While the boiling heat of summer is finally starting to wind down, there remain patchy areas of barren land in various MMOs. Today's scorching, sandy
Guild Wars image was sent in to us by regular Massively commenter, Ecofudge. In the lands of
Guild Wars: Prophecies, Eco travels under a different name, as described in the note that came with this broad landscape shot:
My main Character, Arcadia Kempatchi, on one of many journeys in the Crystal Desert. Looking upon the land, I venture, hoping to stop by the oasis for a drink. Home of the Forgotten and Enchanted. [It is] full of ruins and remnants of ancient structures, not allowing humans to colonize through the ages. In the Scar of the Desert, large gorges marble their way through the dunes, making it a natural labyrinth.If you've caught a breathtaking vista during your travels, we'd love to see it. Feel free to tell us more in-character as well! Just email it to
oneshots AT massively DOT com along with your name and the name of the game. We'll post it up here for everyone to check out and give you the credit.
Aug 13th 2009 at 2:00PM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Keen said on 2:18PM 8-13-2009
Quite beautiful. A shame that it's not an actual open world. Removes the "MM" and leaves it just a ORPG.
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Arkanaloth said on 2:49PM 8-13-2009
I assure you it's quite Massive.... run from Ascalon City (post-searing) to Lions Arch sometime. :P
As far as Multiplayer, the difference with GW is there's a ton of players, but the game gives you the ability to interact as much or as little with the other players as you wish. You can always find someone LFG in various mission outposts and I've seen more than my fair share of invites running missions.
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CindyL said on 3:09PM 8-13-2009
I'm always astounded at the scenery shots of Guild Wars, every time I see one on Massively I'm like what game is this from? And feel ridiculous when I realize it's GW XD
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Tom said on 3:14PM 8-13-2009
GW is a beautiful and fun game. Even the crystal desert, after all these years, looks better than much more recent additions to WoW, imo.
If I could have changed any two aspects of GW, it would have been:
(1) Decrease the maximum party size to 4 or 5 (8 is just too many)
(2) Allow players to switch (in outposts) between "open" (persistent, no heroes or henches) or "closed" (instanced, heroes/henches) modes, with the regions then scaled appropriately depending on the mode chosen
Those two changes would have, imo, made GW just about perfect.
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Amana said on 9:16PM 8-13-2009
I'm a big GW fan also, but particularly of the soundtrack.
Jeremy Soule is kind of like the 'John Williams of games'.. =)
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starmonkey said on 6:29AM 8-14-2009
Then who's Jesper Kyd? :)
Amana said on 7:02AM 8-14-2009
Oh - I definitely think JK is extremely talented, and whilst he hasn't been awarded nearly as many times has he's been nominated, the accolades are well deserved nonetheless.
For me, however, he's not in the same league as my aforementioned gentlemen; by any stretch.
Each to their own though, of course.
=)