I'm playing Runescape 2007 and some of these lines are hilarious.

Runescape has always had nice writing. Honestly has some of the best quests out of any MMO.

>>376285343
Go on...

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>>376285559
I can post the ones I liked enough to screencap.

Runescape's quests felt like a lot of old point and click adventure games where you had to do puzzles, there was great writing and characters with actually funny writing and because of that Runescape probably has the best quests out of any MMO I've ever played and absolutely blows WoW out of the water.

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>>376285835
Fucking great

>>376285689
Runescape was/is the only MMO where the quests actually feel like quests and not menial tasks. They have actual storylines, puzzles and RPG elements (e.g. needing certain skills/items to overcome obstacles) and don't spoonfeed you the objectives.

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I can't remember, but there was a quest where if you have all the required items in inventory, the guy you talk to finds it really weird that you already have the items you need to proceed.

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>>376285887

>>376286215
Fremmenik Isles, don't have the pic on me, I'll see if I can find it

>>376285689
>>376286030

The problem is the absurdly tedious grinding between the quests.

>>376286030
Yeah, it had surprisingly strong characterization for an MMO too. Some of the lines the player character has is hilarious such as during the My Arm quest where you watch a cutscene of a person being cooked by a troll and you try and pick up the expensive, dragon equipment on the ground. The troll who is telling you the story scolds you and tells you to stop being so distracted.

Talking to random NPCs in Runescape is so great

>>376286381
im also remembering a f2p quest that did this too
i think is was that one where you had to save the prince in al karid, or im remembering wrong

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>>376285689
The problem with the old adventure game format is that it predictably leads to a lot of obscure solutions, like the vodka in Eadgar's Ruse.

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Can we all agree that the Wise Old Man is the GOAT Runescape character

>>376286701
I don't see how anyone could have done every quest without a guide
>that light puzzle in MEPII

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>>376286856
Elemental workshop three is worse

>>376286923
It wasn't that bad, just required a particular brand of autism

>>376285689
The quests are why I still feel like revisiting the game. I feel like I could enjoy it as a single player game to some capacity.

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>>376286898
I moved on before remembering to screencap, so I pulled this from a YT playthrough vid.

>>376286856
I haven't reached that yet, but I'm going to give it an honest try. Having pen and paper on hand really helps with some puzzles, even if you're just reduced to brute forcing.

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>>376287020
Why does he not look like his iconic image

>>376287156
because im too far away to make it to the tree gnome stronghold and capture stuff before the thread dies
so i pulled something google

>One Small Favor

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>>376286923
>enjoyed 1 and 2, later 4
>try to solve 3 without a guide
>pulling levers at random, don't know what anything does
>look up the only guide available at the time
>guy writing it barely knows what to do either
>have to figure out how to put all the blocks where they originally were to make sense of his instructions
I could have sworn it was released near Pillar in the Wound so Jagex could harvest the greatest amount of butthurt, but they're about a year apart so it's probably just the PTSD talking

>>376287382
>parody shit games' fetch quests and make your players suffer
the madmen

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>>376287138
Last one. This one's a bit funny in light of While Guthix Sleeps starting the trend of taking the factionism too seriously.

I'm sorry I cant remember his name but the postman that is a skull or whatever?

jagex used to release like a sort of blog every once in a while where he talked about the world or interviewed npcs, that shit was fucking great.

fuck. runescape taught me a lot of shit. economy, how being a merchant works, smelting, problem solving, tons of shit like that.
its weird to think a game helped me become a person

>>376287429
Salt in the wound was so bad they literally erased the guy who made it, he got memoryholed hard.

>>376287382
Thank you.

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>tfw

>>376287506
Postman Pete. Those blogs were pretty fun to read, I don't know if they're archived anywhere in the old website layout.

>>376287506
My nigga Postie Pete. And you're thinking of Postbag From the Hedge, that shit was great.
Actually you can still see Pete occasionally pop up and talk to NPCs in game.

>>376287534
And there's still no goddamn Acolyte nor Partisan Temple Knight armor. Fuck, that's the one place where IT WAS ALL A DREAM would fit, Mother Mallum could have actually been possessing you all that time, making you hallucinate SitW.

Seems like Jagex refused to admit they've ever done anything wrong and remove universally despied updates like with the climbing boots fiasco.

>>376287972
markdonalds was a mistake.
There was a documentary about the fifteen years of runescape.
I've not seen it, but apparently you can see the gower brother's crushed souls.

>>376287534

They should have moved him to a prison in a castle.

>>376287972
>climbing boots fiasco
i remember climbing boots used to expensive for some reason what was the deal behind it?

>>376287654

I'm going to start using this to shitpost about video games

I'll never forget the construction update and how much money I made from years of autisticaly gathering planks from the wilderness for years

Fishing lvls?

>>376288307
43

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>>376288307
7

>>376288282
Anytime a quest asks for nails and planks I'm just going to bring 400 so I don't have to deal with "you didn't bring the correct multiple of 15" which happens every other time.

>>376288307
40

>>376288307
121

>>376288307
9

>>376288437
Comfiest town.

>>376288109
[55:58-57:56]
Andrew Gower:
I wanted to get myself in a position where...I could still...advise Jagex, and still, you know, I loved RuneScape. I absolutely wanted to keep working on it, but I didn't want the responsibility and the stress, um, of being in charge of something so big an so important. So I started looking at selling my remaining stake in Jagex. But it wasn't meant to be a radical shift, it was just meant to be a way I didn't have to be a director of a huge company.

Whilst I'd been quite stressed being in charge, I suddenly realized that, when I wasn't in charge, all of a sudden what I had to say didn't matter so much. And you know, people were doing things not the way I wanted them to do them. And, that was the whole point, of course. The whole point was I didn't want to be responsible, and, uh, you know, I just wanted to be able to advise and help, and...and...and, you know, nurture the game I've made without having to be so responsible. But as soon as that responsibility was taken away, I, I realized...oh dear. Um...you can't have it...you can't have it both ways. Without responsibility, you also don't have the authority. You can't...and...and you know, you can't have one without the other. And by trying to make myself less stressed and reduce the responsibility, I'd also reduced the authority. And all of a sudden I'd found that...you know...uh...I didn't have the final say on things, and other-you know-other people had the final say on things, and...I'd made a mistake, quite frankly. Eventually it just reached the point where I just wasn't doing anything for Jagex anymore. But there was no sort of date where I left. I didn't have a sort of leaving due, or anything like that. It just sort of faded away.

>>376288307
99

>>376288546

the comfiest place was the cooks guild for me

>>376288557
[1:01:45-1:02:10]
Paul Gower
I think I actually left the company...when they, um, started introducing, um...microtransactions to the Wheel of-Squeal of Fortune. Because...one thing which we'd always publicly said to the players was the we wouldn't, um...start, um...(sob?)...selling microtransactions. So...by them doing that, if I was still involved with the company, it sort of felt like that made me into a liar. I sort of said we'd never do that and we did.

>>376288557
;_;
Fuck IVP

>>376288647

fuck man he was one of the good ones

>>376288647
That's why I didn't really mind when the Gowers were really cracking down on RWT, you could see that they actually cared about the health and economy of the game despite that update being unpopular as fuck.

Wheel-of-Squeal was a fucking knife in the player's back and the Gower brother's back.

>>376288557
>>376288647
legitimately saddening

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>>376288557
christ, no wonder all the old and original content was god tier mmo material

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>>376288546
I found out yesterday that the area behind rogues castle is pretty relaxing

Despite being in fucking high level wilderness and the chaos elemental on the other side of the castle in general seeing the ocean in the wilderness feels comfy for some reason to me

>>376288307
83ish

>>376288647
>Watch Paul Gower's segment
>He's a typical middle aged nerd with shitloads of boardgames in the back

He was a real human bean

>>376288182
A couple of somebodies (with at least one inside man) bought a ton of boots before an update that split the boots into 75k store/45k alch +2 str boots and 12 gp store +0 everything boots, with the reason given that 'rune boots have +2 str too, and they're worth a lot!'
Said somebodies made a lot of gp with little effort, pures and <40/60 defense people got shafted.

Skip to post-EoC and they're still 75k, despite their only stats being 5 defence (fucking nothing), while rune boots are ~7k.

IVPex is a fucking disgrace.

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is osrs worth playing? havent played since 07 myself

Zezima shot me in the dick in the wildy once with a magic bow

>>376289149
Oh yeah, this Logdotzip guy asked around about it, made some videos about it, and got b&.
Forum moderators were doing everything they could to cull discussions on it.
Dunno if there was ever any comeuppance for the guys responsible, but I sort of doubt it.

>>376289182
just let the memory die in peace anon.
take it from me

>>376288684
>>376289149
It's IVP no more.
Jagex was bought by the chinese.
Specifically a mining company looking to diversify it's holdings.
A failing mining company.

>>376289337
Absolutely Halal

>>376289337
That was fairly recent, climbing boots happened in 2010's summer.
If anything, the chingchongs are behind the mining updates, using their firsthand expertise.

>>376289313
This.

>>376289182
if you're not extremely autistic like me and don't care about levels, yes. I had to quit because I get pulled into playing for 16 hours a day.

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>>376288557
>>376288647
Fucking hell, there is no god.

>>376289337
That just happened
It was IVP that killed the game

>>376288546
Not if you're using harpoons. Misclicking every orher fishing spot is a pain.

>>376289010
You gotta watch out for those fucking zammy mages that live underground out there though

>>376289448
>>376289606
I know.
But the chinks are the final bell tolling.

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>>376288557
>>376288647
watching the documentary live, i got so sad during this part. I will never forgive jagex for the MTX bullshit. They even had a statement on their website before MTX was introduced that said they would never let players gain an ingame advantage using real life gold.

Never got into RuneScape but, i'm thinking of giving it ago. What are some tips?

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>Nexon buys runescape next

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>>376289471
I only care about levels to the point at which they allow me to do quests. that was mostly what i did in the past id probably just try and do every quest

>>376289726
The fun part takes an eternity to get to. The fun part is even longer

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>>376288557
>>376288647
>grows too old to the point where he doesn't want to have the stress of managing something so big, but still hoped to have some say
>he didn't realise he would lose any good amount of control, and has to watch his nearly 2 decades of work and arguablely his greats asscomplishment being Defiled before his eyes, and people blaming him when he doesn't like the stuff
This is the kind of shit that destroys a man physically and emotionally

>>376289337
>>376289448
>>376289724
>Chinks
WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH CHINESE AND SCOOPING UP VIDEO GAME COMPANIES I CAN'T THINK OF ANY OTHER FUCKING COUNTRY THAT DEVOURS SO MUCH OF THE INDUSTRY, THEY DON'T EVEN NEED THE IPS TO AVOID LEGAL BULLSHIT IT'S FUCKING CHINA

>>376289471
fuck im currently at 10 hours a day and I know it has to stop.

>>376287654
>/ck/

The Chinese investing in Runescape wasn't all bad...

It did cause Jagex to start creating content geared towards the East. So now there is a Katana set, Samurai armor, and a whole region based on Chinese architecture.

Also there is a nine-tailed fox pet. So there's that.

>>376289726
Don't it's objectively dated shit, I'm only playing still because I've played too long to quit.

>>376289993
If IVP was bad, the chinese are much much worse.
Can't wait till jagex starts selling official bots.

>>376289993
All of that sounds bad.

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>>376286215
>>376286381
That was the Wise Old Man, during Swan Song.
>>376286623
I think it was the Prince Ali Rescue quest.

This game was my fucking life when I was younger. It pains me to see where it's headed, but it was bound to happen eventually. Back in '09, they finally caught me for botting like three years before then, and temp banned me. Rolled my stats back, and couldn't bring myself to do it again. So, I stayed in Barrows Brothers. Every day for hours in Clan Chat, made more money than I knew what to do with and started giving barrows armour away for cheap. It's going on 5 years since I last played RS, and I'm seriously considering to go back and make another account.
Help me /v/

>>376285665
LOL

>>376289726
Have some podcasts or videos lined up to listen to as background noise. As great as the soundtrack is, it's not worth hearing the same song over and over while grinding a skill.

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What did jagex mean by this?

>>376289726
Don't bother. The only people playing it now are fueled purely by nostalgia and habit. Getting into it now as a new player isn't worth your time

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>>376288647
>>376288557
I hope he doesn't an hero
I want to one day do a nice detailed in depth Interview or book with members of the team and get their inspiratons thought process for stuff they added to the game, like specific quests, writing, locations and other dumb things like that

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>>376290265

Cheeky British humour at its finest.

How was Runescape able to become as good as it was?

>>376290423
A lot of people tend to gloss over the uglier side of the game, like chat spam, various economic snafus, things blatantly designed to waste member's time and by extension their money.

>>376290219
I swear there was some update that gave areas a playlist of music you had unlocked, so caves would have Scape Cave/Temple of Ikov/Rising Damp/etc randomly cycling through. Then they go and fuck everything up with OSRS not having that, and 3's "remastered" songs being dogshit.

>>376290423
The gower brothers put their heart and soul into it, it was far more a personal thing than something like wow.

>>376286792
Did they ever follow up on his bank heist? I always thought that was interesting.

>>376290548
Yes, dude settles down with his waifu and robs the wizard tower.

>>376290423
it wasn't. you're just dumb kids who couldn't afford to play real games because the family computer couldn't handle it

>>376290494
Chat spam was limited to populated areas though since there was no global chat.
It was actually fun going to W2 and not being able to read anything in the chatbox.

>>376289993
I remember when the only weebshit was that Ak-Haruka or whatever guy that wanted Robin Hood's bow

there was always some talk about the eastern lands but I figured that was where the kudo boat was going to go, and that just went to waste-of-space mammoth land

>>376287429
I really enjoyed 3 and found it disappointing just how simplistic 4 was.

>>376287506
I think he could actually be found in game even long after they stopped that couldn't he, like how Bob the cat does a huge route across the entire map.

>>376290593
tell me some good games I could have been playing 10 to 15 years ago

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>>376287467

>>376290593
Tell me about these real games, name one with quests, puzzles, writing, etc. anywhere near the quality of runescape.

>>376288307
I was gonna actually log in to check to give the real number but it's not even browser based anymore you have to download a client so fuck that, 65-70ish.

>>376290619
>searching through walls of eye-searing rainbow text for deals
>finally find guy selling rune scim for cheap
>put up the cash
>he puts up a noted rune scim
>find out the rune scim had mysteriously transformed into an iron scim around the time he logged out

>>376289010
I honestly loved the castle and the bandit place just above, spent ages there training combat skills and making pizza to heal. People sometimes came to the castle for the runes but then you got to play hide and seek with them by going up and down the ladders or closing doors in their face, but nobody ever came to the bandit area so it was pretty damn chill.

>>376289010
how do you get your osrs to look that good. my osrs is in a small fucking window that hurts to look at

>>376289726
You know how mmos have a lot of grinding?

Runescape is 99% grind. The only parts that aren't are quests which are great (but require you to have grinded your skills to certain points to start) and some actually fun minigames like the PVP CTF game castle wars (which all have their own forms of grind to go with them)

>>376290960
Click the wrench icon ingame and press the fullscreen option

>>376290960
theres an option in the settings that allows you to use the entire window to play the game
your playing how its supposed to be playe wuss

>>376290795
You can still play in browser

>>376290494
The economic snafus were all a thrill to experience though

>>376291119
>>376291095
thanks bud, just started today out of nostalgia

>>376290219

JAMIE PULL THAT UP

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>>376287654
this is reddit-tier humour

>>376290265
>>376290269
these arent bad

>>376288415
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>>376289012
Nice

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>>376291360
>likes the most reddit image of the whole bunch

>>376291360
<>< lvl?

>>376290269
fucks wrong with dat nigga's eye

If I want Middle School-era nostalgia, should I download OSRS?

>>376289182
Just move on, anon. It's only memories now, leave it be.

>>376291667
Fuck no, they've bastardized it and it's nothing like it used to be. They keep injecting it with new content polled on reddit.

>>376291667
No it's completely changed into unrecognizable private server tier shit. What made the game comfy was mostly the community but now it's all efficiency autists using a borderline bot client. The feel of true vintage Runescape is gone forever.

>>376291667
>>376291809
Most of the new content is good, just what is bad stands out a lot.

>>376290269

>Using Cunt freely

>In 2007

>>376291667
Just find the soundtrack on youtube and listen to that. It'll be faster, easier and work just as well.

Also, Jagex has made a mess of OSRS. It's essentially RS3 with shitty graphics and the old combat system (which you can have in RS3 anyway)

>>376291975
That's probably from /v/scape which is the shitty private server /vg/ runs

Whats the best item you just found lying around?

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>>376292039
>/v/scape
>shitty

>>376292291
some cunt's rune armor and amulet of glory after he died infront of me
also had 200k on him
he ran back to see me wearing his shit and asked for at least his money back so I gave him 5 gp
Still have that glory.

>>376290515
this pretty much

wave:<><

I honestly do think RS3 is better than OSRS. Mechanically. Content-ally. But it's no secret that the game has had to go through its fair share of dark ages and rough patches to come to this point. Sometimes I do resent modern Jagex a little bit for it.

Still, some things are better than they used to be. I legitimately believe this.

~Combat now compared to combat pre-eoc is considerably more entertaining and engaging, and allows for a lot more flexibility than it used to, even if the number rolling of EoC at launch was dogshit. Revolution really does make all the difference here, giving me a good middle-ground between the click-and-wait comfort of old RuneScape, and the more active combat of something like WoW for example. I enjoy how different offhands provide vastly different playstyles (personally I'm quite partial to how flexible defenders make me). I enjoy how I'm constantly adjusting my action bar slightly to make it a bit more efficient for Revolution, or if I want to time something manually.

~There are some genuinely great quests following 2007. That said, I do admittedly believe that they were too eager and too hasty to get into the god stuff following the beginning of the Sixth Age, and lingered in got politics for far too long. Unfortunately there were also some truly terrible quests following 2007. The Mighty Fall being one such example. Oh, Zanik. You didn't deserve that. To have your fate so undermined by events outside of your own quest series. The World Events as a whole were also handled terribly.

~The new skills, Divination and Invention, are good skills. I especially enjoy the precedent Invention sets as an "elite skill". It seems as though it's planned to plug into every other skill in some way or another eventually, and if that is going to be the case, then I eagerly anticipate their next elite skill. I just hope it releases in a more complete state than Invention did.

~Prifddinas was cool

~Arc is alright

~I miss minigames

>>376292956
>It seems as though it's planned to plug into every other skill in some way or another eventually, and if that is going to be the case, then I eagerly anticipate their next elite skill. I just hope it releases in a more complete state than Invention did.
Oh you poor fucking thing.
Compfags got most of the original plan for invention scrapped initially, some of the shit, like portables, turned into MTX.
Then the remade invention's batch two was cancelled as well for some reason.

I'd like to believe something will be done with it, but I honestly have lost the ability to feel hope.

>>376293221
Batch 2 is happening, confirmed on the unofficial (official) forums

>>376292956
Zanik was that cave goblin girl, yeah? What happened to her?

>>376288559
Nice

Would any of you gentlemen have an account capable of going on Runescape Classic that you wouldn't mind giving? I've been dying to play and I fucked up bad last year

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>>376293221
I don't remember it being canceled. We've got a tonne of new gadgets a few months back, the task system was completely reworked, you could augment more stuff along the line, we've got fucking augmented tinderboxes and... fletching knives, I want to say, though I don't think I've made one yet. Several new perks here and there.

I made tons of invention xp on my way to 99 mining off arc rock crabs because of my augmented crystal pick (I should have waited so I could truly enjoy the Mining Rework when it dropped.)

>>376293426
When World Event 2: Armadyl vs Bandos happened, and Bandos lost, Zanik got fucked in the ass. Hard.

The final quest involving her was a half-assed quest basically just made out of reused assets and combat encounters just so they could finally shelf her and say "Yeeeaaa it's done!"

>>376293426
Bandos possessed her in the chosen commander, then everything was fine for ages.
Then when the guy who made the barrows brothers killed guthix and started the next god wars, and armadyl killed bandos, she started dying because her soul was leaking or something, but the remaining forces of bandos want to hold a tourney for some reason, during the quest you have the choice to kill her or let her live and send her off into the unknown so she might find a way not to die.
At this point she looks like a gypsy prune, one of the worst graphical updates in runegame history.

And then the next quest, which is when they bring nomad back, AGAIN (he gets brought back around 4-5 times, twice in once quest) she turns not ugly but it's a massive fuck you because she died anyway and you couldn't do a thing about it and your choice didn't even matter.
And then at the end, death and the desert dog god let you make her the host of soul wars, as if that solves everything.

>>376292956
Revolution is identical to pre-EoC if the special attack bar filled up faster. You click, wait, and occasionally click a button to do more damage, then go back to waiting. Also, maybe it's just me, but I felt like melee was sucking dick. 99 attack and strength was barely passable as far as killing things went, and being able to kite enemies is essential for some bosses which is just a fantastic mechanic to put in a game with 0.6 seconds of input lag at the least. There's also little reason to adjust your bar once you get the max deeps rotation set up.

Every quest past WGS and The Chosen Commander has been imperfect.

Divination is Fishing 2. Locate and click node, wait to gather resource, click different more noticeable node on occasion. The upside is you never need to bank, with the downside of it being tedious as all hell, which would be fine if they didn't stick it in as a requirement for a couple of quests.

Prif provided everything u culd evr need, making vast amounts of the game world obsolete if you had the skills to take advantage of it, ensuring the server would be dead as fuck outside of prif since everyone and their dog is there.

Haven't done any Arc shit so I can't bitch too much, but it looks like more solo content for max exp gainz. Just remove the in-game chat at this point.

>>376293426
Grafix'd into a horrific abomination, got her shit tied to Bandos the big high jobber god, died (and you can choose to kill her because FUCK EVERYTHING), then came back as a qt for a bit.

I truly hate that dungeoneering is a skill. Truly would have been better as a minigame.

Boring to level up and tedious and i have never leveled it up. It sucks because some good stuff is locked behind tokens

>>376293737
The original invention plans were machines and shit, like construction but useful, as well as incredibly strong custom weapons and shit.
And an actual use for the invention guild besides a neat room.

Invention batch two was supposed to be the high tier content of invention, so actual benefits to leveling up a weapon past twelve, new shit and perks past 99. Was supposed to come out like 2 months after the batch 1.

>>376293737
>>376293426
And her appearance in Nomad's elegy (where you get to meet a lot of dead characters again - yes, she died offscreen no matter what you chose) wasn't any better, either, reduced to a green, pointy-eared anime gnome.

Her goblin heritage was completely lost. And to think I found her somewhat cute pre-rework despite being a blurry jumble of triangles, but a well-written quest like The Chosen Commander will do that for you I suppose.

>>376293887
I can only manage to do it in bursts.

I have always sort of liked it in a... almost Binding of Isaac sort of way. Almost. But it really did get tedious when you were forced to do it for a skill, and there wasn't nearly enough variation between instances to make it truly enjoyable.

I hope they give the skill a hard rework someday, make it feel more like an arcade survival roguelike with getting ridiculous abilities and such as you progress floor by floor until you die.

>>376294194
>>I hope they give the skill a hard rework someday, make it feel more like an arcade survival roguelike with getting ridiculous abilities and such as you progress floor by floor until you die.
Guess what the new minigame they just released is the framework for?
Dungeoneering isn't getting fixed like that.

Haven't touched Runescape since 2007, how bad is it right now?

>>376293887
Dungeoneering is the best part of the game, kys

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>>376294194
Forgot image.

>>376294047
Well we do have some machines. Alternatives to the Dwarven Multicannon were released, for magic and melee respectively. As more perks have been coming out and as you've been able to augment more equipment, I've definitely found the skill to become more interesting over time.

>>376294243
Fuuuck, I haven't played Shattered Worlds yet. It's a framework for something coming in the future?

>>376294306
Some things are worse and some things are better.

>>376291360
You realize Runescape predates Reddit, right?
Oh wait, of course you don't, you weren't even born back then.

>>376294339
>It's a framework for something coming in the future?
It feels like that, because there's a lot of shit that doesn't make sense unless it is, like the fuckhuge mutator bar, the fact that it tells you a new objective each floor despite the fact that there's currently only one thing to do, the fact they've introduced a new baddie trying to screw up shit, but they might just forget it exists.
ATM it's very grindy and can take a fair bit of gitgud to do anything at higher tiers.

>>376294339
Fuckin' Hell, she reminds me of those small bunny things in FFXII.

>>376294339
Say I don't give a shit about the community, are the quest chains still decently written?

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>>376294479
concept art of baddie in question

>>376294339
>Dwarven Multicannon were released, for magic and melee
wat

>>376294563
It varies.
Mostly due to a focus on muh gods recently, and one lovely chap named mod raven who is a 50 year old fat greasy edgelord chuuni and has not done good things to the quests he's involved in.

>>376294306
It's on the up right now, the updates are constant and community driven.
Most of them are actually pretty decent, occasionally we get handed a fresh turd but eventually they notice and it gets changed later down the road.

>>376294563
Some quests have managed to be phenomenal. Others like The Mighty Fall do tend to be a bit of a shit in a sea of gems, though.

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>that weird fucking transition stage from polygons to noodle arms
>that weird transition between 2h animations when they were fucking around before and after GWD

>>376294602
Essentially you can invent a stationary beyblade that shanks people that get near (but still uses cannonballs for ammunition) or a giant tesla coil (that zaps a decent area and all enemies within repeatedly).

>>376294597
>OSRS grafix on the left
>she's a qt in a simplistic artstyle that gets the idea across leaving room for imagination
>RS3 grafix on the right
>uglied up to resemble average british woman sans face-covering hijab, tons of distracting and unnecessary doodads hanging off to ensure inconsistent aesthetics
bet you 5 gp she's Korasi

>>376294775
>Korasi
She's not, thank fuck, she's a ugly witch bitch formerly married to some random nobody they just introduced.
She stabbed his eyes out.
Besides, korasi can die in the final pest quest so jagex can't do anything with her.

Also the concept art's always been like that, at least for a long while anyways.

>>376292956
>~I miss minigames
Don't tell me they got rid of castle wars, that shit was fantastic, I loved how even though it was a combat based minigame you could still contribute if you were low level thanks to shit like barricades and blasting potions. I used to dick around by barricading myself into a corner and then when someone came for me I would just move one space forward and barricade them into where I used to be

>>376295062
They're still there but to one plays them because everyone focuses on efficiency instead of fun

>>376285343
I started playing runescape 3 or whatever the fuck it's called a few days back. Worth it to become a member? I played back in like 2003.

>>376295062
Minigames are just dead as all fuck because no playerbase besides people who want to grind.
Also, on castle wars in particular, the first guy, a massive fucking autist, to get completionist cape convinced jagex to make an insanely ridiculous amount of hours in castle wars a req for the cape.
As a result, when it's not dead, it's filled exclusively with leechers.

>>376295062
Probably more at that no one plays them. There's a requirement for the comp(?) cape where you have to play so many Castle Wars games, so maxedfags just sit around in them for weeks at a time.
Going to the fullest F2P worlds and seeing all of 0 people playing GOP, FoG, and Clan Wars outside of FFA hurts.

>>376295180
95% of game content is locked behind membership, so if you like it, then yes.
Though you can easily pay for membs with gold if you no what you're doing.

>>376295257
Even when I know what I'm doing, running vis/runes/feathers for 14 days starts to wear on me.
Wish I could get gud enough to spider, but I barely have enough willpower to pay for a bond, let alone 96 herb and t80+ ranged shit

>>376295180
Members has way more content so if you have plenty of free time and plan to play lots it's worth it.
I wouldn't recommend playing for a bit, stopping and then letting it auto-bill you for the next few years like my friend did though.

>>376287654
Was this in the tavern place near the lumbermill? I remember a character had a feelsy line

>>376294397
OldSchool runescape has been receiving updates since release anon

Most of the reddit jokes appeal to the huge reddit rs following

>>376294306
Rs3 is dying, os is growing

>>376295062
Nobody plays them because, between bonus xp and an ever growing number of ways to achieve extremely high xp rate, there's very little value to be found in playing minigames for kind of ass slightly cosmetic gear with shit xp rates, whereas long ago the minigames were valued because xp rates on everything were so shit and leveling was so tedious that the provided a welcome alternative.

Even the Spotlight system that Jagex introduced has only caused more problems, as since it's based on time present, people just afk to get Thaler, which lets them get some rewards from other minigames without having to directly play them.

>>376295516
I don't even play osrs but I know that they haven't touched the old quests, most osrsfags don't care about quests at all.
It's not pandering, it's from back before reddit stole those jokes from places like 4chan.

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>>376295696
>most osrsfags don't care about quests at all
wipe them from the face of the earth

>>376295754
It's barely better on RS3, only because of the larger amount of quest content does it have more questfags.
Too many people used to shit like wow just spacebar/click through all the quests ignoring everything and using guides.

>>376295696
>osrsfags don't care about quests at all.
Oh, good. I was actually considering checking it out because I imagine Guthix isn't dead anymore over there, but I've been struggling with the knowledge that a lot of the original content it's spawned is of complete dogshit quality (Zeah, Necromancy), but really, spending time among people who don't enjoy Runescape's greatest quality is the final straw. Fuck that, even if it does somehow have a larger playerbase than RS3, I can at least still enjoy what decent lore there is and some quests now and then. If there's something nuJagex doesn't fuck up TOO bad, it's that.

Literally why fucking play RuneScape if you're not going to play for the quests? I mean admittedly the merchanteering aspect and being able to skill in things that aren't strictly combat are both appealing, but the grand exchange really fucks any kind of deep merchanteering aspect in the ass and generally speaking skills are kind of grindy.

I really dislike the new quests in RS3. The shift of an every day adventure to a diety slaying World Guardian really fucked everything.

The Menaphos expansion is actually looking to be pretty decent. It'll be nice to have an alternative to Prifddinas in terms of hub cities.

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>>376296118
You have mod raven to thank for that.
Greasy greasy mod raven.
The fat chuuni.

>>376296134
yeah, now there'll be 10 people in Prifddinas, 100 in Menaphos, and 0 in the rest of the game

>>376296118
That's actually something that Jagex is, surprisingly, aware of, and they're apparently trying quite hard to give players a good break from that and get back to just good old adventuring goodness with the quests and characters and stories Menaphos will have on offer, without any direct links to the god wars politics.

That is to say, if their Menaphos dev diaries are to be trusted in the slightest.

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>Grinding rats on the left side of Lumbridge castle because I was too dumb to know better
>Making friends playing Gnomeball even though you didn't get any real rewards for doing so
>Using the glitch to bring the Gnomeball out of its area and throwing it around with people in cities
>Learning how to haggle learning some business sense by dividing skills and work out amongst me and my friends to earn money
>House parties
>The euphoria when I first got a hellcat after wanting one for ages
>Wandering into that hole behind Lumbridge in the swamp without a candle and getting mangled to death by insects in the dark
>Questing with friends
>Never felt like grinding just because of how interesting and unique everything was
>Despite the fact that levelling up to 40 and getting Adamant armor wasn't very hard if you're efficient, it took me two years to do and I felt like a god afterwards
>The feeling of bliss after defeating Dragon Slayer for the first time and getting a rune platebody
>That one time I cybered with a girl in an abandoned house in Falador
>That time where she said it was "too deep" and the only sexy thing my 11 year old mind could muster up was "There's no such thing as too deep"
>That time I got chat banned for a few days because I called some guy a fart face
I'm never gonna stop missing Runescape. It holds both my happiest and most frustrating memories.

>>376296201
>that third answer in its entirety
>immediately cringing in the beginning
>end up just impressed at his sister's good taste in television series, even if not in brothers

But yeah this guy is coming off hard as a fedora tipper.

>>376296201
it's like he read the dry British humor of the quests, then tried to emulate it through some kind of filter which only diminishes it

>>376296236
don't believe their lies
dog wars 3 - sandnigger edition soon™

>>376295201
God, this happens to every MMO eventually and it's just awful. And then for the really niche ones you have entire mechanics nobody understands because somebody a long time ago decided that that content/class/item was pointless and everyone hopped on the bandwagon.

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>The player corrects a grammar mistake in the chatbox.

Some time ago, I wrote up a suggestion on how to rework Runecrafting because the idea of using a minigame to train it without touching the skill proper is fucking offensive to me. The general idea was that you could tie the elemental altar dimensions proper to the Rune Essence Mine via the Abyss (after a world event involving fighting off the abyss that invades by tracing people through their use of teleportation spells and ending in striking a deal with the cthonian demons).

There would be two primary ways of training. One would have you sacrificing a portion of runes you gain to have the travel through the abyss shortened so you could focus on PURE EFFICIENT XP, and the other would have you keeping the runes but having to take a longer path to go back and forth between the essence mine and the altars.

The Great Orb Project would play into this by offering you various benefits for while you're training runecrafting. Obviously there'd be the teletabs, but also there'd be buffs you could buy that affect rune gain multipliers or abyss cost reduction for a limited time, as well as the runecrafting clothes having an actual benefit for runecrafting.

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*Ice barrages you*

>tfw unlocking the Auto Sanctifier from Invention
Being able to bring a portable Gilded Altar with you is such a fucking blessing.

>>376297278
When that updates came out I used a community forum pretty often and I clicked on the news about the update thinking it was the section where people would pitch ideas for the game and made a post saying there was no way it would get added it's way too OP.

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>>376296118
>>376296201
:^)

>>376297817
Wut? What about makeover mage? It changes genders all the time

>>376297895
In an "offensive and demeaning" matter. He jokes about it. They are insane and will never be satisfied, pandering to them is a mistake.

>>376297817
Wait a fucking second, how is transgender characters groundbreaking? Every other player has at least once gone to that one mage to change their sex (usually to turn female to con other players).

>>376297972
How about turning female since having a vagina was a quest requirement.
How come having a penis was never a quest requirement anyway? talk about inequality in videogames, we need more male representation in runescape!

>>376292291
whip. someone just dropped it at the GE for a gaf i guess

>>376289741
That's what I've been doing for the past month and a half. Been playing with a friend and I've been enjoying the quests. I'm actually able to do the ones I was too dumb to do as a kid

>>376297278
>torags and not ahrim
why