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Guild Wars (PC)

GENERAL INFORMATION

GENRE/STYLE

Role-playing/Third-Person 3D Action RPG

RELEASE DATE

28/APR/05

ESRB RATING

TEEN, Violence

DEVELOPER

ArenaNet, Inc.

PUBLISHER

NC Interactive

ALSO AVAILABLE ON

http://www.gamerdna.com/game/guild-wars-ibm-pc-compatible, http://www.gamerdna.com/game/guild-wars-ibm-pc-compatible-1, http://www.gamerdna.com/game/guild-wars--special-edition-ibm-pc-compatible

TRAITS (member-attributed "LIKES")

THE SETTING #USES

PLAYING AS #USES

Elementalist 568
Hero 409
human 343

PLAYING AGAINST #USES

HOW IT'S PLAYED #USES

GENERAL TONE #USES

beautiful 969
epic 756
addictive 711

DESCRIPTION

Guild Wars players go online to take the roles of wizards and warriors in a medieval fantasy world, where they'll battle and adventure on their own, cooperatively, or — as the title suggests — in guild warfare against teams of other players. The game world is home to a once-proud kingdom, which has recently been overrun by the forces of evil and chaos. Available player professions include warriors, rangers, monks, mesmers, elementalists, and necromancers, and players are encouraged to choose a combination of any two professions for each character they play. More options become available in a series of planned "chapter" updates to the main game.

Guild Wars features common world areas, such as towns and outposts, where all players can gather and meet, but the game is particularly mission-based. When players embark on a quest, alone or in a small party, a private area of the game world is created for them, and nearly all of the real adventuring takes place in these exclusive territories. More similar to the multiplayer structure of games like Diablo or Dungeon Siege than conventional "massively multiplayer online role-playing games" (or "MMORPGs"), the developers refer to Guild Wars as a "competitive online role-playing game" (or "CORPG").

With its North American operations led by Ultima Online creator Richard Garriott, South Korean publisher NCSoft has been a principal figure in the realm of persistent world gaming, releasing three games — Linage II, City of Heroes, and Guild Wars — between spring 2004 and spring 2005. Guild Wars uses a different method for ongoing customer payments than most MMORPGs, however. Players log into the game through the developer's "ArenaNet" service, which works similarly to Blizzard's "Battle.net." The Seattle-based ArenaNet development studio was founded by former member of the Blizzard team.

Instead of requiring a monthly subscription fee, the Guild Wars plan is to release regular expansion "chapters," which advance the game world story but can only be accessed by players who pay for them. While Guild Wars players will have to purchase each new chapter they choose to use, they won't be charged any recurring subscription fees to play the basic version of the game for as long as they'd like, and participating in new chapters is always optional. ~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide

Guild Wars (PC)

GENRE/STYLE:

Role-playing/Third-Person 3D Action RPG
RELEASE DATE:

28/APR/05
TOP TRAITS:

Fantasy, free-to-play, beautiful
DESCRIPTION:

Guild Wars players go online to take the roles of wizards and warriors in a medieval fantasy world, where they'll bat... more

players 16,396

followers 128

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Guild Wars (PC) by: S4MURAi

“Fun game playing with friends!”

created 12/JAN/2013

Looking For Group by: TamaraLane

“A Funny Comic called Looking For Group. ”

created 05/OCT/2012

Mishy was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Ollllld :P

Been reading it for a while now, pretty good.”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Same as Mishy, been reading it awhile now. It's funny though.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Yeah I have been a fan for maybe 6 months? just never saw anything about it on here, and thought I'd share.”

Mishy was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Lol, its been around for a long time tis all. Comes up randomly on the internet is all. Of course its new to somebody :P”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“@maggiefiasco:
That is true; even if a post makes something new to just one person it still helps spread the word. Anyways, have you seen the vid of Richard's song?”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“@SH4D0WZ0MB1E No I haven't. I saw the archives and looked at them a bit, looks like there are some very funny story arcs in there.”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“@TamaraLane:
Been awhile since I read it, might just have to go back and read it again.

As for the song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcbazH6aE2g

Enjoy!!!

(Was trying to embed it, but didn't seem to work....or maybe I was doing it wrong)”

Mishy was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“@SH4D0WZ0MB1E it came up on my email notification originally so *shrug*”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Hmm........idk. What's the code to embed vids and such for gDNA?”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“I know I have done it in my forum, but not so sure about on here.”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Eh, idk. It's different from place to place so I always forget.”

AthenRahl was the last to comment - 7 months ago... show previous hide previous

“I've been reading it off and on for the last few years :P”

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“Evalia Firefly, my ritualist main, after finaly completing 30 points in the hall of monuments :D”

Added by: Evalissa
Date: 22/AUG/2012
Views: 89
Votes: 0

created 22/AUG/2012

Wayfarer's Reverie by: SH4D0WZ0MB1E

“So Anet is hosting one last "festival" to celebrate the release of Guild Wars 2. Four final quests to re-visit some of the memorable parts of the GW1 worlds. Plus if you complete all four...”

created 21/AUG/2012

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“The quest are quite a bit of work. If you know a good runner, you could save some time, as only 1 person in the party has to reach the vista. I'm kinda enjoying them, bringing back a lot of old memories. If you haven't started, better get on with it! The festival ends on the 30th, but early start is this weekend! I still have to do Proof of Mountains and Proof of Winds. This has pretty much dashed my hopes of finishing VQing Cantha before this weekend. In addition to the Quest all weekend event bonuses are active. So it's a good time to do anything on GW even if you don't need the Tormented Weapon.”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“Yeah saw that all bonuses are active. So much to do, and so little time to do it. Looks like I'll be revisiting GW1 after GW2 releases to finish up some stuff.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“I probably will too. I want to accomplish a few things, and have not decided the fate of my guild in GW1 yet. I'm not sure I can lead in both games effectively.”

LordXenophon was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“Which ones are the Tormented?”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“@LordXenophon They have a purple glowing animation, kinda like that Dragon I posted a pic of. I'm holding my Tormented staff in this pic, but you can't see the animation of course. http://www.gamerdna.com/uimage/o1RRsTs/full/gw422-jpg.jpg

For some reason, I couldn't get it to post inline... Bug?
”

Svoboda was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

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Svoboda was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“I had to guess what width to force it to and it came out too small to see your weapon, but it does link just fine.
”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“@Svoboda I tried it a bunch of times, then gave up, what did you do?”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“I was using 480 as the width, I think that's what I always do...”

Svoboda was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“I used plain html.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 8 months ago... show previous hide previous

“That's what I did too, I must have had a syntax error I wasn't seeing. thanks for posting it.”

Ala Muki's Lair on Isle of Janthir server in Guild Wars 2. by: TamaraLane

“We will build Ala Muki's Lair on Isle of Janthir server in Guild Wars2.”

created 18/AUG/2012

Mishy was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“Apparantly when I ever get it, I'll be stuck on Maguuma or whatever its called from the beta :P”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“No, you will need to choose a server. They will wipe all the beta stuff. The go live servers won't know anything about the beta.”

Mishy was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“No, my peeps are still going to be on that same server. Even with everything wiped :P”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“OH, I see... You are supposed to be able to "guest" on other servers, though we weren't able to during the beta. I figured you would be an the Aus server if there was one anyway.”

Mishy was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“GW2 lists Australia as an "Other" country, hell the only major MMOs that have ever done proper aussie servers are Warhammer and TOR, otherwise if we are lucky we get a nice little "Oh shut up and like the fact we calibrated the day/night cycle to your time" server :P”