Funny how back when GW came out we thought "wow, this is really good, I wonder where this genre will go from here! Surely it will keep improving!". Little did we know what we played back then WAS the peak of the MMORPG genre, and nothing after even came close. ... :(
I started playing shortly before Factions was released and the time until Eye Of The North was truly magic. It was my first and only MMORPG I played more than one month (even GW2 bored me after a short time because it felt like a WOW copy) and I never experienced something better than this genre. You could start casual and then become very ambitious in PVE and PVP with time. The 8 skill limitation was ingenious and even though meta builds took over after a few years it was still a wild ride in the first few years when nobody knew how to properly play his class and ArenaNet introduced new content and skills all the time. Unfortunately when people started to cry that GW is dead half a year after EOTN was released ... well ... they kind of were right. Damn, I really miss this time. My guild was like my second family for many years. We were bonded by the love for this unique and special game.
we didnt know..and... Anet too... that Action RPG will rise and willhaveit place.... they could easy follow path of action rpg-mmo and we could run maps-infinity for juicy drops with amazing pvp.. as most action-rpg lack pvp or are p2w. Gw1 was missed opportunity with ppl being negative for closed words. I still have hopes for Remaster Gw1.. that push it to action-mmorpg way than pure mmo.
Finish Berserker and Shiro Descendent are two players that stood/stay at this specific place for a couple of years now, some claim from 2012 onwards. I think their reasoning was to make the game feel less empty for new or returning players that start in prophecies, as Ascalon is the first major city you get to after leaving the pre-searing tutorial area.
Problem is that doesn't work. There's several in FFXIV that does the same thing and all it does it look just as static as the world itself is because they never do anything except look like idiots and dance 28/9.
Thank you! OwO! Am Shiro. I saw my shadow and part of my character in practically every clip that Mitch showed with Finnish and was like "hey, what about me?! D:". -w-. Finnish suggested this video to me. I wanna clarify a few things, owo. I don't know Finnish's exact reasoning, but I'm here because I can't let go of this game. This manifests as people-watching. I have a much longer story about precisely how this came about. The key thing is, I believe that the spot I stand in is the best spot to see as many moving players as possible in Ascalon. I think Finnish might have similar reasoning, but due to a community tradition at the time around 2007-2010, I never quite won the honor of being allowed on the hill by the then-present players. Even after their departure, it feels wrong for me to be up there. As with any player, you're kicked after 24 hours, and we both manually reposition every time. Finnish has the easier spot to do this with, by far. I had to move my spot slightly so I'm right next to Rocky, and the cat ears are an alignment aid. Sometimes people stand by Rocky when I'm not around. I appreciate. -w-. One dude tried to block my vision so I couldn't realign, so I had Finnish drink a tonic that transforms him into something physically large and stand in the way, then practiced how to do things blind. I can do it pretty reliably now, but I vastly prefer having Kitty Ears Of Alignment. -w-. We both do check for messages. We try to reply, but usually people log off before we can, and there's no offline messaging feature in this game. If you say something in Ascalon or directly whisper one of us, /and then stay logged in/, you'll probably get a response. To maximize your chances, fully close the game (not just log out!) and log back in before sending your message, so you get as long of a timer as possible. Finnish does runs, I don't. The specific reasons why can practically be their own video; the topic's actually pretty deep. While on the topic, I'd personally be up for an interview as Agumon5 suggests, and I can basically guarantee that Finnish will knee-jerk-respond by saying no, but if you give me five minutes I can possibly get them to say yes.
@@NofewFudtefcity hello, I was abit confused concerning certain words you used in your message as with the w or the owo. Can you clarify on those ? Also you said you could make Finnish be interested for an interview, but you write them, is it because more than one person play this character ? I didn't quite understand, anyway it's nice to see you get mentioned in many videos related to Guild Wars, because it also mean more videos are made about Guild Wars !
I started playing the game again a month ago for first time in 12 years. For those wondering: -PvE is very much alive. The main hub for groups, sales, etc is Kamadan AD districts. -Plenty of active guilds with mass amounts of members always willing to help and supply you with free stuff to make your time easier -HA is dead for the most part. It is ran by Mesmer bots running with hench. Getting to Hall of Heroes is easy, and typically you end up alone there with no real opponents for sometimes over a hour. (HA however is a bit more alive with real players during Double Fame Week) You can find a group of reals, just takes some time. And typically all the good players stick together to hold halls. -Random Arenas is virtually dead besides events. . -GvG is alive for AT and MAT, but also plagued with bots, but are not as annoying. Overall, if you’re looking to return, PvE is still very much alive and if you were a hardcore PvP’er who lived in HA, I’d recommend turning more to GvG for your fix. Hope this helps.
I started with new account in end of December, after 15 years retired (in 2009 we went to Aion with the friends), i have 3 lvl 20 pre-searing (monk, ele, war), lvl 20 sin, lvl 20 derv I took monk out of pre and doing Prophecy campign, missions + bonus + cartograph with texmod.
For the fans of more casual PvP: Alliance Battles and Fort Aspenwood are still active during weekends. AB nights are (usually) held on fridays and FA on saturdays and sundays.
@@WilliamBowens-l7u excuse you, in what way is the literary best mmo out there a sell out? it's the best thing since sliced bread mind you! it is the most perfect mmo ever!
Guildwars one was my first MMO after my mom didn´t want me to pay montly fees from WoW. AND GOD DID IT CHANGE MY Life. It´s my first game that I played over years nonstop. Mostly pvp with the endless buildcrafting! I miss those days
If you have never played guild wars 1, buy it and play it now. It is amazing and there are people still playing. If playing solo is your thing, you can do just about everything the game has to offer PvE wise with AI party members/heros. I LOVE GUILD WARS 1
where can i buy all of them?? and if i remember right, you had to do PVP to unlock most of the skills to later be used.. how is that working if not enough people are playing?
@@darksilver9593if you are still curious. You do not have to PvP at all. You can get different skills in different towns/outposts at a skill trainer. Also get elite skills from certain elite npcs by killing them and using a signet of capture skill to obtain it.
I've played GW since 2009, and GW2 since the beta. GW is such a unique game, and I love the strategic play style. It'd def not about the gear, but in how you use gear mods, weapon mods, combat positioning, and mostly tailoring the skills you use to the hostiles you'll be encountering. Even 15 years old, some of the content can still be challenging, and it's all fun! Thanks for the video; it had me chuckling, as usual!
I never really got into gw2, but I still drop into gw every now and then, nearly 20 years after first playing (I made my first character in 2006, so they're about old enough to vote now)
Choose, finally, ESO as my first MMO, and I'm glad, but GW2 is still on my list for next. One thing about ESO: people are weird, but that's probably all MMO "serious" players... Just such a weird mindset
Dye was all I cared about and lived for. Found a rare dye once. Sold it for a small - and I do mean small - fortune. Wasted it immediately. Passed out in a dopamine fueled bliss. 10/10 nostalgia would love to play again.
I grew up with thsi game back in 2005 and by gosh i have so many fond memories that to this day makes me smile and miss the pals i met in GuildWars. While I did finish the story of GW2, I have yet to muster the courage to go back and start fresh!
As someone who also AFKs in the same area for, well now over a decade and 65,000 hours on my account, I can help explain. There are a few of us in different zones, I personally hang out in Random Arenas. I think most of us do it, because we can and we love the game. Most of us have moved on, either real life has taken priority or people play different games. But we still remember our time in GW1 and how much we loved it. Even though the game is technically still alive, I can't really play it like I used to, there just aren't enough people especially in my chosen activity of RA, so we just leave it on in the background. It basically takes up no resources and for some reason, it never kicks you out for being AFK. So many of us just like to do it and remember it, at least, that's why I do it.
i took part in the beta of guild wars, which was great apart fom one thing, when the full game came out i had the choice of carrying on with my beta character which i did but that made me start after the searing ( the tutorial area) so i missed all the opening story and it wasnt until i made a second character about a year later to play through with a friend that i even knew there was a pre-searing to the story
I remember Guild Wars making a good name for itself. Which was crazy when you look at the release schedule. If you were in the mood for an MMO, Everquest, the most popular MMO in the west, had just released its sequel in November of 2004. If you're a fan of Warcraft, you're probably saying to yourself "Wait, there was something else besides WoW?" Yeah. And it released just a few days before WoW did (Quest 2 was early November of 2004, WoW was late November). But I think what made Guild Wars so attractive was the fact that it was free. This was pretty rare at the time. MMOs had subscription services, essentially money used to keep the servers running and adding new content. And that was on top of actually having to buy the game as well. Guild Wars being a one-and-done affair in regards to payment definitely attracted a crowd of loyal fans.
Guild Wars is the greatest MMO of all time. I pop in for a while every few years for the sake of nostalgia, and with the hero/henchman system it's very accessible as a single player nowadays. I gave GW2 a good try but it never quite felt right, and every other MMO I've tried has felt pretty dull in comparison (except Secret World, which was pretty neat despite having pretty bland combat). If you can't enjoy Guild Wars as it is today, then you can safely skip the entire MMO genre IMO.
Guild Wars was one of the first games I really got into. My brother and I randomly saw it as we were browsing our local electronic store's shelves, just when Factions released. That summer Guild Wars Prophecies was all we really played and now looking back, I think I'll return to it. I've forgotten mostly everything, but at least this time around I at least know the value black dye holds.
Ive been playing since 2005, my dad came home one day with a new game. My brother and i quickly started thumbing through the user manual and looking at the available classes. My brother chose and Elementalist (Ele), my dad the Necromancer (Necro aka Minion Master) and i went with a Monk because of the armor, classic Smiting for damage and team support! Its been nearly 20yrs and i still love making new characters. Its my favorite game of all time, ive done Gwamm 3 times, working on a fourth (30maxed character titles = God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals.) I also have a tattoo based on the Kurzick and Luxon guild banners 😅 With over 15k hrs logged over 5 accounts over 19yrs of playing, its safe to say I'll keep playing gw until i die.
I was part of the group that won the tournament at the end of the beta for GW. We did it by being a bunch of cheeky bastards (no exploits, but we did spike damage and used voice comms). The pvp was so addicting that it gave me withdrawals when the beta ended. Unfortunately never got back to that insane high from the beta, though the main game was a lot of fun. Glad to see you cover this one. Brings back some good memories.
I've reinstalled because of you. Its been so long and all my heroes are still there also realizing that I never finished Nightfall..... Also why didn't cover Factions and the Jade Empire inspired stuff?
Guild Wars was my first "MMO" experience, even before WoW. I played it from it's year of release and kept playing it even after my friends dragged me over to WoW. As soon as Guild Wars 2 came out I left WoW entirely and never looked back. Tyria has been a second home for almost 20 years. :)
Loved the face in the helmet🤣. MitchManix video Friday, going to be a good weekend. Happy New Year to you sir, looking forward to a year of your amazing content!
For me personally Guild Wars Factions was the peak of Guild Wars. I left guild wars 2 before end of dragons returned to Cantha, but even that was not appealing because they showed laser turtles in the trailer. The trailer with shiro of the original guild wars was so much better. I hope GW3 looks at Factions and just takes the jumping puzzles of gw2 x)
Still playing it 19 years on. It has aged incredibly well, even if the meta is a bit stale. If the devs unlocked just a little more time to balance tweak the game would have even more life!
@@powder8414 Small. And I feel most of them focus on PvP, so I generally run into a maximum of one or two people in towns. But you don't need to play with others for the most part, most of the game is doable with the NPC companions.
@powder8414 I agree with the other comment. Its unlikely youll play much of the story pve content with others. However there are guilds and daily quests that are popular, end game is pretty popular too, and there's enough of a population for those non trivial sales of items
Interesting. I remember playing this as a kid when it first came out. I remember the barren landscape of 6:04 but the entire starter area? That’s new to me. I don’t remember ever getting to go through some green area at the start of the MMO. Edit: Turns out I was a beta player 😂 didn’t even realize it.
Please note punctuation, there is no question mark. It wasn't a question it was a rhetorical statement :) ...merely giving kudos were kudos is deserved. @@AntonGully
I know you've done quite a few GW2 videos, some even as recent as last year, but I'd be curious what your high-level take is on GW2 in 2024 just like this one!
Back in a days i played some private server lineage2, but Guild Wars was my very first TRUE MMORPG experience, put thousands of hours into it. To this day i believe it was the best gaming experience of my life and I really miss it. Had so much fun both in pve and pvp... Fort Aspenwood was amazing pvp mode!!! I've played plenty of other mmo-s since then but nothing ever came close to GW1. Not even GW2. I'm happy to see there are people still playing it today. Every now and then I'm having that itch to download it and complete few more titles to get that GWAMM but at the same time, as i stopped playing GW2 few years ago, I don't think I'd motivate myself to do it as I wouldn't even show it anywhere :D
Not my first MMO but the first one I ever got serious about. Fantastic game that someday I might go back to since all my gear and characters are still there waiting for me
I wonder what gw1 would look like today if Twitch was there around the time the game was at his peak. Imagine the PvP tournament stream with commentator pretty sure gw2 would never exist.
After nearly 15 years i never played such a great game again, never had such good time again. I remember farming hardcore uwsc and fowsc to get Obsi Amor and Chaos Gloves on every Char and running soosc to get BDS on vv20% two times a row while my wohle guild was hating me for that. What a legendary time that was. Also the fact that u dont have a dungeonfinder makes the social experience so much better (like classic wow). No real Gatekeeping, no blame while u still learning the speedruns. I remeber, i was in the clan (and even in the run) which first found out that u can spare at least 10 seconds in fowsc with a HoS skip and we went Nr 1 on leaderboard. MMOS was a different experience back in time.
Another solid video! I'm reluctant to suggest it because of the somewhat bonkers subcription model it has, but if you're looking for another 20+ year old MMO that is both unique (you can actually play a dragon) and still has some sort of a player base all these years later, Istaria (originally called "Horizons") might be up your alley. Again, not sure it would be worth the money to give it a fair go. My recollection is that it'd be worth the comedy though.
Some oldschool MMORPGs like GW1 would be a good place to test A.I. 'players' since the servers are still running and some very dedicated human players are still playing. You could literally fill up cities like Ascalon and mission outposts with A.I. players who learn with time to mirror human behaviour when doing missions or just hanging out in long dead cities and outposts to give them a second life. And news like a classic MMORPG like GW1 being alive and full of 'people' again would certainly drive back a lot of the oldschool players who remember the good old times still.
20-year-old game, whose developers manage to keep the servers open WITHOUT MONTHLY FEES TO PLAYERS. Showing everyone how it should be done by doing it.
Yoo it's where I spent most of my childhood! Its unfortunate that its been dead for well over a decade but I still commend them for keeping the game online. I bought the 3 games like 20 years ago and can still play for free, pretty good value!
Sadly, I'm locked out of my GW account. I know the password and name of my character. But they want to send a confirmation code to my email that I haven't had in over 10 years.
In 2005, I bought both WoW and Guild Wars but I quickly realized that it would be impossible for me to dedicate enough time on the two games, and that I would eventually have to choose one or the other. I chose WoW and I didn't regret it but Guild Wars and its expansions, even though not really being a MMORPG (at least in its PVE aspect), holds a special place in my heart since this time.
well im starting guild wars today my grandmother got me the trilogy version for some reason but hey its the thought that counts... and i was raised on games that looked WAY worse then this XD so its gonna be a trip... wish me luck on my quests :D edit: turns out i cant play because the create an arena net account is no longer working for anyone this issue seems to have been here for over 4 years now... so basically im SOL... and people say not to go to support anymore because they just give you the run around... so basically the sites broken and no one has ever fixed it for atleast 4 years and or more time...
I played this quite a lot sometime in the late 00s, and now picked it up again with my brothers when it was a few euros on Steam during Christmas, and we've been enjoying it a lot. Some of the cooperative missions are a bitch to get through though lol. And I don't seem to be able to find a dagger upgrade that switches my damage type to shock, which is kind of essential to my build...
Still my favourite Online RPG of all time, bar none. At this point I think I have spent more time in Guild Wars 2, but Guild Wars 1 will always be the superior and more unique experience IMO. If it wasn't for the limited inventory space I'd probably still be playing it! But inventory management becomes a total balls' ache when you've achieved as much in the game as I did. The way after all it's expansions it's essentially a combination of a CRPG, an MMORPG, diablo-like ARPG looter, and even has some RTS elements, with a strong story and amazing word-building essentially makes it the perfect hybrid game for a player like me. I spent so long crafting the perfect team of heroes with the perfect gear and builds that I was able to take on the hardest of the games areas entirely alone with some good strategy, management, build design, NPC control and planning. I made the Fissure of Woe, Urgoz's Warren, The Deep and the Domain of Anguish all my bitch - and _almost_ cleared the Underworld that way too. Meant to take another shot at that at some point, but never quite got round to it.
some of my favorite memories in gaming come from gw1. listening to MC Hammer blasted through teamspeak while we wair for our gvg match to start. fighting through the thunderkeep mission with a bunch of randoms and my brother. Winning in the hall for the first time, my guild leader pulling a minipet ghost. such a monumental game, a shame no one tried to replicate the formulaof guildwars one again. i love the buildwars part of the game. but fuck eurospike as a backliner.. Double mesmer with drain/shame/.. parked on you? wtf guys come on xD *shout out to myrm and den schwarzen scharen asgards!
Back in 2007 shortly after the Burning Crusade expansion for WoW came out was when I decided to turn my back on WoW permanently, and I stuck to that the MMO that replaced it right up until I got a closed beta invite for FF14:ARR was Guild Wars. While Guild Wars didn't grab me as much as the original did, I like it, but original Guild Wars and its various expansions I absolutely loved and more than any other MMO of its time until FF14:ARR and mastered it, which was still being an MMO but knowing how to make your character the hero of the game's setting and narrative. It did that better than any MMO of its time, albeit it would be FF14:ARR that masters making the player's character the center stage hero of the game. Nevertheless, Guild Wars from PvP to PVE and character customization from just looks to numerous amounts of builds, it was such a phenomenal game.
Sadly you missed Factions in the Video. While short it has a decent Storyline where you have to select sides and support one faction. At least until you completed the main story, after which you can complete the missions on the other side.
There are no games out right now that do GW style gameplay, at least none I know of. And that annoys me, because I have played through all of GW multiple times and would love to have a new game with similar combat.
My all time favorite PvP game. Spent 1000s of hours in Guild vs Guild matches. Shout out to Mighty Mystics, Level XIV, Sharks n' Penguins, and Demigod Disciples.
Funny how back when GW came out we thought "wow, this is really good, I wonder where this genre will go from here! Surely it will keep improving!".
Little did we know what we played back then WAS the peak of the MMORPG genre, and nothing after even came close.
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I started playing shortly before Factions was released and the time until Eye Of The North was truly magic.
It was my first and only MMORPG I played more than one month (even GW2 bored me after a short time because it felt like a WOW copy) and I never experienced something better than this genre.
You could start casual and then become very ambitious in PVE and PVP with time.
The 8 skill limitation was ingenious and even though meta builds took over after a few years it was still a wild ride in the first few years when nobody knew how to properly play his class and ArenaNet introduced new content and skills all the time.
Unfortunately when people started to cry that GW is dead half a year after EOTN was released ... well ... they kind of were right.
Damn, I really miss this time. My guild was like my second family for many years. We were bonded by the love for this unique and special game.
we didnt know..and... Anet too... that Action RPG will rise and willhaveit place.... they could easy follow path of action rpg-mmo and we could run maps-infinity for juicy drops with amazing pvp.. as most action-rpg lack pvp or are p2w. Gw1 was missed opportunity with ppl being negative for closed words. I still have hopes for Remaster Gw1.. that push it to action-mmorpg way than pure mmo.
honestly i belief guildwars could have been a close but different alternative to the mmo genre....
Preach.
Finish Berserker and Shiro Descendent are two players that stood/stay at this specific place for a couple of years now, some claim from 2012 onwards. I think their reasoning was to make the game feel less empty for new or returning players that start in prophecies, as Ascalon is the first major city you get to after leaving the pre-searing tutorial area.
Problem is that doesn't work. There's several in FFXIV that does the same thing and all it does it look just as static as the world itself is because they never do anything except look like idiots and dance 28/9.
We need an interview with Finnish Berserker.
They're both incredibly nice as well. Even giving runs to LA for new players!
Thank you! OwO! Am Shiro. I saw my shadow and part of my character in practically every clip that Mitch showed with Finnish and was like "hey, what about me?! D:". -w-. Finnish suggested this video to me. I wanna clarify a few things, owo.
I don't know Finnish's exact reasoning, but I'm here because I can't let go of this game. This manifests as people-watching. I have a much longer story about precisely how this came about. The key thing is, I believe that the spot I stand in is the best spot to see as many moving players as possible in Ascalon. I think Finnish might have similar reasoning, but due to a community tradition at the time around 2007-2010, I never quite won the honor of being allowed on the hill by the then-present players. Even after their departure, it feels wrong for me to be up there.
As with any player, you're kicked after 24 hours, and we both manually reposition every time. Finnish has the easier spot to do this with, by far. I had to move my spot slightly so I'm right next to Rocky, and the cat ears are an alignment aid. Sometimes people stand by Rocky when I'm not around. I appreciate. -w-. One dude tried to block my vision so I couldn't realign, so I had Finnish drink a tonic that transforms him into something physically large and stand in the way, then practiced how to do things blind. I can do it pretty reliably now, but I vastly prefer having Kitty Ears Of Alignment. -w-.
We both do check for messages. We try to reply, but usually people log off before we can, and there's no offline messaging feature in this game. If you say something in Ascalon or directly whisper one of us, /and then stay logged in/, you'll probably get a response. To maximize your chances, fully close the game (not just log out!) and log back in before sending your message, so you get as long of a timer as possible.
Finnish does runs, I don't. The specific reasons why can practically be their own video; the topic's actually pretty deep. While on the topic, I'd personally be up for an interview as Agumon5 suggests, and I can basically guarantee that Finnish will knee-jerk-respond by saying no, but if you give me five minutes I can possibly get them to say yes.
@@NofewFudtefcity hello, I was abit confused concerning certain words you used in your message as with the w or the owo. Can you clarify on those ? Also you said you could make Finnish be interested for an interview, but you write them, is it because more than one person play this character ? I didn't quite understand, anyway it's nice to see you get mentioned in many videos related to Guild Wars, because it also mean more videos are made about Guild Wars !
I started playing the game again a month ago for first time in 12 years.
For those wondering:
-PvE is very much alive. The main hub for groups, sales, etc is Kamadan AD districts.
-Plenty of active guilds with mass amounts of members always willing to help and supply you with free stuff to make your time easier
-HA is dead for the most part. It is ran by Mesmer bots running with hench. Getting to Hall of Heroes is easy, and typically you end up alone there with no real opponents for sometimes over a hour.
(HA however is a bit more alive with real players during Double Fame Week)
You can find a group of reals, just takes some time. And typically all the good players stick together to hold halls.
-Random Arenas is virtually dead besides events. .
-GvG is alive for AT and MAT, but also plagued with bots, but are not as annoying.
Overall, if you’re looking to return, PvE is still very much alive and if you were a hardcore PvP’er who lived in HA, I’d recommend turning more to GvG for your fix.
Hope this helps.
Thank you captain
I started with new account in end of December, after 15 years retired (in 2009 we went to Aion with the friends), i have 3 lvl 20 pre-searing (monk, ele, war), lvl 20 sin, lvl 20 derv
I took monk out of pre and doing Prophecy campign, missions + bonus + cartograph with texmod.
Random Arena and Guild vs Guild are both active daily.
Yes, with a bunch of motherfuckers.
For the fans of more casual PvP: Alliance Battles and Fort Aspenwood are still active during weekends. AB nights are (usually) held on fridays and FA on saturdays and sundays.
I miss my childhood playing this game, still is the best mmo I played, gw2 never scratched the itch like gw1
Truth. Gw2 was a complete sellout of the core soul of the game
It is still online. I am playing pre-searing again
@@WilliamBowens-l7u excuse you, in what way is the literary best mmo out there a sell out? it's the best thing since sliced bread mind you! it is the most perfect mmo ever!
I've never been able to fall out of love with the whole idea of Ascalon.
Still pissed that it's Charr territory in GW2 :P
Guildwars one was my first MMO after my mom didn´t want me to pay montly fees from WoW. AND GOD DID IT CHANGE MY Life. It´s my first game that I played over years nonstop. Mostly pvp with the endless buildcrafting! I miss those days
If you have never played guild wars 1, buy it and play it now. It is amazing and there are people still playing. If playing solo is your thing, you can do just about everything the game has to offer PvE wise with AI party members/heros. I LOVE GUILD WARS 1
where can i buy all of them?? and if i remember right, you had to do PVP to unlock most of the skills to later be used.. how is that working if not enough people are playing?
@@darksilver9593if you are still curious. You do not have to PvP at all. You can get different skills in different towns/outposts at a skill trainer. Also get elite skills from certain elite npcs by killing them and using a signet of capture skill to obtain it.
I have fond memories of GW1, it was my first ever MMO. I love the absolute boatload of references that GW2 has to the first game.
My fav reference is Gwen in the living story fight with kralk. She shows up on behalf of the ghosts and she's not even named, but it's definitely her.
I didn't play first game so I don't know any references
I've played GW since 2009, and GW2 since the beta. GW is such a unique game, and I love the strategic play style. It'd def not about the gear, but in how you use gear mods, weapon mods, combat positioning, and mostly tailoring the skills you use to the hostiles you'll be encountering. Even 15 years old, some of the content can still be challenging, and it's all fun! Thanks for the video; it had me chuckling, as usual!
I never really got into gw2, but I still drop into gw every now and then, nearly 20 years after first playing (I made my first character in 2006, so they're about old enough to vote now)
GW2 is my first MMO and someone pointed it out "it awakens your inner ADHD"
Ah. My first MMO. I really want to get back into it. I remember getting my first guild cape thinking I was so cool 😅
Choose, finally, ESO as my first MMO, and I'm glad, but GW2 is still on my list for next.
One thing about ESO: people are weird, but that's probably all MMO "serious" players...
Just such a weird mindset
Guild capes are so under-rated these days.
Dye was all I cared about and lived for. Found a rare dye once. Sold it for a small - and I do mean small - fortune. Wasted it immediately. Passed out in a dopamine fueled bliss. 10/10 nostalgia would love to play again.
@@danielgreene5593 :D
I still hear that music as you accept a guild invite in my head after reading that
I grew up with thsi game back in 2005 and by gosh i have so many fond memories that to this day makes me smile and miss the pals i met in GuildWars. While I did finish the story of GW2, I have yet to muster the courage to go back and start fresh!
As someone who also AFKs in the same area for, well now over a decade and 65,000 hours on my account, I can help explain. There are a few of us in different zones, I personally hang out in Random Arenas. I think most of us do it, because we can and we love the game. Most of us have moved on, either real life has taken priority or people play different games. But we still remember our time in GW1 and how much we loved it. Even though the game is technically still alive, I can't really play it like I used to, there just aren't enough people especially in my chosen activity of RA, so we just leave it on in the background. It basically takes up no resources and for some reason, it never kicks you out for being AFK. So many of us just like to do it and remember it, at least, that's why I do it.
What's your AFK spot?
OH man - the moment the music came up i got the nostalgia hit. It has been so long. I feel old. How many hours did i spend in it.
You re not the only one bud! :D
This was my first MMO. So many fond memories :D
I didn't know it was so still loved, I really miss this game.
Guild Wars is fantastic. It was my first MMO and it’s just so fun. It has a kind of tactical combat that you just don’t see in other MMOs.
i took part in the beta of guild wars, which was great apart fom one thing, when the full game came out i had the choice of carrying on with my beta character which i did but that made me start after the searing ( the tutorial area) so i missed all the opening story and it wasnt until i made a second character about a year later to play through with a friend that i even knew there was a pre-searing to the story
That’s what happened to me. Now it makes sense.
I remember everything look barren not green at the start. That’s why.
It's bloom effect, the game. Good times.
Uhh, the nostalgia kicks in hard with this video! I chose GW over WoW back in the day and I regret nothing!
I wish I could get my friends to choose GW over WoW today
Same, played both but dropped WoW in the end because it just felt inferior to GW.
I remember Guild Wars making a good name for itself. Which was crazy when you look at the release schedule. If you were in the mood for an MMO, Everquest, the most popular MMO in the west, had just released its sequel in November of 2004. If you're a fan of Warcraft, you're probably saying to yourself "Wait, there was something else besides WoW?" Yeah. And it released just a few days before WoW did (Quest 2 was early November of 2004, WoW was late November).
But I think what made Guild Wars so attractive was the fact that it was free. This was pretty rare at the time. MMOs had subscription services, essentially money used to keep the servers running and adding new content. And that was on top of actually having to buy the game as well. Guild Wars being a one-and-done affair in regards to payment definitely attracted a crowd of loyal fans.
Oh my, guild wars was, and still is amazing. Thanks for bringing this video:)
I don't play MMOs, but between you and Josh Strife, I may just give Guild Wars (or GW 2) a try
You can play it like a single player game without save-scamming if you like ;)
Guild Wars is the greatest MMO of all time. I pop in for a while every few years for the sake of nostalgia, and with the hero/henchman system it's very accessible as a single player nowadays.
I gave GW2 a good try but it never quite felt right, and every other MMO I've tried has felt pretty dull in comparison (except Secret World, which was pretty neat despite having pretty bland combat). If you can't enjoy Guild Wars as it is today, then you can safely skip the entire MMO genre IMO.
Both are good and very different, hence you see some gw1 player saying gw2 is bad and gw2 players not giving a single f about gw1
Did you try it?
Guild Wars was one of the first games I really got into. My brother and I randomly saw it as we were browsing our local electronic store's shelves, just when Factions released. That summer Guild Wars Prophecies was all we really played and now looking back, I think I'll return to it. I've forgotten mostly everything, but at least this time around I at least know the value black dye holds.
Ive been playing since 2005, my dad came home one day with a new game. My brother and i quickly started thumbing through the user manual and looking at the available classes. My brother chose and Elementalist (Ele), my dad the Necromancer (Necro aka Minion Master) and i went with a Monk because of the armor, classic Smiting for damage and team support!
Its been nearly 20yrs and i still love making new characters. Its my favorite game of all time, ive done Gwamm 3 times, working on a fourth (30maxed character titles = God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals.)
I also have a tattoo based on the Kurzick and Luxon guild banners 😅
With over 15k hrs logged over 5 accounts over 19yrs of playing, its safe to say I'll keep playing gw until i die.
been playing this game since 2007. 7000 hours later!
you still playing this game till this day? Wow. That's awesome man.
only 7k? 🤨
@@MrTechnicwolf yea rookie numbers compare to some! I'm not an afk Andy though
@@IamaQuadChannel then you made it in my personal book of epic blokes !
it's a testament to how well the worlds are designed that, having only played the second game, I can pick out specific landmarks that I recognize.
Played GW for 7 years, still the best fun i had playing an mmorpg.
I was part of the group that won the tournament at the end of the beta for GW. We did it by being a bunch of cheeky bastards (no exploits, but we did spike damage and used voice comms). The pvp was so addicting that it gave me withdrawals when the beta ended. Unfortunately never got back to that insane high from the beta, though the main game was a lot of fun. Glad to see you cover this one. Brings back some good memories.
I've reinstalled because of you. Its been so long and all my heroes are still there also realizing that I never finished Nightfall.....
Also why didn't cover Factions and the Jade Empire inspired stuff?
Your video made me wanna download it again and didnt realise my character would still be there
Wholesome comment
Tactics and positioning, skill management getting creative due to the 8 slots...
Loads of fun
Guild Wars was my first "MMO" experience, even before WoW. I played it from it's year of release and kept playing it even after my friends dragged me over to WoW. As soon as Guild Wars 2 came out I left WoW entirely and never looked back. Tyria has been a second home for almost 20 years. :)
Still the best PvP game ever and still active, people should come play!
Agreed. Unfortunately bots have mostly ruined pvp for now. Hopefully they can get rid of the bots and revitalize the population through some marketing
Finally, my beloved game from my childhood !
Loved the face in the helmet🤣. MitchManix video Friday, going to be a good weekend. Happy New Year to you sir, looking forward to a year of your amazing content!
The first few months of guild wars is still my favourite time in gaming. I played it for a few years. Just a nice game to play.
Guild Wars is gold: I always return when I'm tired with everything else!
I remember the 55hp monk days, so legendary
still working
For me personally Guild Wars Factions was the peak of Guild Wars.
I left guild wars 2 before end of dragons returned to Cantha, but even that was not appealing because they showed laser turtles in the trailer. The trailer with shiro of the original guild wars was so much better.
I hope GW3 looks at Factions and just takes the jumping puzzles of gw2 x)
There has never been a game like GW since. Not even GW2. Im so happy to hear its still hanging on
Still playing it 19 years on. It has aged incredibly well, even if the meta is a bit stale. If the devs unlocked just a little more time to balance tweak the game would have even more life!
How is the population in it?
@@powder8414 Small. And I feel most of them focus on PvP, so I generally run into a maximum of one or two people in towns. But you don't need to play with others for the most part, most of the game is doable with the NPC companions.
@powder8414 I agree with the other comment. Its unlikely youll play much of the story pve content with others. However there are guilds and daily quests that are popular, end game is pretty popular too, and there's enough of a population for those non trivial sales of items
There is no balance .
@@powder8414lol its a pretty decent population in pve
I miss my old guild i was a part of. Fun times in PvP and getting the First Guild hall, eberyone was working together and donating funds for the hall.
God I loved this game so much.
Always a good day when Mitch posts a video
Interesting.
I remember playing this as a kid when it first came out.
I remember the barren landscape of 6:04 but the entire starter area?
That’s new to me. I don’t remember ever getting to go through some green area at the start of the MMO.
Edit: Turns out I was a beta player 😂 didn’t even realize it.
How on earth do you not have more subs, by far one of the funniest content creators! ... you crack me up every time 😂😂
There are a LOT of content creators. More to the point, how many viewers are there for this sort of content? I love it, but it's clearly niche.
Please note punctuation, there is no question mark. It wasn't a question it was a rhetorical statement :) ...merely giving kudos were kudos is deserved.
@@AntonGully
I know you've done quite a few GW2 videos, some even as recent as last year, but I'd be curious what your high-level take is on GW2 in 2024 just like this one!
Probably the most telling sign that GW1 is a gem of a game and to be treasured, is that it is being kept afloat by only two developers at ArenaNet.
There was no other game that made such a friendly community.
Back in a days i played some private server lineage2, but Guild Wars was my very first TRUE MMORPG experience, put thousands of hours into it. To this day i believe it was the best gaming experience of my life and I really miss it. Had so much fun both in pve and pvp... Fort Aspenwood was amazing pvp mode!!!
I've played plenty of other mmo-s since then but nothing ever came close to GW1. Not even GW2.
I'm happy to see there are people still playing it today. Every now and then I'm having that itch to download it and complete few more titles to get that GWAMM but at the same time, as i stopped playing GW2 few years ago, I don't think I'd motivate myself to do it as I wouldn't even show it anywhere :D
Not my first MMO but the first one I ever got serious about. Fantastic game that someday I might go back to since all my gear and characters are still there waiting for me
I wonder what gw1 would look like today if Twitch was there around the time the game was at his peak. Imagine the PvP tournament stream with commentator pretty sure gw2 would never exist.
yeah, i also started it and it's pretty good
This takes me back
I missed the active pvp scene. You'd catch me running the ops back in Jade Quarry.
After nearly 15 years i never played such a great game again, never had such good time again. I remember farming hardcore uwsc and fowsc to get Obsi Amor and Chaos Gloves on every Char and running soosc to get BDS on vv20% two times a row while my wohle guild was hating me for that. What a legendary time that was. Also the fact that u dont have a dungeonfinder makes the social experience so much better (like classic wow). No real Gatekeeping, no blame while u still learning the speedruns.
I remeber, i was in the clan (and even in the run) which first found out that u can spare at least 10 seconds in fowsc with a HoS skip and we went Nr 1 on leaderboard. MMOS was a different experience back in time.
I remember playing the necromancer build that when creatures attacked you they damaged themselves while healing you.
Another solid video! I'm reluctant to suggest it because of the somewhat bonkers subcription model it has, but if you're looking for another 20+ year old MMO that is both unique (you can actually play a dragon) and still has some sort of a player base all these years later, Istaria (originally called "Horizons") might be up your alley. Again, not sure it would be worth the money to give it a fair go. My recollection is that it'd be worth the comedy though.
Please never stop uploading
Some oldschool MMORPGs like GW1 would be a good place to test A.I. 'players' since the servers are still running and some very dedicated human players are still playing.
You could literally fill up cities like Ascalon and mission outposts with A.I. players who learn with time to mirror human behaviour when doing missions or just hanging out in long dead cities and outposts to give them a second life.
And news like a classic MMORPG like GW1 being alive and full of 'people' again would certainly drive back a lot of the oldschool players who remember the good old times still.
Reinventing the dead internet theory as the dead MMORPG theory 😅
@@Steph1 I didn't know about this theory yet but if you see how many bots comment on TH-cam already then there might be a little bit of truth in it.
Awwww incredible! This was one of my first game ever
I played this game from day 1. It has been my favorite for all these years. And guess what? I still play it. Best game ever made!
I loved your streaming series on this! my favorite game series of all time
20-year-old game, whose developers manage to keep the servers open WITHOUT MONTHLY FEES TO PLAYERS.
Showing everyone how it should be done by doing it.
Yoo it's where I spent most of my childhood!
Its unfortunate that its been dead for well over a decade but I still commend them for keeping the game online. I bought the 3 games like 20 years ago and can still play for free, pretty good value!
have you checked kamadan, american district 1? thats where the party at.
@@rainbowpheanix I'm swedish so I've probably only been on european servers. Is it very active over there?
@@RisingRevengeance let me say it like dis: people decided to focus activity on the ami districts. when you find people, you find them there.
@@rainbowpheanix Gotcha, I'll give it a try when I inevatibly play through the game again. I've done so every 5 years or so.
GW1 is the GOAT, I revisited it last month and now im 100 hours deep going for the top HoM titles
Sadly, I'm locked out of my GW account. I know the password and name of my character. But they want to send a confirmation code to my email that I haven't had in over 10 years.
In 2005, I bought both WoW and Guild Wars but I quickly realized that it would be impossible for me to dedicate enough time on the two games, and that I would eventually have to choose one or the other. I chose WoW and I didn't regret it but Guild Wars and its expansions, even though not really being a MMORPG (at least in its PVE aspect), holds a special place in my heart since this time.
well im starting guild wars today my grandmother got me the trilogy version for some reason but hey its the thought that counts... and i was raised on games that looked WAY worse then this XD so its gonna be a trip... wish me luck on my quests :D
edit: turns out i cant play because the create an arena net account is no longer working for anyone this issue seems to have been here for over 4 years now... so basically im SOL... and people say not to go to support anymore because they just give you the run around... so basically the sites broken and no one has ever fixed it for atleast 4 years and or more time...
You have to create an account within the game client and then add the CD keys. Works perfectly
GW1 was peak when the severs had a huge population. GvG was so fun.
*insert Patrick "I love you" meme*
This is actually great news I remember playing this after high school lol
Man i miss alliance battles while jamming out to music
I'm still very sad that, if you play GW2 on Steam, you CANNOT connect your account to GW1 despite the fact GW1 is on Steam as well.
Well that’s bollocks for sure
I played this quite a lot sometime in the late 00s, and now picked it up again with my brothers when it was a few euros on Steam during Christmas, and we've been enjoying it a lot. Some of the cooperative missions are a bitch to get through though lol. And I don't seem to be able to find a dagger upgrade that switches my damage type to shock, which is kind of essential to my build...
1 may be dated, but its art style is so much better than 2. Asura and Norn look comical in 2.
Still my favourite Online RPG of all time, bar none. At this point I think I have spent more time in Guild Wars 2, but Guild Wars 1 will always be the superior and more unique experience IMO. If it wasn't for the limited inventory space I'd probably still be playing it! But inventory management becomes a total balls' ache when you've achieved as much in the game as I did.
The way after all it's expansions it's essentially a combination of a CRPG, an MMORPG, diablo-like ARPG looter, and even has some RTS elements, with a strong story and amazing word-building essentially makes it the perfect hybrid game for a player like me. I spent so long crafting the perfect team of heroes with the perfect gear and builds that I was able to take on the hardest of the games areas entirely alone with some good strategy, management, build design, NPC control and planning. I made the Fissure of Woe, Urgoz's Warren, The Deep and the Domain of Anguish all my bitch - and _almost_ cleared the Underworld that way too. Meant to take another shot at that at some point, but never quite got round to it.
some of my favorite memories in gaming come from gw1. listening to MC Hammer blasted through teamspeak while we wair for our gvg match to start.
fighting through the thunderkeep mission with a bunch of randoms and my brother. Winning in the hall for the first time, my guild leader pulling a minipet ghost.
such a monumental game, a shame no one tried to replicate the formulaof guildwars one again.
i love the buildwars part of the game.
but fuck eurospike as a backliner..
Double mesmer with drain/shame/.. parked on you? wtf guys come on xD
*shout out to myrm and den schwarzen scharen asgards!
Did... did he skip Factions completely?
GOATED MMO best Story and PVE. I only went to wow because of PvP.
Forget about Factions. The first expansion that give sense to the name of the game: Guild Wars
I wish new world had looked at guild wars and just copied the server structure and partly dual class system. It could have been so good.
The original guild wars gives me hope for when guild wars 2 becomes complete and succeeded by guild wars 3
Back in 2007 shortly after the Burning Crusade expansion for WoW came out was when I decided to turn my back on WoW permanently, and I stuck to that the MMO that replaced it right up until I got a closed beta invite for FF14:ARR was Guild Wars. While Guild Wars didn't grab me as much as the original did, I like it, but original Guild Wars and its various expansions I absolutely loved and more than any other MMO of its time until FF14:ARR and mastered it, which was still being an MMO but knowing how to make your character the hero of the game's setting and narrative. It did that better than any MMO of its time, albeit it would be FF14:ARR that masters making the player's character the center stage hero of the game. Nevertheless, Guild Wars from PvP to PVE and character customization from just looks to numerous amounts of builds, it was such a phenomenal game.
" While Guild Wars didn't grab me as much as the original did, ,,," what? i thought guild wars was the original? o.0?
Sadly you missed Factions in the Video. While short it has a decent Storyline where you have to select sides and support one faction. At least until you completed the main story, after which you can complete the missions on the other side.
Assuming you want to. The Luxons always had a certain "trailer-park" ambience to them....
@@_XR40_ And the Kurzick always felt like a weird mixture of Blair Witch Project and gothic architecture ;)
@@Ruhrpottpatriot I always thought of the Kurzicks as basically Emo/goth...
it is a unique feeling to sprint over the hills and valleys of shing jea with your assassin.
I still love and play it.
Love these videos. Loved the series on GW2. Can’t wait for you to do one for the newest GW2 expansion, SotO.
Kickstarter to fund a GW1 remaster when
great game and omg the music is just awesome
GW2 is the only MMO i really played. And if not life i would play it forever.
What happend to the vods channel. Can't find it?
There are no games out right now that do GW style gameplay, at least none I know of. And that annoys me, because I have played through all of GW multiple times and would love to have a new game with similar combat.
Guild Wars is also the only game I'm aware of that has Bork! Bork! Bork! as a language option, which is something indeed.
Best game i've ever played
My all time favorite PvP game. Spent 1000s of hours in Guild vs Guild matches. Shout out to Mighty Mystics, Level XIV, Sharks n' Penguins, and Demigod Disciples.
It holds up forever for me.
Just joined the game and is still good, alot of players , this game is gonna be hard to beat :D
My first mmo and will still be my most loved. Gw2 is sec ofc i spent far too much time on both i enjoy both in different ways.
you should try pirate 101 or wizard 101 they have sum good story and playability
absolutely holds up. best game ever