ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2 Press Event Coverage

Man, I gotta clean my screen real quick… this game just looks too awesome. Character creation looks beautiful. Finally a leveling experience that’s different from everything else. Dungeons with a little bit of puzzle action (YES!) And finally… RvR, or WvW I should say that’s finally, FINALLY done the way it should of been done. I nearly nutted when I saw the WvW map. No endgame? PvP is your end game. And with all traits, runes, weapon skills sets, and utility skills, there’s going to be a TON of various specs.

Awesome BFF Report Mike! Been watching since the Aion reviews and your “will it fit?” jokes – good stuff man. Grats on the 100th episode! Absolutely love your content man, kudos!

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loveskeetskeet!! you gots married and wieghty. lols. its working for you though dude..the work you do is top notch and even persuaded me to make donation to GbkrTV. gz on 100 eps ..heres to a 100 more. cheers! /praise

I’ve got to say, this has been the best video coverage of GW2 I’ve seen so far!

Mike was wondering what you would think of this game.  Glad to see that it was a very good exp for you.  Makes me think that this game may live up to the Hype, now if we can get Lore to try it. LOL

Awesome GW2 vid dude, very informative and also I lol’ed a few times which is a bonus!

Great job Mike. Glad to see you enjoyed the game (lucky sob). I never bought into the “no trinity” and “no quests” mantra spouted by some of the GW fanbase. It was obvious from the start that would not be the case. ArenaNet does elevate those two elements, making a better “questing” experience for example — or “organic” as you put it. They were very thoughtful in their design choices, and that become more apparent when the rest of us get our hands on the game. Cannot wait!

Great video. It’s encouraging to hear about the instant cast spells not having a delay due to animations taking preference.

Edit: I have to be honest though, the sheer size of the map in the WvW is a bit worrisome.

Mike B, 

I wanted to take a minute to thank you for your GW2 coverage.  I know going into this you were never the “Guild Wars guy” and you have really made some awesome videos.  The city walkthroughs are especially appreciated.  You seem to have an eye for knowing exactly what people want to see and your commentary gives a great sense of how you felt going through the game.  I love the attention to detail that you obviously appreciate.  Guess you’ve been doing this a while :p

All that being said, I f**cking hate you for being able to play this game.  This little punk a** west coast gamer that’s been following this game for all of 10 minutes while I’ve been obsessing over every scrap since I first saw the Guild Wars 2 Manifesto video like 2 years ago.
And I’m a noob compared to the loyal GW1 fan base that have waited much longer! 

All kidding aside, awesome job Sir.

Man I am actually excited for GW2 now especially after seeing those hotties the character creator can make, holy detailed, one of them looked like Miranda Kerr.

I’ve been watching several videos on youtube of GW2, from the BFF report to the character creation to the tour of the cities.  I must say I didn’t really plan on getting the game because I don’t need it but I’m getting really hyped for this.  I’m already subbed to WoW (Damn you Yearly Sub) and SWTOR even though I don’t play enough of either to justify it. 

I always been pretty okay with paying a montly sub, no biggie, I’m using the servers, they are giving us content but it’s starting to slowly get to me that I can buy a game and if I don’t love it or just don’t have time for it, I can’t play it at any free time I have unless I pluck down fifteen dollars for that month.  

I never played an MMO before WoW.  WoW was my first MMO which I began playing just before Wrath in late 2008.  I heard of them before but I wasn’t going to buy a game that I had to pay for each month.  Then I bought some dollar or two disc that had a trial of WoW for a couple weeks.  I enjoyed it and my friend got it so we started playing it.  I haven’t played for a nice while now but I’m looking forward to Mist.

I tried Rift and I enjoyed it but after six months I wasn’t playing it enough to keep paying for the sub.  I would love to just login the game now and play it for a couple hours but I’m not going to pay the ten dollars or so to do so while I have WoW and SWTOR on my computer.

I have to pay for WoW each month but the reason I’m also subbing to SWTOR is because it is different then WoW.  I am enjoying the voice acting, questing and my personal storyline along with the fact it’s more Sci-Fi.  

So I’m very excited for the fact we are going to get GW2, it looks like it’s going to be a very good MMO that will have no monthly sub and you won’t have to spend money even at the max levels to compete.  I’m looking forward to buying the game and not feeling like I’m wasting money if I don’t play for a few weeks.  I’m also very much looking forward to the World vs World PVP.  I’m not a big PVPer but that truly looks like it could be EPIC.  

Now I just need to find a way to afford to buy GW2, Mass Effect 3 and of course Mist.  Thank you MikeB for all of your videos.  

Just gonna throw this out there because I’ve been hearing it alot lately.  Getting locked into your animation is a feature for “action” games.  Its how you get punished for pressing the wrong button.

Don’t know how many people actually play any action console games, but in God of War, Batman Arkham City, Drakes, you push the attack button and your aiming the wrong way, guess what you finish your attack before you can do your next move, even if that means you swing at open air and you get pwned by the monster your fighting.

Just wanted to point that out for people who play alot of MMOs and not so much action console games.

A Volunteer option showed up at that last bit of PvP, interesting choice to balance out the PvP.

Make love to GW2

bla bla bla. free to play. equals no new content.

GW2 needs to get on my computer right now…
 

The characters running looks HORRIBLE. And the ground textures look kinda crappy