Vernacademia Season 1: Episode 36: Guild Wars vs Guild Wars 2 (Pt.3)

We complete our investigation of build systems in video games, using the lens of Guild Wars 1 and 2 to help inform our position and continue into our hypotheses about what it means to make a "good" build system

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Cliff Notes

00:00 Intro
00:28 Guild Wars Build Systems
01:16 The Concept of Meaningful Choice
01:57 What is Sufficiently Different?
02:20 Red Coat's Sufficiently Different
02:51 The Dark Souls Example
04:06 The Armored Core Example
05:22 Sientir's Sufficiently Different
05:38 The Dark Souls Example
07:28 The Pokemon Example
08:08 Guild Wars 1
09:05 Guild Wars 2
10:11 Shadow of Morder and Batman Arkham City
12:10 The Point of a Build System
12:31 Bayonetta and weapon difference
13:34 Wrap Up
14:15 Next Week Preview
14:37 Sign Off