I Got a Brief Look at ‘Guild Wars 3,’ and I’m Excited

Hardly a year goes by without me whistling the Guild Wars 2 loading theme, rewatching clips of the original to soak up that Pre-Searing Ascalon nostalgia, or subjecting my wife to yet another Grawl impression. (Gui-la-la!)

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That's how monumental ArenaNet's MMORPG has been in my life. So you can understand my excitement when the game developer announced Guild Wars 3 earlier this summer, with a beta set to launch in late 2027.

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I spent countless hours playing Guild Wars in middle school and high school, and an ungodly amount of time playing Guild Wars 2 with my roommates in college. Guild Wars always felt like the dark horse in the MMORPG world, never reaching the scale and attention of World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XI, yet maintaining a massive user base with a cult-like following. (It uniquely did not require a monthly subscription.) You wouldn't hear anyone talking about it in the school cafeteria like you would the other two titles (I was not a Cool Kid). Still, it always had a grand scale of wonder, adventure, and lore that drew me in—props to my older brother for discovering the game and its many discs, and building a PC…

Original source: https://www.wired.com/

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