Guild Wars 1 - worth trying out?

[Cymbals]

I never played Guild Wars 1, but was thinking of trying it out. I don't have much experience with MMOs, other than just starting out SWTOR. I played WoW for a little bit, but my system wasn't the best at the time, and hadn't gotten to the point where I was interacting with anyone, and was just grinding thru the initial objectives...gather this, kill 5 of these...etc.

If I do go for it, should I start with Nightfall as per IGN's suggestion?

[ONe_mOMENT]

First I would advise you to go to the GW1 site, download the trial, and see if you like the gameplay.

Personaly, I thought it was a great game. I like factions the best followed by Proph and EotN (Found Nightfall to be meh), but the hero's from Nighfall do make things easier.

[Reindeer]

I have over 2k houres on the original game and i have to say that it isnt worth it to such a great extent.

It has a very small community now that guild wars 2 is out, finding people to do missions is hard as hell, outposts are mostly deserted and even pvp has a solid lack of players. The game is definitely not for everyone as it has some game designs that puts away lots of people.

This being, it is still a great game, and even tough a few years ago i would recommend it to heaven, now its very much dead.

But, if you are just looking to play a bit for the guild wars lore or gw2 bonus items you can still have quite a bit of fun. You can easily solo the missions if you have good builds on your heroes.

Guild wars 1 is nothing like guild wars 2, at all! Other than lore, the game itself is quite different, heavily instances, very linear quests, good ammount of farming. Give the trial a try because i can't deny that this is easily the game of my life, more than gw2 is.

Amazing game, but way past its prime.

Edit: By the way, just go for the campaign that you feel like it, even tough prophecies is the first to have came out, they are all heavily standalone campaigns with very little relation to eachother as they all happen in different continents.

[Lowky]

GW2 is probably the way to go now and not much diff in price with the sells going on everywhere

[Tricks]

Guild Wars is OK.

Personally I could never get that into it, but I picked up the GW trilogy on sale and with no subscription fee, I don't regret the purchase. It's kinda fun.

Though you have to have a party when you play it, even if your members are all AI controlled, and the AI party members were never exactly smart.

[Cymbals]

Messaggio originale di SDLowky:

GW2 is probably the way to go now and not much diff in price with the sells going on everywhere

1) Where? Steam doesn't offer it and Amazon has it for regular price.
2) I am doing a new desktop build shortly, but my laptop with intel hd graphics failed the "can I run this" test, so not sure if I could even run it. SWTOR runs ok at low res.

[Cymbals]

Messaggio originale di ONe_mOMENT:

First I would advise you to go to the GW1 site, download the trial, and see if you like the gameplay.

Personaly, I thought it was a great game. I like factions the best followed by Proph and EotN (Found Nightfall to be meh), but the hero's from Nighfall do make things easier.

Thanks - I was unaware there was a trial! I'll try Factions first since you recommended it.
Edit: Only Prophecies works on the trial.

[Cymbals]

Messaggio originale di Grobans Magic Pudding:

I have over 2k houres on the original game and i have to say that it isnt worth it to such a great extent.

It has a very small community now that guild wars 2 is out, finding people to do missions is hard as hell, outposts are mostly deserted and even pvp has a solid lack of players. The game is definitely not for everyone as it has some game designs that puts away lots of people.

This being, it is still a great game, and even tough a few years ago i would recommend it to heaven, now its very much dead.

But, if you are just looking to play a bit for the guild wars lore or gw2 bonus items you can still have quite a bit of fun. You can easily solo the missions if you have good builds on your heroes.

Guild wars 1 is nothing like guild wars 2, at all! Other than lore, the game itself is quite different, heavily instances, very linear quests, good ammount of farming. Give the trial a try because i can't deny that this is easily the game of my life, more than gw2 is.

Amazing game, but way past its prime.

Edit: By the way, just go for the campaign that you feel like it, even tough prophecies is the first to have came out, they are all heavily standalone campaigns with very little relation to eachother as they all happen in different continents.

Thanks for all of the great info.

[ONe_mOMENT]

Messaggio originale di Cymbals:

Thanks - I was unaware there was a trial! I'll try Factions first since you recommended it.
Edit: Only Prophecies works on the trial.

Sorry If I mislead you, I meant try the trial to see if you like the game play. Then stated what campaign I liked best =)

[Cymbals]

No problem. I started it....and I see several people (or maybe bots) hanging out. But how do I get an objective / mission?

[Delta]

Messaggio originale di SDLowky:

GW2 is probably the way to go now and not much diff in price with the sells going on everywhere

That game is a massive heaping turd and is one of the biggest disappointments I've wasted my money on in YEARS. Want to play a game that's based around grinding and enough skills that I can count on two hands? Yeah, play GW2. Hurr hurr, sooooooo fun. /rollseyes