I assume you are referring to Icebrood Saga. I’m actually just playing through it on my second account. Currently close to the end of Drizzlewood 2.
IBS is really weird. You mostly hear very bad things about it, but when you actually start playing it, you probably think “WTF, this is amazing. What are people talking about?”.
I think IBS starts very strong. e. g. it has the best event in the game, loads of detail and very immersive maps and story. Sadly the Norn part is not as detailed as the Charr part and the overall level of detail diminishes the further you progress in the story.
I think what we see is a game that was destined to go into maintenance mode. Hence the rather grindy masteries and achievements. And then we can see a change of mind/direction, i. e. another expansion (EoD) is coming. Hence we see this rushed ending with 2 Elder Dragons being killed off within a few minutes.
Similar to Seitung which also would be much nicer, if it were less color saturated. Both are also significantly more resoucre hungry than previous/other maps. Did they use (AI) upscaled colorized textures form the previous game instead of creating new ones from scratch?
I sometimes wonder what happens internally at ArenaNet. How often do they switch the tools used to create maps? Does every developer (team) use their own favorite tool?
How else would you explain that some maps are so much more resource hungry than others, have oversaturated colors and other weird properties like the slider which should control environment effects like snow is inverted. It’s a complete mess.
Are you trolling or are you actually not getting it? I was quoting myself to show that I was using the term “Icebrood Saga” before using its well-known abbreviation “IBS”.
Your initial comment you said "I think IBS starts very strong "
I responded with"IBS?" Because I had no idea what IBS stood for at that point.
To which you responded with "I assume you are referring to icebrood saga “… Which is an odd thing to say since I’m not referring to anything, I was asking what you meant by IBS, since you are the one that used the letters. That is why I had asked " IBS?” In the original question.
Which is why I then stated "I’m not referring to anything I’m just trying to figure out what the letters stood for ". Given the part of “I’m just trying” was a bit of a typo and it should have been “I was just trying”. And you had kind of answered in the previous comment of "I assume you are referring to icebrood saga…IBS is really weird "
Although if we want to be nit picky a better answer to my original question would have been “IBS stands for icebrood saga”. That would have been a more clear answer.
And now you are asking if I’m trolling. No I’m not trolling. I asked. You answered in a slightly unclear way and then we got into a very strange conversation.
Please read the very first sentence of my very first comment/reply to the original post, Which I quoted in my reply to you, but you didn’t get that I was quoting myself. Here, I’m quoting again:
I assume you are referring to Icebrood Saga.
After which I was using the well-known (search for IBS on the GW2 WIki) abbreviation “IBS” instead of “Icebrood Saga”.
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I really liked that living world season.
I assume you are referring to Icebrood Saga. I’m actually just playing through it on my second account. Currently close to the end of Drizzlewood 2.
IBS is really weird. You mostly hear very bad things about it, but when you actually start playing it, you probably think “WTF, this is amazing. What are people talking about?”.
I think IBS starts very strong. e. g. it has the best event in the game, loads of detail and very immersive maps and story. Sadly the Norn part is not as detailed as the Charr part and the overall level of detail diminishes the further you progress in the story.
I think what we see is a game that was destined to go into maintenance mode. Hence the rather grindy masteries and achievements. And then we can see a change of mind/direction, i. e. another expansion (EoD) is coming. Hence we see this rushed ending with 2 Elder Dragons being killed off within a few minutes.
The only thing that I kinda didn’t like were the visuals of Grothmar. It looked so aged and oversaturated. The content was cool though
Similar to Seitung which also would be much nicer, if it were less color saturated. Both are also significantly more resoucre hungry than previous/other maps. Did they use (AI) upscaled colorized textures form the previous game instead of creating new ones from scratch?
I sometimes wonder what happens internally at ArenaNet. How often do they switch the tools used to create maps? Does every developer (team) use their own favorite tool?
How else would you explain that some maps are so much more resource hungry than others, have oversaturated colors and other weird properties like the slider which should control environment effects like snow is inverted. It’s a complete mess.
IBS?
I’m not referring to anything. You used the initials in your comment I’m just trying to figure out what they stand for.
Are you trolling or are you actually not getting it? I was quoting myself to show that I was using the term “Icebrood Saga” before using its well-known abbreviation “IBS”.
You are the one missing the point.
Your initial comment you said "I think IBS starts very strong "
I responded with"IBS?" Because I had no idea what IBS stood for at that point.
To which you responded with "I assume you are referring to icebrood saga “… Which is an odd thing to say since I’m not referring to anything, I was asking what you meant by IBS, since you are the one that used the letters. That is why I had asked " IBS?” In the original question.
Which is why I then stated "I’m not referring to anything I’m just trying to figure out what the letters stood for ". Given the part of “I’m just trying” was a bit of a typo and it should have been “I was just trying”. And you had kind of answered in the previous comment of "I assume you are referring to icebrood saga…IBS is really weird "
Although if we want to be nit picky a better answer to my original question would have been “IBS stands for icebrood saga”. That would have been a more clear answer.
And now you are asking if I’m trolling. No I’m not trolling. I asked. You answered in a slightly unclear way and then we got into a very strange conversation.
Please read the very first sentence of my very first comment/reply to the original post, Which I quoted in my reply to you, but you didn’t get that I was quoting myself. Here, I’m quoting again:
After which I was using the well-known (search for IBS on the GW2 WIki) abbreviation “IBS” instead of “Icebrood Saga”.
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@andrewta @necropola Irritable Braham Sandrome
Seriously though, Icebrood Saga, it’s a living world expansion
I wanted to go with irritable bowl syndrome. Passed on the joke though
Currently playing it, it’s amazing