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Guild Wars 2 Review Log 01: Make Yourself

Posted on Saturday, August 25 @ 19:59:36 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

I launched Guild Wars 2 last night thinking I would go in and really dig deep into the character creation, trying several options before ultimately settling on a face, a body shape, a hair style, and more. I thought I'd have to tweak things left and right, persistently inching ever closer to what I might find acceptable.

The truth of the matter is that acceptable was staring right into my eyes from the outset. The character models in Guild Wars 2 are drop-dead gorgeous, whether you're looking at the eye-patched mug of Jonathan_Leack's engineer or watching the shock white locks of my thief swish back and forth.

The Sylvari, Charr, and Asura maintain human-enough qualities to be likeable, all while boasting cartoonish features that speak volumes about their other-worldly nature. The humans and Norn look about as you'd expect them to, but all of these races share one common feature:

You really can't make them look ugly.

Messing around with the sliders will surely produce a monster of horrendous proportions, but this is a character you're going to be living as in Guild Wars 2. It's important to make the color, uniform, hair, all the way down to the nose look at least a little attractive. If not, good luck asking for a revive from your fellow adventurers.

Of course none of this speaks to the narrative options the Character Creator offers... which we'll get to in another review log.

Remember, GameRevolution's guild has rolled on Fort Aspenwood. Drop your display name in the comments or in this GW2 community thread and we'll send you an invite right away.

Related Games: Guild Wars 2

Tags: guild wars 2, ArenaNet, PC, MMO, NCSoft, Review Log

Comments

Jonathan_Leack
Joined: Jan 2012

Posted: Aug 25th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
Amen to that! This game is beautiful.

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Odasdo
Joined: Mar 2007

Posted: Aug 25th, 2012 at 9:47 pm
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DJJ.4576

Haven't had much time to play it, but it is freaking awesome! \o/

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drathbone
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Aug 25th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
It's funny this is the first thing posted (if not logically the first log). The other day I was at work (I work at a university) and they post big posters of studies that they do at the university. One of them was about the aesthetics of males/females in reference to social expectations. There was pictures of different levels of attractiveness and they were pictures of WoW characters. I'll take a picture and post in the forums if anybody cares.

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Bras
Joined: Jul 2008

Posted: Aug 25th, 2012 at 11:57 pm
I've seen some youtube videos of GW2 character creation and it's pretty deep, but the one thing I have yet to see is their counterpart to WoW's Tauren: big, imposing and funny as hell.

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Sourdeez
Joined: Feb 2012

Posted: Aug 26th, 2012 at 12:01 am
To busy playing to leave more comments.

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Lien
Joined: Feb 2008

Posted: Aug 26th, 2012 at 12:56 am
But... i WANT to make a ugly guy...

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sandineyes
Joined: May 2008

Posted: Aug 26th, 2012 at 5:24 am
So I assume that if one preorders now, then they won't be playing until the 28th? I honestly had little interest in this game until hearing about a GR guild and remembering the whole no subscription fee thing. But if I can't play now, then there are still two days to talk myself out of playing an MMO.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Aug 26th, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Yeah that'd be my assumption too, but don't talk yourself out of this one, especially because of the no-sub-fee.

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t1pz0r
Joined: May 2008

Posted: Aug 26th, 2012 at 9:37 am
I am really interested in this and the hype train GR has building is tempting me further. I have quite a bit on my plate right now already (DOTA 2, TF2: MvM, the everlasting Skyrim), is really that good? Don't wanna fall in to another KOTOR trap.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Aug 26th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
It is miles ahead of SWTOR. That said, I have yet to see any true end-game content (aside from what I was shown at the dev studio earlier this year).

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t1pz0r
Joined: May 2008

Posted: Aug 26th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Good to know, I ended up buying it and have it currently downloading whilst I'm at work. Hopefully will be on tonight!

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whytenoiz
Joined: Feb 2011

Posted: Aug 26th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
People need to get on here and join the GameRevolution Guild! We need you, Jade Quarry must be stopped in W v W!!

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