Guild Wars 2

This is mainly for original Guild Wars players.

As you were walking around, doing dynamic events, renowned hearts or whatever you were up to, did you ever get a flashback and thought ‘’Wait a second, I recognize this area!’’

Sadly, this never happend to me when I was leveling. I think the first reason is the graphics, the graphic in Guild Wars 2 are beautiful and stunning, it’s so different compared to original Guild Wars I couldn’t recognize things. The second reason is because Tyria have changed over the past 250 years; landslides and flooding have changed Tyria a lot.

But recently I have taken interest in going to places and look if I can rezognize them. I walked on the path in Plains of Ashford where you started your Prophecies character when you were on your way to the Sardelac Sanitarium.

And of course there is the fountain underwater in Lion’s Arch.

TLDR; You who played original Guild Wars, was there any place under your leveling you recognized?

I recognize places all the time. Makes me want to go back and play GW when I see them.

I always mention it to my guildies and then they promptly tell me to end the tour of Tyria cause we got stuff to do.

250 years in the real world have been historically more than enough to change the global environment completely, unless there is a conscious effort to preserve certain places.

I’d be more concerned if you can still actually recognize many places in GW2 from GW1, after they claim that the setting is 250 years later.

I played GW1 for 6 years and there are only 2 areas that were nostalgic to me, the Dukes place in the plains of ashford and the old LA town center that is under water.

Most places are totally “new world” like the fractal where you play as a charr taking over Ascalon; that is NOT Ascalon :P