun.  Now that I've discovered Factions to be more expensive than most first-rate full game titles, there's no way I'm gonna get it, though it didn't look bad.  Marketing oopsie by Anet/NCsoft.
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You have valid points, but as for the PvP factor, players are screwed if they aren't in a decent guild and they want to PvP a lot, which is a major draw back. I think PvP definitely did take a BIG downward turn when IWAY was discovered and when people refuse to accept you if you're below r3 no matter how fuckin good you are, but other than that its currently fairly good...please consider getting factions when the price goes down atleast...although you would be a bit irritated by the level gaps and the lack of skill quests...it's still decent but definitely doesn't come upto the standards of the original game and is harder to go through, no matter, the new classes add good twists to it, although assassins have a hard time finding a place in groups generally..the only other real major drawback i see is that they put in a shitload of new skills, but more than half of them are either worth shit or just duplicates of skills already in existence...there are however, a few good ones, including the duplicates, lol


-Elessar

Throbblefoot:

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Excellent point, Mo, and sadly one that can be applied to many more game companies than Anet/NCSoft. Many titles have quality isssues that prevent the storyline from being completed (Evil Genius, Black and White, and Daggerfall to name but a few). Then a good chunk of them are simply too frustrating one way or another (having to build the perfect team, or having to do the same quest 1,000 times, etc.).

All the more reason to horde my pennies for NWN2. Now if they would just tell me when Spore is coming out...

-Throbblefoot

Mo:

--- Quote ---You have valid points, but as for the PvP factor, players are screwed if they aren't in a decent guild and they want to PvP a lot, which is a major draw back. I think PvP definitely did take a BIG downward turn when IWAY was discovered and when people refuse to accept you if you're below r3 no matter how fuckin good you are, but other than that its currently fairly good...please consider getting factions when the price goes down atleast...although you would be a bit irritated by the level gaps and the lack of skill quests...it's still decent but definitely doesn't come upto the standards of the original game and is harder to go through, no matter, the new classes add good twists to it, although assassins have a hard time finding a place in groups generally..the only other real major drawback i see is that they put in a shitload of new skills, but more than half of them are either worth shit or just duplicates of skills already in existence...there are however, a few good ones, including the duplicates, lol
-Elessar
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Hehe well from your description of Factions, I think you should say it's overpriced.  At half it's current i'd have considered it.

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