Omg so that's were my Adam skull focus is from!!! Thats amazing! Love these Lore videos, thanks so much for doing them, after HoT and LWS3 came out i realised that I really didnt know anything about Guild Wars, good thing i subbed some time ago, and now found out about this playlist! Awesome job :)
OH MY SWEET DWAYNA THAT WAS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you continue to tell about them and their stories through the rest of the lore!! They were always my favorite characters when I played through the series but you just managed to make them feel SO MUCH more real!! THANK YOU WOODENPOTATOES!!! So disappointed you took the first one down RIGHT before I posted this last LOL!!
These videos are so well done they make me want to replay Prophecies. I haven't gone through that storyline in ages it seems and I miss many of those characters (particularly Cynn). :) Lovely art style this time around as well. A sort of rough watercolor style, simply wonderful.
WP, Just wanted to comment for my second time... This was beautiful. You picked wonderful music for the characters that fit well, and it really hit home to structure out how important these guys were. Thanks again. I'm looking forward to the rest of it.
This is absolutley BRILLIANT stuff! I love all your work Wooden and I absolutley love comming home from work, getting myself a drink and just sit back and go through your daily work! Once again, absolutley brilliant stuff your putting out! You deserv alot of cred!
Brilliant video. I've played GW1 for many years and did not know half the information you just covered in this video. Also, the artwork done by RaizinMonk was fantastic!
Such high quality! You make the story in GW so much more alive than GW itself ever could, awesome work, as always! Also great artwork, by whoever did it, love the style!
Thanks for the some more Lore i never played guildwars 1 because i couldnt quite stand the camera angle of all things. This is realy helping me into undertsanding the lore for Guildwars 2 and i hope you keep it up cant wait for the next instalment : ) hopefully you get them all out by the time of release : )
Seconded, these video's are teaching me, a GW1 player, over twice as much as I knew about it before. And whats better, its being told in a fascinating well delivered fashion with surprisingly good pictures to illustrate what he means.
Thanks a ton for the videos WoodenPotatoes, I am so hyped for this game and the videos are going to make it that much better of a game for me. (I wish these could come out more consistently though. Biweekly maybe?)
Hi , impressive work with this series , but I have the feeling I missed parts. Like Foe Fire was not mentioned anywhere , or maybe the series is incomplete. I really don't understand why Arenanet is not making a compilation of "The story so far"
You have A LOT of videos, and I am sure that I will not be able to watch all your GW1 videos, but watching the Story Summary is a huge help since I didn't play GW1. Hopefully I will be able to play it in between GW2 :]
GW will always be my favorite game. Started a new Charakter last night in GW2 and was welcomed by two other veterans from the old days. Was such a great a moment :D
As always a pleasure to watch. Maybe you could link the current video with an annotation, too. So you can re-watch the video directly while in fullscreen. Pasting this Videolink should do it.
I liked this coverage of the GW lore, it really helps give me a refresher, since I haven't been in the early areas of the game really intensively for years. Sadly, a lot of this is going to be simply lost when GW2 comes out.
man, This series and watching old cutscenes is making me realize how much I didn't know or understand. Like that Koss was an actual character from the original days. Or that the Adam Skull had a history and wasn't just some random focus
Thank you. So much. These five have absolutely been my favorite characters since the very beginning in Prophecies, and I have always felt that their story has gone so unappreciated. I mean, you can even tell this from majority of the comments. I just really hope that their story comes forth in Guild Wars 2, hearing of their achievements and hopefully their ancestors' as well. I'd love to see some in-game references.
"Holier than thou" does not justify the enslavement and gladiator fighting of human children. Which is what the Charr did. And what they brag about. Which is what this is about. This isn't about humans being not very likable, this is about the Charr being fucking monsters in the past and the Charr in GW2 being PROUD of it. You keep avoiding the point by attacking the humanss. I'm not going to argue with you about humans being jerks. That's apparently a requirement for a MMO.
Ooh, you found a lot of the references I put in there! FYI some others are: Bryan O'Mitchel - Michael O'Brien ArenaNet CEO Docu Daniels - Daniel Dociu GW2 art director Khrysten Pyrre - Kristen Perry GW2 character artist Qao Lin - GW1 NPC named after Colin Zelur Tenanera - ArenaNet rulez spelled backwards, named after the Tenanera's Pit POI in Lion's Arch. Sheik Bridger & Frey Lancer - Hosts of the Tales of Tyria podcast Bert Singlestone - Albert Einstein Edward Ison - Edison Just to name a few.
I love everything you do but please PLEASE make this your top priority before launch. I want to learn all this lore before I am set to explore in it. Thank you!
One of the devs posted on the forums that Odgen Stonehealer is still alive and we run into him in Guild Wars 2. I assume we will hear complaints about having to use Ray of Judgment and being passed over for the Vabbian Princess or the Sunspear Strategist.
all the names there are of people who worked on gw2..ree soesbee(lore), colin johanson, felicia day (voice of zoija), mike'o bryan, and khysten( the artist who recreated the sylvari) :D
Yes, I am that RaizinMonk guy that's mentioned in the video description. WP wrote the script and narrated, I did all the visuals. And thanks a lot, glad you liked it! :D
i love this video! i wish i knew where you got all this info on the characters xD i love to read gw lore but never could find alot only bits and pieces in different places
thanks for the info :D i just hope the video is long enough to cover it properly, i wouldn't want them to feel rushed, especially considering that, more likely than not, we'll eventually visit cantha and elona in GW2.
Wow really reailly nice video, i like the art alot :D someone must have put alot of work into that. THanks for explaining the characters to us :) it was fun to listen to :)
Celifa Night - Felica Day - Voice of Zojja Soe Reesbee - Ree Soesbee GW2 Writer Bryan O'Michel - Michel O'Bryan GW2 lvl designer Johan Colinson - Colin Johanson gamescom trailer guy... Kitako Ikake - Kekai kotkai Concept artist Peter Redhill Tom Blueewood Matt Greenspring All WP characters
wp narrated, but you put in references. i'm assuming from your that you were (one of?) the artist(s) that helped bring this awesome story to life? because you that is freaking amazing.
I really love how they did the stories with those heroes that were kind of alongside the players own character even though they couldn't mention the player character in the stories, it seemed like whoever played prophecies weren't alone in there quest and had a group of friends wherever they went..(never played myself but watched woodenpotatoes LP!) makes me a bit sad there isn't something like this in gw2 but maybe the personal stories will be enough to fill the gaps of NPC friendships?
First of all .i must admit you alone have me really really hooked on GW. i was never a fan of gw1 for coz it seem to lack a LOT of lore at the start of the first game .gw2 comming up I have seen all of your dailys and i would like to thank you for explaning soo much and in a way that it doesnt seem confusing coz apperently i have discoverd from your videos that the lore in GW and the expansions is really interesting. and OMG theres soo much of it..This alone is really good for the upcoming game
I just noticed in the guild wars 2 map that there is an area with the name Ancient Dwarflands. It cant be explored now but it got me wondering on the chances of an expantion with the dwarves as a playable race. Specially because they pretty much disapeared in these years after gw1. But then again i havent read the books and it might have been explained there so..
Hey mate, I love your work. You are simply amazing and bring back so many memories while prepairing me and my friends for the adventures to come ^^. One some question thought, I'm very femeliar with the soundtrack of prophecies and factions though I have never heard the track playing at 4:44. Would you care to enlighten me where I can find those beautifull tunes ? :)
They moved quickly to open up new capacity shortly after. Personally, I missed out a lot of the early start though. Not good but better than many releases. If anything I am impressed with how fast they moved to resolve the problem. There has been a bit of progress with some of the SLI / Performance issues since. Have to use the new NVidia beta drivers and also not great but better than it was. Some serious issues with SLI / general release drivers.
Mr WoodenPotatoes, do you think that there will be some kind of way to distinguish characters between the different worlds/servers. For instance a title or an emblem or something that your character gets so that characters from other worlds will be able to recognize you with when guesting or playing WvWvW??? Great videos, keep up the fantastic work.
I think Arena should do a mini-series explaining all this content. I think these histories really matter, and most of the players that are going to play GW2 didn't played GW1. If i'm not mistaken (correct me if I'm wrong) GW1 just had 1 million players.. The number for GW2 has passed that by far, and the game isn't out yet.
looking at this video without ever playing prophecies, it's funny seeing the big role all the henchies had. as far as i knew, menhlo was the only one with relevance to the story :P that said, i just noticed that you have no plans to cover factions and nightfall in this lore series. can we expect those to be made eventually after launch?
The Charr is GW1 were evil. They committed unspeakable atrocities that can never be forgiven. In GW2 the Charr are hypocritical egotistical assholes and destructive brutes who are only not a scourge because of the dragons. They take credit for what their hated Flame legion enemies did, claim they defeated all humanity, and are more full of themselves than the Asura. People that think Charr are badass either haven't looked closely at them or are the immature preteens who think they're "edgy".
I like how they made Adam a weapon in gw2 :D
Omg so that's were my Adam skull focus is from!!! Thats amazing! Love these Lore videos, thanks so much for doing them, after HoT and LWS3 came out i realised that I really didnt know anything about Guild Wars, good thing i subbed some time ago, and now found out about this playlist! Awesome job :)
Ahhh Mhenlo....the worst monk in Tyria's history, so many hm areas lost to his incompetence....good times.
TheBangooman Love to hate him ^^
OH MY SWEET DWAYNA THAT WAS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you continue to tell about them and their stories through the rest of the lore!! They were always my favorite characters when I played through the series but you just managed to make them feel SO MUCH more real!! THANK YOU WOODENPOTATOES!!! So disappointed you took the first one down RIGHT before I posted this last LOL!!
These videos are so well done they make me want to replay Prophecies. I haven't gone through that storyline in ages it seems and I miss many of those characters (particularly Cynn). :)
Lovely art style this time around as well. A sort of rough watercolor style, simply wonderful.
The well written text and the amazing graphical display is well worth a like and fav!
this is an awesome series and you should keep it up!
WP, Just wanted to comment for my second time... This was beautiful. You picked wonderful music for the characters that fit well, and it really hit home to structure out how important these guys were. Thanks again. I'm looking forward to the rest of it.
This is absolutley BRILLIANT stuff! I love all your work Wooden and I absolutley love comming home from work, getting myself a drink and just sit back and go through your daily work! Once again, absolutley brilliant stuff your putting out! You deserv alot of cred!
Brilliant video. I've played GW1 for many years and did not know half the information you just covered in this video. Also, the artwork done by RaizinMonk was fantastic!
Such high quality! You make the story in GW so much more alive than GW itself ever could, awesome work, as always!
Also great artwork, by whoever did it, love the style!
I must say this series will be very informative to those who never experienced the story of Guild Wars.
Well done.
Thanks for the some more Lore i never played guildwars 1 because i couldnt quite stand the camera angle of all things. This is realy helping me into undertsanding the lore for Guildwars 2 and i hope you keep it up cant wait for the next instalment : ) hopefully you get them all out by the time of release : )
This is by far my favorite video you've done so far. I really like the "story book" feeling it has.
Seconded, these video's are teaching me, a GW1 player, over twice as much as I knew about it before. And whats better, its being told in a fascinating well delivered fashion with surprisingly good pictures to illustrate what he means.
Yes thank you so much for making these, saving me alot of time not having to replay the whole series again.
Doesn't matter man, your drawings were really amazing and cute.
Aww this was awesome, I loved the art! Great job RaizinMonk (and of course Woody)
Thanks a ton for the videos WoodenPotatoes, I am so hyped for this game and the videos are going to make it that much better of a game for me. (I wish these could come out more consistently though. Biweekly maybe?)
Wow, this makes me want to play Guild Wars 1 again. So many memories going out with these guys!
either INCREDIBLE NECROMANTIC POWERS or slight insanity :D you nailed that one ,,, more please ... a great job so far
That artwork along with the story was so awesome!
So many good memories, such a beautiful story! I have played the Prophecies campaign time and time again.Thank you so much for the video!
Amazing episode. The pacing and artstyle are fantastic. it's neither too long or to short. Sublime episode.
Love these videos! Easy to follow and you keep a nice pace, not too fast or slow. Thanks!
Thank you for your work man. Really enjoy the style of your vids.
Hope to see the next one when its ready :)
I LOVE THIS!!!
Thank you so much Woodenpotatoes for bringing back memories from my childhood.
love this clip, and what you did with the names was so funny.
totally worth waiting on the artists, keep 'em coming!
it's crazy that as a little kid i didn't understand any of this and yet still enjoyed gw1 immensely
Hearing all these series, makes me want to play GW1 again :D
Great job m8 !!!
But it was so short....Can't wait till next weekend. Excellent work.
You're incredible at making vids the segways in this one are amazing
Hi , impressive work with this series , but I have the feeling I missed parts. Like Foe Fire was not mentioned anywhere , or maybe the series is incomplete.
I really don't understand why Arenanet is not making a compilation of "The story so far"
Wow. You really need to make more of these. They are fantastic. Great job. :)
You have A LOT of videos, and I am sure that I will not be able to watch all your GW1 videos, but watching the Story Summary is a huge help since I didn't play GW1.
Hopefully I will be able to play it in between GW2 :]
5:15 "She had a son whom she named Micheal Tyson and taut him all she knew of the art of ear eating."
I loved the GW1 manual. It was so thick and amazing, full of awesome content and artwork.
'always looking forward to these XD kudos on all the hard work WP it's very much appreciated!
Been waiting a while for the next episodes. :) Keep them coming. :D
GW will always be my favorite game.
Started a new Charakter last night in GW2 and was welcomed by two other veterans from the old days. Was such a great a moment :D
As always a pleasure to watch. Maybe you could link the current video with an annotation, too. So you can re-watch the video directly while in fullscreen. Pasting this Videolink should do it.
I liked this coverage of the GW lore, it really helps give me a refresher, since I haven't been in the early areas of the game really intensively for years.
Sadly, a lot of this is going to be simply lost when GW2 comes out.
Extremely well done WP, I thoroughly enjoyed this!
man, This series and watching old cutscenes is making me realize how much I didn't know or understand. Like that Koss was an actual character from the original days. Or that the Adam Skull had a history and wasn't just some random focus
Nicely done! Respect for such thorough lore vids, u got my sub :)
as explaining the lore WP this way to avoid confusion and give a general plot is....FUCKING GENIUS!
Thank you. So much. These five have absolutely been my favorite characters since the very beginning in Prophecies, and I have always felt that their story has gone so unappreciated. I mean, you can even tell this from majority of the comments.
I just really hope that their story comes forth in Guild Wars 2, hearing of their achievements and hopefully their ancestors' as well. I'd love to see some in-game references.
Its is so awesome that you're teaching players who havent played GW but will play GW2...
All of GW players (probably) thank you for that :DD
After playing GW1 for years, WP always surprises me with how little I know.
He usually releases these lore episodes once every 2 weeks, however he also has a daily show where he talks about Guild Wars 2 and awnsers questions.
I love how you cleverly reorganized the sillables in your "character names" ;)
I love these sooo much! Awesome work again!
These are all incredibly well done.
thats brilliant, i love the way you tell all the things and that you know everything! im watching every your vid, srsly
Cynn has always been my favorite :D good job of portraying all of them
"Holier than thou" does not justify the enslavement and gladiator fighting of human children. Which is what the Charr did. And what they brag about. Which is what this is about. This isn't about humans being not very likable, this is about the Charr being fucking monsters in the past and the Charr in GW2 being PROUD of it. You keep avoiding the point by attacking the humanss. I'm not going to argue with you about humans being jerks. That's apparently a requirement for a MMO.
Thanks for all your great videos WoodenPotatoes!
Ooh, you found a lot of the references I put in there! FYI some others are:
Bryan O'Mitchel - Michael O'Brien ArenaNet CEO
Docu Daniels - Daniel Dociu GW2 art director
Khrysten Pyrre - Kristen Perry GW2 character artist
Qao Lin - GW1 NPC named after Colin
Zelur Tenanera - ArenaNet rulez spelled backwards, named after the Tenanera's Pit POI in Lion's Arch.
Sheik Bridger & Frey Lancer - Hosts of the Tales of Tyria podcast
Bert Singlestone - Albert Einstein
Edward Ison - Edison
Just to name a few.
Worth waiting for. Best damn lore explanation I've ever seen.
I love everything you do but please PLEASE make this your top priority before launch. I want to learn all this lore before I am set to explore in it. Thank you!
these videos are just what I needed thank you so much!!!
One of the devs posted on the forums that Odgen Stonehealer is still alive and we run into him in Guild Wars 2. I assume we will hear complaints about having to use Ray of Judgment and being passed over for the Vabbian Princess or the Sunspear Strategist.
This was my favourite episode of guild wars lore. :D
It really got me excited for guild wars 2 and made me wish i had played guild wars 1.
How creative! The guy who wrote that line is a genius!
all the names there are of people who worked on gw2..ree soesbee(lore), colin johanson, felicia day (voice of zoija), mike'o bryan, and khysten( the artist who recreated the sylvari) :D
Yes, I am that RaizinMonk guy that's mentioned in the video description. WP wrote the script and narrated, I did all the visuals.
And thanks a lot, glad you liked it! :D
i love this video! i wish i knew where you got all this info on the characters xD i love to read gw lore but never could find alot only bits and pieces in different places
thanks for the info :D i just hope the video is long enough to cover it properly, i wouldn't want them to feel rushed, especially considering that, more likely than not, we'll eventually visit cantha and elona in GW2.
Wow really reailly nice video, i like the art alot :D someone must have put alot of work into that. THanks for explaining the characters to us :) it was fun to listen to :)
Wait, is that what the Kyhlo PvP map is about?!
Celifa Night - Felica Day - Voice of Zojja
Soe Reesbee - Ree Soesbee GW2 Writer
Bryan O'Michel - Michel O'Bryan GW2 lvl designer
Johan Colinson - Colin Johanson gamescom trailer guy...
Kitako Ikake - Kekai kotkai Concept artist
Peter Redhill
Tom Blueewood
Matt Greenspring All WP characters
Can't wait for more of this, please add more!
wp narrated, but you put in references.
i'm assuming from your that you were (one of?) the artist(s) that helped bring this awesome story to life?
because you that is freaking amazing.
Adam and Eve?
This is even better than replaying GW1, thanks!
Aidan is half Aragorn and half Batman. Cynn is Lina Inverse, Eve is the Bowler from Mystery Men.
I really love how they did the stories with those heroes that were kind of alongside the players own character even though they couldn't mention the player character in the stories, it seemed like whoever played prophecies weren't alone in there quest and had a group of friends wherever they went..(never played myself but watched woodenpotatoes LP!) makes me a bit sad there isn't something like this in gw2 but maybe the personal stories will be enough to fill the gaps of NPC friendships?
First of all .i must admit you alone have me really really hooked on GW. i was never a fan of gw1 for coz it seem to lack a LOT of lore at the start of the first game .gw2 comming up I have seen all of your dailys and i would like to thank you for explaning soo much and in a way that it doesnt seem confusing coz apperently i have discoverd from your videos that the lore in GW and the expansions is really interesting. and OMG theres soo much of it..This alone is really good for the upcoming game
I wish my mom was as good of a story teller when i was a kid as you are!
I just noticed in the guild wars 2 map that there is an area with the name Ancient Dwarflands. It cant be explored now but it got me wondering on the chances of an expantion with the dwarves as a playable race. Specially because they pretty much disapeared in these years after gw1. But then again i havent read the books and it might have been explained there so..
Awesome art. Can't wait for the next one, even though I've played through GW1.
Well worth the wait. And now I must wait for more :( But I do so excitedly!!
Thanks Wooden.
This is amazing, ty for the upload WP!
One thing I always found curious about the "stand-in PCs" was that Mesmers never were represented in Ascalon's Chosen
Hey mate, I love your work. You are simply amazing and bring back so many memories while prepairing me and my friends for the adventures to come ^^.
One some question thought, I'm very femeliar with the soundtrack of prophecies and factions though I have never heard the track playing at 4:44. Would you care to enlighten me where I can find those beautifull tunes ? :)
1:17 Under the girls foot is Frey Lancer = FreeLancer from Team Legacy/Tales of Tyria
(Not to mention all the dev names)
They moved quickly to open up new capacity shortly after. Personally, I missed out a lot of the early start though. Not good but better than many releases. If anything I am impressed with how fast they moved to resolve the problem. There has been a bit of progress with some of the SLI / Performance issues since. Have to use the new NVidia beta drivers and also not great but better than it was. Some serious issues with SLI / general release drivers.
This video is in the Guild Wars 2 Story Summary playlist twice for some reason
Mr WoodenPotatoes, do you think that there will be some kind of way to distinguish characters between the different worlds/servers. For instance a title or an emblem or something that your character gets so that characters from other worlds will be able to recognize you with when guesting or playing WvWvW???
Great videos, keep up the fantastic work.
Seremey Joule? I see what you did there :3
Loved the story and the art!
Great video as always!
I think Arena should do a mini-series explaining all this content. I think these histories really matter, and most of the players that are going to play GW2 didn't played GW1.
If i'm not mistaken (correct me if I'm wrong) GW1 just had 1 million players.. The number for GW2 has passed that by far, and the game isn't out yet.
looking at this video without ever playing prophecies, it's funny seeing the big role all the henchies had. as far as i knew, menhlo was the only one with relevance to the story :P
that said, i just noticed that you have no plans to cover factions and nightfall in this lore series. can we expect those to be made eventually after launch?
One of my favorite Devona quotes: Idiot meet hammer, hammer meet idiot.
Still cracks me up :D
The Charr is GW1 were evil. They committed unspeakable atrocities that can never be forgiven. In GW2 the Charr are hypocritical egotistical assholes and destructive brutes who are only not a scourge because of the dragons. They take credit for what their hated Flame legion enemies did, claim they defeated all humanity, and are more full of themselves than the Asura. People that think Charr are badass either haven't looked closely at them or are the immature preteens who think they're "edgy".
Wow, they way you tell this... i love it
I was also tearing up a bit and I have absolutely no idea why.
Fantastic work!