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  • wow they should "update" guild wars to look like this again xD 

  • The Fist to Head at 1:11 xD

  • It's hard to believe this is the same game, they must of had to rebuild it from the ground up before they had a release version.

  • god damnit this hurts my eyes

  • holy shit it looks so different xD

  • If you're wondering why the alpha of Guild Wars looks like WoW, its because the company (ArenaNet) was built by people who left Blizzard because they didn't like the direction the game was going and wanted to make a game that they would want to play.

    Thankfully, they hired some artists to revamp the game before they released the game.

  • @WeeklyNickGiftFarms This, indeed is true!

  • I wish I could've played the alpha for this... ;(

  • @WTSMiniEvenniaLOL Alpha means that it is even older than the beta version :)

  • Amazing how they were able to change all the stuff between E3 alpha and E3 beta!

  • iirc, the graphics are all placeholders till they recruited the art team, it was in an ArenaNet video where the art guy was talking about it.

  • Better than Guild Wars 2

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  • FDS spotted! I don't think that art changed much over the course of development :3. Can't wait for the FDS in gw2!

  • I don't get why people say Faction sucks.

    I loved everything about it. Except the Luxon and Kurzick part.

  • Thank god for Daniel Dociu, the art director. This looks hideous!

  • @ploothable This was just the alpha, this was meant as a placeholder while they get a general idea of how they draw/implement all the art.

  • so they could stay in this project like this and would have made wow, but they changed a lot and as it was getting better they knew it should be called Guild Wars

  • Stupid fake. It's not Guild Wars.

  • @operKOT It is. Except it's alpha, not beta, nor even the finished product. They changed it. A lot! And for that, we are grateful.

    (At least I don't see why this could not be the alpha test of Guild Wars, since you recognize many areas, enemies and weapons/armors. If you can prove that it is, in fact, not Guild Wars, even in the early stages, I'd be delighted to be proved wrong).

  • that was painful to watch im so happy guild wars did not end up like this

  • This shit is depressing to see. How this almost came out instead of the actual GW.

  • @xSagez Well, it didn't almost come out instead of GW. GW was developed based on this, it'S an indicator of how much a game can change in the developing process (and TBH it's VERY good that it did ... ^^)

  • @xSagez This is essentially a proof of concept(ie prove it works, then add the shiny stuff) vid. I have screenshots taken back in 2001/2002(and through to 2008) during the development process which show many interesting things, unfortunately i'm still bound by the NDA so unable to share them but certainly are interesting to look at entire areas without any textures or mobs that never made it live. There are several areas still inaccessible on the live servers you could port to on dev.

  • Lol the final product looks so much better :P

    EotN =Prophecies>Nightfall>Faction.

    But they are all awesome, because the second half of Factions still kicks ass and Factions introduced the best PvP gamemode.

  • They are so pleased they killed a creature they jump awwww........ WHEN DOES THT EVA HAPPEN IN GW????????????!!!

  • Damn, there is a large difference in not having Jeremy Soule, and having Jeremy Soule.

  • @goruu indeed. Jeremy Soule is just amazing. The music here sounds like it was made in some freeware audio program xD

  • yes, lets all head over to the hospital and fight the diseased!

  • bah faction noob island was sweet. the rest was kinda lame thoug...

  • even though they look totally different you recognize the opponents :D

  • "...but in the end, in the world of Guild Wars, it is not reward that calls us. Not gain. Not revenge. In the end, what calls is... is victory."

    Guild Wars in a nutshell... it's true and I love it and it's another aspect of the franchise that will set it apart from the rest and make it great, if not historic.

  • looks better than wow indeed

  • 1:36 Freudian slip

  • omg classic graphics. is this seriously gw?

  • That was so bad it gave me goose bumps.

  • oh my!

  • Wow.... I never knew Guild Wars looked like that. That's just... Horrible.. XD

  • HAHAHAHAHAHA!

    it looks like WoW!!! Oh dear god, now I'm very very happy about the "not so shining" graphics in the trailers... the real deal will look ten times better :D Epic!

  • omg this looks terrible xD

  • Factions felt a little too short, it was very pretty though. My favorite addition to the series was Nightfall because of it's tie-ins with the other games quite nicely (like getting to see the Lich and Shiro again).

  • Lol im glad this isnt guildwars now ^^

  • dam. they went from that . to THAT. wat u think Gw2 alpha test will look like O.o and wat u think it will actually look like XD imagine...

  • 1:46 colossal scimitar????? xD

  • Looks like WoW does now. Like it came from Cartoon Network.

  • haha, Indeed :)

  • looks better than wow!!!

  • sure this is looks like wow this is really old, the new one is much better

  • looks like just the world and the classes are the same :-P

  • Good god this looks like WoW XD LMAO

  • lol thank god it didn't end up like this....it would've been lame as HELL

  • This could be called lame wars.... or factions

  • although i love factions, LOL :)

  • Haha, I burst in laughter when I saw that Factions part :).. Well played, well played indeed!

  • I personally LOVE Factions better than any others, but I can see why people might like it less. ^_^;

  • might be the fact, that Factions had poor animated characters and voice acting made your ears bleed. But hey, what can you expect? They made it in less than a year :)

  • true-- I'm more of a person to like environmental additions such as architecture and background music, in which case I thought Factions did rather well, but I totally see what you mean about the voice acting.

  • @Guidastri True. I always warn friends that are new to Guild Wars of the voice acting (especially Factions), but I still believe it was a fantastic game, mostly because of the Kurzick/Luxon conflict and the Jade Sea, but oh well. Still though, glad Guild Wars didn't turn into this... It would've never taken off.

  • @lolitsme50 Well said : )

  • @Aaron2071 Togo; "As a new player to guildwars-" Player: "Aww Togo I just wanna get through this already, SHUT UP!" lol i love relics of orr.

  • Hey, atleast it actually had blood. Lol.

  • Lol i can see weapons that didnt make it into the game untill nightfall !

  • lol the garphic looked like WOW XD

  • WTF? Why are there no creatures like that in today guild wars? lol. Its like they remade the whole game+ engine + everything.

    There is no thing that would remind me of GW in here.

  • 1:48 that's a collosal Scimitar

  • Yeah, its a very old sworld ^^!

  • Is this the long lost, "world of guild wars"??

    =p

  • Would be fun if Anet loaded these Character models when 1st April 2010 comes.

    Like with the stick figures.

  • you'd have to download them to see....

  • Playing this would've been interesting.

  • Jeez... If this was guildwars before I'm so glad the nowdays GW is way mooore better! This old thing reminds me of WoW and RS :p both sucks so the old sucks but it still looks better then both of them. I would rather play old GW insted of RS or WoW xD

  • ...That burned my eyes...

    I'm really glad it got changed into something SO much better!!

  • this is not guildwars at all, wft !!!

  • this is not GW2 retard watch the Gameplay trailer!!!

  • rofl

  • i call bull shit on the vid, the BETA in 04 looked like the GW of today and even images in early 04 looked the same, nothing like this.

  • Better believe it. There's even some images to be found from these times. I think I even have the so called ''first ever'' picture taken from GW. It has a warrior in it that looks just like the people in this video. Also there was some images to be found on Guild Wars official page too.

  • its just kinda too hard to believe that it went through such a drastic change :\

  • I know. I feel you there. All we can do is just be happy that it didn't turn out like this, eh :D?

  • WOW this looks so whack lol. thank jesus they changed the engine/ story. that chick should be neutered for narrating this video.

  • hmm, im glad they changed guildwars from this plot

  • 1:47 colossal scimitar :D

    thats awesome

  • there will be teleporting to city's and outposts that you have visited in GW2 its been said on soem interveiws

  • LoLoLoLoLoLoLoL

  • rofl, nice, i love the engine revamp

  • Dieses Guild Wars ist ja schrecklich xD

    Zum Glück haben sie sich das nochmal überlegt, und alles geändert. :P

  • Gut, Sie haben

  • Duh it looks like world of warcraft the people used to work there

  • Wow, I love the final version of guild wars muuuuch more. Although the music in the background is pretty cool.

  • wow im glad they made the game.... not suck...? this just looks lame. <3 the REAL guild wars

  • well if u read the desiners for guild wars came from the world of warcraft

  • right

  • They didn't come from WoW, they left Blizzard before WoW was released. The worked on Starcraft and warcraft 1,2,3.

  • wow this looks more like Warcraft.. but i like the guildwars game as it is now.. altho i cant wait for GW2. GW is getting a bit boring after playing it 4 years..

  • haha, nice!!

  • he.. cool down guys, this is guild wars history!...

  • i mean 5 stars

  • how did this video get 4 stars???

  • too bad they didnt keep this soundtrack,its rly awsome

  • ew !

  • I thinke the same of it than N00bskilla06 and THIS BETA VERSOIN SUCKS!

  • video sux mot...  fck

  • remembers me on world of warcraft...^^

    i'm really happy, that that only the alpha version is^^

  • dont you read the time? 2003 and it was in "creating mode" the game go to the shops in 2005 and it was really changed. i have playing guild wars 3 years.. dont talk if u dont know about u are tolkings noobs.

    Pd: Sorry about my english

  • I've been playing since then. The game's really changed.

  • wow looks like there was 1 profession back then...warrior

  • this looks as ugly as WoW

  • haha holy shit, looked like crap! god am i glad it didnt turn out like this

  • Lol wow compare those graphics to the ones we have today... What an improvement!

  • Wow, it looked like crap.

  • Glad it didnt turn out like that WoW-clone.

  • looks nintendo 64-ish :3

  • 1:33 Firey Gladius (nightfall?), 1:43 Crenellated Sword (factions), 1:46 Collosal Scimitar (Nightfall)... stuff that didnt come out till Factions and NF (2006), in the 2003 alpha test, wow lol

  • Hahaha I'm so glad they upgraded the graphics!

  • lol so ancient!

    looks nothing like it does now!

  • lol this looks so weird. Would be cool to try this out though, too bad it's not possible.

  • lol fiery dragon swords use to be so expensive

  • The power of guildwars lies in its pvp they are now updating to death not in becoming another wow copy

  • looks like WoW then but now the graphics rule

  • ive made programs on my 9850 graphing calculator that look better than this. sure am glad they made it better than this

  • rofl looks HORRIBLE!

  • the reason they were able to upgrade the graphics was because NCsoft increased the texture and graphics budget dramatically due to huge success and hype, ArenaNet had more money from NCsoft and were able to hire over 17 new graphical artists and engineers.

  • Actually this is how Guild Wars originally looked. They then got someone to redesign the entire game graphically due to their engine being able to produce much better than this.

  • INDEED!

  • fiery dragon sword was the only cool thing outta this ;) -- go to 0:56 to see what i'm talking about.

    the music was highly annoying... like RuneScape music. haha.

    i wonder if they changed the game all together cause there weren't any "diseased" in GW:Proph.

  • I'm glad they changed it and didnt decide to make a WoW clone. this Alpha just hurts my eyes.

  • LOL word up bro!

  • Holy god damn that looked terrible. Thank goodness they changed it.

    One cool thing was that at the end, the characters kinda screamed "YAY" or something.

    That was cool.

  • lol there is a collosal scmiter in the video.

    why dis the skin came out in nihfall and not in proph?

  • GOD DAMN this game changed

  • i sure cant w8 to see how guild wars 2 will look like.

  • Me Neither!!!111oneoneone!!11

  • wow...thats...uh...

    nothing like GW today...

  • aaaaaaaa it looks cool though what is it

  • mofos. this IS gw, just the alpha version. every single alpha version'ed game have poor graphics cause they dont put focus on that yet

  • Indeed! Thank You! =)

  • wow theis is not even gw

  • You are kind of right, They completely redone Gw after this and with different engine.

    But you can see some monsters in this vídeo that still exists in Guild Wars (Mainly Prophecies).

  • ok im sorry, it really is, but the video looks kind of strange, cause the guildwars from now, is completely different to that one^^

  • Well that is true, it really does but games usually look a bit weird when they are in early state.

  • yeah... guildwars... right....

  • ok this isnt guild wars while it is easy to see where you could get confused this i believe is the early 2004 game The Guild you really should pay attention someone jus added the title at the beggining to trick you

  • Yeah you are absolutely right, and I'm that woman speaking in that video about GUILD WARS... *sarcastic*

    Gosh, It is Guild Wars belive it or not.

    They just completely redone it for some reason.

  • What is alpha is this like a idff game

  • Alpha is a early state of game when usually the developers and few selected people are testing the game before the release (alpha comes before beta). Hope that helped. And yes, it is Guild Wars.

  • Weird, I mean when game developers make a new engine they do it once and then they just polish it. But this game has changed a lot and I think that this is a different engine :O.

    BTW, it's hard to believe that Insomniac Games used Resistance engine making Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and they are two very different game franchises.

  • Haha, thats awesome! I wanna play that! I love the new guildwars but the alpha looks fun =P

  • It's funny because WoW's graphics haven't gotten any better. lolol

  • Indeed!

  • well looks like WoW anyways, =D

  • True

  • uhm thats not guildwars

    thats wow

    the beta testing had the same graphics basically not that toon style

  • Trust me.. That is Guild Wars...

  • If you read the title it says ''Alpha'' Not ''Beta''. Guild Wars looked like this while it was on alpha..

  • I am so glad they changed it, this looks horrible XD

  • Haha, True

  • Lol, for every GWer.. you can see a warrior wielding a Colossol Scimitar and another warrior with a Fiery Dragon Sword... and those big ugly ones look alittle like Jotun :P

  • I think they are Giants (if you look that the knock you down). Because Jotuns came in EoTN,so it's kind of unlikely they are so old..

  • Wow... the graphics were really bad. They're infinitely better now (literally).

  • the lvl cap will be 100 or higher or maybe infinite lvling.

  • It's quite interesting, really. I never knew it looked like this. Does look like WoW a bit :-). As for GW2, 1 thing that I hope they don't bring in is higher than lvl 20 levelling, I love the way that everything is based on skill and co-ordination, not hours spent killing the same thing.

  • Well.. They are going to raise the skillcap or even making it infinite..

  • It is true what you say, i like the lvl 20 thing to... i don't want to kill someone in PvP for my lvl.. i want to kill someone in PvP for my skills are better.. but the skill cap will be 100 or infinite.

  • lol i tricked my friend and he thinks its a gw2 video =)

  • Mean... =P

  • Hehe, looks like WoW.

    It;s cool to see how the game changed so much:)

  • yuck! looks like wow. So glad the graphics improved.