Guild Wars 2 is one of those games that makes me wish I was better at taking screenshots. None of the shots that have been posted so far, including mine, do it any justice. The art design is phenomenal; sometimes, I feel like I'm in fucking Disneyland. Every city that I've been to feels so alive and rich in detail. Just earlier today, while I was exploring one of the districts in Lion's Arch (the human capital city), I ran past a giant mindfuck of a musical contraption sitting underneath a multicolored tent in the middle of the street that looked like a giant ball of assorted horn instruments. Dumbfounded, I stopped to stare and was blasted by the wonderful sound of tubas, trumpets and trombones (God bless you, Jeremy Soule). I promptly let out a girlish squeal and started clapping like a trained seal as confetti rained down on me from every direction.
Afterwards, I made my way back to the center of the city, drunk with sensory pleasure, and discovered a tunnel leading to the central garden that, get this, had walls filled with aquatic wildlife. That's right, a fucking aquarium tunnel. Why, you might ask? Because, fuck you, this is Guild Wars 2, that's why. Once again, I paused to drink in the absolute beauty that surrounded me as the light pierced through the glass and danced around me, all the while spamming my screenshot key like a madman.
Out of the hundreds of shots I've taken in the past 24 hours, I've salvaged only two that are even remotely worth showing (and even that's debatable). I can't help, but feel like Jodie Foster's character from Contact when she first glimpsed the nebulae outside of her "window" after being stuffed into a giant puzzle cube and shot into space. "They should have sent a poet! So beautiful!"