I just logged in yesterday. Surprisingly, there were people online (none in my Guild or friends list, but that's beside the point), and the faction-battles still seem to be quite active. The faction battles are really where it's at, 12v12 battles are pretty cool. All in all, however, my main complaint with Guild Wars is it's lack of true objectives.... sure the PvP battles are for points (either faction points or other, can't remember atm) but there's nothing really WORTH fighting for. Nothing to conquer and hold. Nothing really changes.Murrin wrote:
Maybe not quite on topic because it's large and you have to buy the game, but Guild Wars is a subscription-free MMO that's pretty high-quality. At this point it's several expansions in and this complicates the structure a little (expansion is self-contained, with its own starting areas and full content for 1-20, with transport links to the contant of other expansions), and it's also heavily group-play based, as you can't progress past certain points solo (I played for some time, almost entirely solo play, until around 50% of the way through the content where I just couldn't beat a mission that opened up access to the higher zones).
I enjoyed it at the time I played, but I have no idea what the game is like now.
If you're looking for something interesting, you should look into NWN (NOT NWN2, that is the buggiest crap ever. I was unable to even load a legit copy due to SecuROM). NWN is unusual in respects that it comes with the toolset and is designed to allow the players to build worlds, create custom content, and host their own servers. As noted somewhere in this forum, I used to host my own world called Ith'Landreil. Before that, I worked on a still thriving community called World of Caenyr.
As I shoot for a job in game-development, I am half-considering starting Ith'Landriel back up just for a weekend, a last hoorah just to get some good video footage for my reel. If you have the game, PM me and I'll let you know when/if this alleged event is to take place.
A TC-based NWN server wouldn't be a half-bad idea. But my ambitious arse wouldn't be able to settle for anything less that a built-from-scratch Covenant game....
((begins to seriously entertain the idea of a Covenant-based NWN server....although my wife would probably kill me...))
