it does. They seem to be wanting to make the best game they could possible make, which goes some ways to explain why it's taking so long. I think GW2 is the only real pretender to WoW's crown (TOR isn't an MMORPG in the sense they are).

Atmospheric vid of Lion's Arch



Looks amazing.

Just keep an eye on it's what I have on my google homepage as RSS feed and gives you all the vids as they're updated.

Check around that site for pages and videos on Ranger/Necro/Warrior/Guardian/Thief/Engineer/Elementalist and also some race specific stuff. Nice little site to keep track of everything. Plus there's some amazing concept art on there, as you'd expect from Anet.

Impressive (and long) GW2 trailer

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08 ... /#comments

Looks...amazing.

Too lazy to click today but if its the 'epic struggle' trailer yes, it looks damned amazing. Love the decaying dragon type thing

GW2 gameplay by TotalBiscuit

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09 ... he-podium/

Its actually looking a lot better than TOR.

Blasphemy! Off with your head!

Pre-purchased my copy today, went for just the standard edition in the end. Roll on next beta weekend, whenever that is

Beta weekend announced 27 - 29. I'll grab screenies and write up a little review of it for you all

Isn't that under NDA?

Doubt it, it's open to all who pre-purchase. Waiting on info for it though so we'll see

edit: nope free discussion:
http://www.arena.net/blog/the-beta-week ... -is-coming
Check what I can do in it

Release date 28.08.12, I technically get access from 25 coz I preordered but that's no use to me coz it's the weekend of the Discworld convention... doh!

So you cleared next week yet for GW Pev?

Where is a PC when you need one...may need to check if my laptop meets the sys reqs...

It does meet the minimum specs according to sysreqslabs

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cy ... 2&id=11297

You should be fine Oxy, like the original it seems very streamlined and easy to run.

And yes, yes have...kinda. I am off work until Wednesday now so will have a full day and a half of GW2 - woulda been more but got Discworld Convention today til Monday. Still have vids I should've uploaded but never mind, you can have a pic instead that I love... or a couple actually. Been updating the client every day though I haven't bothered with the last few stress tests (they've had 1 or 2 every week for the past month now) and I can't wait! But thanks to the Discworld convention this weekend I miss the 3 day head start (starts tomorrow) and won't be able to join until Monday evening. At least I still get a little head start though. Once I'm on I'll do a character names/server thread - pretty sure I'm going to be on Aurora Glade server though.

Enjoy the screenies