Guild Wars 2 footage features Charr

Published 21 April, 2011 Duration 1:36

NCSoft shows their MM-Meow.

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  • Nasty #1 1 year ago

    Why is it everything grand and fantasy-y has to have the big LOTR trombone music threse days. Some NIN/Ministry style stuff would work perfectly with the aesthetic their trying to put across for this race. Apart from that ....ooooooooooh nice.

  • ChthonicEcho #2 1 year ago

    Didn't know LoTR invented trombone music.

  • Alatair #3 1 year ago

    It's because NIN would be shit. But in all seriousness it gives you a touchstone, I immediately felt the same atmosphere as when the Urik- Hai (spelling?) were unveiled beneath Isengard. I must say this game looks great from a graphics perspective however, don't know if my laptop could handle it but that's what free trials are for.

  • dfinit #4 1 year ago

    I'm following the news about GW2. There is a hope I have to be (re)marveled like I was when discovered WoW, which I quit quite a while ago. While their ideas seem rich and fertile and the visual design is lead by one of the best around (Dociu), I’m afraid they won’t be able to rightful mix in the “je ne sais pas quoi”, the sublime essence. The invisible substance creating the very special cohesion and coherence that makes you dive… The music must be right!

    (Almost) nobody talks about it when reviews are done. It’s such a sensitive and personal matter and thus hard to enounce absolute qualifications. It’s the “artiest” part of a game finally and very often too easily handled by the design team. Too much focus on the visual. But all games that kept perennial traces in our stressed brains had a good cohesion between visual and music.

    Played WoW for 2 years when launched, then I stopped. I enjoyed it quite a lot. And although I follow news about it with a little nostalgia, there is not much left from the initial taste. But the original soundtrack… I still enjoy it as moments of intense pleasure. It revives the magic. It revives the very complex aroma of the world as I experienced it. Go listen Dun Morogh and you’ll understand.

    There is no use to mention here the studies done about multi-sensorial experience.
    Most of the games lack imagination and inspiration when it comes to the soundtrack while putting around tons of visual blasts. But the music is the very element appealing to a second sense and thus uplifting your experience from a brainwash to a… better brainwash: a multi-sensory experience.

    If this mixture is well designed, nothing can stop this game to be a chef d’oeuvre. So please, do your homework and don’t use NIN.

  • hiddenranbir #5 1 year ago

    Really that just tells you how much of an impact the LOTR music had, but that doesn't mean they are being imitated. Hell, LoTR ripped from typical classic epic sounds from decades earlier.

  • c0Zm1c #6 1 year ago

    While I don't mind a bit of NIN it, and anything like it, has absolutely no place in a game such as this.

    I was so happy when I read that Jeremy Soule was back to do the music for this sequel. His music for the first game is just fantastic.

  • Smugglarn #7 1 year ago

    Never got the Charr. A fire worshipping race of FURRY beasts?

    Seems like that idea should have ended in a blaze some time ago.