Q&A with Guild Wars 2 Art Director Daniel Dociu

[vengadorsky]

This guy has the most mazing environment art ever...

[CinerousArt]

you should check out his amazing artworks this guy is amazing

[terorvlad]

Never tought father grigori is romaniam when I first saw him :)).

[Osmund16]

his art is amazing. just google him guys, and tace a picture in full size! THATS art.

[stormplatipus]

Yeah he worked on half life 2 so they based father grigor on his face

[MEneifal]

Daniel is the men!

[TheVisualOtaku]

Mr. Dociu, give me two more years and I'm gonna build a "Kick ass" portfolio.

[lucaddragon]

Daniel I hope to meet you someday and give me some tips!!

Peace.

[ploothable]

@lucaddragon Tips as in that you're poor, or what?

Naaaah, just joking. He is a very experienced and talented artist and so is his son. I think he had a lot of influence on Kekai's art style.

[lucaddragon]

@ploothable haha! well as an art student, i'm not rich - not yet at least! :)

Yeah Daniel is really a great artist, and his son Horia is definitely another great artist. Kekai has definitely been influenced by Daniel- working with him every day.

[utjonny10]

I was too busy playing the demo during this interview! whoohooo :D

[snois2]

I love this guy who's answering.

He's just so natural awesome on some way and a cool voice :D:D:D

[SomethingGoodOrBad]

"Happy locations." Lol, that made me lol.

[SomethingGoodOrBad]

This guy gives great answers.

[Keolol]

Romania matha fucka! Sunt mandru ca sunt roman, bravo Daniel Dociu.

[MEneifal]

His artwork is amazing! One of the talentest guy in the industry ! xD

[Smico85]

oh...and I wouldn't be so sure about great (!) balanced PvP being not that expensive. If you want to keep a standard, you have to constantly adjust the gameplay to the players habits - and test everything with a big krewe before launching it.

Of course you don't have to...but you were talking about _great balanced_ PvP.

[joonis93]

FATHER GRIGORI!

[yyt19]

i'm so happy abought Guild Wars 2 it makes me want to cry

[ste8Utube]

@TheRobin1232 Im not saying remove all PvE i just want their focus to be on PVP and not just making leveling amazing ( im all up for making leveling fun but not at the cost of max level gameplay) They are not going to be able to compete in PVE content with WoW and thats just fact but making skillfull,balanced great pvp game does not require the money/time as Pve does because like i said PVE is designed for you to win in the end and so you need more and more content updates for people.

[Smico85]

@ste8Utube It's not a fact that GW2 won't be able to compete with WoWs PvE, it's your opinion. You're maybe right if you're talking about the huge masses of monotone content you're buried with. In the constantly changing and reshaping world of GW2 you a) won't need content updates because you can always experience something new in the same places and b) won't have an "end" of a story, it just continues.

But I'm confident, that there will be (just like in GW1) Content-Updates in GW2.

[ste8Utube]

@Smico85 Would be nice but i doubt it will scratch WoWs hardcore PVE raiding player  base.

[Atomic91]

@ste8Utube I agree. I doubt it will take players from world of warcraft. But I think it will bring back people who just got tired of mmorpgs for what it was.

[Atomic91]

@ste8Utube On another note. Guild Wars 2 is unique in its own way because arenanet has this trend of not doing what everyone else is doing. They're not following the typical design most mmorpgs have nowadays trying to look up to big brother WoW. They're doing their own "thing", removing a lot of what gamers hate about mmorpgs, ignoring WoW. And you know what? They're doing pretty well.

[ste8Utube]

@Atomic91 Hope so because i want this game so bad and i don't want to be disappointed :)

[JoopOMG]

He's a liiitle bit nervous lol.

[ste8Utube]

@TheRobin1232 Unlucky because the reason why online games are so big is because of the competitive PVP gameplay. I also doubt that because GW1 being a pretty pvp oriented game that the makers of GW2 will forget about PvP. Lets face it, all the people who say they hate PVP suck at PVP! and don't like the fact they aren't playing a scripted fight designed for them to win in the end. FACT.

On another note, has anyone got any links to Asura gameplay?

[JDStevens92]

Father Grigori is an awesome guy

[Hoobajubba12]

@JDStevens92 did he really play father grigori cus he looks just like him?

[ste8Utube]

I really hope GW2 sticks to its PvP focus and just improves it and maybe even has MLG tournaments or something like that.

RpG is nice for leveling and such but at the end of the day all i wana do is Pwn people while looking badass. pwning NPCs just aint as fun...

[Tr0nc3k]

@ste8Utube GW2 will be both PvE and PvP focused. A lot more PvE focused then GW1 of course, since it's a full fletched MMO this time around.

[ste8Utube]

@Tr0nc3k Sounds great adding more PvE but i just hope they don't slack on making amazing max level PvP just to make leveling less boring because at the end of the day Max level gameplay is all that matters and WoW has shown that with the most brain numbing leveling you can think of.

[diefje]

@ste8Utube PvPers don't care about max level. :P Joining into organized PvP 1 minute after you create your character is where the fun's at.

But ya, I'm more of a competitive gamer myself. They better make the PvP full of action and skill-dependent, rather than gear or build dependent. I enjoy some challenging high-end PvE too though.