Guild Wars 2 Preview

Agreed with all the comments below. As I mentioned, I think Sirdesmond made a great point by not drawing any conclusions in the article in regards to voice acting or what will be included in the final product - as such, simply nobody has this information yet, and we're not going to guess in our previews.

 

@Sittin Duck: We didn't even bring up SWTOR in the article.

There seems to be a bit of confusion about VO in the game. A lot of us are under the impression that the game would have full voice over. I looked back at the developer article talking about it and can't seem to find anything that suggests that it would be fully voiced over. We know that there are over 60 feature-length films worth of voice work for the game, and that in the DEMO ALONE that there were over 60 different voice actors who lent their voices to the characters and NPCs. We know the first part from the dev blog http://www.arena.net/blog/talking-heads-vo-and-dialogue-in-gw2 , the second part from a dev post on a forum frequented by the devs. But its still unclear as to whether the game will be fully voiced or not. I've asked for developer clarification on a forum frequented by them. IF it is true that the game is fully voiced, its intirely possible that what we saw at PAX and Gamescom  was just the Textboxes turned on so people could tell what was going on over the convention noise, or that they haven't fully implemented the VO work in the game yet. However, it is also possible that the game isn't fully voiced over, and we will still see textboxes.

 

As far as the comment that was made about it, this is a year that is filled with some high profile MMO's, and with that means that there's a lot of fanboyism going about. There is a little bit of rivalry going on specifically between some of  the SWtOR and GW2 fanboys. When comparisons are made between the two titles, it can have a polarizing effect, and if one of the fanboys thinks that you made a comparison based on something that they think isn't true, they will jump on you. This is made worse by the fact that there a several gaming media outlets that aren't giving GW2 much coverage, but are its competitors, and so this causes a bit of senstivity among the fans. Its best not to compare them IMHO, or at least until they are both out. They aren't mutually exclusive since one doesn't have a monthly fee to compete with the other.

In what I was saw of the game, there were some moments of on-screen text relating to quest and other activities, but I never claimed that that was a bad thing or anything of the sort. I was comparing Guild Wars 2 intriguing and amazing looks combat as one of its biggest differences from the standard MMO formula in the same way that Bioware is looking to make The Old Republic different by making the game entirely voiced-over. I'm sorry if it came off in a confusing manner.

 

I was not intending for this article to be a full overview of every major game mechanic of Guild Wars 2 but about my experience with the game at PAX as this is some of the new or potentially interesting information about the game. For those interesting further, there is plenty of other information to be found online.

 

I'm quite excited for the game actually, especially after seeing it in action.

I'm sort of confused as to what the first poster was talking about...nowhere in this article did I see the author say there were no voice-overs, or mention a healer class at all. Also, there ARE text quests. The biggest draw for GW2 are the events, but there are actual quests, ranging from personal storyline, instance quests, and just random things where you help npcs on a smaller scale which have an affect on how they address you.

 

Imho poster, you should read an article before commenting on it. Check your facts, while you're at it.

 

Our writer wrote a preview based on what was shown at the PAX event. There were indeed text quests, and our writer never said the game has no voiceovers. Nothing was mentioned about healer classes?

 

We know it's a persistant world, hence why our writer kept referring to it as a true MMO and not a hybrid that the original game was.

 

IMO this article does a great job overviewing what was shown for the game at PAX. It is not meant to cover anything and everything about GW2 - that's what we use our news coverage for

GW2 doesn't have quests. Instead ,it uses ''events'' which are upgraded Public quests, sou you couldnt have seen any quest texts. Thats one of the reasons people are so hyped up about this game. Except that, GW2 wont have dedicated healer classes and ''holy trinity''. Also. Huge majority of the dialogues is voiced over. And unlike GW1, GW2 will have a persistent open world.

 

Imho author, if youre not interested in GW2 dont write a preview of it where you tell wrong informations about the game....