A trip in the time machine: GW in 2003!

I just discovered the E3 2003 GW video when browsing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJn9G...eature=related

I am amazed at how different the game looks compared to the current GW. A lot (euphemism FTW) of progress has been made and it's strange to think of GW2 now as an evolution of the same scale compared to the current game.

Further browsing showed videos of 2004 like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oudUy-lHYFM

And the beta event in 2005:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5u8Tu5Qjk4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RrB86eBYAw

I'm pretty sure this will bring back memories from some of you! GWG also has some good old stuff like this and that. If you have "oldies" (I don't mean req7/8 or old school skins ), please share!

lol yeah looks kinda like WoW back then

I got it when it first came out-- those were the days. It's so foreign to me now, I took a couple years off and now it's like learning a new game.

Yeah, I've always been amazed at how much the graphics changed between the original testing stages and the release of the game. I guess graphics are probably one of the last things you add to a game during development, since it's better to have everything actually working before you make it look pretty.

And I'm amazed at that guru thread with the extra ranger skills. I can't believe there actually used to be a beast mastery line of weapons, and they were taken out. I guess having two weapons (a whip and a pet) is a bit unbalanced...

EDIT: Alright, I just read a bit further in the thread about the whips, and it seems to be fake. Still it would have been cool.

Fun to see the the Colossal Scimitar was in the game since the very start of it..

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That is interesting how much the graphics have changed :P, i just bought the game June 05, never heard about it before then :P

I like the last one and that is what happened on the last BWE night.I was stuck inside while playing Monk in the halls we got an error-11 I do miss the older UI sometimes like the second one.

I like the last one for the Paladin Build.

Lol, man that looks so fun! The alpha, that is.

Whoa. Just realized that there was an instance where a warrior looked like he held up his shield to block a blow. Shame we don't see that today. It was at about 40 seconds.

Ok guys we can clearly see the difference between gw alpha & beta.
Do you guys reckon the same difference will be seen between gw2 alpha & beta?

Since GW1 is already starting to look a little dated, I'd say yes.

At least, I sure to god hope so.

omg that warrior's bar in the last video XD the good old days...

Good old days
I miss the times when not every little fact was posted on guildwiki, when you actually had stuff to explore, when you did mission or quests without looking it up on wiki, simply following a red path on a picture, or when I played my Warrior/Necro and only used Necro skills^^

Wow.. I wish GW had turned out to be what they were advertising in that Alpha version video... Seems to me that in the beggining guilds were gonna have a more important part in the story and that the game in general was more "free reign". More like WoW than the current GW.

Haha nice. The biggest thing I noticed was bowstrings and the lack thereof now. I noticed it awhile back and now look at all my bows and giggle when arrows come flying out. It's magic!

And I too miss the mystery of finding out stuff in game. Don't get me wrong, I still love this game a full three years later.

So did this guy invent the Paladin? Or was that around in beta already?

I think this game would have died with a WoW art direction, smartest change they ever made. Everyone who wants to play WoW is playing it anyway.

Oh lawd. I miss the old graphics.

That first one is Guild Wars??

Quite an impressive change between the alpha and the actual release. I'm really, really glad they went the way they did.

Anet made up that build as The Paladin and it was in beta just think of 8 of those in HoH.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbkIu...eature=related

End of beta event Gwen attack.