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sacaras

lol i had to laugh because that is one game that never died. I mean most of the onrpgers that i've seen say that the game sucks, but you have to give it props for being a game that has continued strong for such a long time. Also, the graphics are no where near up to par with almost all the other popular games out there yet people love it. Not to say that a game should be based on graphics by any means. For years now ive been able to check and see that "yep runescape still exists and is going strong" heh it's just strange as to why. I guess that has always been one of those classic games out there that everyone knows of and just decides to continue playing. It does have a bunch of unique qualities to it such as that mass amount of just things to do besides grinding, the fact that when you die you lose most of your shit so you care an awful lot about not dieing, and that pretty much every computer can run it. In a sense it does have some aspects that i wish other games had. Lol there is no real point in this thread, I was just chuckling and seeing if anyone else found that interesting.

Nichons

Last logged in 440 days ago...

I started playing again about a week ago. I'm addicted again. D:

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Mime Taxidermy

Last login on one character was over 1,000 days ago. I still have a rubber chicken.

Anyway, I loved Runescape until they made it HD, and all the 12 year old graphic whores came in.

Q_switch_css

link to posts of onrpgers flaming the game please?

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sacaras

heh i was waiting for somone to say that.

Azura

<3 that game. I've only played it free however, been meaning to get p2p one of these days, cept I've been putting it off. And so much content for the p2p section I'll get lost...easily..

Nichons

Yeah, I wanna be a member. There's so much more to do.

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Azura

Just talking about it makes me feel like starting..i got the money..I just need the extra push to get me there..

MrWafflez

It's because the game actually has something to work towards.

In most games, you may try and reach the max level or join the best guild, but in the end it's going to get old. Once you reach your goal, there's nothing left. Continue on when they make an expansion, if they ever do.



In Runescape, the game leads up to a million different things, all of which can keep you busy for as long as you desire.

You can max out one skill or ten skills, and use them in whatever way you want. Pair up and creating a business mining/smithing armor in order to create money, or runesmith high-level runes for your mage friend.

Guilds have been around since the days when you didn't even have capes to distinguish your foes from your allies, and the cooperation is amazing. Some people cook food, some make runes, and others use all the pieces and fight.




But no matter what you do in the game, everything is for the purpose of the economy, which is a never-ending game that keeps you hooked.

You want money in-game, because money = power. You want to be that high level mage using thousands of law runes teleporting others from Lumbridge in order to gain experience, despite the millions of gold he's wasting on others. You want to be that badass warrior wearing the party hat and the dragon whip, whether it's for sheer power in the (old) wilderness, or for the luxury of domination enemies on your quests.


I could sit in a members world stealing three gold and a nature rune from a chest in a house that was completely deserted for an hour, getting more loot every 15 seconds. Then I'd head into town, or more recently to the Grand Exchange, and sell my findings. Seeing that marvelous coin stack in my inventory was a great feeling for some reason, no matter how rich I already was.


Or I'd sit there, clicking away at a tree that stood still, waiting for lumber to fill my inventory so I could make useless campfires. Oh boy, how boring those days where. But I was envious, I wanted to chop down those shining magic trees, selling the magic lumber for thousands.


And it never ended. After one job, there was another. After one quest, there was another. After one sale, there was another. After aquiring one rare, there were thousands of others.


You must do pointless tasks to progress, these take up your time.
You then do the tasks to gain gold/equipment for your travels.
Your travels then provide gold/experience for more travels.
And so on..


There's no real game that gives you all the option of Runescape with all the purpose of Runescape. I felt like a moron chopping down trees in Mabinogi, and in Free Realms mining seems pointless since I have no desire to do anything with it later on.


In most other games with jobs like Runescape, you do the jobs simply to level up. You don't make a ton of money of them, the spoils of the trade aren't amazing, and after you've leveled it up there's nothing to do then. The quests are done simply to level up jobs, not for enjoyment like the quests in Runescape. The minigames are irrelevant to the jobs, making them a non-factor in your ambition to level up. The games seem more like I'm playing a Fable-type RPG than a MMO.




I'd kill for a new game where I could somehow convince myself that clicking on images of rocks that don't look like rocks was rewarding enough to continue forward. The only change would be a better combat system.

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Elegy

Most games you can get max level and get bored in a month or two.. runescape has years of gameplay (or at least did back when I started), and there is just so much content for 6 dollars its ridiculous. The annoying kiddy community is a setback, though.