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
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    By: dpgagnon x Show Full Post

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    I was just about to say the opposite =/
    
    - There's no way it's 720p. Lots of compression artifacts.
    - Fullscreen widescreen is still letterboxed
    - No fullscreen controls.
    
    Oh well, at least it's embedded in the page now...

    Feb 25, 2011 8:00am PST
    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 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