Posts Tagged ‘Arenanet’

Sometimes I am brilliant, even when I’m wrong.

Fantasy players just love over-done effects: they aren’t happy unless rangers are emitting giant raptors out of their boobs or wizards are shooting green crackling lightning out of their arses. Half the time you can’t see what is going on on the screen. Of course, if it isn’t anything particularly innovative, that is probably the idea. At the same time, the world of Guild Wars portrayed in the trailer also seems annoyingly (persistently?) and safely PG. If I’m going to play a fantasy game I want to see severed limbs and arterial blood. A little more Excalibur and less Fantasia.

The vast majority of MMO players have proven, by voting with their dollars, that they don’t want something new and radically different: they want to play GrindQuest: The Grinding Crusade.