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Just Didn't Connect with Me

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 61 / 92
Date: May 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

(Word of caution: I explained all the acronyms and on-ling game lingo I used in my review, in case those who are reading don't know the vocabulary. If you're an experienced player, just read past it ... I didn't do it to annoy you. :) )

Just about all of the features of Guild Wars really got me excited to play, especially the minimap arrows pointing where you should go to finish quests and teleporting here and there (rather than yachting or flying). I bought it the night before launch and anxiously awaited the floodgates opening at midnight.

Unfortunately, I was disappointed, though clearly not all will be. I am primarily a PvE (Player versus Environment) and sometimes enjoying soloing, not having to group with other players. Just like in real life, in my virtual life, I need some alone time. However, soloing in Guild Wars is oddly depressing.

Since the outdoors areas are instanced, meaning only you and your group (or only you if there is no group), no one is out there but you in the abyss. As much as I hate shouted arguments in Everquest or World of Warcraft, and dealing with immature players who would run up to me, take their computer clothes off and dance around in an attempt to either be suggestive (weird) or annoying (more likely), I actually started missing it. Not the pseudo-cyber underpants, mind you, but the feel of real life.

In real life, things are always happening. In battle, out of battle, creating crafted items, trading, or whatever you're doing, people are around. Getting on your nerves, providing help, or just /flexing because they learned how to do it an hour before, other players add to the rich landscape of the game environment.

In Guild Wars, soloing, single player action felt artificial to me. After 5 or 6 levels, I felt I was just doing the same thing over and over again:

1. Click the quest in the log, and watch the arrow light up on minimap.
2. Teleport to town nearest quest target.
3. Run around eerily silent landscape (Evidently, only bad guys live outside.) And kill until I finished quest.
4. Turn in, lather, rinse, repeat.

I love getting lost in video games, but this one truly feel like I was wasting my time.

This is not a slam review by any means. I don't love PvP (Player versus Player) action. I also don't hate it. I don't love group play, but I don't hate that either. Some people love this game and will actually be *angry* to hear that someone doesn't. I guess I can understand that - you get passionate about what you like. I just don't like Guild Wars at all. It was just no fun for me.

Gameplay was disappointing. You learn a ton of skills right away, but you can only ever use 8 or so, and you can only use the ones you picked in town before you left for the quest. What's the point in learning hundreds of skills if you can only use 8? Why have 26 letters in the alphabet if you can only make up to 8-letter words. They say it's an innovation, but I think it's lame. I've heard developers say "It's like an electronic take on Magic: The Gathering." I think that was supposed to entice me.

How about future add-ons to the product? When they become available, players who buy them could have 8 skills completely foreign and unavailable to you. Sure developers guarantee that you'll still be competitive, but eh, who knows?

All of my fighting felt like a flurry of button presses. My character was casting this, hitting for that, and ugh it was just a mess. Don't get me wrong, the graphics are fantastic, but I felt like I was slipping and swirling all over coated by fancy graphics, but I never really felt like I could make sense of it all. Lots of sparkles, very esoteric. Pretty, but weirdly unnecessary.

Basically, I love being able to play solo or with friends, waving to people as I run by them on the road, receiving a surprise buff spell (a temporary statistical skill increase) from a stranger, or chatting in an impromptu session about what we miss from the old days of computers as we all stood at the docks leveling our fishing skills.

People make the game fun, because people are what it's all about. In Guild Wars, you see people in town or in battle. Otherwise it's a constant reminder that you're playing on your computer all by yourself, and I don't need a game to remind me of that.

THIS GAME ISNT WHAT THEY PROMISE!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 28
Date: July 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

GUILD WARS is a Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game, not the promised MASSIVLY Multiplayer Online Game. The only thing Massive about this game are the Towns, which act like giant 3D lobbies. In these towns is where you meet up with about 100 characters if your lucky. After you leave town there is no one. All areas outside of town is a giant Instance. This means that when you leave you and only you are in that area, not anyone else (unless you grouped together with up to 8 people in the town). This makes the game extreamly dull and lifeless.

Now the gameplay. I found that the skill system was horrible, because of the fact that you have 100's of skills but you can ony use 8 of them at any given time, and you cant change which 8 you want to use unless you go back into town and change them. What is the point! They say it is an innovation and adds a level of skill to the gameplay. I say that the game developers were just being lazy.

Now a game that is coming from some ex-Blizzard employees that worked on Diablo II i was suprised at how extreamly lame the Weopons and Armor system was in this game. Instead of finding super rare items and pimpin out your gear like most wanna do (especially when you reach that ridiculous level cap, which is only 20) you have to find materials so AI crafters can make armor out of the materials you bring in. Now this is also featured in World of Warcraft(WoW), but unlike Guild Wars(GW) the super elite enemies actually drop armor!!! Instread of some totally rad bear fur(sense the sarcasim).

The level 20 level cap is just plain wrong! For people who spend 100's of hours of their life involved in a MMORPG theyd sure like to stand out a little more than the guy that has played for about 3 hours total and has the same level (level 20).

Now this game is supposed to be focused around PVP (player vs. player). Well this isnt much fun either considering that there is absoltly no team cooperation between players. Maybe they should provide a headset and voice support or something instead of trying to make them type out strategy while they fight. "NER NER NER hey im attacking this guy and i need some help. NER NER NER, hey guy over there hel......", To late he's already dead, he couldnt type fast enough while he was getting he butt whooped. This PVP fails horribly.

Thier is also a feature that allows you to draw on the minimap to cordinate attacks and such. This feature is useless since most people draw obsene things such as penises instead of cordinating attacks.

WoW is a more in depth game allowing you to create groups on the run, take up a race, a class, and 2 professions and secondery professions. Since Guild Wars doesnt have this that means that I have a Character that is a HUMAN WARRIOR that has 2 professions of MINING(mine for raw materials needed to make stuff) and BLACKSMITHING (able to create armor and weopons from raw materials)and has a secondary profession which is fishing (catch fish to eat them). Guild Wars offers a RACE and a CLASS.

GW has no monthly pay because it really isnt a MMORPG so to say. It offers nothing more than Diablo II did but the difference is that Diablo II is way more fun and easier to pick up and play, and still has no monthly fee. Now WoW has that monthly fee of about 15 dollars a month. If I save up 50 cents every day for the month ill have my monthly payment. A candy bar is more than 50 cents. If you really wanted you could BUM 50 cents from someone thats how cheap it is.

GW offers little for your money and after you get to that level 20 cap and keep doing repetitive quests over and over again you'll be left at the end of the day feeling cheated and wondering "why is this worth 50 dollars"?

fun for a while... then CRASH!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 14
Date: September 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought the game with great expecations, and it lived up to them.... however, once I got about 1/3 the way into it... My computer crashed and restarted at the exact same point in a level. Drivers are up to date, neither my cpu nor vid card are getting hot. Apparently this is only a problem with some people, and the makers arent doing anything about it. Kinda like the awful netcode for command and conquer generals... an awesome game.. but crappy customer service.

What's wrong with you people?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 20
Date: July 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have played this game and I have also played World of Warcraft. This game is a horrible attempt at creating an MMORPG. My reasons are the environment and adventure part. This game fails in doing the one thing I play MMORPGs for... to be able to interact with people. In real life, when I walk out of a city all of the people will not have dissappeared from the face of the earth and then reappear when I go in the city again. This concept is flawed and creates a boring game. If you can't find a group, then you are screwed. There is a limited amount of player interaction outside of cities, unless they are in your group. The overall concept of this game is just plain flawed.

BUYER BEWARE!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: October 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Do not purchase this game,you will be dissapointed. The manufacturer of this game is CONSTANTLY changeing the abilities of characters and strategy of play. For example,you may aquire an item or skill for your character,after MANY HOURS of play,just to find that skill has been significantly changed,(weakened) the day after you aquired it. Basically,the company is in what appears to be a constant state of "UPDATEING". Unfortunately,the updates consistantly make your characters weaker,and the game "monsters" stronger. The company calls it "skill Balanceing"..LOL..what a joke. NOT FUN. pick up a copy of diablo 2 or any other online game if your lookin for fun. This game is about as much fun as playin chess,and about as exciting as chess.OH,by the way,u "must" play this game online,there is no other way to play it. no stand alone version. and u must play as part of a group,u will die rather quickly trying to play solo.

This game is really boring; get World of Warcraft instead

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 19
Date: October 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Guild Wars is the worst game that I've ever played. An old Mario game from the NES has better graphics than this; you can't even jump unless you type "/jump." You can't see other people outside a town (unless you're in a group). So I advise you not to get this game because you'll be sorry you got this instead of World of Warcraft.

Boring import from South Korea

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 25
Date: July 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This South Korean game is very boring. I got a free trial and gave up after a couple nights. They had some bandwidth problems, too, so this is worth less than nothing. Some of the English text in the game is poorly translated and makes zero sense to a native English speaker. This game doesn't even deserve half a star.

save your money for World of Warcraft

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 30
Date: August 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Not worth the money. It is horribly boring. The game doesnt even allow you to jump... Its really sad. Just save your money and go buy world of warcraft. The small monthly fee is worth it, compared to lame online games like guild wars.

Keep your kids and spouse away!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 18
Date: February 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played Guild Wars at beta and i thouroughly enjoyed it the game is great but th e people...are not. In ascalon pre searing many people can be found simulating orgies hetero and homosexual activities are visually represented at times people solicityou asking you to take your chars clothes off and Join in. It is decripid. Dark Age of Camelot is a much more developed game and is family friendly. If DAOC isnt your type of game then EVE online or even World of Warcraft is better. I know the monthly fee is bad but its worth it DONT GET GUILDWARS.

at least there's no subscription

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 20
Date: November 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this chapter of guild wars is poorly done. they have focused on trying to push you into pvp play by making the pve very, very difficult, you no longer earn skills by doing quests, and the hunts are almost impossible, especially if you like to hunt solo, ie farming.

another thing I didn't care for was how you had to search to even find where to do your quests. yes, the npc's have the exclamation mark above their head, but finding them has turned into a chore. I guess they've decided if they make your work hard to earn your fun, you'll appreciate it more.

I would've guessed they could have made so much more out of this game. I mean, they sold over 2 million copies of the game retail when it first came out, I'd bet they sold half that of the following 2 expansions combined

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