Curse

Magikarp · Dec 14, 2007, 03:26 AM // 03:26

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Originally Posted by You can't see me

Prophecies? Not even close to Europe... The whole white race domination thing is a pretty weak argument, and castles? Castles have a huge influence on many games that are based off magic/fantasy. Start looking at them. Prophecies is anything but Europe. The lore? How on earth could even support this argument? Oh wait, you can't, because the lore has nothing to do with European History. The Charr? The Mursaat? Yup, real close to Europe.

pick up a history book, and find a culture with more castles, religious monarchies, and fantasy lore than europe. white mantle? greco-roman church, or even catholocism. charr? fantasy style religious oppressors, in other words, barbarians. mursaat? another pseudo-fantasy depiction of the holy state, government, or whatever you want to call it, as its like a dark-divine phantasmic role, similar to so many D&D settings from the 80s, which mind you, most of is based on DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS ergo, european myths/fables. knights of the round? king authors court? the holy roman empire? justinian? julius? these are all european influences. just like emperors usually represent asia, princes/kings ect represent europe. simple as that. sure, there are princes/kings in africa, but when everyone was mainly white in Proph..

please... dont be sour, its just plain sense.

ensoriki · Dec 14, 2007, 03:34 AM // 03:34

wheres the asian mantle or black mantle?
Prophecies was racist

Factions was not
Factions wins.

Dallcingi · Dec 14, 2007, 06:22 AM // 06:22

I like Factions cause you can make some asian chicks! lol

Clarissa F · Dec 14, 2007, 08:57 AM // 08:57

After EotN came out, I gained new respect for Factions. I like having to complete part of the story line to access different areas, instead of "Running to Cavalon 3k on arrival" popping up on Local Chat, like runners in Tyria. It just feels more vast and varied, with Kaineng City, the Echovald Forest and the Jade Sea dividing the game. I've found myself spending hardly any time in the other two games, and only went to EotN for the Fame weekends for armor for my ranger and mesmer and when guildies got together.

As for copyright....you are allowed to quote from an article, as long as you state its source. If Hawk had read the article, he would have seen this was just one paragraph. Otherwise, people would be sued every time they footnoted a quote in a paper. Term paper much?

cthulhu reborn · Dec 14, 2007, 10:13 AM // 10:13

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Originally Posted by ensoriki

wheres the asian mantle or black mantle?
Prophecies was racist

Factions was not
Factions wins.

Not that I am taking this comment seriously but to state the obvious:

Luxons vs. Kurzicks

Plenty of prejudice there.

ensoriki · Dec 14, 2007, 11:41 AM // 11:41

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Originally Posted by cthulhu reborn

Not that I am taking this comment seriously but to state the obvious:

Luxons vs. Kurzicks

Plenty of prejudice there.

and then the two sides join forces.
Also they're not fighting because they're race is different.

Unlike kryta vs Ascalon vs Orr did.

or Charr vs Ascalon

Factions isn't racist.

Solus Spartan · Dec 14, 2007, 11:54 AM // 11:54

We're deeply sorry the cats Vs Humans is so racist to you. But cats & the human race have had 100's of wars. Did you know Napeolon was actually a Cat? And Crusades? Cats. How do you think the Western Roman Empire was destroyed, by cats.

Cats is human/feline nature. But when humans fight humans, the line is crossed. Faction's took racist slurs (e.g Suxons) to a whole new level. It's disgraceful.

Also, Turtle banging people who live by the sea? I find that hard to believe.

BenjZee · Dec 14, 2007, 12:37 PM // 12:37

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Originally Posted by ensoriki

wheres the asian mantle or black mantle?
Prophecies was racist

Factions was not
Factions wins.

lol nicely said despite me hating people who say words like black and white are recist.

I don't think theyve taken it out of GW2, theyre just preventing us getting there maybe because they want us to go back some other time.
Didn't mhenlo come from here? OK THEN WE MUST SAVE MHENLO RELATIVES!!! i do hope he had an heir? it would be cool if there was a mhenlo outpost which is devoted to him.
If cantha is acessible and Tahnakii remains. i want to see Togo and Mhenlo there

they are cool despite the fact they are annoying to keep alive

Solus Spartan · Dec 14, 2007, 03:02 PM // 15:02

I think we can all agree, Cantha had to go and it won't be missed.

Goodbye Cantha, you won't be missed

/endtopic.

Magikarp · Dec 14, 2007, 03:10 PM // 15:10

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Cats is human/feline nature. But when humans fight humans, the line is crossed. Faction's took racist slurs (e.g Suxons) to a whole new level. It's disgraceful.

Also, Turtle banging people who live by the sea? I find that hard to believe.

Luxons, and Kurzicks are factions, or in other words, cultures. not races. they're both made of primarily whites/asians.

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Originally Posted by Solus Spartan

I think we can all agree, Cantha had to go and it won't be missed.

Goodbye Cantha, you won't be missed

/endtopic.

glad you clearly win the topic right there. have you even read any of the other post? over 80% of the people that posted in this thread said they liked/loved factions, as do i.

gj
gj
gj
you lose.

Horseman Of War · Dec 14, 2007, 03:18 PM // 15:18

Factions is more pvp than pve... aside from anything, Alliance Battles are reason enough to get factions imo.

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Im hoping that ANet makes one more expansion (at least!) for GW1... Similar to the expanded prophecies map with GwEn... do the same thing, but extending southwest off cantha. Heres what Id like to see...

* extend map southwest and south, expand kurzick forest and edit out the SW shore of the Jade Sea (ffs it looks barely big enough to be the Jade Lake as it is now!!!)
* add two or more Alliance Battle maps, and add in some more Competitive Missions (ala Fort Aspenwood... call them Scenario Battles or something... hell, even go and make it random on entry so that we actually use Jade Quarry every now and again haha)
* dont need more heros IMO, keep them in gwen and nf.
* did i mention they should do an expansion for Factions and add more scenario battles?

Factions is cool, but I recommend other chapters to new players.

beregond · Dec 14, 2007, 03:33 PM // 15:33

Edit: Oops wrong page....

pumpkin pie · Dec 14, 2007, 03:43 PM // 15:43

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Originally Posted by SmithyBen

lol nicely said despite me hating people who say words like black and white are recist.

I don't think theyve taken it out of GW2, theyre just preventing us getting there maybe because they want us to go back some other time.
Didn't mhenlo come from here? OK THEN WE MUST SAVE MHENLO RELATIVES!!! i do hope he had an heir? it would be cool if there was a mhenlo outpost which is devoted to him.
If cantha is acessible and Tahnakii remains. i want to see Togo and Mhenlo there

they are cool despite the fact they are annoying to keep alive

Did I miss something, Mhenlo isn't from Cantha, he studied under Master Togo in his youth but was born in Serenity Temple in Tyria?

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Originally Posted by ensoriki

wheres the asian mantle or black mantle?
Prophecies was racist

Factions was not
Factions wins.

I think its a bit overboard to say Prophecies was racist, its part of the whole world of Guild Wars, it just happens to be the first installment, if it was racist, there would not have a Faction/Cantha and there would not have an Elona, Land of the Rising Sun with people/toon of different races. And you would not see the lion's guard nor will you see any Krytan both are different race from the white mental and tyrian/ascalonia. we probably wouldn't have all these choices either

My view about cantha, LOVE IT (I love all 3 chapters), and hope that in the near future when players starts to not go to elite mission anymore that Anet will finally allow us to bring heros and hench in elite mission, as it is, there's a tiny amount of players still frequent Urgoz Warren or The Deep that one can hardly get a decent group to play with anymore. I need my heros and hench in elite mission.

apparently we can heroway the deep YAY

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magikarp

pick up a history book, and find a culture with more castles, religious monarchies, and fantasy lore than europe. white mantle? greco-roman church, or even catholocism. charr? fantasy style religious oppressors, in other words, barbarians. mursaat? another pseudo-fantasy depiction of the holy state, government, or whatever you want to call it, as its like a dark-divine phantasmic role, similar to so many D&D settings from the 80s, which mind you, most of is based on DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS ergo, european myths/fables. knights of the round? king authors court? the holy roman empire? justinian? julius? these are all european influences. just like emperors usually represent asia, princes/kings ect represent europe. simple as that. sure, there are princes/kings in africa, but when everyone was mainly white in Proph..

please... dont be sour, its just plain sense.

Who are they? knights of the round and king authors?

Magikarp · Dec 14, 2007, 04:48 PM // 16:48

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Originally Posted by pumpkin pie

Who are they? knights of the round and king authors?

knights of the round table and king arthur/author(sp.. english...) were famous historical groups/figures in European history.

beregond · Dec 14, 2007, 06:12 PM // 18:12

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Originally Posted by ensoriki

wheres the asian mantle or black mantle?
Prophecies was racist

Factions was not
Factions wins.

Wait a minute! You're saying they are racist just because it has the word "white" in its name? There were dark skinned mantle and krytans. Your logic for that arguement is faulty.

aaje vhanli · Dec 14, 2007, 06:24 PM // 18:24

This is all irrelevant. Cantha is a great place and should be in GW2.

Mordakai · Dec 14, 2007, 06:30 PM // 18:30

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Originally Posted by aaje vhanli

This is all irrelevant. Cantha is a great place and should be in GW2.

It will be. Probably either as an expansion, or maybe even via quests in the first installment.

If Anet wan't planning on using Cantha, it would have sunk beneath the sea.

{IceFire} · Dec 14, 2007, 06:35 PM // 18:35

You people are missing the sarcasm in like 3/4 of these posts...

Snow Bunny · Dec 14, 2007, 06:58 PM // 18:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by ensoriki

wheres the asian mantle or black mantle?
Prophecies was racist

Factions was not
Factions wins.

Are you kidding?

Tab · Dec 14, 2007, 06:59 PM // 18:59

Im fairly sure there was a black guy in the White Mantle.