What I Love About Guild Wars 1
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
- The original Guild Wars is an online roleplaying game that was released in 2005. In this video I want to talk about the things that made GW1 so amazing. What can other MMO's learn from Guild Wars 1 in 2021? Take a trip down memory lane with me and enjoy the ride.
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00:00 - Intro
00:45 - What is GW1?
01:21 - Story Time
03:31 - GW Is Unique
03:50 - Buildcraft
04:42 - PvP Game Modes
06:44 - Drawbacks of PvP System
07:36 - Business Model
08:11 - Reward Structure
08:51 - Favourite Feature
09:57 - Summary
11:07 - What About You?
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My favorite guild wars 1 moment was finding this random elementalist chick in the shiverpeaks trying to get a bonus objective done. I was trying to do the same bonus objective so we teamed up and got it. Then we got all the bonus objectives done in the entire game, then we got guild wars 2, then we got married. Cant really think of another guild wars moment to top this. Definitely one of my favorite games and we still go back to play quite regularly.
Damn that escalated quickly! :D Super awesome though.
Thanks for sharing!
That's an amazing story ^_^
Did you happen to live in the same country? Typically when I meet people online they live in another country.
@@lystic9392 amazingly yeah. In US and she was nearby too so when I got a car I was able to drive over and meet. Crazy how life happens sometimes
@@killerkram1337 I don't even know you but after reading this you're one of my favourite couples
That's an amazing story LOL
Dude when you said "it was the game when your parents wouldn't pay for a wow subscription I got transported!
Right back to EB Games (like GameStop in Australia) at 13 years old. Wow had just released and we walked up to the counter with my dad. Warcraft 3 was my first real PC gaming love and I was so excited for WoW. The guy at the register scanned it and right as dad was about to pay the $50 he says "you know this is an additional $10 a month in subscription".
Dad looked at me and said sorry buddy but there is no way I am paying that for you to play this. I love my Dad and he was fair enough but my heart just sank.
The clerk then said "Hey you should check out Guildwars, it's a MMO and has no sub fee" and that is what kicked off some of the most memorable gaming experiences of my life. Factions being my absolutely favourite. Cannot wait for EoD and to go back to Cantha.
Great video man
That's amazing. Thanks for sharing! :)
I think my friend told me about guild wars and i wanted a new game after diablo 2. So i remember i got it and was so excited
pre searing was so beautiful and memorable and easy but some spots challenging.
i dont think i ever been so excited/happy playing it and interacting with people and killing stuff.
Are you me? This is EXACTLY my experience !
The only mmo i played that was actually worth it
It's not a mmo
@@virtuousheathen981 ???
@@figa5567 ArenaNet labeled it as a co-rpg. He literally explains it 1 minute into the video.
@@virtuousheathen981 just because arenanet labels it something doesn't make it true lmao.
GW1 is an mmo.
@@figa5567 in mmo's you see people in the world. Gw1 is an instance based game with player hubs. Gw2 is an mmo
Just because arenanet labels it something???? Its THEIR game 😂😂
IMO still one of the best games ever made.
My opinion too
Same
Everything about GW is my Favorite .. It's my Life outside my Real Life LoL . been playing since 2006 and still can't get enough of it, it's truly a magnificent, amazing wonderful game.
Same.
Only I kept deleting and creating characters. I wish I had kept my 1st character.
I still play. My favorite part is the Artwork
what is the pvp like now days?
@@samanthascheinecker1524 The most active format nowadays is Fort Aspenwood. It happens every Saturday/Sunday/Monday around 10:00 pm UTC+1 EU // 4:00 pm est time. Usually lasts for 4-6h. This being happening since 6 years ago every weekend which is pretty impressive. The behavior is friendly and games are fun. On weekend days we usually get enough players to get two games going at the same time.
Other formats are pretty much dead. Heroes Ascent is playable on bonus week, JQ is playable anytime but it's just bots, Random Arenas is playable every day but only 3-4h, always at same time (can't remember when), and GvG has friendly organized scrims here and there but the behavior is sometimes toxic and it's just old veteran players.
True its the best game ever made
i just started playing this again. im addicted again. havent played since i was 14 or 15. now 28. it still stands the time as one of the best MMOs ever. it's such an amazing game...the only game that has ever rivaled WoW for me
Thats about the age I started playing as well, and now Im 32 and still love the game. Definitely my favorite!
My favourite things in GW: The music first and foremost, it's so so good...looking around the Shiverpeaks with a girl I used to like and using it almost as a date...watching someone do the Drok's run for the first time...and of course, "RURIK, NOOOO!"
What I love of Guild Wars 1 is that I felt at home the first second I started playing and the long term reward structure with meta titles and the Hall of Monuments kept me playing for more than ten years.
Unlike Guild Wars 2, in Guild Wars 1 I had the feeling of being on a journey. Probably because you have one starting city and one ending mission and missions in Prophecies were far apart. Requiring a dangerous journey just to discover and unlock the next mission outpost. In Guild Wars 2, there is nothing like that. There always is a waypoint nearby and there are many starting zones so there is no real journey.
Don't get me wrong, GW2 is a great game, but GW1 was indeed an unique experience I hold fond memories of.
I miss this game intensely. Nothing has ever come close. A true master piece of a game. The very first day I played guild wars 2 my heart sank so low. I’ll never forget it.
it took me almost a month to realize that gw2 is not for me. i've been grinding too much, repeating things too much. in pvp i gave in to metas. still played pvp for a while til i gave up. the hardest part was people liked it and forgot what made gw.
The game is still online and with gw2 cantha on the way, there are actually some people playing factions right now.
Same. Doubt any game could ever come close
Stop missing it: just play it.
Probably my favorite thing about GW1 is how well-arranged everything is. Skills, drops, goals, skins... It's all in a managable scale. Unlike in GW2 where it's all about loot drops and chests and salvaging in giant groups but you start to lose track of all your goals. It was a more quiet game.
everything is so well organized. by the time you finish the tutorial, you understand all the mechanics you need. this game is more about hunting after achievements through developing your personal skill at the game, not by mindless grinding levels. one amazing aspect of this game is it was designed with the idea that once you finish the campaigns, the true end game is pvp. because in terms of pvp this game is second to none, still to this day. the strategy and techniques with making builds, playing them is unmatched.
Unrivaled soundtracks in prophecies and factions, too, don’t forget. I still listen to the music regularly. And no game has ever been as chill in pve and simultaneously intense in pvp.
Just started playing again in 2022. My favorite thing is the skill system and building your character and heroes around new elites that you unlock
My favorite thing about Guild Wars 1 was how even with the low-level cap of 20 there was so much to do and it almost always involved making a new-build at to engage with whatever new content you were trying to do. Whether that was solo farming or making a build for Speed clear, or just making a new-build for your favorite type of PvP map (mine was Fort Aspenwood). It interacted with so many different game modes within their own playground that I was so happy to engage with many different types of contents in the game.
That was indeed incredible! I love how there were so many weird "niche" builds for running people from one place to another, solo farming, highly specialised speed clears, etc
@@MasterOfNoneGaming many GW2 only players have no idea of the bomber necro or old school RoJ monks or Barrage/Splinter rangers, etc but apparently Bunny Thumper rangers will make a comeback in EoD! RANGER GETS HAMMER!
I'm really excited about ranger with hammer! Although I kinda already decided to main rev but will definitely try it out here and there haha
@@MasterOfNoneGaming I too would likely main Revenant as well, I like their skills and the feeling of their new mechanic very much. I will end up trying all of them though, it will be refreshing to try something new
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I love gw1. It will always hold a special place in the ranks of my all time favorite games. It’s unique skill system is the crowning accomplishment of the game IMO. Even today the graphics and hand crafted feel of the environment highlights the dedication the team had to making a beautiful and rich world to be explored. I wish more people knew about this guild wars because it is truly a masterpiece among online games.
Guild Wars changed forever the way I look at video games.
I just liked exploring the game. Every area feels distinctive, despite them all basically being flat terrain. It had an elegant soundtrack. Also, the high end PvE like underworld, sorrows furnace, the deep, was extra cool to me just because of how you had to get there. You couldn't just walk to them, they were special.
I'm discovering the truth of your comment now! Finally playing after a brief 20 hours back in 2012! I'm amazed at how alive the game still is.
My favorite moment was using spike build in PVP. We had 5 players running lighting elementalist all on the same Teamspeak voice chanel. We would time our attacks at the exact some moment on the same target. The opposite team player were instantly killed. This was back in 2005.
When I was 17 me and some of my classmates bought Prophecies at release because 'it's the new Wow and doesn't have a monthly subscription' and oh boy... I wasted my whole youth playing this awesome game. The best time to experience it was between 2005-2008 when everything was new and there still wasn't a meta for everything.
I played it for 7 years straight until GW2 was released and GW1 eventually died but I have so many great memories with my guild. We were very successful in PVE and PVP and all of us became like a second family.
Since then I never have and never will experience something like this in any other game again because at young age I still had the time to waste thousands of hours in a game like that. But the memories about this game will stay forever.
There was very much meta back then. With WoW we had the first build-sites, can't remember the url anymore, but there was meta.
it is still alive, come join us. many still play
Best game I've ever played. Played guildwars all throughout highschool and I still get all nostalgic seeing any video pop up on youtube.
My favourite thing about GW is Pre-Searing. It's basically the tutorial area but it's just so beautiful and peaceful that many have made characters specifically to stay there. You can also earn a unique title LDoA (Legendary Defender of Ascalon) once you've reached level 20. The community there is wonderful and always willing to help you if you get stuck.
Totally agree! Such a serene vibe and I love how unique the concept is. Amazing that there is a whole community just around the "tutorial" with its own market, prices and "meta".
@@MasterOfNoneGamingWow I never knew this... Makes me want to go back and try it
Farming Green items solo was my cup of thea back in the day. I'm still solo farming the Totem Axe and Forgotten Fan, just for the fun of it. Ecto farming the UW with the old school perma sin using sliver armor was a other nice thing to do. The most epic thing to do was to solo run TOPK with the old school perma sin. The only title that i'm most proud of is the lengendary defender of Ascalon. The deadleveling back in the early days was horrible and very time consuming, but i did it.....
shit i wanted to try and do that in pre searing get to lvl 20
highest i got was lvl 10 elementalist :(
Current GW2 player with a lot of fond memories from GW1. Thanks for the spotlight
Guild wars proves that immersion is not in graphical fidelity, but superb and creative art direction. My favorite part has always been the worldbuilding.
Super excited to get back to this game. I finally realized to stop comparing games to GW1 and just play it again.
This is the way.
Brilliant insight!
Man this game was something else back then I remember getting it for a gift when gw1 first came out grinding hard making my first guild with friends and as the years past getting gifts for your birthday
The races of tyria feel really unique. Ive never seen anything like the charr or tengu before I played guild wars.
True! I still enjoy that quite a bit in the second game
I had just returned to this game not to long ago. I am starting with a brand new account because my other two from 2006, I lost the information to and were linked to much older email no longer in use. This was my first Experience in the mmo genre. I am so thankful that i started with Factions in this series. I think Factions is the best new to this genre game i have ever played. It explained things to me that i could understand. If anyone tells me they have never played an mmo, I immediately direct them to this game and tell them to play factions first. The History, Lore, Story, & visuals of these games is what are my favorite thing about these games. Just so much great systems in this game. Well got to get back to playing it. PS. The best Community i have ever been a part of. No other gaming community came close to the guild wars community that i have experienced.
I agree with your opinion. I also started again 1 week ago and it makes a lot of fun. I decided to play a new character to play the story, but first I have to reach lvl 20 in prophecies tutorial for the title. Which class do you play?
I've played all classes quite a bit but Dervish is my favourite by far!
@@rothenbeauregard6430 I am a Ranger at heart. But coming back ive decided to play prophecies with a mesmer. I also made a Ele for DOA in the presearing! The only 2 proffession i probably will not play is Warrior And Necro!
In game name is Dexter Sea Cargo Il Friend me up!
i agree factions was my fav but i started with prohicies. The whole journey with factions was great and scary at the same time!
kurzick or luxon?
i a kurzick boy!
oh yea my fav character is assassin (i have a male and female)
Memories..... I spent my first two weeks in pre-searing, before understanding there was a whole lot more.
Many great concepts, max stat weapons and max level are rather easy achieved, but the combination of many hundreds of skills, 8 skill slots and 4 to 12 characters make the sky the limit of possible team builds. You could do loads of more or less viable team builds. All-mesmer, all-necro, or my favorit wacky one - only use two non-elite skills, start out "naked" and only use armour and weapons found in the instance, suddenly even easy areas got challenging in new ways.
I met some good friends in the game and we had a blast taking on new hard areas before guides had been written. We were between 30 and 60 so a pretty "mature" mixed gender guild. Each of us had favorit characters so we usually ended up with necro/ranger/mesmer heavy teams, which were regarded very weak the first half year of the game, but great fun to play!
The greatest ordeal I recall was our first attempt to the Underworld. In the beginning access to that PvE area was determined by the top PvP guild teams, and unfortunately for us, that rarely included the European server. The long awaited trip took us 11 hours, and we had to call it off when the "connection lost"-ghost had reduced our team of eight to just four support characters at the second last area.
That said, pvp is probably the best in any game! I am usually not a big fan of pvp games, but in this game I really enjoyed it.
Worst thing in the game? Doing PVE with random teams - you were then expected to play a very predefined role without any wiggle room. Just move from one fixed spot to another doing a certain spell sequence at each. Only did it 2-3 times and hated it. Did not help much that I otherwise never made those "high efficiency" runs so I alway took a second too long to get into position.
That music, man the nostalgia.
I want a remaster!!! PLEASE
I didn't play the game a ton, but i still have some great memories from playing the game with my dad when i was somewhere between 6 and 10 years old. The most memorable thing for me would be going into some dungeon, having to fight destroyers... Scared the fuck out of me back then...
good video buddy.
I just started playing Gw1 again after many years and omg i'm having so much fun, and good god it is freaking hard at times xD
Love it :D Enjoy your time!
the memories. man. gw1 was my first game that was online. the best thing frm gw1 was for me the story i loved it alot
Watching this while i'm installing it on my pc. I still got the CDs. God i missed this game and i'm ready to play again.
Enjoy! Love diving back in every once in a while.
I got guild wars, factions and nightfall when each game's collectors edition was 10e at my local game shop. I had the most fun ever.
I loved Alliance Battles, collecting armor and weapons like FoW armor, Fellblades, Fiery/Icy Dragon Swords, Chaos Axe, and so much more I can’t remember. Guilds like LaZy that had Ventrilo or TeamSpeak. Trippy as fuck meeting people all around the world through the internet. And most of all, THE MUSIC!!!! Jeremy Soule created a beautiful soundtrack that will forever embedded into my soul (no pun intended 😂)
icy dragon ftw!
Real late comment lol but one of the many things I love about Guild Wars is the feeling of leaving pre searing.. that feeling that actually drives me to fight for the land. Such a gut ripping moment. For all those who understand what I'm talking about, just trying to not spoil it for others but it is def a love hate thing for sure(lore wise). I just mean I love the way anet made it so real. Thanks for the content, great video btw!
I love pre searing! Played many character just in pre searing that mostly ended up getting deleted as soon as I decided to leave the place. Those early levels are the best. Such a serene and calming area.
@@MasterOfNoneGaming Agreed! Pre searing is life! I can completely understand why you did that. I have recently came back since 2006 and back then I didn't play much of it I was to into other games sadly so it's all practically new to me. I am in the middle of prophecies and will make a new character for factions and nightfall when I get done with each. My first char is still in pre searing however haha and may stay forever.
Video described my GW1 experience to a T. Still login a couple times a year to check my birthday presents and do some vqing. When you touched on RA I remembered the pure excitement of having a good monk on your team, making you unstoppable, or getting a droks run for your character to dominate the Ascalon arena, amazing times.
the original guild wars is so unique and amazing. i'm glad the servers are still up but i would love it if they remastered it. i know it'll never happen, but it would be amazing. either way i still enjoy playing it to this day.
Guild wars was my childhood. I grew up playing it. My parents had decided to get my an account so I could play with them. At first I just kinda ran around town and dressed up my character, but when I actually got ahold of the games mechanics, I had so much fun. Even to this day, I’ll get on with my parents and we’ll play guild wars together. It’s kinda made me who I am.
As a GW1 lover, I love pretty much everything on the game...
- Complexty
- Variation
- Each class has it's unique property
- The community
- Etc...
Still to this very day, my favorite MMO with no competition.
Hope that Anet will eventually do something with the original game as something for a near future.
Anet is filled with brain rot now a days so I highly doubt it. Any other company would have done a remaster version of the game and re-released it. They can't even develop content for their only game (GW2), much less even think about GW1. All the geniuses who came up with the original version of GW1 are long gone from the company.
my fav bit about gw1 is the hero's system. You could do everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING in pve mode by yourself. I know an MMO is meant to be a group of people, but I always enjoyed gathering me group and setting up my own skills and playing 8 characters at once. SOOOOOO much more fun than depending on others.
It's definitely a design decision that helped them in the long run. Thanks to heroes/henchmen you can go back any time and enjoy almost everything PvE has to offer no matter how many players are still active.
the hero's are my least favorate thing about the game i started to miss the team play required for missions
As someone who played at the time, I always thought the introduction of heroes was a double edged sword and killed much of the co-op aspect with random people which I found to be the most fun part of it. I had a blast with Prophecies and Factions, finding people to traverse dangerous areas, explore the map and attempt missions, but by the time of Nightfall and Eye of the North I found myself having to do alot of the content alone because many people didn't party up anymore because of the convenience of the customisable hero system. The systems definitely work in the long run though now that the playerbase is practically non-existent but I think in its prime it did hurt the game a bit.
yall mfs remember getting ascended for the first time?
The GW music is so sick😍
such a pity it's not available on Spotify
So true! Just noticed that recently when I was putting together a playlist with my favourite videogame/movie music.
If Anet was a decently managed company they could
- Released remastered playlists
- Release a remastered GW1 (heck even fresh servers with no remaster would be hugely popular)
- Release books set in the world (what happened in the Guild Wars, time the gods walked in Tyria, time between GW1 and GW2, book about Gwen ...)
Literally sleeping on a pile of money.
That company is so filled with brain rot nowadays they can't even develop content for GW2, which is the only game they work on. It's a shame the Guild Wars IP is stuck there
one of the things i liked about GW1 is the different ways you can make money with different builds. 55hp monk was probably my favorite but also tried my hand on running other players to hard to reach towns once in a while.
The music is by Jeremy Soul. For anyone wondering
My favorite thing was the GVG’s with my guild . Always trying to get top 50 . The ability to see gvg matches of the best guilds and see what builds they run live while it’s happening was better then sports . Being in vent with my guild discussing builds you came up with to try . It was the best time ever
Oh , and I totally feel that feeling when seeing the gw1 box art to this day. My god
I love that spectating was built into the game! I never played gvg myself but remember just watching highly ranked guilds go at each other from time to time.
I thought gw2 would be gw1 with jumping. I played for maybe 10 minutes and quit. Heartbroken. Like getting that bike you always wanted for Christmas, but your parents accidentally bought a pink one with tassels.
I really enjoyed GW1 it was my first MMO. I had played tons of RPG's (all Elder Scroll editions and more) prior to GW1. Luckily I got into a great guild. I am still a member of that guild today in GW2. We are now a bunch of really old timers but still have fun in GW2. I really liked the idea of capturing your skills from bosses. Some of them were really tough to get to much less kill. The builds you could run were amazing. Had a ton of fun with some great memories. Most of all I made some long time friends.
That is, it was not the game itself that brought you pleasant emotions, but the game together with friends. You can get the same emotions in another game together with your friends.
But Guild Wars still has a wonderful community of active players.
@@warnerchandler9826 same community which kiks you from pvp just because they can and you get autoban?
I loved GW1. Played it a lot for so many years. Started playing GW2 when it came out, it was good. But not the same as GW1. Need to start playing it again.
I really loved the Idea of Henchmen, so if your friends was away, u could still play it and complete everything alone.
My fav's gotta be the skill system. The combinations were truly liberating, practically a sandbox game. Such crazy builds like 55 monk, perma-shadowform, 330 rit, team builds like assassin's promise discordway, air of enchantment prot monk for fort aspenwood, just so customizable. i remember one time me (elly) and a guildie (warrior) had an argument about who can push their health higher. He got his to like 1300, i got mine to like 7000, like i said, fuckin crazy game, so much to know and abuse and enjoy.
My favorite thing about GW1 was the Running Trade Market. If you had enough money, you could pay higher level players to run you to the more experienced zone areas. I would purchase some of the highest quality armor at lvl 4 or 5 and then enter into PvP in the lower level areas. Due to my higher level gear, I would just stomp everyone. It was glorious. I never even finished the game because I was so engrossed by the PvP aspect of the game.
I wish I could go back to the GW glory days!! Was SO disappointed when GW2 was released. It was unrecognizable. I could NOT make the transition. Just recently decided to play through GW1 again. This time, I plan to make it through the entire campaign. I was pleasantly surprised there that there are still thousands of people still playing the game to this day.
Yes, it is a great community still.
Oh man, my friend bought GW1 when it came out, I'll never forget the day he came over w/ the game box in hand. I thought the box looked beautiful, unfortunately at the time I was very much anti-mmorpg as I was a brain-dead teenager who only wanted to play Halo 2 or D&D 3.5 lol. I watched my sister play a little GW1 but it didn't really do anything for me so I ignored it. Today, I could kick myself for not paying attention to such an amazing game. I bought GW2 when it released in 2012 and enjoyed it immensely, even today I still occasionally return to GW2. I'm planning on playing GW1 PVE to completion, I started w/ an Elementalist a couple years ago and made good progress through the original campaign but then I fell off the wagon. Great video!
Love to hear stories like these! Thanks for sharing :)
Jump back in, the water's fine!
I liked the atmosphere you had in it. Other MMO's feel like there's 1000 heroes while in GW1 you feel like you're one of the few, and sometimes you're lucky enough to team up with others.
I love how well GW PvE is playable/farmable as a side activity while watching a series on Netflix or whatever.
Also the game rewards knowledge far more than skill: if I for example want to farm vaettirs with my Derwish, having the right build, knowing the pathing and knowing the timing of when to use the skills is the central part, rather than beein able to press a series of buttons at an precise timing, ar having good reflexes.
(Interrupting requires some reflexes, but what do we have AI Heroes for ;D )
Oh absolutely. I love when a game manages to incorporate both: side activities like farming where you can watch something on a second monitor & activities that need all your attention like speedclears and pvp.
This! I like to play 2 OSRS accounts on the side while farming holiday items etc.
My first character was a Monk and I was OK, but not great at healing. AI is far superior at interrupts and healing. I miss trolling people with the now-PVP-only version of Unyielding Aura. If anyone mouthed off to me, I could simply remove UA and they were no longer a problem. lol.
I love the community that still is alive
By live community do you mean those jerks who play pvp and kick newbies?
@@Butelish no ^^
@@gwfan1 But there is no one else in the game.
@@ButelishTROLL
@@warnerchandler9826 troll because why? Its my experience from community of gw1
I loved how getting max gear/level was super easy, so you could focus on actually playing the game rather than grinding for loot.
Also the music at the beginning sent me back 10 years.
The tactics on the field and the socialising in town.
And, the timeless serenity of pre searing ascalon
I think i'm going to buy it! lol. I played about 20 hrs over 11 years ago and i miss that. Thanks for tipping me over the edge ; P
@@randalthor6872 Pleasure is all mine honestly. Still load it myself sometimes
GW1 is a tactical RPG. GW2 is an MMO. What I actually wanted was a second, improved, GW1.
Anyway. An underrated thing I seriously appreciate about the first game is a touch of grounded realism. Corpses are required (and consumed) to summon necromantic minions. Fighting ghosts as a minion master? Well you'd better find some fodder nearby or you're shit out of luck. Minions also degrade faster over time which makes snowballing difficult but very rewarding. Rock golems don't bleed. etc, etc. Fast forward to GW2 where one of the skill descriptions for a basic combo chain is literally "tear a hole in reality". Very different feeling there.
And I'm looking for peeps to do every campaign from scratch with (new characters each), possible ironman. Are you aware of any forums I could bother in that regard?
honestly, out of all games that have been remastered, This is one of the games that absolutely needs a Remaster. Would bring amazing new life to this game
small thing with the game but I always thought the achievement system was so cool. When a player did an achievement it would win him favor with the gods which would allow everyone else to enter their realms (UW/FoW) without having a scroll.
It was so cool that your achievements you were doing solo had an impact on every other player. I remember a weekend where they had double LB/Paragon points and so many people maxed it out that we had favor in the game for like 6 months in a row!
Ah, high school memories. 2007, first encounter with GW. I did not listen to my friend, who was playing for some time and brought an Factions. Now, when I'm much older, I should pick up Nightfall at first but man.. the vibe from Factions was flawless. I remember that I specially climb into some heights at Panjiang Peninsula to observe landscape. Plus that magnificent GW Factions theme song from OST - full of nostalgia, hits so damn hard.
I'm more that sure if I would have started from Nightfall, I could shar that same nostalgic memories with this expansion.
I had many hobbies back then, so I could not keep up with moneys for all of them, so only NF and FC were part of my account. Till this day.
So many memories, so many hours. My account have 15 years and I could not believe in how much time I spent in it.
GW2 is funny, sometime very annoying but yeah - it is not the same, they miss something important in new game.
We must be very similar age because everything you said is what I would have went with
I've been playing since beta and just came back again this year. Still delivering a solid experience to this day!
It has aged surprisingly well. I think mainly since it is so unique and you can't get a "moder" version of it anywhere
Same story as mine. Played GW1 with 11/12 Years old. I stopped playing when GW2 released because I thought the game would die. I try playing GW2 but it wasn‘t like GW1 and stopped playing it. 10 years later. I installed GW1 again and enjoying the Game again like I was 11 years old. I love this game. More GW1 content please. Sub is safe for you 😄
Definitely want to produce some more GW1 content in the near future but just not sure yet when I get to it. I still have some GW2 videos planned but everything slowed down a lot since I just started a new job and it's taking all my time currently.
Thanks for watching!
The game is so big that even after 16 years playing off and on I still haven't done everything
my favourite gw content has got to be the prophecies tutorial :D
it sure sux that the abilities are so limited, but I love walking around and questing in that lush, beautiful area and I enjoy hunting charr.
since there are quests now with scaling enemies, reaching level 20 is also much easier.
back in the day being a lvl 20 tutorial character was basically admitting that you were a bot, or a crazy person - it took so long.
I still have yet to create a character, that reaches lvl 20 in pre searing and also doesnt die once, dunno if I will actually do it, but it'd be the ultimate tutorial challenge for me.
It's so peaceful! I love it as well :D
Yeah back in the day getting to level 20 was super weird. Having NPC's kill you over and over just so that they would level up and in turn provide you with xp.
Still takes quite a while nowadays with the daily quests but it's manageable.
Yeah i think i was one of the crazy dudes Back then. I stayed for a really Long time and reached at least Level 15 or even 20. Cant remember haha
My most memorable moments were the first time PVPing on teamspeak and having a countdown to synchronize our lightning orbs, and giving free trips across the tundra to the next city as a warrior lol.
My favorite thing is the end game (and just dungeons in general). And I know a lot of MMO players always say this but seriously, it was an intense and difficult part of the game. It required you to tune your builds precisely so that they were good against the endgame, and have a solid strategy going in. Some of this endgame was dungeons based around the realms of gods in the Pantheon, which allowed them to be incredibly creative with level design and enemy design. In one dungeon you'd be fighting eldritch squid demons and demon minotaurs in the Underworld, the next you're fighting stone summit dwarves inside a mountain deep in the Shiverpeaks. It always delivered throughout the entire game a seamless believable fantasy work that is still solid to this day.
These dungeons were difficult but gave you unique items you could only get in there that were good for PVP and making PVE much easier. I used to farm these endlessly, and then drop rate is so low that it requires this, giving these dungeons more replayability. One of the coolest aspects of these dungeons was actually a core part of the game: stealing skills from boss enemies. This was how you got the best skills in the game, which was why I loved farming dungeons so much. They purposely locked strong and unique skills behind hard bosses in the dungeons so that EVERYONE had the incentive to farm them, not JUST people who like to collect stronger gear (like a popular old MMO we know).
This affected PVP greatly because some people would have these skills, and other people of the same class wouldn't. It added SO much build diversity to the PVP play. You'd get hit by something and be like "WTF did he just use??". You'd have to look it up and say "oh I can only get that from X boss in Y dungeon" and you'd go pick that up yourself.
Fantastic game with genius and addicting reward structures that don't require real-world money to participate in. I love Guild Wars 1.
I would do anything to go back to the time I was trying to collect all of the armor for my Assassin... I managed to get every single one but I still loved playing with guild friends and having tournaments and stuff. Great game and the times I had playing it are unforgettable
Better music, better aesthetic, better stories than its sequel.
Combat is old fashioned but more engaging over time than simply mashing a GW2 rotation.
Man, I miss GW so much. I've spent most of my time in pve and just wouldnt get bored of it
Played that game so much as a teen. Even met my Guild Leader like 15 years later in life when we randomly worked at the same company and his name rang a bell so i asked him if he was that guy back then LOL. Also celebrated christmas ingame with other lonely gamers, it was epic, i would do it all again if i could turn back time. ❤😂
Been playing for over 12 years now and i am still not done. It is an amazing game
Man those first music notes got me right in them feels.
I forgot I owned this game, hadn't played for 10 years.
Downloaded it on my work thinkpad, and damn what a nostalgia rush.
It's just a wonderful game for boring business trips :)
It's perfect for that! Especially since it runs on basically anything at this point :D
still play after 17 years - best mmorpg ever
Guild Wars 1 is one of my favorite games. I loved pretty much everything about it. I started in their first public beta test. I levels up like 8-10 characters and really enjoyed the small arenas. I also did GVG battles back in the day. I'd absolutely love to one day be involved in a similar game's creation as I'm a game developer. I plan to get my girl into GW1 and hopefully enjoy a simple play through with her.
loved GW1 for all those elite skills you needed to unlock. It was special and not just given by you. Also the story was not bad at all. Also reason why i bought the collectors edition of all the expansions. And yes its not a real mmo like STO. I hope one day they will release a version we can either play it offline or set a server up ourself to play with friends. Because you never know what they gonna do with the server, even if they say it does not cost much to keep up
The best part for me is the challenge of tailoring a team build based on the area. Hexes vs. conditions, enchantments vs. shouts vs.spirits, physical vs. elemental vs. holy damage. What will work great on place can be next to worthless somewhere else, especially in hard mode. Bar compression becomes mandatory.
This is exactly me as well, though I was a lot older. After RuneScape I needed something a little more serious. GW1 was dimly magical. And I’m still playing to this day! And there are thousands of us, and the game is even still getting tons of new players! There was a 15th anniversary update with some cool new skills and weapons! It’s still going strong :-)
There are lots of players returning after many long years away. It is fun AND easier than ever to get back up to speed. Everyone: come back to Guild Wars!
Getting your name broadcast to the entire server when you won in the Hall of Heroes was my favourite feature. Such a small thing that gave you a huge sense of achievement.
Enjoyed doing story missions with random people and the incredible fail that would happen, exploring, solo farming random places using random builds, finding or hearing about bosses that dropped green weapons and figuring out ways to try and get them to drop it, high end PVE dungeons ( it wasn't straightforward to just farm them over and over successfully like in many mmos ). Alliance battles where we would use all sorts of strategies including using Obsidian flesh tank to become invunerable while the enemies waste time trying to hurt you. Title or event farming, chest opening / running, trying to afford Elite armor,
getting those random Gold weapon drops. Farming super rare items like the Sorrows Furnace purple crystalline sword, or the Elemental sword ( pre EoTN ). Getting and use the new skills that came out with Nightfall and Eotn, like Searing Flames or Light of Deliverance. Oh and Running including the Droks Run.
My biggest regret is not being there since Prophecies. Must have been such an exciting time to get expansion after expansion in a short amount of time, always having something to look forward to.
The one feature that I wish they kept in Gw2 was the skill capture system. Seriously, they could've taken anything else away but if they kept the skill capture system, GW2 would be a bigger gem than it is right now. That Skill capture system with the fact that NPCs used players skills really made me explore GW1. Seeing an NPC using Unsteady Ground and then going "I want THAT!!!!" and then replaying the instance, running all the way there, just to get that skill. Or when I absolutely got bodied by Ice Imps using Maelstrom and I went "Oh so that's what that does" and I equipped it and made sure to use it on them first. That is what I call horizontal progression. Technically, Rangers in GW2 have that feeling because they have to go to specific places to get their pets but its only for one class. GW2 could do with such a system that really gets you invested in the skills you have or can gain.
Another thing that was fun was figuring out the tactics to take on groups of mobs. I landed on this strat that mostly works when your NPCs don't spam all the wrong skills on the wrong targets. I always had two Eles in my 8 man, both had the same 3 main skills and after that AoE fire skills that caused burning. Unsteady Ground, Maelstrom and Meteor Shower, (don't ask about my attribute set-up) all skills that interrupt when attacking, casting, and MS just knocks folks on their butt. Hit the healer with Maelstrom, hit the Melee with unsteady, wipe out the healer quickly whilst the melee War keeps the enemy Melee in check and burn through the rest afterwards with Meteor showers.
You know how they said the final boss in EoTN would get enraged if you keep interrupting her? Yea, didn't matter. Burned through her with my two Eles and a NPC interrupt Ranger. I even ran a few people through the hard mode for free. Those were fun times indeed.
Cheers to be the best game I ever played
Bedankt voor de review! 😉
I was addicted to Alliance battles and build crafting so hard wow! thx for this blast from the past!
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
55 monk farming ecto in underworld. Holding Halls. Climbing the GvG ranks. This game was sooooo much fun!
I'm glad you're also doing GW 1 and not just GW 2 videos! Please keep em coming. They are exceptionally well done
Thank you so much!
GW Factions saved me from the depression of a tough breakup. It came out at the perfect time, I had no prior experience with the GW series, and it turned out to be the best one. Lucky!! Just logging into the intro screen and hearing the epic soul haunting music was just so comforting! Legendary soundtrack and game!
This is by far the best game ever made. With the unique builds , unique PVP everything about this game was just the best. If they could just remaster this game in today and make it so your character could jump . This game can make a huge comeback
One of the best games ever made, that login music is still great ❤
This is such a fantastic and wholesome tribute to a wonderful game. Thank you for this wonderful video.
My favourite thing about Guild Wars was the world as a whole. There was SO much to explore and get lost in and I absolutely loved it for this. If I were to add a second thing, it'd be the PvP. I spent SO much time in AB/FA/JQ as an Elementalist or Assassin (Assassins in this game btw LAWD they kicked arse)!
There is 1 unique element, that no game ever took that ever again (except that hero builder game, wich was a singleplayer), the freedom to use ANY skill from ANY profession. The odds you find someone having the same stats, the same gear, the same skills.. unless they use prebuilds, is incredible small. I spent maybe hundreds of hours mixing skills, making my NPC unique party with 4 warriors using a pet and ranger skills, or Dervish using daggers, it was so much fun. So sad GW2 has no where near that freedom, or certain types are just outright removed (dervish, ritualist, or even my favo paragon).
Even when playerbase started to decline, the hero system kept you going, yes people went for 7 coockiecutter specs that outplayed any 8 man team, but a 1+3 2 man, or 1+1 4 man was still so much fun to play with. When our guild started to go quiet, we had a few around, so we al made a 1+1 build (your hero was matched with your abillities, still following the partial trinity system), it was so much fun. Yeah stuff was hard, stuff was sometimes too hard for your avarage joe player, but it was fun never the less. It remains 1 of my top 5 best MMO's ever.
When I hear the log in music I always get chills...GW1 was a big part of my childhood, and I as many others, have many wonderful memories from playing the game. I wish GW2 continued the same kind of gameplay. I really looked forward to playing gw2 on release, but it didn't really hook me in the same way unfortunately :/
The in game trade in Kamadan was the best. I went out and bought a computer and second account so I could play the game on one and sell full time on the other. I sold everything and still do. My second account bank and toons are storage for weapons, mods, titles points, gott, anything you can think of. I still log on daily just to sell someone a mod or two
Good ol Spamadan, back in the day, you couldn't keep up reading trade chat lol.
I haven't logged into the game in almost 5 years, I only know my characters and storage was full of mini pets last I checked lol.
I've been itching for the good old days of GW1, so, reloaded it on my Win7 system as I have the old school CD for a flawless loading session, unlike this LazyPeon whining about everything in the game, as it appears he doest READ mission briefings so he just flounders in the game, watching him beat on the bear with his starter hammer was utterly painful to watch.
Anyway, my point is, I've been away 11 years, love the full UI interface options at your control, the complexity of the skills as you have so much you can Tailor to your play style and being able to death level critters to earn that Unique Title was a true test of perseverance. Got my title eventually, but there was so much gripe from players that NCsoft added the daily Vangard Quests which made the game a lot easier to gain the Title: Legendary Defender of Ascalon.
11 years and I've never gone past Lions Reach, to many "Real Life" interruptions and needing to move a few a few times, it a joy to just relax in the Yackington hidden cave in Pre-Searing and Mentor new players on the complexities of this Truly engrossing game.
When I locate my GW Trilogy disks I'll be able to get my Main Toon back and bring knowledge of this Wonderful World to many more Noobs.
Take care everyone,
Droopy Graytail, Female Warrior/Monk who became my Second favorite Avater as she has the Title, such fun farming Charr bags and the Charr Hilt.
I missed the instanced maps and the title system.
Trying to HM every story mission and clearing the maps of all enemies was satisfying.
But also the farming aspect. Spending countless of hours solo farming UW with the infamous A/E build or group speedclears.
FoW for the shards and finally getting FoW armor.
Man… i still check in on all my toons from time to time to see how they’re doing lol
I used to log in every year just to check my bday presents. Loved them :D
i used to duo farm UW as SS necro and 55HP monk with a childhood friend after school and thats one of the best memories i have in gaming
Complete experience, unique world, beautiful crafted artwork and soundtrack. Golden age masterpiece
Finally completing Thunderhead Keep in proph only with a rag tag bunch determined not to fail.
First success on THK after 17 tries? Yeah, I remember, too.
My favourite of GW1 is non other than aggro bubble. In the speed clear solo like UWSC, it is very significant. Skill based game like GW1 is really unique. No other game can match it. Thanks for sharing.
I still play it from time to time. Leg!t is still around and the Speed Clear guilds are still very active. I've always been a casual farmer though. Give me a few globs of ectoplasm and I'll get my dopamine drip
I just got gw1 in this last sale and I'm really curious to explore it, I enjoyed your overview of the game.