Guild Wars or Guild Wars: Factions?

Jagan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

yeah, so i'm thinking of buying Guild Wars, now the thing is.
i know that there is Guild Wars and Guild Wars: Factions.
now i want to know what's the best choice if i want to go play.

does GW:F has the same possibilities as that GW haves?
perhaps i'm a really noob asking this, but i just want to make things sure.

thank you for your time.

Markrids

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

From my experiences, If you havn't played either I strongly reccomend buying Prophecies first. You will get to know Guild wars better with prophecies and in my opinion it is a far superior game over Factions. In factions you are basically dropped in at the deep end and left to get on with it. Prophecies on the other hand gently guids you through how the game works through beautiful landscapes, exciting quests etc. So if i was in your schoes, I'd 100% get Prophecies first.

Hope this helps.

Lateralus

Lateralus

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/Mo

Prophecies is better. Use the search if you ever get a chance.

Jagan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lateralus
Prophecies is better. Use the search if you ever get a chance.
ah, but offcourse.
sorry for that.

but however, if i get it right: if i play gw: prophecies i won't see people who play gw:factions and i will not have the 2 new characters aswell.

RinkXing

RinkXing

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

United Kingdom

Biscuit of Dewm [MEEP]

N/

Prophecies would be better to get to know Guild Wars, however Factions is currently where a good amount of the players are.

It's up to you, if you buy Prophecies and enjoy the way it plays, perhaps you will buy Factions in the future.

Jagan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

is guild wars the same as guild wars: prophecies or are there three different kind of 'games'. (gw, gw: factions, gw: prophecies).

sorry for all these questions, but i'm confused right now.

dudeofdahouse

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

USA

W/Mo

i would go with guildwars.....

for some reason i just liked guild wars better then guildwars : faction

if you care about graphic alot guildwars faction is ur choice, if u just want long game play that doestn bore you , i go with guild wars, but the other problem with that choice would be not that many people play guild wars anymore....

Francis Demeules

Francis Demeules

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada, Qc

[Holy]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jagan
is guild wars the same as guild wars: prophecies or are there three different kind of 'games'. (gw, gw: factions, gw: prophecies).

sorry for all these questions, but i'm confused right now.
Guild wars = Prophecies if they want to say the first one. They're only 2 Chapter now : Prophecies and Factions. Even if I like Faction than Prophecies, I suggest starting in Prophecies than Factions because you can learn more easely and have more content than Factions. I know Factions doesnt need a core to play with but it stay an expansion. When we say expansion, we say add more content for the old one.

Again, I suggest Prophecies for the starter

Jagan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

ah right, so i should buy this game:

http://images.eurotronic-arts.si/art...4_zyctsu5u.jpg

Markrids

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Yes. Definately. The way I see it, Factions is an expansion pack.

Jagan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

allright, now there only rests 1 problem, which is:

howmany players do actually play prophecies now?
cause most likely most players went to play factions.
are there still enough players playing prophecies to do quests with and are there still enough active guilds on there?

thank you for your time, once again.

Dove_Song

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

You win the prize for being the 19386234861235861209472 to post this exact thread!!!!!!

WINNA WINNA WINNA!!!!

Francis Demeules

Francis Demeules

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada, Qc

[Holy]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jagan
allright, now there only rests 1 problem, which is:

howmany players do actually play prophecies now?
cause most likely most players went to play factions.
are there still enough players playing prophecies to do quests with and are there still enough active guilds on there?

thank you for your time, once again.
Even I have both Prophecies and Faction, I play in Prophecies with my news skills and such. I see many players in Prophecies. The problem in Faction for now is too many ppl play there. But yeah, players keep playing Prophecies. You can see some Factions Characters in some area but they still playing in Tyria.

Edit: Btw, if you buy Faction first, you'll lack some skills because you havent Prophecies. Factions has less skills than Prophecies.

Young Hero

Young Hero

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Mi

N/Mo

For a quality game, go with ch 1.If you wanna punch a hole through you're LCD screen, buy Fuctions.

ange1

ange1

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

i say if u wanna pvp buy prophecy
if u wanna pve buy faction, not because it's better, but because more people there

Lateralus

Lateralus

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jagan
ah, but offcourse.
sorry for that.

but however, if i get it right: if i play gw: prophecies i won't see people who play gw:factions and i will not have the 2 new characters aswell.
They are only two new character and they wont be dominant character classes. These classes aren’t the best in PvP either, but still pretty good. So, when it comes to characters you aren’t mission out.

Another thread on this…

New Player - Guild Wars or Factions

Aki Soyokaze

Aki Soyokaze

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2006

Vancouver

Buy Guild Wars Prophecies.

Kook~NBK~

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2005

A little chalet outside Drok's

Natural Born Killaz

There's plenty of people playing Guild Wars (AKA GW: Prophecies). Not as many as there were before Factions came out, but it's not any harder to get a mission/quest group together than it was before, just fewer districts in any given town/outpost.

I'd go with Guild Wars initially, too - more skills, better storline (relatively speaking), more content, the quests are more enjoyable to do. Also it's got a more gradual learning curve so you're not thrown right into the deep end.

Markrids

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Young Hero
For a quality game, go with ch 1.If you wanna punch a hole through you're LCD screen, buy Fuctions.
lol. I agree

derrtyboy69

derrtyboy69

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Clouds

Scars Meadows [SMS]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Young Hero
For a quality game, go with ch 1.If you wanna punch a hole through you're LCD screen, buy Fuctions.
Since factions is soooo hard.

Angelica

Angelica

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Aussie land

Me/E

Buy Guild Wars: Prophecies!!!!!
In GWP the only very hard missions are the very last one and THK, well this is my opinion anyway! But I enjoyed and still enjoy the game!

Forget about GW:Factions If I knew it would be so hard I would have never bought it!
Today I felt just like Young Hero said, I left the game in disgust after trying for the 'humpteen time to get somewhere. Henchies are stupid; healers don't resurrect, but fight in first line ..... what is going on??!!
Guilds, most of the time, only do Alliance Battle, PvP, GvG etc. etc. PUGs are hard to find, the city is enormous/huge and full of groups of minions that run after you for a very long time!


To Anet: I'm not enjoying this game anymore....... like you care!!

OK! Finished my rant, but I don't feel any better!
*If this post is not apropriate delete it.

Jagan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

allright so im 90% sure that i will buy guild wars prophecies but now about the system reqs, im currently having this specs:

p4 2,0 ghz
512 mb ram
60 gb hd 7200 rpm
geforce n6600gt

i think this will be enough to play guild wars without having to much problems?

Francis Demeules

Francis Demeules

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada, Qc

[Holy]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jagan
allright so im 90% sure that i will buy guild wars prophecies but now about the system reqs, im currently having this specs:

p4 2,0 ghz
512 mb ram
60 gb hd 7200 rpm
geforce n6600gt

i think this will be enough to play guild wars without having to much problems?

no worries here

manik

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2006

canada,ontario

x game over x

N/E

Also there is a whole different story and alot of different types of land. Factions is more made up of asain land, such as the cities such as the marketplace and kaineg center. Guild wars prophicies has more places to go and better areas. It has many different landscapes suck as jungle, shiverpeaks, desert.and ascalon the ruined land infested by char.
take this info into consideration too..

ps.i suggest prophicies.

Young Hero

Young Hero

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Mi

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jagan
allright so im 90% sure that i will buy guild wars prophecies but now about the system reqs, im currently having this specs:

p4 2,0 ghz
512 mb ram
60 gb hd 7200 rpm
geforce n6600gt

i think this will be enough to play guild wars without having to much problems?


Some more RAM is always a good thing.

Jagan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

yeah perhaps i should get more RAM
you can never have enough of it

ange1

ange1

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

512 is good enough to play gw