@Kon,

Lol, I don't know who's disagreeing with you. Its a simple fact that downgrading an MMO wouldn't be cool. I wonder why some people disagree with that?

Edit:
Hmm. Seems some people do like downgraded games. To the disagrees- anyone care to shed some light on why they think its good to downgrade a MMO?

maybe because he is implying the game would be downgraded on consoles ?

1 . Gw2 will most likely run fine on small configs while still very pretty , like gw1 did in its time

2. Gw1 had a skills system and gameplay that didnt involve dealing with skills and spells bars taking half the screen . You choose a combination of 8 skills and rolled with it .

And it's gameplay was fast paced while clever

360/ps3 pads got enough buttons to deal with it .

I dont even get why people felt the need to bring that console bs either way .

Was gw1 downgraded on low end-mid range pcs ? No then here you go

@Baka-akaB

Actually GW2 works a bit differently than GW1.
From the gameplay aspect, GW1 could work on consoles, in the same way that how DCU does. Now GW2, the way how they incorporate the spells inputs would need to have a work around.

One example would be is if you looked at the Elementalist videos around on youtube, you see that you have to select where you want to use an aoe spell, but at the same you see them moving around.

But yea, they specifically stated that GW2 will still be able to run with the same type of PCs that ran GW1.

Sure but we have yet to see anything truly problematic for a port .

If it's not playable , then fine it wont be , i'm waiting for that baby on pc either way .

But some folks on n4g have a "please dont ruin my game with your consoles" attitude even without reasons to freak or worry .

This game is going to be able to run well on a wide range of PCs, I wouldn't worry too much. They said they are aiming for 6+ year old machines. They even said in the PAX demos last year that the game was running on max settings on mid-range machines. They don't want only high end machines to be able to max out settings.

The reason that it looks so intimidating is simply because of the art style. They've managed to make the art look so good that graphically, it tricks you into thinking the game is running on some amazing tech, when really it isn't. If you look closely at things like the ground and long grass coming out of it, and even very closely at the character models, you can see that the graphics aren't nearly as high end as the art style makes you believe. They use an amazing art style so they don't HAVE to make the graphics extremely high end.