Join the brand new community discord! discord.com/invite/waydot We are essentially trying to make an all in one MMO hub. We're still quite small at the moment but we had over 100 members in the first 24 hours. If you want to come in and chat with me or others about MMOs, join us.

@kjjonesy2081

Ай бұрын

You still playing? I'm playing this weekend with a few friends

you know the question " what game would you like to play again for the first time?" this. this game. This is the game why i was able to convince my dad to get us internet. this is the game which i was able to play whenever i wanted because it always had something fun to do. after nearly 20 years no other game was able to give me this much joy. thanks guild wars

@johnhelton9624

4 ай бұрын

Did guild wars have a subscription?

@LethalConformity

4 ай бұрын

@@johnhelton9624 Nope. Each expansion was buy to play - one flat buying price to play forever until the game shuts down. I think at one point they started bundling Prophecies (which is the base game) with Factions (which was the expansion after Prophecies). Then they released Nightfall, and then came GWEN (a tie into a secret that lasted for years with an NPC called Gwen).

@Rainsb123

4 ай бұрын

I feel you, forever a part of my childhood. Now as a 33 year old I'm constantly playing GW2 on and off and I love the fact that it's so casual since now I have kids and all that. Not the same feeling I had in GW1 and that's okay.

@minibixxx

4 ай бұрын

Same here 💯

@TheNintendoFanBoy01

3 ай бұрын

Always and forever this game.... Followed very very closely by any Zelda Game.... Going back to this game from time to time is so much fun. And it has the Best class of any and every MMO (I know I know its not really an MMO) Dervish..... There is no better class... I am so disappointed that ANet have not included Dervish in GW's 2

Guild Wars 1 was one of those games that was magical for its era. Ahead of its time but so classic. It's PVP was unlike anything else too. I miss it.

@phftheebonidiot637

Ай бұрын

The whole game trains you for group pvp combat. Picking off healers and supports before squishies and then finally frontliners. Also the memory of early heroes ascent where we all lived in fear of the korean players. Winning was the only way to open up the elite dungeons for each region. Or at least until they removed that because EU and NA were just getting murdered so badly.

@evoknz

Ай бұрын

@@phftheebonidiot637 When i started playing i was too young to really understand that whole highly skilled part of the pvp scene, and every time seeing the popup message in chat saying that X team had won the favor of the gods or something like that, i was always like "Man I wish i could be these guys one day" and that hyped me so much to get good at pvp, farmed the RA 4v4 for so long

Man this brings me back. I legit loved this more than WoW back when it launched, but a lot of my friends didn't share the sentiment. The whole build diversity by having a limited amount of skills was super ingenious.

@brainworm205

4 ай бұрын

Same, when I was in college, everyone was playing WoW and I was trying to get people to play Guild Wars with me but the shiny new world of Warcraft had too strong of a pull on my friends lol

@EB-bl6cc

3 ай бұрын

I think everyone that has liked WoW or other MMOs should get some friends together and play through the GW1 campaign. Super fun

@DaleKamp

3 ай бұрын

I was in a computer science class in high school beta testing for Guild Wars 1. I remember my classmates being fixated on whether they should try WoW or Everquest 2 before they released, I recommended WoW because of Blizzard. When I tried WoW on the day it launched, I was surprised to find I actually preferred the gameplay of GW1. When I shared that sentiment a week later when everyone was thoroughly hooked on WoW, some of my classmates became actively hostile toward me for a number of months for not liking WoW. lol

My Son loved this game so much when he was finishing high school and starting college. Then he started playing GW2, so as a way to stay in touch with him, I bought and started playing GW2 a few months after he left for college. It was my first MMORPG, so I was always way behind him and never really caught up before he and his friends started playing something else, but I liked GW2 so much I kept playing to this day.

@relentlessnights4211

4 ай бұрын

that's an awesome story, thanks for sharing.

@nicholassullivan1239

4 ай бұрын

Man, that actually beautiful. Made me smile, thanks for sharing 😊

Guild wars was the MMO alternative (not an MMO) for those of us who either didn't want to pay a subscription fee, or in the case of kids, couldn't pay a fee to play an MMO. It provided a very good option during a time when World of Warcraft, EQ, lineage 2, and FFXI ruled the MMO landscape. Another thing that really stood out for me back in the day about guild wars 1, it was very different in that you could solo (with henchmen) just about everything in the game. This was definitely not the case for most MMOs and MMO like games at the times.

@DraconiInfernalus

4 ай бұрын

definitely, at that time paying a monthly fee for a game? no thanks. but after those long years nothing changed ^^ i refuse to pay a monthly fee for a game to this day.

@trustyWeedGuy

3 ай бұрын

Very true, however, it is worth mentioning that during it's prime, (Prophecies + Factions) Guild Wars 1 was essentially played as any other MMOrpg, you'd do the whole PvE content with your guildies or other players looking to run the cooperative missions (dungeons). Henchmen were mainly used for subbing any leavers or doing some chill sidequests or farm :)

@Coldsilfur4

3 ай бұрын

You forgot about Dark Age of Camelot ;)

@RyanLeeW

Ай бұрын

@@Coldsilfur4no, no he didn’t.

I wish you could have been there to see the game full of thousands of players. There was a massive trading forum for crafting components and a dye system where everyone was farming for black dye. I also remember there being an ascension system that was crazy hard to do as a kid. Thanks for the nostalgia man really took me back!

@Waydots

4 ай бұрын

I did see the game in that era.. the problem is i was 8 years old at the time and didn't fully comprehend it and now hardly remember that experience D:

@richardcibere5050

3 ай бұрын

I miss the pvp ... it was great ... god how I loved mesmer class

@talos935

3 ай бұрын

Oh god I forgot about ascension. It was a challenge in Prophecies (Doppelganger fight), but a natural part of the storyline in Factions and Nightfall.

@littlebadassgaming

3 ай бұрын

I used to remember that archers were farming for a spider pet. And apparently they were really rare?

@talos935

3 ай бұрын

@@littlebadassgaming There was the Black Widow in the Underworld (end game 'elite' area), so it was captured more to just show off. Having a Dire stat one was considered the best

guild wars remains to this day as my favorite MMO, I think that by limiting skills to just the 8 on the bar and having the primary/secondary professions it encourages a LOT of build diversity. And its still very playable even when solo, thanks to the hero system and that they share the full breadth of creativity that players have.

As someone who still plays GW1, in addition to GW2, I applaud your endeavor to bring light to this treasure. You did a wonderful job of summarizing the nature of the game and drawing attention to the fact this is a very strategic game. The are many additional features yet to lock as well. One of the challenges I took was to complete each mission from all the campaigns in hard mode using heros, which I loved! Some people have taken that a step further by doing the same challenge solo! I truly wish the hero mechanism was available in GW2 to add a more strategic element to that game. Regarding your choice of Prophecies over Nightfall, I think you made a very good choice, as it allowed you to experience the game series as it was made available to the public. It also allowed you to experience pre-searing, which would not be available if you had started with a different campaign. I hope you continue your GW1 journey to experience the depth this game has to offer!

Fun Fact, not only is getting to lvl 20 in Pre Searing a challenge that players do for themselves, it was also imposed by the devs. Upon reaching lvl 20 you get a what is called a Title for it, basically an in game achievement that can be displayed on your character for all other players to see. Title Hunting is one of the end game things to do that also happens to start at lvl 1. Getting 30 titles maxed out on one character grants you the title God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals, the most prestigious title in the game. I love this game and have play since '06, I still play to this day and currently have 7,500hrs in the game. If you wanted to learn more and play with me I'd be glad to teach you some more about the game.

@phftheebonidiot637

Ай бұрын

Many of these same titles transferred over to gw2 with you as well. The hall of monuments also unlocked skins for the sequel. The classic fiery dragon sword that Ridlock uses for example.

@nonono9194

Ай бұрын

I logged in 2,900 hours by the time I quit in 2009 😂😂 was my life as a kid this game

@lithiumwhiskey1891

Ай бұрын

@@nonono9194 It was my childhood as well, it’s so good. I don’t play super frequently these days like I used to but I still get on probably one night a week and play to this day though.

@BLISSFULDARKNESS686

6 күн бұрын

Hey I started with gw2 back in the day but wana play gw1 now to better understand the lore and experience the gameplay, I could use a guide if you’re down :)

The original Guild Wars is still my favorite game of all time. I'm playing every day!

@bdantheman5732

21 күн бұрын

I just had to start a new account as I lost access to my original. Pm me in game sometime! "Forsaken the second" pretty much from scratch as I didn't buy merchandise pack or skill pack for this account

I just subscribed because of this video. So many memories were unlocked watching this. Bravo to you sir! This game came out when I was 19 years old and I put thousands of hours into it for several years. I remember following each expansion release like it was Christmas. My personal favorite expansion was Factions and I remember I would sit in Kaineng City for hours trading different items with people and making new friends. I spent HOURS meticulously working on builds, especially for my Monk (who remembers the 55 monk?!). I also spent plenty of hours in PvP, especially doing AB, Alliance Battles. I can also remember some super tense Guild v Guild battles and using Team Speak (Damn this takes me back). There was just SO MUCH you could do in this game. ArenaNet also created some of my favorite holiday events. Especially the event for Halloween. Hanging out in Lions Arch, or any main city hub and hanging out with people emote dance synching... Asking for runs (Drok runs!!), even creating builds to do a run yourself, making massive gold. In my opinion this game helped create the boon of online PC gaming and went on from there. World of Warcraft was great, but for me there was something very special about this game. I remember this game getting a lot of flack for not doing things that World of Warcraft did, but ArenaNet stuck to their guns and did their own thing and I applaud them for that. This is definitely a game I would go back in time with a wiped memory for.

@Waydots

3 ай бұрын

Hell yeah man I've been loving reading about everyone's old and amazing experiences with GW1

@maxschmidt5608

28 күн бұрын

This 100%!!!

omg, the Fear Not this Night at the end ... ugh, I love it. My heart. I adore both games, both GW1 and GW2. It's been such an important part of my childhood and adulthood and I absolutely 100% encourage people to try both games. GW1 is definitely harder, but it's still so fun and holds up so well even now.

Hey, about Lion's Arch - it looked different at the start of GW2. Larger, but closer in design to GW1. Then during Season 1 it was destroyed and rebuilt to what we have now.

@gurugurukuma

2 ай бұрын

that was one heck of a crazy event. one of the best in gw2

@Pierstoval

2 ай бұрын

@@gurugurukuma I remember it, it was crazy indeed!

@andrewmeyer3599

Ай бұрын

You can find old Lion's Arch under water

Spent 5 years on this lovely game, I wish I could spend them again for the first time. I enjoyed it way more than any other online RPG I've ever played. Played with great people, even role-played on it, was perfect. Yes, it's worth playing in 2024, but also yes you need to accept that it will not be the same intuitiveness than other classic RPGs today. Achievements are harder to get, you don't farm for higher level gear to have that +1 point you want (at some point during the end-game you will have your "close to final" gear), contrary to other "tier-based" gears in other RPGs. I sincerely wish more people would accept playing older games instead of succombing to the hype of newer games that are filled with micro-transactions, hype-based contents, that are way more dull and consensual than playing with friends a role-playing game that was intended to be appreciated in all its parts, not just the hype.

@maxschmidt5608

28 күн бұрын

Exactly my thoughts, 100% ☝️👍

The first time going over the wall and fighting charr, that was fun. I also remembered trying to reach level 20 without dying once during the factions expansion as an assassin for a title but literally died every time right before reaching 20.

To me gw1 will always be superior to gw2. Such magical memories

@gurugurukuma

2 ай бұрын

agree

@shershot

2 ай бұрын

Ya back before bots and u had help by the community. Getting runners or battling through with struggle. Golden era

@bejeh79

2 ай бұрын

Soo superior because of memories?

@sanguin3

2 ай бұрын

​@@bejeh79GW1 has better PvP for sure 😂

@Jon-uy3qg

2 ай бұрын

Im crying about that moments😞😞

All time favorite game not for the PvE/story, but for the PvP, specifically Guild vs. Guild battles. Had me playing daily for 7 years. To date the best PvP i ever played in any MMO.

@christianlandgrave5796

4 ай бұрын

Codex Arena was crazy fun too.. the variety of gameplay you got there was insane. Faction vs. faction was very fun too as there wasn't any strict meta.

@Nick22159

3 ай бұрын

feel that. Heros Ascent was for me the perfect PvP mode

@Coldsilfur4

3 ай бұрын

Then you havent played Dark Age of Camelot :D

@unloolmaster

2 ай бұрын

man me a 12 year old boy and my best friend were too stuipid to understand pvp. We always died in this pvp arena challenges when for example the trap rangers came.. still fun times, i laughed so much

This game was where it all began for me for games online. It really was a strong start too I feel.

I played it back when it launch, but just bought all of the expansions on Steam yesterday! Great timing on the video !

Setting heros' second professions to ranger, and having them all tame pets and questing with a crew and a literal zoo, was quite the feeling of power back in the day! I adore these games and think they are under rated, so happy to see this video pop up on my feed :)

I have fond memories of playing GW when it came out. What a time to be alive.

Interesting to know about Lion's Arch: it's been flooded! So the remains of the city you see in GW1 are still somewhat noticable when you take a dive into the lake at Lion's Arch

Time to bring back the Touch Ranger!! 😂 [You can look this up on the Guild Wars wiki]

@Kelrain

Ай бұрын

That's the first thing I thought when he selected Ranger/Necro. Good memories.

This game had the best PvP I have ever played as well. If you made a PvP character, it was automatically level 20 and could use PvP specific gear... so there was no PvE grind to get into PvP and the PvP was also very balanced because of that.. no broken PvE items in PvP. There was also a mode called "Codex Arenas" Where only a random selection of skills was available and this rotated every week. So it was a mode where you HAD to do theorycrafting for your build... you could change your subclass on PvP characters whenever you wanted, so this was really an incredibly fun part of the game and a great creative outlet. I had some really great builds come out of it that I even ended up using in regular PvP.

Logged into my account yesterday for the first time in years - the nostalgia is real haha. Absolutely love seeing someone take a new look at an old favorite, thanks for the video ^___^

Heroes were introduced in the Nightfall expansion, completely changed the game. Originally there was no cap on number on minions you could summon at a time minionmancy necro could have a literal army and you could destroy Visunah Square, they were good times

@gurugurukuma

2 ай бұрын

HAHAHA! I remember that. N/Mo MM was so OP back then. And a N/Rt battery is a very essential partymate

Having the henchmen / heroes is what makes me love this games. They were supposed to have a sidekick in GW2 as a callback but eventually dropped it. To this day I still believe GW1 is a vastly more fun game to play than its successor is in terms of storyline, characters, the numerous factions and a lot of gameplay elements and theory crafting involved in such. Basically have 100 combinations, thousands of skills and being able to fully customize 8 characters at once with those skills and class combinations (via heroes). Though something that turned my friend off from the game was him thinking it was an MMO when it turned out to be a lobby game that allows a max of 8 players in the overworld (though dozens in towns). Nobody will ever be in your instance unless you invite them from town. I remember them making fun of the thought by saying Call of Duty is more of a MMO because of it, and that the devs themselves stated that GW1 wasn't an MMO and made a big deal of how the second one actually is. In pre-searing there is actually a very large map to discover with several additional towns that the story doesn't send you to by itself. So exploring it will yield access to more resources and skills, as well as a nice sight seeing trip. In addition, you are able to "enchant" each piece of armor with +1-3 attributes of any skill from the start to min/max builds. But it is at the cost of max HP. In addition, you are able to buy Mercenary Heroes in the shop and have give them the name and appearance of the characters of your account. So if you have multiple characters, you will be fighting alongside them in game.

aw man.. i started my gw journey thru factions as a kid. Started an assassin and damn it was the most fun I had. Mechanics of this game are so unique; finding special skills and trecking around to capture it to enhance your skill build.. PvP was insanely cool man. Playing Interrupt-Ranger, making it my mission to interrupt all of the elementalists nukes priority #1. God, Take me back

As a little kid, I loved Hero's ascent. LFGs Emote checks, EoE bombs, ranger spikes and IWAY builds. Enjoyed the evolution of PVP. Watching the top teams duke it out on their in-game streams.

great game been playing since nightfall released and it just aged like wine. The fact that u can pick this up 19 years later and have an absolute blast playing solo or with 1 or 2 friends says it all.

Found your channel awhile back and I must say you make GREAT content , It has been very useful to me finding some games to play and some videos I watch just to be entertained!

Fantastic video! This was my most played game growing up and every so often I come back to play it. Even to this day there’s a decent population and the game feels alive. Especially around the holiday events!

GuildWars 1 is the best co-rpg game and it was made 20 years ago, its unique and quality, this game has the best combat/skill system i played (i tested the majority of all mmos and GuildWars 1 have the best combat), you enjoy activating skills in this game. I started GuildWars again in december, with new account (after 15 years retired) and i love the game, im impressed how good was made.

This was very nostalgic for me. Appreciate the honest takes and experiences.

oohh the memories, i wish to be able to play it "first time" again. Simple fact of having double profesion (which second can changed later on) is SOOOO FUN, doesnt matter if its strong or not, its just cool to try out different combinations. Music, sound effects, atmosphere...everything just was fine, spend so many hours on each session while being on vacation :D

Great video ! Seeing you play GW1 and experience it brought back all the feels I have for this great game.

Amazing game. Still find myself doing a playthrough of the story every few years. Coming up with your own playstyle mixmatching skills is so much fun.

Thanks for featuring this game - Its my childhood game and i still play it!

Excellent video my guy! Hey if you ever run the pre-searing upload the playthrough, eh?!

The issue is that Ranger main class does not have the energy pool to handle the Necromancer skills. You can get away with a few but you cannot lean heavy on the Nec side. In other words, a Nec secondary for a Ranger is a bad choice. And more broadly, very very few specific builds and classes manage to take full advantage of the secondary. Most play just the primary. But you can change your secondary later in the game. Also I encourage you to try the other classes.

@mikali1704

4 ай бұрын

Touch Ranger.

man i was hoping you'd do this one! Favourite game of all time!

This was a total nostalgia trip. I played GW when it first came out and absolutely loved it. Great video mate, and shoutout Hugh Janus.

I've always loved this game and still play it to this day. Guild Wars wiki has all the information you will ever need to make it though this game. Great job on the vid!!

I enjoyed your GW2 video a lot and commented on it that I have 15k hours in GW1. So I was very excited to watch this video :) It's fun, stressful and hilarious to watch you go through all the wonder, learning, challenges and outright mishaps we all went through learning this game over the years. It's a game with a long history and a devoted playerbase even still. Yeah it's a smaller community than it used to be, the team meta is "solved" (Mesmers. So many Mesmers) and the game shows its age in many spots but we all love it for more than just nostalgia and imo its unique aspects still hold up to modern MMOs All in all, thank you for this video. It was extra special for me.

@phftheebonidiot637

Ай бұрын

I had to giggle when I saw the infamous grim cesta on that merchant. So so so many memories.

Lot of mention of the graphics early in the video. It did at some point a few years back actually get some graphical upgrades. Maybe a year or so after GW2 came out. So it didn't look quite as good on release. It definitely still has its charm, and some amazing views you can find.

I still fondly remember two of my high school buddies getting this for my birthday - they brought their computers over and we spent all night playing Guild Wars.

This is my favourite game. The infinite team builds you can have with your heroes is so much fun.

I played a TON of GW1 in 2022 and 2023. Played it kinda like a solo party-based rpg but the community was always happy to group up and help me out if i needed. But you can play the whole game solo and its a great rpg experience. Still gotta go back and work through the expansion content

I wish more solo farming options was implemented in Guild Wars 2. The first game had plenty of them and they were a blast. Icy dragon sword farming, ecto farming in the underworld. Part of the fun was learning to navigate through the environment to achieve those drops.

Pre-searing Ascalon was so charming that I decided to get the "Legendary Defender of Ascalon" title when I made my second character... I leveled all the way to 20 there and was sad when I finally left.

this game brings found memorys , played it when it just got out, joined a top 10 pvp/pve guild, won the halls of heroes many times with sweaty builds, with frozen soil and pvp korean god players till late nite, HoH is an pvp achievemt when you win all layers of pvp rounds

Very informed review! It just hit me when you said 'skills can be acquired with various currencies in the game'. This really shows that you played it properly and looked for Information about the game. A lot of reviews would just be 'WhY dOnT i StArT wItH sKiLL? I dOnT LiKe'

I wish there was a way to bring popularity back to this game!

With the lull in new content in GW2 (as a solo player) I'm trying Prophecies myself right now, pottering around with the different classes to see which one I'll like once I hit post Searing. I found that by doing every pre-searing quest, collecting 50 red iris flowers (probably totally unnecessary but I wanted that 5th bag) you'll be around level 8 by the time the Searing happens. Having watched some GW2 lore videos I'm just blown away how much lore, locations etc. are lost on GW2 players like myself who have never played the original. Anyway having lots of fun playing.

As someone who has played both games for a long time and has made hundreds of videos on both, it's cool to see a new player experience these for the first time. It's interesting to see how everything is so natural for us veterans. The way combat works, the story progression, the dual classing system. But to a new player, these can be so confusing. I'm also usually focused on story and lore most of the time when I play and make videos, so it's interesting to see that a lot of details that I think are just so simple to realize, don't click at all for new people. Thank you for making this video. It was a lot of fun watching!

I have to commend you, doing this solo must have been daunting. I have played since the launch and at first the going was vey slow, but then I was adopted by a Guild. As it was my first MMORPG they carried me for a long time. I chose necro/mes. I still play once a month. Now I play in Hard mode trying to complete each mission with just heroes. I would recommend this game to anyone. It seems to be timeless.

That's a beautiful video for GW1 and did million times better helping out as a beginner's guide into the game than the long 2 hours videos on KZread. Thank you for that man, I'm just about to log in. I never got a chance go play it back in the day, because I was playing WoW, but always kept an eye out for GW and always found it really appealing!

The thing with the pre-searing challenge is that you had to work for it through a LOT of deaths. Enemies in this game gain experience in exactly the same way you do, so you would have to die to mobs a ton of times to level them up so they could keep giving you experience. It was brutal, but Ascalon’s atmosphere made the struggle worth staying lol.

I miss my guilds the Deldrimor Arena Dogs [DAD] and being eventually invited to Zealots of Shiverpeak [ZoS]. A guild run by Arenanet staff, when I became a member I was given a unique link to the game to allow faster patching direct from Anet. I have such fond memories of the game. My warrior fully decked out in the end game gear with a dragon sword and my Invincimonk solo farming the hardest content. This formed such a core part of my teen years and it will always hold a special place for me.

One thing worth noting is perhaps that as far as i know there are still achievements you can hunt in gw1 that will give you cosmetic benefits in gw2 via the hall of monuments. If you see anyone in gw2 rocking the god walking amongst mere mortals title they maxed out 50/50 in the legacy gw1 achievements. I think there are even still people that get together to farm those in gw1 which i think is cool. I'm a little sad ninja, ritualist, paragon and dervish didn't quite carry over as classes to gw2 rather getting remixed into revenant and elite specs gw1 is hugely nostalgic for me as the second mmo i had ever played and fell in love with after vanilla wow.

some helpful additions Firstly the Secondary Proffesions aren't permanent in any way, once you get to certain point in the storyline you will be able to unlock the others and freely switch between them in town at ease. secondly Drop your FOMO for pre searing ascalon its great for prestige titles and gofing off, you aren't missing anything by leaving early, the only thing you are skipping are skills that can be gotten later for gold (this was a great way to help keep the in game economy stable, that and NPC's sell based on supply and demand) I would take it one step further and advise new players not to start in prophecies, it's the longest and most boring campaign although for veterans most of it is skippable , the other campaigns are much faster paced and have other advantages such as the Incredible Abilities of the Assassin (best secondary for every class) the Ritualist (best Solo farmer for novice players and best at keeping parties alive for experts) and Dervish in NF (best solo farmer for experts and best at everything else also for experts but easy to learn for Novices my reccomendation is for Factions, but NF is a good alternative My final Tip is Koss, Triple Mesmer or Triple Necro with Ritualist supports are the meta but he is underrated because he is a warrior Hero, Warriors make for the 3rd worst Hero's for AI they just don't have any PvE only skills needed for Warriors to be great all the core skills are tough to make into a decent build BUT I figured out the solution Give Koss the /bonus Hammer to equip and put 9-10 into Hammer Mastery, then make his Secondary an Elementalist and give him 19 in Fire magic the Fire storm skill and the Elite Elementalist skill from Factions Mission Nahpui Quarter Star Burst I prefer him over Dervishes often because he never dies, does amazing damage, and doesnt have enchants to strip people will tell you that Firestorm is a bad skill because it makes enemies scatter, but if they are in your face, then fine let them scatter www.gw-memorial.net/templateDecoder/ OQYVkQ1Gl5WnJOKY3bdFV3RsYIAA

I was 17 when GW released. Then around 2007 my best friend and I bought copies for $10 at walmart and played for hundreds of hours after work. Was really my first MMO and i still have some great memories of doing runs for new players. Also helped that it was one of the few games that would run on my 1GB of RAM Vista laptop with no graphics 😂

To this day, GW1 is one of my favorite games of all time. Glad it still holds up. I may have to hop back into it just for the nostalgia. ❤

i recently got this n cant wait to try it :3

@Boom3120

4 ай бұрын

Welcome in and have fun

Thank you for the awesome video.

Ive played it all from gw1 to aion wow conan exiles, rust, tarkov, age of empires, starcraft, lol, dota, rimworld, stardew, Dead by daylight, l4d, you name it. Ive played it. Guild wars 1 is the top 1 game ive played in the last 25 years. The buils you can make are insane. The GVG pvp in its golden era was insane. If they made an expansion for GW1 i would be all over it

The Lions Arch you visit in GW1, is basically underwater in GW2, Zhaitan drowned it, and before Scarlet destroyed first version of LA, you could see some familiar buildings under the water

15:13 hahahaha right in the moment when you said you decided to go to the breach with level 5-6 I couldnt stop laughing. That was exaaactly my thought when I started playing back then when I was about 13-14 years old xD You have literally NO CHANCE

Congrats on discovering a great game. GW1 is about skill choices tailored for each area that synergize with your team and tactics. Would have been better if you had lingered longer in pre to at least get all of the available skills and the xp that comes with getting them. Purists should likely play the campaigns in order, but those that want to get the most heroes the quickest should start in Nightfall and then run to the Eye of the North at lvl 10.

I was hoping we would get a GW1 video eventually. GW2 may be a good game, but i will never forgive it for not being more like GW1. I genuinely find the old game and skill systems so much more enjoyable. Thanks for the video WayDot.

There’s even a whole community around the Prophecies-Tutorial. So community is still there and flourishing ^^

This brings me back so many memories, I used to play this with my daughter, I miss her so much, the infamous builds for PvP like the bullet proof monk, touch ranger, iway and many others. We loved the game art and style, not so much the GW2...

still such a special and unique game. hope there will be some kind of gameplay successor in the future. cool to see a newcomer still enjoying the game and imo the game only starts to unfold in lions arch and when you reach max level. trying out builds, changing skills at every outpost without cost, hunting for elite skills, thats the cool thing but man how can you not mention the soundtrack of the game even once? the prophecies theme, "temple of tolerance", the violin when you come into the shiverpeaks, the factions theme the soundtrack unlocks the true nostalgia

my favorite online rpg of all time I loved the og Guild Wars!

I played this a little last year and still enjoyed it but wish they would have kept going with it. This game was so much of my past and I dumped so many hours into it. Still sets near and dear to my heart

Makes me want to make a new character in GW1.. Lots of great memories and experiences..

@robinvc6993

2 ай бұрын

go for it

I started when Nightfall was about to launch, i was really young and overwhelmed and if i'm remembering right i dont even remember it having the companion system at the time if at all, maybe i just overlooked it. But it was really fun back then, good memories

@Boom3120

4 ай бұрын

Heroes were introduced in Nightfall ! In prophecies and factions you always had henchmen, but you weren't able to "flag" your party back then

The best part for me is choosing skills for your heros and building a full team with interesting synergy. And each of them having up to two classes.

GW1 brings back some happy memories. I mean, the pvp system was so much fun. I remember holding the Hall of Heroes all night. And don't forget the /rank :)

@MsEpilady

4 ай бұрын

Gaga, is that you?

From a certain point in the story, you can unlock any other class as a second class for your character and change it at any time in an outpost as often as you like.

I remember playing GW1 when I was like 7, I got it from a friend, because his parents got him WoW, so he just bounced his account onto me, he didn't like the game because he found it difficult and difficult to understand.. 6-7 year old Hungarian kids weren't really good in English. I got through most of the game before quitting due to having trouble understanding the game due to my.. well, lack of English. I ended up buying the game again on Steam some years ago.. understanding English is a major difference in the game. :D

E3 for everyone. I still remember playing during that time and thinking the game had everything I wanted. And no subscription fee. Still no fee and the game is still available. It's been almost 20 years. Taking into consideration that each game is a standalone campaign with only one expansion pack, the whole experience was quite modular. Prophecies felt slow paced with huge maps to explore, although they were a bit empty. Factions was blazingly fast when it came to level up your character to level 20. Nightfall was the sweet spot between the two. And then you had eye of the north, which was super challenging. Honestly, GW1 is a one of a kind game.

GW1 was something special. The combat in GW2 is good in its own right but to this day I've still not encountered a more deep and rewarding combat system for PvP in an MMO - with its focus on build craft, strategy, team coordination and positioning it feels more akin to a MOBA than an MMO in some ways, and I think ahead of its time. There's an interview with one of the original ANet founders where he says they were inspired by Magic: The Gathering to create an RPG where choices and strategy matter more than how much time you've spent playing and you can definitely see that in things like only having 8 slots on a skill bar. No idea if there are still people playing it but if you can find a way to get enough people together you have to try GvG, just such a phenomenal PvP game mode. I must've spent hundreds of hours playing Alliance Battles too.

if i could wipe my memories and play a game in its prime, it would of been the original guild wars such great memories

@alanm6o9

4 ай бұрын

Agreed

@thebigbucktheory5488

3 ай бұрын

Same

@gurugurukuma

2 ай бұрын

remember how we felt lost when we don't know the fate of little gwen and we were so glad that she survived when Eye of the North was released.

My first mmo Teenager me was hooked. Bunch of classmates wanted me to play with them. So i got the game play a week was like a drug. Few weeks later every one alright stop playing cuz they finish main story. Meanwhile i was like u guys are crazy i end up buying and playing all the campaigns! Eotn was my fav cuz of the big ursan farmming map clearing within everyone before it was nerf. Also spend way too many months at the VS spear dungeons farming. Finally got one! Still my one and only rare dungeon drop i got.

Great video!

Miss this game. Actually had some of the developers sign my original copy back when the game came out. It was a BLAST!

I dont know if you oversaw the extra classes because you choose prophecies, or if it was just not relevant for the review(but i think it should also be mentoined) Nightfall and Factions have 2 extra classes to play. For factions: ritualist and assasin/ for Nightfall: Derwish and paragon. So to your comment on minute 7.00, i would say for the complete game 4 more classes to multiply xD also great review i liked it a lot, its very relaxing.

Been reading through the comments, and wanted mention a few things new players won't get right away. Primary profession determines the character's armor class, rune selection (armor and attribute bonus) and primary attribute (for ranger, Expertise). For picking the character profession, consider how the primary attribute will synergize with your secondary profession. In case of R/N, Expertise lowers the cost of touch-range "skills," attack skill and rituals. Necromancers have touch-range spells like Vampiric Touch, Vampiric Bite, which would cost 5 energy instead of 15 at 12+1+3 expertise. Blood Ritual is also a strong support spell affected by expertise. Ranger is versatile, since expertise affects many skills for all secondary professions (exception being mesmer, where the only real synergies are Echo and Blackout. Elementalist secondary is not bad for Lightning Touch or conjures for extra bow damage). They are also tanky as hell with access to long-lasting block stances and a base 100 armor vs elemental damage. The only 2 primary professions that have little synergy with secondary professions are Monk (Divine Favor) and Dervish (Mysticism), which only affects their own professions skills (though Blessed Aura on monk could have potential with many enchantment-based secondaries... Dervish has some mysticism elites that can turn them into a caster). You can change your secondary profession after "ascension" points in each campaign. Each campaign also has special side quests to get attribute points for characters created in that campaign. Hardest ones to get to are for Prophecies characters. Even though there are the henchmen and heroes catering to a solo experience, even in 2024 there is a strong community presence and pretty much all of them in main hubs are willing to discuss things about the game and answer questions. Some are even willing to drop everything to join on a random adventure or test a build. Guilds in an alliance are excellent hubs for social interaction, PvP, and random delves into dungeons and elite zones. For skill unlocking, there's a few tricks to it. In Isle of the Nameless from the Great Temple of Balthazar (accessible from a port town from any campaign), there is an NPC at the entrance called Master of Paths. Talking to him unlocks a PvP training arena, that eventually leads to the Zaishen Elite zone. It's a quick thing to do daily to get a ton of Balthazar faction (up to a 7k or 8k limit) for unlocking skills at a Priest of Balthazar. Also helps teach about old school PvP team comps in arenas. This is a great way to unlock skills you can buy, use tomes to acquire, or just have on your heroes. Making a lot of gold early on is easy once you beat a campaign. This unlocks hard mode, and you can participate in HM dailies like Zaishen Missions and Zaishen Bounties with other players for great rewards. Alternatively, there are a lot of rich and lazy players. Research "Nick Sets." These are sets of collectable items from monster drops that can be exchanged from an NPC for high end consumables. You can sell your consumables, or sell the collectables for them in Kamadan. Best way to farm this is completely solo, no heroes or hench, since heroes and hench take their own slice of the loot dropped. Might have to get creative with a solo farm build doing that, however, depending on what it is and where. On note of collectables, a lot of "max" stat weapons can be farmed from collectables to gear up your heroes. A 20/20 domination offhand could be farmed in ~ 30 minutes from Jade Brotherhood, for example. Salvage and identify everything. Basic crafting materials can be sold to a Crafting Material Trader for big money. Some collectables can be salvaged for expensive ones like plant fibers. Wood and cloth aren't as valuable since they're most common, and sell for merchant vendor price. Lastly, don't feel bad about watching a cutscene. The lore's solid and some cutscenes tell you where to go next. Not everything is guided by a main quest, or even a side quest. Even with another player in the party, they'll understand. And, Vizunah Square can be a wall in Factions for some players since it's actually a 16-man mission. There's 2 entry points: local and foreign, for 2 teams. Ask for assistance in a main town or guild's alliance if you get stuck there.

Thanks for doing this video. I'm a GW2 player and I have wondered whether it's worth buying and playing GW1. You explained things well without spoilers so I will give it a try.

returned to GW like 2 years ago and spent another 300hrs into making a perfect 8 man team hero setup: the BiP Healer, SoS Resto, ESurge/Panic Mesmers, ST Prot and so on... collecting all the necessary Skills, looking for the perfect wands & staffs, buying the best runes, equip my heroes with the most beautiful armor and fitting weapons, all that stuff took me quite some time but i don't regret one single second of it. when i had my perfect lineup and went through the most challenging missions and most difficult areas in hard mode just to barely succeed, it was quite an experience and i felt so proud of myself. the game demands a lot of you, but the result is so satisfying, I can't really compare it with another game really...

I still play GW 1, i still love it.

It did have a graphic update. Yup, then they went the casual way... Mixing classes was amazing. So many skills.

This game up to this day is my only real videogame love. I remember coming home from school, starting my computer and playing this game for hours, chatting with my friends and guild members, slowly but steadily working towards my GWAMM title... my personal golden age of gaming. Good, no, better times those were. I really wish to experience this game again for the first time, like it was 2007 again. Still return to this gem of a game every couple of months.

😭❤️ I turned no-life for real with this game. At times I barely slept

GW1 is so good. By the way, you kind of hard-moded yourself on the base campaign. There is a ton of quest content in the different areas of Pre-Searing Ascalon that will get you to about level 8-12 before moving to post-Searing. Starting post-Searing as a level 2 definitely makes it tough, haha.

My favorite game i come back to it every year bc i just miss it whenever i don't play it for to long

If you had the Xpac Eye of the North you could get four lvl 20 heroes soon after reaction Lions Arch. M.O.X. is a hero you can get in any of the campaigns of the game. He will be outside where you found him in Factions, and outside Kamadan in the Nightfall campaign, and he is also outside Lions Arch. The only requirement is that you own all 3 campaigns, and the xpac EotN to unlock him. But also inside the cities he is outside of there will be a quest that leads to the EotN content. Just doing that, and ending up in the first outpost in EotN will get you a level 20 hero monk, and a level 20 hero elementalist.

You can still find old Lion's Arch in GW2 if you dive into the water.