I have a feeling you didn’t play either Red Dead 2 or FF14 lol.
I have over 2k hours in RDR2 and have 100% the game several times. Want a screenshot buttercup? Can also post some screenshots of my FFXIV character.
Or you can just f off now 
Sure, post some screenshots lol.
will do 
then you can shut up, right? Give me five minutes and I’ll have those for you. After that, you go on mute because I don’t feed trolls once they’re proven to be trolls.
You going to mute yourself?
GW2 has the combat ESO should have had. It might not exactly be as snappy as wow’s combat is but it’s still by far one of the more solid combat systems in an mmo.
FFXIV is fairly snappy but does suffer from the games slow tick-rate which makes everything feel delayed.
You named two of my favorite games right off the bat, the Mass Effect trilogy, I have to have like 20 playthroughs on it and BG3 was just such an amazing game. I lean more towards great characters and development of those character, less Tolkien world building and more GRRM character development. I’m also a massive fan of the Witcher series. I like my stories to be based in fantasy with a bit of reality and logic to it. Love the original Dragonage Origins game as well.
Tyranny? I’ll check that out when I get home, give it a look.
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Unfortunately one of the downsides for the horizontal gearing. Once you’re capped there is no longer a mechanical bait keeping you around like in WoW and FFXIV.
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And now, troll, you go on mute bye.
I’m not sure how much time you gave RDR2, but if you want great characters, Arthur Morgan is it.
But again, there are great games that I don’t like – Dragon Age for instance. Just found it too tropey, even though I loved Mass Effect.
Finding generic pics online doesn’t help your case lol.
Why is it always “vs”?
I remember it starting really slow, I know I get less than 20 hours in it though.
I do spy that Elden Ring game you got there… 5 days.
Yep, super “generated” god you’re a tool. Bet you think the election was stolen too because no matter what anyone shows you, you won’t believe it due to basic lack of critical thinking and a joy of trolling h ttps://ibb.co/cFJBszY welcome to ignore completely now, tool.
Putting up a screenshot over the screen doesn’t help either lol.
Elden Ring is great but I want more to do in the game other than combat. If they added more RPG elements in there I’d probably have 2k hours in that game as well lol
RDR2’s prologue is hit or miss. I skip it (grab a chapter2 save on nexus and use that instead as a starting point). The game is a slow burn though, not super combat oriented all the time, and while it’s fiction, it’s -realistic- historical fiction like Kingdom Come. Stuff’s slow going, but the story is one of the best in video game history and if you’re a history nerd, well…
That said, it is something like the 11th best selling game of all time, so maybe one day you’ll be in the mood. If not, that’s OK too.
Edit: admittedly after 2k hours in RDR2 I now run it with a lot of mods, like Bandit Hideouts and tons of different horse variants instead of the vanilla defaults, PDO and a law overhaul mod, etc. I went full on trying to make it super realistic, but the bandit hideout mod really spices up the action – groups of other in-game outlaws can hunt you down and set up camps all over instead of the several designated “spawn points” in the vanilla game. Makes it more dangerous lol
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FFXIV utterly annihilates WoW in terms of storytelling and character development, as well as overall visual spectacle and impact…
But WoW definitely feels better to play, and I like the world in WoW better than the world of FFXIV.
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Guild Wars 2 had great ideas but then they never really improved upon them. The living world concept that changed up the world was a neat concept but I guess I have to buy every living world season to even see them. Not sure if the future episodes also change up the world as well.
There’s a lot of deadish content in GW2 unless you get there during primetime whenever that is. People still do WvW but it’s smaller skirmishes it seems. Dungeons have to be manually queued up for so I did only 1 when I went back earlier this year. Raids still have a community that does them I guess and Fractals also barely have anyone queue’ing up for them when I looked.
It seems most of GW2 is people running world events, working on Masteries, or I guess must be in the current expansion. Unlike WoW there’s a reason to do the older and prior expansion though so it’s still viable to farm it. It looks visibly better also in a lot of ways as well, but it just is missing something for me. The gameplay also tries to be somewhat hard in Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire so if you have a glass cannon build you’ll likely get rekt unless you’re great at dodging. I don’t remember being too amazed by the combat engine or how classes were designed and how abilities flowed together, but at times it was okay.
FFXIV on the other hand I stopped playing in Shadowbringers. The thing I HATE about FFXIV is that you have to go through every single thing in order to catch up. Every single patch, literally, and boss or whatever they added has to be completed. Luckily you can queue up for all of it and it’s likely been nerfed if it’s older as well. In GW2 you can skip between stories if you want and be fine. If you want to do the current expansion you can skip right to it in your story journal as long as you own it. Want to go back to an older story you didn’t finish? Yeah you can go back to where you left off np by clicking in the story journal. In FFXIV? Nope do it in order! Ever patch you missed since you stopped playing needs to be done which can take a LONG time to do.
The other thing about FFXIV is that it’s combat is a bit slower paced, there’s more to dodge in combat, and most of the raids are just knowing where to stand and when. It’s a bit over obnoxious in the amount of stuff you have to dodge as well. That said some dungeons and raids are actually far better looking than anything WoW has ever made. Some of the story in Shadowbringers was even considerably better than anything WoW has ever done. But my gripe is the story is also painfully long and obnoxious and I can’t stand the way the story is told. It just drives me a bit bonkers and the music at times it also just not for me.
Btw the one Fractal I did I thought was far cooler than most dungeons we have in WoW which is just terrain > mobs > pathing > boss > terrain > pathing > boss > fell asleep.
I’d rather have fun dungeons than super ultra hard dungeon content designed for a smaller portion of the playerbase. Super ultra hard content doesn’t always equate to better. And besides WoW already has that design formula pretty much figured out for those that like it.
I’d argue WoW alienated a lot of players by trying to cater too much to the hardcore crowd, if so at least TWW is trying to correct that. Figure out how to get the casual to core gamer crowd happy and the playerbase will perhaps grow. I’m guessing DF was at least helping keep these players engaged more.
Ah I get what you’re saying now. Yeah, compared to book plots I can understand completely!
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Its a horizontal progression game. The game is not designed around a ilvl treadmill like WoW is. You can get a full set of exotic (a tier below the best stat quality gear) in WvW in about 45 minutes at level 80 if you were trying to speed run things or if you have the gold buy a full set off the trading post. A majority of the quest rewards are crafting items for gear later on at max level.
As for the graphics the base game is pretty lacking compared to the newer stuff but a graphic pass for that content is planned at some point.
GW2 isn’t anymore p2w than WoW is. I’ve spent less money on the game than WoW simply because it doesn’t have a sub cost. While yes utility items like the copper/silver salvage-fed are a god send they are relatively inexpensive and cost less than an active sub on WoW. Remember you only need to buy these once and these items can be shared with every character on the account.
Mounts in GW2 weren’t introduced until the Path of Fire expansion. The base game only has access to the raptor mount which is given to you for free at level 10 and it tells you how to use it (I’ve made a free account to see what it actually shows). If you want access to the other mounts well you got to buy the PoF exapnsion like how you need to do with WoW if you want to access DF content.
Those “low levels” were most certainly alts as everything in gw2 is account bound including gear.
As for the rest of your post is very subjective. It sounds like you do not like the game and that is fair. GW2 is very different from WoW so if you logged into to expect a clone you are in for a rude awakening.