I have been told many things about Icebrood Saga. Now that I’ve played through it, here are my thoughts.
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After seeing my thoughts here, what were your thoughts on Icebrood Saga? Did you experience it on launch or after everything was already out like I did? I'm really curious
Icebrood saga started quite good, in my opinion. We got Grothmar Valley, we got the nice horror stuff but then they ran out of time with the new expansion to work on. it was weird without the voice lines. Had much fun replaying with the voice acting back in (chievos were nice too lol)
Honestly, despite the lackluster end of DRM‘s I loved IBS. There were so many banger moments ( I am ashamed I BORE YOU! I should’ve bled you out and spared us all!!) and the horror of Bjora Marches was really cool.
The whole writing team got drafted into writing EOD at the end, that’s why the ball got droped so hard on Champions unfortunately
Yeah, it is the end that's mostly what throws people off so much. That and Braham being Braham. I really liked the prologue map, but aside from that I never spent any more time in IBS than has been necessary. Aside from EotN and strikes.
I'm glad you managed to get through it feeling alright, but yeah, that end is truly anticlimactic and disappointing. Especially for some of the gw1 veterans, who've been awaiting for Primordus for like 15 years.
Icebroodsaga is great until you reach the last chapter, then you just want to claw your eyes out and cry because those chapters within the chapters was just made to deley us so that Arena Net could make a expansion. It is well known that this was not suppose to be the ending of the Icebroodsaga it was suppose to go on further. The very last chapter where they kill of two dragons in one go and doing so to Primordus the dragon we all waited for to have some interactions since he was just a dragon with no feelings, no talking just very ready to destroy the world. He showed up with Jormag and 20 min later he was dead. I sat for a long time looking at the screen thinking how can this be the end. And yeah covid did not help us either since we had no voicelines through the Drizzlewood chapter at first. It was added later and i replayed it which made it a ton better.
I loved the Rylands story arc though and how that ended was even better. I wish Bangar would not have been written off in the same way Zoja been for so long, until recently. Bangar was a favorite. On a good note End of Dragons story is fantastic, the areas are fantastic it over all felt really god to play through EoD.
As a Braham fan I was so on board for IBS when it began, as I mistakenly thought it would be the story that finally gave him time to properly shine and maybe even finally learn about his father Borje! When the pandemic hit and the DRMs started rolling out I was distraught, as I'm not huge on content you have to grind ad nauseum. So much wasted potential thanks to NCsoft chopping the dev team during a goddamn lockdown…
Yeah, IBS is really good imo until the end. I don’t HATE the end…but I am disappointed by it.
It’s been awesome to watch you play through and enjoy GW2 (I’ve caught every video)! I think it would be really cool to have a video at the end of this journey where you express your overall thoughts on GW2 as a FF14 vet, and what you like about each and how they complement each other.
I hope you stick around to continue playing GW2!
Loving the narration!!!
Yeah, IBS it's not a bad season, and have good content too…the big nonoes for players have been:
– the Dragon Response Missions (same mission, different location, as you clearly stated 😆)…it would have been better to have less missions but way different, like strike missions
– the story leading up to the final battle…not because of the end, but because there's basically NOTHING on Primordus development, even thought it was the first dragon teased in GW1, and the story seems to jump to the conclusion leaving out important developments on the allied side too…
I love that now, in-between new expansions the old content is getting updates, but I doubt they will ever get back to add to the old story itself unfortunately…
Jormag and Primordus, from what Taimi explains right before Path of Fire, are polar opposites that clash whenever they have the chance, so having the two together wasn't hard, if you lure Primordus you will innevitably lure Jormag. Overall Icebrood Saga was very meh near the end because of pandemic constraints and trying to make the most with limited resources, remember Dragon Response Missions were meant to be recurring content at the time.