Exploring Divinity's Reach (Guild Wars 2 - Gamescom 2011)

[nylxlol]

what's the name of the first piano song in the video?

[Videoboy45]

BETA WEEKEND!!! Can't wait for new footage!

[Dellcrw]

Capital cities are NOT instanced except for a small part. They are part of what Arenanet calls, a "persistant" and open world. You can run from a questing location and enter a city. However, a small portion of the city is dedicated for the player and is called a "home instance." This part of the city contains elements relating to your character's personal story. So bottom line, this city is not instanced except for the home instance.

[Hentz3]

Pretty fucking amazing music. God damn...

[amendirr]

The capitals in GW2 look..... BIG :O

[69lol69]

world pvp can go into the city?

[2ane]

guess you deserve a thumbs up for wasting your complete demo-time for making a video of one city.

[MrSlingdad]

And now for the big question, can you jump?

[kiNgToMoDo]

@MrSlingdad And now for my big question, how is your eyesight?

[Covinus03]

@MrSlingdad Sure can, and you can roll to dodge in any direction as well. =)

[Grougal]

Why can't this town be open world? Ok, I get that this town is reaaally huge (so genius *g*), but why can't it be open world? Because of laggs? I don't think so... Hurrhmm.. Q.q

[LZWiscons91]

@Grougal This town is open world...

[Grougal]

@LZWiscons91 No it is not. When you try to enter the town from the outside, there will be a loading screen. That is just like the outposts in guild wars 1 are.^^

[LZWiscons91]

@Grougal open world = non-instanced. Divinity's Reach is a zone separate from the rest of the World, but it exists for all players which makes it open world.

[Grougal]

@LZWiscons91 No, for me open world means complete freedom. I would not go as far as to describe the towns and outposts in guild wars 1 as "open world"; because there is the word "world" in it. A town that has to load again and again has nothing do to with a "open world"

[Gnarlsthe23rd]

This music is.... so fucking good...

[ultimedman]

sooo jelly

[oBLACKIECHANoo]

This looks amazing, but the size of the cities will probably get really annoying after a while. Seriously, they pretty much did nothing but run for 20 minutes and still didn't explore the whole city, I really hope they keep everything important in 1 area, otherwise it would just be retarded.

[Videoboy45]

@oBLACKIECHANoo There will be waypoints within the city, so you won't have to run everywhere- you can easily travel to other portals/waypoints in the city :D.

[RonicBeatsz]

@Shitsocash this character only had 300 hp, which made a fall have a higer impact than it would do to higher leveled players obviously, anyway I'll be doing a million suicide jumps!!

[RonicBeatsz]

I have never.. witnessed.. a place.. so... GIGANTIC... I had my expectations.. BUT THIS!!! NEEERDDGAASSMMMM

[ByeByeAnotherDay]

@Shitsocash

Because in Guild Wars, and in Guild Wars 2 aswell, everything isn't aesthetic only: bridges and platforms have a strategical aspect to it, and your position really affects gameplay. If there was nothing preventing you from jumping down, it wouldn't be the same. In other MMOs, various heights tend to serve no purpose at all.

Though it IS stupid to lose HP in cities, ANET tends to listen to intelligent requests, and this will be fixed.

Also: DAT FUCKING HUGE CITY.

[cheeseit126]

the music... is SO BEAUTIFUL ;_;

[C4uSt1CO]

@Shitsocash

It's obviously for balance reasons. If your kneecaps were able to withstand any amount of force, then what good would asuran warriors and guardians be?

[shadowcrazy]

stopped at 1:30 ....I can't keep looking at all this awesome and seeing as how it takes 20 minutes to apparently traverse the entire map....day one purchase

[nicotinefist]

WHAT THE FUCK? THEY MADE AN ACTUAL CITY SIZED CITY! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHY CAN'T I STOP CUMMING

[Videoboy45]

GW2 is just pure art. PURE ART. I cannot wait.

[bunchups]

The music is SO great! sounds kinda like Tori Amos' early work. Really looking forward to GW2 :)

[timothy0098]

whats the name on the screen?! it has a beautiful picture :)

[fangslayer]

hey man just outta curiosity where did you get the music (esp at the beginning). Are they from the game, or elsewhere? thanks! =D

[amolino3]

@fangslayer Yes, they are from the game! You can check my GW2 Soundtrack playlist in my channel ;)

[Desm0ndL0ugh]

I really hope this game wont be a let down, im so excited for its release :)

[Oblivius33]

Sweet mother of mercy...

[Makhiel]

Man, I am going to spend months just walking around the cities.

On additional note: Hide & Seek anyone? :)

[etpark5]

@Makhiel hide and seek was the first thing that came to mind while watching this.

[Eudae55]

Thanks for posting this I've been looking for the city tours. Now where can I find footage of Hoelbrak?

[tolgon]

DR is the human capital, Hoebrak is the Norn capital.

[felixdave3]

Male Norn Warrior Over Here

[keenanmorrison]

DR looks so cool I almost reconsidered starting off with a Norn character

[Azlaier]

This is awesome! Thanks for uploading!

[JohnRoads]

I can't watch this.... It will just make me want it so much more...

[BloodyEyes91]

19:30 FFFFFUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK­KKK

[kramt28]

At 8:23 she was scratching her head of disbelief that after roaming for more than 8 minutes, she still has to explore more than half of Divinity's Reach (human's starting area). Heh!

[hUMERETURNs]

Too... beautiful...cannot..stop...wat­ching...must...eat...body...dy­ing...of...the...pretty

[hUMERETURNs]

@hUMERETURNs Seriously though, its like Da Vinci designed the city, the colours, lighting, designs, atmosphere, reminds me of his dream backdrops, (see Mona Lisa for eg.). Nice use of Soule too, ive had this one a continuous loop since i found it.

[Sweny60]

my god

[DarkMatterDj]

This will be the #1 MMO.

Is this games musical score being done by Clint Mansel??

[amolino3]

@DarkMatterDj Nop, Jeremy Soule ;)

[DarkMatterDj]

He does an amazing Final Fantasy 6 (Tera) orchestrated version at ocremix.org

[Covinus03]

@amolino3 Who happens to do all the best video game music, he really does :)

[JustinMakesVideos]

If you asked me if this was an american or Korean (asian) mmo just judging by this video and I knew nothing about GW I'd say this was definitely Korean. I don't like the art style and in fact I haven't liked any of the art styles of any mmo I've seen to be honest. One day someone will get it right. Do like how good the graphics look for GW though.

[Kevlord22]

@JustinMakesVideos You are right.The art style is really like that. I dont like those mostly, but i somehow really like it in gw2. As long as they won't have swords that are like 3 times larger them me, its cool :D

[ronan32]

@JustinMakesVideos

looks european to me America doesn't have castles :)

[Videoboy45]

@JustinMakesVideos I actually like it. Looks more european to me xD

[AenimaJoe]

@JustinMakesVideos

Arena Net is an American company.

GW2 does have Asian (Canthan) character models and presets available for those who prefer more Asian-looking characters though as well as more.. African/Tribal (Elonian). If the art style was more "Korean" you'd definitely see more overused anime hairstyles everywhere with metal bikinis, thongs, and skimpy clothes as armor for females.

See TERA if you prefer that kind of "art style."

[JustinMakesVideos]

@AenimaJoe I'm aware ArenaNet is an American company however, their parent company NCsoft is a Korean company. So I'm assuming this means GW2 will launch in Korea as well as America. So the art style from what I've seen has been a compromise for both markets. Basically I dislike the "art style" but don't get me wrong, I'm blown away by the environments. The male humans in particular are not my favorite. That said most MMO's with multiple humanoid races the humans don't look as appealing imo.

[Videoboy45]

@JustinMakesVideos For some reason, I really like this art style. I feel like it's a change from all the AION + TERA etc. art. I feel like it's more European (Greek and Roman) in a way. Maybe that's just me. Also, yeah they definitely compromised. If you remember Korea G-Star's Guild Wars 2 presentation, character outfits and options were much more delineated- they pretty much looked a lot more anime.

[CJI517]

@Videoboy45 Well its not like you cant make a Asian character in Guild Wars 1.. Everything in the G Star demo is how the game will be.. So Arena Net didn't compromise anything..

[Videoboy45]

@CJI517 Eh, okay. Can't wait to see you guys in game in a few months!

[Kevlord22]

Other capital cities are as large as this? or this is kinda of a main city?

[supercinos21]

@Kevlord22 This is supposedly the smallest of the 6 cities.

This is also just the Human city. You have 4 other race specific cities, plus Lion's Arch which is for every race.

[testingphase]

What's the beginning piano tune from?

[CrackenMusic]

@testingphase the music from the gw2 gamescom trailer. Probably by Jeremy Soule.

[kramt28]

@CrackenMusic Yes Jeremy Soule composed that song

[TheVincenthwind]

It's.....so big.

[TheSWTORMMO]

This is one of the best songs I've ever heard.

[kramt28]

@TheSWTORMMO Courtesy of Jeremy Soule sir

[Mohal13]

I've got a feeling that this will be the greatest game to be released so far in the history of man kind...

[sTyLnK]

@Mohal13 It's impressive and the fact that once you buy it, it's free for life. That will entice a lot of people.

[MrMachojosh]

i didn't know it was going to be that massive, and done with so much detail with it being that big. Very very nice!

[Riikimaru07]

It may be actually first game in which I will listen to music EVER

also, Orrery = pure win

[PeteWesson]

One person disliked this because they just paid for more WoW time

[xXRiTaLiNx]

@PeteWesson

Amazing graphics don't make a game good, i mean wow,this looks insane,looks great but doesn't mean its a good game... think of aion, looks great but the gameplay,guests,etc in general is just not fun ...

[GreatWallStr1]

@xXRiTaLiNx True.... but if you read about GW2 you'll soon learn that the graphics aren't this game's biggest feature. :D Its gameplay is phenomenal, and it is designed to innovate the genre.

[xynth101088]

I think if I could just play the game to roam around the cities I would be happy. It is so beautiful.

I think I'm going to have to upgrade my video card since mine doesn't handle shadow effects too well, because those shadow/lighting effects look too good to pass up.

[LordMagtheridon]

I don't think anyone before you have explored this city at such a level, awesome scenery and thank you very much for filming all what you explored!

[DELTA38g]

Amazing surroundings. Really, amazing. The shadows make it all look so real. This really is a next-gen mmorpg.

[superwii5]

@amolino3 I know where it's from I just wanted the name... but since its not released yet.... oooh well thanks for the reply :)

[superwii5]

whats the name of the 1st song in this film? plz tell me i love it soooooooo much!!<3

[GreatWallStr1]

You've taken one of my favorite videos... mixed it with my favorite songs... and put it on one of my favorite channels! ;) What can't you do!?

[amolino3]

@GreatWallStr1 Haha thank you so much! Glad you like it! ^^

[joobagjimmy]

This song gives me cold chills every time :)

[bartvanz]

lovely <3

[zZAD]

Buen trabajo Albert!!! :)

[TalysAlankil]

By any chance, do you know what social rank did this human have ? (commoner/noble/street rat)

[TalysAlankil]

@TalysAlankil Scrap that, I have my answer, she must talk to Faren -> noble