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This soundtrack has a fuckton of tunes, 490 to be exact. Ian Taylor fucking pumped this amount out in less than four years and the amount of quality in the tracks is at a consistently above average level. Post your favorite Oldscape songs here, preferably lesser known ones though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTzkx-JpBa8
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>>339804592
and if I refuse?
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Sea shanty 2 all day every day
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>>339805714
I raise your obvious choice with two obvious choices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4M4XTsx2cA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKvpo7Ma9JM
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>>339804592
dragontooth island is chill af
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocDzqwrTIY4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRAEpWP7Rm8
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I don't remember Runescape having music when I played it. Then again the highest tier gear was adamantite when I played.
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Its been a while but I seem to recall the fishing colony with the monkfish having really chill music.
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Underrated choon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d4hNLA1fZM
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Scrolling through a Runescape song title list just sent me into a very intense flashback.

Thank you.
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>>339804592
This one used to give me some major feels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GdGJz3Wk24
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>>339805714
>>339805923
Sea Shanty 2 and Autumn Voyage are GOAT
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>>339804592
I prefer the RS3 version for many of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyDtDgiA9v0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMuXaLB2xAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsTucl2lJnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wClvTJhfMiA
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>It's a wilderness lure episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyP4LDMLG4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6p8s2UUzS8

I fucking love this soundtrack, thanks for reminding me of it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-b80gZP5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLD2KDfZrV4
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PLEASE END MY LIFE
Why cant we have a beautiful quest unique, skill based, socialised, hard money earning, pvp game anymore.

Why lads, why...
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>see other anons nostalgia rs music
>cant relate because I always had it muted so i could listen to little wayne

J U S T
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>>339812203
RS hasn't shutdown, you know.
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>>339812203
Looking back I'm so fucking impressed by how good Runescapes quests were. I can't really think of another game that captures how alive Runescape felt in its heyday
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>>339812508
its not special anymore

old school is a meme fan service game with 0 new players.
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>>339812601
So come play RS3.
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>>339812818
it sucks, they ruined the combat

graphics are cool ill give them that.


but rs3 is pretty dead too, old school is surpassing it kek
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Things were so simple then, so pure of heart and soul. I deeply miss it.
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Was there any other mmo where reading the conversations actually was usefull and fun?
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Is OSBuddy broken or some shit? Wanted to play some for a bit today and it just never fully boots up.
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most underrated track in the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arEOmQ_JpAw

So simple, yet the melody is so beautiful and distinctive. It cuts to the very heart of my soul. It played on the road leading to Falador if I recall.
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>>339812884
>it sucks, they ruined the combat
You should give it a try. Momentum makes it pretty AFK and enjoyable. It certainly fixed the shit that was magic combat.

>but rs3 is pretty dead too, old school is surpassing it kek
Nah, RS3 has more players and far less severe bot problem (biggest bot problems are limited to few enemies and bowstrings)
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No game comes close to how imporant it was to socialise (not in a gay second life way)
The whole game was based around it.
I remember the one f2p quest where you could go 2 different routes. And no matter which you chose, another player in that gigantic world had to take the other route.
I think the other player would get the key and had to trade it to you and you would get something else to trade to him. Only that way both could finish the quest.
You were not in a instance or something like that. You were in middle of varrock and had to search for some other dude that is doing the opposite thing of that quest
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>this song that played at the very, very edge of the wilderness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94X1RqgFTuM
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>>339813274
The gang quest where the two are fighting and the two of you infiltrate them.
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>tfw you could pass freely the gate after you done the al kharid quest while you watch the other noobs pay for entrance or the jewish scrubs run around the gate because they couldnt afford to pay 30 gold or whatever
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>>339813181
>you should give it a try

but i did, started a new acc last summer. Shat up /rsg/ so hard they literally paid me to stop posting.

Had fun but the game sucks mate.
I made enough money that every now and then I buy a bond a play, but theres not much to do.

>its not dead
yes it is mate, 39k players it online right now says the main site, and that oldschool and rs3 combined
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyP4LDMLG4
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>>339813442
yes exactly thats it. Fantastic quest designs in this game man
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>>339813274

I used to hang around quest areas with important quest items and food. I thought I was a genius, selling in such hostile, far-off places. Unfortunately nobody ever brought actual valuables with them to Monkey Island or the Desert Treasure smoke dungeon.
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>>339805923
>tfw grinding away on Barbarians while this plays
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This game transcended all known limitations of comfy....back in the day....

>We have to go back
>Can't go back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkR7zClEkAo
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>>339804592
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocDzqwrTIY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwa-81884m8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX6gSMocHaE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4a0Dj4M66c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T6Le21bzBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykZey21sYds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFgvAyJWkjU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4M4XTsx2cA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkR7zClEkAo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSkvyG3H_KM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNW9TAwImBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL8oQw0nm0M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nidFjWK8rik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtBigNNwcmo
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>>339813503
OSRS is 50k during peak, mate
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This game is so awful now, it's got cash shop shit just smeared all over the UI even if you're a member
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>>339812884
what things did the old combat do right?
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>>339813503
>yes it is mate, 39k players it online right now says the main site, and that oldschool and rs3 combined

That's really not something you'd call dead.

RS3 since bot nuke has had lower amounts of players because bots made a HUGE part of the game's "players". Shit you had literally never ending line of bots going from Graahk teleport to Nature Altar.

OSRS is still suffering from the fact that it has shit bot detection. Fishing bots, mining, woodcutting, BEGGING, money doubling, all sorts of fucking bots everywhere.
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>>339814212
The only real explanation is "unique" and "afk".

That's pretty much all the combat ever was, really.

Biggest flaw of old combat was the same as why people called it "good". It's afk and it's fucking slow to train.

>>339813941
> it's got cash shop shit just smeared all over the UI even if you're a member
No it doesn't. There's literally just one bonus tab among the quest, inventory and all that shit.
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>>339814302

And the chest minigame that has a buy more keys button everytime you play it
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>>339814406
Nigga you can click "X" and you don't have to buy keys. I've never bought any keys for it.
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>tfw later on I would mute the game to listen to the All American Rejects
I still remember songs like >>339813774 though.
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this shit is beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9squRVnDbS8
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>>339813484
10 gp entry n00b
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>>339813484
>The gate was replaced with an open border
JUST
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>>339814842
>AAR
Shit, are you me?
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>>339813627
Dont you mean hill giants noob
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DOOT DOOT
DOO DOO DOO DOO
DODODODOO
DUN DOO
DUN DOO
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>>339812508
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>>339816670
No, my early game leveling was spent in barbarian village.
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>>339804592
I always listened to this one on repeat back in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW6EudU6Lb0
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>>339809665
RS3's got good tracks mechanically speaking, but I feel like a lot of the heart is gone. The old MIDIs used to know how to use silence, now everything in RS3 is connected by orchestral sounds with very little silence.
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underground pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np3gGJoIkrU
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>playing poor man's UO
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>>339813503
39k players online at 7:30 in the morning in eastern North America? Say it isn't so!

Also that's the RS3 number. You find the OSRS number when you go into that section. During peak hours RS3 can still hit 60-90k. Currently it's 56k RS3 and 26k OSRS.

That said, I'll agree that something special is gone. Everyone focuses on grinding efficiency, you gain bonus xp and lamps at the drop at a hat. People only ever spend time in one of the two Grand Exchanges, or the areas for intense skilling action around the second one. Player interaction has hit an all time low, and they still haven't added some of the better minigames to shard worlds so that you don't have to go to a specific world or find a specific clan just to play it, not that anyone would because they're all too busy maxing out 99s like nobody's business.

The biggest mistake Jagex made was failing to cull the number of worlds to congregate their players together after the bot nuke, because they actually left that shit up to a player vote like just how stupid can you get?

Part of me understands how easy it is to get levels nowadays. With so many skills, and so many quests taking high levels from so many skills, it's not like the old days where there were only a handful and every level meant something, now each level is worth less compared to all the others you have to get and only significant progress towards being able to do or access something is worth anything.

That said, a big issue with older skills is a lack of worth in what you can access - high level mining and smithing has shit all that's worthwhile to make nowadays. If you want to smith something decent, you'll have to participate in something that isn't mining and you'll probably need to utilize a different skill in conjunction. Hell, now that there's adamant and rune dragons, high level combatants don't even need to mine to get those ores that are a pain in the ass to access and process. They've failed to keep shit like that upkept.
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>>339812594
>each quest introduces puzzles not typically seen in the main game (well, after a certain point. RSClassic quests like with beads or witch potion were kind of ass)
>many often utilize thought rather than just "go here, kill that, collect this"
>many a quest introduce a completely new area with something new to do, sometimes you'll even unlock it outside of the quest
>sometimes entirely new skill training mechanics are unlocked
>or sometimes minigames
>persistent characters start to become beloved, such as Zanik

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....
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>yfw The Mighty Fall
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>>339813774
>ywn cluelessly wander around lumbridge with that song playing for the first time again
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>>339821930
JUST
U
S
T
FUCK
U
C
K
MY
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SHIT
H
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UP
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>>339812884
>they ruined the combat
Nuh-uh.

Revolution is just fine. Line up your basic abilities and watch your character act them out in order of cooldown. What I like about Revolution is that it gives me a sort of happy medium between the afk combat of yesteryear and the key rolling combat of eoc. You can arrange your bar in different ways if you want to take a more defense-first priority, or a more damage-first priority, or a more debilitation-first priority. Of course the really good abilities are player-activated and can't be automatically fired off, but you'll only press a button like once every 10-20 to every couple minutes seconds depending on your levels and equipment, if that.

I've pretty much reduced Barrows, except for ___ the Doomed, to click and watch.
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>>339821930
DELETE THIS
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You guys all know that the official Old School (2007) Runescape servers are free-to-play now right? Although if you don't get members you're a scrub
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After quitting RS and starting WoW made me realize how uniquely good RS quests were. What the fuck prevented other mmo makers have quality quests?
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Can't wait for people to nostalgia and wish they could go back, when RS3 is basically the same and is still running. Hell, you can pay for membership with ingame money.

It makes sense for anyone complaining about RO or WoW, but Runescape never died
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>tfw poorfag family with only one shitty ass PC located in the living room
>tfw always had to play RS muted because parents/siblings were always watching TV and would yell at me if i made noise
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>>339821930
What happened in The Mighty Fall? You better not be telling me they killed off Zanik, I can remember that fucking name and it's been years since I last played
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>>339821930
But Zanik can be revived in one of the newer quests :^ )
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This game still has some of the best looking armor in my opinion (meaning old school runescape)

its just so beautifully traditional.
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>>339822425
RuneScape developed a huge area to work within, and then started adding to that over time with little bits and bobs, whereas many other MMOs have to release several smaller quests with a new area expansion which is a huge deal. Instead, RuneScape focused on creating smaller areas with unique experiences you couldn't normally find in the game normally for its quests.
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Penis
Wc
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>>339822597
They killed off Zanik.

And they made her ugly as hell, to boot.

It was a really awful quest, a truly terrible legacy to The Chosen Commander which was my all time favourite quest.
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>>339822698
I TOLD YOU NOT TO TELL ME THAT

FUG
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>>339822597
They left Zanik's life in your hands. If you kill her, someone else becomes racial leader. If you spare her life, she disappears into yu'bliusk because she wants to find some hippy land. I thought the latter was stupid so I executed her. She was brought back to RS for a new grandmaster quest where you're given the option to bring her back to life for a few years as guardian of the Soul Wars obelisk.
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FLUTE
FUCKING
SALAD
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I was always interested in the elemental workshop stuff, anyone know what went on after II?
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>>339822664
snib?
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>>339822847
they put in a 128x128 Sliding Puzzle like the one you see from monkey madness
they called it Elemental Workshop IV

Seriously though they added some new quests that added some of the hardest puzzles in RS. Elemental gear still sucks ass.
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>>339813092
Thank you Anon, someone posted it, thank you
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>>339812884
RS3's EOC is actually so fucking good. Not because it's somehow exciting, but because you get the ability to gain xp way faster than ever before.
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You know what was really cool? When they put that "security tutorial" thing in barbarian village, and at the end you got those cool rainbow shoes.
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>>339813809
>Going to pickpocket HAMmys
>Flute salad play
Really love this song, I still wonder why it was called Salad tbqh
Love it
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this song always made me feel
https://youtu.be/4GdGJz3Wk24
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>>339823174
It was a pretty neat way of doing the account security teaching, especially since alot of people who played were dumb kids that were easily scammed (read: me)
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>tfw killing your first highwayman and getting your first cloak
>getting that bronze armor and some boots/gloves looking like a goddamn knight finally
>eventually learn how to mine rune essence and mine that shit like a fucking chinaman until you could afford that rune
>lose it all in one fell swoop to a trim scam
i regret nothing
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>>339822791
>>339822824
If you don't execute her, then she spends some time leading the former Bandosians in Yu'Biusk, and then dies as her life runs out because beating the Avatar of Bandos out of her and killing Bandos fucked her over bad.

They could have done a better quest with that idea. A much better quest that would have let Zanik at least die with some dignity, and a proper model. As it is... fucking disgusting, awful quest full of reused assets and progressed by shit tier repeat battles.
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>>339822412
How free are we talking? Are members areas and a bunch of skills still members-only?
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>>339823217
It's a pun on "Fruit Salad" with flute instead of fruit.
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>>339813809
>Newbie Melody

fucking FEELS
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what was the epitome of the game and why was it 2008
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>>339813092
oh god the nostalgia... the nostalgia...... so gooood....ahhhh.....
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>>339821930
It's okay, they fixed her.
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>>339826791
you mean pre-fucking up wilderness?
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>>339827792
That's no goblin. That's a green, pointy-eared gnome.
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don't mind me just dropping the objectively dankest soundtracks in the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOMeVgtkAFM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rptxw5O-nww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoXMMLQkM6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjXW38Zd2FM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHQ8Xbr0nIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On3IaKLaoUw
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Never played Runescape. Would this game have any merit to me?
It seems you're all collectively masturbating about experiencing it when you were young back in 2000-whatever, but what about the game itself today to someone who has no idea about any of it?
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>>339828367
You know what the cave goblins originally looked like, right?
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>>339828701
Even I can admit it's mostly nostalgia. Might be worth trying out though, you never know. There's a reason it hooked all of us back in the day. Just have something to watch/listen to as you grind away.
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flute salad
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>>339828701

Runescape is literally the most content dense MMO on the market. There is, at times, too much shit to do.

It's still a good game, if a bit grindy.
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>>339829035
yummy yummy
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>>339828701
Play OldSchool Runescape and you might actually have a good time.

Newscape is trash.
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>>339828701
If you want a game with a wealth of lore and fifteen years worth of quests to play, then give it a try. Runescape's quests are much better than most MMOs with a bunch of different storylines instead of stuff like "Kill 20 orks", usually with unique rewards that open the world up further, or add conveniences to the gameplay like teleports.
The only drawback to that is that the higher level quests have high requirements to do and they're usually the best ones. But you can work your way up through the low level content which has been given a lot of polish over the past few years
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>>339828868
Hunched over, with an actual stature, actual arms, and a head smaller than their torso?

The only thing that carried over properly were the huge ears, huge eyes, and green skin. This... >>339827792 kawaii uguu green gnome is not Zanik. Or even a goblin really, for that matter.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOMeVgtkAFM
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Who /runescapejew/ here?

>Sit outside major towns and cities
>Offer "taxi" service
>Let high level players or grinders "follow" me while I visit towns/furnaces/etc on round trips
>Ask for pay, don't always get it but some richfags usually give me good money for repeat convienence
>Recruit some friends with this money
>Have one do a cowhide route in Lummy and Al-Kharid
>Have some do routes for certain quests with a lot of walking
>Make absolutely mad bank every time there's a holiday event that involves travel
>Some people use follow train then fuck off but there's always someone giving money
>ALL of the coins

I miss runescape. It was truly the Wild West of the mmo genre.
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>>339829216
Oldschool is pretty much exclusively for people who played RS2 in its prime and dislike the modern game. I wouldn't really recommend it to a new player
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>>339829482
I've seen plenty of new players prefer it over the new Runescape even aside from that. I fully believe they should try it out from where it all began to get the, in my personal opinion, 'true' experience.
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>>339805923
>Autumn Voyage
Fucking golden
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>>339829479
So you made a fucking fleet of player-cabs? I love the silly shit that could happen due to the trade being mostly unrestricted

Unfortunately I was an idiot and mostly got scammed for a good long while until I wizened up the hard way.
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So how's that /v/scape server doing? Last I heard they had implemented recipe for disaster in full.
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>>339804592
The madman did an excellen job on the soundtracks. So unique, instantly recognizable and great. I fucking loved how many songs RS had and quests were amazing too. It was a fun ride and one I will probably never forget.
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>>339828701
Old school private servers > OSRS > RS1 > Deadman > RS3

The game has a lot of charm with it's age, especially it's graphics. It may be worth playing if you can handle it's style without puking. Plus, quests are GOAT.

However, be prepared to grind like shit if you don't pick a good private server or play on Jagex servers, because this game is the epitome of 'grind to win'.
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>>339804592
>forced to go to south america for a month during my summer break
>try playing RS at an internet cafe no i didn't get hacked or anything
>the ping is so fucking bad
>and have 100 or so agility arena tickets from grinding for 2 hours
>manage to get to low enough hp where failing one more obstacle would kill me
>accidently click on an obstacle and the ping is so bad its too late to save myself
>die and respawn in lumbridge
>10 seconds later
>(insert name) has blessed your grave
I will never forget you, you glorious man
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>>339829814
Unrestricted trade made for some seriously clever bullshit, anon.

In total I had about 30 or so dudes at my peak, and had about 5 of them be "co-managers" to help run when I wasn't on.
On the down-time we would hang out in one of the bars or big houses in Varrock and chat shit at each other and act like rich businessmen like total faggots.

I went full jew in the last year of my time, when I started introducing shit like personal "taxis" that people could hire for a day (for extortionate amounts of cash) to help them dump shit in banks and so on.

When we were active on a serb it wasn't rare to see people waiting at a certain point on a road for the taxifag to show up with his train of players.

I really miss it, wandering around RS then seeing somebody doing it knowing they "worked" for me was always a cool feeling.
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>>339827792
Yeah, they actually did. WTF was that previous design, though..
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>>339830287
>blessed your grave
you played after the game had already been irreparably tarnished m8
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>>339830310
That sounds cool as fuck.

I wish I had been smart enough to go full on rabbi back then
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>>339829479
genius, you fucking jew
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>>339828701
Something that RuneScape has over other MMOs which has helped to let it persist for this long is the fact that the game isn't completely dominated by combat. Just partially dominated. Combat makes up only a handful of 20+ skills. Have we hit 30 yet? I think we're close. Each skill takes as much time and effort to level up as any combat skill. Sometimes more. And there's usually a wealth of activities and rewards to unlock, but some older skills have been less relevant in recent years.

The quests are on another level. I'm serious. The vast majority of quests will have new areas and new experiences for you, many will have riddles, or puzzles, or tests of skill. Only the earliest quests ever come down to "collect 5 pig's asses". Also the world lore is surprisingly deep at this point in time, although once the veil or mystery was lifted and the gods returned to the world in physical form a lot of stupid shit has happened, but on the other hand directly interacting with the gods has helped with understanding that none of them are really as simple as their believers believe, or as awful as the other gods' followers suggest.

Like the dude that brought vampyres and demons to the world, he just genuinely likes the idea of anyone, any race or creed, being welcome under his banner.

The gal that brought elves to the world? They are literally physically dependent upon her presence, else they will shrivel and die, because she has a love aura she can't control and they've basically become chemically stuck to her. The elves left behind in the old world became crack addicts eating any crystal with remnants of her energy in it.

The "evil" fucker that the conquerors and misanthropes tend to rally under? Just a revolutionary. Believes change is the greatest catalyst for improvement, and that hardship, even conflict, may be necessary for the betterment of the whole.
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>>339830460
Late 2000s and early 2010s were the golden age of RS famalam
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>>339830310
>>339829479
>back when teleportation via magic was the most common method of travel and law runes were in high demand
>yfw people organized a trade system where a bunch of people that valued xp gain over money would stand near the law altar in blue robes and trade law runes for rune essence
>people who didn't want to grind a shit tonne of runecrafting levels could get their law runes without paying all that much money when they cost like 100-300g per on average, and 1000g for one-off trades for a quick teleport
>the blue robe fuckers could go in and out one of the better altars at a high speed xp turnover

God damn I loved the emergent gameplay in the Pre-GE game. I recognize all the ease of use and convenience it added but I still think it took something very special away from the game.
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>>339830460
It was fine when all we had was runite, death was easy because it wasn't hard to replace that shit

But once you start hitting dragon, barrows, and later stuff, the reduced death penalties were more of a quality of life feature than anything.
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Time to download vscape client again.
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>>339831151
>>339829479

I went full jew, grinded and when I was at high level I went full hunger games with new players.

>Give 5-10 new players 10k, tell them to bank it as deposit, then follow me with no gear or items
>Take them to wildy border
>Organise contest where they have to run into wildy with 1 copy of an item I'd chosen that day
>Fist player to return with 5 of them gets 1m
>tfw new players would spend 20 minutes running around terrified in the wildy, murdering their low-level friends to take their item and return to me for mad bank
>Repeat players started to appear
>Started implementing new rules when more of my high level friends got involved
>Send noobs off with a sword, then weapon "vendors" would wait in certain places and trade gear for bones or drops of certain creatures in wildy
>Promise people extra rewards for getting their friends involved
>tfw standing at the wildy border as one traumatized noob finally comes back with the items
>His friends hate him for killing them
>He receives his blood money and gets sent back to the safety of the south
>They always come back for the game
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>>339830810
Not to mention that creating bots for this game is really fun. I may still do it as a hobby.
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>>339808429
Addy was never highest tier at any point even the closed betas (1999) had rune.
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>>339828092
No, I actually prefer The Wilderness as just a super difficult region with the toughest NPC's over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyP4LDMLG4
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>>339830810

Another great thing about the quests is that they actually give good rewards. You're not just doing them for the exp like other MMOs. You do them because you want to unlock that new area, or a new skill, or a the ability to use a good weapon, or different magic and a shitload of other things.

Aside from just being fun to do, quests are a lot more enjoyable if you get a proper reward instead of it being the core gameplay loop.
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>>339832785
>Another great thing about the quests is that they actually give good rewards.
There are far more quests with shit rewards than there are good ones.

Shit, the whole elemental Workshop is nothing but shit rewards.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW6EudU6Lb0

>>339813092
Good choice
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>>339832241
>Wanting to shit up the game
baka
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>they released 07scape
>they've added so much utter shit to it it's just no longer 07scape anymore

what was even the fucking point.
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>>339830460
Nah.
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>>339830060
You have quite the shit taste.
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>>339832890

You get the ability to make new equipment.
Despite being a shit rewards that's still more than what any other MMO would give you for completing a quest.
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>>339822618
Best part is the truly good stuff looked 100% bad ass. It meant you had worked for it and it was and is a status symbol of achievement. Not
>Le leeched a raid 1 time and rolled some dice to get epic level gear Cx
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>>339832890
>he doesn't farm wyverns with an elemental/mind shield
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>>339832890
Skeletal Wyverns were at one point a really good thing to farm, and only elemental shields worked for that.

The problem is that there doesn't seem to be much point to the rest of the gear.
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>>339833057
The game has to evolve somehow to stay alive, senpai.
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Why hasn't there been a new MMO in the style of Runescape?
All we get is shitty WoW clones.
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>>339833269
Without the loot revision they got in OSRS they were garbage.

Besides that, for elemental shield you just need one (1) quest. The 1/3 (depending on which you play) rest of them remain forever useless. Can't wait for EWV to provide yet another useless piece of shit gear piece, 10 hour puzzle and 3k exp reward.
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>>339833057
>Release 07scape
>People quickly start realising there's pretty much nothing to do
>No new content anywhere, no updates whatsoever in general (weekly updates was literally the best thing about the game)
>Playerbase dies in a month
Well that would've been good.
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>See thread
>Download vscape client
>Go to bank
>Oh shit I put a pin in here
>No idea what it is
>Have to wait a week to get to my bank

But I have the itch to play now.
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>>339833505
completing quests for the xp rewards was typically the more efficient way to level up skills on a new character. almost all of them unlocked something occasionally useful or further quests/clue scroll routes/diaries. the quest rewards and progression in OSRS was essentially perfect.
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>>339833608

New content is fine, adding things that go against the entire reason for OSRS existing is not.
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>>339832890
I don't understand why they didn't give elemental gear something more to it. I mean chaos bodies are basically smithable mystic-tier but they fail to be even as good as mystic. They don't even have a magic power bonus so the loss in defence can't be considered a trade off for more power.
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>People quickly start realising there's pretty much nothing to do
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>you will never get membership for the first time again

How much did you have to beg your parents, /v/?
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>>339821930

If you are a signature hero it's even worse

>Owen becomes corrupted
>Xenia is dead
>Linza is a Wight

Everybody's asking. Who's dying next?
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>nostalgiafagging this hard
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>>339811867
>tfw the occasional 'boss music' track at the end of a quest

RuneScape was based
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>>339832985
More like wanting to challenge myself. I won't go into detail, but it really is quite hard to get a bot to work in RS these days.
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>>339833428
then filter in content from RS updates from 2008 onwards using that polling system to see if they're wanted or not instead of making really shit ones like Zeah
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>>339833889
the underaged faggot has arrived
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>>339833731
>New content is fine, adding things that go against the entire reason for OSRS existing is not.
Which is? You're speaking about things that you yourself solemly define.

>>339833806
There isn't though.

For PvE you'd have KQ, KBD, DK, Barrows and that's about it. Bear in mind that without the loot buff on KBD (or rather, Visage) KBD is complete piece of shit. KQ would only have value for getting d chain for cosmetics, DK people would be decent and barrows would be good.

Quests are loathed by a lot of people as well. Many people just want to quick rush and only do essential quests.

So what do you have left? Grinding for skill capes? PvP?
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>>339833882
Don't worry, the signature heroes are used in the new amazingly popular Jagex game!

(Has anyone even in this thread actually played it?)
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>>339833854
Quite a bit, I remember pacing around as she slowly tapped in her credit card details constantly asking "are you this is all legal and trustworthy anon?", I was on the phone to my cousin telling him about it since we both played it, he was mad jealous but it caused him to be allowed to get membership a couple days later so it all worked out in the end. I've surprised myself how vividly I remember all that
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>>339833760
The quests are just poorly designed. Had I not known about Mod Doctor's fix for EW3 I would've never done it. It was so fucking redundant.

>>339833721
Like at least half of the quests are useless. At least. Most of them just serve as "need to do in order to actually do this one good quest" kind of thing.
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>>339833882

linza is a wight? since when?

got the quest cape few months ago
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>>339834116

Too many games in my backlog, can't add another.
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>>339834275
I like the quests just fine. Puzzles are my jam. Sliding puzzles even moreso. It's just that the rewards are kind of lacklustre.
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Take me back, lads. I need to go back.
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>>339834031
I've been playing for 10 years. I have zero nostalgia for the old game.
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>>339834294
Kindred Spirits. She is now the 8th Wight in the Barrows.
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>no We Are the Fairies posted yet
get out and stay out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uea1zYfZdZ4
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>>339834396
You can't possibly defend EW3 in its original form.

Having to run from each fucking platform to the next one on top of having a pretty bad view was nothing short of shit.

And if you fucked up beyond one turn you had to start all over.

The puzzle in EW4 was better, however.
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>>339834448
I can only say you've got shit taste then
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>>339834061
>So what do you have left? Grinding for skill capes? PvP?
Basically. Achievement diaries, quest cape, making gold, getting every item in the game you desire, etc.

Content isn't by default bad, it's content that goes against the reason OSRS exists in the first place. Features like the GE killed it entirely for me. Poorly thought out content like Zeah ruined it even more. If they just left OSRS as it was, people would be occupied for more than a month m8, come on.
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>>339834448
see >>339834564

maybe it's sunk cost fallacy
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>>339834587
>Achievement diaries
There was only one. Karamja Diary.

>making gold
For what purpose? The most expensive item you would've ever gotten was Guthan set. After that you basically owned the most expensive item in the game.

Ever.

>getting every item in the game you desire
See above.

> Features like the GE killed it entirely for me
I will never understand you people. They even fucking gave people AUTO-TALKERS because that was the only viable way to do trading in popular worlds.
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>>339834564
I don't live in the past. We all saw what happened to OSRS. All the people bragging about their nostalgia asked for new content.

>>339834675
Hardly. I enjoy EoC much more than the click and wait while praying against whatever system it used to be.
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>>339834448

>premium beards

What happened to this game?
One of the best things about RS was that it didn't have any kind of cash shop.
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>>339834827
You can pay through in game money for them. All cosmetic.
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>>339834757
They asked for content different to what RS3 has, which is a load of shit, unfortunately the content they asked for also turned out to be complete shit
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>>339834827
Less players, bonds so people don't buy membership as actively (although bonds bring in money too).

That's about it. It's a necessity but doesn't interfere. Only the tackiest ERP people go full on cosmeticswhoring.

And like >>339834885 said, you can buy the Runecoins needed for them through bonds.
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>>339834757

Yeah, watered down WoW combat, which is shit to begin with, is so much fun.
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>>339835000
I don't think you've touched either of the two.
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>>339834897
That's what they get for not sticking to their guns. I don't play OSRS anyway. Actually I used to play OSRS, back when it was the live game in the year 2007.

>>339835000
Not my fault you can't in to combat. You could always use Revolution like the shit kids and have your point and click again.
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>>339804592
These songs have some much atmosphere oozing from them fucking love Old Runescape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JGWYhELgv4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On3IaKLaoUw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXg14Jk8ieA
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>>339834749
>There was only one. Karamja Diary.
Elite still took a lot of time to get the requirements for. You need to make double nats for one of the tasks.

>For what purpose?
Buying items, training skills. 99 prayer costs upwards of 200m, at least when I played.

>I will never understand you people.
An MMO is about the social atmosphere. Trading being automated whilst removing the social interaction element made the game objectively way worse. There's no face to face bartering, there's no messaging each other after finding an ad on Zybez and coordinating a place/world to meet. There's no chance of getting scammed, no opportunity to scam. The game with the GE is just way worse imo. If you want to sacrifice the games redeeming qualities in order to spend less time playing it, maybe consider not playing at all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB-phZcEw9k

>The last track released in the old MIDI style before RS3 and all that shitty wheel of fortune shit
>it's fucking phenomenal

Press 'F' to pay respects
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replaying through OSRS I've realized how much I loved the track Knightly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjCdoMehg5w
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>>339835285
where does this track play
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>>339835114
>revolution like the shit kids
I think you mean "like anyone with a brain who doesn't want to roll their fingers endlessly across the same 8 keys forever while having to kill 150 black demons for slayer".

And even then you still have an active role in combat. Setting up an effective and efficient action bar is key to a good Revolution set up, and Thresholds and Ultimates remain useful enough to use on occasion. Shit, Balanced Blade and Rejuvenation make me capable of meleeing a lot of enemies forever and ever without food, and using Destroy to cut down enemy attack cycles and Regenerate between fights is a good way to stretch out that time between health recovery ultimates even if I have to slow down just a tiny bit.
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I've yet to play another MMO that made me feel like I had a presence within it's world. I'm not being ferried from the newbie zone to the endgame city via a questline. I'm not levelling through endless areas that I'll never go back to.

I had the freedom to wander and explore, reasons to consistently visit every town and city in the game. I had places I would like to hangout with friends, a cooking guild I always felt cool walking into, quests that I actually had investment into finding out how they end, desire to stop and talk with people that I run into. Getting full rune for the first time was so exciting, because it wasn't a random loot drop that I got after doing a raid 50 times. I spent the time travelling across the world gathering materials, reading guides on Sals, and building it.

The world of Runescape and all it's players didn't feel like it was progressing in a linear way. It just felt like it existed, and that I actually was a part of the world.

Nothing has since recaptured that magic.
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>>339835443
dungeoneering place
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>>339835443
Shitty Dungeoneering place
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>>339835151
>Elite still took a lot of time to get the requirements for. You need to make double nats for one of the tasks.
Elite didn't exist. Only up to hard.

>Buying items, training skills. 99 prayer costs upwards of 200m, at least when I played.
Again, only barrows sets had any value. Of skills only prayer and herblore cost any real money and prayer is really useless beyond 70.

>Trading being automated whilst removing the social interaction element made the game objectively way worse.
You literally just searched someone on Zybez, said something, then got it. That's it.

>Coordinating
99% of the trades were Varrock W bank.

Or you traded with fucking bots. Or you sat around trying to sell obscure items nobody bought so you just dropped / alched them for shit money.
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>>339816485
>we want the european audience
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>>339835151
Also
>There's no chance of getting scammed, no opportunity to scam.

All fucking GEs have "doublers" who constantly scam people. You have no fucking clue about the game? Oh and people still fall for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6VFsbBqWF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3qsapJisac
And many more just on A Friend's account.

Then there's gambling.

Also beggars up the ass (many of them bots no less).
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>>339813503
>39k players it online right now says the main site
More alive than Overwatch
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>>339835698
If you go look at rs3 homepage the player count includes both rs3 and osrs as well as people logged on rs forums

Osrs has more players than rs3
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>>339835489
>slayer
Did I even mention slayer? Who the fuck even does slayer anymore? Do Araxxor or ROTS or Vorago or Raids or something.

>Balanced Blade and Rejuvenation make me capable of meleeing a lot of enemies forever and ever without food
You are a fucking retard. Enhanced Excalibur does the same shit for no adrenaline cost meaning you don't waste 100% adrenaline on it. Plus if you're using anything but that and soulsplit to heal on slayer tasks except maybe one or two tasks you are just as retarded.

I always find it funny how the absolute trash try to act like they know anything.
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>>339835489
Revolution is literally the old combat.

99% of the time you play on momentum where you just sometimes press ultimate or threshold ability.

Shows what you know, dude.
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>>339829065
>Runescape is literally the most content dense MMO on the market.
Don't forget to mention that 70% of it is hidden behind a membership
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>>339835839
Actually never mind, it was the other way around. My bad.
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>>339835916
so what
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>>339835829
"""""""""""""players"""""""""""""""""""
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>>339835916

That's much preferable over pay to win.
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>>339835916
A membership you can pay for with in-game money.
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>>339835958
>make your game free but you have to pay for the stuff that is actually good

>>339836035
Since when
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>>339836013
are you rs3 apologist or vscape autist
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>>339836013

That's every MMO.
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>>339836013
>this somehow discredits more than 30,000 people
awesome
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>>339836103

>make your game free but you have to pay for the stuff that is actually good

Uh, yes? How is that an issue?
Free to play is basically a demo.
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>>339836103
Since membership bonds.
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>>339836142
>More than 30,000 people
That's literally just one spot, familio.

Bots in OSRS are fucking everywhere.

>>339836137
Nah.

>>339836107
Neither. Why does it trigger you to see 2007 in how it was and how it is?
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Can anybody actually supply a list of points to why Runescape was better back then than now
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>>339836103
>Since when
Fuck knows. I only just started playing because of this thread. Costs 2.6mil per bond on OSRS. Think each bond is worth 14 days membership.
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>>339836221
>Free to play is basically a demo.
You need to be educated on vocabucalistics a little bit more m8

>>339836262
I'm asking for a date you mong

>>339836365
>osts 2.6mil per bond on OSRS. Think each bond is worth 14 days membership
So it's basically a waste of time
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>>339835562
>Elite didn't exist. Only up to hard.
Still took a decent chunk of time.

>Again, only barrows sets had any value.
Off the top of my head Whips and DK rings cost a lot of gp.

>Of skills only prayer and herblore cost any real money and prayer is really useless beyond 70.
Half the skills in the game cost a fuckton of gold to level efficiently. Magic, Crafting, Blacksmithing, Prayer, Construction, Herblore, and Firemaking.

>You literally just searched someone on Zybez, said something, then got it. That's it.
You still have player-to-player contact (the important part) with Zybez. The GE removes even that entirely.

>99% of the trades were Varrock W bank.
A lot of them were, sometimes they weren't. I remember buying/selling tons of shit in Yanille while making BtP tabs.
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>>339836468
>So it's basically a waste of time
If you're a scrub that thinks making money is hard maybe.
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>>339836468
>I'm going to talk without knowing anything!

It takes about an hour to make the amount you need for a bond. If you can't spend an hour doing that then pay with money like in almost every other MMO.
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>>339836612
Have they made it easier?
Because the last time I played it was like 2005

>>339836664
So they have made it easier, how shit
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>>339836282
>Bots in OSRS are fucking everywhere.
I actually play the game and I don't see that many bots aside from free to play worlds.
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>>339836819
>easier
You could do that back in 2005 when you played as well. You were just shit at the game.
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>>339836819
>So they have made it easier, how shit
money making has always been easy in runescape, mate. you were just too retarded as a kid.
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>>339836828
how would you know
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>>339836664
>It takes about an hour to make the amount you need for a bond.
How? Zulrah is no longer 2.5m an hour. Double nats need almost 2 hours to make a bond
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>>339836501
>Still took a decent chunk of time.
And the goalposts keep on moving...

>Off the top of my head Whips and DK rings cost a lot of gp.
Maybe when the literal first people got to them but they dropped real quick. Especially whips which are plentiful to obtain. If it weren't for the item dump upgrade whips would be cheap as shit now.

>Half the skills in the game cost a fuckton of gold to level efficiently. Magic, Crafting, Blacksmithing, Prayer, Construction, Herblore, and Firemaking.

Magic = Alching (you won't get high exp before 94 at any rate), Firemaking = Maple, Blacksmithing = Blast furnace / Gold smelting, even crafting had decent alternative methods like Gold / tiara crafting.

Construction can't even help it because it's just useless money sink.

>You still have player-to-player contact (the important part) with Zybez. The GE removes even that entirely.
No, you literally just fucking check their location online and trade. The interaction is basically "you pressed a button". Same as GE. Instead though, using GE leaves you up with free time to use however you please.
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>>339836929
because you ask them if they are bots and 99% of the time you'll get sarcastic responses back
>>339836941
He's wrong, it'll take 3-4 hours maybe. If you have no skills just go to a Bounty Hunter world and loot from the people who die. I make 400-700k an hour doing that
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>>339837227
Also, not sure if even Herblore is that expensive since it didn't have much functionality in the 2007 version it was in.

Much like d bones before curses came in.
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>>339835285
The Chosen Commander's tracks were good, too, especially its big theme songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSBrIlepYuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AE6_pzI3bE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgGOC7g1Hcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrEii-P9vGk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaH_Z76lSZU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc99S61Jkgs
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YES!! I knew I had it somewhere
Back in... 2008 it looks like, I was bored while getting 99 fishing, so I decided to listen to every track I had and finally find out which one was the best - this involved filling a few pages in my "English vocabulary"

Here is the top 4, though I cannot swear by 2008 me's musical taste:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3rnuMyTSzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ZgOnpMlnQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND-icFZlByE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc7BDu1_ZyQ
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>>339837473
holy fucking hell you're such a retard and I love you for it, this is impressive
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>>339835831
>do Araxxor or ROTS or Vorago or Raids or something
I admit that having a full manual hotbar is good for those, but there's a shit tonne of combat outside of grinding fucking raid bosses into infinity and there are a lot of people that aren't maxed combat out there for whom Revolution will be the best control choice.

>Enhanced Excalibur
Needs you to find the fucking tasks menu through 5 other menus and then do dozens and dozens of random odd jobs throughout the area that might not even make sense. Also, it's not a goddamn defender, which represents a different play style.

>soul split
Not everyone is 95 prayer. Please stop acting like the majority of the playerbase consists of max levelled nolifers that have spent every waking day from the game's release levelling up everything.

>the absolute trash
are found in Lumbridge. See, this is the problem with endgame. It breeds elitists like you, who think that anyone who isn't at the very end, who hasn't spent their every breath repeating the same grinding shit over and over endlessly is "absolute trash".
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>>339837849
>Also, it's not a goddamn defender, which represents a different play style.
Nigga you can right click it in your inventory for heal.
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YESTERYEAR IS GOAT
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>>339835839
>>339835928
Naw see, Momentum is "the game chooses your basic attacks for you and uses them at complete random" and "you can only use ultimates".

Revolution is "you set up your own auto attack lineup and can use thresholds AND ultimates".

LEGACY is literally the old combat, and most current players agree that it's ass because it's pretty much impossible to do newer content with it unless you've got 50 others with you.
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>>339837849
>complaining about having to look through a menu
>complaining about something that it literally right click > activate
>complaining about "no lifers" when he is playing the same game
No m8, you are the trash.
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>>339837227
>And the goalposts keep on moving...
The goalposts haven't moved once, they have yet to be met. Your original claim that OSRS with no content updates would have bored the playerbase within a month fell flat on its face because it's retarded. Even with no achievement diaries, the game would have thrived for half a year, easily.

>Maybe when the literal first people got to them but they dropped real quick.
Whips and Zerker Rings cost several million gp years after OSRS launched.

>Magic = Alching (you won't get high exp before 94 at any rate), Firemaking = Maple, Blacksmithing = Blast furnace / Gold smelting, even crafting had decent alternative methods like Gold / tiara crafting.
These all still cost you millions of gp to get to respectable levels.

>Construction can't even help it because it's just useless money sink.
You don't know what you're talking about. Portals, mounted glory, altars. All useful as shit.

>No, you literally just fucking check their location online and trade.
Sometimes that's how it is, other times it's not. In either scenario you still have player interaction. I really wish the GE didn't go through. The playerbase is fucking retarded.
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>>339838001
Okay, admittedly I was misremembering a lot of things about it. I looked it up. Right click is kind of handy, but...

>shares 5min cooldown with Rejuvenate
Okay.
>20 seconds for 20% health recovery
How is this good, even if it takes no adrenaline? Fucking hell, man. Rejuvenate at least gives you 40% over 10 seconds which, given that you're probably going to be using Rejuvenate in fairly hairy situations, is a lot more valuable. I mean yeah I guess Enhanced Excalibur doesn't need a shield but neither do Ice Asylum or Guthix Butterfly, although I admit that the former is kind of a bad choice where you have to move around a lot and the latter can be killed early.

Elite Enhanced Excalibur is 40% over 40 seconds, which is unpleasant to me given that it takes so fucking long.

I like to mix Resonance into my action bar rotation. It feels good there and helps take the edge off some of the things I've been fighting lately. That said I also like the stun-and-damage of Destroy, even though admittedly it doesn't do as much damage as Assault but on mooks it represents a lot of mitigated damage in the long term (plus defensive abilities give a nice filler for ranged or magic action bars that always feel kind of empty). Point is, I use a defender in combat, so I might as well use Rejuvenate.

Yeah, sure, admittedly it's not 99's in all combat skills, playing at the highest tier of combat, going on boss raids to araxxor and yak fucker and whatever the water snake dude is about, acting like this playstyle is absolute trash for people who don't even have access to those yet or aren't properly set up for them is kind of a dick attitude.

>>339838113
There's a difference between nolifers and those with no life. Nolifing is an active action, having no life is a passive quality. I tend to play RuneScape fairly on-and-off nowadays. Mostly Invention's got my attention.

And, yeah, I'm kind of complaining about menus when RuneScape used to have good menu structure.
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>>339839394
>wallowing in mediocrity
Whatever you wanna do.
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>when your parents finally bought you members
Pickpocketed fools all day
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>>339839757
Most MMO endgames are trash tier experiences so, yeah, I tend to spend my time smelling the roses since that's the most enjoyable experience for me. Getting 99's is an unpleasant idea to me because it eventually means that I'll have no reason to use the skill anymore except to fuel some other skill which feels like a pointless and painful waste of time when I could make money with some other skill and buy what I need, but then I feel like shit for not using the relevant skill for its purpose anymore, and so on.

Even virtual levels mean nothing to me because I'm not actually gaining anything. Not actually making any progress to anything worthwhile.
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>>339838540
>The goalposts haven't moved once, they have yet to be met.
First you claimed that there were achievement diaries to do. Which I corrected as there was only Karamja. Then you claimed that the elite one took time. Which I corrected as it only existed up to hard. Which you then called "but it took time too".

>because it's retarded
No it fucking isn't. It had shit for content and one of the primary reasons for people to love RS was that it had WEEKLY updates.

>Whips and Zerker Rings cost several million gp years after OSRS launched.
Except again, Whips have item sink item with the tentacle whip which consumes whips. If it didn't exist, the prices would eventually plummet.

>These all still cost you millions of gp to get to respectable levels.
No they don't. Alching is almost free, gold smelting is relatively cheap and blast furnace is one of the best money makers in the game, gold / tiara crafting was cheap as shit.

And respectable levels? The only one of those that actually had use on higher levels were magic and crafting, crafting for Fury and that's about it. BS had nothing for it.

>You don't know what you're talking about. Portals, mounted glory, altars. All useful as shit.

Alright I forgot abount all those fantastic things. Constructions story would end at Gilded because beyond that it was literally nothing more than money sink.
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I really hates that OSRS chose to implement the Grand Exchange. They could have simply expanded what the player could do with their merchanting capabilities. Add a Construction expansion that lets players make their own shops, hire NPCs to man them, set sales and shit, and then load up the shops as needed as players scroll through a shop interface at the bank then stroll through a portal. A more visceral experience to grab what you want from someone's decorated store than to just... order from a catalogue and wait until it arrives.

It could have even been part of a LITERAL money sink skill. I mean with a literal sink that merchants poured their money into to unlock new merchant capabilities, like the ability to set down magical signs in world that would advertise a dialogue line over it like you used to spam into chat in the old days, and would teleport people to their shop when touched. Or the ability to make an automatic vendor that you can plop down in world and have people buy certain high-quantity use items from, like dropping a Rune Essence vending kiosk at runecrafting altars, or coal vending kiosks at furnaces that people can bind themselves to and automatically spend money to buy coal as they smelt shit, increasing the amount of ores they can smelt at once.

Could have been neat, is all I'm saying.
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>>339838540
> The playerbase is fucking retarded.
Or maybe they just realise that GE is fucking useful?

Who the fuck would try and sell 3 adamantite ore for 10 mins? Nobody. Better drop it. Obscure TT items? Nobody. People barely buy them. A lot of time it'd be better to alch / drop shit because it's too time consuming to sell.

I mean, why'd you sell 10k worth stuff instead of throwing it away when you can make 500k+ in that time?
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>>339840603
Here comes the efficiency shitter.

You're the kind of person that sucked any and all fun out of the game trying to min-max everything to be 100% efficient.
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That fucking monkey quest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNRi8tARjV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhdfaknqnhA

I remember being so nervous in the jungle that I had to move only a few tiles at a time
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>>339840707
It's not even fucking efficiency at that point.

Why would you literally waste time selling X for hours (and earn jack shit in the end as well) when you could be training skills, actually talking with people or doing mini games?
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>>339840707
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>>339839757
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>>339822981
aw cmon anon this isn't that bad
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>>339840812
THAT IS LITERALLY EFFICIENCY.
"Why do this when you could do this other more valuable thing and get more from it?"
That is literally fucking efficiency.
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WHO /gnomeball/ HERE?
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>>339841040
>"Why do this when you could do this other more valuable thing and get more from it?"
Did you read? You could do what the fucking ever instead of desperately trying to get literal pennies over hours while doing nothing but spamming the same message.

I bet you still trained at fucking Goblins at maxed stats because you were afraid of any tougher monsters and if someone asked you why the fuck are you still killing Goblins (even fucking men would be better) you'd sperg over efficiency.
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>>339841040
In other words: There's a difference between being completely retarded and efficiency efficiency like NO LOST TICKS.

Why would your average player ever prefer 10k over 500k, by the way?
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>>339841525
Don't even bother trying to reason with him. You see these people everywhere. The ones slaying in full dragon because it's more "efficient" with money.

People don't realize they need to spend money to make money. Or they could be doing literally anything else fun instead of making no money an hour grinding.
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I would do almost anything for old RuneScape again. Unfortunately the closest alterantive is OSR, which like RS3 is just P2W due to the ''Bonds'' system.
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>>339842345
>P2W
Here's that term again.
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