Just walking through Eden (the introduction of the game) before Ascalon was destroyed. The green hills, nice music, the first pet as a ranger. I want to go back !

yeah. My ranger was my favourite character. Although most of the farming I did with a monk and warrior.

neo arenanet can go eat shit

You've just made the memories come back ;)

you can, its on steam

No, that's not his name, though I don't feel comfortable giving out his real name. What I will say is: he belonged to a guild called [Mara] Mature. Age. Recruitment. Alliance. It was a guild only for 18 year olds and up, so of course I could not join since I started playing this game when I was very young. The guild was dying as everyone started moving to Gw2, and even offered to make him guild leader. I went to Gw2, though he did not. He never was interested in Gw2, and thus never touched it. I stopped playing both games, so I have no idea what happened to his guild.

Hey, I was a member of MARA from the very early days, when we were BFLP. (Bald, Fat, Lazy and Proud.) It was a great bunch of players. I'm very sorry to hear about your father. I hope hearing the soundtrack brings back as many good memories for you as it does for me.

I on the other hand had my father hate me for spending so much time playing this game. I feel a little envious lol and im sorry to hear about your father. im glad you got to enjoy this awesome game alongside him!

I was in MARA too. Turtles - I Am Illusory

Sorry to hear. I have alot of games that give me similar feelings, both good and bad. Its interesting to go back and get those feelings again. At the very least, you have a game and a soundtrack you can go back to that can remind you of all the good times you had with your dad.

same here !

yabozoable definitely both.

So true !

this comment made me tear up, so true

its both man. you had plenty of time to experience the game in its entirety

haha totally remembering this. Running to Droknar. 2k. :P

Powerleveling people at droks as a 55 monk was the first business I ever ran :')

the good old days

Right? U never see them at that outpost anymorr

I missed my old warrior that could run Droks. :D

You are not the only one. Crazy that those commes are mostly from 3-5 years ago

why you cut onions?

Nick danielz I have played since 9, and I was OBSESSED with it!

+Nick danielz I'm with ya man. This shit is nostalgic as fuck. I was in the 7th grade. Definitely affected my brain development in a positive way

+JAmes Avery Can we play together some time? And do you have minecraft?

+Nick danielz Definitely the same with me. I loved this game, it's the one I have the most and best memories with.

+Tim Es Dude, You still know your info? We *could* play together possibly...

No doubt there, bro.

SWG was the best MMO.. bu tthis is the vest Music in a game evar

wow was just grindy illusion, gw was a real deal

I miss the old good days!

Wow i stumbled across this commentary, I cant deny any of these statments. Best game ever.. Still rockin :)

Reading this comment in 2023 hit me so hard. War machine were absolute beasts. Everything you said is true. I have such incredibly fond memories of this time of my life, almost entirely due to this game.

It really was!

Me too. Definitely contributed to my adolescent brain development

and this is what is missing from GW2. I was really disapointed with the game overall, and I never play it. All those years of anticipation and excited waiting, and then feeling really let down by what they released. :(

But that will mean we see Old Ascalon burn again, lush fields turn into sea's of fire, walls that should have kept us safe, killing our family during collapse! Maybe the past is best left in the past.

And very active :)

2020 now, and who knew how 2020 would turn into.

@boi mac still going strong!

2024 =)

It's just the same for me.

1st time I played guild wars I grew hair on my nutts, and I was already 55 years old

I second that.

Ricardo Verissimo I third this.

I feel you ma, makes me sad... GW2 aint the same... I miss Alliance battles soo much.

I know! I was so sad when AB died

***** True story, nice comment. People don't usually stress that that fact enough, but the poeple in that game were great indeed. That community was amazing. That's one of the most important parts of any MMO game, and Guild Wars scored over nine thousand on that department. I miss the guilds, I miss the friends and the teams, I miss trading with good people and not scammers, I miss being able to help a stranger in need and getting good help from another one with more experience when the tables turn and I turn out to need help that time. I miss meeting someone looooooooooooooooooong (game wise, like pre-searing) and than finding that person again, in a new guild, in the Hall of Heroes, in a mission outpost, anywhere, months after, and still remembering one another. Made a lot of friends with that game and they helped me to enjoy the game even more. Damn it, I really miss this game XD

Exact same thing for me. The first Guild Wars is probably my favorite game of all time. I wish I could experience it for the first time all over again.

ZabaZu That's what makes it so sad, knowing that I'll never have that feeling of first watching the Searing tear up Old Ascalon or seeing Rurik die (and then come back later as an enemy!) or find out that the White Mantle were bad guys all along! It's all old now, and I think part of me resents GW2 for not invoking those feelings again. Among other things (although I do enjoy it. It's definitely not near as good as 1 though).

Robert Davis I remember being a younger kid and waking up between 4 and 5 am, on school days, just to get a few missions in. GW1 is really my favorite game of all time because aside from it being an amazing game on its own, for me personally, it psychologically takes me back to a time in my life where I didn't have to worry about being late for work, selling my arm and leg to pay for college, or anything really. And I think I go back to GW1 because part of me misses that and it's the best way I know how to get it back.

***** "It psychologically takes me back to a time in my life where I didn't have to worry about being late for work, selling my arm and leg to pay for college, or anything really." I think that's definitely another part of the magic for me. It's why I listen to old video game music and watch old shows that I did as a kid, no matter how stupid they may be. I feel like the magic is gone but I try to bring it back regardless.

***** This happened to me, and forced me to ask others for help,and eventually join a fun guild. Totally changed the game for me.

That feeling of intense nostalgia is so bittersweet. It feels like a void in my stomach, yearning for times gone by. Guild wars 1 was something special, something that will unfortunately never be replicated

The PvP was reeeeeeeally good. The Hall of Heroes' difficulty was insane. Hardcore gamers everywhere.

its all about the timing i remember the times with teamspeak 2 and the 1.5 second delay :D spike in 3.... 2 (people press their skills) 1.... xDDD and the spike (burst) was perfect :D

The ranger pet/necro death combo cancer, you remember that ? Don't you dare kill these pets.

hahahaha i remember that :D ^^ howly crap :D

When i was listening the songs i was feeling something like you. Almost cried.

+Arlindo “val” Baby please YAY!!!!! (Email me at WarpcrewYT@gmail.com to schedule!!!!)

+Beartican Wolf yo dude ! I don't have my pc anymore just a Mac. I am looking for a way to install it ! I will get back to you when it s done !

+Arlindo "val" Baby please So, should we make a new guild? I have one, but it is not too expensive for me to make a new one. A hall, I don't have enough for, and I don't have one now. :)

+Beartican Wolf Count me in, PM me! :D We should record videos for posterity too so it lives on in us :).

Hey, this is me, Beartican XD please email my public email for the google plus and possibly skype group links! I would love to record, I just hope I have time XD

Harry Potter games, some WoW expansions... yeah, the guy's everywhere. :)

Kohan II too

TBH Jeremy just did his music pack in Dota2. Most of the music is done by another great game music composer - Jason Hayes.

hayes and soule are like 2 brothers from another mother @@Midaspl

His music is magical, especiallt TES: Oblivion

Two years later and I still listen to this on a daily basis; you just can't beat it.

I listen to this while I play gw2

@@bonesnharmony3422 That game is dogshit, don't even waste your time playing it, the original is still active and has thousands of people playing it and experiencing the fun we all had from our childhoods

I dunno, I always liked Fort Ranik (although the inevitable hordes of people trying to sell seeds and legs was always a bit of a pain). Then again, the out of the way parts of Ascalon City were nice, too

My guild/alliance owned House Zu Heltzer.. so we hung out there all the time.

TJparker98 Damn, must have been awesome!

Still one the most well done games of the gamming history! My main char was Minion Master.(Necro/Monk) When there was any corpses I would change it to a Life Steal Toucher ( Necro/Ranger ) OP!

Ikr?

CharmingRogue Exactly how i feel listening to it too ...

First comment about that..you heard that ? The past...

Oh yes, forgot about that one. Hits my nostalgia right in the sweet spot ;)

Forever ...

Time has mercy for no one.

15 now

Runescape

I'm sure that this is the game I wasted the most time of my life into playing it.

@@JackoBanon1 5000 hours for me

They killed the game with GW2, and when it finally came around, it was NOTHING like the game we knew. Years in the future with technology, no gods, and a social commentary of working together. REMASTER GW1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GW is stil aliveish. The problem is that it will never get developed again.

you outspouk my heart.... this game was so beatiful

i was playing guild wars 2 since i was 8 years old, best game ever made and i cant change my sentimental mind

I am gladly coming back to this game :) as are a few of my friends

i tried it about a year ago. I was looking forward to playing ETN and nightfall as I havn't played it before but the whole game was just so damn empty....

Everyone leaves becase there is no people, thats why there is no people :P Try to go to american districts (some international for PVP as Heroes Ascent) , in kamadan there is always one district full!

Full... of gold spammers. The only people who talk are gold spammers.

i still play guild wars 1 :)

I just got to The Great Northern Wall... the feeeels

I got a bad feeling in GW2 too, first because they brought a steampunk theme (scarlet) and a sci-fi theme with the asuras (less present in GWEN). and second because we don't have the coop missions. Which were key to convey the storyline and to make the game immersive.

There is a *lot* that isn't there anymore. Beyond taking in the initial beauty of places like Divinity's Reach, Queensdale, swimming underwater with quaggans, and The Grove at Night, I've been unable to get into Guild Wars 2, and it breaks my heart. I feel like arena net sold out on me. I hoped GW2 would take everything that was great about GW1, and add to it whole new layers, dimensions and possibilities, but that's not what happened. GW2 has no meaningful overarching storyline. The personal storyline is boring, you can't play through it with your friends, and you aren't made to feel like a true hero/saviour of Tyria, but just one of many heroes doing petty errands. GW1 sent you on a long epic quest (with a compelling story, and point to it all) in which you were true hero, and it infused the entire game with purpose and meaning. GW2 maps are ghost towns after Queensdale upon release. The skills system in GW2 was boiled down to the lowest common denominator - in GW1 there were hundreds of skills to choose from for each profession that gave never ending variety and surprise, and I had endless hours of fun tinkering builds and trying out new spells/skills I hadn't even known about before. They removed secondary professions, which were a beautiful touch in GW1. In GW1 it was always clear what to do next, you were given both a powerful main story that filled you with the pride and purpose of your character who needed to "save the world" so to speak, and your were given loads of sideline / secondary quests, that you could do as and when you feel (and without them disappearing like this living world crap). In GW2 I find myself staring into space saying "ok... so what do I do, where am I meant to go to see some action that I actually care about?". Also the whole "200 years later" / technological advancement really takes away from the game for me. I love romantic medieval sword and sorcery style fantasy, like GW1. Firearms and a post-industrialised environment etc in GW2 utterly break that magical ambiance for me, not to mention lasers and robots which go even further to utterly ruin it. And where the hell are Guild Halls?! These are not only thematic, give a wonderful communal place to meet fellow members, organise games, or simply feel 'at home', but give meaning the concept of being in a guild. A guild without a guild hall is just a bunch of text messages on a screen. In PvE, enemies re-spawn about five seconds later, which makes the process of killing them seem utterly pointless and meaningless, and kills the suspension of disbelief. The absence of heroes and henchman's sucks. The level 80 end-game content cannot be played solo or even with one friend, but forces you to find a group or not play the game at all. I could go on and on. sigh Jeremy Soule is still a genius though.

DionysianAssassin this makes me sad for GW2, but also lets me know I made the right decision not playing GW2. Oh well, it was beautiful, for a moment in GW1..... Glad so many others got to enjoy and share the magic I experienced.

I've played both 1 and 2 pretty extensively over the years and I'd have to agree that I enjoyed GW1 a lot more than 2. That said, I'm not completely giving up on GW2. The game itself is pretty young still and there's a lot of room for improvement in various aspects of the game. Part of me hopes that ANet will hear their player-base out and deliver on what we want as time goes on. Until something game-breaking comes out though GW1 still holds a place in my heart. GW1 itself did a pretty solid job on the immersion due to (imo) the co-op system it had, the instancing that it had, and the reallllllllly good story with the amazing backed up lore (I love learning about the lore of a game and the GW universe is at the top of my list). When you compare it to GW2, GW2 is arguably less immersive and (the worst part for me) it has such a weak personal story. I hope that ANet really picked up from their flaws in the personal story and improve on it through the living world. But when you think about it, we all knew it was going to happen like this. It's impossible to please everyone and unfortunately a lot of people that were interested in the storyline among other things just couldn't connect with GW2 as much as they had hoped (myself included.) All that said, ANet did a good job in other areas. The combat system is arguably a large improvement from the first game (although I'm not a fan of the steam-punk styled stuff) and even though there aren't nearly as many skills as there were for each profession in the original, I have no doubt that many more will be added as time goes on. If anything, it's the mainhand/offhand weapon gameplay that gets stale for me. If I'm a warrior with a sword mainhand, there's only one way that I can use that sword. I'm always going to have the same skills on that weapon and if I ever want to change it up, I'll need a new weapon set. I digress.. GW2 isn't perfect but there are things to enjoy about it. GW1 certainly had its flaws as well but we all came to love the game for all of our own reasons.

So true...

The original games had so much more to offer imo :'( The new game is good, but way too focused to pulling in most amount of people, which makes it lose it's difficulty and atmosphere when looking at the entire picture. The result here is that most of the original playerbase, me included, quit altogether after hitting 80 on several chars. The PvP in the original indeed felt much more fun for me too. Also, GW2, no actual Guild Wars! Oh the irony. If only they'd continue on the old games... There even were plans for a Kickstarter to continue the Prophecies line, but Arenanet didn't approve it would seem.

they should do an major graphics update and all gw1 vets leave 2 i know i would ::) also add jumping and swimming

Hey you can still play it if you want to! I just started playing again and got right away into a guild of over 80 members who welcomed me warmly. :) Gz on 3300 hours, I only got 77 :O

NoBiggie I know the servers are still up :) I log on from time to time. But it's all heroes work now. Almost feels like a single player game haha When Prophecies/Factions came out, almost every town you went into had people. And there were no heroes, so you had to work with random people as a team (hench AI sucked).

Well said. I have chills listening to this, it's both so beautiful but sad aswell.

Same thing happened to me.

Same here. Within one workday they managed to connect my accidentally separated accounts.

they never fixed that for me :D but well ... i bought it a second time xD

Fl33xx Me neither!

You didn't have to be a teen :) I was much older, but I'm right there with you.

The nostalgia is too much!

i calculated it. in the last 17 years i used 5.37% of each day for playing guildwars. That means, 1.2 hours per day for the last 17 years.

me 2

Yeah, it's just not the same at all.

it's another game altogether... I absolutelly LOVED GW1 skill system, and then GW2 had to throw it away instead of expanding upon what made it so unique

How was the PvP in GW2? I was _HUGELY_ into GW1 before it was even in beta, but never got GW2 due to things I heard and I guess other games that I was maybe playing.

@@MsHojat It was small but very fun. Only recently they ruined it with a balance patch that massively slows down the gameplay speed.

10 months later... so am i...

I still play the game now and then, so I remember the music. But it's not the same game anymore as it used to be.

It was the most graceful and beautiful game I've ever played. I'd love it to have a modern remaster - the music is already perfect.

Beautiful Soundtrack and beautiful game. So much memories deeeep inside. Made some very good friends over the years!

Thanks for sharing this wonderful story! It got me thinking. I was about 12-14 when I played Guild Wars, and my main character (who I've been playing on the last week or so!) is a Ranger. I did a bit of farming using traps, but I did a lot of running as well. I loved to look at the landscapes of Tyria and take screenshots and spend hours discussing the lore on the GWGuru forum. A few months later, I asked my dad for my first recurve bow. I haven't touched the thing in years but lately have thought about getting back into it. Like you, I love nature. I go hiking a lot and hope to travel more. I run as well. Sports never stuck with me, but being alone with my thoughts and pushing myself through the woods and wooded paths is a wonderful feeling. Other interests come and go, but the feeling of seeking adventure is something that began to resonate me around the age when I played GW. I think it's no coincidence that now as I approach my 28th birthday, the GW notsalgia has hit me like a train - and also a reminder of all these little things and how much they mean to me and how important that feeling of wonder is to living a good life. It's like our characters in the game taught us who we could become or something. I'm so glad to hear this game meant as much to other people as it did to me and I'm glad the servers are still up.

This game caused a few arguments with my other half lol. Sometimes it was more fun to do a FoW trip with my guildies. :D

totally agree with you! was so hyped to play gw2 and just played it for about two months cuz I just couldnt identify with it.. so i´m finding myself here over and over to bring back those memories..

KingProne yes..

I have actually been trying to find the song "Eye of the Storm" specifically as it just reminds me completely of GW1. Oh Pre-searing... ugh, the feels.

Yes I agree 100%

Deep jungle of Lion's Arch? Did we play the same game? LA was in Kryta, and it was mostly a subtropical "beach" region. The jungle was the Maguuma jungle, quite a bit to the west of Kryta.

+Daniele Guzzetta same here. And that's how we call ---Classic. Timeless and make your heart shakes every time!!! Gold!

+WBGThunderstruck I did UW, tombs, DoA alone with heroes. It is not the same, but this is the solo era of gw. If you can accept it, take it as a challenge to go through mission all by yourself without FrenchWay, GlaiveWay & Co.

True. It's so sad to see all those cities that used to have an immense community talking and trading. I recently logged in and visited the Eye of The North and there wasn't anyone, completely empty...

are you joking? You must be joking.

​@rainbowpheanix still listening whilst kitchen cleaning and cooking for my family in 2023

How about 2024! :)

Here I am again....

Khamis1203 Oldfag or Nostalagicfag ? U can't have the same emotion, it's two different game.

Wellshem You are supposed to have the same feelings lol, they are actually quite similar in a lot of different ways if you have actually played the other guild wars games.

Wellshem HE didn't have the same emotion dipshit, he said the old music was better.

Some music carried over dude.

it's weird ins't it? even tough some of the songs are in gw2, i haven't played gw1 in more than a year now and i still remember every song

joao januario I agree, you memorize every melody straight away but it doesn't feel old or out of place. It just invokes all the right feelings.

That's the power of music that enters your heart by associating with memories.

SO MANY FEELS