No Excuses

Yes, I know. I know. I’m a terrible blogger. Absolutely the worst, and I don’t really have much of an excuse for the complete radio silence, other than I was kinda burnt out and busy and couldn’t arse myself to blog about anything, really.

This is the newest teaser video for Guild Wars 2, sequel to the popular MMORPG by ArenaNet. For a good while, there was no new information coming out about this game, and many of us who were looking forward to a continuation of the story of Tyria were fearing the worst — that it had gone the way of such anticipated games as Duke Nukem Forever and Starcraft Ghosts… vaporware, never to be made. While these videos alone don’t definitively prove that GW2 will ever actually be released, it’s still a sign that SOMETHING is going on at the offices of ArenaNet, so I’m hoping the momentum will keep up, despite all the delays and lulls in updates about content and features.

From what I’m seeing, this game is going to be fantastic. I’ve always loved the aesthetics of Guild Wars, which were much higher quality than competing games, such as WoW, without having to resort to an absurdly cartoony style, and GW2 seems to be going down the same design road as Dragon Age: Origins, getting darker and grittier as new material comes out. Dark fantasy is the best fantasy, in my opinion.

Another thing I really liked in this video is how they’re taking the Sylvari race. In Eye of the North, they debuted, but you saw very little of them and knew even less about them. From the original designs you first got a glimpse of, they were very childlike, spritely creatures… and I wasn’t terribly enthused about that. However, it seems ANet has decided to mature them a bit and make them less like scantily clad little girls wearing foliage for clothing and made them less overtly human.

I’d be lying if I said this video didn’t get me all hyped up over GW2 all over again.