"that's quality armor"

"thanks so much! take a look!" [sideblog for video games. mostly gw2]

[northtovabbi]

FINALLY THE TRUE ENDGAME IS HERE

[commanders-company]

as someone who plays both gw2 and ffxiv I can't imagine describing shadow of the mad king to someone who plays xiv only. halloween in xiv is like here's a silly little sidequest that gives you some glam armor or a minion, maybe an emote if we're feeling like mixing it up this year. and then gw2's like here's a maze that we run around for hours on end killing the same mobs over and over to get trick or treat bags and candy corn. these are some of the best items for flipping on the market for profit and you can make hundreds of gold in a handful of hours. every so often everyone in the maze stops to kill a skeleton with a chainsaw the players have named steve. it's considered good etiquette to be under-geared so enemies die slower and everyone gets a chance to tag for loot. here's a jumping puzzle that only takes a couple minutes to complete but even veteran players struggle with it. in lore halloween started because a human king went insane and killed his family and then was executed by his subjects. he is now a minor deity and comes to the mortal realm to play simon says. his greatest adversary is a flamboyant zombie dictator that you killed years ago but the king's minions created a fake version of him because the king was depressed.

[fishing-princess]

Whatever. *Apathetically does a backflip and throws three daggers diagonally down at different angles*

[spiribia]

[spiribia]

i'm forcing guild wars 2 developers to all play on max height charr and do mandatory jumping puzzles until they understand

[thegreatyin]

guild wars 2's story is largely a middling rpg plot, like 5/10 and 7/10s across the board, it doesn't do anything too special or deep but it has decently engaging characters and the accompanying world design makes it fun to play and see what happens next. and then occasionally it spends a grand total of 2 seconds focusing on something so fascinating and so engaging it knocks my socks off. and then it never touches on that topic again. and this is how it has single-handedly made me lose my marbles

[thegreatyin]

guild wars 2 will look me in the eye and go hey here's a dragon pushed by his dead mother into fulfilling a role he never wanted and he's never been allowed to roam and love and live for himself and he's dedicated his entire life to carrying out tasks that, while for the objective good of the world, have been preordained and planned for him and he's never been free of any of it. he's never been free. and now he never will be because his last act is sacrificing himself for a destiny he'll never get to see. he's never been able to exist beyond his destiny and now its slaughtered him in cold blood. and now his one year old sister has to shoulder the burden in his stead. he never got to meet her. her caretakers have to find the remnants of his legacy and piece together what he left behind to take to her and teach her and part of his last will is saying how much he would've loved to enjoy her company. but now neither of them will ever have that. and she has to carry all of that weight as a One Year Old Baby. and destiny will inevitably destroy her too. and then the game moves on and expects me to be normal???

[thegreatyin]

feeling this again. guild wars 2 is an incredible collection of writing and worldbuilding prompts who's actual story evens out to Just Alright but who's fan derangement potential is through the roof. guild wars 2 is like the potential man of mmo plots. that isn't even a dig against it, that's just a neutral description of the game

[vezimira]

had a rough time doing map completion last night

[skydrifter]

GUILD WARS 2: VISIONS OF ETERNITY WHAT WOULD YOU SACRIFICE FOR POWER? (October 28, 2025)

[thegreatyin]

guild wars is an insane setting because it's a normal fantasy world but also the closest elf analogue that exists is humanity. what people would at first glance assume to be ""elves"" are actually just vaguely humanoid plant monsters made to serve an unbelievably ancient god-dragon that's also a living jungle and also all of the plant people are at maximum 25 years old because their entire species are basically collectively babies in terms of how long they've existed in-universe. also the orcs are giant cat people. the gnomes are rats. the dwarves are normal but also they're steadily going extinct and also all living rock people now. nobody even knows what a horse is

[exemiin]

companions

[mgenjo]

Not trying to spend so much time doodling ovw ideas so excuse the mess

[backfliips]

My sweet darling Wyll what have you gotten yourself into.....

[ma9nomara-deactivated20250509]

[alsoika]

When your BG3 crew doesn't know a damn thing

[red-catmander]

wake up. annoy crabs. be imprisoned. get out of prison. kill dad. galavant across desert. establish jazz club. kill grandmother. buy hideous suit. with this twelve step sigma grindset program you too can do this all before lunch

[whomerlockwood]

Canach, definetly not jealous and sick of hearing the Commander talk about Peitha: So... is this Peitha... taller than me?

[guildtree]

Playing through Path of Fire on an alt character and I am constantly reminded of how ridiculous the team you have for that expansion is. Canach, Rytlock, and Kasmeer. These people are not friends. At best they hang out in the same general circle. They're the ones in the friend group who sit in awkward silence at the table when the person who ties them all together leaves to get water.

But they're all here, and they do wind up with this weird sort of frenemies bond going on. Canach and Rytlock begin a rivalry over who can kill Forged the best. Rytlock won't stop grumbling about the gods, but he also won't kill the ghosts in Kormir's sanctuary because "then Kas will get mad at me." Nobody likes the Awakened illusions, and you know - you just know - that Kasmeer is making them worse on purpose just because people are making fun of her magic. And yet despite all that, they still bind together when things get tough... to pick on you for getting a little too into character as Archon Iberu, because apparently even literally dying doesn't make your Commander immune from teasing.

I don't think they become die-hard friends or anything, but I do think they have this weird shared experience that nobody else is privy to. They don't seek each other out, but leave them alone in a room together and they'll suddenly start complaining about sand sharks and calling Rytlock "Cuddles" and a million other in-jokes that nobody else understands. At some point Logan or Marjory or somebody walks in with a smoothie and stands in confused silence, wondering what in the actual hell they missed out on.