24th September 2010, 7:46 PM
Guild Wars has some nice art, but a lot of the cities feel really big and really empty. The graphics are also starting to show their age as well, the art does what it can to keep it looking good [and succeeds to some extent], but it's not the only MMO I've played in the past few weeks that looked good. Jade Dynasty looks really nice, I'd probably put it over GW in that regard, although Jade Dynasty is pretty much the definition of grinding through killing hoards of monsters, so that kind of dampens things a bit. Vindictus looks really great too and it's got some gorgeous physics and destruction, which gives the overall graphics package a nice boost.
Dungeons & Dragons is kind of standard fantasy stuff, not really anything great but it does its job well enough. So, in that respect, you're right about Guild Wars.
Which one came first isn't an issue for me. I'm playing them right now and a lot of them play very similarly.
Isn't what your talking about with Guild Wars almost exactly what D&DO does? It's got the town where everyone is and the combat zone where only you and your party is. Anyone town is getting ready to head out to one of the zones. I don't know if it has the party search, but it's not a wide-open MMO like World of Warcraft.
Dungeons & Dragons is kind of standard fantasy stuff, not really anything great but it does its job well enough. So, in that respect, you're right about Guild Wars.
Quote:More like the other way around, considering that GW was publicly playable from mid 2004 on...
Which one came first isn't an issue for me. I'm playing them right now and a lot of them play very similarly.
Quote:Yes, there's also party search, but having a clear "people in this area are doing the mission or exploration or something" breakdown is fantastic. From what I've seen D&DO doesn't have that, it's just "good luck finding someone else in town to do the mission with"...
Isn't what your talking about with Guild Wars almost exactly what D&DO does? It's got the town where everyone is and the combat zone where only you and your party is. Anyone town is getting ready to head out to one of the zones. I don't know if it has the party search, but it's not a wide-open MMO like World of Warcraft.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.