@SPeedy26: Hell yeah, that's my idea of fun. "Challenge" runs with everyone going engineer or something later on, when we've all finished the main quest.

Man, I can't wait. I just hope there's no BS like SWTOR, where us Australians have to wait 3 months before getting access. Cos of that, I think I'll just pass on that entire MMO.

@pepsimaxofborg: Nice having you aboard - see if you can post a short bio for the front page about your previous MMO experience.

hey duders I was gonna make a GW2 video and was wondering whats a good video capturing software? ty :P

@RobbieMac: ahh tyvm :P

@SPeedy26: What exactly do you mean when you say a GW2 video? Just editing some footage together that's already out?

Count me in, I would love to be in a Giant Bomb guild

@Subjugation: Just a little informational video expaining a bit about the games lore and/or mechanics. Gonna start with what I added to the GB wiki :P

like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrocnSgokV8

hoping to make a video game discussion series as well kind of like Extra Credits :P

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/show/extra-credits -they do some good stuff

@SPeedy26 said:

@Subjugation: Just a little informational video expaining a bit about the games lore and/or mechanics. Gonna start with what I added to the GB wiki :P

like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrocnSgokV8

hoping to make a video game discussion series as well kind of like Extra Credits :P

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/show/extra-credits -they do some good stuff

Nice link - these guys sound like they really know what they're talking about (talking about link 1).

Also, that short video stuff looks like a whole bunch of hard work - good luck bro.

@selfconfessedcynic: ty I hope it doesn't all blow up in my face ^^

Is this EU or NA?

@Gizmo: Well, we're from all around the place. How the servers and guilds intertwine in GW2 is a bit of a mystery, but at worst we'll have a guild for each region. More likely, we'll have one guild which spans everywhere, considering how guilds worked in GW1.

@SPeedy26: Heh - I've done some extensive video editing myself (a year of pretty hardcore stuff helping a friend with their short film). I know how satisfying it can be when you finish something like this, especially if people like it. I'm sure myself and others here would be happy to proof your work if you want - and the internet is a surprisingly great place for information, so you'll do fine if you keep your nose to the grindstone and take criticism well.

@selfconfessedcynic said:

@Gizmo: Well, we're from all around the place. How the servers and guilds intertwine in GW2 is a bit of a mystery, but at worst we'll have a guild for each region. More likely, we'll have one guild which spans everywhere, considering how guilds worked in GW1.

@SPeedy26: Heh - I've done some extensive video editing myself (a year of pretty hardcore stuff helping a friend with their short film). I know how satisfying it can be when you finish something like this, especially if people like it. I'm sure myself and others here would be happy to proof your work if you want - and the internet is a surprisingly great place for information, so you'll do fine if you keep your nose to the grindstone and take criticism well.

Well then, sign me up.

I've never played Guild Wars 1, but i'm interested in GW2 due to the core changes it's trying to apply to MMO mechanics.

Nice job setting this up! The last time I played Guild Wars was > 5 years ago. Though I don't remember much about it, I do remember enjoying it a lot so I'm on board for GW2.

I definitely want to be in on this! Haven't touched the original game in forever but I'm really looking forward to this. Here from Asia though so I guess we'll see how regions work out.

Yay - more fresh blood! A warm welcome to you all (@ImHungry ,@Itwastuesday & @Gizmo )

Man, I hope this game comes out sooner rather than later. 2011 kinda came and went, uno?

I would love to join, played the shit out of GW. And I have owned Prophecies, Factions and Nightfall. I'm just hoping my pc wil run it.

I really hope that the Guild Halls make a return from the original and we can buy all the traders to make the hall like our own Giant Bomb town.

Well I'm getting started on the video's and the first one is going to be "The Orders of GW2" I'd love to get the guild's input of which episode sound most intrusting for me to do next or a suggestion of anything you want to see from a weekly(or monthly) series that centers around game design and mechanics mostly mmo's?

1.) GW2 Dynamic event structure and what we can expect

2.) engaging game play vs hard game play

3.) X misconceptions of GW2

@selfconfessedcynic said:

@SPeedy26: Heh - I've done some extensive video editing myself (a year of pretty hardcore stuff helping a friend with their short film). I know how satisfying it can be when you finish something like this, especially if people like it. I'm sure myself and others here would be happy to proof your work if you want - and the internet is a surprisingly great place for information, so you'll do fine if you keep your nose to the grindstone and take criticism well.

thanks I'll keep that in mind :), but should I post the video on this thread or just make a new one for it when it's done?

@all new members: welcome

@SPeedy26: I'd have to agree with Dark_Lord_Spam, you'll be wanting to start a new thread for any new project or it'll get lost in the shuffle.

As for new content, your current to-do sounds cool. I'm a PvP guy, but we don't really know too much about it, so maybe "Guild Wars 2 PvP - What we know so far" or something like that (although that title is perhaps too purposefully corny for most)

In any case, focus on getting the first one out the door - and make sure your script is good. All the whizz bang stuff is useless if the content isn't there.

@selfconfessedcynic said:

In any case, focus on getting the first one out the door - and make sure your script is good. All the whizz bang stuff is useless if the content isn't there.

Oh man .... that whizz bang stuff ...

@Subjugation said:

@selfconfessedcynic said:

In any case, focus on getting the first one out the door - and make sure your script is good. All the whizz bang stuff is useless if the content isn't there.

Oh man .... that whizz bang stuff ...

: D - hey duder, I'm a 23 year old Indian guy raised in Australia with the heart of a stereotypical decrepit old Russian man.

Bite me

Just to let everyone know I've already posted the info I've collected on the GW2 wiki under Orders. just working it out so it would sound better :P

@selfconfessedcynic said:

@Subjugation said:

@selfconfessedcynic said:

In any case, focus on getting the first one out the door - and make sure your script is good. All the whizz bang stuff is useless if the content isn't there.

Oh man .... that whizz bang stuff ...

: D - hey duder, I'm a 23 year old Indian guy raised in Australia with the heart of a stereotypical decrepit old Russian man.

Bite me

lol

@selfconfessedcynic said:

@Subjugation said:

@selfconfessedcynic said:

In any case, focus on getting the first one out the door - and make sure your script is good. All the whizz bang stuff is useless if the content isn't there.

Oh man .... that whizz bang stuff ...

: D - hey duder, I'm a 23 year old Indian guy raised in Australia with the heart of a stereotypical decrepit old Russian man.

Bite me

We'll settle this in Tyria. Be ready!

@Subjugation said:

@selfconfessedcynic said:

@Subjugation said:

@selfconfessedcynic said:

In any case, focus on getting the first one out the door - and make sure your script is good. All the whizz bang stuff is useless if the content isn't there.

Oh man .... that whizz bang stuff ...

: D - hey duder, I'm a 23 year old Indian guy raised in Australia with the heart of a stereotypical decrepit old Russian man.

Bite me

We'll settle this in Tyria. Be ready!

can I be the referee? I can sell tickets :P

Sign me up! I really liked GW1 and I'm pinning my hopes that GW2 will the redefining MMO that it hypes up to be. Love the lore and looking forward to do dungeons with fellow GBers!

@Subjugation , @SPeedy26

Hah - perhaps we shall!

But it'll be in future tyria. I'll be either a human guardian or warrior. Have at thee!

@supamon - Good on ya. I could have sworn you were already signed up... must be a different forums or member I'm thinking of.

@selfconfessedcynic: Indeed it shall! My avatar may or may not provide insight as to what you can expect from me! En garde!

@Subjugation: : D

Man, I can't wait for GW2 PvP.

Hopefully others here are as ready and willing as I am.

ED: BTW, mesmers are no fair. Bastard.

@selfconfessedcynic: You must have mistaken me for Ultraman or something :P

I wanna try out the PVP too. It looks hectic and chaotic fun. Looking forward to setting some mesmers on fire lol.

@selfconfessedcynic said:

@Subjugation: : D

Man, I can't wait for GW2 PvP.

Hopefully others here are as ready and willing as I am.

ED: BTW, mesmers are no fair. Bastard.

@Maystack said:

I really hope that the Guild Halls make a return from the original and we can buy all the traders to make the hall like our own Giant Bomb town.

No Guild Halls at launch, they're being added some time later.

Hopefully it means they'll be a much bigger feature this time.

Oh god - the face of reggie.

Anywho, I kindof hope they do put up a bunch of stuff post launch in the PvP department. You can blather on about how one game mode and many maps is good enough, but I wont be truly happy till I have something like the old GvG back. Perhaps smaller scale, etc, but I loved the idea of having a guild hall and defending it in battle.

I mean, it's called Guild Wars ffs. Perhaps that's just a tired old argument... ah well, I can only cross my fingers and hope.

I was never really into the PvP in the first Guild Wars but I might try and get involved in GW2. Maybe it'll help to have an actual guild this time around

The problem with GvG and HA were how fast the formats became elitist and subsequently died out. Back in '05 I ran high-level PvP formats all the time, but once your average player figures out that they aren't welcome in an entire section of the game without being a rank 5 such-and-so, they stop coming back. At a certain point, it just became impossible to form a pick-up group because there weren't eight people in the entire outpost.

Yeah I did quite a few Alliance Battles a while back, but then they changed it so you had to have a party before hand, and there was just one afk guy in the outpost.

Yup, I agree with both of your points- but note that a lot of the reason as to why those places died out was the decline of overall GW1 players in general. People just moved on, and the hard core guys were among the first for the most part.

For a solid 2.5-3 years though, HA and GvG were very competitive and quite crowded most of the time. Perhaps it was because I had a pretty active guild, but I never had any problems getting into either when it came to finding a party and getting started, as there was always a guild member who was in a group already and shuffled me in. We stuck mostly to TA and GvG, but when we did do HA and wanted to do a noobs only group, we just started one and let others join if they wanted to. The internet is full of jerks, but there was usually (in my experience) a way for the more inexperienced to get into the PvP scene.

I guess what I'm saying is that it all came down to circumstance, and having a good guild helped in almost every case. I'm pretty sure noone here is going to take elitism laying down, so hopefully there will be very little of it within the guild. Plus, I'll be spending a whole bunch of time in the PvP areas after I finish the main quest a couple of times, so I'll be more than willing to help others get into it as I've done in the past - assuming it can keep me interested.

If I pick up the PvP in GW2 as quickly as I have in the past, I actually like the idea of "mentor" program to help others get their bearings. It benefits everyone in the long term. I've seen plenty of PvP novices become rather skilled, they just needed their PvP cherry popped and a little guidance from someone who knows what they're doing.

@selfconfessedcynic said:

Yup, I agree with both of your points- but note that a lot of the reason as to why those places died out was the decline of overall GW1 players in general. People just moved on, and the hard core guys were among the first for the most part.

For a solid 2.5-3 years though, HA and GvG were very competitive and quite crowded most of the time. Perhaps it was because I had a pretty active guild, but I never had any problems getting into either when it came to finding a party and getting started, as there was always a guild member who was in a group already and shuffled me in. We stuck mostly to TA and GvG, but when we did do HA and wanted to do a noobs only group, we just started one and let others join if they wanted to. The internet is full of jerks, but there was usually (in my experience) a way for the more inexperienced to get into the PvP scene.

I guess what I'm saying is that it all came down to circumstance, and having a good guild helped in almost every case. I'm pretty sure noone here is going to take elitism laying down, so hopefully there will be very little of it within the guild. Plus, I'll be spending a whole bunch of time in the PvP areas after I finish the main quest a couple of times, so I'll be more than willing to help others get into it as I've done in the past - assuming it can keep me interested.

the 5v5 format will be the replacement for the GvG format, being someone who only gvged once (my guild wasn't too much into many cordanated things so...) it just makes it easyer to get more ppl into pvp, because yourll have groups representing their guild, groups of random friends, and groups of mercenary all competing together. This will prevent pvp from dying as well.

If your talking about the GvG game mode it could be added in a 5v5 format,allowing everyone to experiencing the game mode :P, also WvW will be a big place for guilds to wage war's because of the whole guilds will be able to claim strongholds

I played Guld Wars and Guild Wars Factions casually--having only logged about 400-500 hours. I used to play a necromancer/ranger but I'll switch to Norn two-handed warrior for Guild Wars 2. I play strictly PvE (often solo) and if the demands for this guild are not too hardcore, I'd like to be a part of the Giant Bomb guild just to have a nice place to return to after doing some questing.

@RVonE: Giantbomb and hardcore in the same sentence :P

I see the guilds as a place for the community to hang while also doing stuff like pvp, pve, and WvW, we will prob schdule some stuff but it's not gonna be "sorry jimmy you need to leave the guild because your not pulling your weght in X like every other memeber in the guild goodbye"

@SPeedy26 said:

@RVonE: Giantbomb and hardcore in the same sentence :P

I see the guilds as a place for the community to hang while also doing stuff like pvp, pve, and WvW, we will prob schdule some stuff but it's not gonna be "sorry jimmy you need to leave the guild because your not pulling your weght in X like every other memeber in the guild goodbye"

That makes me really happy; sounds like my kind of guild!

@RVonE: also remember GW2's guild system dosn't lock you too one guild, you can join multiple guilds so your never gonna be in a position of choosing between a friends guild and the Best bomb based guild their ever will be!

@SPeedy26: Oh, I didn't know that; that's actually pretty cool. I have only recently decided that I'll give GW2 a shot and am just now catching up to all the news.

I suspect the guild will be home to players of all types. I'm sure there will be plenty of more casual/social types, as well as those who are seasoned MMO veterans that could be labeled "hardcore", so I wouldn't worry about fitting in. We will be one giant conglomerate of duders.

@Subjugation said:

If I pick up the PvP in GW2 as quickly as I have in the past, I actually like the idea of "mentor" program to help others get their bearings. It benefits everyone in the long term. I've seen plenty of PvP novices become rather skilled, they just needed their PvP cherry popped and a little guidance from someone who knows what they're doing.

I couldn't agree more. My GW1 guild started off as me and 3 other guys from high school who were pretty deep into PvP - and then we began picking up a couple of other guys from school and a whole bunch internationally and essentially trained them up to good PvP standard. In the end, we were a PvP guild even though it definitely didn't start that way - and all done without fucking BS elitist crap, just patience and time.

PvP has a pretty well deserved stigma but if we maintain a good environment here, I hope to convert a bunch of the rest of yall.

ED: Not that I'll hold it against anyone who simply doesn't like PvP. As others have said, this guild appears to be destined to be a happy-go-lucky sort.

@selfconfessedcynic: I'd love to start a 5v5 team and see where we can go from there :P

@SPeedy26 said:

@selfconfessedcynic: I'd love to start a 5v5 team and see where we can go from there :P

Hell yeah - but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Time zones will be a bummer - and other commitments. I don't think many of us are in High School anymore : /

More importantly though, we still don't know when this game is coming out (although all dev hints point towards this year), and if it'll be available in all regions at the beginning. Again, I hope this doesn't end up like star wars - although I've heard aussies can just import that game and play on US servers, so perhaps there is hope.

@selfconfessedcynic said:

Hell yeah - but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Time zones will be a bummer - and other commitments. I don't think many of us are in High School anymore : /

Very true. It was really hard to get arena matches in for WoW because my 2v2 partner lived in South Korea. Our sleep schedules were basically reversed. On the plus side though ... Asian. Also, I think the vast majority of us are university aged or older, so time constraints are likely a real issue. I don't see myself being anything but casual during weekdays, with perhaps a little more free time on the weekends. Real life, yo. All of this talk really is premature though since we still only have the muddiest idea of when the game will be released.

Reality is a cold hard bitch.