Guild Wars 2
| Guild Wars 2 | |
|---|---|
| Platform | Steam |
| Status | Not Completed |
| Rating | ~ |
| Playtime | 5 hours |
| Start date | 2022-06 |
| End date | 2022-06 |
Thoughts
I tried getting into Guild Wars 2 during summer 2022 and it just felt soulless. Like it was just a big Skinner-box for selling expansions and cosmetics. The story didn't grab me, the areas felt strangely claustrofobic and boringly designed, filled with the same activities copy pasted. The dialogue was the kind of mediocre which text-only games can pull off, but Fully-Voiced™ cannot. (Basically just like The Elder Scrolls Online!)
The last time I played the game was during the launch week, but I ended up with the same completionist drive, and eventually the same despair.
It least I can report that it was possible to play using a controller, by messing around with the Steam controller system. My proudest moment was to toggle right click when the right analog stick was off-center, and to cause the mouse to move with the right analog stick, resulting in a perfect emulation of the right analog camera movement.
