I hope the Guild Wars servers continue to stay online for many years to come. I don't play very often anymore, but I still get a bursts to play for months once the itch sets in. One of my most played games ever, and what I played instead of WoW as a kid.
New character for Factions! If you want, you could make Bae Six a recruited Merc. Oh and we don't know Khilbron's first name, Vizier is a title, so now in my head canon he's Richard Khilbron ;)
When you started this play through, it made me want to go back and finish up more titles in GW. I was Kind of a Big Deal when I started back, but now my Guild Hall Smells of Rich Mahogany! Thanks for the inspiration and awesome series. Can’t wait for Cantha
One of my fondest memories was going for the title/challenge where you reach max level without dying and I was nuked from 100% hp to 0% in less than two seconds by a corrupted priests' Ray of Judgement at the door to the Factions expansion main city. I died in less than 2 seconds, a little while later that skill was nerfed, lol. I really miss the buildl varieties that GW1 provided, but I'm sure it was a balancing nightmare for the devs to maintain.
This is MY game, really, I began in internet thanks to this game and It's probably my favorite PC Game. I might just play again just for the meme. Thanks for the nostalgia blast.
I absolutely love the first Guildwars. Its formula is so good and underrated. Not one Company out there did this formula. not one but Arenanet. Hats off.
I remember playing this for the first time waaaay back in the day. I didn't have heroes, so I had to suffer through this mission with only henchmen. It took me like 9 or 10 tries spread out over a few days. Also, thanks for the nostalgia bomb.
I definitely prefer the sequel. I admit, a part of it is that the original resulted in the most toxic, obnoxious players any MMORPG has ever had-the Ascalonians. A group of players who hate a fictional race in a fictional setting in a video game so much that they hassle anyone who plays that race, they're always making a nuissance of themselves on the forum, and they've even been known to send death threats to the players of said race. That race would be the charr. It's even more bizarre because the charr were the targets of genocide by the humans an human Gods in GW1 (yes, that lore was in GW1, no, it wasn't added in GW2). The human Gods were C-R-A-Z-Y. They would torture people for hunting animals, looking at their beauty, being poor, and all manner of other things. The humans were deeply propagandised to worship their Gods. The only problem was was that this sort of indentured propagandised thinking was passed along to certain players. The charr didn't actually kill anyone in the Searing (all of the NPCs lived, even Gwen), it was a scare tactic to get invaders out of hteir ancestral stomping grounds. The human king Adelbern killed the Ascalonians that didn't flee with Rurik, the Orrian vizier killed the humans of Orr. All the charr wanted was surrender so that these brainwashed and crazy nutjobs would stop trying to slaughter everyone else to death. The humans did that, a lot. Tengu, charr, centaurs, and even themselves in The Guild Wars (an actual lore event where all of the human nations were trying to wipe one another out). The human Gods made their puppets very murder crazy. For whatever reason though, this was all the fault of the charr. In GW2, many Ascalonian players treat the charr as though they're some kind of ethnic minority deserving of immense amount of hate, even unironically throwing around slogans like "Make Ascalon Great Again!" I really, really wish they were being ironic. The passionatae way they talk about how much they hate the charr though, and the sheer disgust they verbalise at ArenaNet for making the charr playable? Nope. These people are very unwell. Meanwhile, charr players who came to Guild Wars 2 without having played the original are very confused about why certain people in the community were sending them death threats in the early days of GW2. This lead to a lot of charr fans actually reading up on the lore to find out what, exactly, had inspired these players to hate a fictional race this much. The language used by charr haters is bizarrely similar to ethnosupremacists while talking on topics of antisemitism. It's utterly bizarre and... very unwell. I genuinely hope that the current GW2 content, The Icebrood Saga, helps the charr haters get this out of their system. The point ArenaNet are trying to make to them is that they sound as crazy as Smodur and Bangar, rather than more level-headed in the way Rytlock is. That they're similar to the charr, just the very worst of the charr. The majority of charr players (myself included) have nothing against anyone who plays any race, it's really ridiculous to harbour ill will over a person's race choice, isn't it? Ascalonians though? Yeesh. At least No Quarter will allow charr players to snap back with "Right you are, Bangar" which is going to drive them nuts and make them feel incredibly uncomfortable. I did play the original Guild Wars, unlike some charr players, but the Ascalonians have absolutely ruined it for me. I still have some fondness for Nightfall (which was always my favourite campaign) but... Yeah. It's been ruined. You can only see "Make Ascalon Great Again!" chanted unironically so many times. Footnote: I don't blame the humans in Guild Wars 1 for their actions. I blame the human Gods. I was very glad that we got to kill Balthazar in Path of Fire, he had a LOT to answer for. The thing is is that most GW1 players don't seem to have the perspicacity or wherewithal to realise that the six Gods who did so many evil things were... not actually good.
"The charr didn't actually kill anyone in the Searing (all of the NPCs lived, even Gwen)" Gwen, whose mother died in The Searing, was captured and enslaved before almost being fed to a Devourer for the amusement of the charr. She only escaped by being led to freedom by the ghosts of others killed by the charr. While online abuse is obviously wrong, in the purely fictional context of Guild Wars, the charr are clearly depicted as a villainous warlike race (akin to Orcs) with only a minority exhibiting any semblance of redeeming qualities.
still play this game every now and then and every time i look at my 19k hours played and am like best 19k hours of my entire life. i really wish GW2 was like GW1
I enjoyed your play through. I am also a boomer who loves GW1. My son and I are doing a playthrough in late 2022. We are having a ton of fun. We didn't put any restrictions on our playthrough. So we started with Faction characters and quickly opened up the map and got heroes as soon as we could. I remember how bad some of the henchmen are. I didn't want to go that route. Right now we are in process of getting "pain inverter". Thanks again for your series.
this series has really made me contemplate getting an ironman account of my own tbh. it's been the most interesting content on youtube something i look forward to every weekend. thanks doom box
I wished open world content in GW2 had some difficulty to it and I wished we could take some NPC heroes along with us and get some actual worldbuilding and dialogue out of it. Current GW2 feels just so.... I don't know what it is but somehow I just don't care about its game world or the NPCs or anything that I do there.
Probably my favorite game of all time. Spend 1000s of hours in GvG over the 3 years is was properly supported. Assassin gameplay was probably the most fun I've had in a game of this sort. Just the shadow walking (teleporting) in combination with the all the attack skills... so many builds were viable for Assassin. I remember my A/D build all to well. Using Grenth's Grasp (enchantmet) and a cold weapon, you attacks would cripple the enemy. Because of the enchantment, Golden phoenix strike could hit and you didnt need to use a lead attack. Because golden phoenix cripples due to grenths grasp, trampling ox is guaranteed to known down, which means you can do falling lotus followed by Blades of steel for massive damage. That was my goto flat damage one. You could also switch it up with condition variation using falling spider and twisting fangs with Impale (wow impale was so OP during faction where it was 0.25 cast and did damage + deepwound, they changed to a hex later that would trigger below certain health, still good though). So yeah with just 5 out of 8 skills for straight combat, you still had 3 left for utility (almost always 1 was rez signet). Usually 1 skill was a movement speed increase like dash or whirling charge taht increased both attack speed and movement speed, but only if you are enchanted. Ah man, the complexity of making 8 man teambuilds was so much fun, spent lots of time just theory crafting builds for my guild. What a game this was. Shame that GW2 was NOTHING like the original GW and TO THIS DAY doesn't have proper GvG like GW1 had.
its been a great series man. brought back a lot of good memories so thank you for that. I'd be more than happy to see factions playthrough on new character
Dude, I used to watch you 10 years ago. For the first time ever I scrubbed my subscriptions and found you again. Hard nostalgia, glad you're still making quality content. Listened to your vids while doing work for a few hours. Followed on Twitch now. Glad to be here again!
@@astralaris8712 a single player content as it's prime time ? lmaoo that's funny, gw2 never had a prime and it never will because the pvp is garbage and the game is designed to be casual with no real competition. a game for people to play when they are bored and don't have anything else to play.
Well, it was gw2s prime time for what it was. Anet dropped the pvp after the first attempt at e-sports failed, and then retryied with HoT, which ended with it failing again, after that Anet completely abandoned pvp to a specific point.I do get what you mean, but for an, at that time, pve focused game, its prime time was Living Story1 and 2. Also, Gw1s prime time was not just because of the pvp, yes, it was a big part of it, and is to this day considered one of the best pvp systems in the World, but the pve scene was a part of it as well. Otherwise the game wouldnt be still alive after so many years.
Here is an idea : a new character so we can see how Faction starts until Kaineng, then either continue with the new character or resume from Kaineng with Bae Six Love the series btw
Shiro as a boss was, but Imperial Palace < Hell's Precipice, simply because the mission and the boss weren't split like Factions/Nightfall/Eye of the North.
It's been years since I've even talked about the original Guild Wars, I'm glad I found this video, I was filled with plenty of nostalgia from my early teens. Keep up the awesome work man!
returned last year to it to beat prophecies with fresh monk, and then finally went on wrapping those long overdue vanquishes i still had left in prophecies, felt good to have them all completed after all these years.
Thanks for showing love to one of my few good high school (days) memories! Very creative and funny. I appreciate your expression and efforts. Ace Hawkwind -GW1
I would stick with that character for several reasons: 1. No need for a new character, because you can do the starter missis anytime with this character and you save time getting the heroes again. 2. Then you go for a new character, it doesnt show the progression of your warrior e.g. getting new gear (well moded weapons/ prestige armor/ new heroes etc. Maybe a little roadmap would be like going through Fac-> NF-> EotN-> Dungeons/UW/FoW, to show the road from the scratch to the end. 3. The Warrior has a good variety of builds! You can go dagger spammer, endurance scythe or even earth shaker. Just my two cents about the topic... And keep going me and a lot of other people really enjoy this series :)
I remember my friends and I talking about our guild we would make before the game came out, I loved the hell out of GW and I spent may hours playing it. Managed to get lvl 20 Pre-searing.
Old mmos are where all the cool kids go. Age of Conan is having its 12 year anniversary just now and still looks amazing with maybe the best combat system of any mmo. Add to that epic lore and its a game that demands to be played. It's just a pity the devs pretty much abandoned the game in 2012 for The Secret World, which turned out a damp squid*. *Cthulhu pun for all you nerds;)
Played Guild Wars 1 since its betas. Whereas most of my friends discovered MMOs with the release of WoW the following year, I and some people I convinced, were having a blast in GW1. The fact it had no subscription fee was perfect for someone like me who wanted to play Everquest but didn't have a credit card as a teenager. It was too bad GW1 stopped receiving major updates after less than two years so they could work on its sequel (which I did enjoy 6 years later, but felt tonally different). I feel like if WoW was delayed a year, there could've been an alternate reality where GW1 became the success that introduced many people to online RPGs, and it would've had the funding to be even better.
Loved this first part of the playthrough. It really rekindled my nostalgia for this game growing up. I'd love to see you tackle the harder areas in the game with your new account, such as Sorrow's furnace and of course UW and FoW. One idea that could be interesting (although maybe a bit tedious) is to start a new character for each campaign and then once you finish the three main stories turn those characters into mercenaries and rock them with your final party for hard mode/elite areas of the game. That way you can showcase the full unabridged stories of the three campaigns and gain access to interesting team builds with mercenaries you wouldn't normally have access to. Just a thought. Either way, this has gotten me to jump back into GW and do the things I never tried as a dumb kid, like Vanquishing or the elite post-game areas like DoA. Might even try for a GWAMM title. Looking forward for future videos on this series.
I played hundreds of hours of guild wars, I love that game. So many memories, friends good times. I miss it. I remember when they came out with guild wars 2, I was expecting a continuation, a transfer of accounts and progress. Instead they scrapped the old game and went in another direction, and many players including myself left the game entirely.
I played Guild Wars for about 1.5 years before getting into WOW, it was the first MMORPG I played because my friend wanted to try them so we settled on that one because it didn't require a monthly sub. This was my gateway drug into these damn games... I'm still playing wow 15+ years on!
I still play this game weekly with my wife and a couple of our friends. For the most part, it has aged fairly well. The invisible colliders and inability to jump are my two biggest gripes.
I also went back to playing this video game, I kept Prophecies for last, because it is the chapter that I loved the most. I created the ritualist a new character and played all the campaigns. I love this game, it's fantastic and it relaxes me these days.
started a new character a few years ago, played for 1,5 years and since then on a break. i promised i would only start playing guild wars 2 once i reached "god amongst mere mortals" title and thats how its going to be.
Just discovered your channel and it has inspired me to fire up GW1 again! I'm so excited! Wish I could've helped you on your missions. I LOVED monking.
Here's what I think you should do: Start a new character in Factions and play through to the end of Vizunah Square. At that point you can decide whether to bring Bae Six in and show Vizunah Square from the other side, then continue on through factions with her, or to continue with the new character.
To this day, the original Guild Wars is the best MMORPG I ever played. And I did tried the big ones, like WoW, ESO, FF14 and Guild Wars 2. But none offered the same degree of immersion and fun Guild Wars has.
I dunno if you read comments, but I suggest you use a 2handed hammer for whatever campaign you do next, the Hammer while not top tier damage, the endless interrupts and AOE knockdowns make you feel like a god damn legend.
Loved this video, brought back so many good memories! GW was the first "mmo" style game that I played. Bought it for my wife initially about a month from release, she didn't like it so I gave it a go....ended up with over 3000 hours total, iirc circa 1600 on may main Ranger. My better half eventually got into it and running as a duo with 6 coordinated heroes was a blast, but that was after soloing the final mission with the original henchmen (oh the gnashing of teeth with the crappy pulls and "Leroy" moments!) Splinter weapon was insane until they nerfed it coz splinter/barrage was just so OP it was crazy. Would love to see a Factions series!
This is awesome dude ! :D I beat it last night, so it's fresh, haha :D I love your vids ! :D Few points of hilarity : I love how your character fucking DESTROYS Rurik while the mage in my cinematic just did one tiny soft autoattack to put him to sleep, hahahaha :D Also you should have paid attention to the henchmen's talk because the Stefan drunk story is great, and they criticize Alesia, haha :D I honestly never had a problem with her, and I did it all with henchmen save twice when other players brought their own heroes, but it seemed to echo what you thought of her, haha :D And also I didn't notice Adelbern and co, wtf ???!! :D Haha :'( I just finished Factions this morning too, so I'll hop on some of your Factions videos as well ! :D Keep it up, you're amazing !! :D
I miss hanging out in gToB, Marhan's, and RA when it was just below Lion's. Thank you for doing this playthrough, I haven't had a chance to play in well over 15months now but man do I miss this. I hope you rock the shit out of Factions and nightfall, I look forward for all the hilarious antics to come
it's amazing how well this game stands up as a singleplayer experience today. I think I might give this a try, I'm a big fan of dragon age origins and the closest thing to it other than it's sequels is guildwars
Never played gw1, but just from looking at this video, this Game looks better (graphics, style, polish) than 90% of the MMOs out there today (obviously ignoring the big 3).
This series has been some of the best gw1 related content ever.
I still play it. One of the greatest games there ever was.
I hope the Guild Wars servers continue to stay online for many years to come. I don't play very often anymore, but I still get a bursts to play for months once the itch sets in. One of my most played games ever, and what I played instead of WoW as a kid.
Don't worry Devs said that it takes so little resources to run GW that it'll probably run forever. In fact this game will most likely outlive GW2.
"dead game? i don't think so..." Me: "see's only 20 people and remembers back when lions arch had several full instance tabs"
Doom Box: "LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS!"
Any Dervish: *giggles*
haha remember when i first started to farm with my derv
All I was thinking
Dervish/monk, Judge's insight, Dwayna's grace, hit an undead.
GW1 has always been a fun game. And funny enough I am posting this on 28 April 2020, the 15th Anniversary of Guild Wars!
Guild wars 1 is still my favorite game, I thankyou and applaud you sir
the game is alive and as I have an active guild its even better then when it was popular
I love the fact that you still make videos like we are in 2005, you are like a microcosm of my childhood that lives on as its own entity, stay awesome
New character for Factions! If you want, you could make Bae Six a recruited Merc. Oh and we don't know Khilbron's first name, Vizier is a title, so now in my head canon he's Richard Khilbron ;)
Oh man, the mercenary idea is great. It would mean that he'd have to take a warrior hero - totaly worth it though!
I love the Merc idea
*Lichard
Guild wars 1 will forever be in my heart. I started playing it in 2006 and still do. I love it like no other game in my life.
When you started this play through, it made me want to go back and finish up more titles in GW. I was Kind of a Big Deal when I started back, but now my Guild Hall Smells of Rich Mahogany! Thanks for the inspiration and awesome series. Can’t wait for Cantha
Remove the word MMO from the title and this would be a very different video
xD
NOBODY CARES
Switch the second M with the O in MMO and you have yourself and even worse video
@@leeferris4934 It's actually pretty funny. Why did you even comment? Weirdo. lol you 15 or something?
Lmao
One of my fondest memories was going for the title/challenge where you reach max level without dying and I was nuked from 100% hp to 0% in less than two seconds by a corrupted priests' Ray of Judgement at the door to the Factions expansion main city. I died in less than 2 seconds, a little while later that skill was nerfed, lol.
I really miss the buildl varieties that GW1 provided, but I'm sure it was a balancing nightmare for the devs to maintain.
This is MY game, really, I began in internet thanks to this game and It's probably my favorite PC Game. I might just play again just for the meme.
Thanks for the nostalgia blast.
Come back to us!
thank you for this. one of the best series on yt and it got me back playing gw!
thank you for the nostalgia, really.. thanks. Good old days man
I absolutely love the first Guildwars. Its formula is so good and underrated. Not one Company out there did this formula. not one but Arenanet. Hats off.
I remember playing this for the first time waaaay back in the day. I didn't have heroes, so I had to suffer through this mission with only henchmen. It took me like 9 or 10 tries spread out over a few days. Also, thanks for the nostalgia bomb.
this mission was brutal with henchies
@@Foz0114 rene u have your old account? pm me
Dunno if you heard, but Anet is about to drop 10 new elite skills into GW1 for the 15th anniversary. :D
I definitely prefer the sequel.
I admit, a part of it is that the original resulted in the most toxic, obnoxious players any MMORPG has ever had-the Ascalonians. A group of players who hate a fictional race in a fictional setting in a video game so much that they hassle anyone who plays that race, they're always making a nuissance of themselves on the forum, and they've even been known to send death threats to the players of said race. That race would be the charr.
It's even more bizarre because the charr were the targets of genocide by the humans an human Gods in GW1 (yes, that lore was in GW1, no, it wasn't added in GW2). The human Gods were C-R-A-Z-Y. They would torture people for hunting animals, looking at their beauty, being poor, and all manner of other things. The humans were deeply propagandised to worship their Gods. The only problem was was that this sort of indentured propagandised thinking was passed along to certain players.
The charr didn't actually kill anyone in the Searing (all of the NPCs lived, even Gwen), it was a scare tactic to get invaders out of hteir ancestral stomping grounds. The human king Adelbern killed the Ascalonians that didn't flee with Rurik, the Orrian vizier killed the humans of Orr. All the charr wanted was surrender so that these brainwashed and crazy nutjobs would stop trying to slaughter everyone else to death.
The humans did that, a lot. Tengu, charr, centaurs, and even themselves in The Guild Wars (an actual lore event where all of the human nations were trying to wipe one another out). The human Gods made their puppets very murder crazy. For whatever reason though, this was all the fault of the charr.
In GW2, many Ascalonian players treat the charr as though they're some kind of ethnic minority deserving of immense amount of hate, even unironically throwing around slogans like "Make Ascalon Great Again!" I really, really wish they were being ironic. The passionatae way they talk about how much they hate the charr though, and the sheer disgust they verbalise at ArenaNet for making the charr playable? Nope. These people are very unwell.
Meanwhile, charr players who came to Guild Wars 2 without having played the original are very confused about why certain people in the community were sending them death threats in the early days of GW2. This lead to a lot of charr fans actually reading up on the lore to find out what, exactly, had inspired these players to hate a fictional race this much. The language used by charr haters is bizarrely similar to ethnosupremacists while talking on topics of antisemitism. It's utterly bizarre and... very unwell.
I genuinely hope that the current GW2 content, The Icebrood Saga, helps the charr haters get this out of their system. The point ArenaNet are trying to make to them is that they sound as crazy as Smodur and Bangar, rather than more level-headed in the way Rytlock is. That they're similar to the charr, just the very worst of the charr. The majority of charr players (myself included) have nothing against anyone who plays any race, it's really ridiculous to harbour ill will over a person's race choice, isn't it?
Ascalonians though? Yeesh.
At least No Quarter will allow charr players to snap back with "Right you are, Bangar" which is going to drive them nuts and make them feel incredibly uncomfortable.
I did play the original Guild Wars, unlike some charr players, but the Ascalonians have absolutely ruined it for me. I still have some fondness for Nightfall (which was always my favourite campaign) but... Yeah. It's been ruined. You can only see "Make Ascalon Great Again!" chanted unironically so many times.
Footnote: I don't blame the humans in Guild Wars 1 for their actions. I blame the human Gods. I was very glad that we got to kill Balthazar in Path of Fire, he had a LOT to answer for. The thing is is that most GW1 players don't seem to have the perspicacity or wherewithal to realise that the six Gods who did so many evil things were... not actually good.
"The charr didn't actually kill anyone in the Searing (all of the NPCs lived, even Gwen)"
Gwen, whose mother died in The Searing, was captured and enslaved before almost being fed to a Devourer for the amusement of the charr. She only escaped by being led to freedom by the ghosts of others killed by the charr.
While online abuse is obviously wrong, in the purely fictional context of Guild Wars, the charr are clearly depicted as a villainous warlike race (akin to Orcs) with only a minority exhibiting any semblance of redeeming qualities.
Omg this game was my LIFE for 7 years.
still play this game every now and then and every time i look at my 19k hours played and am like best 19k hours of my entire life. i really wish GW2 was like GW1
I am surprised to see som many familiar names from GW2 story (never played GW1)
Congrats.
I’m still have issues with Thunderhead Keep.
I beat GW2 but can’t get past this mission. Lol
Congratulations. It was a pleasure to watch.
I enjoyed your play through. I am also a boomer who loves GW1. My son and I are doing a playthrough in late 2022. We are having a ton of fun. We didn't put any restrictions on our playthrough. So we started with Faction characters and quickly opened up the map and got heroes as soon as we could. I remember how bad some of the henchmen are. I didn't want to go that route. Right now we are in process of getting "pain inverter". Thanks again for your series.
One of the few genuinely excellent games ever made.
Dude this has nearly 15k views in a week. You need to keep this going.
this series has really made me contemplate getting an ironman account of my own tbh. it's been the most interesting content on youtube something i look forward to every weekend. thanks doom box
just started guild wars again with 2 mates this is one of the best games i ever played online.
Not only did I watch the series, but it made me want to play again so I started a new Warrior and played along. Keep it going!
I wished open world content in GW2 had some difficulty to it and I wished we could take some NPC heroes along with us and get some actual worldbuilding and dialogue out of it.
Current GW2 feels just so.... I don't know what it is but somehow I just don't care about its game world or the NPCs or anything that I do there.
Probably my favorite game of all time. Spend 1000s of hours in GvG over the 3 years is was properly supported. Assassin gameplay was probably the most fun I've had in a game of this sort. Just the shadow walking (teleporting) in combination with the all the attack skills... so many builds were viable for Assassin. I remember my A/D build all to well. Using Grenth's Grasp (enchantmet) and a cold weapon, you attacks would cripple the enemy. Because of the enchantment, Golden phoenix strike could hit and you didnt need to use a lead attack. Because golden phoenix cripples due to grenths grasp, trampling ox is guaranteed to known down, which means you can do falling lotus followed by Blades of steel for massive damage. That was my goto flat damage one. You could also switch it up with condition variation using falling spider and twisting fangs with Impale (wow impale was so OP during faction where it was 0.25 cast and did damage + deepwound, they changed to a hex later that would trigger below certain health, still good though).
So yeah with just 5 out of 8 skills for straight combat, you still had 3 left for utility (almost always 1 was rez signet). Usually 1 skill was a movement speed increase like dash or whirling charge taht increased both attack speed and movement speed, but only if you are enchanted.
Ah man, the complexity of making 8 man teambuilds was so much fun, spent lots of time just theory crafting builds for my guild. What a game this was. Shame that GW2 was NOTHING like the original GW and TO THIS DAY doesn't have proper GvG like GW1 had.
great series, thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to any future campaigns you plan to do. got me back into GW as well!
This series made me log back into my old GW1 account and rework the builds on my heroes lmao
Thanks for the ride,
1300 views and you've inspired a lot of people to come back to a "dead game" that thousands of people play daily.
Congrats!
its been a great series man. brought back a lot of good memories so thank you for that. I'd be more than happy to see factions playthrough on new character
Best game EVER. Still playing after 15 years.
Dude, I used to watch you 10 years ago. For the first time ever I scrubbed my subscriptions and found you again. Hard nostalgia, glad you're still making quality content. Listened to your vids while doing work for a few hours. Followed on Twitch now. Glad to be here again!
I played GW2 for many thousand hours over 5 years and was never interested in GW1 but Doom Box made me start playing it and I love it xD
gw1 in its prime > gw2 all day everyday
@@robert29ti GW1 out of Prime ----> GWoW2 Prime (If it ever had a prime, doubtful lol).
Gw2s golden age was Living Story 1-2, it ended with HoT and it never got a second prime time.
@@astralaris8712 a single player content as it's prime time ? lmaoo that's funny, gw2 never had a prime and it never will because the pvp is garbage and the game is designed to be casual with no real competition. a game for people to play when they are bored and don't have anything else to play.
Well, it was gw2s prime time for what it was. Anet dropped the pvp after the first attempt at e-sports failed, and then retryied with HoT, which ended with it failing again, after that Anet completely abandoned pvp to a specific point.I do get what you mean, but for an, at that time, pve focused game, its prime time was Living Story1 and 2.
Also, Gw1s prime time was not just because of the pvp, yes, it was a big part of it, and is to this day considered one of the best pvp systems in the World, but the pve scene was a part of it as well. Otherwise the game wouldnt be still alive after so many years.
Here is an idea : a new character so we can see how Faction starts until Kaineng, then either continue with the new character or resume from Kaineng with Bae Six
Love the series btw
shiro was imo the most difficult boss from all three games.
Shiro as a boss was, but Imperial Palace < Hell's Precipice, simply because the mission and the boss weren't split like Factions/Nightfall/Eye of the North.
@@nythrius4326 Indeed but the dumpster trash cartboard house area was such an awful area that you had to spend half your playthrough to get through
You can beat Shiro with henchmen and no skills equipped. How is that hard?
@@xXxLikeMyMusicxXx moebius setup + WoP + any stance removal = ez solo
Actually the story isnt realy over... glint is haveing some sort of primary quests... war of kryta and so on and so on
I’m replaying gw1 now and I still love it
It's been years since I've even talked about the original Guild Wars, I'm glad I found this video, I was filled with plenty of nostalgia from my early teens.
Keep up the awesome work man!
Big thumbs up for the content dude ! Creating whole yt channel fully dedicated to this classic is really awesome ! It brings a lot of good memories :)
Still playing this game in 2020? Who else besides me and OP?
returned last year to it to beat prophecies with fresh monk, and then finally went on wrapping those long overdue vanquishes i still had left in prophecies, felt good to have them all completed after all these years.
frekkin OG!!
would be dope to have a refreshing vid for all of us who are out of the loop
I loved watching this series. I look forward to whatever you have next!
Thanks for showing love to one of my few good high school (days) memories! Very creative and funny. I appreciate your expression and efforts. Ace Hawkwind -GW1
This brings back memories of gw and your videos back in the days. Especially the bay 6 intro!
"This mission's not that long, or hard either." - Famous last words.
I would stick with that character for several reasons:
1. No need for a new character, because you can do the starter missis anytime with this character and you save time getting the heroes again.
2. Then you go for a new character, it doesnt show the progression of your warrior e.g. getting new gear (well moded weapons/ prestige armor/ new heroes etc.
Maybe a little roadmap would be like going through Fac-> NF-> EotN-> Dungeons/UW/FoW, to show the road from the scratch to the end.
3. The Warrior has a good variety of builds! You can go dagger spammer, endurance scythe or even earth shaker.
Just my two cents about the topic...
And keep going me and a lot of other people really enjoy this series :)
I love syncing Mark of Pain with Hundred Blades, Double and Triple Chop. Those are some pretty numbers too. Nice Video.
play this game daily, it makes me happy, love it, learn knew stuff every day about it, its so good, it outlasted my 2 marriages
I remember my friends and I talking about our guild we would make before the game came out, I loved the hell out of GW and I spent may hours playing it. Managed to get lvl 20 Pre-searing.
Wow this video popped in my recommended section and i remembered you! Used to watch your old guides for GW back in the day. Good old memories!
Started playing GW again with my friends, since the stay-at-home thing. We are looking to max out titles big time. So glad you talk about it !!!
That excitement of mixing and matching skills is the best. I love when you talk about your hundred blades combo. Guild Wars was a great game.
Looking forward for you to conquer Factions next. Also many thanks for giving me the idea of playing GW again.
doom box still watching ur vids back in 2006, brings back good memories 👍
Definitely make a new character for factions ! It would be nice to watch something other than warrior for another play through :)
@DwarvishPasty why?
Old mmos are where all the cool kids go.
Age of Conan is having its 12 year anniversary just now and still looks amazing with maybe the best combat system of any mmo. Add to that epic lore and its a game that demands to be played.
It's just a pity the devs pretty much abandoned the game in 2012 for The Secret World, which turned out a damp squid*.
*Cthulhu pun for all you nerds;)
ngl, I couldn't wait for you to slog through prophecies to finally get to the best part - fantasy asia
Well, thank you so much for this let's play of Prophecies !
Whatever you do, keep up the good work !
Can't wait for Cantha ! :D
Played Guild Wars 1 since its betas. Whereas most of my friends discovered MMOs with the release of WoW the following year, I and some people I convinced, were having a blast in GW1.
The fact it had no subscription fee was perfect for someone like me who wanted to play Everquest but didn't have a credit card as a teenager. It was too bad GW1 stopped receiving major updates after less than two years so they could work on its sequel (which I did enjoy 6 years later, but felt tonally different).
I feel like if WoW was delayed a year, there could've been an alternate reality where GW1 became the success that introduced many people to online RPGs, and it would've had the funding to be even better.
Loved this first part of the playthrough. It really rekindled my nostalgia for this game growing up. I'd love to see you tackle the harder areas in the game with your new account, such as Sorrow's furnace and of course UW and FoW.
One idea that could be interesting (although maybe a bit tedious) is to start a new character for each campaign and then once you finish the three main stories turn those characters into mercenaries and rock them with your final party for hard mode/elite areas of the game. That way you can showcase the full unabridged stories of the three campaigns and gain access to interesting team builds with mercenaries you wouldn't normally have access to. Just a thought.
Either way, this has gotten me to jump back into GW and do the things I never tried as a dumb kid, like Vanquishing or the elite post-game areas like DoA. Might even try for a GWAMM title.
Looking forward for future videos on this series.
I played hundreds of hours of guild wars, I love that game. So many memories, friends good times. I miss it. I remember when they came out with guild wars 2, I was expecting a continuation, a transfer of accounts and progress. Instead they scrapped the old game and went in another direction, and many players including myself left the game entirely.
I played Guild Wars for about 1.5 years before getting into WOW, it was the first MMORPG I played because my friend wanted to try them so we settled on that one because it didn't require a monthly sub. This was my gateway drug into these damn games... I'm still playing wow 15+ years on!
I still play this game weekly with my wife and a couple of our friends. For the most part, it has aged fairly well. The invisible colliders and inability to jump are my two biggest gripes.
I also went back to playing this video game, I kept Prophecies for last, because it is the chapter that I loved the most.
I created the ritualist a new character and played all the campaigns. I love this game, it's fantastic and it relaxes me these days.
Imo guild wars was the Pinnacle of MMOs back in the day. The original had a really badass story
Similar serie of videos in factions, would be really great, i would definitly tune in for that
Amazing playthrough congratulations! Can't wait for more GW/GW2 content!
Yeeees! Thank God we got ourselves a UA-camr that has done a recent video on this masterpiece
started a new character a few years ago, played for 1,5 years and since then on a break. i promised i would only start playing guild wars 2 once i reached "god amongst mere mortals" title and thats how its going to be.
well done, been enjoying watching the series
i loved guild wars. The first "play smarter, not harder" mmo the i came across.
Just discovered your channel and it has inspired me to fire up GW1 again! I'm so excited! Wish I could've helped you on your missions. I LOVED monking.
Here's what I think you should do: Start a new character in Factions and play through to the end of Vizunah Square.
At that point you can decide whether to bring Bae Six in and show Vizunah Square from the other side, then continue on through factions with her, or to continue with the new character.
Gotta love those sparks in HM, man did I struggle for these missions
awesome playtrough! Thanks for the entertainment. Looking forward to Factions
To this day, the original Guild Wars is the best MMORPG I ever played. And I did tried the big ones, like WoW, ESO, FF14 and Guild Wars 2. But none offered the same degree of immersion and fun Guild Wars has.
I dunno if you read comments, but I suggest you use a 2handed hammer for whatever campaign you do next, the Hammer while not top tier damage, the endless interrupts and AOE knockdowns make you feel like a god damn legend.
Loved this video, brought back so many good memories! GW was the first "mmo" style game that I played. Bought it for my wife initially about a month from release, she didn't like it so I gave it a go....ended up with over 3000 hours total, iirc circa 1600 on may main Ranger. My better half eventually got into it and running as a duo with 6 coordinated heroes was a blast, but that was after soloing the final mission with the original henchmen (oh the gnashing of teeth with the crappy pulls and "Leroy" moments!) Splinter weapon was insane until they nerfed it coz splinter/barrage was just so OP it was crazy.
Would love to see a Factions series!
Necromancer/Mesmer reporting in.
This is awesome dude ! :D I beat it last night, so it's fresh, haha :D I love your vids ! :D
Few points of hilarity : I love how your character fucking DESTROYS Rurik while the mage in my cinematic just did one tiny soft autoattack to put him to sleep, hahahaha :D Also you should have paid attention to the henchmen's talk because the Stefan drunk story is great, and they criticize Alesia, haha :D I honestly never had a problem with her, and I did it all with henchmen save twice when other players brought their own heroes, but it seemed to echo what you thought of her, haha :D
And also I didn't notice Adelbern and co, wtf ???!! :D Haha :'(
I just finished Factions this morning too, so I'll hop on some of your Factions videos as well ! :D
Keep it up, you're amazing !! :D
I miss hanging out in gToB, Marhan's, and RA when it was just below Lion's. Thank you for doing this playthrough, I haven't had a chance to play in well over 15months now but man do I miss this.
I hope you rock the shit out of Factions and nightfall, I look forward for all the hilarious antics to come
Guard: PRINCE RURIK! PRINCE RURIK! PRINCE RURIK!
Rurik: What is it?
Guard: PRINCE RURIK! THE CHARR ARE APPROACHING THE GATE!
Bruh... your almost making me Re-dl this and play again.. i loved this game. probaly all time top 5
This made me miss my RoJ monk
Omg the nostalgia is so high with this video.
it's amazing how well this game stands up as a singleplayer experience today. I think I might give this a try, I'm a big fan of dragon age origins and the closest thing to it other than it's sequels is guildwars
Really want to see Bae Six continue. Also those imps are deadly, their damage in hard mode is pretty savage.
i loved this game, my first mmo.
Was member of the "United Guilds ".
Remember some jokes like " Alisia come ts plz.
Good memories :-)
War of Kryta and Sorrow's Furnace next! Then create a new character for factions - Ritualist!
Never played gw1, but just from looking at this video, this Game looks better (graphics, style, polish) than 90% of the MMOs out there today (obviously ignoring the big 3).
Soooo... Factions next yes? ;-)