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Platomuses

Its been said, but the story. My god.

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I've been playing on and off (more on than off) since beta. I have well over 1000 hours in the game. I didn't finish the story until maybe 2.5 years after the game came out. I didn't finish map completion until maybe a year ago. I've finally gotten into the living story/expansions. I did the first season of living story when it came out, and I'm so happy I did. I just finished the second season and HoT. I hated HoT when it first came out. I had trouble getting around, the events seemed long and tedious. The gliding was nice, but didn't add as much as I wanted.

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But my god, now that I've finished seasons 2 and HoT, I'm attached to all the characters. Braham getting mad at the commander, my heart broke. I just jumped forward to get the Skyscale from the newest living story, I knew the spoilers, I was fine with it being spoiled. But that first scene... walking up to Aurene, I got emotional. Like really emotional. The only other game thats ever gotten that response from me is Dragon Age: Origins.

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Its been a long time since I've been so invested in a story. I wish I had done all of it when they came out.

Posted May 15, 2019, 2:23 PM UTC

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[deleted]•

You will be dragged by the Stop Having Fun Guys but I'm glad you're happy with the characters. I like 'em too.

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PlatomusesOPSylRe•

I didn't like them at first. I though they were just there to fill the character void left behind from Destiny's Edge. But they're not, each one is their own person. Each one goes through so much development.

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Adramolino•

You will be dragged by the Stop Having Fun Guys

How DARE people criticise shitty writing! Don't they realize its illegal?!

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Here's one.

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Adramolino•

Critisism of the game should be punishable by capital punishment.

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PlatomusesOPSylRe•

Apparently so should liking the game too. Huh.

I really thought posting how I like the game, in the sub about the game would get some positive feedback.

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PlatomusesOPSylRe•

I've seen much worse writing.

You know how hard it probably is to write for a MMO? Its not like other story telling/games.

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HPetch.1367 [xAAx]•

This is really the heart of the issue. While GW2 doesn't have the most amazing writing by the standards of video games as a whole due to the constraints of its genre, within that genre it's head and shoulders above most of the competition - FFXIV is the only other MMO I can think of that comes anywhere close, and it still has the classic issue of the player character being a glorified sock puppet for the player that doesn't impact the story very much aside from saving the world on a weekly basis. GW2 avoids this by giving the Commander their own personality and development, but unfortunately that rubs some people the wrong way for one reason or another.

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zojcotronix69•

But they are treating the story like a single player RPG? I get it budget wise they have to apend it on alot more then just story but the writing, plot twists, dialog, its all just like any other single player RPG

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Adramolino•

You know how hard it probably is to write for a MMO? Its not like other story telling/games.

So, why are they marketing the game on its storytelling if they can't do it properly?

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PlatomusesOPSylRe•

I didn't say they didn't do it properly, I just said it was hard.

This whole post is about how I think they did it properly.

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PlatomusesOPSylRe•

Even the expansion stories? I feel like they really amped it up.

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PlatomusesOPSylRe•

I played GW1 also, and the story there made no sense to me. But that is probably because I was in middle school when I played it.

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Jokistorm•

I played the game just short of a year after launch, and I loved the game and the story but I never had the energy to complete it. But I’ve managed to finish the core game to the latest patch finally back in March, and just watching the writing and game mechanics develop with each season and expansion quickly is a wonderful experience. I don’t think it’s noticeable unless you play it all one after another.

The base game is a little rocky when you compare it to the latest content. The characters feel more vibrant and emotional, the writing better and how the game programmers convey emotions lately is great. Especially for a mmo. It’s not your traditional one, and I love it for that.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; Anet have really improved and gone strength to strength with how they tell the story in writing and mechanics. And they need to be recognised for this by their fans

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PlatomusesOPSylRe•

I like her because her being in a relationship isn't the most important thing about her. Would you say the same thing if she was in a heterosexual relationship?

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Telefragikoopateleports inside u•

Marjory's character has been mostly forgotten aside from the fact that she's in a relationship. The fact that she's a lesbian doesn't matter, she would've been bland even if she was straight.

Kasmeer seems to have more things going for her since she decided to follow us around for the PoF campaign.

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Nathy95•

What is the most important thing about her ? Her story/development is literally : " Hey I'm here, I'm lesbian and I've a dead sister. "

She's a lesbian figure for quota or conviction and that's all, wich is ridiculous.

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PlatomusesOPSylRe•

Whats Logan's story? He's there, he loves the Queen. Do you have an issue with his character being heterosexual?

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Kurosov•

There was an entire book worth of character development for Logan along with multiple in game storylines dealing with him.

The problem with Jory was she was introduced interesting character set up that was largely thrown away to focus on two badly written story threads that didn’t even handle the subject matter well

Bad writing is bad writing regardless of sexuality.

There were a lot of bad story elements in the game early on, anet have always had good lorecrafting while often struggling with storytelling. Things have been improved upon since LS3 started but Marjory’s character has been left out of those improvements.

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jesselavender•

I think my bigger issue with Marjory and Kasmeer is them as characters when they're together. Bc it's usually either some love drama or them being cute to each other. They work better as seperate characters, or at least the focus should lie more on other aspects of their personality when they're together and not the fact they're in a relationship 90% of the time. They're a couple, so they will obviously show that in some way or another, that's not the issue, it's just overused imo.

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Nathy95•

What a ridiculous impute motives.

First you're in the wrong fight, that's not about her being a lesbian but her being a figure for quota and nothing else, you know the black dude dying first cause we had to buy your sympathy with political views ( wich seems to work very well right now ).

In fact you're not even defending the cause, it's even the opposite. If you want to defend them ask Anet/Netflix or whatever to develop lesbian figure instead of putting empty figure just to buy you.

The original story is writed around Destiny's Edge, Logan was one of these guy. They tried to kill an Elder Dragon for the first time, talked to Glint, also Logan is the reason why Snaff is dead, etc ...

The development of Logan is poor but it's far from the worst.

Now Answer me ? What is the most important thing about Marjory ?

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Arthier•

Chill out bruh XD

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