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TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-07-24 05:02
Discounting the personal story part, which race's intro cinematic is your favorite?
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Kueh wrote on 2012-07-24 05:06
If you mean the stylized slideshow that shows just before the tutorial section of the personal story, I don't really like any of them.
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TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-07-24 05:21
I like the Norn one. Human is ok, rest not so much
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Kueh wrote on 2012-07-24 05:23
I just dislike the narrative style.
"I am X, I am Y, I am Z, I am [Race]"
I would feel much more inclined to watch them after having played the character for a while, so that I have the chance to embody those elements myself. When they throw all those ambient personal traits around right off the bat, I can't help but skip it.
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BlackCat9 wrote on 2012-07-24 07:15
They were all okay I guess. I've played the Human and Charr too many times on the previous beta weekends.. where as the Asura and Sylvari were fresh and new so it's a little too hard to pick.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-07-24 09:29
I can't really choose myself. They were all rather okay. None of them had me super excited. The catacombs cutscene on the other hand with Rytlock's voice...now that got me excited :D
[video=youtube;X5VvfGAJPR4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5VvfGAJPR4&list=UU0DhyKcWbaXmDU7XfOKMXRQ&index=4&feature=plcp[/video]
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BlackCat9 wrote on 2012-07-24 11:59
Quote from Kingofrunes;916571:
I can't really choose myself. They were all rather okay. None of them had me super excited. The catacombs cutscene on the other hand with Rytlock's voice...now that got me excited :D
[SPOILER="Spoiler"][video=youtube;X5VvfGAJPR4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5VvfGAJPR4&list=UU0DhyKcWbaXmDU7XfOKMXRQ&index=4&feature=plcp[/video][/SPOILER]
Nice video, lucky you had a decent party T__T I tried it with couple 30's and an 18, two people lost connection and we were left with 3 of us to beat the gatekeeper.. man that hurt my funds.
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Rin wrote on 2012-07-24 20:07
They're nice to watch the first time around. I didn't appreciate them much until I read the developer's reason why this and that are there for the intro.
I'm still enamored by the charr intro. Mostly because having played the first Guild Wars, it's cool for me to see their perspective on things and on humans.
Also, charr intro is the only one I know of that has actual killing in it. Blood Legion's section has a brutal feel.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-07-24 21:50
I'm more of an Ash Legion kind of guy frankly. "Nice and Quiet like", rather than rushing in with guns blazing.