New GUI today

it looks a little to much like modern art to me

now if they only chrome plated all those spiffy curving surfaces

Maybe there should GUI skins, custom and default.

You know the whole Pigs in Space referance and Swedish Chef stuff? Check out the language options on Guild Wars right now. (It's okay if you can only play beta, it's still there.) It's a Swedish Chef Language option. Somebody out there loves us! I have some pics in the Off Topic and Absurd section.

Well, this is my first time posting but I have been browsing through these forums for quite a while now. To get back to the topic, is it just me or is the UI from the first couple of images the guy hosted (001 --> 010 or something think that) so much more fitting for the genre and better looking as well?

I also really really... really dislike the weapon switch bubble things on the lower left hand side of the UI. I bothers me to no end but thats probably just me .

I also really really... really dislike the weapon switch bubble things on the lower left hand side of the UI. I bothers me to no end but thats probably just me .[/QUOTE]
I dislike it as well.F keys I would like to see for party members and maybe num keys for weapons

I'm not really getting the Space Age vibe everyone else seems to see. It still looks fantasyish to me. I didn't mind the old stuff, but over all, I'm liking the slight jazzing up of the UI. I probably won't even notice it after I get used to it, though, so it really doesn't matter a whole lot.

One thing that I do miss is the sliding options panel. The window looks better, but I liked being able to open up the panel and fiddle with things while in a loading screen. Not really a big deal, I know, since I guess I won't be spending a lot of time on loading screens once the game's released, but I wouldn't mind having the panel back as an option, even if it's toggled off by default.

No, not at all. If, that is, you accept the little known and probably made up theory that by the second expansion Guild Wars is going to look like a RIFTS campaign. Time and space itself will become meaningless as paradox after paradox will twist our understanding and conception of the very groundworks of reality. Nothing can ever be taken for granted - Guild Wars will be neither fantasy nor Sci-Fi nor anything but a swirling mass of genres and tropes disgored and combined in an unholy combination.

That, and there'll be Cyborg Ninjas riding dinosaurs. They're the natural counter to the planned Robot profession...

I'm going to have a laser - no, a laser sword. With guns on it that shoot swords.

Dammit, another leak. When are people going to stop breaking the NDA?

I'll play a Cosmo Knight! yea that's the ticket!

But what happens when the Charr and the Borg (spelling?) team up? What will happen then? Cosmo Knights and Robots can't take them alone!

Charr+borg=brodkil demon.

I liked the old GUI, it would be cool to be able to use either. The new loading screens look pretty cool though.

If you check out gw017.jpg, which [I think] represents the March BWE UI, you'll notice that the weapon switch bubbles have been with us for a while: that's not part of the new changes. In fact, shifting between gw050.jpg and gw017.jpg gives you a solid comparison of exactly what IS different, and it turns out to be only the windows themselves, along with minor tweaks to the mini-map.

Well, there's also the fact that the experience bar got moved to the right edge of the skills...I sure hope that's reversible.

-Rav

it seems too fat..you need to slim it down more..takes up too much room

Never thought about the weapons bubbles before. I wonder why they can't be not there unless you press f1-f4? No real need for them to be displayed while you are playing. Maybe make that an option? Oh well.

(The foregoing was worth, on the world market, exactly 2 cents! )

I dislike the change of position for the XP bar. It looked much better on top of the skills.
The window decorations I didn't really mind until I compared them to the old ones. The old ones looked much better.

I use the weapon bubbles all the time
I love the fact that if i want do i dont have to use my keyboard. Kick my feet up and click with my mouse with a nice tall glass of iced coffee in my hands

I think there probably will be options what to show and what not.

My main issue with the new UI is the horrible Guild Wars Swoosh curtain thing on top, its horrible design.

I'm sure it was just his solution for the thing. It's still too big, and that's as good a place as any to put it. I don't think that's where it's supposed to be by default. I saw another screen somewhere, where someone had put it right under the minimize/exit buttons in the top corner. I think, if they haven't fixed it by April's BWE, that's where I'm going to put it.

I don't like the new gui look. I'd actually like to see them make a couple of them and allow us to choose which gui we want to use.