Curse

EternalTempest · Nov 07, 2006, 08:29 PM // 20:29

I lost interest with original GW, when Factions was release, lost interest in Factions when NF released. I still visit / do stuff there but I'm most in NF now.

gamecube187 · Nov 08, 2006, 12:02 AM // 00:02

Ya, I also wanted to get all my characters to beat Factions and Prophecies, or at least beat Factions and get to Fire Islands and then try to beat Fire Islands with heros, but I couldn't. I am a little dissapointed about that, but it's not enough to really affect me that much or make me lose interest in GW, and I still want ArenaNet to keep making chapters every 6 months.

Accually, if anything, these chapters comming out fast is making me more interested in GW. With Prophecies, I started getting bored of it after a few months, and if it weren't for Factions, I would of probably quit GW for a while. Then Factions came out and it looked interesting, so I got it. I started getting bored of that right before Nightfall came out, and now that Nightfall came out, I like GW more than ever.

death fuzzy · Nov 08, 2006, 12:03 AM // 00:03

i love NF, just that recently i havent had any time to play.

arcady · Nov 08, 2006, 12:13 AM // 00:13

I've been writing for a number of years now on the need for 'non Anglo-Celtic' fantasy that does not become an ethnic stereotype. So often in Dungeons and Dragons and even video game fantasy the writers are so 'Anglicized' that their notions of Asia and Africa involve ninjas and black face and not much else...

So Nightfall for me is absolutely WONDERFUL.

Finally, Africa / Middle East themed fantasy that is NOT a knock-off of negative stereotypes combined with patronizing apologism and 'noble savages'.

Nightfall presents an Africa-theme and African heroes who are individuals all distinct from each other as much as past western writers were -only- able to do with members of their own race...

Nightfall gives my battered and beaten sense of hope a second chance. I finally have an example that unconscious implied racism does not have to be part of well done fantasy. I finally do not have to feel a sense of being threatened around other fans of fantasy. I can finally be around other fans without feeling they are buying into concealed racist indoctrination.

As a Chinese-Amazon Indian mix, I cannot get enough of this - this setting is EXACTLY the kind of fantasy I have been seeking for years, and I hope it has long reaching impacts upon future writers of fantasy literature, gaming, and art, who cut their teeth playing the games from this company.

So is Nightfall causing me to lose interest?

Heck no!

For me, it is a refreshing glimmer of hope.

This feeling has been present for me with all three chapters. From Prophesies noting in the background that the Charr were not the evil the humans of Ascalon thought them to be, to Factions also avoiding racial stereotypes, to now Nightfall not only doing these first two, but doing its original 'non-Anglo/Celtic setting' so well and so in depth...

I am enthralled with the game, and with this new chapter. Now more so than ever before - it is bringing me back to fantasy.

Nov 08, 2006, 12:54 AM // 00:54

i gained a tons of interest when nf came out.

that was closely followed by tons of hatred for lag and error7s.

which was then followed by me going back to oblivion.