Just brute force won’t do it
Ok, I must admit: I’m hooked on Guild Wars. More than I should, I suspect. It is not the game itself, but the people playing it. I recall when I joined my current Guild, The Devious Devils: one of the members was just asking if someone would like to join the Guild, I asked if I could join and there I was. Simple as that. And, better yet, no matter how newbie my questions may be, people don’t complain about it: they are always answer the questions, and don’t seem bothered by doing it so, a completely different behaviour from the people playing bRO.
Last night, trying to finish a quest, I found that you can really find people willing to role play: I had a hard quest in hand, tried it already three times, dying on some spot. On Guild Wars, your only penalty for dying is losing morale, which brings your stats down for a while, with a maximum of -60%; returning to an outpost puts your morale back to normal. So, this group of complete strangers did try the complete the same quest, dying over and over again. Every time, the fighter keep dropping small jokes to keep real live moral up. Even the other Necromancer keep joking when she died, like “Hm… ground. Tastes so good.”
In the end, we all had -60% morale and where dying very quickly to some hunters. Then, suddenly, I decided to stop trying to kill everything and get the damn quest object. So, under heavy fire, I run to the spot and manage to pick it up just before dying. When I checked, I had to tell the others and we came with a plan: two would distract the hunters while the third would pick the quest object. And that worked, even if we didn’t manage to kill any of the damn hunters.
So, it was not just a matter of brute force, we had to have some tactics around. And that was just fun.
Anyway, here are some new shots of the game:
 All good names have been taken already And I’m Powers. Austin Powers. |
 E1lie? She may not think so, you may not think so. But damn, she looks a lot like (well, when she was redheaded, anyway)… |
 Peter Pumpkinhead And he was banging… |
