Dreams Of A Guild Wars 1 Remaster

🫘What if they remastered Guild Wars 1? What would it include, would it be worth it? (Yeah, yeah, yeah - I know. Hopium.)
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[@WoodenPotatoes]

I suppose it was inevitable that if I'm: 1. Replaying Gw1 at the moment, and 2. Watching a bunch of video game remaster streams and videos at the same time, that this video was going to be made! Edit: Oh a note I never put in the video. But it always astounded me that I got like 200,000 views on a random-nothing Gw1 video, years and years after the game was finished, when I covered the fact that they did an absolutely tiny little patch increasing the view distance. If that doesn't show to some degree the hunger for a project like this that's out there I don't know what does.

[@raquetdude]

If they did make your dream remake… would you want ArenaNet to have their own launcher similar to Blizzard with BattleNet? Was just wondering and I can’t seem to think of reasons for why ArenaNet would not do this?

[@joezar33]

Be kool if it was ported too Consoles , if they remastered GW1

[@WoodenPotatoes]

@@joezar33 The more the merrier!

[@TheATOMICGOBLIN]

Me and my homies love GW1 (My brothers too)

[@Arkades9]

A remaster would be nice but a continuation to the game would be even better, or simply a real sequel since 2 was nothing like gw1.

[@foshizzle563]

Jeremy Soule really created a masterpiece on gw1 especially prophecies

[@drackaris_]

One of my favorite soundtracks. I think it's better than oblivion personally (which is my second favorite of his) but its probably nostalgia.

[@codygoldade3984]

Yeah, we’ll, he’s a fascist now and needs to be cancelled. Reddit said so.

[@SykoLiu]

@@drackaris_ I find it amusing that you mention the Oblivion soundtrack, because honestly the two soundtracks are almost indistinguishable at times! lol I love Jeremy Soule's work, but it has a habit of all sounding kinda the same after a while.

[@thecat3309]

oh my god - YES - I love the music so much

[@lovoh]

absolute masterpiece

[@ryanguernsey3063]

While I’ve loved my time with gw2, nothing will ever come close to gw1 for me. Playing every night after school and every weekend for hours, gw1 was a massive part of my life. Words do not describe how fast I’d jump all over a remaster.

[@Archeris]

Nostalgia is a strong emotion. Its usually not the same as the first time. But I could be wrong!

[@jpvankradenburg]

Same here, Ive play this after my school days, it was the best 😌

[@Chili_Bass]

I hear you brother...

[@thecat3309]

Imagine being able to actually jump in gw1 though. xD

[@Zemlja_je_ravna]

They would need to remake GW1 with new graphics and all. Yes that would be the next big thing. GW1 thrives when it is populated, and there is no way that remade GW1 wouldn't be a success. I wish another company would buy rights to remake GW1. It doesn't need to be completely the same.

[@MotherRat-ii6ji]

I would pre-order the Ultra Ultimate Deluxe Edition day 1 if they announced this.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Physical copy that comes with it's own bar of real platinum.

[@NordpeakConsulting]

I would pre-order today if this was announced - one of the best games ever made !

[@F4xP4s]

@@WoodenPotatoes and a glob of ecto

[@iso-didact789]

@@WoodenPotatoes I do NOT want this, because given that end of dragons has shown that arenanet has suffered the same fate as so many other game studios, if it did happen it would be different from the original in all the wrong ways. Don't buy it if they make it, don't buy end of dragons if you haven't yet, and don't buy any future 2 expansions. #getwokegobroke

[@piedpiper1172]

@@iso-didact789 Getwokegobroke? Barbie was last year’s highest grossing film at $1.4 Billion, a return of over $1.1 billion over its production ($145M) & marketing budget ($150M) of ~$295 Million. Other “getwokegobroke” bugaboos also made the top ten list of highest grossing films, including The Little Mermaid and Spider-Man Across the Spider Verse. I haven’t played EoD or Soto’s stories yet. I’m a new player and started in Jan. So far I’ve finished the base game, all Tyria mastery lines, living word seasons 1 & 2, Heart of thorns, all HoT mastery lines, and just started LWS3. Personal fractal 47, WvW 100. I’ve been playing the story in order and I haven’t skipped ahead for any unlocks. But, if this story that *starts* right out the gate with a band of racially and gender diverse heroes (including at least one LGBTQ+ hero and her ex-lover-turned-baddie), saving the world from a series of dragons each attempting to corrupt all life into a single ethnostate (risen; mordrem) with the main plot drivers (good and evil) being mostly women somehow manages to go more woke in stories to come, I can’t wait. But you keep repeating that patently false propoganda slogan and telling yourself it’s true. Btw: Bud Light’s manufacturer, Anheuser-Busch, had an annual gross profit for 2023 of $31.984B, a 1.6% *increase* from 2022. I know this could be upsetting information for you, but don’t forget, “facts don’t care about your feelings.”

[@dewrah5210]

I NEVER CLICKED ON A VIDEO SO FAST. Brain legit just read "Guild Wars 1 Remaster" and my heart skipped a beat.

[@robinorrben1850]

Login in makes me cry of nostalgia. Best years of my life, so much..everything. And now looking at the friend list, all gone. 😢

[@backpackbattles4176]

Hard to put words to that feeling. But hey, maybe we passed each other in game. We’re all still connected in memories

[@adrianperez1404]

It’s been over well a decade now, don’t even game anymore really but I can’t get this game out of my head. The magic of this game is unmatched

[@Steph1]

Just come up with 1 more build mate, you know you love it

[@Zemlja_je_ravna]

This game was the best thing that happened to me.

[@nhimsim]

It might be a fool's dream, but what a fabulous dream nonetheless ♥

[@TWKPixelHero]

I still prefer GW1 buildcraft. I'd play!

[@jorisdevos5916]

This is the biggest dream for me. Arenanet PLEASE

[@kyleeverett2473]

GW1 really was ahead of its time in so many ways. I can't help but notice the difference in overall art direction and design in GW1 vs GW2.There is a certain elegance to GW1 that got lost somewhere along the way in the transition to GW2. I honestly don't know if I trust modern Anet to do the old GW1 art style justice.

[@markup6394]

A Guild Wars remaster? I'd be down for that :) At least they wrote a cohesive story with characters that made sense...

[@brandonchannell7865]

A Guild Wars remaster and/or continued development of the original game would be incredible!

[@Jughead251]

Eye of the North atmosphere and environment was incredible . Still one of my best gaming memories.

[@agamersinsanity]

That and Cantha was awesome :o

[@bopo900]

this video is such a coinsidence. played gw1 ALOT. didnt play it for 12 year. and 3 days ago i decided to do a whole new playtrough starting from propechies, my partner joined me who never played gw. and damn are we having a blast.

[@Burnedie]

Same here man, just 8 days ago I started a fresh new account for gwamm with a friend, that never played gw1 before

[@letheas6175]

@@Burnedie I wish I had friends to play with, and my partner doesn't like games.. Sad. Otherwise I'd definitely try GW1 again after soooooo long

[@laurentdestrez1207]

@@letheas6175 If you really want I'm here, answer me ;), but I've some difficulty accessing my account

[@jpolk6279]

if you need a carry or a run let me know!

[@Razomir]

GW1 is easily one of the masterpieces of gaming. A remaster would be fantastic, but honestly, knowing what a joke Arenanet has turned into now, I dont know if I'd trust them with that project. Edit: God, please dont let them make the skill effects like in GW2. That is utter sensory overload and it would ruin actually reading the skills which was part of the strength of GW1 especially in pvp.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I mean be real you read the UI.

[@Zemlja_je_ravna]

They can still sell the rights to other company that would want to remake the game. Just like Valve did with DotA.

[@moenbase1]

Wooden goes back to the real game: Guildwars. Can't skip that! Take care!

[@M001-AC]

GW1 was one of my favorite games GW2 never scratched that itch for me.

[@Snowy123]

agreeeeee I think all the GW1 fans didn't really buy into GW2, I mean we play GW2 but cannot beat GW1

[@omriginzburg4597]

Nothing reminds me of my childhood more than that theme song, the constant wait in Europe for favor of the gods to get into UW and FOW, fighting the Rifts and defending the HoH (from the original Tombs, not Hero's Ascent) and crying when failing again at Thunderhead Keep. Such a good time

[@melski9205]

The only game I tried to play with other people who didn't talk my language. That mini map, and the multiple language support (zones etc) was awesome. I even learned some basic words in other languages to try and help out. So good.

[@Til_What]

I love GW2, but nobody can deny that GW1 was magic. It looks great to this day, has an incredible OST, great story etc. I'd love a bigger playerbase though.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Same here!

[@WayneHSmithJr]

The soundtrack is so good anet just copied it to GW2.

[@Til_What]

@@WayneHSmithJr Great decision imo. Would have been a waste for those songs not to be heard by modern players. And the OG players get nostalgia blasts.

[@gahvno]

This is exactly what my entire family, who started playing GW1 in March 2005 is doing right now! After dealing with the jumped-shark storyline of #2, this is wonderful

[@Nightstriker97]

i want a gw3 set in the actual guild wars

[@DocM94]

I took advantage of the recent sales and bought the gw1 complete collection. As a gw2 player that never touched the original game, i'm having a blast with it even if it's a very different playstyle. Going into places that you know from the sequel but now you see them completely different yet familiar from 250 year prior is an insteresting feeling. A remaster of gw1 would be amazing!

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Glad you're having a blast! How far did you get?

[@DocM94]

@@WoodenPotatoesI started 5 days ago, so not very far yet. I created a Dervish in the Nightfall campaign because i read online that capaign was suggested for new players. I explored Istan, doing the main quest and all the secondary quests i could find, till the point i fought Apocrypha. To be honest, that boss kicked my ass a couple times, which was refreshing coming from gw2 story fights, but also made me think i was doing something wrong. So i looked how to get better gear, changed some skills and distributed attribute points better to my heroes until i defeated it. But after that fight i felt like i was rushing, like it was too early for me to be in that campaign and that i still didn't understand fully how the game worked with it's systems. So i decided to take it slower and do things in order. I created a Mesmer in Prophecyes, did as many as the pre searing side quests i could find and explored the map, got to lvl 7, and yesterday i got to post searing ascalon. I did a couple side quests for the krytan ambassador and unlocked new memser skills from Vassar quests. This is where is stopped for now.

[@DocM94]

@@WoodenPotatoesI started 5 days ago so not very far. I created a Dervish in the Nightfall campaign because i read online that campaing was suggested for new players. I explored Istan as much as i could, completing as many secondary quest as i could find, until i got to the fight with Apochrypha. To be honest, that boss kicked my butt a couple times, which was refreshing coming from Gw2 story bosses. But it also made me think i was doing something wrong, so i upgraded my gear, changed skills, and distributed better the attribute points for me and my heroes until i defeated it. But a this point i felt like i was rushing, like i didn't understand the game systems very well yet so it was too soon for me to be in that campaign. So i decided to take it slow and go in order of release. I created a Mesmer (my main in Gw2) in the Prophecyes campaing, and i did as many secondary questes as i could find in the pre searing zone, taking my time. Yesterday i got to lvl 7 and i entered in post searing ascalon for the first time, i did a few secondary quests for the Kryta emissary and for Vassar, unlocking a few new skills for my mesmer/ele and that's where i stopped for now.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

@@DocM94 Yeah the nightfall advice is terrible in my opinion. Prophecies is slow but the way to go.

[@jankowalski5310]

I tried all 4 campains and i stuck in all. Difficulty jump and falls are huge in gw1.

[@ewancuthbertson8019]

I think in a dream world Anet would announce a GW1 prophecies remaster at the end of this year for release in April 2025, 20 years after the original release. I doubt it will ever happen though like you said. It would be fun to have everyone start from the beginning in Ascalon City and they just go through the game like they did in 2005 obviously with the knowledge of 20 years of playing the game.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Yeah I didn't even really mention this! But the prospect of everyone starting fresh is very cool to me, it's something I really enjoyed in wow classic.

[@andresarrieta1455]

In a dream world GW2 would be doing better and ANet wouldn't keep trying to re-invent the wheel every year.

[@strayparticles]

I’ve been thinking about the 20th anniversary for like two years now. As much as I dream, sadly it is not likely ANet will do anything with GW1 for the 20th anniversary…

[@ewancuthbertson8019]

@@strayparticles why not they did for the 10th and 15th anniversaries so why not the 20th.

[@MisterNo1111]

That would be!🔝! 🤩🎁🤩

[@BergilSunfyre]

Little things I'd like to see in a remaster- 1- Wardrobe, like in Guild Wars 2. So if there are multiple armor sets you like, you don;t have to take up storage space on them, nor buy multiple runes. 2- a bestiary. Once you slay a monster, you can look up its stats (which you yourself would have liked to make more visible), skills, and some lore about it. 3- new sidequests, particularly in regions that don;t have vent many, such as the southern Shiverpeaks. This probably be cheap, as there would be few if any new assets. 4- a boulder elemental boss named "Boldest Elemental".

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I can see you saved your best for last

[@jamesdow211]

I'd love to see the rurik VA return for some ghostly quests involving ghost rurik. And guild banks.

[@DG-LG]

We can all dream... they had something special and they squandered it

[@Steph1]

You mean gw2 sucks, or you mean they did something wrong in gw1?

[@DG-LG]

@@Steph1 I dont regard gw2 a sequel to 1. It doesnt have the same narrative feel or the same gameplay. Only a few locations and ghosts of classes from the original

[@kara5925]

I'm still actively playing GW1, there's nothing else like it out there. I would *love* a remaster to bring it to a new audience and expand the player base. But definitely a remaster not a remake, graphics and quality of life changes only, or it'd be back to the disappointment of GW2 being a completely different game.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

What would be your QOL?

[@kara5925]

@@WoodenPotatoes I'm thinking of some of the things toolbox does, such as being able to travel directly to an outpost you've visited before from a drop-down menu instead of having to go to a port city, and/or being able to set up a list of favourite outposts. Anet had clearly thought map travel needed improving because they almost but not quite added this functionality with Embark Beach so I don't think it breaks the game for toolbox to do this. Being able to send all materials to storage, being able to ID all items with one click, being able to access storage at a distance - they're all features I feel lost without if I forget to load up toolbox. Oh and being able to see the main character name of someone on your friends list when they message you on an alt, that's really handy too!

[@WoodenPotatoes]

FF14 has a very similar situation where one of the most popular addons is something that simply lets you type /location in the chatbox and instantly go there (then people macro it and stuff). Gw2 style friendlist would be great!

[@lolololalala8225]

Mapping with my Rit while listening to this vid.

[@StijnDSMK]

I mean they could also do a remake that isnt a completely different game lol. Its not either an exact copy of gw1 or gw2

[@angelm1750]

I'd play it again if there was a remaster of the original!

[@coolboyjk7]

I always hold my breath a bit when WP starts a video in pre-Searing

[@ghostymytoasty7007]

Haven't watched video yet but I've been praying for months since the 20th anniversary started to creep up we'll get a remaster. Ever since anet announced they were working on an established IP MMO in UE5 I have been forever hopeful "maybe it's GW1" I would kill to experience this game with an active population... just one more time...

[@lnfinitesimaI]

Hm, that's interesting. Even if it wasn't a "remaster," it'd be interesting if the next GW game went back to it's roots with the "co-op RPG" style rather than an MMO (like GW2). This seems less likely to sabotage GW2 by fracturing the MMO's community with direct competition, and may even draw people to it. The skeptic inside me says the Unreal 5 project is just an outsourced project from NCsoft or another publisher and has nothing to do with the Guild Wars franchise though.

[@ghostymytoasty7007]

@@lnfinitesimaI Yeah the skeptic in me agrees with you as well. I'm just high on copium/hopium.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I think it's reasonable to want a CORPG from arenanet in the future. Not necessarily Tyria, it could be a fresh IP, but a CORPG with card style skills/deck building I think would attract eyeballs.

[@ghostymytoasty7007]

@@WoodenPotatoes Yeah GW1 did so much right it's just such a shame that GW2 threw all of that away to do it's own thing. I've been playing through prophesies as well lately with a bunch of friends ironman style, I'm sure you've done it before but I'd highly recommend it I'm sure people on your discord would be thrilled to come, all players just replaying prophecies like it was intended with only proph skills that we unlock after each outpost. GW1 is a great solo game, but playing it with players just makes me that much more nostalgic and enhances the build craft parts.

[@Shtiriputanac]

I was trying out WoW Classic Season of Discovery around Christmas, had never played WoW so thought that was a good opportunity to finally give it a go. My main takeaway was how awesome it would be if ANet made a GW1 Classic. I think I’d cry if they came out and announced it, with some proper quality of life improvements.

[@ShoppingStew]

Regarding the cutscenes, if I recall it was in one of them extralife streams one of the og devs said that they had no proper artist friendly tools for in-engine camera animations back then, so the cutscenes are literally keyframed by typing in the values in text (e.g lerp.x(0, 15, 10), excuse my pseudo code haha) instead of having any kind of artistic interface, which you would take for granted nowadays. I’ve had a lot more sympathy for the cutscenes since learning this, but nevertheless I agree that they are really clunky looking lol. I really enjoyed the video, this kind of stuff is always really fun to think and talk about.

[@bmprosser]

Offline pve mode would be my only ask. I fear the day when this game becomes unavailable forever

[@veszeljko7645]

I started playing GW1 in 2018 when I got hooked to the lore by GW2 (season 3 stuff with the Mursaat, reading a ton of wiki about it, and the ultimate one was Bastion of the Penitent, that raid wing made me do it). After completing all of the campaigns and dedicating 150+ hours into it, I can safely say it is one of my favorite games of all time. I am a sucker for some old school 2000s RPG vibes, and the art department of ANET is just phneomenal. THe feel, the atmosphere and the music of GW1 is incredible. When I first heard Abaddon's Mouth OST while arriving on Ember Bay, I was mesmerized. It has been only 6 years but I already feel massive nostalgia for the game, especially Prophecies. There is something magical about that setting and that story. The only complaint I always had was I wish I had people who were interested in coop. I would LOVE to just play through the whole game with someone, to do all the endgame stuff as well which I havent done (Fissure of Woe, Underworld etc). So a remaster would be a dream come true, but probably just a dream

[@RngLovesMeLOL]

I'll never get over Molotov Rocktail 😂

[@Lasermonkey979]

gw1 Will always and forever be the superior game.

[@Adaro6284]

Just to add for trading post it was worked on for factions but was scrapped later before launch. Xunlai Market for player to player and Guild Vault for a guild wide bank were datamined and had a decent amount of work and art assets done for them.

[@Avilovesdance]

Im going to level with you here. I am pretty new to the game and i absolutely love it! It can use some updates, but i love the overall setup and dont think it needs to change in that way. Its difficult and you really need to learn good strategies to beat it. I like the challenge a lot. That said it was hard to get through your video so i didnt get to hear all of your recommendations for a remaster, but i think a remaster isnt necessary. Better graphics I agree with. But the core of the game itself and how its played i think is good the way it is.

[@TheJanissary90]

Guild Wars 1 had a clear vision and great game mechanic while GW 2 is an abomination of missmatch ideas.Seriously crafting legendary doesnt give fraction of excitement of finding a good white item in GW 1 .Because its have no meaning.

[@joshua7426]

Nah, GW2 is really good, but no it doesn't feel like a direct sequel at all. Alot of similar mechanics but modernized to match wow and ff14.

[@TheJanissary90]

@@joshua7426 I can write a novel about gw2 is a bad mmo and ruined by Arenanet.

[@Isaberry1602]

I'd buy, i'd play, i'd love. Please happen

[@strawberrired]

I remember the only point I got really stuck on my very first playthrough was from not being able to solo the ascension missions due to not having any control over the henchmen in something that was clearly designed for multiplayer. Eventually I could call in a friend who had unlocked heroes and we breezed through all three missions and it was almost laughable in comparison to how much I struggled before. If you could flag them like the heroes I think that would help a lot! It would also be fun if you could have something like the squadron controls from FFXIV where you can tell them to attack/defend and so on, so for example if you go through a rough area and want to play more defensively they will heal at a higher percentage of your health or maybe even switch out one offensive skill for a defensive on their hotbars.

[@thorstenmarquardt7274]

I sold Guild Wars 2 immediately after being it. Many years later, I downloaded it for free to try it again and deleted it 20 minutes later.

[@eltrew]

this might be a controversial take or rather odd I suppose, and this isn't nostalgia i haven't played gw1 when it came out I started in gw2, but by far I prefer gw1 graphically, it doesn't have the weird glossiness that some things in gw2 have and just in general the jaggedness of the old models and roughness of those textures gives so much character to the game, i find it much more interesting artistically. I prefer that era of video game graphics and art style by far those think vanilla/tbc wow, morrowind etc so it's not surprising but my point is is that i'd love a remaster that did some gameplay changes like adding jumping and stuff but had the option to play with classic graphics.

[@gamingmarcus]

My only request for a remaster would be an active and dedicated team for PvP balancing. To this day I believe that GW1 had some of the most promising PvP and was ahead of its time as a potential esport.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I don't know if they have the heart to pursue Esports anylonger. I wouldn't blame them.

[@gamingmarcus]

@@WoodenPotatoes Which is why I'd put emphasis on a dedicated team. I remember when they tried to push the esport aspect at the beginning of GW2 but there were so many issues. Lack of balance, lack of leaderboards (heck we didn't get a PvP season till december 2015) and just a general lack of vision and understanding when it came to gamemodes. Hell, I still have screenshots of an actual Anet dev interrupting our GvG and saying, quote "I'm watching you guys violate my gamemode". Because we dared to create our own fun in WvW. I don't know who came up with all the fun PvP modes for GW1 but sure as hell they weren't around for GW2 anymore. So yeah...I agree the mentality probably isn't there anymore. At the very least it would need fresh and motivated faces. But hey, this video is all about dreaming am I right?

[@melski9205]

@@WoodenPotatoesI wish the company wouldn't, just let the players go and do their thing maybe throw a bit of money their way if it goes well. That creates the best e-sports.

[@Landofwolves666]

Until I get a dev in the comments saying "nah fam aint' happenin" I will be a fool and dream about this.

[@Frosty04eb]

I have stopped playing gw2 years ago and also back in gw1. Would love a gw1 remaster.

[@wwld9823]

I came back to guild wars 1 as well and I'm replaying all campaigns because I'm fed up with modern games and the business practices, I thought it was nostalgia but this game is truly timeless rather than a remaster I'd just like some of the anet devs that are fans of gw1 to be allowed to make more content for it, I'd buy anything hell I just bought the 8 mercenary pack just to support the game, I don't even need it, I just want this game to stay alive because its really the only game I like anymore.

[@UndeadAaronGames]

Guild wars 1 was special , every aspect of the game was just so well done. The way access to the Elite PvE content was tied to your regions success in the Hall of Hero's , everything about it was unique and different and special. The creativity of the players in that game and coming up with things like the 55HP monk are just thingd we have never experienced in any game sense. I find myself all the time thinking how many amazing things were done in gw1 that not only didn't make it into guild wars 2, but no other game since. I have over 5,000 hours on GW1 , and i can honestly say in my opinion nothing about gw2 is better than gw1 except the more fluid combat. I remember hearing when gw2 launched people were saying how great it was and that the only people that didn't like it was GW1 loyalists. I was one if them, I tried gw2 a dozen times over the years, and to me, it's just not Guild Wars.

[@The-Black-Death]

TBh I'd prefer a GW1 remake if anything, I'd be playing that over GW2 all the time if it played like GW2 but with the story and missions like the first game.

[@Sientir]

About the cutscene camera: I actually suspect (but have done 0 testing to confirm) that the Camera isn't properly handling higher screen resolutions. I also don't remember it being so janky when I first played, but I first played the game at 1024x768, and I'm wondering if there are elements of how the cutscene camera works that causes it to bug out some at modern resolutions.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Oh resolution that's a good guess too

[@DestructX]

I would much prefer a remake than remaster, but would buy and play any of those in a heartbeat! Please Arena Net I hope you see this

[@Enthrall2006]

I'm still playing this game.

[@Scrubwave]

I wouldn't trust modern anet with remastering it.

[@Th3WarriorGW]

I absolutly ADORE this idea. I would pay hundreds of dollars to get a GW1 from back then when the population was on the Level of GW2 now 😊

[@icastmoustache9387]

it doesnt need a remaster. it needs a relaunch with some key design changes. would be the best rpg ever created.

[@IssacSir]

I dont think we need a remaster, I still play gw1 and it just still holds up. But you know I think something like a classic season would be nice. A new Char slot to buy for 10€ or something to play the classic season, and those characters are then in districts of their own and we start with only prophecies but everything else is like it is on the current build so skill balances items maybe even heros available etc still as they now are and everyone just starts in presearing again, after 18Months we get factions another 18 months later we get nightsfall etc (with all the corresponding loginand character select backgrounds brought back). Maybe we also start with hardmode being a thing. Just a fresh season progressing through the stories and expansion again till they go on to join the current state. This would revitalize the game and the community quite a bit, it would not breake the game apart as these characters would join the current state and maybe a small dedicated dev team would bring some love for balancing and a couple needed patches, which would also transition into gw1s current state, bringing a lot to the table for the game overall.

[@slamjamtime202]

Honestly GW1 is one of the few MMOs that I think has scaled very well into the current year. The engine runs at a locked 170 hz on my monitor and never misses a beat, luckily they did add some of those settings to increase draw distance and address some of the lag issues. The population boom would be really great for a remaster, though

[@relentlessnights4211]

OMG! I haven't watched it yet but instantly commenting, I am here and ready to dive in!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Chili_Bass]

Imagine being able to relive that time when GW1 was at its peak... Brings me close to tears :'(

[@Jertopotamus]

Man a gw1 remaster. That would be friggin awesome. I might die lmao

[@gamingmarcus]

I say go the opposite with Nic! Make him random and give the community back that sense of exploration and working together.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I mean that's a thought too!

[@LordAllelujah]

I would love this to happen, so much. Got back to gw1 few weeks ago and I honestly wonder why I ever left.

[@IndyGW2]

I would really love a remaster or remake, but i would really like some gameplay touches, like being able to move as you cast skill (melee skills in particular), and being able to jump. I think the better idea would be a remake, keeping this coop style approach, with a new engine (say UE5 since they have something in the work with it), mainly because they could develop content a lot easier if they want to mantain it, they could make more zones explorable (breaking these invisible walls) and updating the gameplay just a bit to be more fluid like WoW gameplay I know this would be a much bigger effort, but it would also be a much more hyped release, and man I would be in, the only thing that keeps me off atm is the slight gameplay clunkiness, the camera weirdness, and some missing QoL (like having to click the salvage kit every time after you salvage one item, quest items bag, etc) and UI could also use some improvements (like showing your keybinds instead of default 1-8 numbers). Man imagine GW story with high quality voice acting and cinematics, it would be so epic

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I don't think stuff like jumping can be considered small touches!

[@IndyGW2]

@@WoodenPotatoes I know I changed my mind in the end I prefer a remake 😂

[@Plinious]

Guild Wars Nightfall was my first online RPG and I will always love it 🧡 I would play THE HECK out of a remaster, even at full price!

[@Jaybird51]

The same hour this video was posted, I finished prophecies on my “ironman” (using a bank but its a fresh account) ranger. Off to factions we go! I recently just quit playing WoW Classic after 4 years and have ended up back to my first MMO, and having a blast. Biggest things I would want from a remaster would be 1. New graphics as you mentioned, mostly just fixing the awful texture stretching lol. 2. Fix the damn henchmen! Not just their terrible skill bars (for most of them), but also the ability to micro them much better. Having them all bunch up and die to a meteor shower is painful. 3. I love the idea of fixing up the inventory/ID/Salvaging situation, especially if you are playing a self-sustaining character. My ironman has about 2 of 4 full xunlai tabs of runes/insignias. 4. This one is just a pipe dream for me but expanding Pre-Searing to have a lot more to do. Maybe doing a quest or something locks the characters into pre so you cant get a massive power spike in post. The best place in the entire game. Been watching your videos since you started your prophecies let’s play, love your stuff!

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Oh good point about flagging henchmen! Might be nice to have separate flags for them.

[@justice_1337]

You can flag them all out of meteor shower pretty easy already.

[@Dwesk]

Hey mate I bought GW1 a week ago on sale and was having a blast so far, I've also enjoyed some of your content, particularly "Death Of GW1", but despite having tried GW2 like 7 years ago, I have a slight interest in GW2 again even if from what I know of the game so far probably won't enjoy it as much as WoW/FF14 or maybe even GW1. But maybe you or some other youtuber has made a solid in-depth comparison video on how GW2 works combat and gameplay system-wise compared to GW1 and/or it's more modern peers?

[@agaaga7748]

WE NEED THIS TO HAPPEN ANET

[@justice_1337]

The only thing it could use is some armor retexturing and terrain fixes. Henchmen skill update would be nice but tbh 99.99% of the player base couldn't give a reasonable skill update for henchmen so it would likely be a wash. Skill rebalancing and acquisition timing are the same problem. You all would make Dunham an esurge mesmer, Claude a BiP necro, Stephan a 100 blades warrior and so on. That's not what is needed. Dunham is the best crafted henchmen in prophecies and anyone who can't see that isn't really someone who needs to be rebalancing them. Regarding skill acquisition timing on a new account. You just make a pvp character first and run through the training arena for 1 or 2k balthazar faction and then unlock 1-2 skills so you can buy them in Ascalon City from Sir Bertran. Sometimes its better to leave things alone that are not broken.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I think you're totally right about how players would treat the henchmen. Personally I don't think players should control their loadouts like heroes exactly for that reason, I'd want a dev to do it. As for mods I mean... when it comes to mods people always make game breaking OP crap (or sex mods) and yaknow... It's silly but just gotta let people do their thing in their own games.

[@PhillipJohnsonphiljo]

I'd welcome any gw1 related development. I still go back to pre searing and run around enjoying the vibe and gameplay. I absolutely love both gw1 and gw2 for different reasons. It's easy for me to hate on gw2 for not being like gw1, but It's misguided. I just want more gw1. gw2 stands as a good game on it's own.

[@MrGhosty0091]

When I first started playing GW2 years back, I discovered the Hall of Monuments stuff and started looking into GW1 and eventually played it. Proud to say I did the fully leveled in Pre Searing on one character and made my way through a lot of the game but ended up hitting difficulty walls later in the game which sort of flattened my progress. If they could add in a difficulty slider for the content I would go play it in a heartbeat because it has forever annoyed me that I couldn't play through the whole of the game but the barriers there are just too much for me and I know I'd end up hating the game if I brute forced my way through.

[@jonaholiver143]

I've been watching WP since the GW1 days, and although I no longer play GW2, I still enjoy following the channel throughout the years. GW1 was special for so many reasons: the music was exceptional, the build crafting was its own game-play loop, and the challenging/rewarding content made the game a joy to play. I've always been a fan of hub/zone-based games as I feel they allow for more curated experiences. I think GW1 has a good sense of scale and immersion, in part due to its structure. Dying always felt consequential, and PvP was fun, albeit not for the faint of heart. I know a lot of this is nostalgia, but I'd love a remaster. I believe there is a market for such a thing if we look at the industry as a whole, although it seems very unlikely.

[@blippedyblop]

I concur that a remaster would be appreciated. This was my first 'MMO' back in 2007, and to be fair, I never took to GW2 the way I did with the first game. Granted, it has dated in many respects. But the sheer customisation and overall respect the team had for the player remains unparalleled, in my opinion. Overall, there is an atmosphere/ feel to the game that I feel is sorely missing these days. As an aside, I recently bagged a sealed copy of the original Prophecies Collector's Edition, will be covering that on my channel in the near future.

[@ouroboros02]

i really would like to get an offline mode with heroes ported to prophecies and allowing it use in all modes and only in offline mode, i dont mind it being separate from the online instance and not allowing to carry on anything you get from the offline one (to kind of deter cheating).

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Cynn/Devonna/Aiden and co as prophecies heroes, unlocked by cool new side quests. I'd be down!

[@luckypeanut9943]

Would definitely be curious to pick up gw1 but a lot of the QoL has kept me from wanting to pick it up and get immersed in the world. If they came out with a remaster I'd 100% hop on board

[@F4xP4s]

Improvement: For perma enchantments, code if {target} is enchanted, maintain enchantment, if not, cast enchantment

[@DannyBoyy]

Probably my favourite game in this genre. I loved the PvP GvG Arenas Hero Battles Heroes Accent Some of my most memorable moments came from this and was always so rewarding/satisfying. A remaster would be brilliant and I would support this 100% Id love it if this ever happened to bring this amazing game back to life.

[@silenceihealyoou16]

I think Anet should give a try to GW classic. Wow and other games have shown people really enjoy it.

[@2low4u]

You passed my chars shoulda stopped by for tea lol

[@Farwind]

All henchmen should be heroes. Mhenlo, Aiden, Devonna, Eve, Cynn in prophecies, Talon Silverwing, Nika, Danika. These should have been heroes. Honestly, they should just make them heroes anyways.

[@melski9205]

And mini's too please.

[@daydev2599]

Just you wait, I'm finishing my GW1 play-through soon (coming by from GW2 mostly for the story). With my luck, they'll release the remaster right after.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I'm glad you're taking this one for the team.

[@Somebody374-bv8cd]

I'm playing last epoch atm with the "no player trade faction" and I'm enjoying it quite a lot, so I on board with you regarding no trading post. The gameplay and buildcraft of gw1 is one of the things I miss the most (funnily, the ARPG genre with poe/last epoch/grim dawn/etc have pretty much taken the buildcraft crown away from gw1 for me, I feel they actually do a better job of it than gw1 does now) but I sort of agree that possibly not touching it too much might be a better idea for a remaster. 18:14 You mention Reyna here, but the one henchman I remember the most was Alesia and her infamously bad AI at healing and ressing (to the point even the end of gw1 references it),

[@crotiger5639]

i love Last Epoch build craft but gw1 is different breed when it comes to team compositions. The mobs having player skills and having their own comps made pve feel like pvp while in pvp there were such crazy comps like eoe bombs, conta spike and alot more stuff. So ye Arpg like Last Epoch beats it on single build craft but gw1 was more about comp structure instead thinking only about your build. I love Last Epoch but its no close to gw1 in terms of theory craft just because there is no comp gameplay and mobs are just there to dmg/sustain check.

[@crotiger5639]

Also whole template thing of gw1 is still unmatched since you not only saved builds for your self but also could make whole team comp and send it to others. The cope of gw1 is just unmatched its just genre in itself.

[@Somebody374-bv8cd]

@@crotiger5639Fair point. Team buildcraft is missing from ARPGs, although you can technically get that fix from tactical RPGs and party based CRPGs in some form. For me personally I just don't find gw1's buildcraft systems as fun as APRGs are nowadays . Also > The cope of gw1 is just unmatched That typo is hilarious, just saying.

Here's a crazy one; a mobile client. The UI isnt actually THAT BAD for mobile as it is. You probably wouldn't be able to play competetive PvP on your phone but 90%+ of the game would be perfectly playable with touch. Imagine Pre-Searing be free and the rest of the game unlockable by purchase, you'd be looking at a competetive mobile title without even remastering much of the graphics, with more content than most other mobile games. The mobile market is massive. I could easily see the game reinvigorated with millions of new players with a mobile release

[@Horncall94]

The game having an official Game Director now gives me hope. Not that much hope, but some hope. Seeing Stephen and other devs in game is very fun :)

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Yeah I saw a dev in ascalon the other day, was awesome!

[@taggerung890]

woah what? the devs still play? What are their igns?

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I don't remember his IGN but he had the arenanet tag and everything, which I'd never seen in Gw1.

[@xenosscape8573]

I miss the option to change the actual skills and the hunting for new skills. being locked to a set skills on weapons in gw2 and the lack of hunting for elite skills , could very easily be applied to gw2 but was a oversight such a thing fits perfectly into the open world.

[@Nick22159]

18:42 showing skill from henchman is even in the game in HA PvP, so they could easily do that. Also about modes.... bring back Hero Battles (they would be so insane even now with this small population since its basically 1v1 with heros). I always thought about a PvP only remaster with all the modes because for PvE I can still pretty much play all I want nowadays, but sure a Remaster would make PvE more alive and reset the economy that would also be interesting.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Great point man well pointed out!

[@okbuddykormir]

Anet basically invented the autobattler genre with Hero Battles and then axed it. Would be nice to have it back.

[@Nick22159]

dont get me started....Polymock autobattler or even with full builds / professions is a dream @@okbuddykormir

[@MagicalMike2]

You mentioned randomizers and I was going to try a random elite per mission kind of challenge run at one point for streams but figured it'd be boring to watch. I wonder how far you'd take it, like having titans appear in 4-man areas would be funny but how annoying would it be to come up against an impassable wall, hmm. Would you go for GWAMM(A)? (Again?) I wouldn't, lol.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Haha, well assuming the titans get down levelled when they appear in pre or whatever I suppose it just comes down to the strength of their skill bars? It could work! Finding some mix of resurrecting awakened enemy + Winds of change foe in the same pack would probably not be a fun time....

[@Jelaroth]

GW1 music is literally timeless

[@TheOdMan]

0:41 Knights of the old republic remaster? I've never heard of it, nor can I find it. I know there was talk of a remake a while back, and I think that got cancelled. Other than that I don't know of any Kotor remasters or remakes? I may be completely off though.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I apologise, it's an Aspyr KOTOR remake (not remaster) riddled with issues. I'm getting my wires crossed! They were going for something bigger, more akin to the FF7 remake. But maybe save yourself the heartache and don't read about it.

[@TheOdMan]

@@WoodenPotatoes Ah ok. Yeah too many remasters and remakes floating about these days, hard to keep them all straight in your head :D

[@ImRollinRich]

I really hope when they create GW3 that it will be just a massive remake of GW1 but then massively expanded.

[@windingtwilight]

With the success of Larian with BG3 and Arena Net's GW1 - GW2 I think we can justify The Flameseeker Prophecies as a stand alone modern RPG where people can relive the events of GW1 with a modern coat of paint I know this goes far off and away from your point in this video, maybe a different video and discussion could be had, but if we could take the best parts of gw1 and gw2 and tell a more indepth narrative of the flameseeker prophecies with modern graphics and mechanics such as those seen in BG3 I would absolutely 100% pay cash for it. I dont even think this isnt something near ArenaNets mindset, its already been shown through GW1 and GW2 easter eggs and interviews that they are fans of the Dungeons and Dragons franchise and most likely have played, enjoyed, and discussed not just the game itself but also its subsequent success.

[@ikarros901]

It is perfect as it is - I know maybe some additional graphical (not substantial), very minor UI and QoL stuff, populate a little maps, skill effects - everything else would destroy the hearth of GW1... I am afraid a big remaster would destroy more than it would fix - yes it would be appealing for new people but would they really stay to play the game? Would the effort be worth it?It is different to remaster and profit from single player game than from MMO... A relatively lower effort changes would be OK from time to time - but a full remaster don't think so...

[@381andme]

Your recent videos have made me try to find my Guild wars CD's so I can log on to my original accounts

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Good luck man! I lost an account years ago which makes me sad still.

[@381andme]

@@WoodenPotatoes I've been home for an hour after work and I found them woohoo

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Good stuff!

[@SBKMusician]

Being that I’m going through it for my first time, I’m actually really enjoying the dated nature of the graphics. That said, I bet it would be beautiful! Imagine that the unreal 5 project that ArenaNet is working on is a gw1 remaster….

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I never really thought much of the visual side of a remaster until seeing how some of these other games have ended up looking!

[@MahalGC]

I'd also accept if they made Guild Wars 3 with similar build making similar to that of GW1's, so that way I could still play as a Charr. But hey if they remake GW1 in UE5 and it runs smooth in most scenarios I'll replay it fully!

[@Krionion]

Man this hits me so hard in the Nostalgia neuron! Also what's up WP! Hope life is going well!

[@qwerty222999]

I find Guild Wars 1 to be quite in a perfect state right now. There are minor things with skill balances I would love to see touched, but overall the graphics and the mechanics are still fine today. Look at what Warcraft III Reforged did to their game when it released. It filled the game with bugs, technical issues regarding crashes and disconnects and outright removed features that the existing game had. For those reason alone I don't think Guild Wars 1 needs a remaster, for I can't really tell what they should improve.

[@hudy2735]

I think market is right for coop rpg similar to GW1, but it needs more than what GW1 had. I would love and i think it's viable for profit to make a new game in UE5 (since they are already transitioning to it) with mechanics similar to GW1 and than 2 or 3 years after that a GW1 remake on that same engine as you cut a lot of cost by reusing stuff.

[@RyuDouro]

I dont want a remake, I dont want a remaster. I want a gw1 expansion or community mods. Otherwise I just will play gw2 on face of your gw1 remaster.

[@alexortega9477]

This would definitely be a dream come true. Our only hope is if Microsoft/Bathesda under Todd Howard 🙏. Only person I know in the game industry that would respect the integrity of the game.

[@kopikapiku2321]

you know the worst feeling while playing GW1? when you unlocked Raza then you spend 100 Plat... buying runes and insigna for your mesmer build.. then you change Razah profession again and lose all your Runes and Insignia, i cried yesterday! .............................................

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Oh man that's brutal! They do warn you if I remember rightly!