Guild Wars 2 media gets a bit hairy

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  Looks nice - I never played GW1 - any good? : re-verse
  • I enjoyed it. The dual-class system that they had was pretty cool. I had needed a break from WoW so I pic... : Nerdsbeware
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    Yes but flawed, GW2 is significantly different : derelict515
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      I agree on the flawed part. Soloing was tough-ish unless you had a particular expansion, I forget the na... : Rotten Deadite
      • Not really, the PvP blows away another other MMO on the market. : Wisp!
  • A nice alternative from WoW, but PvE was a pain until Heroes came along. GW2 should have some nice refin... : chiisu81
• =O damn that looks good. : ssj4megaman
• I wish they had included a clip of the transformation / available forms. I'm curious. : LoioshDwaggie
• GW1 was a ton of fun for me, though it was one of the few games that i had a handful of friends that play... : NGFodder
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  I'm really liking the 720p videos. Jaggies be gone. : TylerJSmith
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    Our new video process and player is gorgeous. : XAVdeMATOS
    • Yes, thank you very much. The Shack really needed this pretty badly. I always hated having to go somewh... : mastermike569
    • the player controls disappear when you go fullscreen :( : aeg1x
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      Any way to get rid of age gates when logged in and auto stream the 720p video? : ant_hillbilly
      • Also how come there isn't any controls when in full screen mode? It's annoying when you want to skip ahe... : ant_hillbilly
    • Hmm. I click play, then 720p, then full screen and it's jaggie-city. : sixfoot6
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      A suggestion/gripe- No controls on mouse-over while fullscreened. If you want to adjust volume or pause o... : rodneystubbs
      • Also, spacebar doesn't pause, which should be the default. : rodneystubbs
      • Yeah this is my one gripe. : Dontdrop
    • I'm pretty happy with it. I went from never watching videos on Shacknews to, well, watching videos on Sha... : singlespace
    • I do like it better than the old version, but I wish it had controls in full screen and a pop out option. : Bruzilla
  • I was just about to say the opposite =/ - There's no way it's 720p. Lots of compression artifacts. ... : dpgagnon
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  My one fervent wish is that this game won't throw away all the really unique design decisions they made in the first one in favor of becoming WoW 2.

  Feb 24, 2011 11:28am PST
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  My one fervent wish is that this game won't throw away all the really unique design decisions they made i... : Zek
  • Have you been following much of the design process they've been blogging about. I don't play a lot of wo : Agrona
• Someone make the give me a beta invitation now, plzkthxbye : InfoBiter
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  I just hope the focus is still the WAR part of the game. Very little has been said about the PvP and whi... : Defacil
  • Welcome to the club. Every current pvper in GW is currently worried GW2 is gonna turn into WoW2 with shit... : pantsburgh
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  One word, Vapor Ware. : nientiendo
  • What does this mean? The developers have always delivered. : Discrete
  • They just revealed it to early and are taking their sweet ass time. : shortbuscaptain
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    Vapor Ware with constant media updates and fresh news arriving weekly/monthly? Oh ok. So it was pushed ... : Zips
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      DNF : Nighteyes
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        What about it? It's coming out in May. : Zips
        • 0wned : LoioshDwaggie
        • Sweet so only 9 more years on this! : Nighteyes
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    That's two words. : Frozen Pixel
    • Hahahaha : Rotten Deadite
    • I like this : Nehvrook
    • While technically a contraction is one word, it does represent That and Is so I guess you're right. : fletch_
    • bahahahaha : virus
    • lol this post is full of win : trOmblyj
  • lol no. : Johnnsen
  • Do you even know what that word means? : The Grolar Bear
  • front page poster delivers exactly as promised : cptstern
  • One word: troll. I took my little cousins to ArenaNet to play the game. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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  what is this new pegi thing? : StolenNosferatu
  • European equivalent of the ESRB. : dpgagnon
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  Pretty good boob physics. Have they said whether there will be a jump button? I played a trial of GW1... : rodneystubbs
  • I'm pretty sure they've said it, but if not here's your hot scoop: you can jump. : Agrona
  • Yes, in gameplay videos the players were jumping around. : Johnnsen
• looks very pretty... Arena Net have this knack of making their world look very beautiful, first time i pl... : surferosh