Curse

KamikazeChicken · Mar 07, 2007, 09:32 PM // 21:32

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Originally Posted by Vilaptca

We already have the Seer, who seems like an alien...

The Seer and Mursaat were aliens, afaik.

zwei2stein · Mar 07, 2007, 09:35 PM // 21:35

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Originally Posted by Exoudeous

So i think its a wee bit early to worry about a games looks, based on 1 character, 2 years before its supposedly supposed to be out.

What wrong here is concept, not actually art, no-one here said its ugly because they hate how its drawn/rendered. peope hate it for what is being drawn/rendered.

thats is unlikely to be changed by better technology (well, it will get worse as we will see theese supa-dupa-cutie characters in better details. )

TabascoSauce · Mar 07, 2007, 09:37 PM // 21:37

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Originally Posted by KamikazeChicken

Because it's logical equating the new creature to the final boss of a campaign? I think not.

Bwahahaha! You don't like the example? Have another!

Host: "Welcome back to our talk show, we have 4 guests tonight. They can introduce themselves!"
Guest 1: "I am a Necromancer classed character! I can raise the dead to dance to my macabre tune of....more death! I can inflict plagues, disease, poison, and curses upon my enemies! Watch me spill my own blood and sacrifice 17% of my own life force to give my allies the power to curse, burn, blow up, poison, shock, and freeze the meat off of the enemy, giving me more corpses to exploit! See my gothic barbed armor! Fear me!"
Guest 2: "I am a warrior, skilled with axes to cripple and dismember my enemies, hammers to bash their skulls in, and swords to gash them into bleeding to death! My shouts and stances can exploit the deaths of my teammates, and indeed drain power from my foes! I am a whirlwind, dealing death with both hands! My goal is to cripple, maim, poison, dismember, and bleed my foes unto death!"
Guest 3: "I am an Elementalist, and when I am not burning, shocking, freezing, or grinding the meat off of your bones, I am using glyphs of arcane power to make sure that I can better burn, shock, freeze, or grind the meat off of your bones! My favorite is to combine chaining effects for maximum damage, since my DPS is higher than any other class. Did I mention that I am good at burning, shocking, freezing, or grinding the meat off of your bones?"
Guest 4: "Hi, I am a cutesy big-eared lovable huggable guy who cares about the whole world! Yay! Can I be your friend?"

OK wise guy, reconcile that. The guy is just too darn cute for the burning, shocking, freezing, meat-grinding mayhem of Guild Wars. Yeah, and I didnt even touch the assassin as a class, cause that's too easy.

Get that rabbit out of here
TabascoSauce

Retribution X · Mar 07, 2007, 09:38 PM // 21:38

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Originally Posted by Vilaptca

To all the people saying this thing is "too cute" for Guild Wars, look at all the female characters and try to tell me they fit in the game. Even the men in this game are too clean to look like they've been fighting anything at all.

This fits just fine with Guild Wars, theres no reason it shouldn't. We already have the Seer, who seems like an alien...

Yeah, well, what kind of person doesn't like a sexy chic. I personally think they should add blood effects, swing the sword, and you and all your allies get bloodied, you can get scars, and other violent effects.

But I personally think it should be in GW. ESP if the devs make "Decapitate" Decapitate the target.

That would make me lol.

Anyway, we realise most people think it's ugly, and we understand the rest of the people are deluded. (J/K) And the others, well, there just arn't any more.

It's current render just looks kinda cartoony for me. Even the seers looked realistic. I mean, if I didn't get out enough, and had something that said everything in this game was real, I would have believed it. This I would not. Needs to look more real.

Exoudeous · Mar 07, 2007, 09:45 PM // 21:45

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Originally Posted by zwei2stein

What wrong here is concept, not actually art, no-one here said its ugly because they hate how its drawn/rendered. peope hate it for what is being drawn/rendered.

thats is unlikely to be changed by better technology (well, it will get worse as we will see theese supa-dupa-cutie characters in better details. )

yes but look whats in the game, charactes no longer even resemble that, nor do the creatures even look like that, nothing to do with rendering. 2 years from now asuras could look very diffrent if anet decideds to change it based on community response. Im sure duild wars looks like it does now because of focus testing.

The Ernada · Mar 07, 2007, 09:51 PM // 21:51

Yeah, how dare Anet create something completely different. We want everything the same! The same! Everything must look badass not cuteass! All our armors and weapons must be black and shiny and 10 foot long! We're too manly to have cutesy stuff in the game because it threatens our manliness! We hunt not cuddle! RRAAAARGHH!!

TabascoSauce · Mar 07, 2007, 10:06 PM // 22:06

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Originally Posted by The Ernada

Yeah, how dare Anet create something completely different. We want everything the same! The same! Everything must look badass not cuteass! All our armors and weapons must be black and shiny and 10 foot long! We're too manly to have cutesy stuff in the game because it threatens our manliness! We hunt not cuddle! RRAAAARGHH!!

::Pirate voice::

Och, lad, hearin such sweet things from ye brings a wee tear to me eyes! If'n yer not already married, then I know a wee bonnie lass or three fer ya!

Thx!
TabascoSauce

Liberations · Mar 07, 2007, 10:12 PM // 22:12

"Playable races include Humans, Charr, Norns, Asurians and Sylvarians."
O_O
Source, please? And what of GW2... wth? Where did that come from?

icymanipulator · Mar 07, 2007, 10:14 PM // 22:14

Alex, Gaile...whoever is working over at ANET and reads this thread...

For the love of all things holy if you won't stop releasing minis please CUSTOMIZE them! If for no reason other than the quote earlier about picking them up specifically to sell in game for 50-80k. We all know they will sell for some absurd amount at release don't even try to deny it. Essentially what you are saying is, its ok to buy a couple $5-$6 magazines use the keys to get a mini and sell it for ingame currency...whereas eBaying money is a no no. That seems sort of counter intuitive to the EULA to me as these are essentially the same thing with the addition of some sub par reading material...am I the only one who notices this?

Liberations · Mar 07, 2007, 10:25 PM // 22:25

I realize it Icy, your not alone

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Anyway, I found the source that I was looking for earlier, courtesy od google of course.

It's at http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37986

Also, as seen in the article, I don't think that Eye of the North will be the last thing before GW2... why would an "expansion" (not a chapter) take so long as compared to a chapter? C4 will not be forgotten!

Knightsaber Sith · Mar 07, 2007, 10:28 PM // 22:28

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Originally Posted by TabascoSauce

Bwahahaha! You don't like the example? Have another!

Host: "Welcome back to our talk show, we have 4 guests tonight. They can introduce themselves!"
Guest 1: "I am a Necromancer classed character! I can raise the dead to dance to my macabre tune of....more death! I can inflict plagues, disease, poison, and curses upon my enemies! Watch me spill my own blood and sacrifice 17% of my own life force to give my allies the power to curse, burn, blow up, poison, shock, and freeze the meat off of the enemy, giving me more corpses to exploit! See my gothic barbed armor! Fear me!"
Guest 2: "I am a warrior, skilled with axes to cripple and dismember my enemies, hammers to bash their skulls in, and swords to gash them into bleeding to death! My shouts and stances can exploit the deaths of my teammates, and indeed drain power from my foes! I am a whirlwind, dealing death with both hands! My goal is to cripple, maim, poison, dismember, and bleed my foes unto death!"
Guest 3: "I am an Elementalist, and when I am not burning, shocking, freezing, or grinding the meat off of your bones, I am using glyphs of arcane power to make sure that I can better burn, shock, freeze, or grind the meat off of your bones! My favorite is to combine chaining effects for maximum damage, since my DPS is higher than any other class. Did I mention that I am good at burning, shocking, freezing, or grinding the meat off of your bones?"
Guest 4: "Hi, I am a cutesy big-eared lovable huggable guy who cares about the whole world! Yay! Can I be your friend?"

See, this one doesn't work either. The problem is: the first time you compared a new race to three well known iconic characters. The second time, you compared a new race to three professions. If you wanted to do it right, you'd compare the new race to existing races! But at this point it's a bit of a lost cause. If you have to explain a joke, it's not funny and there is no joke. If you have to redo the joke two times.... well that's even worse.

Gli · Mar 07, 2007, 10:31 PM // 22:31

It's funny how some people can't ever, not once, accept that some people have different tastes and opinions than themselves, especially when such opposing opinions are even slightly touching upon not appreciating even the tiniest aspect of Guild Wars/ArenaNet.

And here's my attempt to put my aversion into words:

The Asura would look absolutely fabulous sitting on a shelf in my three-year-old's bedroom. It's cute and looks very well-designed. No question about that. It does not, however, fit my perception and expectations of Guild Wars, and I'm obviously not alone in that.

Disregarding the non-fantastical elements, animals and such, is there anything else in the game you'd put on a shelve in a toddler's bedroom? I can't think of anything, and there's plenty that I would most categorically not put on such a shelve.

Dark[Devil] · Mar 07, 2007, 10:33 PM // 22:33

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Originally Posted by icymanipulator

Alex, Gaile...whoever is working over at ANET and reads this thread...

For the love of all things holy if you won't stop releasing minis please CUSTOMIZE them! If for no reason other than the quote earlier about picking them up specifically to sell in game for 50-80k. We all know they will sell for some absurd amount at release don't even try to deny it. Essentially what you are saying is, its ok to buy a couple $5-$6 magazines use the keys to get a mini and sell it for ingame currency...whereas eBaying money is a no no. That seems sort of counter intuitive to the EULA to me as these are essentially the same thing with the addition of some sub par reading material...am I the only one who notices this?

Will there not be a restriction on 1 code per account?

Stormcloud · Mar 07, 2007, 10:35 PM // 22:35

Im so going to LOL when one of these "cute" little dudes rips you up the first time in game.

Stormcloud · Mar 07, 2007, 10:38 PM // 22:38

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Originally Posted by Gli

It's funny how some people can't ever, not once, accept that some people have different tastes and opinions than themselves, especially when such opposing opinions are even slightly touching upon not appreciating even the tiniest aspect of Guild Wars/ArenaNet.

And here's my attempt to put my aversion into words:

The Asura would look absolutely fabulous sitting on a shelf in my three-year-old's bedroom. It's cute and looks very well-designed. No question about that. It does not, however, fit my perception and expectations of Guild Wars, and I'm obviously not alone in that.

Disregarding the non-fantastical elements, animals and such, is there anything else in the game you'd put on a shelve in a toddler's bedroom? I can't think of anything, and there's plenty that I would most categorically not put on such a shelve.

I want a LIFESIZE roller beetle to put in my house...now there is a cute mini! I love those little things....LONG LIVE THE BEETLE!

*edited for fat fingering

Exoudeous · Mar 07, 2007, 10:38 PM // 22:38

yes, because searching for cowbell, playing with the king of holloween, and dancing holiday elfs is all serious adult business. Dont even mention the candy corn monsters

Knightsaber Sith · Mar 07, 2007, 10:39 PM // 22:39

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Originally Posted by Gli

It's funny how some people can't ever, not once, accept that some people have different tastes and opinions than themselves, especially when such opposing opinions are even slightly touching upon not appreciating even the tiniest aspect of Guild Wars/ArenaNet.

I can accept that some people have different opinions, but what's getting kind of annoying is how the people that don't like it seem compelled to come back over and over constantly saying how much they hate it and some people going to the extent of saying Anet is somehow bad at what they do or how it's a copy of some creature from something else.

The people that don't have a problem with it just express that they wouldn't mind owning one and leave it at that. Why can't the rest of you be civilized for once, express the fact that you don't like it and move on already?

The Ernada · Mar 07, 2007, 10:39 PM // 22:39

Yeah, our minipets should never look like a toddler's toy!! The minipets should be fierce and deadly and shiny with lots of spikes all over it....and 10 feet tall! Why the F--- would I have a pet otherwise?!? I fear for the future of this game when a guy cant even have a manly minipet to cuddle...err hunt with!!

Livingston · Mar 07, 2007, 10:40 PM // 22:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gli

It's funny how some people can't ever, not once, accept that some people have different tastes and opinions than themselves, especially when such opposing opinions are even slightly touching upon not appreciating even the tiniest aspect of Guild Wars/ArenaNet.

And here's my attempt to put my aversion into words:

The Asura would look absolutely fabulous sitting on a shelf in my three-year-old's bedroom. It's cute and looks very well-designed. No question about that. It does not, however, fit my perception and expectations of Guild Wars, and I'm obviously not alone in that.

Disregarding the non-fantastical elements, animals and such, is there anything else in the game you'd put on a shelve in a toddler's bedroom? I can't think of anything, and there's plenty that I would most categorically not put on such a shelve.

Gwen...

Perhaps that is where she has been since presearing. Off ruling the kingdom of these things. @_@

I swear I have seen these things before almost exactly. But I can't remeber where...

This is another close one:

http://www.nickelodeon.com.au/downlo...2_1024x768.jpg

But I'm nearly certain there is a near exact duplicate from somewhere. Maybe I've repressed it.

(psst the phrase is "lo and behold")

KamikazeChicken · Mar 07, 2007, 10:41 PM // 22:41

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Originally Posted by TabascoSauce

OK wise guy, reconcile that. The guy is just too darn cute for the burning, shocking, freezing, meat-grinding mayhem of Guild Wars. Yeah, and I didnt even touch the assassin as a class, cause that's too easy.

Get that rabbit out of here
TabascoSauce

It's a race, not a profession, and its race means nothing in reference to its magical ability. Sorry. :\