2005 UI tab icons looked better. The new ones looked like they were made by a retard. Discuss.
Also, OSRS thread.
no they dont
>>344635697
actually come to think of it the whole ui in general looked better. The chatbox had that cool page effect and stone background. New one is plain gradients and shit.
Newer looks a lot better.
>>344635819
on a whole the newer version looks much better
the chatbox is the only exception
>>344635697
I wish they'd kept the aesthetic, like the rounded stone trim and the rugged parchment looking chat box. However, the majority of the icons are better now with the exceptions of the friend and ignore list.
>>344635697
The only thing I gave a shit about was that they for no apparent reason lowered the quality of the images on runes.
P sure I'm thr only person who gives a shit tho lol.
>>344636428
The new quest one is a lot better but the friends/ignore, the equipment and bag ones are mspaint level.
I played f2p for about 9 days and then bought a month of membership. I'm taking a month or so off.
>>344636841
>1 hunter
mah nigga
fuck that shit skill
>>344636841
I always find it funny that in every fucking screenshot I see everyone completely ignores farming construction and hunter because the new shit was cancer even back in 2007.
>>344636841
>Hunter
At least you can bullshit with trees for farming and level up construction well if you're rich.
Hunter leveling is just as bad as Agility leveling.
![main[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/SHQPdCt.jpg "main[1].jpg")
Tfw you realise runescape.com's "now playing" number includes osrs. OSRS has more than double the players of RS3 online rn. Top lmao.
>>344635697
The new RS3 UI is such cancer and is the reason why I stopped playing.
>>344635697
this was a near perfect mmorpg in its prime
where did those 10 years suddenly go
>>344637642
I like the resizeable map in the RS3 hud, but thats about it and I wish you can do that with the classic HUD
![KBD[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/OEr0f6x.jpg "KBD[1].jpg")
Shit looked so simple back in the day. Now in the same menu are some fuckng bonds options house options scroll wheel zoom, advanced, expand client, I don't even know what most of this shit is for I just ignore it desu.
>>344637425
At least you can train magic while training agility.
>>344637694
They fucked it up with RS3. So many people quit. And the stupid thing is, people were REALLY into RS2. So much so that now years later when they released official Oldschool (RS2) it is more popular than the new updated RS3.
>>344637425
Hunter feels worse to me than even Agility. I mean Agility in 06 was cancer to train but in OSRS they added quite a few new courses that also can make you money. Hunter takes a relatively high apm and isn't profitable until lvl80 at which point it become incredibly profitable.
>>344637642
I don't even know what im looking at here. Like I know its supposed to be runescape but it looks so fucking bloated and shit.
>>344637875
I really wonder what the fuck they were thinking. they knew from the start that 95% of the playerbase didnt want them to change the core gameplay that made them play runescape in the first place. instead they continued pushing it
>>344637772
I liked that you could customize it. I disliked immensely that you couldn't actually customize it anywhere near to what used to be. Which is just fucking bizarre, honestly.
No color customization?? No button size customization? And a lot of the core buttons need you to fucking hower over an area to click, whereas before they were just a click. + 100 other shit design decisions that I won't list.
>>344637875
How long can they feasably continue support on rs3 when the player count has dropped to shit?
RS2 will always have its veterans but seriously who is gonna look back and say "man EOC was great"? Nobody, it's next year's bargain bin 99cent trash like Fifa '15 or whatever.
>>344638053
Probably bought out by a company that didn't have any idea what they were doing.
It was right around the time video games stopped being made by people that love games, and started being made by 50 year old corporate bosses who never played a game but heard it's the new in thing.
![9812153[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/PBiuPYl.jpg "9812153[1].jpg")
>>344635697
>>344638102
Each year they bring more Pay2Win shit to RS. The player-count collapsed with RS3 and has been steadily dropping since.
They somewhat stabilized it years later with updates that essentially allowed you to play RS3 like RS2 (in like 70% of the game and with RS2 UI), but of course that was way too late and still kind of half assed. But the thing keeping RS alive right now is Oldschool + shittons of microtransactions in RS3.
>>344638274
Albion Online seems like its a pretty good substitute to the rs we all love. but ive never seen it mentioned here on /v/
>>344638512
adding a cosmetic shop was the point of no return
>>344638102
I thought EOC made questing accessible outside the ones with really bullshit skills to train.
>tfw RS3fags won't remember quests like One Piercing Note or Kindred Spirits as they grow bored of not XP wasting
>>344638570
Tried it, there was a lot of glowy shit everywhere and it didn't feel like it had too much depth. Hard to suspend my disbelief in it.
Just my opinion though so yeah.
>>344635697
Is there a /v/ cc or what
>>344638634
tfw you realise if this is a true statement pretty much every game on the planet is now at the point of no return. Gaming as a whole is. Kill me.
Is there any other mom that has lasted as long as RS?
![latest[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/k0GsoNa.png "latest[1].png")
>Mining is now afkable and we added stinky pete
>Pls like our updates
>P-pls don't leave...
>>344638959
...WOW.
>>344639034
I haven't paid attention in a while is Oldschool losing popularity now? I thought it held up really well for some years?
>>344638959ur mom
And yes, everquest etc. but none have quite the same playerbase as rs2 still manages to hold (even despite jagex continually trying to ruin it)
>>344639087
It recently hit 60k players playing at once which I don't believe has happened since its launch.
>>344639087
It has held up pretty well but it's widely accepted that although necessary to keep the game feeling alive, the new content updates are far shitter than before when andy screened them before release.
>>344639034
>>344639087
Nevermind, just checked it. Oldschool is at least doing much better than RS3. (Twice the players of RS3, 30K vs 15K)
>>344635697
The old one literally looks like it comes from an early 2000s Fisher-Price toy.
>>344639130
>even despite jagex continually trying to ruin it
this. its as if they continually keep making short term decisions to make some extra cash while simultaneously fucking it up even more on its way down
>>344639352
I know, it's great.
>>344639289
which considering they actually remove bots now is pretty impressive.
They also added back in f2p when they realised they wouldnt get new players without it so that has helped a lot.
>>344636926
im 20m hunter xp its easily my favorite skill, theres something so comfy about catching red chins and watching chinese cartoons
>>344639374
It's more the fact that they can't just add a new monster or quest or item, it has to be
>OMG NEW SKILL RAIDS GROUP FINDER REDESIGN EVERYTHING, SHIT ALL OVER THE OLD GAME WE MADE A NEW ONE
>>344639345
I could've sworn a couple weeks ago, the ratio of RS3 vs OSRS' playerbases were 3:4. Like if there's 75k players on the RS3 website, RS3 would be 35k and OSRS 40k.
>>344637694
>account created feb 27th 2002
>>344637642
Looks too world of warcraft mixed with a bit of elder scrolls online
total shit desu runescape isnt that kind of game
>>344639585
This. Ever since EoC something like 70% of the meaningful updates have been combat related to try to desperately justify the change. And not just a random monster usually, but RAIDING SUPER ULTRA EPIC BOSS that uses OVER 10 DIFFERENT ATTACKS ! WOW!
Don't like raiding? Looks like you are fucked, that is the only way to get good gear. You should just quit, kid. W-wait you actually did? N-no, come back!
>>344638053
>>344638274
>Probably bought out by a company that didn't have any idea what they were doing.
It's true. They were bought out by an investment firm, which is also why they added all the microtransactions.
EOC was an attempt to be more like World of Warcraft.
>>344639714
Someone should have told Jagex that before they lost like 7/10 of their playerbase.
>>344636841
how the fuck do you get an average of 60 in all combat stats and other stats in only 11 days time?
>>344639849
I say it every time, the graphical update in 2011 is what led to the games downfall. You know the new graphics the game has? The first armor sets that got them were barrows, and that happened in 2011-ish. Everything post 2010 was objectively a mistake.
I swear, they had something great going on, but EoC and RS3 completely fucking butchered the game they once had.
If 2007 rs wasn't a side game and didn't feel like another private server, instead it was the main game, I'd rush back to it.
>>344639714
>>344639714
How to ruin games 101:
- complete overhaul to make it look like WoW/minecraft/both
- add cash shop
- Release related moba/cardgame whoring out characters people loved 10 years ago
- Integrate the fuck out of twitter/facebook/whatever and start hashtags so that normies think its cool to be a "nerd"
>>344639345
That's one of the saddest things about RS3, how deserted everything is. With so many worlds, there is usually only a few people per world with most cities being almost completely empty.
>>344639815
I feel like im shilling this but its the only mmorpg that has gotten me excited in forever and it doesnt seem like anyone really knows it exists - you should check out Albion Online
>>344640041
>Integrate the fuck out of twitter/facebook/whatever and start hashtags so that normies think its cool to be a "nerd"
That never works though.
>>344640124
>that never works though
https://twitter.com/hashtag/warcraftmovie
>>344640029
nah see the reason it feels like a private server is there's no free to play 07scape
what you have to consider when you look at the 17k RS3 players vs the 30k 07scape players is every single one of the 07scape players is a member while the RS3 players are a mixed bag of members and free to play users
When everyone is a member the population distribution over the world is much more spread out; so even if there's 2k people online it's not like going into lumby and seeing 10 people hanging around the goblins and another 30 or so people around in other parts of the area like back in the good ole days
>>344640056
Yup. RS3 barely feels like an MMO, honestly. More like a single player grindfest with leaderboards. (and quests)
>>344640056
In that aspect they copied WoW perfectly.
>>344640334
> there's no free to play 07scape
Yeah there is since like 2015, for OSRS there is f2p.
I don't pay for members because I don't want to give jamflax more money.
>>344640334
>there's no free to play 07scape
There has been for a while, though.
>17k RS3 players vs the 30k 07scape
Another small correction, that 17k for RS3 includes Chronicle, which I'm guessing is around 1 or 2k. So I'd estimate RS3 has 15k players right now.
>>344637642
What the actual fuck.
Being a RS06-07 player, the fact that I can't immediately recognize what these new icons and tabs are supposed to correspond to means they failed as a developer.
>>344637642
Why the fuck didn't they just keep the same UI structure, but make it prettier?
>>344640334
>it's not like going into lumby and seeing 10 people hanging around the goblins
I took this screenshot just now in world 1 f2p
it's not as much as it used to be but far from dead. GE means varrock banks are almost empty tho which is sad because everyone goes GE.
GE was a good thing. Fuck unstable markets.
>>344640785
GE is a minmaxers dream
i dont like it
>>344640785
GE with trade limits was shit. GE by itself is fine.
>>344640785
I prefer it without the GE, bank markets were fun.
>>344640785
>>344640785
GE was a good thing in some ways, but the fact that banks are no longer meeting hubs and everyone is in GE feels pretty bad. Also the ease of getting most items off GE instead of knowing where they come from in the game world, or buying/selling via the general store.
It killed a lot of good things for easy accessibility imo.
>>344640593
>>344640702
Here's a fun game. Guess what button you are supposed to press to log out?
>>344641067
The cog in the bottom left?
It has an option to log out?
>>344641067
thing in top left? seeing as its separate from everything else.
I haven't played an mmo in about a decade. Is OSRS fun?
>>344641206
>>344641296
Both wrong.
>>344641368
yes.the best bit is that all the characters in the desert are brown and called ali. makes me laugh everytime.
>>344638102
The only people who still play RS3 are those from RS2 who loved it so much and literally have nothing else to play.
Even I played RS3 and convinced myself I enjoyed it, until I realized we were fucked forever and quit the game entirely. Best decision of my gaming life.
>>344641437
wait so what does the top left one actually do then?
Also my second guess is the person with the little cross on him at the chatbox.
>>344637642
old school runescape had a genuinely good aesthetic, that shit looks absolutely hideous
>>344641746
RS3 is really pretty full-screen and actually has fantastic draw-distance.
That picture is a tiny-bit misleading.
But yeah, the art-style is still a mismatched clusterfuck.
>>344641653
>what does the top left one actually do then?
Actually I have no idea, but it isn't the logout.
And your guess is still wrong, do you want the correct answer?
![at2IK1d[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/dWZfqtN.gif "at2IK1d[1].gif")
The best bits of this game were always the lame/funny examine texts.
>>344641881
yeah fuck it, what is it?
>>344641887
>Stop examining things! You're in the Wilderness now!
>It's trying to smash you flat! Less examine, more fight!
>He probably died of natural causes, like a massive dragon or something.
>>344642048
It is that tiny button at the top right.
>>344642083
>a rose by any other name would still have prickly bits
![squinting[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xihAxOy.jpg "squinting[1].jpg")
>>344642182
>>344642424
Do you mean you can't see the picture (which'd be weird, I can see it fine) or the button is so tiny that you can't make it out? The arrow ends directly at the button.
>>344642182
>mfw the only reason rs3 has any players left is because they can't work out how to log out
>>344642182
Hotel California bullshit here.
>>344642182
Or you can stop shitposting.
It's the same exact place it's always been since the modern UI change.
>>344642568
I mean jagex made the button so tiny I had to fullscreen your image get close to my monitor and squint to see what button you meant lol
a q p
>>344635697
Should I play OSRS again? I really enjoyed the three weeks I spent with it when it first came out three years ago. Are people still playing?
>>344642848
It's okay.
MM2 was a massive let-down so I doubt future quests will be better.
Content priority is fucked thanks to catering to the LCD shitters.
The same ones who kept splashing and NMZ from being fixed.
There's some fun new stuff though.
>>344642714
In RS3 you can move the map around. It took me a long time to realize that the new button was the logout. It is TINY and has absolutely no indication that it is the logout button.
And for a new player it is jut trial and error! I can legitimately imagine many people never finding the button, and just exit trough the settings.
>>344642848
>are people still playing it?
Yeah it's pretty good
Watch this space though I think jagex are trying to add raids and a group finder, whatever the fuck that means. Idk I'm f2p so I don't get any of the shitty updates lmao.
>>344643094
It's barely any different though.
>>344643001
>splashing and NMZ
did they remove that yet? The fact that they even polled it at all instead of just removing it point blank was fucking dogshit retarded.
>>344643263
Nope, and to make things worse, you can now completely customize NMZ to be min/max friendly.
>>344643263
It's still possible but you can only do it for 20 mins without player input instead of 6 hrs.
>>344643214
why are you trying to defend rs3 so bad
>>344643214
If you say so. Images to scale.
>>344638797
There's /vg/, its "osg"
>>344643362
>trying to defend rs3 so bad
I'm not, just defending misleading shitposting.
RS3 is bad, but the logout button is fine.
>>344643451
>misleading
Literally how was it misleading?
>>344643346
>customizable NMZ for min/maxing
Sounds like they have changed it a lot. All I remember is wandering around and clicking on chickens to kill them. I have no idea what most of this thread is even talking about lol.
>>344641887
Log in, then examine a piano.
>Welcome to RuneScape.
>I was always forced to play this as a child.
>>344643540
Because it's scaled with the UI, it's smaller, but in proportion to the rest. If they really wanted to be vindictive, they'd put it in the settings menu.
Because THAT is a clusterfuck now.
>>344643001
>MM2 was a massive let-down
How come? MM was a pretty great quest when the guards don't bullshit.
>>344643609
>It's in a haunted house along with other spooky things
Funny stuff.
>>344643768
>luring noobs into Draynor Manor and watching them panic asthe door locks behind them
u gais r playn rong vershern
Did people really enjoy this grindfest
I feel like I wasted so much time when I played it in 2009-2011
>>344643898
the 3hit thing was pretty genius idk why they didnt keep it
>>344643751
It's pretty much a lifeless husk that barely feels like a quest. And feels more like a series of events you just have to do.
The bossfights are not in proportion. There's a distinct lack of writing. IT has none of the magic as the original. And oh boy that fucking dungeon.
The main part of the quest is you choosing to either:
1.Tank a whole lot of fucking damage while figuring out a randomly seeded path for your acc
2. traversing an agility course which is arguably worse because you have to find the specific seeded path through a shit ton of options.
But the kicker is that you have to fail and fall to the lower floor full of archer or melee monkeys EACH TIME. And the checkpoints are sparse.
It makes MEP2 seem fun.
And there's just a whole lot of plotholes and "why the fuck did they do this and not that" moments.
>>344643898
looks less shitty than I remember
just because of higher res?
>>344644075
Idk what you expected, a lot of the osrs team brag about having worked there for 10 years and stuff. Which is less time than I've been an active paying member for.
>>344643838
>Died to mages by varrock
>Died to vampire in draynor manor
>Died in lumbridge cave while doing lost tribe because you didn't have a candle
>Died to poison jungle tribe in Karamja
>First time getting 1 shot by Jad after hours in the fight caves
Dieing in RS2 is literally burned into my memory I can almost remember all my deaths from playing for 10+ years
ORS is atrociously slow and I no longer have the time to waste 100s of hours over again to redo everything even if I wanted to, which I don't. I enjoy the changes and new content for RS3 and it feels so regressive every time I've tried to try out ORS again. It's what I remember from a decade ago, but the nostalgia wore off quickly when I realized how slow it is.
>>344642182
>>344642424
>>344642636
It's minimized. You can go to the interface settings and uncheck "slim headers". Or you can even use the "Legacy mode" interface if you want it to be like OSR.
>>344640593
>the fact that I can't immediately recognize what these new icons and tabs are supposed to correspond to means they failed as a developer.
Do you not see how retarded that sounds?
They failed as a developer because they added new things and changed icons?
You really can't take out the 2 minutes that it takes to to hover over everything to know what they are? It's not rocket science, everything has a description. Shit changes, why the fuck do you expect to be able to come back to something 5+ years later and expect it to look exactly the same?
>>344644408
>Died in lumbridge cave while doing lost tribe because you didn't have a candle
this reeee
>>344644306
>Idk what you expected
a decent fucking quest with some effort. But yeah that's pretty unreasonable for the OS team, I know.
But the worse part was MM1 had those neat chapter boxes that made the quest really feel complete. And there was just no reason for 2 not to also have them as they're a staple.
oh well.
>>344644446
>OSRS is slow
nah ur just n00b
>>344644492
>trusting jamflax
never again lol
>>344644408
>be noob
>just got of tutorial island
>friend tells me to come meet him
>start walking from lumbridge castle
>am lost by the time I'm outside the gate
>accidentally click on a man
>he fights back and I think it's a player
>beg him to stop
>he man has no mercy
>he kills me
>I lose all my tools and shit
>took me a week to realise I could by new ones
>friend finally meets up with me
>"Come on, lets get you some loot."
>leads me into the wilderness
>we get jumped by pures and shrekt
Oh to be a noob again.
>>344644209
there are a few custom items in the game but not in this shot i don't believe. Only difference here would be the client size and zoom levels.
There have been some nice gameplay improving touchups though and the devs have implemented an ignorable but useful and fun wow-like fetch and kill quest system to help boost your character without unbalanced xp rates. Sets you up with begginner gear as well so you can quickly get into the game without having to chore your way through boring grinds
How did you guys have money for memebership when you were young
>>344644446
>i can't buy my xp so i'll just call it slow
>>344644681
the sad part is you can literally buy buyables in OS though.
Runescape was a MMO played only by little kids and poor people who couldn't afford Everquest, WoW, or FFXI.
>>344644621
I used surfpin phone number from my parents housephone. When my brother asked I told him it was a glitch.
>>344644791
>>344644791
RS's older than wow and FFXI though.
>>344644732
>Thinking buying buyables is the same as buying xp lamps from squeal of fortune.
Sadly you can't buy most resource gathering skills like mining,fishing, and rc.
>>344644621
I just asked my parents. It was only £3.20 a month so they were cool with it. Once I got a card of my own I just paid it myself.
>>344644791
>implying anyone at school knew what everquest or FFXI were in 2005
WoW I can see, for most people it was seen as a natural step up from Runescape.
>>344644947
the only difference is time.
the equivalence is Jagex falling to p2w
>tfw getting the urge to play again but my old account either won't work on the 07 servers or I forgot my password
>>344644953
>It was only £3.20 a month
Man those were the days. 10p freddo and a blue panda pop on the way home.
>>344644989
The only thing WoW had was raids and arguably PvP.
RS was a game all its own.
>>344644791
>>344644926
this shits been out since '01
>>344645030
You have to start over on 07 anyways. Just make a new acct.
>>344645080
>not maryland cookies
>>344645080
And the 10p Space Raiders.
>>344645087
Oh I don't deny they were vastly different. RS was better in a lot of ways.
Funny how both of them gained popularity, got bought out by big companies and made into turds tho. perhaps the fate of every good MMO ever.
>>344645093
EQ was out since 1998
>>344645087
RS was a shitty game in retrospect. Nothing but crafting/gatherer bots and little kid scammers.
>>344645234
Those things were great. They actually filled the whole bag too unlike ripoff walkers.
i haven't played runescape since 2003, how fucked is it today?
>>344645260
Longevity is just a huge problem that's going to take a hell of a creative team to conquer.
>>344645334
Not really, I mean there's bots in nearly all MMOs worth gold-farming for. But RS and WoW alike had great communities in their prime.
>>344645334
You sound mad but I don't know why.
Did you not read the funny/cool story on all the quests? Did you not feel your heart beat when you were about to lose your full rune in wildy?
Maybe you were a n00b and never experienced these joys.
>>344645406
3's a mix of really bad and really good.
OS is a lot of good from all the quests and content updates you missed. But also a lot of bad.
>>344645267
Problem with EQ was large install times, high computer specs needed etc.
It was a different breed from something you could type in the web address on fucking anything and it would just run.
>>344645334
>he never fought in a clan war that got crashed and spiralled out of control until it became a rolling fight that lasted for days
>he never got paid a bounty for an enemy clan leaders kill message
>he never made bank by running around picking up entire sets of rune armour and selling them to people at edge trying to return to the fight
>>344645489
>3 is turd
>OS is good but they keep adding shit updates trying to ruin it
fix'd
>>344645581
>>3 is turd
Meh.
If you love quests, it's great as that's probably Jagex's most consistent area. And a lot are VA'd with mostly good quality. And Invention gave new life to the meta and end-game in general.
But you do have the glaring pieces of shit:
>P2W
>cosmetic overload
>fragmented combat
>too many gold stars amd free exp for the tiniest things
http://services.runescape.com/m=news/dev-blog-raid-rewards?oldschool=1
>DEV BLOG RAID REWARDS
>OLDSCHOOL
>RAIDS
>GROUPFINDER
inb4 osrs dies
So should I resub? I played again when old school came out for a couple months but haven't played since. I still want to get a quest cape which I had on RS3 before quitting in 2012.
>>344645880
If you're a NEET or want the timesink again, sure.
RS will kill your backlog for non-backgroundable games though.
>>344645880
>osrs unlimited fun for £5 or so a month
>£50+DLC cost for shitty AAA titles
I think we know the obvious choice brah.
spend the extra money on dank weed and energy drinks
>>344645762
>If you love quests, it's great as that's probably Jagex's most consistent area.
Untrue. Quests went downhill, they aren't even good at that anymore.
>>344645762
quests went to shit after The World Wakes or whatever the quest is called
>>344646167
>>344646242
>Quests went downhill
Which ones you think?
>feel like playing some RS again
>it's nothing like the game I remember
>check out OSRS
>have to make a new account
>consider making an OSRS account
>realize I've put nearly 2000 hours in my main alone
yeeeaahh, no
>>344646319
A reset was needed on the game anyways. Everyone had fucking 99 everything.
>>344642636
maximum kek!
>>344646242
They were becoming worse before that, but you're right about that being the breaking point.
>>344636841
Been playing for a little over a year on and off now. I still don't know how to make good money. I use full rune and pest control armour for the majority of combat.
>>344646419
sure, that's cool. I'm just not doing it. If I had still been playing when OSRS became available, maybe.
>>344646528
get d long or something, its pretty easy
Also, runecrafting natures is tons of money
>>344636926
Catching chins is comfy, takes just a little more effort than wcing/fishing/etc and is a nice skill to make some money of. I trained it to 99 on both the original rs and again shortly after the osrs release, no regrets.
>>344638634
no that was the squeal of fortune
I just realized I've been on rs for almost 15 years jesus christ kill me now
>>344646882
Ditto, over 5,000 days.
>>344642714
if you use oldschool ui*
>>344646793
I spent all my cash on a whip not too long ago. It just seems what ever little money I make I end up wasting on supplies for slayer/combat, or wasting on leveling skills like crafting and prayer.
I'll try runecrafting though. It was pretty good money when I last did it, just so goddamn boring and tedious.
>>344647196
It's objectively better.
>>344647217
You know you're not meant to just focus on the game right? Like you watch a movie in a separate window while u play
>>344647351
That is bad game design.
>>344644446
>They failed as a developer because they added new things and changed icons?
yes, they did
>>344646528
I haven't played in a while, but Zulrah was about 2m an hour excluding rare drops.
Pretty much killing anything is decent money.
>>344647428
>RS
>good game design
Gowers never intended for people to play with the autism we know.
>>344647428
>that is bad game design
No it's genius. You get the productive feeling of gaining levels while also being lazy and watching TV/movies/whatever.
Also the AFKableness varies depending on task.
>>344647351
Runecraft requires too much clicking for that.
>>344647668
Go play EVE online then.
>>344647351
Yeah but you can't really do that when runecrafting. Constantly banking, swapping glory ammy etc. Fishing is nice to do when watching a movie though.
>>344647517
What stats are good for Zulrah? I heard that it has different cycles aswell, does it take long to learn them?
>>344644791
uhoh it looks like you're a lying shitposter!
>>344647726
I manage it fine.
>>344647797
No I want to play runescape.
>>344645267
nope
>>344645987
>4718m
uh, fake?
Why is the OS team so fucking godawful? Every single thing they do turns out to be a massive disappointing failure and they are utterly out of touch with the playerbase. Zeah was and still is terrible, MM2 was a disgrace and has made me glad that it's the only quest we've gotten/will get in 3 years because if that is the quality we can expect then I'll gladly take 3 more years of no new quests, raids both in concept and rewards are shaping up to be a bigger blunder than all four 90 degree angles of Zeah and all of this is 2016 alone.
I don't want to sound arrogant but I am confident that I could singlehandedly run OS more coherently than the entire staff combined and I'd do it for free. In fact, I think it would be harder to find a programmer out there who would be worse than the current OS team.
why has nobody ripped the entire games code and made a singleplayer release?
>>344647328
never said it wasn't
the whole point was that the default RS3 ui is the worst thing mankind has ever come up with
>>344648220
they have it's called ironman mode
>>344648239
>is the worst thing mankind has ever come up with
I'd argue RC exp rates are a bigger travesty.
>>344647860
80 range 80 mage should be fine. The average amount of deaths before getting your first kill is about 15-20. I think I died about 17 times before I learned the proper rotations and got the hang of a 6 way switch.
>>344648339
I meant that you can play completely offline and modify at will
>>344635819
>New
>>344639034
At least it's got a jammin' tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPSiUPemZf4
>>344644613
A small guy for a small game
At least it still has that classic aesthetic. They really butchered the rs3 interface.
I liked osrs before they decided to add god wars and other new shit, even though it's necessary to keep it alive
>>344648376
Considering there are countless private servers, I rekcon its not that hard to get the game files and host a local server only you can play on.
>>344648205
>Why is the OS team so fucking godawful?
mat k doesn't give a shit and is just there until he retires.
ash is strictly a programmer and too much of an autist to do anything design-wise.
Ghost is a hack.
His JR has the unfortunate position of having Ghost as his SR.
Ronan has a useless position that used to be filled by the whole RS team.
And they have no dedicated people for everything else like they used to. As well as only caring about sub numbers and making sure the majority doesn't throw a tantrum vs real quality.
>>344648531
God wars was and is still great.
AGS on release was a fucking trip. And SGS was great.
The whip-meta was getting disgustingly stale.
>>344648347
Daily reminder that ZMI altar was released only 2 weeks after GWD and still isn't in the game. And if it's ever proposed it won't pass polls because runecrafters are the biggest aspie hexis losers on the planet.
>>344648647
If souls passed theres hope.just kidding
>>344645880
/v/scape, friendo.
>You will never play castle wars at 11 years old again
>>344637425
The trick with agility is the do it literally first thing so you don't know what actually having fun is like.
Plus it's not like 99 agility is as bad as it used to be in osrs. the rooftop courses are piss easy and give tons of exp.
>>344648764
>tfw cwars is dead as fuck in both versions because >muh exp waste
I fucking hate what this game's community turned into, nobody actually plays the game for fun
>>344648541
It's a total clusterfuck and Jagex absolutely refuses to kick down any actual funding so they can get real talent despite OS bringing in more for the company than EoCscape. In all honesty the entire staff barring Ash should be kicked to the curb and replaced by programmers and possibly one artist so we can get essential updates delivered in a timely manner instead of Ghost's cosmetic abortions. It's ridiculous how much they hide behind "engine work" as an excuse to twiddle their thumbs and try to push halfbaked ideas to the community like sailing and that skiller-slayer skill that I've forgotten the name of.
Reach did nothing wrong.
>>344648764
>>344640724
whats your username feekit
>>344648747
>Playing games with /v/
>Ever a good idea
Sorry, I don't like playing with man children that can only communicate through dank memes.
>>344644526
>>344647479
>>344644681
Cancer
This is why Runescape is known for having one of the most autistic fanbases in video games, especially the Old School community.
>>344637425
What? I literally went from 1 hunter to 60 in a single day just a month ago.
Just starting at polar kebbits -> burds -> jungle burds -> swamp lizards -> desert lizards -> chins or black lizards
it's easy as fuck compared to agility
>>344649210
Alright then, have fun playing with actual children who only communicate through old, rehashed memes. Also have fun with the GE and other shitty updates that only take OSRS further and further away from 2007.
>jagex won't let you transfer RS3 characters to OSRS
I don't care if I can't bring my rares, let my character play it a world it was born in
>>344649097
The only thing that is their fault is how they push shit no one wants
they've polled sailing like 3 times so far, nobody wants it, but they're still going to keep working on it and polling it until people finally accept it.
>>344649093
What about Pest Control, is that dead too?
>>344640965
>yfw you will never hawk your wares in the falador market again
>>344649367
No, it has actual good rewards so it isn't technically exp waste
>>344647217
>>344646528
Do Barrows.
>>344649305
I'm not getting into this decade old game because I want some deep meaningful experience. The magic of 2007-scape for me isn't something I can just replicate by playing it, it was about where I was in my life when I first discovered it, and I know a lot of other anons feel the same way. I got into it for a month long nostalgia trip, and that's what I got.
Playing with /v/ is always a bad idea. Everyone I've ever spoken to from this shithole was either a memelord that couldn't stop calling anything and everything a cuck, or they started venting to me about how depressed they were within 5 minutes of meeting me. I'll take the literal children.
>>344649367
Nope. People still love dat full void.
>>344640965
I still think they should have just let you access the ge from any bank.
I like the GE as a service but I fucking loathe the GE as a location. Runescape never needed a central hub and it just kills any activity outside of major grinding areas and varrock
>>344649287
great post friend
>>344649438
>barrows
Not
>zulrah
I haven't played in a few months, did they nerf zulrah again?
>>344649570
Nah Zulrah is better than Barrows - but since he hadn't played in a while I thought Barrows would be a bit easier etc.
Also probably needs to raise that Range/Mage too whereas he can go straight Barrows and make big profit already.
>>344649093
People used to joke about no exp waste, now seeing it become full autismo reality makes me sad.
>runescape doesn't run purely in browser anymore
idiots
>>344649497
Oh that's fine, I know that /v/scape is riddled with memesters, I just thought you should know what you're getting into. Really, from my point of view OSRS isn't even worth it for the nostalgia since they have changed all slight aspects of the game, putting in junk that came along after I stopped playing. I can't get nostalgia when not even Barbarian Village looks right.
Anyone get any good rewards from master clues? So far I've gotten samurai greaves, gloves and hood of darkness.
>>344649723
I like it because although some updates haven't been the greatest, it feels like a second timeline or something for RS.
>>344649305
>GE and other shitty updates that only take OSRS further and further away from 2007
This is how you spot someone who was either <10 at the time or didn't play the game at all, or if they did play; did so extremely casually with little-no understanding of the game and is hopping on the GE hate train to gain some reddit-tier internet cred.
Pre-GE trading was bad. It wasn't fun and the charm wore it's welcome about the 10th time you did it let alone the 1000th or the 10000th. There was nothing exciting and magical about hopping words and wearing out your keyboard keys typing the same thing ad infinitum and dealing with people who wanted to haggle your fixed price or show off some items in an attempt to barter. There was nothing engaging about scouring 3 or 4 different forums looking to set up a trade, adding them ingame and then waiting to set up a meeting to waste even more of your time if they even planned on showing up at all.
Blow that nostalgia out your ass.
>>344649845
>wahhh why do I need to talk to people in an MMO?
>all items should just be bought off vendors
>>344650006
>haha dude trading for 6 hours daily is fun and not actually getting to play the game is great and engaging
eve online general is on the other board m8
>>344649845
This >>344650006
The trading was fun, it was good, because it made the community feel exactly that, like a fucking community. Nothing dries out a game's economy more than some dull auction house. Besides, you could harvest everything on your own so there was barely any real need for trading, so go blow it out your ass.
>>344640479
>Another small correction, that 17k for RS3 includes Chronicle, which I'm guessing is around 1 or 2k. So I'd estimate RS3 has 15k players right now.
it also includes those just afking in the lobby for 6 hours or logged in on the site/forums.
but OSRS on the other hand has splashers, more bots than RS3 and NMZ afkers
>>344650006
There's a middle ground between dealing with scumfucks trying to cheat you out of your items while spamming chat in a crowded room for two hours, and buying everything off vendors with no player interaction. The GE is that middle ground. You can still haggle with other players if you so choose. There's nothing stopping you from heading to Edgeville and selling armor/weapons/food to other players at an inflated price because they know they'll have to make a long trek to get it for cheaper. It's just that with the GE you don't need to painstakingly sell your 2K flax you just picked in bite-sized chunks when you could be out picking more fucking flax.
>>344648764
>castlewars at the release of themed world
1,800 players matches were insane
>>344647860
If you're still around add me and I'll help you out ingame
>>344648764
>tfw you fight someone around your level with the same gear
>tfw niggers from either team come to ruin your duel
>>344649367
It takes for fuckin ever to get full void. There's like 3 upgrades you have to put each armor piece through, costing 200 points each. And there's usually one group doing pc in the main world.
>tfw trimmed armour isn't worth shit and the prices won't rise anytime soon
>>344635697
What the fuck were they thinking with all the squeal of fortune bullshit? And have you taken a look at their website lately? All the artwork looks disgusting. Fucking hell. Literal Jewish goblin screaming at me to come and gamble was when this fucking cancerous shitstain finally died for me. RIP 2005, you went by too fast.
>>344651527
what happened? I have a rune full helm (g) that dropped a lot in price.
>>344651771
Too many people doing clue scrolls, not enough people care about cosmetics anymore. Supply and demand at work, basically.
>>344647916
Runescape existed in 1999, also.
