THE GOOD
1. Hire Your Own Party
One of the perks of playing Guild Wars is you can hire (for shared xp and gold) NPCs to join you in a party and avoid the potential social nightmare of hiring bad players and are guaranteed a skilled player, albeit computer. Of course, you’ll miss the social interaction with nice and skillful players but for me, I have limited time to play past midnight so I get down to business right away.
2. Follow The Star To The Quest Goal
No need to hunt and sift for that mysterious quest goal hidden beneath 3 rocks and beat out thottbot.com in frustration mid-game. It takes you out of the game which kinda defeats the purpose of immersing yourself in it in the first place. Very much like Sacred (Sacred 2 will be out in October!) all you do is concentrate on the fighting and the quest management is handled for you.
THE BAD
1. Linear Game
One of the things I love about WoW is that you have a choice in where you go. If you’re sick of The Barrens (which incidentally is one of my favourites), you can head to gloom of Silverpine Forest, or should you play Alliance, you can switch from the miserable Duskwood to the cheery grassy Loch Modan.
With GW (like Diablo II - Diablo III is coming year end!), you’re stuck in a linear rut, which can be sad if you want to leave that war torn country for a while. A guy I met decided to stay in Pre-searing to help others because it was so beautiful. Truly it was.
2. Logout And Back To The City You Go
So far every time I log out I am back in the city, no matter where I am. What I liked about WoW was that I could simply log anywhere and when I got back, I was right where I left me. Since GW involves many long linear runs before you hit the next town on the map, and should you stay on the road when you have to run off to nurse the baby, you’ll probably get killed by wandering mobs, it can get frustrating.
I have to time my games now and only play the long ones straight after Jack sleeps the first round, or when his Dad takes him out and I have a promised 1 hour break. Otherwise, it is short quests around the cities.The thought of logging out and back in to start that very long run again has daunted me enough to not play for a while but I am figuring out a solution.
Meanwhile, we spent good time at the Comics and Games shop at United Square and I am totally buzzed about Sacred 2 and Diablo III coming out soon!
Christina,
I enjoyed your commentary on both games and thank you for the tips about Sacred and Diablo. Maybe we can hookup in game sometime? If so, send me a reply.
-Dave.
David Mondor
September 13th, 2008
Thanks Dave. I sure will. Stopped playing GW for a while and am trying to get back to WoW but I’m having problems with the login page right now. So that will be a while.
admin
October 14th, 2008
I wish ive read your comment about guild wars before i bought it , i spent 40$ for the nightfall campaign which i stopped playing after like 2 days ( and they were BORING AS WELL!!!)
you cannot decide what to do , the game decides for you and its a failure
Dezeray
October 16th, 2008
I have stopped as well.
Just found it hard to sustain interest and the logout location meant I had to restart from the towns!
Anyway I started WoW again. Even for a month at a time, it is fun and engaging.
Christina
November 13th, 2008