Explore Tyria like never before in Guild Wars 3, an action-adventure MMORPG and modern evolution of the genre.

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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I'm genuinely very excited for this, but I have to ask: What use is this video as far as an advertisement? What does the video add beyond what an official headline with GW3 on it couldn't? There's no gameplay, information, nothing but some pretty pictures and a voice-over. The most I could gather is there's some form of rock climbing, there's mounts, and there are classes. But even some of that might be off.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Yeah aside from the mounts this looked like some generic unreal engine demo using generic assets.They’d be better off just showing the logo until they have some actual content to show.

    Kinda par for the course for guild wars PR though. GW2 had some weirdly bad promo videos.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    It shows off:

    • where it takes place (ancient Orr)
    • that that place is mostly a wilderness (as the game takes place a thousand years before the first one)
    • some playable races (Kodan bears are new, Asura and humans are not, Charr won't be in this one due to the time period)
    • different mount types (flying dragon is probably a mount too)
    • different modes of movement, which is a large focus of this game
    • gliders
    • the style they're going for, evolved from GW2

    And I've probably missed a ton of things. Once you really start looking at it there's actually a lot going on.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe I'm just looking for a different type of advertisement. I'm interested in what combat looks like, what gameplay loop they're going for, which professions are intended for release (and the profession system in general), what game types are supported (PvP, WvW, GvG), team composition goals, etc. Lore and visuals are cool, I guess, but I don't but a product for its look or backstory.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    All of that will follow in due course. Guild Wars is a very story-heavy franchise so it's logical that they focus on the setting first before diving into those details. We still have about 1.5 years before we can play the beta so that's plenty of time to elaborate.

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