Guild Wars 2 has always been one of those games that appealed to me on the surface but never really sank its teeth into my gaming psyche. That is, until now. One of the major attractions for me has been reading about the holiday events. As someone that has way too many games to play and not enough time to play them all the Halloween festivities that ArenaNet have dubbed 'Blood and Madness' are my first taste of these long fabled pixelated parties.
Not only are the jumps the most difficult I have seen in my 45 levels of Guild Wars 2 it is timed. By timed I mean fractions of a second can mean success or failure. After all of these futile attempts to see what is at the top of this tower my revelation was that Mario Brothers style jumping is a perishable skill. If we were able to roll back the the clock a couple of decades, slap a rectangular controller in my hand and tell me to get to the top I would have been able to complete it multiple times so far. Back when games like Mega Man, Battletoads and Ghosts 'n Goblins were what consumed my free time I would have looked at something like The Mad Kings' Clock Tower and scoffed.
MattVisual on YouTube has captured the essence of this place. Teach me Obi Wan.
Since I finished it last Halloween (where everyone wasn't a wisp - blind jumps ahoy for many hours! :P), I reached the top easily this time around since nothing changed. Didn't stop me from failing the last jump a number of times though - timing there is a bit weird for me, like I have to hit the clock face the same time the lightning does.
ReplyDeleteVery fun activity though, especially once you have your "route" down and muscle memory active. :)
I read about the blind jumps thing. Holy difficulty factor Batman.
ReplyDeleteOnce I get this down, which I still haven't, I am going to be doing it all day long, over and over. Just because I can.
I personally have yet to even find it. I logged in to GW2, was told to go help that one Asura in the Charr city, completed that, was told I needed an elemental... and that was that. I saw the achievements, but they didn't say WHERE any of this stuff was happening. That's a common trend in GW2, though. Here's an event, but you need to look OUTSIDE the game to find where anything is. So, I still haven't found it, yet, but once I do... oh... it's on.
ReplyDelete"It is a frustrating, anger inducing, son of a traitorous communist... and I absolutely love it." - Funny how that is, isn't it? I think the same about TSW's investigative puzzles. Devious, but the rush of completion without looking up the answer is heady. I think this is why there was so much backlash when WoW started making flex raids and tonight down the difficulty level: the difficulty, even if it was the unfun process of finding a group to begin with, was the fun.
The difficulty is just part of the ANet tradition. When I first did the Halloween event in GW1, I was coming off of WoW and LotRO's cakewalk events. The difficulty blew my mind. GW2 has actually toned it down a bit and made it accessible for all levels, but they still revel in the challenge. :)
I did the exact same thing that you did Ocho. I looked outside the game. You make a good point with your comments regarding not looking for most things though. It is rare that I will look up character builds or answers to quests. Things are a lot more fun that way.
DeleteWoo! I made it! Finally...
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