It’s the only MMO I’ve ever played through the full story of and maxed out more than one character in because it was just fun to play and explore. It’s one of the best the genre has to offer, and the community is a joy.

Highly suggest it. No need to rush into purchase. Try out the base game, explore, enjoy it. Endgame all classes can do basically everything, so finding one that clicks for you is more important than wanting to play "a healer" or etc. Unless you are trying to do the ultra sweaty Legendary Challenge Mode raid bosses you can complete everything using mostly whatever so meta isn't a big deal. (Maybe high end fractal CMs and PvP/WvW things matter a bit idk.)

If you're into story, there is a LOT behind the living season stuff, which was free if you played while it released but otherwise I think they bundle it all (and pretty sure like EVERYTHING is on sale, its $50 for the 1st 3 expacs and the living story stuff on their site, I think thats $5 cheaper than on steam.)

Do note: If you buy on steam, you've gotta buy all the stuff through steam. If you buy through arenanet's website, you can't purchase upgrade through steam. (If you're on linux/steamdeck you can download and run it through steam with a startup command to use anet's launcher to sign in normally if you go through anet instead of steam so either way it works.)

I played GW1 as a young kid and then was very much into GW2 for a long time. It's probably the game I spent easily the most time of my life with. The past few years I dropped it because I felt like the quality dropped and also they focused on the wrong stuff (for me). But it still is a nice game and I like to look into it from time to time.

I've been waiting for GW3 for some time actually, the promise of the story has me hyped a bit, but yeah, the action-based combat puts me off a bit. We'll have to see.

But in a 2nd video they released yesterday, they told people that they will continue to support and develop for all 3 games going forward. So people who like GW2, but not GW3 are eventually saved :D

I didn’t play GW1 but I tried GW2 and I couldn’t connect with it either. I played a ton of FFXI back in the day and a bit of WoW too but GW2 just didn’t pull me in.

The gw1 skill system would be wild in a new game!

Same. I loved GW1, have been there when it launched and when GW2 was released. I actually played GW2 for a year of two. Then I stopped. Tried getting back, but felt too far behind everyone else to enjoy it.

I still fondly remember wandering the pre-searing Ascalon and trying to explore every last bit of it.

I was thinking about this other day. I genuinely think it’s because of how we interact with the genre that has largely killed it. Everything is min maxed to no end and almost everything is essentially a chore to meet that goal. The genre use to be fun to just play around in and be social but it has really lost its touch. I’d be so happy to see a revitalization in the space.

Maybe a little less storage management, though.

Truly that the core, if you look stuck or having an hard time, passing people often help.

I can see why. The loading/travel screen art blew me away on release and still does now.

I don't often get my hopes up for new games any more, but I kinda have for this.

It will probably be quite different from both GW1 and GW2, since they're planning to continue active development of all three games, so they wouldn't want to target the exact same audiences.

GW3 seems like it will have a more console-friendly action-adventure combat, and dynamic movement that preserves momentum between movement types.

As someone who played gw2 but never got into gw1, what exactly made it special? With reforged I’ve decided to finally get around to it and I played for maybe an hour so haven’t really been able to get to builds or heroes or etc yet so curious what people loved about it so much that isn’t in gw2.