Guild Wars 2 beta, your impressions

[Sinderlin]

SlutWalk Tyria 2012!

[Timofee]

I wish we could remove the social stigma that dressing up in a certain way means the character looks like a stripper or a whore and instead just looks beautiful.

You seem to be confusing being beautiful with wearing no clothes.

[Winged Nazgul]

You seem to be confusing being beautiful with wearing no clothes.

Guilty as charged. I confess I find the naked female form to be beautiful.

[R-F]

Guilty as charged. I confess I find the naked female form to be beautiful.

You dirty woman lover you. >:|

[Tei]

My opinion about the game:

Everything good people said about GW2 was true. Is a progressive game that implement real changes on the old MMO model, most of then (all?) are wellcome changes, that remove the bad things from playing a mmo. The bad news is that is still a classic mmo. And I have enjoyed more other games, like Rift or Warhammer, for some reason... But GW2 will be the best of his type, the day it release. I plan to play the free month and try to get anything from the pvp, too bad on my quick visits to pvp I was utterly destroyed.

[Winged Nazgul]

I plan to play the free month

You're getting a lot more than just a free month with GW2.

[Nalano]

You're getting a lot more than just a free month with GW2.

What he said. GW2 is not a sub-based MMO.

I wish we could remove the social stigma that dressing up in a certain way means the character looks like a stripper or a whore and instead just looks beautiful. But then, I also wish hardcore muslims would stop thinking the same thing of women not dressed in burqas. So, it's probably not going to happen anytime soon.

It's not about what the women should or should not wear. Bikinis and burqas are two sides of the same coin. It's about not being pigeon-holed into preconceptions. If all you have is stripper gear, that's feeding a preconception. If all you have are nun habits, that's feeding a preconception. To take two salient quotes from the Rift thread I linked earlier,

APB's sliders, for all of their awesomeness, were really constrained on the females. Men could go from muscle head to emo guy to obese to ironman big body types. Women got to go from skinny to bony skinny to a muscular size 9 to a pudgy size 9. Sucked more than little to see that not only could I not make a fat female avatar, but that size 9 (my size) was considered analogous to an obesity on a man. And we wonder why women have so many body issues.

Although I'm not particularly offended by peoples request for larger breasts (too each his own...) I can't help but find it irritating when some people have such a twisted, mutated view of what a normal healthy woman should look like!

I'm also curious as to why some people believe this is purely a thread about customization options? Some people did derail it that way, but it was actually a thread asking dev's to FIX what they consider the poorly done and "guy-like" female models.

[R-F]

But GW2 will be the best of his type, the day it release. I plan to play the free month and try to get anything from the pvp, too bad on my quick visits to pvp I was utterly destroyed.

I think you failed to grasp one of the main attractions of Guild Wars.

EDIT: By the way, the reason most forum goers don't understand wtf female breasts are meant to look like is because they've never seen them apart from under a top and in porn, neither of which end up looking anything like 99% of the real thing.

[Tei]

Sorry, I am dense today. I know is free 2 play (I owns, and I have played GW1).

What I mean is that I will not play longer than 30 days, because with about 80 hours I will have enough of this game.

[Nalano]

EDIT: By the way, the reason most forum goers don't understand wtf female breasts are meant to look like is because they've never seen them apart from under a top and in porn, neither of which end up looking anything like 99% of the real thing.

It extends to outfits, too, tho. Sometimes I wonder if these people realize that the kinda shit that would be salacious in a night club or shit that might be considered fetish gear ain't the kinda shit people wear on a regular basis.

[Spider Jerusalem]

EDIT: By the way, the reason most forum goers don't understand wtf female breasts are meant to look like is because they've never seen them apart from under a top and in porn, neither of which end up looking anything like 99% of the real thing.

*gasp*

you've seen...real boobs?

[NathanH]

It extends to outfits, too, tho. Sometimes I wonder if these people realize that the kinda shit that would be salacious in a night club or shit that might be considered fetish gear ain't the kinda shit people wear on a regular basis.

I broadly agree with you old chap, but I can't help but think you haven't been on a night out in Northeast England...

[R-F]

It extends to outfits, too, tho. Sometimes I wonder if these people realize that the kinda shit that would be salacious in a night club or shit that might be considered fetish gear ain't the kinda shit people wear on a regular basis.

Ah, but Nalano. You're forgetting the all important rule.

"IT'S FANTASY!"

Clearly that excuses everything, including sensible world design, an actual history in the game and such.

*gasp*

you've seen...real boobs?

No but my friend has and he said they're a disappointment and to stick to the vaseline and 2TB of porn on my PC.

[Nalano]

I broadly agree with you old chap, but I can't help but think you haven't been on a night out in Northeast England...

Pfft. Webster Hall is clothing-optional.

[Tei]

What I don't understand is how New York have time to rebuild after all these attacks, Godzilla, Loki, ...

[Nalano]

What I don't understand is how New York have time to rebuild after all these attacks, Godzilla, Loki, ...

Godzilla? That was Tokyo. We had King Kong. And he didn't even knock a building down.

[Hanban]

I broadly agree with you old chap, but I can't help but think you haven't been on a night out in Northeast England...

I have. It was terrifying.

[Tei]

Then what about that huge monster, cloverfield?

[apricotsoup]

The 1998 Godzilla film was set in New York.

I understand most people have (justifiably) wiped this abomination from their minds, but there is evidence the film existed :]

[Rii]

I wish we could remove the social stigma that dressing up in a certain way means the character looks like a stripper or a whore and instead just looks beautiful.

... and the social stigma against strippers and whores?