Guild Wars 2 : Secrets of the Obscure

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  • Publisher: NCSOFT
  • Release Date: Aug 22, 2023
User Score
6.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 26 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 26
  3. Negative: 8 out of 26

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  1. BabaVoss
    Aug 24, 2023
    0
    wasted my money... not one thing feels good, interesting or polished. Gw2 feels more like a mobile game with the shop and lacking combat
  2. hjikqfbiuqdbiqw
    Aug 24, 2023
    0
    Guild Wars 2 with its latest expansion is the nail in the coffin for its future.
    After more than a decade, this game still offers the same button smashing, not enough skill complexity, a bad UI without supported Addons, and a predatory monetized game model, where content lives from buying it instead of farming it, so the actual farm is for currency as a trade-in, comparable to the lately    Guild Wars 2 with its latest expansion is the nail in the coffin for its future.
    After more than a decade, this game still offers the same button smashing, not enough skill complexity, a bad UI without supported Addons, and a predatory monetized game model, where content lives from buying it instead of farming it, so the actual farm is for currency as a trade-in, comparable to the lately added WoW-Token. Normal QoL things, with a character bound preference, are also part of this system.

    SotO is a mediocre content patch, that is marketed as expansion, to monetize it. Every Raid Patch in WoW adds equal amount of content or even more - enjoyable content. Their discounts of previous, up to 10 year old expansions are almost nonexistent.

    For game connoisseurs like me, this game died already after release and never increased the most important stat: FUN. People who can compare to other MMORPGS will understand. Just, in this game, the community is very toxic and prejudicing biased. It is sad, but at least the game and its remaining community of people, that complain about taxes for their whole life, is on the same level.

    Guild Wars 2 identifies as a Shop with an inshop game and fashion outlet.    … Expand
  3. Arkevorkhat
    Aug 25, 2023
    0
    I would've rated this higher, but the developers took the already buggy and annoying to use "Skyscale" mount and not only made it necessary to complete the expansion, but also somehow even buggier.

    Update 8-25-23: Having finally gotten to episode 6, the expansion loses two points just on the merit of this one mission being so horrifically terrible that it single-handedly ruins every    I would've rated this higher, but the developers took the already buggy and annoying to use "Skyscale" mount and not only made it necessary to complete the expansion, but also somehow even buggier.

    Update 8-25-23: Having finally gotten to episode 6, the expansion loses two points just on the merit of this one mission being so horrifically terrible that it single-handedly ruins every other redeeming quality the xpac has.    … Expand
  4. Junanelle
    Aug 24, 2023
    0
    Soto is bland, short and boring... But lets go a little into details.

    First discuss, what I liked about the expansion: Good now that we talked about "all of that", lets talk about negatives: The expansion feels like a trial to how little arenanet has to put out for the same amount of money so players are still buying the expansion. The story was short and the storytelling mediocre.    Soto is bland, short and boring... But lets go a little into details.

    First discuss, what I liked about the expansion:

    Good now that we talked about "all of that", lets talk about negatives: The expansion feels like a trial to how little arenanet has to put out for the same amount of money so players are still buying the expansion. The story was short and the storytelling mediocre. In the past where we got 4-5 zones + living world for our expansions money, we just get two zones (a third on the horizon) this time around. The new masteries feel pointless and unintuitive, the new metas and rifthunting are not rewarding at all so I guess they die out in a week or two. The new daily system could be ok, but being forced to do a set of objectives rather then being able to pick ruins that one as well for me. But hey at least the rewards are balanced: 5 Minutes work on each of my alt accounts and I was able to funnel more then 75 gold from each of them to my main account - nice! The zones are designwise... One is a reuse of old assets, the other bright as if you threw a flashbang through the monitor - so both just a pile of trash as well. The new strikes were so boring I almost fell asleep doing them...

    So to sum it up: Arenatnet made every possible mistake and made the expansion the worst possible experience. My advice: Wait if it ever goes on sale for like 10 bucks - thats really already more then the expansion is worth    … Expand
  5. drizztds
    Aug 24, 2023
    0
    A very short DLC that removed the daily system to lay the groundwork for another monetization system. They removed the 6th rune effect to make it go to the artifact system, the problem is that they didn't give as many artifacts as there were runes, so we effectively have fewer builds. Recycling texture on maps, no new music. No interesting events gathering people on the maps. Story isA very short DLC that removed the daily system to lay the groundwork for another monetization system. They removed the 6th rune effect to make it go to the artifact system, the problem is that they didn't give as many artifacts as there were runes, so we effectively have fewer builds. Recycling texture on maps, no new music. No interesting events gathering people on the maps. Story is boring to the point where you want to sleep. Grind rifts forced even in the story.
    Overall, this DLC is a downgrade to the entire game. Being an on and off player, the new DLC completely took away my desire to log into the game, even though the game has always been on my HDD since the base game.    … Expand
  6. thegoldengod69
    Sep 5, 2023
    0
    The latest expansion to Guild Wars 2 has once again made the masses go "why am I still playing this?" and "I heard FFXIV is doing kinda good right now, maybe I should check in on that"

    Guild Wars 2 is a western developed game owned by a korean company & with that comes with the usual array of psychological shenanigans & loot boxes. If this is not something you enjoy, don't bother with    The latest expansion to Guild Wars 2 has once again made the masses go "why am I still playing this?" and "I heard FFXIV is doing kinda good right now, maybe I should check in on that"

    Guild Wars 2 is a western developed game owned by a korean company & with that comes with the usual array of psychological shenanigans & loot boxes. If this is not something you enjoy, don't bother with the rest of the review & just look for another game.

    The expansion itself brought us a 3 hour story which is some of the better writing arenanet has done. It also gave us 1 asset reuse excuse & 1 new map with the latter running very poorly due to an increasingly outdated engine.

    The company has decided to nickel & dime its playerbase & for the current pricetag Secrets of the Obscure does not offer nearly enough content. It may potentially be less bad once the developers have pushed all of their content out one year from the date of me writing this review.

    tl;dr game is on a major decline, only pick up if you enjoy loot boxes & have already tried the other MMOs    … Expand