A Brief Look at the Living Story

I love game stories, started with Adventures, RPGs, and now MMORPGs, well some RTS has good stories to like War/Starcraft, nevertheless it's really good to actually play in the stories rather than watching it (Xenosaga Episode 1 included, go away haters). And I also really tempted for The Secret World since the subs gone.... I still contemplating about it though, Funcom is still my number one storytelling game company (The Longest Journey FTW)

7 hours of cutscenes is the proof

 

Since last January Guild Wars 2 released updates called Flame & Frost and tied-in quests called Living Story, which tells how a whole new enemy activities threaten Tyria after Zhaitan's defeat, it started with lots of earthquakes and portals opening, Dredges and Flame Legions combining force, refugees from Diessa Plateau and Wayfarer Hills flooded the Charr and Norn's capital, and lastly on March Anet introduces new main characters: Brahm from Norn and Rox of Charr

On the first update, there's only vague clues about the events, you have to help refugees on some way (lots of it, including mend their legs and repair signs), you'll get your volunteer title for it, on the next update portals are spawned throughout the area, and stream of flame legion and dredges pour out, the next update there's an all out attack on some settlements of Tyria, and Brahm and Rox come to the picture

What I think is.... it's SLOW and borderline boring, only the last story update keep me hoping for more and I almost overlooked it because of the boredom of the last two living story updates. But I think overall Living story is a good idea, it didn't require player to do it and yet it creeps into something larger and can be felt gradually for players (the last update at least), instead adding new dailies like WoW they're just added new short cutscenes, several achievement-based quests, and two short instances, but then again... it's TOO SLOW for me and it keep me wondering whether it can ended like Karka event (forgotten and dead and buried 5000 feet under) or ended in a new content that can be enjoyed by all players (a large part of it hopefully)