Melee and Ranged Imbalance In Guild Wars 2

[DrakeWurrum]

NC Soft probably wanted

NCSoft has nothing to do with this game's design.

[Shadylol]

NCSoft has nothing to do with this game's design.

That is not correct

SOKO publisher/developer relationship doesn't work the same way as NA does. NC Soft is a very different company than Activision or EA, which you're probably more familiar with

[DrakeWurrum]

That is not correct

SOKO publisher/developer relationship doesn't work the same way as NA does. NC Soft is a very different company than Activision or EA, which you're probably more familiar with

No, what I'm familiar with is the simple fact that Arena Net was given full independence.

[Shadylol]

No, what I'm familiar with is the simple fact that Arena Net was given full independence.

That's just not how it works in SOKO

[DrakeWurrum]

That's just not how it works in SOKO

You seem to be forgetting about NCSoft West.

[Shadylol]

You seem to be forgetting about NCSoft West.

They're owned by the parent company, though. In the end, the main NC Soft is the one calling the shots. You can easily see this in game, with the high amount of Asian influence in visuals and design, as well as the countless similarities to Aion

[DrakeWurrum]

They're owned by the parent company, though. In the end, the main NC Soft is the one calling the shots. You can easily see this in game, with the high amount of Asian influence in visuals and design, as well as the countless similarities to Aion

LOL!

There is nothing "asian" about the visuals and design... If you want to see an MMO with "asian" graphics, go take a look at TERA, which looks vastly different from GW2.

[Shadylol]

LOL!

There is nothing "asian" about the visuals and design...

It is very distinctively Asian. Many of the Human faces are Asian, a lot of the environments look like an Asian game, the gear looks like Asian game gear, etc

This isn't a bad thing, just an observation

[rhinomatic]

It is very distinctively Asian. Many of the Human faces are Asian, a lot of the environments look like an Asian game, the gear looks like Asian game gear, etc

This isn't a bad thing, just an observation

Are you playing the same game as the rest of us?

The art is generally not Asian, and the parts of the game that are Asian are done so deliberately because there is an Asian-themed land in the GW universe.

[Durzlla]

It is very distinctively Asian. Many of the Human faces are Asian, a lot of the environments look like an Asian game, the gear looks like Asian game gear, etc

This isn't a bad thing, just an observation

HERPADER IDK ANYTHING SO I SAY IT R ASIAN!! ERRRR!

That's pretty much how you're sounding... The reason the humans have options for Asian faces is because you can be GASP canthan!! In other words Asian!!

As for the environments and armor... They look NOTHING like Asian armor, for starters females actually wear armor which tends to not happen in Asian games... Not to mention that the environment is not nearly as "anime" as a lot of Asian games, geez you people always confuse painterly design with Asian....

[Glytch]

HERPADER IDK ANYTHING SO I SAY IT R ASIAN!! ERRRR!

That's pretty much how you're sounding... The reason the humans have options for Asian faces is because you can be GASP canthan!! In other words Asian!!

As for the environments and armor... They look NOTHING like Asian armor, for starters females actually wear armor which tends to not happen in Asian games... Not to mention that the environment is not nearly as "anime" as a lot of Asian games, geez you people always confuse painterly design with Asian....

theres a MoP joke in there somewhere...

[DrakeWurrum]

This whole "asian artstyle" thing is just ridiculous in general. This artstyle that everybody calls "anime" is simply an art style that uses oversized eyes, in order to help convey a character's emotions more clearly to the audience. (often it also includes a mouth that can be extremely tiny one moment, and extremely head-consumingly large the next)
And while we're at it, let's just pretend in ignorance that EVERY anime does this, rather than all having their own unique art styles.

You want to know where anime got this idea from? You want to know where they got the inspiration for that from? These:


And even this cute little fella:


Rather specifically, American cartoons. The way human culture has grown over the years, there is nothing that exclusively belongs to one culture anymore. We're all exchanging ideas and inspiring new ones all around.

Now let's allow this silly off-topic discussion to die.

[Durzlla]

Those look nothing like, nor did that describe anime..... However the whole blending cultures part is true and where the inspiration came from is plausible...

[DrakeWurrum]

Those look nothing like, nor did that describe anime..... However the whole blending cultures part is true and where the inspiration came from is plausible...

No, they don't look exactly like anime. That's why it inspired anime, rather than anime copying it. If you pay attention to the art style involved, you will notice that the facial features, especially the eyes, are oversized - the heads are even ridiculously large - and therefore more expressive in regards to conveying emotion. The artist who is believed to have originated the "anime" style drew on those cartoons as inspiration, and went for even larger, more expressive facial features.
It's easier to notice this with Looney Tunes characters than Disney characters, I think, but you see what I'm getting at.

More to the point, and I'm too lazy to actually go screencap my in-game characters, the faces of my GW2 characters are all extremely realistic. Hell, on every single face, I've had to enlarge the eyes and reduce their squint, because I feel like I can't see the eyes at all. (especially on some Charr faces)

Asura are the only ones with over-sized eyes, but that's because they're meant to look similar to greys (hell, they're even pear-shaped!).

[Glytch]

No, they don't look exactly like anime. That's why it inspired anime, rather than anime copying it. If you pay attention to the art style involved, you will notice that the facial features, especially the eyes, are oversized - the heads are even ridiculously large - and therefore more expressive in regards to conveying emotion. The artist who is believed to have originated the "anime" style drew on those cartoons as inspiration, and went for even larger, more expressive facial features.
It's easier to notice this with Looney Tunes characters than Disney characters, I think, but you see what I'm getting at.

More to the point, and I'm too lazy to actually go screencap my in-game characters, the faces of my GW2 characters are all extremely realistic. Hell, on every single face, I've had to enlarge the eyes and reduce their squint, because I feel like I can't see the eyes at all. (especially on some Charr faces)

Asura are the only ones with over-sized eyes, but that's because they're meant to look similar to greys (hell, they're even pear-shaped!).

You probably want to explain what "the grays" are since not everyone knows that it means aliens

[Fencers]

Yea, guys. Stay on topic. Don't persist with this anime discussion.

--Fencers

[Glytch]

Yea, guys. Stay on topic. Don't persist with this anime discussion.

--Fencers

Threads already perma-railed once that one raider ran out of arguments and resorted to calling the game asian. Threads as good as locked now