Did you know this about Tyria?
Wow, no one is fascinated by this like me? really?
Edit: small typo.
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It’s pretty awsome, leaves them open to expand loads more, I once saw some concept art that depicted a future asura city and it looked awesome, if guild wars continues to be a profitable business, it could expand in so many ways, guild wars 2 is set 200years after 1 is it not? There could eventually be a 3 that’s set even further into the future of tyria, like a mix of fantasy lore and futuristic would be awsome, can already see that happening with asura technology now, and it works rather well, so many avenues this game world could go
It’s pretty awsome, leaves them open to expand loads more, I once saw some concept art that depicted a future asura city and it looked awesome, if guild wars continues to be a profitable business, it could expand in so many ways, guild wars 2 is set 200years after 1 is it not? There could eventually be a 3 that’s set even further into the future of tyria, like a mix of fantasy lore and futuristic would be awsome, can already see that happening with asura technology now, and it works rather well, so many avenues this game world could go
Yes, super exciting stuff just to even know its there and 250 years after the gw1.
Ahh I knew it was something like that :P I never did play gw1 :P
You guys must watch a bit of that video, fairly early on he shows the part that we currently have accessible and it’s so tiny compared to the rest of the world.
P.S i know video is a bit long but there’s some really interesting theories and lore that reveals.
There’s already been a lot of discussion regarding this. Search the forums a little and you’ll find them.
There’s nothing wrong with discussing an interesting subject again that’s been buried away, if for no other reason then for new players who may be interested in something like this. And forum system does not like u resurrecting old threads either.
Anyway, I’m not aware of this discussion ur referring to and my search revealed nothing, but hey, thanks for your input.
Perhaps this topic would receive more attention in the Lore subforum.
I simply wanted to point out that it would be easier to necro an older thread which contained more information and hypothesis instead of starting an other one and coming up with the same thing.
But I’ll admit that I’m bad a searching. And also lazy at it.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/lore/The-globe-of-Tyria-a-total-mess
I simply wanted to point out that it would be easier to necro an older thread which contained more information and hypothesis instead of starting an other one and coming up with the same thing.
But I’ll admit that I’m bad a searching. And also lazy at it.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/lore/The-globe-of-Tyria-a-total-mess
Heh yea well i’m not game resurrecting a year old thread lol, if u are go for it. Plus there’s lots of new people in the game now who weren’t there year ago and wouldn’t have a clue about that thread as i didn’t and i was here, so really i don’t see any harm in it.
It’ll probably be moved to the Lore subforum, yeah. But it’s still pretty cool.
However, I dislike universes that have the same name for both a continent – especially the main continent you play on – and the planet. It’s not horribly confusing, but it’s enough to cause some annoyance. Even TES, with its spheres-within-spheres concept of the universe, was nice enough to separate Nirn and Tamriel.
Pretty much all GW1 players know about this, it’s nothing new. And this is one of the many reasons people like me cringe and some have stopped playing. The land of Tyria has great potential, there’s a huge world out there that can be created. I honestly believed that the GW universe could’ve expanded and expanded, new continents, new seas, new monsters, new schemes. I believed the GW universe could’ve become something like the TES universe. Alas, the devs never thought about it…. or thought about it but considering the amount of work needed to make something like this they didn’t bother. I mean why create new continents new, breath taking views, enemies, skills, and stories, when you can ask your 4 year old kids to write a story every 2 weeks, reskin a buch of weapons with different colors and make a kitten ton of money.
Pretty much all GW1 players know about this, it’s nothing new.
Pretty much all GW1 players know about this, it’s nothing new. And this is one of the many reasons people like me cringe and some have stopped playing. The land of Tyria has great potential, there’s a huge world out there that can be created. I honestly believed that the GW universe could’ve expanded and expanded, new continents, new seas, new monsters, new schemes. I believed the GW universe could’ve become something like the TES universe. Alas, the devs never thought about it…. or thought about it but considering the amount of work needed to make something like this they didn’t bother. I mean why create new continents new, breath taking views, enemies, skills, and stories, when you can ask your 4 year old kids to write a story every 2 weeks, reskin a buch of weapons with different colors and make a kitten ton of money.
Well i think some of the things you said there are a bit harsh. It’s not easy to create a new content for MMO as it may be for single player game because often you’re not just making one map for a single play thru and in case of where u have expansions and other continents, they have to be all connected to the game world via story, lore etc to everything u’ve made b4.
It took AN 5 or more years to create what’s here and they didn’t just copy and paste stuff from gw1 to gw2 either. The gw2 world was fully recreated anew and hand crafted for us to enjoy, that’s a lot of work. I mean they could have just copied lots of areas from gw1 and just enhanced them and lots of gw1 fans would have complained that its just a recycled old game. They design a complete new world and they complain that it isn’t gw1. Lol the devs can’t win really.
Designing worlds and filling them up is probably the most time consuming thing if you want them to be original. I’m not a game designer but i know one thing, its a very time consuming thing and i imagine the code for gw2 is as complex as hell, especially when u factor in all the dynamic stuff in the game.
And yet despite this complexity, i think they’ve done a marvelous job. Everything pretty much works well and as it should. Sure things bug out now and then when new updates happen, this always happen in every MMO, but when u consider the complexity of this game compared to some others i can’t help but appreciate the work in this game.
But getting back to the map, i don’t think that map is just for today. What that tells me, if gw2 does well there may well be gw3 and beyond. There’s certainly enough land mass there for a long future and to make at least 1 more game.
Pretty much all GW1 players know about this, it’s nothing new.
So you believe this thread is just for gw1 players? well that’s news to me. and btw, i’m gw1 player (latecomer to it to be sure) and i didn’t know about it, so don’t go around making assumptions about everyone, or speaking for everyone, it’s not couth.
Pretty much all GW1 players know about this, it’s nothing new.
So you believe this thread is just for gw1 players? well that’s news to me. and btw, i’m gw1 player (latecomer to it to be sure) and i didn’t know about it, so don’t go around making assumptions about everyone, or speaking for everyone, it’s not couth.
Pretty much all VETERAN GW1 players know this, it’s nothing new. I thought sticking in VETERAN wasn’t needed. The thing is After you finish the GW1 story and expantions you should know, so I guess the veteran word was needed, my bad.
Pretty much all GW1 players know about this, it’s nothing new. And this is one of the many reasons people like me cringe and some have stopped playing. The land of Tyria has great potential, there’s a huge world out there that can be created. I honestly believed that the GW universe could’ve expanded and expanded, new continents, new seas, new monsters, new schemes. I believed the GW universe could’ve become something like the TES universe. Alas, the devs never thought about it…. or thought about it but considering the amount of work needed to make something like this they didn’t bother. I mean why create new continents new, breath taking views, enemies, skills, and stories, when you can ask your 4 year old kids to write a story every 2 weeks, reskin a buch of weapons with different colors and make a kitten ton of money.
Well i think some of the things you said there are a bit harsh. It’s not easy to create a new content for MMO as it may be for single player game because often you’re not just making one map for a single play thru and in case of where u have expansions and other continents, they have to be all connected to the game world via story, lore etc to everything u’ve made b4.
It took AN 5 or more years to create what’s here and they didn’t just copy and paste stuff from gw1 to gw2 either. The gw2 world was fully recreated anew and hand crafted for us to enjoy, that’s a lot of work. I mean they could have just copied lots of areas from gw1 and just enhanced them and lots of gw1 fans would have complained that its just a recycled old game. They design a complete new world and they complain that it isn’t gw1. Lol the devs can’t win really.
That’s the problem really… I don’t think anyone would’ve minded if they copied stuff from GW1. In fact most of the GW1 VETS were expecting it, I personally was hoping to see more stuff that was in GW1.
And about the times of making new content… I don’t know how new you are to mmorpgs, but pretty much every AAA title have expansions with new maps and skills new bosses, and new mechanics every 6 months. This game is almost 2 years old and almost nothing has changed. So it’s not that they don’t have time to make stuff… they don’t want to make stuff. They want to tell kittenty lore breaking stories every 2 weeks. I’m pretty sure if you gave me 2 weeks and paid me for it, I’d come up with more interesting stuff. And you can’t really say I’m wrong since the devs themselves FINALLY (thank god) realized what they’re trying to do is kitten, and they switched to releases once a month. What remains is. Are we going to see kittenty lore breaking childish stories again? Or we’ll see the same old crappy stuff so far. Again liking the LS so far is a matter of taste. I for one didn’t find anything interesting so far.
I personally can’t find the strength to log in anymore (been a few moths now). Mind you I don’t mind the bugs, I don’t mind that you don’t get drops, I don’t mind the zerg or the champ farm be it nerfed or not.
I do mind seeing the beautiful GW1 lore getting kitten on my bad writers.
The reason I’m still here, is becauseI hope they won’t mess up again with LS Season 2. If they do well it was a fun ride, but I’ll uninstall GW2 and go play GW1.
Edit: I don’t really want your thread to become a discussion about how much GW2’s is breaking the GW lore, so enough of this. When you got some free time, if you’ve stopped playing GW1 and you didn’t finish it I’d suggest you read some of the stories in the GW1 wiki, even thought the main story line is covered by Wooded potatos in a series of videos, some of the sidequests are quite funny.
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Ok i see where u’r coming from, u’r deeply into lore and i can understand that. I guess i too feel disappointed a bit that the lore from gw1 was not brought forth in a more meaningful way at the start of gw2, where they gave an overview of the first game and it’s connection to gw2. But that game is so huge, the stories so big, how do u condense them into one cinematic? Perhaps they should have a cinematic library somewhere in Durmand Priory, or in Divinity Reach somewhere where u can relive some of them moments, or shows u a nice overview of the lore. They had so many wonderful cinematics in gw1 that basically told the story in a concise way, they could make up some kind of montage from them to show pple the history etc.
Although i got into gw1 lore as much as i could when i started playing, i realised i had lots of missing stuff after watching many WoodenPotatoes vids on lore, yes i did watch them. It was mostly the backgrounds stuff that was not really broadly explained in missions etc that i needed to fill in. When all put together like that, gw lore is absolutely fascinating and deserves to be more prominent.
I started gw1 some time after Nighfall came out and i bought that campaign to start with. It was my first online game and i wasn’t sure if i would like it. I ended up liking it and then got Faction, then Prophecies and finally Eye of the North. So i did everything backward lol, which didn’t help me fully appreciate the lore as it may have done had i done it in the right order.
But in the end, i think that like any story books, stories do run it’s course and its hard to keep them going and keep making them interesting. Sometimes you have to begin a new chapters, new story with perhaps still some common threads, but with 250 year jump, all them epic characters dead, they had to create something new. Don’t lose hope though, there’s plenty of room to reconnect everything, it just may not be as simple as staring a new one and it may take some time.