A extremely sexy direct feed HD montage of GW2 group play in instanced dungeons. Dungeons will be available as 'story mode' version. Upon completion of the story mode version, 3 'free roam' versions unlock for higher difficulty and better loot. Kinda like WoW's heroic difficulty. Just 3 distinct heroic versions. They're called 'Free Roam Mode', so likely one can tackle the bosses in any order. Sounds extremely good. Watch! Watch! Watch!  
 

Adding Gamespot's Underwater demo to this thread too. This is about the other big GW2 news/reveal of the day. How they handle underwater combat. No breath meter. 3 distinct underwater weapons (harpoon gun, trident and spear) and and distinct underwater skills to go along with it. It's gonna be so damn sexy!
 
  

So looking forward to playing this.

They can show me all these new settings, modes, graphics, etc., etc., etc. But it's all unnecessary; they already have my money.

What I really want is a release date!

Eh, looks good. Still more interested in TOR though. I'll probably play it.

Eh, looks good. Still more interested in TOR though. I'll probably play it.

They can show me all these new settings, modes, graphics, etc., etc., etc. But it's all unnecessary; they already have my money.

What I really want is a release date!

Can't wait to sink a ton of hours into this! hopefully it'll be as good as I hope!

Can't wait to sink a ton of hours into this! hopefully it'll be as good as I hope!

IGN just uploaded a comprehensive short preview video of Guild Wars 2 with lots of new direct feed footage. Lots of engineer profession gameplay. Deploying nets underwater to root enemies and stop them dead in their tracks? Sign me up! 

I have gone from not giving a fuck about this game to being cautiously optimistic. It seems like there's some ambitious shit going on and if it all comes together it could be pretty rad.

It never ceases to amaze me how little the gaming audience at large seems to care about MMOs. Must be because they're either subscription based or 'tainted' with a freemium business model which is opposed to proper gamedesign. Guild Wars 2 is neither.
 
Seriously though, I'm kinda curious why there usually is rather little feedback on GB when it comes to MMORPGs outside of trolling threads. Do you really not care about MMORPGs in general? Do MMORPGs need a seperate homepage and editorial staff to appeal to the MMORPG crowd?

Looks awesome, and no monthly fee, which just seals the deal as if it's even as good as the first GW, it's already better than 99% of MMO's on the market. I'm also really hoping that all of this ambitious stuff works out for them, because if this game is successful, people will start to want more MMO's that are different from WoW/Everquest and the whole MMO market will get more exciting.

It never ceases to amaze me how little the gaming audience at large seems to care about MMOs. Must be because they're either subscription based or 'tainted' with a freemium business model which is opposed to proper gamedesign. Guild Wars 2 is neither. Seriously though, I'm kinda curious why there usually is rather little feedback on GB when it comes to MMORPGs outside of trolling threads. Do you really not care about MMORPGs in general? Do MMORPGs need a seperate homepage and editorial staff to appeal to the MMORPG crowd?

The combat looks so boring.

The combat looks so boring.

@Seppli said:

It never ceases to amaze me how little the gaming audience at large seems to care about MMOs. Must be because they're either subscription based or 'tainted' with a freemium business model which is opposed to proper gamedesign. Guild Wars 2 is neither. Seriously though, I'm kinda curious why there usually is rather little feedback on GB when it comes to MMORPGs outside of trolling threads. Do you really not care about MMORPGs in general? Do MMORPGs need a seperate homepage and editorial staff to appeal to the MMORPG crowd?

For me it's just because there are way too many other games I want to play to commit to one for such a length of time (If I were 14 again I'd probably be way into them though). That said, I'm quite interested in TOR and GW2, but still only in a 'play for a month or two and then move on' kinda way. Will I ever get to a point where I'm running around with a guild full of strangers every night? Fuck no.

I quite like the idea of getting way into an MMO, but practically it just isn't going to happen.

Cautiously optimistic. Underwater video was reasonably impressive (re: visuals.) 
 
There really are so many ways it can fail to deliver though, but it looks promising from current footage. 
 
Slightly off topic, how time consuming are the achievements (Hall of monuments) assuming someone has none of them but a vast amount of disposable cash/ecto.

Slightly off topic, how time consuming are the achievements (Hall of monuments) assuming someone has none of them but a vast amount of disposable cash/ecto.

@Adamsons said:

Slightly off topic, how time consuming are the achievements (Hall of monuments) assuming someone has none of them but a vast amount of disposable cash/ecto.

Devotion (mini-pets), Resilience (elite armor), and Valor (elite weapons) can essentially all be bought, but can also get very expensive. Fellowship (heroes and pets) is extremely easy to complete if you use the Zaishen Menagerie to death-level the unique pets, but you can also buy the hero armors extremely cheaply now if you want to save a little more time.  Honor (accomplishments and titles) is easily the most time-consuming, and while you can buy certain item-dependent titles (Friend of the Zaishen, Sweet-Tooth, Drunkard, Party Animal) and skill tomes to speed up Skill-Hunter, each one can get as expensive as an entire other monument, making it almost always a better idea to farm them out. Also, you have titles like Protector/Guardian, Vanquisher, Cartographer, and Friend of the Luxons/Kurzicks that will take a boat-load of commitment no matter how much money you have.

My money. Take it!

@Mercanis said:

They can show me all these new settings, modes, graphics, etc., etc., etc. But it's all unnecessary; they already have my money.

What I really want is a release date!

Amen.

@Mercanis said:

They can show me all these new settings, modes, graphics, etc., etc., etc. But it's all unnecessary; they already have my money.

What I really want is a release date!

Amen.

I have been so busy over the last while I have missed all this great stuff.  I will try and watch later this week.

I hope the FPS in dungeons doesn't drop that much in the final build. It's only a minor immersion breaker, though, everything else continues to look awesome.