Guild Wars 1

I'm glad people are still playing GW1. It's a great CO-RPG. It's not an MMORPG like a lot of people say it is. The world isn't open. The game is instanced based towns/outposts with a personal overworld. That makes it a CO-RPG, not an MMORPG.

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I don't remember it looking so bad but then again that was back 2009

I get fucking tears in my eyes.
I have it somewhere, but all the old legends are gone. None of my friends are playing this anymore.

I'd like to try GW1 again after all these years but I lost my old account long ago and I don't really want to pay $30 to play

Open a ticket and get your account back then?

GW1 triggers my autism because it stores your window configuration in the cloud and there's no way to reinitialize the windows to the way they were when you bought the game (that is, glued to the edges of the screen and not just anchored at some arbitrary coordinates). Actually you can do it with Cheat Engine but there really should have been a button to do it in the options.

It was pretty based.

different user same problem.
where do i open the ticket?
when i click on support at the guildwars site it sends me into guild wars 2 support should i just open the ticket there?

who the fuk gets GWAMM in 18 months? cmon

What else would he do, PvP?

yeah? that screenshot dont look recent looks more like it came from when the game was active based on how many ppl are there

Gw2 and GW1 support are the same support, and the accounts for both are linkable.

Is this true OP Also don't be afraid of Sup Forums and censor your name, you're not going to get hacked.

This game got SO MUCH right. So much right.

Visuals, sound design, gameplay, lore, atmosphere...and I'm not even into PvP, i just did Pve, sometimes with bros, sometimes with random fucking strangers with whom we assembled a small team to kick Abaddon's ass back into it's hole who BECAME bros.

If i had the time I could see myself jumping back in just to run some dungeons (solo with heroes probably) just like back in the day, that shit was comfy as fuck.

not my best screenshot but there you go

SORRY OP I CAN'T PARTICIPATE IN A GW1 THREAD WITHOUT GETTING TOO EMOTIONAL HAVE A FREE BUMP

Finally some sense of intelligence around here. People who keep expecting other MMOs work like GW1 are completely fucking retarded purely because GW1 just wasn't an MMO.

>all that alcohol and all those fireworks sitting in my bank box that I never got around to using during ingame festivals for funsies

I should have been like those people that liquidated their inventories then made shoddy illicit gold-for-gold deals to transfer up to GW2

>made all my GW1 characters back when I was scared of playing as female characters
>logging back into my account and it's all a sausage fest and I will never be able to wear all my cool armors as a girl

Why the fuck are you so hung up on labels?

It was almost as good as WoW. My only concern was the PvE part being less significant, the story was decent, the bosses were decent, the map design, mobs were good, getting elites were good, but it was still not on WoW level, the insta lvl 20 for PvP was dumb IMO, just like in GW2. Eye of the North introduced good PvE content though, but it was that time when the game also started dying.

To be honest it was a decent game, I wish it was more PvE focused though.

Also I remember farming Ectos with a W/M in the summer and selling those for 5k platinum or what it was.... I really enjoyed it, then buying the cool armors when no one had them....

WoW was always much better than GW1, I mean let's not kid ourselves, in every aspect WoW surpassed it. Growing up poor though I absolutely loved GW1, it provided me with a fun fantasy online world but ultimately I would still crave visiting my relatives and playing WoW on their accounts.

>tfw I can never be 16 again

the best part of GW1 was the skill system bro what u even talkin about... i had access to WoW n GW but chose GW lol

English pls

WoW had shit skill system compared to GW, and the skill system is what made GW unique, its why people still miss it to this day moron

Objectively, wow did everything much better including build diversity and skills. Go back and play GW1, you'll see.
If GW actually had a subscription and we didn't have poorfags making excuses for it because "its sub-free unlike WoW!!!", no one would fucking play it.

>subscription for a CO-RPG
Umm... Why would they do that? No CO-RPG has ever had a sub.

>not playing the superior version

>tfw played GW1 and vanilla WoW and TBC simultaneously
no other game will ever compare

You can pay to change gender if you really want to

>tfw i masturbated to that box art

Have some memories, fagets:
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>tfw I cannot relive Pre-Searing, Shing Jea, Crystal Desert and Echovald Forest for the first time again.

>not into PvP
Missing out on AB and fort aspenwood is something I wouldnt wish on my worst enemies

You were either someone with a job
>wow player
Someone on allowance/stringent money
Gw1
Or someone who was stingy
>free run escape/maplestory
About the time lol showed up all the ms players migrated and PvP became "big"
Gw1 deserved that thunder but didn't cause it wasn't free

Currently downloading

>tfw I only got to level 12 before quitting to play WoW because WoW is what I really wanted but my parents were too cheap to pay the subscription

wrong m8 sorry, skill system was much more varied in GW and to say otherwise means u only got braindamage

WoWfag here. I played Guild Wars for like a month way back when and I remember it being pretty tight. Redpill me on if it's worth playing at all

>inferior armor design
>cash shop based economy
>brainlet twitc gameplay
>many good but half baked ideas
>expacs with less content
No

>>inferior armor design
Factually wrong.
>>cash shop based economy
Wrong.
>>brainlet twitc gameplay
No idea what this means
>>many good but half baked ideas
Wrong.
>>expacs with less content
Lmao

You can play stupid
>touchcranger
Or meta
But the real meat is that those 8 skills you mix and match have the potential to be a great build only you understand based on your experiences
The game is balanced due to sheer build variety as well as player cohesion/skill
Also mesmers are arguably the most versatile counters in any game ever
Now in gw2 they're just glorified minion masters in some cases

Oh Jesus Christ the wrongshill
Yes particle electric man is a recycled spam asset
You can't deny reality

>we need a new villain
>how about Balthazar? Never mind the fact that he should be in Fissure of Woe fighting against the army of his half-brother. He should be prisoned in the mists from the start and trying to destroy Tyria!
This shit makes no fucking sense

>the gw1 threads are
>always
>just before work or bed
god dammit Sup Forums

>mfw I had over a year logged into my WoW main
>and half a year in my main alt

It makes sense if you pay attention to the story, you cuck.

Why are the skills blacked out?

Jesus, was this game really that butt ugly? Was I retarded back then?

Fuck, why is the server so laggy?

It doesn't. GW1 lore clearly states that Balthazar left with the other Six and is fighting against Menzies in FoW.

GW2 clearly states that instead he was prisoned in the Mists at the time of the Six's departure.

They can't both have happened. So which is it?

I've still got it all. I will never get rid of it!
Soundtrack CD is still working!

nah, looks a bit better than that

>as old as runescape
Come on man

>plastic case

newfag detected. it came out in a cardboard box with a jewel case

yeah let's call it an FPS, i mean why not

>all that Jeremy soule
For me he really reached his apex with nightfall when they introduced passive/action music transitions

Me too. Though my posters have really gone to shit because I've kept them in the last 5 apartments I've been living in.

>states that Balthazar left with the other Six

Said who? People on Tyria simply saw the gods stopped interacting and assumed they left, whereas they were having internal struggles and banished him before leaving. It make sense.

im pretty sure factions and nightfall released on day 1 in those formats for collectors' editions
not sure about prophecies

My Factions poster - Sin side is still in my sis room.

So we can just ignore everything we have known since GW1 and say "well, they might have just assumed everything". No, fuck that.

the smells of those manuals tho

Still preserved!

This might have even be in those Manuscripts that came with GW1 boxes. Let me check.

I would argue in favor of anyone who says "GW2 is not a Guild Wars game" as stupid as that sounds, in terms of world, lore, and gameplay

Nostalgia goggles are always rather foggy in hindsight

The lore was solid up till ShitFall happened. I refuse to acknowledge pre-ShitFall and the current lore to be part of the same whole.

I agree with this forum member. They are just sentences.

>newfag
tell me about it...

>no collectors edition

uwu is this gw2g?

If you had really played GW2 you'd know how wrong you are. You probably are one of those retards who played GW2 at launch (if even) and got mad that it was shitty (it was, admittedly) and not really that fun so you left and now shitpost about it whenever you get the chance.

GW2 evolved a lot since 5 years ago and now is a much better, more mature, and solid game than GW1 ever was. The lore also checks out (there are few questionable choices here and there though, I admit).

GW2 is the perfect successor of GW1 and this is a fact.

>8 skills

LMAO

newfag

Dude I was 15 back then. And being a east-euro poorfag didn't helped at all. I was lucky parents bought me it anyways. Would have missed best times of my life.
Furfags, be gone.

>60 hours
lmao

that's an elonian not a charr!

So you admit you're arguing from an emotional standpoint rather than a factual one, and are fine with that. This means you can be dismissed out of hand and no one has to take anything you say seriously.

Are you sure you want to do this?
Y/N

least i didn't black it out like you nerd

>The lore also checks out
This whole thing with Balthazar doesn't. You have to do backflips to accept it for what it is.

True oldfag here, no argument.
>tfw I was in guild with a dude that had fucking TEN GWAMMs. And Gods knew how many k hours.. 17? 20?
Also, pic rel. How can Fashion Wars even compete?
Go WE WUZING elswhere.

you see any catfucker posting?
At launch was when I enjoyed it you cherry fuck
They never addressed water game play
randomly added gliders while still ignoring water game play
constantly released more things with more time gates
all while "balancing" the game in favor of retarded mobs, stifling wubwub so much so that only servers who have enough mindless zombies will win by sheer numbers whereas non-AoE limits was a reasonable counter to big dumb mobs
>GW2 evolved a lot since 5 years ago and now is a much better, more mature, and solid game than GW1 ever was.
All those half baked ideas (crown/heart/dagger), alignments (vigil/sekritsociety/ogden's scrbes) and racial skills are all uselessly implemented
Even PvE onlys in GW1 had scaling and utility

I can't tell if you'rea a shill or trolling though so props to you for baiting me into a srs response if you are

see

>Go WE WUZING elswhere.
the state of gw1 fags: 2013 memes

I miss GW1. Once I have access to my pc again, instead of resubbinh to xiv and getting the new expansion, I'm going to slowly start on it again.
The hardest part is picking a class, but I know I intend to go in order.

Exactly. The backflip in this is saying that people in GW1 were simply wrong. It's like saying nothing of the old lore matters because we can simply say it didn't happen.

That's not how to fit new and old lore together. That's the lazy way out.

let's not forget the game is so old it could be played on a dial-up connection

The simple fact is gw1 fags do not play gw1. They refuse to go back. And if they do, they just go back for some screenshots and playing MAYBE 30 minutes at most. They do it for the cred, for online arguments.
They spend WAY more time whining about how gw2 is "lore breaking" than they do playing games in general. It's absolutely sad.

But they canceled Windows98 support tho.

>gameplay, lore, and world = emotion
are you fucking me or are you only reading what you want to read

>At launch was when I enjoyed it you cherry fuck
Wow then you really must have shit taste because the game sucked at launch. It had a lot of issues with gameplay and missing QoL that it was basically a snoozefest.

>They never addressed water game play
True, everybody hates water gameplay and it simply should either be completely reworked or just removed from the game altogether. Here's hoping they work on it for the next expansion but honestly... meh, it's so minimal aside from a few quests in code Tyria that it's really irrelevant.

>randomly added gliders while still ignoring water game play
>randomly
Gliders are the best thing to ever happen to GW2 (mounts are a great contender too). They added a lot of fun to the game, rewarding exploration, they opened up the map layout in a vertical way that simply wasn't possible before. And on top of that they really integrated well with the rest of the game (old and new content).

>constantly released more things with more time gates
What? Are you referring to Living Story chapters? Because I'm happy to get free constant content updates every 2-3 months that aren't just small patches but actual *content* with maps, achievements, quests, equipment and challenges in general. If you're not talking about LS then explain because I have no idea what you're talking about.

>all while "balancing" the game in favor of retarded mobs, stifling wubwub so much so that only servers who have enough mindless zombies will win by sheer numbers whereas non-AoE limits was a reasonable counter to big dumb mobs
I don't really play WvW so I have no stake in this.

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Ok faggots, which Birthday Gift shall I pick?
>tfw no Gwen-Chan ever, and it's still for ecto stack.

step it up nerds

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>>GW2 evolved a lot since 5 years ago and now is a much better, more mature, and solid game than GW1 ever was.
>All those half baked ideas (crown/heart/dagger), alignments (vigil/sekritsociety/ogden's scrbes) and racial skills are all uselessly implemented
Crown/Heart/Dagger could've been implemented better, true. It's mostly just different ways you roleplay your character so it's up to your enjoyment. Although they do not have consequences in the story, they have added more options and choices that matter in the new expansion and that seems to be the direction they are going towards.
Racial skills are tricky because they should not be giving any advantage and lock you into a specific character/class combination. I think they shouldn't even exist and I'm glad they don't matter in the grand scheme of things.
Alignments matter for your character's story, there are different story lines and dialogue choices also in the new expansion depending on what you picked at the beginning.

>Hundreds of skills
>Why aren't you running discordway?

Right now my fit is using spirit's strength and it's pretty fun, but everyone has me do spirit spam if I want to be in groups, so like 70% of skills don't get used

to be fair after spending a minimum of 100+ hours over the span of 8ish years on each character Gw1 fags can say they've seen all they want to see
What will GW2 fags have to say when GW2 runs its course?
100+ hours per character spent praying in that somewhere in that mountain of garbage drops a honeycomb would be granted by the vilethorn

Though I did unironically taxiing in more people to unfuck a map from failure

>tfw you got an EL kuuni tonic from one
feels good

>Kunna
Ahh.. best dragon, desu.
>tfw we won't see Shiny in LS4 of "GW"2

>Wow then you really must have shit taste because the game sucked at launch
>Could use blinks onto ledges
>could rush grind a dungeon set and be done with it in a day in case you had the weekend to spend, as opposed to over a month of pain
>could destroy a pack of dumbasses in wubwub with good AoE placement
GW2 at launch was more efficient for my time when I had time to invest
Now they're forcing me to wait 24 hours inbetween world events for a chance at subpar loot, and a glimmer of hope for decent loot

>people claiming GW1 is superior and that they are so hardcore for playing the better game and then posting screenshots of sub-1k hours or even sub-100 hours

Are you guys fucking shitting me? Pic related, this is my account on GW2 over the past 5 years and I'm casual as fuck, most people I know that actually play the game somewhat regularly have way more than 5k hours across 5 years.

Really makes you think if you can't even enjoy playing the game you think is superior for a thousand hours across 10-15 years, huh?

also your acknowledging what shouldnt exist why I say GW2 has so many blatant half baked artifacts