Originally Posted by
MagicMedicine
I played the original Guild Wars series a bit, but I never followed them massively/got into the lore too much, I just felt the gameplay was a bit too limited (which was a shame, and is the reason I can't wait for GW2).
I've been looking at the novels, and would like to read them... however, how necessary is an understanding of the lore/story in the original game to be able to follow the novels, or to be likely to be able to get a full understanding of what's happening in GW2?
Does anybody know of any good places to read up on the full backstory to it all and catch up on the happenings of the first game? So far the best I've been able to find is just the summaries on wikipedia... which I'm sure can't be the best solution out there.