Guild Wars 2

The Guild Wars 2 blog contains a fresh new post penned by James Ackley and discusses a recent 'field trip' that the audio team took to a nearby nuclear power plant to record sounds for the game. The blog post comes with some informative text and a great video of the experience.

Our main objective of the day was to get impulse responses to use later as big and very different reverbs. The idea of an impulse response is pretty simple: you make noise (a hand clap, starter pistol, tone sweeps) in an appropriate environment, record it, then use software to recreate that space in a reverb plug-in so you can get that specific reverb back whenever you want. It’s pretty fun and amazingly accurate these days. We had some big PA speakers hooked up, and we also brought a lot of random sounds to blast out in these spaces and “re-record” as well.

In his latest Guild Wars 2 column, MMORPG.com's David North divines the future for the game and how he believes the developers can keep the game solid for players when it comes to content and patch updates. Check out what David has to say and then let us know how you think the GW2 team can 'keep the game solid' as its future rolls on in the comments.

When a game gets a major update it is either a large patch or an expansion that comes with a lot more content, which means new enemies. In the original Guild Wars campaigns, the story took place in different parts of the world, each with its own environment and new enemies. There were a few types of creatures that would be seen in multiple campaigns, but in many games they will just take a good bit of old creatures and change their color scheme, add a new thing or two to the model and call it new content. This is unacceptable in my opinion.

Read more of David North's Guid Wars 2: Keeping the Game Solid.

I don’t care if it makes us look Godly, or goofy, please keep those costumes coming!

During the recently held Eurogamer Expo, MMORPG.com's own Ross McDermott took time out from his EVE Online empire to check it out. He had the opportunity to get his hands on the Guild Wars 2 demo and to take a look at PvP. Check out Ross's thoughts about the Eurogamer Expo, PvP and Guild Wars 2. Let us know your impressions in the comments.

Right away myself and my associate Velyks set about scanning-down and locating the Guild Wars 2 play areas. When stepping into the building a giant banner read 'Play Guild Wars 2 here!' and even though we wandered around it in circles, for the life of us we couldn't find them. We wandered aimlessly for several minutes before, somewhere at the back of the hall; we saw the elegant, creative Guild Wars 2 logo summon us from our daze. Eagerly like school children we skipped, merry as poppets through the crowds, delightfully trouncing other gamers in our wake, standing on feet and making merry in the mayhem.

Read more of Ross McDermott's Guild Wars 2: Eurogamer Expo and PVP.

A couple of weeks ago, the Guild Wars 2 team revealed much more information about the tiny guys of the game, the Asura. In today's Guild Wars 2 column, MMORPG.com's David North takes a look at the Asura and how the dev team came to the 'look'. Check out David's thoughts and then add a few of your own in the comments.

The race-themed weeks ArenaNet has been giving us have been a real treat. They gave us some additional insight into the different races, allowing us players to fine tune our plans to create our characters. I for one will be playing a Charr as my main, but I plan to have a few alts, as any self-respecting MMOer might. One of them I plan to play is an Asura, which is the topic of the day. His name will be Amuro. He rides in a golem he calls Gundam. It will be awesome. Mark my words.

Read more of David North's Guild Wars 2: The Asura from a Bookah’s View.

The final installment of all things Asura has appeared on the official Guild Wars 2 blog. This time, the lore behind each of the unique aspects that make the Asura who they are is spotlighted. Topics include:

• The Colleges of Statics, Synergetics and Dynamics
• Krewes
• The Arcane Council
• Primordus

Each section comes with a nice piece of lore as well.

Read "That Old College Try" on the Guild Wars 2 blog.