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Monday, February 21, 2005

Guild Wars PWNS you!

If you couldn't guess, I participated in the February Guild Wars beta weekend, which, to my great dispair, ended last night. I can't even begin to describe the game's utter awesomeness -- and this is just a beta!

One thing that's most noticable from the start are the graphics -- they're freaking amazing! Particularly the lighting and the faces. They look like REAL faces. Not only that, but everything's just so smooth and realistic and proportional... The environments, characters, effects, weapons... everything's just so damn beautiful.

The gameplay is also great. It's nice sometimes to have to think while playing a game of this ilk, rather than *click* BOOM *click* SLASH. I also liked that you could choose a subjob within the first five or ten minutes (or immediately if you decide to start at the level cap or make a PVP only character). I have bad memories about subjobs from FFXI in particular...

They have a relatively interesting armor system too; you have to find materials and bring them to a crafter to make your character new equipment (which is usually obscenely cool). You can dye the armor too, which is a plus.

The guild capes look awesome too. It's pretty easy to start a new guild (if you do it before you do a quest that destroys Ascalon [takes you out of the newbie area, basically]). All you have to do to make a guild in Pre-Charr Ascalon is get 110 Gold, which at first seems like a lot but really isn't if you find stuff for collectors. You need 10 Gold to make a guild and 100 to design a cape. The capes are just that cool.

There's so much more to Guild Wars than that -- too much to write. I'm gonna be tortured until the next beta weekend.
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