Telling Stories – From Global to Personal and Back Again

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Wait, we go to the City of the Gods?  I hadn't heard that before.  Is this new information?

Beta Sprite, on 24 July 2012 - 07:10 PM, said:

Not really. We know Zhaitan resides in Orr which is the location of Arah, the City of the Gods.

Alessi_9, on 24 July 2012 - 07:12 PM, said:

Ah, ok.  I just looked up the wiki article on Arah.  I never realized that it was in Orr.  I thought it was separate.  =/

Amazing blog post.





Just 1 more month, just 1 more month.............

The personal story is what convinced me to try the game but it felt okay for me compared to other mmo's. . Some felt a lot nicer than others. Hope it gets a bit more engaging as it goes on. We have yet to see what kind of impact the 3 factions have.

Nicely written blog. I can't wait to finally start my personal story(been holding back during the betas).

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Oh, I can't wait for someone to intentionally misinterpret that and start complaining.

I haven't been paying much attention to any of the dialogue, and skipping it in personal story; I plan to soak up all the stories after release.
just my way of not spoiling things
I truly am missing the game, and look forward to being able to take my time and truly immerse myself in the epic stories of Tyria  

I'm very excited to see all three kind of stories unfold in the game.   What I've experienced of the Personal Story in the BWE was very engaging (I deliberately didn't play much of the storyline and focused more on PvP, I wanted to save the storylines for release).  

I really like how ArenaNet made the story mode of the dungeons more approachable so more people will be able to see the Iconic Storylines.  

There was one part of the blog that I did not think was wholly accurate:

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I actually think this theme is more specific to Guild Wars 2 rather than MMOs in general

Certainly forced group PvE content has been a staple of past MMOs but if players were perfectly honest, the real goal in those games was not to work together.  It was to be the one to win the loot roll at the end.

Previous MMOs have always put players in direct conflict with each other for PvE progression rewards because of their subscription business models.  This has become the overriding theme in the MMO genre resulting in idiotic, cross-game meta-systems like Dragon Kill Points as players tried to cope with flawed game design.

Guild Wars 2 does not seem to be focused on forcing players to group together in PvE in order to slow down their progression or put them into competition but rather encouraging players to group because they want to see the content because it's fun.  

In the end, the boss mob gets defeated by either kind of player but it is a subtle and profound difference in how and why players reached that goal.

This difference is one of the big reasons why I'll be playing Guild Wars 2.

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Pretty sure the book is called Edge of Destiny

Is the "City of the Gods" a outpost? with NPCs? I wonder.

EDIT: Hmm, I was reading and it looks like is not possible, maybe a part?

NeHoMaR, on 24 July 2012 - 10:44 PM, said:

City of the Gods is referring to all of Arah which is the city located on the continent of Orr which in turn is the base of operations of the Elder Dragon Zhaitain and his army of minions.

They fixed it, has the book title right now.