Well it looks like I'm back, to talk of one of my two most notable hobbies, and one of the cultures I consider myself a part of.

No, not tabletop Roleplaying right now, but rather, video games including roleplaying genres. Specifically the to-be-released-this-year (hopefully) online game Guild Wars 2, a game with a great development team behind it having been in the works for year as a partially experimental product, at least for the genre it is a part of.

For those lucky enough to have gotten into the early beta events of the game, or pre-bought the game and by doing so got into the most recent beta event over the past weekend, I am curious to your thoughts on the game. What have they done right? What have they done wrong? What do you hope will be changed by the actual release? What race or profession will you play first in the actual release?

Seriously, this game is... what, six years behind schedule? I fear Duke Nukemitis... they are SO far behind that no matter what they do, the game cannot possibly live up to the hype.

I loved Guild Wars, but I just don't see GW2 ever mattering.

Would love to give it a go. However I've got my hands full of other games like Skyrim, Dragon Age 2 and especially SWTOR and basically no free time to play any of them. Hence I'm afraid I'll have to skill GW2. :/