Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend. SWTOR or GW2, what do you prefer?

I beta tested GW1 years ago along with all the expansions/campaigns. I did get a chance to play GW2 for two days and while I know its really not the same as GW1, I enjoyed it. That being said, I will be playing both.

I hope so, there is 0 adventure in swtor.

GW2 graphics look like PS1 and the controls are weak and more final fantasy where you whack a button and hope something good happens. TOR was sooo much more polished and a much better looking and playing game in its own beta it's not even funny.

all those fools saying 'cant wait for GW2 so i can quit swtor" are in for a rude awakening. TERA and GW2 were very much disappointing when i gave each beta a spin for a couple days the past week or 2. TOR is lights out better than either strictly MMO speaking and TOR has the SW license to boot!

GW2 looks alot closer to eq2 which is definitely disappointing considering its 2012. i must say RIFT was closest to what i enjoy out of an MMO... too bad it crashed so soon after launch in terms of player population.

Unfortunately quest dialog at any MMO on the market looks pretty boring and flat after playing SWTOR.

SWTOR advertised their story-line as its main feature, and it really is. But after a while we look for something else to do in a game then just lvl and watch the story. SWTOR at its current state has nothing else to offer.

GW2 advertised as a game with dynamic events and WvW PVP. Dynamic events and PVP were fun.

Both games looks great. But at the current state GW2 with WvW PVP wins SWTOR with 4 warzones hands down only cause i like PVP.
But if u like questing Swtor is much more fun.

All depents what u like!!!

PS thought i still think that GW2 is overhyped. And the amount of crybabies on their forums will be much bigger then here was on release.

Swtor, i hate Ncsoft after what did to Lineage II and Aion.

Guild Wars 2 is going to kill this, WoW, Secret World and Tera. It is everything an MMO should be, none of those games have any chance after playing GW2. It is the MMO everyone from UO in 1997 till now has been waiting for and wanting.

Things I like about GW2

"Dynamic Quests" - while these may not be as "dynamic" at the early levels I really love the design over traditional questing. Showing up to an area and having 1-25 other people there sharing rewards is amazing. In other MMOs you feel frustrated when there are too many people in the same area. You're rewarded with EXP for rezzing other players so I saw a lot of people helping each other out. I'd really love to see how dynamic these quests are in later zones and when the population levels out and the events have a chance to "fail" and branch out in other directions.

Graphics and art direction - Amazing. I love high fantasy and this game delivers. Worlds feel immense and alive. Gorgeous game and almost no lag or FPS drops with 30+ people doing the same dynamic quests. Day and night cycles are also great in this game. The capital citys are amazing.

Travel - There are TONS of way points all over the map and you can click on any of them at anytime to travel for a very small fee. You get to where you want to be and straight into the action without lame flight path rides. Loading screens are also a lot less cumbersome than other games I've played.

Exploring - There are skill points, dynamic quests, way points, etc that entice you towards areas on the map - besides this forced exploration I found myself swimming into hidden underwater caves and finding other remote locations not marked on the map. Lots of cool stuff.

Auction/Market/GTN -- The best market i've seen in anygame at launch. It tracks the sale of everytime posted and gives you a breakdown how how much it has sold for. Extremely impressive you have to see it. It's really going to foster a strong player driven economy.

PvP - pretty balanced. But of course it would be. Everyone scales to 80 and has a set of gear to start. There are no dedicated healers or tanks but every class does have support options that include healing/mitigation abilites. This game will be much much much easier to balance. It was challanging (especially for a level 1 suddenly unlocking all of the skills/traits/epics and not having a clue what they do or time practice using them).I'm looking forward to the 5v5 arenas and trying out the WvWvW pvp (the map looks huge and I like the idea of server-wide buffs for participating).

Classes - Each class has TONS of options to customize their play style. they don't penalize you for wanting to try out new builds or ideas. I LOVE respeccing but in other games it can be very costly to switch from on role/spec to another. In GW2 you can change it up anytime without a cost.

Challange - The game seems VERY challening. I've died more times in this game than most other MMOs. It's actually a good thing. The downed state is a cool mechanic... it feels good when you survive or a friendly player comes to your rescue.

Environmental Weapons - Tons of stuff just laying around waiting for you to pick up. Each item will change your set of main abilites. It's a really cool system and I love the fact elementalists can summon powerful weapons for their team (reminds me of EQ mages but better).

No Faction V Faction - this is worth mentioning. There is no reason to squabble back and forth about which faction/class combination is better or who the developers favor more. I think this has really hurt SWTOR

But it's free to play, it won't "kill" anything.

It's like playing Skyrim alongside any other MMO.

If u `d read the notes of beta relating graphics, u would wrote that.

after playing gw2 beta I am sad to say that I will not be buying it. Its nothing special, sure, some will like it but it too has been OVERHYPED just like every mmo and its going to end up hurting the game.

Frankly, GW2 is a few years late to have a chance at grabbing a decent amount of fans of the sword &board genre of mmos. I dont see it being that popular.

lightsabers it is.