Guild Wars weekend

[SoulEdge]

Guild Wars and WoW are too seperate animals.  As much as Arena wants to say GW is a MMORPG, it's not, it's a Diablo/Diablo 2 clone (and believe me, as far as clones go, I find Sacred more enjoyable than GW).

Actually, Arena says this in the FAQ:

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.

And you travel around the world this way, never really being able to do anything on the side. You also only get a chance to meet people while you are in those towns or in your party, but unlike WoW, in GW you are stuck with your bad party until you get to another way point or everyone dies pretty much (WoW you can get out of these bad situations by a variety of means).

There are explorable areas outside the towns, which is very much like other MMORPG I have played, in that one can get from one town to another by traveling on foot instead of using the instant portal, of course those areas have monsters, skill trainers, smaller towns, etc.

Also, one can quit a mission anytime by instantly teleport to any town activated using the map. So one can freely explore solo or with some henchmen in those explorable areas until guild members are online and ready to do a mission together, then instantly teleport to the mission staging area using the map. So there actually is a mean to getting out of bad situations.


Personally I have enjoyed the world preview event, I didn't try anything PvP, more of a PvE person. I either solo the explorable areas (sometimes with henchmen), do the mission with henchmen when no guild members were available, and party up with guild members to do mission together when they were available. The last being the most fun. :lol:

Having a party of like-minded players greatly enhanced the experience.