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Published on Thursday, 03 May 2012 13:24
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A very interesting wrap up by Rockpapershot gun on 10 Thoughts and cool things about Guild Wars 2, have a read!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/02/10-thoughts-and-cool-things-about-guild-wars-2/
1. The Elementalist Who Ran Away With The Circus
This is easily the strangest choice I’ve ever made in MMO character customisation. Every race offers the standard options as far as height, build, face and colours go, but you also have to choose some personality elements. Each race has different ones. The Charr for instance are split into Legions, and you get to choose which one you’re in, as well as who your sparring partner is. For Humans, one of your choices is your biggest regret. This can be that you never knew your parents. It can be that you never recovered your sister’s body after centaur attack…
…or it can be that you once had the opportunity to perform in the circus, but didn’t. I’m notentirely sure that this fits with a Human Noble’s general background, but never mind.
All three are obviously Chekhov’s Gun plot points for the Personal Story to pick up on, but it was great to see the circus one at least introduced very early. There’s bad, brainwashing things afoot behind the big top, and my Elementalist proved squealingly excited at the chance to go undercover. The investigation covers several levels, but proved to offer a fun change from Guild Wars 2′s occasionally funny, but generally po-faced approach to high fantasy. Early on, you get to watch some acts, performed… well… exactly as you’d expect for an MMO engine, really. Later, you get quest objectives like making a clown laugh by piecing together a ‘A norn, a human and a charr went into a bar’ joke via a dialogue tree. Moments like these are what promises to make the Personal Story a bit different from the norm, and while the Circus option was easily the most outlandish of the choices I saw in beta, it’s one that made me smile a lot.
(Not however as much as one throwaway quest in the main world, where you have to play three card monte with two chicken-like monsters and a guy who turns into one. This would be much harder in a world without the ability to just click on the guy and target him. Oops.)
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