The main campaign sees you joining a company of your choosing and going against the Elder Dragon Zhaitan and his army of undead, the first expansion has you going against a different Elder Dragon deep in the jungles, and the third expansion has a twist as you are not going after an Elder Dragon but, you are trying to stop a God from destroying all of Tyria. But, GW2 shares an equally powerful narrative as you are an adventurer trying to survive in a world that is slowly being taken over by the Elder Dragons. Then, in Eye of the North, creatures called the Destroyers have begun taking over the North, disturbing various races and pushing them from their homes…and now it has become our mission to stop them by bringing the races together to stop this great foe.
Guild Wars Factions sees the resurrection of a deadly spirit that once tried to slay the Emperor, and with his rise comes a plague. Nightfall follows the Sunspears in a campaign to stop the rise of a Fallen God known as Abbadon. Prophecies tells a rich story of the Kingdom of Ascalon coming under attack by the Charr, and you see the Kingdom as it struggles to survive the cataclysmic event known as “The Searing”. The one relating most closely to GW2 would be Prophecies (unless you get the Path of Fire expansion which then relates more to the events of Nightfall – and the “End of Dragons” expansion for GW2 will probably follow Factions once it is released). Each campaign in classic Guild Wars has an amazing narrative.
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The only thing really pulling them together is the one true expansion of the series known as Eye of the North which is supposed to lead into events that start us on the path to GW2. Guild Wars can be a lot harder to get into story-wise because the game is separated via the different campaigns (Prophecies, Factions, and Nightfall). So, it really depends on which one you think is the better deal.Īgain, I find myself in a place where BOTH of these games has an amazing story…and that is because they take place in the same universe, and therefore, they share a lot in terms of lore, pacing, the world, etc. With GW2, there is still a massive community and you can play all the main content before deciding if it is something you want to invest in further. It has aged like a fine wine, but it’s still dated nonetheless. With classic Guild Wars, you will be hopping into an older game with a smaller community. So, if we are trying to determine which of these games is best when it comes to cost, I say that both of them are a great deal. The catch? Buying the expansions for GW2 does not give you access to the small campaigns between the expansions known as “Living World”, that has its own cost (though some of these campaigns are free). But even then, buying the 2 expansions needed for all that extra content is only $29.99, so technically cheaper than classic Guild Wars. This does mean that you can not access certain content though such as mounts and gliders. So, from level 1-80 you don’t have to pay any money. Guild Wars 2 however made it so that their main campaign is actually free to play. There is no monthly fee at all, so once you buy the game, you can play it as much or as little as you want. Classic Guild Wars has a model where you buy the complete collection for $39.99 and you never have to pay for anything else. But, only one of them has any part of it that is ‘free’. Neither of these games has any sort of subscription service. Luckily, both Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 are easy on the wallet. So, let’s go over the key differences of this game, and compare-and-contrast what games did what things better!Ĭost is something that is generally pretty important to any gamer, because our hobby is not exactly cheap. Fast-forward to Guild Wars 2 and the game is a very solid MMORPG, which makes both Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 vastly different games despite being made by the same company and despite taking place within the same universe.
The strange thing about classic Guild Wars is that the game was not made to be an MMO nor intended to be played as an MMO, yet it still ended up competing with games like World of Warcraft at the time that it came out (and it does share a lot of elements with the MMO genre). Rather, I decided that it was finally time to do another “versus” blog, this time comparing classic Guild Wars to its sequel, Guild Wars 2. But, I feel like that is a blog for another day. Guild Wars is one of those games that speaks to me…and the game is one of my absolute favorites of all times! I could literally rave about this series for days if given the chance, discussing the lore, the development, and why it meant so much to me growing up.
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