GUILD WARS UTOPIA SERIES

ANet and NCSoft had decided upon an Aztec-theme which is why people often link Utopia to Guild Wars: Eye of the North (due to everything in the Tarnished Coast).

Ancient technologies and time were supposed to be huge factors in the plot and theme of Utopia…so the Chronomancer was the bigger focus due to it being a time mage.Įvery Guild Wars game of course had a theme…and Utopia was to be no exception to this rule. While we have yet to see a summoner class arise, in GW2, a Chronomancer Elite Specialization was introduced later on. Chronomancer and Summoner were going to be the two new professions introduced in Utopia. > (the threads say the mounts they were trying to make were horses and giant beetles so aren’t you glad they waited to give us something cooler? And yes, there was concept art showing what probably became our Raptor mount.) Chronomancer Concept art from Guild Wars UtopiaĪnother thing that Utopia was going to bring to the table were some new professions for people to play with (as was the custom for every new campaign in Guild Wars). As most people would know, mounts never made it into the classic Guild Wars, rather we only recently got the mounts with the release of GW2’s expansion: Path of Fire.

GUILD WARS UTOPIA SERIES

Little is known about what could-have-been but Utopia was going to be the first game in the series to introduce mounts. Well a lot of concept art shows us where buildings were inspired for the new games we got, but nothing quite fits exactly into what they had really planned. Possible mount- concept art for Guild Wars Utopia (via Reddit) They worried that any changes made to accommodate Utopia would ruin the flow of the gameplay they already had established…So Utopia was scrapped and instead, was split up into 2-parts: Guild Wars: Eye of the North & Guild Wars 2. Developers also did not want to risk ruining a system that was fine as-is. Long-story-short…the ideas for Utopia were too-grand for the current system being used in classic Guild Wars, and such a big idea would not be able to be finished in 6-months. In fact…Utopia was trademarked and underway in 2006 but just disappeared. This was because they wanted to make a new campaign every 6-months. Concept Art for Guild Wars Utopiaīefore GW2 became the main focus of ArenaNet & NCSoft, they instead had planned a 4th campaign to go along with Guild Wars Prophecies, Nightfall, and Factions. So, this week for throwback thursday, I am going to talk about some Guild Wars history that most people might not know about: The cancelled campaign known as “Guild Wars Utopia”. But someone suggested I do some lesser known Guild Wars trivia that somehow relates and works into GW2. Usually for tbt I post pictures of my characters from the original Guild Wars, I post my “Lets Play” of Guild Wars Prophecies or something like that. The first one is “Tyria Tuesday” where I showcase the more ‘scenic’ shots from the GW2 vistas, and then there is the classic “Throwback Thursday”. As one of the leaders for the Guild Wars 2 Amino, I have a few planned posts per week.

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