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[[Guild Wars Utopia]] ist der Name der verworfenen Kampagne Vier, die später in ''[[Guild Wars Eye of the North|Eye of the North]]'' übernommen wurde. Ihr Veröffentlichung war für April 2007 geplant. Die Community wurde darauf erstmals im April 2006 aufmerksam, als ein Domainname und ein Warenzeichen von Juni 2005 gefunden wurden. Ein [[NCsoft]]-Mitarbeiter bezog sich damals darauf als ein "abgebrochenes Projekt", vor der Ankündigung von ''Eye of the North'' und ''[[Guild Wars 2]]''. Seitdem wurde im [http://www.guildwars.com/events/press/coverage/ultimateguide.php PC Gamer Ultimate ''Guild Wars'' Guide] bestätigt, dass es sich hierbei tatsächlich um Kampagne Vier handelte. Im erwähnten Guide wurden auch einige Informationen veröffentlicht. Weitere Informationen können dem Thread unter [http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108591 this] entnommen werden, der mit Concept Art gefüllt ist, darunter auch Artworks aus ''Utopia''. | |||
==Produktion und Abbruch== | |||
[[Bild:Chapter4GodMonolithThingColor.jpg|thumb|right|256px|Concept Art, betitelt "Chapter4GodMonolithThingColor".]] | |||
[[Bild:Asurawarrior.jpg|thumb|right|256px|Concept Art, betitelt "Asurawarrior".]] | |||
Von der Produktion ist bekannt, dass sie im Mai 2006 "in vollem Gange" war, bis mindestens Mai 2006 fortgesetzt wurde, und im oder vor Januar 2007 abgebrochen wurde. Der folgende Auszug aus der [http://www.pcgamer.com/ PC Gamer] in ihrer Ausgabe von Mai 2007 erklärt, wie Kampagne Vier sich zu GW2 ausdehnte. | |||
{{quotation|But, in fact, the restrictions of the every-six-months model meant the team found itself perpetually wistful over what ''didn't'' make it into the game. | |||
“We sat down to discuss what was going to go into Campaign 4 and realised we couldn't do all the things we wanted,” says Game Designer [[Eric Flannum]]. “Why? Partly because we'd need more time [than six months], and partly because some ideas wouldn't work well with things we'd done before.” | |||
At that point, there were still no plans to fix a system that didn't seem broken. But [[ArenaNet]] Co-Founder [[Jeff Strain]] decided to let everyone “freestyle a little bit,” he says. “And the more we talked, the more excited we got about what we ''could'' be doing.” | |||
What the team felt it ''couldn’t'' do was implement its exciting new ideas in the game’s current campaign-every-six-months plan. While the promise of fresh standalone content twice a year sounds great to players, its requirements have actually caused ''Guild Wars'' to become somewhat convoluted from a game-design perspective. | |||
“With each new campaign, we’ve been trying to introduce brand-new mechanics that change how the game plays. That’s led to the need for larger and larger tutorials to explain the new mechanics, and it’s made each campaign’s beginning experience much more bloated,” explains Flannum. “And since every new campaign was aiming to bring in new players – thus requiring bigger and bigger tutorials – ''plus'' aiming to give stuff to older players, the list of skills just kept growing.” Each campaign that’s been added to the ''Guild Wars'' world – three in total – has added another layer of design that, in the name of making things easier for new players, has actually ended up creating barriers to entry as they try to sort through multiple training areas, increasingly intricate tutorials, and an ever-ballooning list of skills. | |||
“We’re battling against complexity,” Strain adds. “We don’t want to make complicated games. We want to make fun, easy-to-grasp games that are easy to get into and not frontloaded with complexity.” | |||
As the team considered its situation – how to uncomplicate the current campaign model and add new, cool features without making the game any more Byzantine – what began as a brainstorm about Campaign 4 evolved into the blueprint for a completely new game. | |||
“We kept changing the scope of what we were doing, until it became ''Guild Wars 2'',” Flannum says with a shrug and a smile.|PC Gamer no. 161, May 2007}} | |||
Given the fact that the team would have had a lot less time to develop ''Eye of the North'' than other campaigns, it's likely that parts of ''Utopia'' were adapted into ''Eye of the North''. | |||
==Features== | |||
[[Image:C4 F Chronomancer Standard 1600pix.jpg|thumb|right|Concept art entitled "C4 F Chronomancer Standard 1600pix".]]{{section-stub}} | |||
Nothing is known about the features of ''Utopia'', however, horses, giant beetles and other mounts are featured heavily in artwork for the cancelled campaign. It's likely that these were a planned feature, or part of a planned profession for C4, but for whatever reason were not implemented. Mounts may, in fact, be one of the "exciting new features" the ArenaNet team wished to implement, but couldn't due to technical or time constraints, or the fact that it wouldn't work with what they had done previously. | |||
===Professions=== | |||
No details have emerged regarding professions, however [http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1491603&postcount=53 this] forum post contains many images of something called a "Chronomancer", which is traditionally, in fantasy games, a time mage. Other concept art, some very recent, and some dating back even to before ''[[Guild Wars Nightfall|Nightfall]]'' depicts men and women with a range of weapons, including maces, dual-wielded spears, javelins, halberds, dual-handed swords and dual-wielded axes. It is unknown if any of these images relate to the other cancelled profession. | |||
==Setting== | |||
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Just as ''Nightfall'' had a [[w:North Africa|North African]] theme, and ''[[Guild Wars Factions|Factions]]'' had an [[w:Asia|Asian]] theme, ''Utopia'' was to have an [[w:Aztec|Aztec]] theme. Concept art depicts bustling marketplaces, a giant arena, pyramids, temples, ancient ruins, underground caves, volcanoes, totem poles, bridges (both stone and rope) and massive waterfalls. It's likely that some of this content made it into ''Eye of the North'' in the forms of the [[Tarnished Coast]] and the [[Depths of Tyria]]. | |||
==Storyline== | |||
[[Image:Copy of Tannek mountain passlr.jpg|thumb|right|256px|Concept art entitled "Copy of Tannek mountain passlr".]] | |||
As with the professions and features, no information has been released on the storyline for ''Utopia''. However, once again, some inconclusive information can be inferred from concept art. It is dificult to distinguish between the concept art for ''Utopia'' ideas, ''Eye of the North'' ideas that were scrapped, or ''Utopia'' ideas that were implemented into ''Eye of the North'', so looking through the concept art for storyline information leaves much down to interpretation. This section should be taken with a pinch of salt, as the information herein reflects the interpretations of the writer. | |||
Although the PC Gamer articles heavily implies that the plans for ''Utopia'' were scrapped and the initial plan for ''GW2'' were started at the same time, there is a possibility that this is not the case, and ''Utopia'', not ''Eye of the North'' was intended to be a bridge to ''GW2''. Indeed, it is [[User_talk:Emily_Diehl/Trivia_archive_2#Just_a_Trivia_Check|known]] that multiple races were intended to be introduced in ''Utopia'', such as the Sidhe (which later became the concept for the [[Sylvari]]). | |||
The plot of ''Utopia'' seems to have focused on the ruins of some earlier civilization. The [[Asura]]n contructs known as [[golem]]s seem to feature in artwork in multiple different forms. Many depict the golems as - contrary to the existing image of shiny, almost modern constructs - older looking, more statue-like beings. They are also depicted as being a fairly old technology, with one piece of art showing a deactivated golem overgrown with plants and weeds. In any case, it can be assumed that they played a fairly large part in ''Utopia''. It is not known whether their creators, the Asura, were also featured in the game. | |||
[[Destroyer]]s were also possibly featured in ''Utopia'', albeit not as we know them. Early concept art for "Taneks", "Tanecks" or "Tanneks" (the actual spelling is unknown) feature fleshy, piglike creatures. Later copncept art, also entitled ''tannek.jpg'' or something similar features the Destroyers as we know them. It's probable that the name was changed to "Destroyer" sometime after the game was adapted to become ''Eye of the North'' (if, indeed, the Destroyers were featured in ''Utopia'') to promote the notion that they were literally mindless creatures. Interestingly, art exists of a sort of hybrid between the old, fleshy Tanneks and the new fiery Destroyers [http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=220988&stc=1&d=1192749129 here]. | |||
Also featured in artwork are wizards with fiery skulls, with the ability to possess their foes. Nothing more is known about them. | |||
==Trivia== | |||
*In his palace, [[Prince Mehtu the Wise]] tells the player about some artifacts from an ancient civilization recovered at the west coast. It seems to be an intentional allusion to the new continent of Guild Wars Utopia. | |||
*Interestingly, "[[w:utopia|utopia]]" is Greek for "no place" or "place that does not exist". It could also be interpreted as "unseen", which, in turn, points to the [[Mursaat]]. [[Janthir]] also fits the description of a utopian location, by all accounts. | |||
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Vorlage:Übersetzungs-Stub Vorlage:Bilder-Stub Guild Wars Utopia ist der Name der verworfenen Kampagne Vier, die später in Eye of the North übernommen wurde. Ihr Veröffentlichung war für April 2007 geplant. Die Community wurde darauf erstmals im April 2006 aufmerksam, als ein Domainname und ein Warenzeichen von Juni 2005 gefunden wurden. Ein NCsoft-Mitarbeiter bezog sich damals darauf als ein "abgebrochenes Projekt", vor der Ankündigung von Eye of the North und Guild Wars 2. Seitdem wurde im PC Gamer Ultimate Guild Wars Guide bestätigt, dass es sich hierbei tatsächlich um Kampagne Vier handelte. Im erwähnten Guide wurden auch einige Informationen veröffentlicht. Weitere Informationen können dem Thread unter this entnommen werden, der mit Concept Art gefüllt ist, darunter auch Artworks aus Utopia.
Produktion und Abbruch
Von der Produktion ist bekannt, dass sie im Mai 2006 "in vollem Gange" war, bis mindestens Mai 2006 fortgesetzt wurde, und im oder vor Januar 2007 abgebrochen wurde. Der folgende Auszug aus der PC Gamer in ihrer Ausgabe von Mai 2007 erklärt, wie Kampagne Vier sich zu GW2 ausdehnte. Vorlage:Quotation Given the fact that the team would have had a lot less time to develop Eye of the North than other campaigns, it's likely that parts of Utopia were adapted into Eye of the North.
Features
Nothing is known about the features of Utopia, however, horses, giant beetles and other mounts are featured heavily in artwork for the cancelled campaign. It's likely that these were a planned feature, or part of a planned profession for C4, but for whatever reason were not implemented. Mounts may, in fact, be one of the "exciting new features" the ArenaNet team wished to implement, but couldn't due to technical or time constraints, or the fact that it wouldn't work with what they had done previously.
Professions
No details have emerged regarding professions, however this forum post contains many images of something called a "Chronomancer", which is traditionally, in fantasy games, a time mage. Other concept art, some very recent, and some dating back even to before Nightfall depicts men and women with a range of weapons, including maces, dual-wielded spears, javelins, halberds, dual-handed swords and dual-wielded axes. It is unknown if any of these images relate to the other cancelled profession.
Setting
Vorlage:Section-stub Just as Nightfall had a North African theme, and Factions had an Asian theme, Utopia was to have an Aztec theme. Concept art depicts bustling marketplaces, a giant arena, pyramids, temples, ancient ruins, underground caves, volcanoes, totem poles, bridges (both stone and rope) and massive waterfalls. It's likely that some of this content made it into Eye of the North in the forms of the Tarnished Coast and the Depths of Tyria.
Storyline
As with the professions and features, no information has been released on the storyline for Utopia. However, once again, some inconclusive information can be inferred from concept art. It is dificult to distinguish between the concept art for Utopia ideas, Eye of the North ideas that were scrapped, or Utopia ideas that were implemented into Eye of the North, so looking through the concept art for storyline information leaves much down to interpretation. This section should be taken with a pinch of salt, as the information herein reflects the interpretations of the writer.
Although the PC Gamer articles heavily implies that the plans for Utopia were scrapped and the initial plan for GW2 were started at the same time, there is a possibility that this is not the case, and Utopia, not Eye of the North was intended to be a bridge to GW2. Indeed, it is known that multiple races were intended to be introduced in Utopia, such as the Sidhe (which later became the concept for the Sylvari).
The plot of Utopia seems to have focused on the ruins of some earlier civilization. The Asuran contructs known as golems seem to feature in artwork in multiple different forms. Many depict the golems as - contrary to the existing image of shiny, almost modern constructs - older looking, more statue-like beings. They are also depicted as being a fairly old technology, with one piece of art showing a deactivated golem overgrown with plants and weeds. In any case, it can be assumed that they played a fairly large part in Utopia. It is not known whether their creators, the Asura, were also featured in the game.
Destroyers were also possibly featured in Utopia, albeit not as we know them. Early concept art for "Taneks", "Tanecks" or "Tanneks" (the actual spelling is unknown) feature fleshy, piglike creatures. Later copncept art, also entitled tannek.jpg or something similar features the Destroyers as we know them. It's probable that the name was changed to "Destroyer" sometime after the game was adapted to become Eye of the North (if, indeed, the Destroyers were featured in Utopia) to promote the notion that they were literally mindless creatures. Interestingly, art exists of a sort of hybrid between the old, fleshy Tanneks and the new fiery Destroyers here.
Also featured in artwork are wizards with fiery skulls, with the ability to possess their foes. Nothing more is known about them.
Trivia
- In his palace, Prince Mehtu the Wise tells the player about some artifacts from an ancient civilization recovered at the west coast. It seems to be an intentional allusion to the new continent of Guild Wars Utopia.
- Interestingly, "utopia" is Greek for "no place" or "place that does not exist". It could also be interpreted as "unseen", which, in turn, points to the Mursaat. Janthir also fits the description of a utopian location, by all accounts.
