Dreams Of A Guild Wars 1 Remaster 

If they did make your dream remake… would you want ArenaNet to have their own launcher similar to Blizzard with BattleNet? Was just wondering and I can’t seem to think of reasons for why ArenaNet would not do this?

Be kool if it was ported too Consoles , if they remastered GW1

@@joezar33 The more the merrier!

One of my favorite soundtracks. I think it's better than oblivion personally (which is my second favorite of his) but its probably nostalgia.

Yeah, we’ll, he’s a fascist now and needs to be cancelled. Reddit said so.

@@drackaris_ I find it amusing that you mention the Oblivion soundtrack, because honestly the two soundtracks are almost indistinguishable at times! lol I love Jeremy Soule's work, but it has a habit of all sounding kinda the same after a while.

oh my god - YES - I love the music so much

Nostalgia is a strong emotion. Its usually not the same as the first time. But I could be wrong!

Same here, Ive play this after my school days, it was the best 😌

I hear you brother...

Imagine being able to actually jump in gw1 though. xD

They would need to remake GW1 with new graphics and all. Yes that would be the next big thing. GW1 thrives when it is populated, and there is no way that remade GW1 wouldn't be a success. I wish another company would buy rights to remake GW1. It doesn't need to be completely the same.

Physical copy that comes with it's own bar of real platinum.

I would pre-order today if this was announced - one of the best games ever made !

@@WoodenPotatoes and a glob of ecto

@@WoodenPotatoes I do NOT want this, because given that end of dragons has shown that arenanet has suffered the same fate as so many other game studios, if it did happen it would be different from the original in all the wrong ways. Don't buy it if they make it, don't buy end of dragons if you haven't yet, and don't buy any future 2 expansions. #getwokegobroke

@@iso-didact789 Getwokegobroke? Barbie was last year’s highest grossing film at $1.4 Billion, a return of over $1.1 billion over its production ($145M) & marketing budget ($150M) of ~$295 Million. Other “getwokegobroke” bugaboos also made the top ten list of highest grossing films, including The Little Mermaid and Spider-Man Across the Spider Verse. I haven’t played EoD or Soto’s stories yet. I’m a new player and started in Jan. So far I’ve finished the base game, all Tyria mastery lines, living word seasons 1 & 2, Heart of thorns, all HoT mastery lines, and just started LWS3. Personal fractal 47, WvW 100. I’ve been playing the story in order and I haven’t skipped ahead for any unlocks. But, if this story that *starts* right out the gate with a band of racially and gender diverse heroes (including at least one LGBTQ+ hero and her ex-lover-turned-baddie), saving the world from a series of dragons each attempting to corrupt all life into a single ethnostate (risen; mordrem) with the main plot drivers (good and evil) being mostly women somehow manages to go more woke in stories to come, I can’t wait. But you keep repeating that patently false propoganda slogan and telling yourself it’s true. Btw: Bud Light’s manufacturer, Anheuser-Busch, had an annual gross profit for 2023 of $31.984B, a 1.6% *increase* from 2022. I know this could be upsetting information for you, but don’t forget, “facts don’t care about your feelings.”

Just come up with 1 more build mate, you know you love it

This game was the best thing that happened to me.

I can see you saved your best for last

I'd love to see the rurik VA return for some ghostly quests involving ghost rurik. And guild banks.

You mean gw2 sucks, or you mean they did something wrong in gw1?

@@Steph1 I dont regard gw2 a sequel to 1. It doesnt have the same narrative feel or the same gameplay. Only a few locations and ghosts of classes from the original

Same here man, just 8 days ago I started a fresh new account for gwamm with a friend, that never played gw1 before

@@Burnedie I wish I had friends to play with, and my partner doesn't like games.. Sad. Otherwise I'd definitely try GW1 again after soooooo long

@@letheas6175 If you really want I'm here, answer me ;), but I've some difficulty accessing my account

if you need a carry or a run let me know!

What would be your QOL?

@@WoodenPotatoes I'm thinking of some of the things toolbox does, such as being able to travel directly to an outpost you've visited before from a drop-down menu instead of having to go to a port city, and/or being able to set up a list of favourite outposts. Anet had clearly thought map travel needed improving because they almost but not quite added this functionality with Embark Beach so I don't think it breaks the game for toolbox to do this. Being able to send all materials to storage, being able to ID all items with one click, being able to access storage at a distance - they're all features I feel lost without if I forget to load up toolbox. Oh and being able to see the main character name of someone on your friends list when they message you on an alt, that's really handy too!

FF14 has a very similar situation where one of the most popular addons is something that simply lets you type /location in the chatbox and instantly go there (then people macro it and stuff). Gw2 style friendlist would be great!

Mapping with my Rit while listening to this vid.

I mean they could also do a remake that isnt a completely different game lol. Its not either an exact copy of gw1 or gw2

Yeah I didn't even really mention this! But the prospect of everyone starting fresh is very cool to me, it's something I really enjoyed in wow classic.

In a dream world GW2 would be doing better and ANet wouldn't keep trying to re-invent the wheel every year.

I’ve been thinking about the 20th anniversary for like two years now. As much as I dream, sadly it is not likely ANet will do anything with GW1 for the 20th anniversary…

@@strayparticles why not they did for the 10th and 15th anniversaries so why not the 20th.

That would be!🔝! 🤩🎁🤩

Same here!

The soundtrack is so good anet just copied it to GW2.

@@waynesmith8764 Great decision imo. Would have been a waste for those songs not to be heard by modern players. And the OG players get nostalgia blasts.

I mean be real you read the UI.

They can still sell the rights to other company that would want to remake the game. Just like Valve did with DotA.

Glad you're having a blast! How far did you get?

@@WoodenPotatoesI started 5 days ago, so not very far yet. I created a Dervish in the Nightfall campaign because i read online that capaign was suggested for new players. I explored Istan, doing the main quest and all the secondary quests i could find, till the point i fought Apocrypha. To be honest, that boss kicked my ass a couple times, which was refreshing coming from gw2 story fights, but also made me think i was doing something wrong. So i looked how to get better gear, changed some skills and distributed attribute points better to my heroes until i defeated it. But after that fight i felt like i was rushing, like it was too early for me to be in that campaign and that i still didn't understand fully how the game worked with it's systems. So i decided to take it slower and do things in order. I created a Mesmer in Prophecyes, did as many as the pre searing side quests i could find and explored the map, got to lvl 7, and yesterday i got to post searing ascalon. I did a couple side quests for the krytan ambassador and unlocked new memser skills from Vassar quests. This is where is stopped for now.

@@WoodenPotatoesI started 5 days ago so not very far. I created a Dervish in the Nightfall campaign because i read online that campaing was suggested for new players. I explored Istan as much as i could, completing as many secondary quest as i could find, until i got to the fight with Apochrypha. To be honest, that boss kicked my butt a couple times, which was refreshing coming from Gw2 story bosses. But it also made me think i was doing something wrong, so i upgraded my gear, changed skills, and distributed better the attribute points for me and my heroes until i defeated it. But a this point i felt like i was rushing, like i didn't understand the game systems very well yet so it was too soon for me to be in that campaign. So i decided to take it slow and go in order of release. I created a Mesmer (my main in Gw2) in the Prophecyes campaing, and i did as many secondary questes as i could find in the pre searing zone, taking my time. Yesterday i got to lvl 7 and i entered in post searing ascalon for the first time, i did a few secondary quests for the Kryta emissary and for Vassar, unlocking a few new skills for my mesmer/ele and that's where i stopped for now.

@@DocM94 Yeah the nightfall advice is terrible in my opinion. Prophecies is slow but the way to go.

I tried all 4 campains and i stuck in all. Difficulty jump and falls are huge in gw1.

Hm, that's interesting. Even if it wasn't a "remaster," it'd be interesting if the next GW game went back to it's roots with the "co-op RPG" style rather than an MMO (like GW2). This seems less likely to sabotage GW2 by fracturing the MMO's community with direct competition, and may even draw people to it. The skeptic inside me says the Unreal 5 project is just an outsourced project from NCsoft or another publisher and has nothing to do with the Guild Wars franchise though.

@@lnfinitesimaI Yeah the skeptic in me agrees with you as well. I'm just high on copium/hopium.

I think it's reasonable to want a CORPG from arenanet in the future. Not necessarily Tyria, it could be a fresh IP, but a CORPG with card style skills/deck building I think would attract eyeballs.

@@WoodenPotatoes Yeah GW1 did so much right it's just such a shame that GW2 threw all of that away to do it's own thing. I've been playing through prophesies as well lately with a bunch of friends ironman style, I'm sure you've done it before but I'd highly recommend it I'm sure people on your discord would be thrilled to come, all players just replaying prophecies like it was intended with only proph skills that we unlock after each outpost. GW1 is a great solo game, but playing it with players just makes me that much more nostalgic and enhances the build craft parts.

The only game I tried to play with other people who didn't talk my language. That mini map, and the multiple language support (zones etc) was awesome. I even learned some basic words in other languages to try and help out. So good.

Hard to put words to that feeling. But hey, maybe we passed each other in game. We’re all still connected in memories

I don't know if they have the heart to pursue Esports anylonger. I wouldn't blame them.

@@WoodenPotatoes Which is why I'd put emphasis on a dedicated team. I remember when they tried to push the esport aspect at the beginning of GW2 but there were so many issues. Lack of balance, lack of leaderboards (heck we didn't get a PvP season till december 2015) and just a general lack of vision and understanding when it came to gamemodes. Hell, I still have screenshots of an actual Anet dev interrupting our GvG and saying, quote "I'm watching you guys violate my gamemode". Because we dared to create our own fun in WvW. I don't know who came up with all the fun PvP modes for GW1 but sure as hell they weren't around for GW2 anymore. So yeah...I agree the mentality probably isn't there anymore. At the very least it would need fresh and motivated faces. But hey, this video is all about dreaming am I right?

@@WoodenPotatoesI wish the company wouldn't, just let the players go and do their thing maybe throw a bit of money their way if it goes well. That creates the best e-sports.

Oh good point about flagging henchmen! Might be nice to have separate flags for them.

You can flag them all out of meteor shower pretty easy already.

Yeah I saw a dev in ascalon the other day, was awesome!

woah what? the devs still play? What are their igns?

I don't remember his IGN but he had the arenanet tag and everything, which I'd never seen in Gw1.

I mean that's a thought too!

Omg YES a weapon mods trader would be SO good! This should have been in the video.

THAT PLANT!!! I feel you. The cause of many an irritating rubberband, I also have no idea why it's there.

rofl yeah that giant aloe is obnoxious.

I'm glad you're taking this one for the team.

The algorithm knew!

They are not even remotely the same. GW2 was 5 years in development, plus 12 years of additional development since it was released.

Oh man that's brutal! They do warn you if I remember rightly!

To be fair it sounds like they are dead set on mini expacs for now. This first one has been pretty rough but they didn't instantly turn tails and run from the concept.

@@WoodenPotatoes Very true! I hope they stick with it as the format can definitely be successful over all.

It's just a private thing with myself and my GF, but I'll think about it for sure!

Oh resolution that's a good guess too

I reassigned you man no worries!

@@WoodenPotatoes I mean, I don't play, so it doesn't make sense to :P I do agree a remaster is warranted and it would make the game worth playing. For example, you can't change the guild hall, since you can't buy the item to change it. A basic marketplace would be nice. Some procedural generation of enemy location. Anti-farming loot tables should be removed. The list is endless, and many of them wouldn't require to pay a ton of money to achieve, unless re-texturing the graphics.

Nice man that is a cool little list of things instantly I didn't even think of. And regardless Tyme is your guild and it only felt correct to put you back there!

I think you're totally right about how players would treat the henchmen. Personally I don't think players should control their loadouts like heroes exactly for that reason, I'd want a dev to do it. As for mods I mean... when it comes to mods people always make game breaking OP crap (or sex mods) and yaknow... It's silly but just gotta let people do their thing in their own games.