Good news is more and more players are coming back. Heck I bounce back and forth between this and gw2. The soundtrack and atmosphere of the original is so grand and majestic that it is hard to top!
@@Orcaluv26 Jesus Christ, my GW2 Friend list exploded a few weeks ago and my old guild which mostly disbaned asked if we want to play again. The 10 year party and Steam release got a lot of people back which is overall a good thing for the GW franchise and iam happy to be a part of it since the start of Prophecies which i bought in it's first week of release. Best game series ever. (Apart from the first 3 Splinter Cell games before Ubisoft dropped the ball ;_;)
The first and only MMORPG that hooked me in. Started playing it when I was 13 yearsold, stopped when I was about 17. Learned most of my English by communicating with players. Had an overseas relationship for a few years thanks to this game. Got inspired to become a concept artist thanks to this game. Fell in love with orchestral music thanks to this game. I will forever cherish it.
Exactly same here except it was World of Warcraft for me. Also since I am a soundtrack nerd I feel like I should give this game a go cause it sound great. I played GW2 for a little bit and I can hear some of the themes were taken from the original GW, very interesting to hear.
This game was my fucking teenage years... thank you to the developers for creating a world richer than my dreams, thank you to all my guildies whom I fought and farmed alongside for hours, thank you to those of you whom I met in the brief passing of a Droknar's Forge run, and to everyone that is lucky enough to have experienced the era of Guild Wars: Prophecies, from Tyria, through Cantha, through Elona and back again into the lands Tyria for EoTN: thank you thank you thank you.
Thanks to everyone for all your lovely comments. My husband and I tied the knot this year May 19th. I did indeed walk down the aisle to this and we had our charr plushie as our ring bearer - a ring on each horn. It was fantastic. :>
I remember how I much I tried to make an elementalist/ranger with a bow and a pet work. It took way longer than I would like to admid to give up on the idea.
Il n'y a pas d'âge pour jouer. J'ai découvert Guild Wars à 47 ans et j'y ai passé des heures et des nuits pendant 4 années. Les mondes différents et leurs musiques m'ont apportées un bien être incommensurable ! Que du bonheur !
Listening to this makes me remember the good old times, years ago. Listening to this makes me emotional. Listening to this literally gives me heartache. Why? Because this, is so freaking nostalgic to me, that it hurts to listen to this, because I can't play this anymore. This is without a doubt one of the best games I have EVER played, and might be THE best game I ever played. I love this so much.
Pretty sure you used the meme wrong here. "Hold my beer" is used when someone incompetent is trying to do something difficult. I don't think GW2 was incompetent in making this epic song.
I still remember booting up guild wars Nightfall for the first time when this expansion was already out, this song would just blare through the main menu and character creation. I still remember the first time i saw the dervish and paragon classes and the flare of the music scrolling through color options. What if we all just.. dropped out AAA titles and went back to guild wars? The Great Resurgence.
@@Pumpkin525 its always the short term profit from pre-order sales, its never the long term profit of player retention because the games inherently saturated with content
Played it since I was 13 years old. Then I was going to Guild Wars 2. The better experience was in Guild Wars 1, so much Guilds maked, so cool people meeted.
I tried quitting GW a while back, but, strangely, I found it was not the gameplay itself, or even the story that had me coming back again and again. It was the music. Damn you Jeremy Soule, for ruining my social life with such beautiful songs.
its been 15 years holy smokes guys. much love to the guild wars universe from a long time fan. 15k hours across both games and not regretting a single second. what a journey!
Wasn't Jeremy Soule contracted to exclusively do MMO genre music for SOE/ Daybreak for EQN? I wouldn't mind that much were it not for the fact that EQN seems to be on rocky ground atm (Haven't heard anything from it for a long while actually). The guy doing the OST for Heart of Thorns and Living Story is great and all, but this is THE Jeremy Soule we're talking about.
Any of you on a nostalgia bent should know that the game is still played and has an active community still (not obviously as active as it was, but there are guilds you can join to team up with people!).
I remember when this expansion was about to release and the trailer launched with Mr. Soule's amazing score. I was entranced...and may have screamed, because GWEN. His music packs such an emotional punch, even now.
Jeremy soul, best game music maker ever. Even movies must be jealous of him. If all movies had music like this... One of the biggest reason I think i liked Oblivion, Skyrim, and Guild wars so much! I hope there's some kickass tracks like this (new ones) in guild wars too. I hope they use this one as well, cause its my absolute favorite in guild wars 1.
Anyone else noticing the major similarities between this theme and the main theme from Skyrim? Apparently fast-rhythm trumpets conjure images of the great white north.
Crying a lil on then inside while listening to this masterpiece. So many memeories, if only Guild Wars 2 wasn't completely different (and bad) game. :(
15 years later this is still one of the best orchestral gaming music pieces ever made. Spend thousends of hours in this beautiful world. Thanks to ANet and Jeremy Soule for making this one of the best parts of my life.
Thank you for uploading HD version! I love this song. Although it isn't a symphony or anything, it has a quality that keeps making me want to listen more.
When I get out of school, I plan to go out into the world as a writer, poet... and a composer. Jeremy Soule is one of my biggest inspiration. He composed in most of my favorite series (Dungeon Siege, Elder Scrolls)
Expertly mastered game, with beautiful graphics, storyline, and last but least very epic music. I reccommend this game for a lot of people who love any MMORPG. (Not to mention the fact that Jora is actually preety hot too! ;D)
Nostalgia... My first and last MMO; the best ever in my memories. Jeremy Soule' music just make me remember when I first came in the Eden with my little mesmer, and met the little Gwen...
@heebiejeevies congrats man, i just got back into it after a year or so break. I usually play with my itunes on but honestly I have the music up as loud as it goes because the music in guild wars is just so damn epic.
Really wish they had tried to keep the feel of what made Guild Wars and its expansions so special when making Guild Wars 2, but they really didn't for me I tried so many times to get into GW2 but its just lacking something
Thinking of a dwarf running up the aisle yelling THE DESTROYERS ARE COMING, cue the music and running from the destroyers into the portal and the Eye of the North. ...Actually, that sounds like a pretty good wedding
After 5 years of playing, I still cant understand how affected I get by listening to the Guild Wars tracks. Do you? I mean every time I hear it, i get that feeling for just starting up a character and start allover.
@legalova Directsong has all of his albums - and anything you buy on Good Old Games (GoG) includes a soundtrack. I'm listening to his Icewind Dale soundtrack now as it happens.
@fackinglollig Lol I know right,I have played for over 4000 hours, and I'm not really tempted to play, but then like one of the Prophecies songs show up when I'm listening to music before sleeping, and I'm right on it again xD And because of the music I soon have God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals ~_~
Never. Ever. Speak ill of Jeremy Soule. In Guild Wars, The Elder Scrolls and everything else he has done music for he is just too awesome. (Yay for Jeremy Soule fanboydom!)
More than nostalgia.. Maybe the greatest game I've ever played :/
Good news is more and more players are coming back. Heck I bounce back and forth between this and gw2. The soundtrack and atmosphere of the original is so grand and majestic that it is hard to top!
@@Orcaluv26 Jesus Christ, my GW2 Friend list exploded a few weeks ago and my old guild which mostly disbaned asked if we want to play again. The 10 year party and Steam release got a lot of people back which is overall a good thing for the GW franchise and iam happy to be a part of it since the start of Prophecies which i bought in it's first week of release. Best game series ever. (Apart from the first 3 Splinter Cell games before Ubisoft dropped the ball ;_;)
The first and only MMORPG that hooked me in.
Started playing it when I was 13 yearsold, stopped when I was about 17. Learned most of my English by communicating with players. Had an overseas relationship for a few years thanks to this game. Got inspired to become a concept artist thanks to this game. Fell in love with orchestral music thanks to this game.
I will forever cherish it.
Exactly same here except it was World of Warcraft for me. Also since I am a soundtrack nerd I feel like I should give this game a go cause it sound great. I played GW2 for a little bit and I can hear some of the themes were taken from the original GW, very interesting to hear.
This game was my fucking teenage years... thank you to the developers for creating a world richer than my dreams, thank you to all my guildies whom I fought and farmed alongside for hours, thank you to those of you whom I met in the brief passing of a Droknar's Forge run, and to everyone that is lucky enough to have experienced the era of Guild Wars: Prophecies, from Tyria, through Cantha, through Elona and back again into the lands Tyria for EoTN: thank you thank you thank you.
Played this on release at 13 years old. Still playing occasionally with my friend at 32 years of age... what a game!
Oh boy, I got old outta nowhere...
Jeremy Soule made music for the games i grew up with and the games I still play today. This man is truly amazing!
Thanks to everyone for all your lovely comments. My husband and I tied the knot this year May 19th. I did indeed walk down the aisle to this and we had our charr plushie as our ring bearer - a ring on each horn. It was fantastic. :>
Really miss the good ol days running around as a warrior with healing breeze
I remember how I much I tried to make an elementalist/ranger with a bow and a pet work.
It took way longer than I would like to admid to give up on the idea.
@@KungKras Use that fire attack spell + barrage.
Il n'y a pas d'âge pour jouer. J'ai découvert Guild Wars à 47 ans et j'y ai passé des heures et des nuits pendant 4 années.
Les mondes différents et leurs musiques m'ont apportées un bien être incommensurable ! Que du bonheur !
j'ai commencé guild wars à 10 j'en ai bientôt 30 et je kiffe toujours autant cet univers
I miss the old days...
WHY DON'T WE JUST GO BACK ON GW1?
I can see that we all missing it so much :(
The game is having a revival now that it is on steam. Maybe we all should
@@Orcaluv26 Thank you for this. I NEEDED to know this!
Orcaluv26 Does it really? How does it work? Does it run on same servers? Can you use the old installer CD or do you need steam version ?
No reason not to. Arena Net said that the resources needed to run the servers are so insignificant that they decided to keep them up forever.
probably the best game soundtrack
I miss you gw1... My first mmo... Love you forever
This is the soundtrack that brings so many good memories... Nothing can match it.
Guild Wars the best Game i ever played, it will be in my
Just felt like it. Sorry.
thx bro :).
I got hacked too.
Listening to this makes me remember the good old times, years ago. Listening to this makes me emotional. Listening to this literally gives me heartache. Why? Because this, is so freaking nostalgic to me, that it hurts to listen to this, because I can't play this anymore. This is without a doubt one of the best games I have EVER played, and might be THE best game I ever played. I love this so much.
"years ago". So weird, seeing your comment is already 9 years old. I remember playing this around 2007. Man, those were the days.
Best MMORPG IMO. Countless hours used in the game, still hop in from time to time for the nostalgia. Shame none in my guild plays anymore :(
Blizzard: With WoW Classic, we want to bring the best nostalgic experience to MMO players!
Guild Wars soundtrack: Hold my beer.
Astounding work of Jeremy Soule
Pretty sure you used the meme wrong here. "Hold my beer" is used when someone incompetent is trying to do something difficult. I don't think GW2 was incompetent in making this epic song.
@@SixHundredAndSixtySix Can you tell me what is the new version that reference this song in gw2 ? I'm new to the 2nd game.
@@SixHundredAndSixtySix im pretty sure you dont understand memes lol xD
old dadys, i remember the first mission to eotn run for you life ^^
"WHAT AM I RUNNING FROM- OMG WTF ARE THOSE"
I didn’t even stop to look I just ran till I got to the gate. Then I turned around and saw them. I activated a stance and gtfo
I still remember booting up guild wars Nightfall for the first time when this expansion was already out, this song would just blare through the main menu and character creation. I still remember the first time i saw the dervish and paragon classes and the flare of the music scrolling through color options.
What if we all just.. dropped out AAA titles and went back to guild wars? The Great Resurgence.
I wish people would make great games like this, instead of profitable ones.
@@Pumpkin525 its always the short term profit from pre-order sales, its never the long term profit of player retention because the games inherently saturated with content
Played it since I was 13 years old. Then I was going to Guild Wars 2.
The better experience was in Guild Wars 1, so much Guilds maked, so cool people meeted.
I tried quitting GW a while back, but, strangely, I found it was not the gameplay itself, or even the story that had me coming back again and again. It was the music. Damn you Jeremy Soule, for ruining my social life with such beautiful songs.
its been 15 years holy smokes guys. much love to the guild wars universe from a long time fan. 15k hours across both games and not regretting a single second. what a journey!
I heard the FL Orchestra play this song last fall. Pure chills. Such a fantastic piece.
Wasn't Jeremy Soule contracted to exclusively do MMO genre music for SOE/ Daybreak for EQN? I wouldn't mind that much were it not for the fact that EQN seems to be on rocky ground atm (Haven't heard anything from it for a long while actually). The guy doing the OST for Heart of Thorns and Living Story is great and all, but this is THE Jeremy Soule we're talking about.
Jesus christ this is so epic. I miss Guildwars 1 so much.
The French Horn and Trumpet are amazing in this piece. Beautiful.
16 years later and this shits still a banger.
Any of you on a nostalgia bent should know that the game is still played and has an active community still (not obviously as active as it was, but there are guilds you can join to team up with people!).
cant believe its been 15 years, holy shit
This was the first thing I heard when I got the FIRST Guild Wars. This IS Guild Wars for me,even though it's only the fourth.
3 years looking for this!
I remember when this expansion was about to release and the trailer launched with Mr. Soule's amazing score. I was entranced...and may have screamed, because GWEN. His music packs such an emotional punch, even now.
The french horn my friends !
Jeremy soul, best game music maker ever. Even movies must be jealous of him. If all movies had music like this...
One of the biggest reason I think i liked Oblivion, Skyrim, and Guild wars so much! I hope there's some kickass tracks like this (new ones) in guild wars too. I hope they use this one as well, cause its my absolute favorite in guild wars 1.
This song embodies all that GW was to me. Makes me want to play again :3
Guild Wars reminds me to my dad. Since I lost him im basically addicted. I'm 17 and I feel like im the youngest player xD
best guild-wars theme hands down
Anyone else noticing the major similarities between this theme and the main theme from Skyrim? Apparently fast-rhythm trumpets conjure images of the great white north.
TrueRomancer04 Actually, both theme were made by the same man : Jeremy Soule. The fact that they seem similar may not be a total coincidence.
they were actually made by the same composer
Crying a lil on then inside while listening to this masterpiece. So many memeories, if only Guild Wars 2 wasn't completely different (and bad) game. :(
@heebiejeevies That's freaking amazing man! Congrats and have an awesome day! Make sure someone films it!
15 years later this is still one of the best orchestral gaming music pieces ever made. Spend thousends of hours in this beautiful world. Thanks to ANet and Jeremy Soule for making this one of the best parts of my life.
Thank you for uploading HD version! I love this song. Although it isn't a symphony or anything, it has a quality that keeps making me want to listen more.
When I get out of school, I plan to go out into the world as a writer, poet... and a composer. Jeremy Soule is one of my biggest inspiration. He composed in most of my favorite series (Dungeon Siege, Elder Scrolls)
10 years has passed, did you chase your dream? :)
12 years already, did you do it? 🙂
Expertly mastered game, with beautiful graphics, storyline, and last but least very epic music.
I reccommend this game for a lot of people who love any MMORPG.
(Not to mention the fact that Jora is actually preety hot too! ;D)
@Bamphonymous Yes, he wrote the theme for Skyrim - not sure about any other Elder Scrolls.
Nostalgia...
My first and last MMO; the best ever in my memories. Jeremy Soule' music just make me remember when I first came in the Eden with my little mesmer, and met the little Gwen...
I love that song, The game was so amazing .... they should remake GW 1 ...
@heebiejeevies congrats man, i just got back into it after a year or so break. I usually play with my itunes on but honestly I have the music up as loud as it goes because the music in guild wars is just so damn epic.
god i cant wait to hear the music for guild wars 2, it'll be amazing!
Dammit,they're RAPIDLY INCREASING!
The thought of your nerdy wedding makes my heart happy.
Really wish they had tried to keep the feel of what made Guild Wars and its expansions so special when making Guild Wars 2, but they really didn't for me I tried so many times to get into GW2 but its just lacking something
absolutely love his work from what i hav heard so far skyrim is going to be a masterpiece
great theme,excellent choice for your wedding mate
I still think some of Jeremy Soule's work is on the Total Annihilation soundtrack, but everything he has done has been epic :)
Thinking of a dwarf running up the aisle yelling THE DESTROYERS ARE COMING, cue the music and running from the destroyers into the portal and the Eye of the North.
...Actually, that sounds like a pretty good wedding
1:15 to 1:50 is the best music EVAR....french horn ftw
what a great ost
I still wait for this to play through all the way before I log in.
I sweep floors to this music
Lol i Playd guild wars first time when i was seven years old with my brother.... All the memories
jeremy soule is genious...i love his work
um... how could people DISLIKE this song??!?!?!?
If you’re reading this, try to visit the GW 1 servers after all this years. They are still running! :)
Any good RPG needs a great soundtrack like this IMHO
Wow!! :DD..thats brilliant and something you don't hear or see everyday!! xD...
This game is like a precious gem for your life! :D
After 5 years of playing, I still cant understand how affected I get by listening to the Guild Wars tracks. Do you? I mean every time I hear it, i get that feeling for just starting up a character and start allover.
I agree so very much! First time I've heard someone say this
That is so cool.
I actually look at the music composer before I buy a game, and if Jeremy Soule is in it I know I will enjoy it
Crap where are my GW-CDs... I gotta play this game again NOW and I don't want to wait for the download :(
That's beautiful!
@legalova Directsong has all of his albums - and anything you buy on Good Old Games (GoG) includes a soundtrack. I'm listening to his Icewind Dale soundtrack now as it happens.
"Nah... GW is so old i don't want to play it, just see if some of my chars have.... DAT MUSIC I MUST PLAY!" Everytime.
Cool 😎😎😎
@heebiejeevies Congratulations, I hope you guys have a good wedding. Long live GW! :)
EPIC SOUNDTRACK!!!! i love it :D
I miss GWI so much.
Good news is: it is on steam and it is getting a population spike
They released some new content a few weeks ago. Sadly it won't be available until next year again but still
GW1 never went anywhere.
I still play it ^^
@murderd2death Soule should do the soundtrack for every fantasy movie and game to come out for now on :-P
Jerermy Soule is one of the best composers living today. And I'd personally go as far to say, ever...
WoW is about gear, GW is about skill.
one of my fav songs in gw :)...cant wait to hear the gw2 soundtrack!
@Dragon2802
She is a Norn, her name is Jora.
Thats epic!!! make sure to tell AN if you havent already I bet theyd make u a bad ass cake and stuff
@heebiejeevies will it be an in-game ceremony? and if so which outpost will it be in?
can someone do a 10 hour or 1 hour video of this. it really is awesome
@fackinglollig Lol I know right,I have played for over 4000 hours, and I'm not really tempted to play, but then like one of the Prophecies songs show up when I'm listening to music before sleeping, and I'm right on it again xD And because of the music I soon have God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals ~_~
Jeremy Soule you are the best
Back to the effing North!
i can't wait for GW2
omg memories
The nostalgy , this game was awesome tho I played it for only 7 days
@heebiejeevies Woot! Sounds like my fiance and I. We met on WoW and have been together now for 3 years. Congratulations!
There is a Kickstarter called "Wildman" in which Jeremy Soule is responsible for the game soundtrack.
Never. Ever. Speak ill of Jeremy Soule. In Guild Wars, The Elder Scrolls and everything else he has done music for he is just too awesome. (Yay for Jeremy Soule fanboydom!)
Best MMO there ever was.
Jeremys Songs are not just Video Game Music, its definetly better than some other music crap like david guetta and this shit!
such a great game.. just like the guild wars 2 !
Does Guild wars eye of the North work with win8 64bit??
Yes.
Jeremy Soule = John Williams of video games. It is my dream to play my trombone with him