Finding Your Own Story in Guild Wars 2

iko

Published on 26-05-2010 19:09

Today the ArenaNet team and Lore & Continuity Designer Ree Soesbee in particular have taken the time to outline the philosophies and processes that go into telling a story in Guild Wars 2 as well as touching on how a player will interact with their own personal story line.

One of the challenges of a massively-multiplayer game is that in being inclusive to a vast number of people, it loses a lot of the personal interaction that makes single-player RPGs so much fun. When you're looking at the games on the store shelf, it seems you have only two options - a game that you can play with your friends, or a game that has a satisfying personal story. The Guild Wars 2 design team believes that a game should have both.

When you first build a character in the world of Guild Wars 2, you are faced with many questions. What race will you be? What profession? Most MMOs ask that much, and the answers are fairly straightforward. But Guild Wars 2 takes character creation a step beyond. It offers the player an opportunity to go deeper, with another roster of questions designed to develop a character's personality. These comprise a character's 'Biography,' and cover relevant parts of the character's history as well as their hopes for the future and the story they will experience

Check out this great read in full on the official Guild Wars 2 website.

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Tags: Guild Wars 2, lore, mmorpg, ree soesbee

5 Comments

MAGuild - 26-05-2010, 20:55
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Was a great read, but I wish they would show us a screenshot of the char creation.

iko - 26-05-2010, 21:05
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yea i quite like the bit about creating your own bio, really interested to see just how much of an effect it might have on a character.

as for actually getting a look at the character creation system that may be a ways of yet, then again who knows what'll be on offer at E3, we'll just have to wait i guess...