Nope. The stories in the first game just stuck with me so much more. They meant more to me than all these little mini stories we’re getting. To me its not leaving much impact on the world really since all the content is gone after the story swaps. I mean, in prophecies we followed an exiled prince leading a mass of refugees to what was hopefully a safer place. That had impact. We had the searing! Which changed the entire layout of ascalon after we got out of the tutorial!
Factions we watched an entire country become diseased with a mysterious plague and found its source. Along the way we witnessed different gangs inhabiting Kaineng and different people. Hell we had the luxons and the kurzicks which were warring over territory constantly and had an ever moving battle line on the map showing who was controlling what and it affected stuff in the game!
Nightfall we watched as a corrupt general attempted to take over the country with an evil god. We followed through with our leader gaining the support of the big shots to help fight back and even raised the nemesis of Turai Ossa to give us aid. We went all the way into Abbadon’s realm and killed him where we witnessed the creation of a new god!
Eye of the north, we watched as new races came into the world that we’d never seen before. Technology we hadn’t even dreamed of was introduced. We met the Norn, the Asura, we worked with our mortal enemies the charr! We absolutely hated the charr back then! We’d just as soon kill and skin them on sight to make a pretty rug out of them than work with them back in the day! We managed to make all those dysfunctional races come together to fight the destroyers.
All of these seemed to have a much heavier, lasting impact on the world as we knew it and the world was actively involved in the story with us. Those stories stuck with me pretty well. Right now I’m only even remotely interested in the current living story because of the fact that if Gnashblade wins we get a peak back into something that occurred in guild wars 1.
