Do a video on how people use to kill players cutting ivy with toads from the swamp near castle wars, or just alot of people with 3 toads each killing players that were afk for their items.
@@user-pr6zj9du9t we had no idea how drop tables worked, and it took forever to kill a handful of them. As far as a we knew, we couldve got rich, because they were the toughest f2p monsters besides the greaters and revenants in the wildy. It wasn't efficient training in the slightest, too, but karamja docks were POPPING.
Fun fact: The player in those 2nd Castle Wars clips 'Im4eversmart' actually made/contributed to the majority of the old RuneHQ quest guides. From screenshots of cutscenes in his full dragon that younger me was insanely jealous of, to mapping out entire puzzles or areas like Tirannwn. I'm sure there were many more users who contributed but I used to see his name all over that website.
Back in a day fishing and cooking was like some kind of meditation. The sound effects made it better. Even things like PKing and NPC killing were more enjoyable. They didn't keep that same spirit later on.
@@lolsamftw Yes and no. We were kids but the game engine was also way more attractive. The community was different. And the times were different too everything was more simple.
World standing on the front of Varrock castle wall in worlds 1 and 2. Showing off your fashionscape and saying hey to the regulars. Around 2003 lol It really was like a bar for 8 year olds.
My buddy and I spent an ENTIRE summer fishing dressed as Pirates in like 2007. We just fished and talked… made some money. It was so chill and fun. A great memory.
World 31 (and iirc world 30 prior) house parties were packed from 2006-2012. Not just gilded altar prayer training either. People would throw huge parties where you could socialize, fight other players or monsters in their house dungeon/combat ring, play games, hold contests, etc. I wasted so much time in Rimmington as a kid. That place was so packed sometimes you'd have to wait in a queue just to get into world 31, just like world 2. I'm surprised more people don't talk about OG house parties.
so in terms of multi-logging in the past, you could but most people didn't know how to. it would actually block you from multi-logging unless you logged into both accounts at the same time.
I literally remember doing that and thought I was some kind of RS hacker as a kid because I was logging in at the same time into 2 different accounts lmao
Some things I remember that is mostly not prevalent today: Honor pkers Different internet slang (soz, Choob, etc) Rc runners RS preachers. Not sure if y’all remember the players that would go around preaching the gospel but it wasn’t uncommon
I remember those yea. Remember making a pk group from scratch at wilderness ditch east varrock and going for a trip with randoms in 2004-2006, those were fun times. I mainly miss social aspect, now its all just efficiency and "not worth" if theres not a lot of gp involved.
@@pacman_pol_pl_polska lolol no they are all self entitled pieces of war mongering shitstains. They pretend to be enlightened. Pretend they were moral. But there is nothing moral in a forced war. They are all equal parts devil and God. For there is no just cause to murder.
The grand exchange ruined runescape for me I know that's not a popular opinion but I really liked how full of life varrock used to be when you had to sell stuff through trades
the gamign world just changed, no one is going to want to sit and type buying items to do a quest or skill or boss for potentially a long time or scowering the forums to do stuff u wanna do. its better off as a memory as an osrs player
Multi logging wasn't allowed for a couple reasons. The old rules said you weren't allowed to interact with other accounts of your own or something to that nature. It also didnt allow you to log in on more than one account at a time per IP, but you were able to get around that if you click login on both as quick as you could.
Back in 2007 when I started playing (f2p) I was scared to leave Lumbridge, for some reason I thought that the further you go from the castle the more in danger you will be, so my money making methods were gather all sorts of resources around the Lummy castle and then sell them to the general store for a few coins. Back then general stores were very popularly used as a way to buy/sell things. I remember making my first few thousand gold and then camping the store for some random items, stuff like mithril gear and above would hit the general store and instantly be bought by someone, I remember buying my first set of armor that way. I quit the game sooner after and only came back close to half a year later when Godwars came out. That's around when RUclips montages/videos started to get some traction on RUclips, and sooner after I started following some RUclipsrs, the first few money making video methods started showing up, I couldn't do them, so I kept on grinding, but this time I got to know about Falador and Varrock (still in f2p). I remember quitting sooner after again only to come back in 2009 with trade restrictions up. It was a different game now, but it was during trade limit that I learned you could do stuff like turning ores into bars for money, that's how I made my first 100k, I still have pictures to this date of my first few thousand steel bars sold for a tiny bit of profit, the whole game had opened for me. I could now hunt for that 2.5mil guthix set or maybe one day the 5mil Saradomin or Zamorak set. The grinding mindset got to me, it only took me finding a way to make some good coin for Runescape to make more sense to me, sooner after by the end of 2009 I was rocking my full Guthix but already putting my eyes on this item ~20m item called "Blue H'ween Mask" instead of the Zamorak Armor set I wanted at first, and one day I got hacked and cleaned for like 10mil and spent the next day buying harpoons to sell on the GE for profit to help me make my first 1mil back. I kept on playing on and off, only after Free Trade in 2010 I played in P2p for the first time, I finally had convinced my parents to lend me 10€ to buy a membership card, I was already base 75 combat with 35 Ranged but 55+ magic and some very decent skilling stats 70+. It was funny because I had put my eyes on all these member items I wanted at some point, and the day I paid my membership I was so rich from f2p that I could buy some of them, like day 1 Fury, D boots, Whip and Verac's Skirt. From there on it's history, I just learned to play the game and maxed all sorts of accounts as I got to learn more and more, both RS2 and later in 2013 also OSRS. I kind of went off topic at some points, but the beauty of Runescape has been kind of what I wrote above. Back in the days, way more people played the game as a "first timer", those people got to know about the game from way different sources than nowadays. A RUclips search back then would show almost nothing "Guide" wise, hell nobody would even attempt to search that to begin with, and older websites gave really rough and unoptimized text based guides on things, which younger me couldn't even read to begin with (I was still a beginner in English Language), so we just had to improvise and do a lot of trial and error and research to find out how the game works. Nowadays it's very different, you are always 1 click away from being hand fed every little thing that there is to know about the game. If any game mode comes out, there's enough of a database to make the Top 10k of every leaderboard a challenge to even attempt to achieve. We as a community simply had way to much time and tools in our disposition to maximize every bit of gameplay there is to know. (You can go back to 2008 Pking montages to realize people weren't using Gmaul the same way people do these days; no such thing as 3 kinds of tick eating food, people would sometimes even lose ticks while potting up; the list goes on and on). It's kind of nice to go back sometimes and remember all of these things, even as far back as 2013 when people said "it won't be the same, OSRS will never be 2007", but then 8 years in advance we remember 2013 as a whole different game way more difficult and challenging, but even in 2013 times were different, the Wiki has evolved, we now have RUclipsrs/Twitch Streamers whose job is literally playing the game, layers on top of layers. There's no going back, and the most we can do at this point in time in 2021 is trying to create account locked accounts and even Jagex themselves coming up with Restricted Game Modes (Group ironman), to kind of give us a taste on how good the old days were.
Wow totally forgot how popular general stores were back then. I remember waiting in Varrock square general store in world 1 waiting for any good items to pop up. Def bought some mith and addy gear that way. Thanks for that memory dude
05:50 as a player that started playing rs in 2007 i can say this was the best time ever! you would talk for hourse and just chill run to the bank run back talk even more.. People giving you music to look up and then you could talk about that aswell, or trow 99 party's and stuff like that now as a 25y old. Knowing runscape was a escape for me and this kind of video's bring back so much good memories! I only havve one buddy still playing osrs. Good times!
Loved this upload man. This video was filled with so much nostalgia. I do wish that gathering skills were more social like they used to be. It made me the skiller I am today expect now its all about xp.
I got 99 fishing in 2008 because I was in college and had lots of work and could play RS and still study. People were so much more talkative, you could ask people what levels, what are they doing later. People would show off their fashionscape. Just a different time lol
i remember a while back some dude was crashing me at bloodvelds in the slayer tower but he missclicked and went into the room with the Aberrant spectre and he didnt have a nosepeg and got dropped i proceeded to loot his karils top and his fury lol
Nostalgia is more about your age rather than what the videogame was at the time. We all miss trading in Varrock west bank because it reminds us from when we were young, but it's more the memory of it rather than actually standing there for 30 minutes trying to buy a rune scimmy but ending up being scammed for a noted iron scimmy.
Remember back in the day in restricted areas "open the door so I can run through" or when you couldn't trade an item "drop it and i'll pick it up" lololol
Seeing the people trading with all the text changes really started to jog the memory. I remember people asking and others holding the secret on how to red wave the text or something
I've drop traded a good few times across accounts. I remember one time I caught someone trying to drop trade full Sara Rune and managed to get the Legs and Kite for myself. Increased my bank value quite a lot.
@ 11:00 I think the reason for drop-trading being so prevalent was less due to fear of multi-logging and more so simply due to it being the early 2000s. Internet cafes were still a thing and most households only had 1 computer, assuming they had 1 at all. You didn't have a laptop, second PC, phone, tablet, etc to log-in on a second account and trade yourself.
I remember as a kid playing back in '07-08 I used to run a runecrafting 'airbus' between east fally bank and the air altar for people to follow, or sometimes between the varrock bank and the essence mines in the f2p runecrafting world, and a couple dozen people would always hop on board and be spamming 'choo choo' with every conceivable effect or just chatting. Got to almost 70 rc in f2p just crafting air runes. good times, haha
I use to love Catherby fishing back in the day it was the equivalent to wintertodt with less toxicity same as old bh where everyone would sit near ditch gathering ep those were the good days.
multi logging actually did have enforcement in the form of telling you that you already had an account logged into that world, thats why he felt the need to drop trade, but if you logged in the accounts at the same time you could get them both on the same world
The whole thing involving drop trading used to be insane around 2005-2007. Was a whole community of people hunting drop trades. I spent a good amount of time looting these, typically around lumbridge castle area, people line up their accounts etc, and it was a whole other game trying to add "white dots" logging out from the minimap, in the event they hopped worlds, so you could find them. Sometimes there'd be a stack of 10 or more looter alts which all logged in at the same time to try and loot someone's drop trade. Pretty hilarious. You'd basically have a bunch of accounts scattered about where you could really quickly log out/log into them in common drop trade spots (often logging in underneath them lol).
Thanks to you i just picked up the new one, and even in this new changed one decade later, i can see the appeal. I wish i'd been back then with guys. During that era i was in vanilla WOW and everquest
In terms of drop trading to another account; I lost player mod in 2006 because I drop traded to another account. I have never met anyone else who got punished for drop trading.
Unfortunately very few people would find pure castle wars fun and most of the community base would just end up farming it for xp by not actually playing if it was worth the xp, otherwise the minigame would still be dead
i miss hanging out with all the cool kids on f2p worlds that would sit outside the front of the varrock castle with all their mems items or trimmed armor
@@Jerem0y it was like a more social version of bankstanding, just some chads in fashionscape chatting with the noobs who happened to actually make it to varrock
Loved your video and the humor you snuck in it. Been playing Runescape for nearly 20 years and can say I loved these old clips and the old methods of how we used to play. Great memories. I remember my cousin completing Monkey Madness in 2005 without a guide and worshiping him because he had a red sword :P
6:15 is so relatable, I remember thinking I had a massive schlong with my torag/dfs and whip being a giga tank taking 0 damage and putting no effort in but now these days by the time I use a healing item, swap to the prayers and activate protect from magic, the mage I was fighting had teleported 30 metres to me, swapped to a set of full melee dps gear and d'claw speced me into the fuckin shadow realm
i actually was safe spotting Ogress warriors a month or so ago with d halberd an i had multiple people pass by me confused as shit as to what the weapon was an why i could hit npc form 2 spot away but still do melee damage
I quit playing originally before the grand exchange was a thing, so when I started playing old school about a year ago I had never heard of it. For the first couple weeks probably I basically played as an iron man on a normal account and would stand in banks trying to buy and sell things and no one would respond, so I was just like wth how do I get things? So I sold everything to the general store for dirt cheap. I really wish I had been recording footage from the beginning because it was just a hilariously dunce couple weeks 😭
Just a quick tidbit about those overplayed songs from early RS videos, there's a good reason those songs were overplayed. RUclips had a list of songs it provided to users at that time that you could throw over any video, those overplayed songs were what youtube offered to you.
Resource gathering has never really been a viable way to make money. The innocence of making 2m by selling your magic logs after a couple weeks of chopping seemed like insane money back then. You could make 2m doing that now, in way less time, but we’ve grown up and realised it’s an inefficient way of making money. Most of the player base are adults now and have the know how to master ToA or ToB; the equivalent back then was Barrows, KQ, or GWD which maybe 5% of the younger player base could do consistently. Everyone back then knew how to chop a tree or click a fishing spot. That’s the difference really.
Woah, blast to the past! At 8:35 you can see Dudefish 15, a friend of MaxBoison's, talking in chat. He made Runescape videos back in the day. God I miss that era.
I really miss the good ol' days... My buddy and I ran a big castle wars clan on w24 back in i wanna say... 09? I made so many friends and had such incredible memories..
Man i remember fishing the whole day at karamja island (f2p) or chopping all day at the grand exchange :D This have been the days maaaaan nostalgia is reeeal
Same. I tried to jump back into FPS with a friend a while back. We used to consistently smash public lobbies in CoD and Battlefield back in the day during the CoD4 to Black Ops 1 era. We picked up Battlefield V, and we got absolutely destroyed and trash talked by some 14 year old streamer on the other team. It was a real 'fuck, I'm old' moment.
:O I actually used to play with varinathras (: He's in the castle war clip lmao... ahh memories, 1 day he was playing, the next he never came back lmao. I'm still lowkey salty over no stealing creations btw.
Working for someone for gp. I remember working all day one day for some guy I got like 20,000 feathers and got 50k and bought a rune plate body. Then my “boss” said trade me it he’ll try to fix it and then I’m sure you can imagine the rest lol
For drop trading, the base client would give you some message about already being connected if you tried to login two accounts. Would had to use two different PCs (I'm sure there's other ways)
Drop parties, bank sales, castle wars such good times. I haven’t played RuneScape since 2010-2011. I hear osrs is fun and I’d like to give it a try, but times and people/internet has changed so it’ll never be the same, maybe I will one day.
with multilogging if you opened up two internet windows the game client literally wouldnt let you log in to the other account because it would say someone from the same IP is already logged in
i miss the games like stealing creations and barbarian assult. use to spend many many days there. also another i can garuntee youll never see anyone in. great orb project. i use to run a 50/50 clan for that game
I used to pm all my friends "hi" when I logged in and would do that for like 20 minutes and talk to them before logging in, until they stopped responding.
Back in the day youtube had an option to add a background song when uploading and there was only a selection of like 15 songs they had a license for and it was the songs you always hear on vids back then
This video is honestly awesome though, this really is the RS I miss. OS is a fake knock off :( but amazing vid, I bet we crossed paths back in the day!
The only thing I know about the card game is that they used the same art in some advertisements for RuneScape. The one that sticks out is the one of Kreearra with his wings spread screaming at the camera. I have no idea what any others are lol
Back in the day u got blocked out from multi logging on the same world, at least in rs2 I remember having to insta click login both clients to cheese the login block
How I relate to these old school rs vids. Spending hours using my Rune Hally on Black Demons under edge getting rune med and chain drops. Made absolute bank going to canafis, buying all the coloured clothing and selling the sets 10kea in my bank sale. Making good friends at cammy fishing spot. I was a massive drop trader to all my pure accounts when my irl friend wasn't online. I still remember the most bizarre experience, drop trading in lummy swamp when someone logged in next to me, did the panic emote a few times and had tick on all my pure gear! My heart was pounding out my chest haha I still can't explain it to this day, I would use all kinds of spots to drop trade but this guy just somehow soul read me.
Fishing for money still good, especially sailfish , definitely not as chatty tho. And where do u find castle war games these days, I need to do a task there for comp
RUclips is notorious for copyright as I’m sure you know. They used to have a set list of approved tracks, most were shit, the ones you mentioned were about the only decent ones, hence their over use.
Ironically, the whole skilling for GP is something you still see happening in RS3 albeit uncommon, so it's nice either fishing or mining and having fun conversations for people.
Another reason why people drop traded was because their computers couldn't run two web pages with the game at once. Also, another thing people don't do anymore is hang out in friend groups at lumbridge castle and varrock castle benches on world 3.
Love these types of videos.. I can relate to the reflexes at castle wars lmao things are insaneee these days.. also enjoy anything RSC based too =) RSCVanilla is always around if you feel like getting another dose of that sweet nostalgia ~~
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Shows how many bots there really are, worlds will be mainly full but content is so top heavy, also there are so many dead areas vs before.
Do a video on how people use to kill players cutting ivy with toads from the swamp near castle wars, or just alot of people with 3 toads each killing players that were afk for their items.
Back in f2p 2006-2007, I used to kill lessers on crandor after fishing lobs. Those rune med helm drops were everything lmaooo
Real shit haha
this would entertain me for days on end
@@user-pr6zj9du9t we had no idea how drop tables worked, and it took forever to kill a handful of them. As far as a we knew, we couldve got rich, because they were the toughest f2p monsters besides the greaters and revenants in the wildy. It wasn't efficient training in the slightest, too, but karamja docks were POPPING.
@@FrankiePhoenix this was endgame f2p to me lmao but it was so inefficient
omg me2 :D i miss those times soo much!
10:44 Zezima on the friend's list is peak 2006-2008 scape.
Fun fact: The player in those 2nd Castle Wars clips 'Im4eversmart' actually made/contributed to the majority of the old RuneHQ quest guides. From screenshots of cutscenes in his full dragon that younger me was insanely jealous of, to mapping out entire puzzles or areas like Tirannwn. I'm sure there were many more users who contributed but I used to see his name all over that website.
Thats super cool! I knew it was a runehq event based on the original video description, but the additional info is mad cool.
Runehq is my go to still to this day for quests and they still update it with new quests. Sick churdley pic btw 😃
Tbh it doesn’t mean it’s him lmao..
I remember the wall outside of castle wars was the spot to high alch
Still is sometimes
Not gonna lie, I used to scam out there like 13 years ago.
Same lol I recently mentioned this to a cc member of mine
Alching yew longs
Back in a day fishing and cooking was like some kind of meditation. The sound effects made it better. Even things like PKing and NPC killing were more enjoyable. They didn't keep that same spirit later on.
Because you were younger and time didnt matter that much
Was an afk method then, can’t imagine anyone’s pays attention and watches there character fish aimlessly, same with woodcutting
@@klontic Most people paid attention and random events prevented AfKing. People also used to talk to each other a lot during those activities.
@@klontic We were all excited kids back then enjoying a whole new world that was runescape.
@@lolsamftw Yes and no. We were kids but the game engine was also way more attractive. The community was different. And the times were different too everything was more simple.
I miss selling fires and fishing on the docks chatting. Seems like hardly anybody talks anymore on RS and I miss that social aspect.
Maybe we can chat lol
everyone does the talking in discord or clan chat now
@@hhhenge not that much in clan chat or discord. Maybe I need a new clan
@@andrewb5894 you play RS?
@@mollycrochets yesss:) I do ☺️
World standing on the front of Varrock castle wall in worlds 1 and 2. Showing off your fashionscape and saying hey to the regulars. Around 2003 lol
It really was like a bar for 8 year olds.
That was still going on up to 2006
Man seeing that old website jagex layout brings back memories man this was old school RuneScape we all know and love
My buddy and I spent an ENTIRE summer fishing dressed as Pirates in like 2007. We just fished and talked… made some money. It was so chill and fun. A great memory.
I wore a frog suit and red boots and pole fished back before they changed the animations so it looked like my guy was never mind :>
World 31 (and iirc world 30 prior) house parties were packed from 2006-2012. Not just gilded altar prayer training either. People would throw huge parties where you could socialize, fight other players or monsters in their house dungeon/combat ring, play games, hold contests, etc. I wasted so much time in Rimmington as a kid. That place was so packed sometimes you'd have to wait in a queue just to get into world 31, just like world 2. I'm surprised more people don't talk about OG house parties.
Simpler times man! Sometimes I wish we could get the atmosphere of the game back closer to this when it was actually seen as a game to have fun in.
If we could only go back 10 years. Just enjoy it for the fresh content and get them stats and gear you always dreamed of
so in terms of multi-logging in the past, you could but most people didn't know how to. it would actually block you from multi-logging unless you logged into both accounts at the same time.
I literally remember doing that and thought I was some kind of RS hacker as a kid because I was logging in at the same time into 2 different accounts lmao
Some things I remember that is mostly not prevalent today:
Honor pkers
Different internet slang (soz, Choob, etc)
Rc runners
RS preachers. Not sure if y’all remember the players that would go around preaching the gospel but it wasn’t uncommon
I remember those yea. Remember making a pk group from scratch at wilderness ditch east varrock and going for a trip with randoms in 2004-2006, those were fun times. I mainly miss social aspect, now its all just efficiency and "not worth" if theres not a lot of gp involved.
I used to role play preach with my zamorak God book and full zamorak attire. Just spewing zamorak evil rhetoric and stuff.
Not real God shit lol
@@wscheets1600 Zamorak is Satan. REPENT!
@@pacman_pol_pl_polska lolol no they are all self entitled pieces of war mongering shitstains. They pretend to be enlightened. Pretend they were moral. But there is nothing moral in a forced war. They are all equal parts devil and God.
For there is no just cause to murder.
@@wscheets1600 calm down fedora, go back to reddit
The grand exchange ruined runescape for me I know that's not a popular opinion but I really liked how full of life varrock used to be when you had to sell stuff through trades
the gamign world just changed, no one is going to want to sit and type buying items to do a quest or skill or boss for potentially a long time or scowering the forums to do stuff u wanna do. its better off as a memory as an osrs player
That's when I quit as well, I really loved the atmosphere with all the different chat effects going. It gave the game life.
100% agree ive always felt the same way about the G.E, it ruined the game in that way
Yeah wandering main street to spot good deals and trades were the times, in hindsight it even was the base of my professional career.
I used to wake up and my auto merch bots that spammed "selling v tabs 750 ea!!" Would have 10mill plus in sales each, I will always miss the days 😢
Multi logging wasn't allowed for a couple reasons. The old rules said you weren't allowed to interact with other accounts of your own or something to that nature. It also didnt allow you to log in on more than one account at a time per IP, but you were able to get around that if you click login on both as quick as you could.
the trick was to have both windows open and hit enter to log in on 1 while hovering over the login button on the other window
Yup! Minimize one tap
I use to log into 3 accounts in the time
Back in 2007 when I started playing (f2p) I was scared to leave Lumbridge, for some reason I thought that the further you go from the castle the more in danger you will be, so my money making methods were gather all sorts of resources around the Lummy castle and then sell them to the general store for a few coins. Back then general stores were very popularly used as a way to buy/sell things. I remember making my first few thousand gold and then camping the store for some random items, stuff like mithril gear and above would hit the general store and instantly be bought by someone, I remember buying my first set of armor that way.
I quit the game sooner after and only came back close to half a year later when Godwars came out. That's around when RUclips montages/videos started to get some traction on RUclips, and sooner after I started following some RUclipsrs, the first few money making video methods started showing up, I couldn't do them, so I kept on grinding, but this time I got to know about Falador and Varrock (still in f2p).
I remember quitting sooner after again only to come back in 2009 with trade restrictions up. It was a different game now, but it was during trade limit that I learned you could do stuff like turning ores into bars for money, that's how I made my first 100k, I still have pictures to this date of my first few thousand steel bars sold for a tiny bit of profit, the whole game had opened for me. I could now hunt for that 2.5mil guthix set or maybe one day the 5mil Saradomin or Zamorak set. The grinding mindset got to me, it only took me finding a way to make some good coin for Runescape to make more sense to me, sooner after by the end of 2009 I was rocking my full Guthix but already putting my eyes on this item ~20m item called "Blue H'ween Mask" instead of the Zamorak Armor set I wanted at first, and one day I got hacked and cleaned for like 10mil and spent the next day buying harpoons to sell on the GE for profit to help me make my first 1mil back.
I kept on playing on and off, only after Free Trade in 2010 I played in P2p for the first time, I finally had convinced my parents to lend me 10€ to buy a membership card, I was already base 75 combat with 35 Ranged but 55+ magic and some very decent skilling stats 70+. It was funny because I had put my eyes on all these member items I wanted at some point, and the day I paid my membership I was so rich from f2p that I could buy some of them, like day 1 Fury, D boots, Whip and Verac's Skirt. From there on it's history, I just learned to play the game and maxed all sorts of accounts as I got to learn more and more, both RS2 and later in 2013 also OSRS.
I kind of went off topic at some points, but the beauty of Runescape has been kind of what I wrote above. Back in the days, way more people played the game as a "first timer", those people got to know about the game from way different sources than nowadays. A RUclips search back then would show almost nothing "Guide" wise, hell nobody would even attempt to search that to begin with, and older websites gave really rough and unoptimized text based guides on things, which younger me couldn't even read to begin with (I was still a beginner in English Language), so we just had to improvise and do a lot of trial and error and research to find out how the game works.
Nowadays it's very different, you are always 1 click away from being hand fed every little thing that there is to know about the game. If any game mode comes out, there's enough of a database to make the Top 10k of every leaderboard a challenge to even attempt to achieve. We as a community simply had way to much time and tools in our disposition to maximize every bit of gameplay there is to know. (You can go back to 2008 Pking montages to realize people weren't using Gmaul the same way people do these days; no such thing as 3 kinds of tick eating food, people would sometimes even lose ticks while potting up; the list goes on and on).
It's kind of nice to go back sometimes and remember all of these things, even as far back as 2013 when people said "it won't be the same, OSRS will never be 2007", but then 8 years in advance we remember 2013 as a whole different game way more difficult and challenging, but even in 2013 times were different, the Wiki has evolved, we now have RUclipsrs/Twitch Streamers whose job is literally playing the game, layers on top of layers. There's no going back, and the most we can do at this point in time in 2021 is trying to create account locked accounts and even Jagex themselves coming up with Restricted Game Modes (Group ironman), to kind of give us a taste on how good the old days were.
Wow totally forgot how popular general stores were back then. I remember waiting in Varrock square general store in world 1 waiting for any good items to pop up. Def bought some mith and addy gear that way. Thanks for that memory dude
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I remember a bug with the original castlewars where you could leave the waiting room as a sheep and walk around the map like that. =D
05:50 as a player that started playing rs in 2007 i can say this was the best time ever! you would talk for hourse and just chill run to the bank run back talk even more..
People giving you music to look up and then you could talk about that aswell, or trow 99 party's and stuff like that now as a 25y old. Knowing runscape was a escape for me and this kind of video's bring back so much good memories! I only havve one buddy still playing osrs. Good times!
Loved this upload man. This video was filled with so much nostalgia. I do wish that gathering skills were more social like they used to be. It made me the skiller I am today expect now its all about xp.
The social element really makes it.. used to wc magics in seers all the time with my gang lol
@@rs_cruze hell yeah! I used to go on “mining expeditions” with a group of friends. Just conga line to varrock mine and back to the bank. Good times
I got 99 fishing in 2008 because I was in college and had lots of work and could play RS and still study. People were so much more talkative, you could ask people what levels, what are they doing later. People would show off their fashionscape. Just a different time lol
i remember a while back some dude was crashing me at bloodvelds in the slayer tower but he missclicked and went into the room with the Aberrant spectre and he didnt have a nosepeg and got dropped i proceeded to loot his karils top and his fury lol
Nostalgia is more about your age rather than what the videogame was at the time. We all miss trading in Varrock west bank because it reminds us from when we were young, but it's more the memory of it rather than actually standing there for 30 minutes trying to buy a rune scimmy but ending up being scammed for a noted iron scimmy.
Remember back in the day in restricted areas "open the door so I can run through" or when you couldn't trade an item "drop it and i'll pick it up" lololol
How about the nostalgia of being able to visit the grand exchange without seeing multiple bots running bets. Boy those were some quiet days.
Only go to the GE on total worlds solely to avoid bots
There was no GE back in my day it was world 2 falador park. Refreshing over and over to get into the server cuz it was always full
Seeing the people trading with all the text changes really started to jog the memory. I remember people asking and others holding the secret on how to red wave the text or something
"Drop a barricade, do a 360 in the air and cropdust you in the face, and then are down the stairs and halfway across the freakin' map." Gold
Constant revolving door of these 3 songs.
That had me laughing so hard, so true to.
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
I've drop traded a good few times across accounts. I remember one time I caught someone trying to drop trade full Sara Rune and managed to get the Legs and Kite for myself. Increased my bank value quite a lot.
XD savage
Don't boast. I hated ppl like u
@ 11:00 I think the reason for drop-trading being so prevalent was less due to fear of multi-logging and more so simply due to it being the early 2000s. Internet cafes were still a thing and most households only had 1 computer, assuming they had 1 at all. You didn't have a laptop, second PC, phone, tablet, etc to log-in on a second account and trade yourself.
I remember as a kid playing back in '07-08 I used to run a runecrafting 'airbus' between east fally bank and the air altar for people to follow, or sometimes between the varrock bank and the essence mines in the f2p runecrafting world, and a couple dozen people would always hop on board and be spamming 'choo choo' with every conceivable effect or just chatting. Got to almost 70 rc in f2p just crafting air runes. good times, haha
I use to love Catherby fishing back in the day it was the equivalent to wintertodt with less toxicity same as old bh where everyone would sit near ditch gathering ep those were the good days.
Bank sales were the shit I remember being able to get shit half off
multi logging actually did have enforcement in the form of telling you that you already had an account logged into that world, thats why he felt the need to drop trade, but if you logged in the accounts at the same time you could get them both on the same world
The whole thing involving drop trading used to be insane around 2005-2007. Was a whole community of people hunting drop trades. I spent a good amount of time looting these, typically around lumbridge castle area, people line up their accounts etc, and it was a whole other game trying to add "white dots" logging out from the minimap, in the event they hopped worlds, so you could find them. Sometimes there'd be a stack of 10 or more looter alts which all logged in at the same time to try and loot someone's drop trade. Pretty hilarious. You'd basically have a bunch of accounts scattered about where you could really quickly log out/log into them in common drop trade spots (often logging in underneath them lol).
Axe heads falling off, tree spirits attacking you along with Dr Hyde, when people would sell magic logs just to scam you real fast with willow logs.
hey runescape historian, i watch your videos at lunch when i'm at work. they are the perfect length and all the little fun facts are great.
Thanks to you i just picked up the new one, and even in this new changed one decade later, i can see the appeal. I wish i'd been back then with guys. During that era i was in vanilla WOW and everquest
Man this bring back memories, castle wars was lit back in the day
I used to hate getting crop-dusting at Castle Wars
In terms of drop trading to another account; I lost player mod in 2006 because I drop traded to another account. I have never met anyone else who got punished for drop trading.
I really want them to bring castle wars back some how on RS3.
Maybe if it gave you like XP lamps or something crazy for doing good in castle wars.
Unfortunately very few people would find pure castle wars fun and most of the community base would just end up farming it for xp by not actually playing if it was worth the xp, otherwise the minigame would still be dead
Hilariously, the music thing resonates with me so much. 30 seconds to mars - the kill, was also one of the songs pretty much on loop lmao
i miss hanging out with all the cool kids on f2p worlds that would sit outside the front of the varrock castle with all their mems items or trimmed armor
them were the times that was my spot. Spent a lot of time there, and no one is ever in that spot today lol
@@Jerem0y it was like a more social version of bankstanding, just some chads in fashionscape chatting with the noobs who happened to actually make it to varrock
Loved your video and the humor you snuck in it. Been playing Runescape for nearly 20 years and can say I loved these old clips and the old methods of how we used to play. Great memories. I remember my cousin completing Monkey Madness in 2005 without a guide and worshiping him because he had a red sword :P
I used to safe spot Moss Giants north of Ardy with a rune halberd. There were always other people there hanging out and training too. Good times.
It's so funny cause I came back to osrs 1 week ago and I do use the Dragon Hally to safespot, mostly when I'm using my phone
6:15 is so relatable, I remember thinking I had a massive schlong with my torag/dfs and whip being a giga tank taking 0 damage and putting no effort in but now these days by the time I use a healing item, swap to the prayers and activate protect from magic, the mage I was fighting had teleported 30 metres to me, swapped to a set of full melee dps gear and d'claw speced me into the fuckin shadow realm
i actually was safe spotting Ogress warriors a month or so ago with d halberd an i had multiple people pass by me confused as shit as to what the weapon was an why i could hit npc form 2 spot away but still do melee damage
I quit playing originally before the grand exchange was a thing, so when I started playing old school about a year ago I had never heard of it. For the first couple weeks probably I basically played as an iron man on a normal account and would stand in banks trying to buy and sell things and no one would respond, so I was just like wth how do I get things? So I sold everything to the general store for dirt cheap. I really wish I had been recording footage from the beginning because it was just a hilariously dunce couple weeks 😭
Just a quick tidbit about those overplayed songs from early RS videos, there's a good reason those songs were overplayed. RUclips had a list of songs it provided to users at that time that you could throw over any video, those overplayed songs were what youtube offered to you.
Resource gathering has never really been a viable way to make money. The innocence of making 2m by selling your magic logs after a couple weeks of chopping seemed like insane money back then. You could make 2m doing that now, in way less time, but we’ve grown up and realised it’s an inefficient way of making money.
Most of the player base are adults now and have the know how to master ToA or ToB; the equivalent back then was Barrows, KQ, or GWD which maybe 5% of the younger player base could do consistently. Everyone back then knew how to chop a tree or click a fishing spot. That’s the difference really.
Love your channel, your videos have so much charm. So much old runescape content I completely forgot about.
Woah, blast to the past! At 8:35 you can see Dudefish 15, a friend of MaxBoison's, talking in chat. He made Runescape videos back in the day. God I miss that era.
I really miss the good ol' days... My buddy and I ran a big castle wars clan on w24 back in i wanna say... 09? I made so many friends and had such incredible memories..
Man i remember fishing the whole day at karamja island (f2p) or chopping all day at the grand exchange :D
This have been the days maaaaan nostalgia is reeeal
Great vid man you earned yourself a subscriber
6:20 man I felt this, my reflexes aren't what they used to be. Especially on fps games
Same. I tried to jump back into FPS with a friend a while back. We used to consistently smash public lobbies in CoD and Battlefield back in the day during the CoD4 to Black Ops 1 era. We picked up Battlefield V, and we got absolutely destroyed and trash talked by some 14 year old streamer on the other team. It was a real 'fuck, I'm old' moment.
:O I actually used to play with varinathras (:
He's in the castle war clip lmao...
ahh memories, 1 day he was playing, the next he never came back lmao.
I'm still lowkey salty over no stealing creations btw.
Working for someone for gp. I remember working all day one day for some guy I got like 20,000 feathers and got 50k and bought a rune plate body. Then my “boss” said trade me it he’ll try to fix it and then I’m sure you can imagine the rest lol
He trimmed it and gave it back 🤣
I used to go pking with my clan in f2p, full rune, for hours. Pretty neat.
For drop trading, the base client would give you some message about already being connected if you tried to login two accounts. Would had to use two different PCs (I'm sure there's other ways)
Drop parties, bank sales, castle wars such good times. I haven’t played RuneScape since 2010-2011. I hear osrs is fun and I’d like to give it a try, but times and people/internet has changed so it’ll never be the same, maybe I will one day.
Dude you are totally the Nickstrengthandpower of Runescape. I love it
with multilogging if you opened up two internet windows the game client literally wouldnt let you log in to the other account because it would say someone from the same IP is already logged in
Im the same age bro. So many memories. If only i knew back then, what i kno now about runescape.
Just come across this channel best thing I’ve found, for someone who has played since 04/05
i miss the games like stealing creations and barbarian assult. use to spend many many days there. also another i can garuntee youll never see anyone in. great orb project. i use to run a 50/50 clan for that game
I remember trying to crumble the walls on players downstairs in castle wars. Good times
Dude thank you for making this. I was thinking about this stuff like last week.
I used to pm all my friends "hi" when I logged in and would do that for like 20 minutes and talk to them before logging in, until they stopped responding.
Bro once again I love your vids!!! I recommend making a video on the prayer curses like Turmoil and how it impacted Pking/PVM.
Love these videos man, can’t wait for the pack to come in! Subbed.
Back in the day youtube had an option to add a background song when uploading and there was only a selection of like 15 songs they had a license for and it was the songs you always hear on vids back then
The only point I'd add is that you can no longer see items if you weren't logged in when they were dropped, so drop trading is now impossible.
This video is honestly awesome though, this really is the RS I miss. OS is a fake knock off :( but amazing vid, I bet we crossed paths back in the day!
Rs3 is way closer to this than osrs
I have yet to meet anyone who knew how the hell trouble brewing actually worked or even enjoyed it
I remember when the GE got added, its all foggy but i can definitely remember the day it was added, huge change to the game
I remember the dragon halberd most at blue dragons next to the baby blues in the corner safe spot
The only thing I know about the card game is that they used the same art in some advertisements for RuneScape. The one that sticks out is the one of Kreearra with his wings spread screaming at the camera.
I have no idea what any others are lol
You forgot about house parties. When people actually hanged out at someone's house. Instead people just use it for transportation and gilded altar
I remember getting a boxing ring was a goal for a lot of people. People wanted a fun filled house to show off with plenty of activities
Back in the day u got blocked out from multi logging on the same world, at least in rs2 I remember having to insta click login both clients to cheese the login block
Drop trading was very big for me in early days of RuneScape
i love your videos so much, everytime you release a new vid im straight onto it. keep up the awesome content :D
10:23 you mentioned losing items to random events! Haha randoms don't even hit you anymore.
I miss pre-Grand Exchange days.
It silenced Runescape for sure. Barely anyone talks anymore. Especially random on random chat.
Sweet nostalgia. :)
How I relate to these old school rs vids.
Spending hours using my Rune Hally on Black Demons under edge getting rune med and chain drops. Made absolute bank going to canafis, buying all the coloured clothing and selling the sets 10kea in my bank sale. Making good friends at cammy fishing spot.
I was a massive drop trader to all my pure accounts when my irl friend wasn't online. I still remember the most bizarre experience, drop trading in lummy swamp when someone logged in next to me, did the panic emote a few times and had tick on all my pure gear! My heart was pounding out my chest haha I still can't explain it to this day, I would use all kinds of spots to drop trade but this guy just somehow soul read me.
Oh wow OS has people that actually play Castle Wars. I had to do it for a RS3 area task and it was difficult to arrange. No players.
That thumbnail is one of the most nostalgic things I've ever seen.
Our boi back with the QUALITY content
Fishing for money still good, especially sailfish , definitely not as chatty tho. And where do u find castle war games these days, I need to do a task there for comp
RUclips is notorious for copyright as I’m sure you know. They used to have a set list of approved tracks, most were shit, the ones you mentioned were about the only decent ones, hence their over use.
awesome content man. thank you
I remember chilling in varry square for hours against the castle walls before you walk the path toward the castle
Ironically, the whole skilling for GP is something you still see happening in RS3 albeit uncommon, so it's nice either fishing or mining and having fun conversations for people.
Another reason why people drop traded was because their computers couldn't run two web pages with the game at once. Also, another thing people don't do anymore is hang out in friend groups at lumbridge castle and varrock castle benches on world 3.
Drop parties when the party room was in Sears village. Running law runes.
u forgot about selling iron/coal certs at draynor and varrock
Love these types of videos.. I can relate to the reflexes at castle wars lmao things are insaneee these days.. also enjoy anything RSC based too =) RSCVanilla is always around if you feel like getting another dose of that sweet nostalgia ~~