Mr Absath of
Ctrl+Alt+Del has this to say about Guild Wars:
Guild Wars: People keep telling me about this game as if I've never heard of it. As if I didn't do a couple of comics about it last year at the time of the "E3 for Everyone" event. I also participated in the closed alpha test while they were still building the game early last year.
I did pick up a retail copy, but I haven't had much time to play around with it. From what I've experienced, it seems like a nice little departure from the norm, and I especially like the option to choose if you play with others or not. Basically any time you venture out, you get your own little copy of the world, and you can go it alone and not worry about retards with names like "Rickjames Bitch" or you can invite friends along to join you. It's sort of nice not to be forced to put up with the masses of raving MMOtards if I don't want to.
The graphics are nice, living up to the promise they showed last year when I played. I particularly love the glowy effect. I think it's nice.
The only complaint I have right off the bat is the controls, but I'm sure with some more tinkering, and a little adjustment on my part, they will be fine.
The controls are fine once you play about with them. Almost every MMO these days has default controls which can, quite simply, FOAD.SWG being a great case in point. The only thing which I had to change in Guild Wars though was switching auto run from R to Q, which is how I had it in Galaxies. Play a game for 2 years or so and you start to get used to the controls, yunno?
Anyhow, I quite like the term MMOTard, and he's right, it's nice to get away from them, but still be able to interact with people when you're in the mood. I was resting in town the other day and some nice person wandered up to me and gave me a rather nice weapon - that sort of stuff is nice - while in the background there were a few people spamming some utter rubbish - that stuff isn't so nice. What's more than nice is being able to choose whether you're in the mood to deal with that sort of stuff or not.