Guild Wars

[Vishus]

"This is an MMO without a subscription fee." - Dan Adams, IGN

Ok guys admit it this will probably be the best MMORPG ever. If you were to just simply compare gameplay to other existing MMORPGs ok it could suck with lets say EQ2, WoW, AC2, etc around, but lets wait till it comes out. If this game got a good score and I didn't say great, excellent, or revolutionary, but just plain good according to most reviewers then I'll automatically give it a higher score than any other MMORPG just because it has free online. I don't know how they do it but I hope existing MMORPGs or ones in the future go the same path.

[Anti-Colin]

It's not an MMORPG.

You go into combat with 6 people and you see no one else.

The only time you see a hundred or so players is in the town.

It is extremely linear in the level design when you are in combat.

[Oddyssey]

I quit playing mmorpgs after planetside.

[Vishus]

It's not an MMORPG.

You go into combat with 6 people and you see no one else.

The only time you see a hundred or so players is in the town.

It is extremely linear in the level design when you are in combat.

Ok so it has some differences that isn't in other MMORPGs.

http://www.guildwars.com/faq/default.html

"Guild Wars takes the best elements of today's massively multiplayer online games..."

http://www.guildwars.com/faq/default.html

Will there be a monthly fee for Guild Wars?

No, there will not be a monthly subscription fee of any kind, anywhere in the world.

Is Guild Wars an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game)?


Guild Wars has some similarities to existing MMORPGs, but it also has some key differences.
Like existing MMOs, Guild Wars is played entirely online in a secure hosted environment. Thousands of players inhabit the same virtual world. Players can meet new friends in gathering places like towns and outposts where they form parties and go questing with them. Unlike many MMOs, when players form a party and embark upon a quest in Guild Wars, they get their own private copy of the area where the quest takes place. This design eliminates some of the frustrating gameplay elements commonly associated with MMOs, such as spawn camping, kill stealing, and lines to complete a quest.

Guild Wars takes place in a large virtual world made up of many different zones, and players can walk from one end of the world to the other. But Guild Wars eliminates much of the tedium of traveling through the world. Players can instantly return to any safe area (town or outpost) that they've previously visited just by clicking on it in the world overview map.

Rather than labeling Guild Wars an MMORPG, we prefer to call it a CORPG (Competitive Online Role-Playing Game). Guild Wars was designed from the ground up to create the best possible competitive role-playing experience. Success in Guild Wars is always the result of player skill, not time spent playing or the size of one's guild. As characters progress, they acquire a diverse set of skills and items, enabling them to use new strategies in combat. Players can do battle in open arenas or compete in guild-on-guild warfare or the international tournament. But engaging in combat is always the player's choice; there is no player-killing in cooperative areas of the world.

Finally, unlike existing MMOs, all characters in Guild Wars inhabit the same virtual world -- they are not divided onto different servers or shards -- so players can always team up with or compete against any other player in the world.

[Anti-Colin]

I'm not saying its a bad game, it was pretty fun.

The only thing I don't like is that there are 20 levels. But it is mainly about PvP or GvG (player vs. player, guild vs. guild)

I did the open beta thing that they had with some friends, the only thing I didn't like was the level design.

[Colin TRADEMARKED]

That game was fun.......when it was called Diablo 2

[Jon]

Oh PWNED!!!! COLIN PWNED THAT GAME!

Seriously though... he's right.

[Vishus]

That game was fun.......when it was called Diablo 2

Theres already a Diablo 2 and I don't remember clicking on enemies level after level being fun.

[Colin TRADEMARKED]

It's not an MMORPG.

You go into combat with 6 people and you see no one else.

The only time you see a hundred or so players is in the town.

It is extremely linear in the level design when you are in combat.


See above.