An expansion for Guild Wars 2
A new chapter unfolds in Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure, the fourth expansion for the award-winning MMORPG Guild Wars 2. Soar through the skies to combat the strange and otherworldly forces emerging through rifts to devastate Tyria. The adventure continues through three major story and content releases to follow. A self-contained story with its own resolution will play out at launch. Later releases will seamlessly pick up where the launch arc concluded and tell the rest of the expansion's story. Additional features and updates across the game are planned for release every quarter.
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Fun expansion to return to Guild Wars 2 with after missing out on the past couple story arcs with the living world. Feels like a relatively clean slate story-wise and introduces some exciting characters and varied zones. Intriguing story so far as well!
WAYFINDER. IT'S TIME WE THROW OPEN HEITOR'S GATE.
It's more GW2, it's fine. Nothing groundbreaking, but the new zones are pretty & weaponmaster training opens up some fun new options. Writing is a solid B-; has the same issues as EOD, which is 'writing team apparently sees so much turnover they never pick up old story threads, constantly leave stuff open for later content to pick up on it and nothing ever does, and then some things happen that really deserved cinematics but without them have no emotional impact'. Marks a transition to a new (& ideally more consistent) content release schedule, but we're still not really into that at the time of writing this review.
I wouldn't recommend buying it if you're on the fence about GW2, but if you're a consistent player and/or have the other expansions, yeah, go ahead and get it. It's fine. There's wizards. If they were braver they would've given Dagda a buff body instead of Female Norn rig but Peitha's there and I like her.
It's more GW2, it's fine. Nothing groundbreaking, but the new zones are pretty & weaponmaster training opens up some fun new options. Writing is a solid B-; has the same issues as EOD, which is 'writing team apparently sees so much turnover they never pick up old story threads, constantly leave stuff open for later content to pick up on it and nothing ever does, and then some things happen that really deserved cinematics but without them have no emotional impact'. Marks a transition to a new (& ideally more consistent) content release schedule, but we're still not really into that at the time of writing this review.
I wouldn't recommend buying it if you're on the fence about GW2, but if you're a consistent player and/or have the other expansions, yeah, go ahead and get it. It's fine. There's wizards. If they were braver they would've given Dagda a buff body instead of Female Norn rig but Peitha's there and I like her.
woah, half the content for almost the same price? what a bargain! don't bother. the released strikes are shit, the zones are boring, metas are boring and weapon mastery shit threw wrench into the game's balance making everything powercreeped to the point where you won't be able to keep up without it.