Guild Wars Retrospective 

3:00 - They have stated that the servers for GW1 are so inexpensive, that they'll probably never shut down as long as ANet exist.

2024 and this is still by FAR the best game I ever played

I'm not exaggerating when I say that in my opinion, it's the best game ever. Insane amount of options for skills and builds, allowing skilled people to solo and farm even endgame stuff. Beautiful music and scenery across the entire game with different biomes with a unique feel to each one. Great characters that stick with you (except Kormir, NOBODY LIKES YOU) , RIP Rurik the GOAT! I started playing a little before Factions came out and it was never replaced in my heart. Since then I started dabbling in Dungeons and Dragons and keep coming back to GW for inspiration. Truly a wondrous game like no other.

Still playing in 2024. Guild Wars (1) love!

Yes, please do the other campaigns !

gvg and ha were one of the best times of my teenage years

I was just a simple forge runner at 10 years old. Ppl only paid after run about half the time. I think that's thats where my trust issues started. Also, random arena is the best part of gw

they were three guild wars (that we know) in the guild wars time line. the third guild wars started in 1013 AE (after exodus) and ended with the searing of ascalon.

I still play GW1 and i have almost 10k hours there. I just love this game. Please do Factions, as this is my favorite expansion. I loved Luxons vs kurzick war and I remember I was doing a lot of AB.

For some reason, Gw1 is really active again, I just started the game few days ago and there are lots of new players, my alliance chat and discord is full of new people. Yes, do this retrospective for other expansions too, it helps with my own playthrough. xD

19yrs later and I still play this game almost daily. Thank you for making this video. It was masterfully done, and I always enjoy hearing how people view Guild Wars. ❤

please do the other expansions

Hi there! Just found your channel and this video by accident.… I really felt that video, being someone who just came back to GW1 after a long time, I really felt many of your remarks concerning old memories … god that awfull Thunderhead Keep mission and unessary sacrifice after that. Personally, I would love to hear your take on the other expansion, although I agree, it is some work. Also, I have to agree with the clumsy but memorable story. The "read not tell or show" approach of GW1 really tells its age! If you are interested, I can really recommend the handbooks of the orginall game. Old school, I know, but a lot of context and lore for Tyria was given there. Either way, take my sub and like, and keep up the good work with work!

Nice playthrough! Now do factions, nightfall and EotN!

keep going bro I love what you do

I have so much nostalgia for this game. I have played like 15 mmos in my life and GW1 story is the top of the list that i even cared about and that is only a handful of them... others you just rush through... this game and 2 you don't.

Best Game of all time!

Great game!

I loved GW! Played a bunch of meleemancer builds between Warrior/Monk/Ritualist offclass and it was a load of fun to buildcraft in general. That said, I think GW2 was a better game world overall. In GW3 my only few hopes are: 1) Bring back cross-classing in a limited fashion. For example- keep the current 3 traitline system, but make it so your third slot can EITHER be an elite spec OR picking a core traitline from another class. For example a condi Necro might pick Wilderness Survival from Ranger to gain the passives, Ranger Torch/OH Daggers skillsets, and Survival skills. 2) Expand on the event system to be more dynamic and impactful on the world. GW2 took the original public quests idea from Warhammer Online and greatly improved on it, but it needs one more solid iteration to feel truly engaging. 3) Bring back some of the open world difficulty from GW1. The pacing in the general open world in GW2 is fine, but it would be nice if every map had a higher risk/reward area to more closely resemble GW1. I recently came back to GW2 and am leveling a Condi Ranger (thus my above example) and while I'm having fun the overall ease of the world open world can make a lot of the traits/skills/etc. unnecessary since everyone just runs Berserker/etc, gear and steamrolls everything. Even just soloing veteran mobs in the open world? They just instantly melt. Anyway, this turned out to be more longwinded than I initially intended to just mention "It would be cool if GW3 brings back cross-classing" :)

What was your favorite mission? Also shoutout Lgit viewers.

Factions please! I still play GWs. I began in 2006 with Factions, which has a great learning curve. I think stayed on Shing Jea Island for almost a year, just putting around and making new characters. Also, it's about a pandemic and we just went through one of those. (Also, please don't jinx it by constantly talking about how the game may shut down. I would be devastated if that ever happened).

GJ playing this game in 2024. You should definitely go for Faction, Nightfall and Eye of the North. Faction and EotN are way before in my opinion. I always feel bad when I see new plyer trying the game with Prophecies because for me, it the one that represents the least what GW really is and how it plays today. Keep it up man !

faction next! :)

2024, still waiting for a modern gw clone... also: still 1 developer with 80% of his worktime for gw1 and the game runs on gw2 servers without any problems, so its gonna stay for long :)

03:20 "generic look", you mean European... seriously wtf 😒 im actually trying to get into the game since im a bit of a gw2 fanboy of course its really different but i am from that generation so i dont mind but im stupid so im trying to do legendary defender of ascalon on my first character who is a mesmer its a bit grindy, cant wait to finish it so i can play the rest of the game haha

guild wars 1. near the top for best game ever. guild wars 2. worst game ever

Prophecies has the worst story, try other expansions