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I understand where you're coming from. I figured it'd be better to have something lower effort that's more of a stream of consciousness be exclusive, compared to the highly edited main channel videos I post publicly. If you want some insight onto my experience playing the game, you can pay a little bit to watch it, all my other videos, then unsubscribe if you want. But if you don't want to pay for it, that's fine. You aren't missing any HUGE revelations. It's just something to listen to and hear me in an unscripted format ramble about stuff I think is interesting.
@@PretzelYT really, the only time something like that would actually be annoying and unfair is when someone uses it to let people have access to videos earlier, sometimes more than a week in advance.
The reason why there seems to be a bunch of "meaningless" 2nd floors is because many were added during the lifespan of RuneScape Classic in 2001 and 2002 with usable beds. In RSC, you had "fatigue" that would prevent you from gaining exp. You had to sleep in beds in places and type in a CAPTCHA to reset the fatigue as an anti-bot measure. :)
I’m a very active oldschool RuneScape player, I have hosted several private parties at the Burthorpe Games Room for my clan. We held tournament competitions, the winner of which wins a valuable and symbolic item. Even if that place spends 99.9% of the time empty, I’m still soo glad it exists for the occasional game or party!
I'm glad it exists too. I was doing tree runs a couple days ago, saw that the bank tellers were shouting about a party in Falador. I ran over there and doubled my cash to 5mil with all the items I got. I even got a Dragon Scimitar and Longsword for when I complete the appropriate quests. Thanks to all the older players look out for us newbies 👍
I've played a lot of RuneScape and seen a lot from its content creators. It's really refreshing to see someone take a look at the smaller details instead of powering their way to some crazy goal. Great video!
I just got into the game recently, and while I've enjoyed a lot of those progress videos, I haven't really seen anyone slow down and enjoy the game. Then again, maybe those videos are out there and they just don't get recommended as much. Thanks = )
@@PretzelYT Somebody who has a more reclined video style like this is spook dog. Videos like “25 things you never knew about the wilderness,” “13 secret references to Monty python,” etc. remind me of this kind of video, as well as wildmudkip’s “Mildyly interesting facts in OSRS” series. Hannanie is another person I’d recommend who isn’t crazy grind based either, but grindy videos are definitely the mainstream on OSRS. Hope some of these recommendations are cool, have a good day y’all.
@@PretzelYT There's a YTer cdalled "Flip" that has been taking the game slow and learning it has he goes, and has done a lot of exploring and trial and error to learn things. (Although as of late he's been streaming so people have been giving him tons of help unfortunately)
Vannaka just wasn't there in Edgeville dungeon until the slayer update. He was purely on Tutorial Island and I am not sure he actually introduced himself on Tutorial Island by his name. Everyone always thought he was a badass because he carried a 2h sword and a dragon sq shield.
I believe, though I might be wrong because I've created multiple accounts on this game in the past so I've played tutorial island many times, but I don't believe the sword master introduced his name in the earlier versions, only after he was given. But yeah, it was the first time you get to see someone using something as cool as dragon sq shield and that kept you wondering "how do I get that?" as you attempt to wear goblin mail for the 1000th time.
did anyone else click on everything to examine it? i loved the unique descriptions. i memorized so many of them. one time at the fishing guild, a bunch of us would type them from memory lol.
I have been examining a fair bit of things while I've been playing. Before playing the game, I wouldn't have expected to enjoy the writing as much as I do. It's pretty funny a lot of the time. I just finished the new Easter event and it was cute.
I've played Runescape off and on for over a decade at this point. As people "solved" the game over the years and it became more about grinding out skills, achievements or money than exploring, a lot of ingame areas that were "just for fun" or flavor really kind of died. It's still cool to see when people just slow down and take in the world every now and then.
there's a fully furnished middle floor in that building you spawn in on tutorial island, you can view it with a runelite addon. the ladder was removed in early rs2 beta for the reason you said
10:15 That is what the game looked like, but I could have sworn the "fog" in the distance was pitch black back then. It made the world feel much more gloomy.
I forgot I had a Runelite plugin to make the Skybox blue. 💀 You're right, it's supposed to be black. And I see what you mean about that affecting the vibe of the game. I use that plugin because it makes the game feel more bright and cheery. Pure blackness in the distance is so ominous.
@@PretzelYT To be fair I would have modded it out if I could have. The reason I remembered it so well is because of how much I disliked it back then, ha.
Tutorial island isn't an instance area and you deeply don't know how nerdy some of our players are the wiki team along with many others have definitely scoured every inch of the Tutorial island
Yeah, maybe "instanced" was poor phrasing, considering you can see other players about. It's definitely a separate map from the mainland though, right?
@@PretzelYT yeah its in the same world but when you saw the mining timer there at the south lumby mines if someone would of walked there you could of seen them, you can't interact at all or walk to them. Rendi one of our big glitch finders used a glitch from the node to the main land to leave the tutorial area without actually finishing and its rather interesting but has since been patched. Good video though I can tell you're still new and you'll figure out alot more if you keep playing the game and talking to players
@@PretzelYT it's not separate...it's on Gielinor physically come now guys lol if it were separate it would be instanced as a realm , hope I've helped clear the smoke
I actually played a LOT of Burthorpe games room back in the day. Almost lived there. Had around 2.2k rating on connect 4. When I realised you were approaching the titular room, I suddenly remembered the ranked rooms. They didn't get used much, if I remember rightly. You could challenge from the not rank locked room as a ranked game. Still, it's the one piece of content I would love to see a revival of.
Also, the Mahogany Homes houses in Falador around the fountain were originally going to be used for Player Owned Housing way back in 2001, but Andrew couldn't get it working so it got scrapped and became just empty houses until they added Mahogany Homes.
You said no one's returned to tutorial island but a few people have using instance warps or something like that. They said a npc came up and said "you don't belong here" teleported the player and it opened a report bug interface
I adore this series. As someone learning 3d modeling it's taught me to really appreciate the effort it takes to make a world believable - even the smallest objects need a lot of care and thought to fit in with a location, with so much of it not even meriting a second of the player's time. Someone had to make, texture and place those objects, from giant machines to a single coffee cup, all to make you feel part of the world. A simple shack could've been the pride and joy of an environmental artist and just by taking a few seconds you can make it all worthwhile. A very inspiring series.
Update: rewatching the nostalgia part about render distance and how the game was a web browser game and stuff (all stuff I lived through) and maybe I’m biased because I grew up with it? But that’s how I play the game. Lol. I don’t use GPU or rarely even resizable. I play classic layout and am used to it. It doesn’t bug or bother me, and I have fun doing it. Honestly, it took me a while to get over how fundamentally changed RS3 became when it released, and while I don’t play on the classic layout on that game (my setup is wonky af for sure in RS3), I prefer sticking to fixed in OSRS.
Wow I think you nailed it with respect to render distances. The game was designed such that we'd never see many areas at once. It was deliberately compact because of this. Due to the additional teleports and increased render distances the game feels "smaller" than it did when RS2 came out. I've watched several videos on the impact of this change. It's a little unfortunate with respect to exploration, but necessary in an era where older players are time-poor and don't want to traverse to map to do every activity. We were bewildered by how large the world was when we were younger but we simply don't have the time to explore every nook and cranny today.
My first time on tutorial island I rushed through, but later on i made a group ironman account and really took my time looking around before I left. It’s nice to know other people do that too and thanks for bringing us along! I was hoping you’d go upstairs in the Varrock church! There is an old lady there who you can give a cup of tea to in exchange for some custom dialogue :)
Falador park and varrock west banks were the best places to trade. I also remember a time when burthorpe games room was used. It still wasn't very popular in 06/07 when I played but if you logged on at the right time you could find a couple dozen people playing.. pretty sure I made it into one of those doors :]
If I remember correctly, there was an exclusive music track when you played the organ in the chapel on tutorial island. So most people could never get the music cape.
I actually played it when I was recording the footage for this, but I didn't include it. I looked it up on the wiki, to see if it was the only organ in the game, and apparently there's a few throughout the world. That's hilarious that it locked you out at some point though🤣
Have to say this if you haven't experienced the first 4 minutes rooms you did not start back before having everything handed too you like ice cream. It's really something players from 2007 and earlier can say you literally just watch guides on how to do this and that. Back in the day starting a game for the first time you normally went in with a blank slate which most people forgot how to do. You honestly did explore ever room even if it was pointless it's not much used today but honestly sometimes people found stuff that was hidden just because of that alone and most players did it out of curiosity anyways
Like when I started I knew nothing about the game I sat there and read every single word on tutorial island and went to every spot too make sure I didn't miss anything. It took me over a half hour to just do that alone. Like I said times change over the years now all you either do is use a plugin that shows you how to do it which doesn't bother me for experienced players this is a blessing for new people though you should be going in with the mindset on learning things yourself too.
Or you watch a video guide on how to do that specific task. Like I said though this honestly saves people who played a long time a lot of time instead of them having learn new mechanics constantly it can save them hours of gameplay in minutes that's the good thing but having everything handed to a newer player I feel is cheap :/ that's me though
I totally know what you mean. It's why people prefer Morrowind quests over Skyrim quests, you're forced to read the dialog and journal entries to figure out where you're supposed to go. Interestingly, the base game is kinda like that. But with the community developed Quest Helper plugin (and all the guides online), that fun is taken out of it. The written content and just doing quests for the fun of it isn't really a thing people engage with anymore. They just want to engage with the mechanical systems of the game. Though I would say some of that is the fault of how a lot of the quests are designed. There's so much running back and forth, and OSRS is NOT a game that makes that a fun process. So I can't blame people TOO much for wanting to complete quests in the most efficient ways. I actually talked a little bit about this in my video on Detective Vision, but when given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game. Maybe I could make a whole video on "player optimization", there's a ton to talk about around that.
I'm pretty sure the island isn't instanced. I remember a glitch where players flew back to the island. But jagex coded in a safe guard, if a player found a way back to the island, the drunken dwarf will knock you out and you return to the mainland.
I remember the day the game room was added and it was packed... Jagex was always talking about adding more games and stuff but they never did and it died pretty soon after release..
I love runescape so much. I have over 3 years of gameplay on my main. Let alone the other 80 accounts I've created since 2004. Ive even ran into people in real life, that i had met on runescape like 8 years prior. Its insane how much of my life has been spent on that game. And i dont regret a second of it. Besides giving my cousins password away the first week i started playing lol xD 😅🎉
Tutorial Island isn't actually instanced. If the render distance allowed it, you could see players from that Lumbridge mine area, and south of the wizard's tower.
8:19 This area was originally for Player-Owned Houses in Runescape Classic, but that feature was never brought to that game, and it was entirely reworked into a skill in 2006 - Construction.
11:20 Memory unlocked! Now this is the Runescape I remember. I couldn't have told you how it looked from memory, but this is 100% how I used to play the game as a kid.
That tower in Lumbridge houses Perdu! You can buy you previous quest and diary rewards from him, and recently they buffed quest exp and to receive the bonus exp he's the man you gotta see.
Thank you, I actually learned something. I was expecting you to bring up some room I just forgot about like a Fishing Guild useless room or something, but actually locked content. Great job! I'm curious if that's truly the most exclusive room besides a room meant only for Jmods. Mod Ash is often the person people go to to ask things like this, awesome guy.
It's funny you bring up Mod Ash. I actually tweeted at him to see if he had any numbers on how many players were able to enter the special rooms in there, but he said they don't track that kinda thing.
@@PretzelYT Darn, that's what I thought you did actually was simply ask what the most exclusive room was, but I'm not surprised they don't track the game rooms haha
It's crazy how I've played over 100 hours and feel like I've barely even scratched the surface of the game. I'll keep poking away at it for as long as I can.
The Fally trade zone is correct... I have vivid memories of being there ... specially the dragon equip zone... i sold a lot of rune essences too and was a nice money making back in the day... for a noob ofc abby whip was ~2200k, rune full set ~200k, d med 60k... i have alot of prices in my memory... a lot of typing because auto typers was illegal =o
I heard from a different video that on Tutorial Island, there was originally a staircase leading up to the second floor in the first building. It's said that new players would go up the stairs, get lost and log out, never to play again.
a slight change around 10:20 is that back in the day the sky was always black, not blue and foggy with a slight bit of atmospheric perspective. i loved that little detail as a little edgelord 8th grader in 2005
Someone pointed this out, but I forgot to disable a Runelite plugin that adds the nice blue skybox. I completely forgot the game normally has that spooky black void, I wish I would have remembered so I could bring that up. Could have further nailed home the point that everyone's perspective for the game has changed.
Honestly I kinda wish tutorial island was a place you could later return to. With the one new players are on in a separate instance from the one you return to so new players are left alone. Maybe there could even be some subtle changes to reflect story progression.
As technology advances, and games get more complicated, I still thank RuneScape for at a glance staying the same in all the years its been in the running. There are a lot of unused areas in the game, and it's really cool that you are taking the time to explore them in this video. It really let me know as someone who respects the game and has been playing since 2006 that it's okay to slow down every once in a while. Most players (including content creators) probably use RuneLite and the plugins that come with it. It makes the game more convenient, but it doesn't really help with the vibe of the game. It's all about plugins, max gp per hour, and efficiency in skilling/bossing tasks. I don't think we can ever get back that true adventurous feeling from back in the days of RuneScape. But the game was released as "OldSchool" and it's been alive for 10 years! So hey, I know it may suck that it isn't something we can get back, but we can at least recreate those nostalgic memories. So again, I appreciate that you made this video and really made us veteran players feel that sort of lost "adventure" feeling. This game is so important to me, and I think that the Newbie Melody is perfect for remembering it. The song almost feels like a story of your RuneScape life, and death. Give it a listen again with that in mind, and see what I mean. It's pretty cool!
also you can get on top of bank in lumbridge with the stairs on north side. and you can get on top of the lumbridge gate. Used to hang there sometimes with friends when we were young was like a meeting point.
October 2005 here as well! Known about the game earlier that year being on Miniclips, but saw that it had a price tag and wrote it off as some scam game until my cousin introduced it to me.
big mercher back in the day, i can tell you that the map of falador was more of a guide but was followed much closer than you might think a bunch of teenagers and kids would
I love giving attention to little details in games that the devs probably barely give a second thought to aside from adding to the fullness of the world
First time on your channel. Just wanna say I LOVE the moments where you just have shots of scenery and play BGM. Throwing in the timer bar is just amazing QoL and awareness. This game is awesome btw, if anyone's not played it. Have a few friends I've only ever known from old school. One whom I've even bought doordash/cigs for on hard times. This is one of the FEW games with GENUINE good people(there's still trolls so be cautious and safe). The bonds I've made through that pixilated world... wouldn't trade em for a thing!
It's also entirely visible, making it an even more egregious and purposeful misdirect. Sucks how many people do gross stuff like that and take the fun out of watching.
I can tell you for certain that if you wanted to sell lobsters in Fally back in the day you HAD to stand on or near the bridge Also, nobody followed that map at all, the majority would be near the bank or the bridge
Back when it was against TOS, I used to drop trade in those isolated places on the map to reduce chances of other users snatching my loot and/or reporting me. Of course modern Jagex no longer cares if you trade with yourself.
One of the things I used to do as a kid was just explore all of the stray rooms in the game. In terms of how the main cities are placed, they genuinely feel interesting to walk through. Not to insult any other particular games, but there are a lot where the world is open but it feels like any place I go is the same as the last. I think Runescape has a very good, medium sense of scale for most of the map.
Triple commenting because I'm just thinking about stuff as I watch. The short render distance reminds me a lot of why I liked biking. 'Cause cars are more convenient but it feels like you just pass everything before you can even think about it. On my bicycle I could still get to places in less than half a day but still had the time to look and appreciate all the stuff people were just doing in the world.
One of the things that really sucked last time I played Runescape was that I desperately wanted to socialize and play minigames, but any content that doesn't give rewards falls out of favor. I had a blast playing Trouble Brewing, but most people playing sat afk after getting their credits for cosmetics. Which is fine of them, but unfortunate for me. It feels like a lot of people play Runescape concurrently, but not together.
Responding to your last comment, honestly, that's kinda what drew me to OSRS. The fact that it's pretty much a "singleplayer MMO" in a lot of ways. I was never really drawn to joining a guild and doing group activities in MMOs, so I've always felt a draw to games where you can do nearly all of the progression yourself. I know what you mean. The way OSRS is designed, it kinda attracts players that aren't really interested in socializing as much as players who would play WOW, for example.
Played tons of RuneScape in 2007, selling full set of steel armor for 5k outside Falador bank. That's when I learned to type super fast: gotta advertise in detail and color and never let that text disappear. Definitely did not use those colored regions though.
Man. You have so much to learn. 0:50 in, you say "the majority of people probably just have one [account]" ... between bots and alternate accounts, the only people who have just one are brand new first-time players
6:35 haha the only uses i've seen for this locations is drop trading. a player with great items would head there. drop them. then log onto their other account and wait for them to appear of course. they prevented this evenutally. but it was fun seeing a geared high level players sneak off this beaten path like nobody is gonna notice. then see a low level run in.
I really hope you take a look at Runescape 3 and see about how it compares, how well the upgrade might've gone. Tutorial Island can now be revisited... as a quest and monthly event. Not bad. It's actually rather peaceful down there, underneath the sea. It's the same kind of way Donkey Kong Country is eternal relaxing through its water levels. The background is this vast expanse as far as you can see the sea, letting you go tranquil to the vibes...
The amount of random places I explored in the game… I discovered it over the spring break of 7th grade (2005) and by nature did not want to do much besides explore. Killed a lot of cows, and assumed Silverlight was THE strongest weapon in the game. And used only it and NO armor (I thought you looked cooler and more unique out of armor) for an insanely long time. A wise soul took pitty on my and gave me a set of steel armor and a mythril scimi (which I SCOFFED at) until I realized how much less I died 🤣
I'm starting a group hardcore and I think this video will help me pay attention to my character and surroundings a little bit more :) thanks. but i'll still be rushing graceful outfit
I just got Graceful for the first time, and wow. That was my first big grind of the game and fortunately it didn't feel TOO bad. I'm curious if I have the heart to do the more intense grinds later down the line.
@@PretzelYT If I just leave my account logged in on the side I can pretty easily click through hundreds of laps of agility at canifis and it helps knowing it’s going to help save me from all the WALKING while questing lol
I did ~700 laps getting my marks. I watched almost all of the Scream movies and TV show during that. This is a great game to get me to watch all those shows I've been meaning to over the years 😅
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I uploaded a ~35 minute Patron exclusive video of me talking about my experience with Old-School Runescape as a new player, if you're interested in that. If you pay $5, you get access to my bi-weekly unscripted video series where I ramble about a particular topic. You can even suggest a topic in the comments and maybe I'll get to it.
Thanks y'all, keep it 💯
Seems quite unfair to have to pay for that.
I understand where you're coming from.
I figured it'd be better to have something lower effort that's more of a stream of consciousness be exclusive, compared to the highly edited main channel videos I post publicly. If you want some insight onto my experience playing the game, you can pay a little bit to watch it, all my other videos, then unsubscribe if you want.
But if you don't want to pay for it, that's fine. You aren't missing any HUGE revelations. It's just something to listen to and hear me in an unscripted format ramble about stuff I think is interesting.
@@PretzelYT really, the only time something like that would actually be annoying and unfair is when someone uses it to let people have access to videos earlier, sometimes more than a week in advance.
@@PretzelYT also, how’d you choose your profile picture’s colors? I think that it looks great.
More people actually play windowed mode youd be surprised
The reason why there seems to be a bunch of "meaningless" 2nd floors is because many were added during the lifespan of RuneScape Classic in 2001 and 2002 with usable beds. In RSC, you had "fatigue" that would prevent you from gaining exp. You had to sleep in beds in places and type in a CAPTCHA to reset the fatigue as an anti-bot measure. :)
Remember the sleeping bags?!
I’m a very active oldschool RuneScape player, I have hosted several private parties at the Burthorpe Games Room for my clan. We held tournament competitions, the winner of which wins a valuable and symbolic item. Even if that place spends 99.9% of the time empty, I’m still soo glad it exists for the occasional game or party!
I'm glad it exists too. I was doing tree runs a couple days ago, saw that the bank tellers were shouting about a party in Falador. I ran over there and doubled my cash to 5mil with all the items I got. I even got a Dragon Scimitar and Longsword for when I complete the appropriate quests.
Thanks to all the older players look out for us newbies 👍
I've played a lot of RuneScape and seen a lot from its content creators. It's really refreshing to see someone take a look at the smaller details instead of powering their way to some crazy goal. Great video!
I just got into the game recently, and while I've enjoyed a lot of those progress videos, I haven't really seen anyone slow down and enjoy the game.
Then again, maybe those videos are out there and they just don't get recommended as much.
Thanks = )
@@PretzelYT Somebody who has a more reclined video style like this is spook dog. Videos like “25 things you never knew about the wilderness,” “13 secret references to Monty python,” etc. remind me of this kind of video, as well as wildmudkip’s “Mildyly interesting facts in OSRS” series. Hannanie is another person I’d recommend who isn’t crazy grind based either, but grindy videos are definitely the mainstream on OSRS. Hope some of these recommendations are cool, have a good day y’all.
@@PretzelYT There's a YTer cdalled "Flip" that has been taking the game slow and learning it has he goes, and has done a lot of exploring and trial and error to learn things. (Although as of late he's been streaming so people have been giving him tons of help unfortunately)
There actually have been exploits to get back to Tutorial Island before. The NPC's even have unique dialog if you manage it.
Vannaka just wasn't there in Edgeville dungeon until the slayer update. He was purely on Tutorial Island and I am not sure he actually introduced himself on Tutorial Island by his name. Everyone always thought he was a badass because he carried a 2h sword and a dragon sq shield.
I believe, though I might be wrong because I've created multiple accounts on this game in the past so I've played tutorial island many times, but I don't believe the sword master introduced his name in the earlier versions, only after he was given.
But yeah, it was the first time you get to see someone using something as cool as dragon sq shield and that kept you wondering "how do I get that?" as you attempt to wear goblin mail for the 1000th time.
did anyone else click on everything to examine it? i loved the unique descriptions.
i memorized so many of them.
one time at the fishing guild, a bunch of us would type them from memory lol.
I have been examining a fair bit of things while I've been playing. Before playing the game, I wouldn't have expected to enjoy the writing as much as I do. It's pretty funny a lot of the time. I just finished the new Easter event and it was cute.
That falador park map was 100% accurate and was absolutely followed by the community
I've played Runescape off and on for over a decade at this point. As people "solved" the game over the years and it became more about grinding out skills, achievements or money than exploring, a lot of ingame areas that were "just for fun" or flavor really kind of died. It's still cool to see when people just slow down and take in the world every now and then.
there's a fully furnished middle floor in that building you spawn in on tutorial island, you can view it with a runelite addon. the ladder was removed in early rs2 beta for the reason you said
Wow, that's wild. Thanks for bringing that up.
10:15 That is what the game looked like, but I could have sworn the "fog" in the distance was pitch black back then. It made the world feel much more gloomy.
I forgot I had a Runelite plugin to make the Skybox blue. 💀 You're right, it's supposed to be black.
And I see what you mean about that affecting the vibe of the game. I use that plugin because it makes the game feel more bright and cheery. Pure blackness in the distance is so ominous.
@@PretzelYT To be fair I would have modded it out if I could have. The reason I remembered it so well is because of how much I disliked it back then, ha.
Tutorial island isn't an instance area and you deeply don't know how nerdy some of our players are the wiki team along with many others have definitely scoured every inch of the Tutorial island
Yeah, maybe "instanced" was poor phrasing, considering you can see other players about. It's definitely a separate map from the mainland though, right?
@@PretzelYT yeah its in the same world but when you saw the mining timer there at the south lumby mines if someone would of walked there you could of seen them, you can't interact at all or walk to them. Rendi one of our big glitch finders used a glitch from the node to the main land to leave the tutorial area without actually finishing and its rather interesting but has since been patched. Good video though I can tell you're still new and you'll figure out alot more if you keep playing the game and talking to players
Hey, fair enough. Thanks for the correction.
U can run to tutorial island thru glitches. Its all the same world
@@PretzelYT it's not separate...it's on Gielinor physically come now guys lol if it were separate it would be instanced as a realm , hope I've helped clear the smoke
8:20 those houses in falidor were created in classic because they wanted to add to player owned houses.
The tutorial island part was weirdly comforting
I actually played a LOT of Burthorpe games room back in the day. Almost lived there. Had around 2.2k rating on connect 4. When I realised you were approaching the titular room, I suddenly remembered the ranked rooms. They didn't get used much, if I remember rightly. You could challenge from the not rank locked room as a ranked game. Still, it's the one piece of content I would love to see a revival of.
Burthorpe Games Room player reunion when?
The spare bedroom is for Sigmund!!!
i almost want to refurbish an old laptop, log a character in and never log it out, hide it somewhere on tutorial island and see if it becomes a meme
6:07 in the quest "Lost Tribe" it's implied that this is Sigmunds(the dukes advisor) room.
Also, the Mahogany Homes houses in Falador around the fountain were originally going to be used for Player Owned Housing way back in 2001, but Andrew couldn't get it working so it got scrapped and became just empty houses until they added Mahogany Homes.
Same with the Varrock empty buildings as well. Back when it really had that pre 2006 graphic update.
You said no one's returned to tutorial island but a few people have using instance warps or something like that. They said a npc came up and said "you don't belong here" teleported the player and it opened a report bug interface
I adore this series. As someone learning 3d modeling it's taught me to really appreciate the effort it takes to make a world believable - even the smallest objects need a lot of care and thought to fit in with a location, with so much of it not even meriting a second of the player's time. Someone had to make, texture and place those objects, from giant machines to a single coffee cup, all to make you feel part of the world. A simple shack could've been the pride and joy of an environmental artist and just by taking a few seconds you can make it all worthwhile. A very inspiring series.
Update: rewatching the nostalgia part about render distance and how the game was a web browser game and stuff (all stuff I lived through) and maybe I’m biased because I grew up with it? But that’s how I play the game. Lol. I don’t use GPU or rarely even resizable. I play classic layout and am used to it. It doesn’t bug or bother me, and I have fun doing it. Honestly, it took me a while to get over how fundamentally changed RS3 became when it released, and while I don’t play on the classic layout on that game (my setup is wonky af for sure in RS3), I prefer sticking to fixed in OSRS.
Wow I think you nailed it with respect to render distances. The game was designed such that we'd never see many areas at once. It was deliberately compact because of this. Due to the additional teleports and increased render distances the game feels "smaller" than it did when RS2 came out. I've watched several videos on the impact of this change. It's a little unfortunate with respect to exploration, but necessary in an era where older players are time-poor and don't want to traverse to map to do every activity. We were bewildered by how large the world was when we were younger but we simply don't have the time to explore every nook and cranny today.
14:51 the GE actually does have a roof. If you enable roofs in settings and zoom out you will see it. 😉 Enjoyed the video!
It's even in the video for a second lol
If memory serves, one of those towers in Lumbridge is used for a Clue Scroll step.
I think its the right one thats used, and if im not wrong its on the 1st floor
My first time on tutorial island I rushed through, but later on i made a group ironman account and really took my time looking around before I left. It’s nice to know other people do that too and thanks for bringing us along!
I was hoping you’d go upstairs in the Varrock church! There is an old lady there who you can give a cup of tea to in exchange for some custom dialogue :)
Falador park and varrock west banks were the best places to trade.
I also remember a time when burthorpe games room was used. It still wasn't very popular in 06/07 when I played but if you logged on at the right time you could find a couple dozen people playing.. pretty sure I made it into one of those doors :]
games room worlds always have people, even the party room gets some action once an hour or two😊
Naw bro Camelot bank was the place to trade
12:40 now I know why I play the classic layout!
If I remember correctly, there was an exclusive music track when you played the organ in the chapel on tutorial island. So most people could never get the music cape.
I actually played it when I was recording the footage for this, but I didn't include it. I looked it up on the wiki, to see if it was the only organ in the game, and apparently there's a few throughout the world. That's hilarious that it locked you out at some point though🤣
FYI the Grand Exchange does have a roof! But it always gets hidden.
As a former 8 year old I definitely spend silly amounts of time in basically all of these areas
I play like that in 2023. Vanilla client classic layout for life.
Have to say this if you haven't experienced the first 4 minutes rooms you did not start back before having everything handed too you like ice cream. It's really something players from 2007 and earlier can say you literally just watch guides on how to do this and that. Back in the day starting a game for the first time you normally went in with a blank slate which most people forgot how to do. You honestly did explore ever room even if it was pointless it's not much used today but honestly sometimes people found stuff that was hidden just because of that alone and most players did it out of curiosity anyways
Like when I started I knew nothing about the game I sat there and read every single word on tutorial island and went to every spot too make sure I didn't miss anything. It took me over a half hour to just do that alone. Like I said times change over the years now all you either do is use a plugin that shows you how to do it which doesn't bother me for experienced players this is a blessing for new people though you should be going in with the mindset on learning things yourself too.
Or you watch a video guide on how to do that specific task. Like I said though this honestly saves people who played a long time a lot of time instead of them having learn new mechanics constantly it can save them hours of gameplay in minutes that's the good thing but having everything handed to a newer player I feel is cheap :/ that's me though
I totally know what you mean. It's why people prefer Morrowind quests over Skyrim quests, you're forced to read the dialog and journal entries to figure out where you're supposed to go.
Interestingly, the base game is kinda like that. But with the community developed Quest Helper plugin (and all the guides online), that fun is taken out of it. The written content and just doing quests for the fun of it isn't really a thing people engage with anymore. They just want to engage with the mechanical systems of the game.
Though I would say some of that is the fault of how a lot of the quests are designed. There's so much running back and forth, and OSRS is NOT a game that makes that a fun process. So I can't blame people TOO much for wanting to complete quests in the most efficient ways.
I actually talked a little bit about this in my video on Detective Vision, but when given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game. Maybe I could make a whole video on "player optimization", there's a ton to talk about around that.
I'm pretty sure the island isn't instanced. I remember a glitch where players flew back to the island. But jagex coded in a safe guard, if a player found a way back to the island, the drunken dwarf will knock you out and you return to the mainland.
I have never played RuneScape but this is enthralling, so far I think it's one of my favorites of yours
I remember the day the game room was added and it was packed... Jagex was always talking about adding more games and stuff but they never did and it died pretty soon after release..
I love runescape so much.
I have over 3 years of gameplay on my main. Let alone the other 80 accounts I've created since 2004. Ive even ran into people in real life, that i had met on runescape like 8 years prior. Its insane how much of my life has been spent on that game. And i dont regret a second of it. Besides giving my cousins password away the first week i started playing lol xD 😅🎉
I love the integration of the green loading bar to pace the video and make the viewer observe by themself. Very well put video.
As a kid me and my friends always used to hang out in the basement under the Blue Moon Inn in Varrock, and I doubt many people know that room exists.
man i remember for a long while there seemed to be a party going on there. cool to see someone else who remembers that
Same here! I used it as a hiding spot thinking no one ever visits there.
The green count down bars reduces my slide change anxiety
Tutorial Island isn't actually instanced. If the render distance allowed it, you could see players from that Lumbridge mine area, and south of the wizard's tower.
I don't know why I assumed it was. Guess I should have checked that out instead of assuming😅
14:24 "She never had me come up here," he says while panning the camera towards the cupboard that contains the *Shield of Arrav*.
I have never been on the roof of Varrock castle in my 15+ years of playing. I didnt even know it had a rooftop area.
It's sometimes used by players looking to kill guards for medium clues
I believe the top floor on tutorial islands first building was designed for the sleeping mechanic but was later scrapped from the game
I’m pretty sure tutorial island isn’t instanced and you absolutely can see players on the mainland.
8:19 This area was originally for Player-Owned Houses in Runescape Classic, but that feature was never brought to that game, and it was entirely reworked into a skill in 2006 - Construction.
As someone who did a lot of merching back before the grand exchange, i can assure you we did follow that falador trade map rather closely lol.
honestly party room is more popping now than before; Iv made way more money now than back in pre 07 days at the party room
"most people prolly only have 1" ahhh if onlyyy he knew
(me with 4 accounts)
I have been thinking about making an ironman... 🤔
@@PretzelYT welcome to hell its a good time down here
So youre going to show us those rooms and those ladders, only to not go into them and traverse each ladder? You absolute madlad.
11:20 Memory unlocked! Now this is the Runescape I remember. I couldn't have told you how it looked from memory, but this is 100% how I used to play the game as a kid.
That tower in Lumbridge houses Perdu! You can buy you previous quest and diary rewards from him, and recently they buffed quest exp and to receive the bonus exp he's the man you gotta see.
You can see tutorial island from the land of the wizard tower so it's probable
Thank you, I actually learned something. I was expecting you to bring up some room I just forgot about like a Fishing Guild useless room or something, but actually locked content. Great job! I'm curious if that's truly the most exclusive room besides a room meant only for Jmods. Mod Ash is often the person people go to to ask things like this, awesome guy.
It's funny you bring up Mod Ash. I actually tweeted at him to see if he had any numbers on how many players were able to enter the special rooms in there, but he said they don't track that kinda thing.
@@PretzelYT Darn, that's what I thought you did actually was simply ask what the most exclusive room was, but I'm not surprised they don't track the game rooms haha
you're such a cute noob and I love it. So glad you're enjoying the game! Keep playing and keep exploring :)
It's crazy how I've played over 100 hours and feel like I've barely even scratched the surface of the game. I'll keep poking away at it for as long as I can.
As a long time runescape player... I genuinely appreciate this. I love your videos and seeing my favorite game on here was such a nice surprise!!! 😭
I've really been enjoying my time playing it on the side, so I'm glad I got to make a video on it. Thanks : )
7:40 there was consensus on trade worlds which town and location you should go to trade items.
14:49 there is a roof 💀
The Fally trade zone is correct... I have vivid memories of being there ... specially the dragon equip zone... i sold a lot of rune essences too and was a nice money making back in the day... for a noob ofc
abby whip was ~2200k, rune full set ~200k, d med 60k... i have alot of prices in my memory... a lot of typing because auto typers was illegal =o
6:05 that might be the Duke’s advisor Sigmund’s room, as you search the chest in there for evidence against Sigmund during one of the HAM quests
I heard from a different video that on Tutorial Island, there was originally a staircase leading up to the second floor in the first building. It's said that new players would go up the stairs, get lost and log out, never to play again.
10:35 ummm, EXCUSE ME? I do 🤓
Room next to duke's is/was (depending where your account is questwise) sigmonds room
Good point. I did do that quest that outed him.
a slight change around 10:20 is that back in the day the sky was always black, not blue and foggy with a slight bit of atmospheric perspective.
i loved that little detail as a little edgelord 8th grader in 2005
Someone pointed this out, but I forgot to disable a Runelite plugin that adds the nice blue skybox. I completely forgot the game normally has that spooky black void, I wish I would have remembered so I could bring that up. Could have further nailed home the point that everyone's perspective for the game has changed.
6:41 There actually is an RS3 quest where you speak to an NPC in this room.
Ah, I should have expected that to be the case with so many more quests in RS3. Thanks for pointing that out
@@PretzelYT Thanks to your video, I am determined to be the world champion of Runeversi
Honestly I kinda wish tutorial island was a place you could later return to. With the one new players are on in a separate instance from the one you return to so new players are left alone. Maybe there could even be some subtle changes to reflect story progression.
thats what rs3 did
As technology advances, and games get more complicated, I still thank RuneScape for at a glance staying the same in all the years its been in the running. There are a lot of unused areas in the game, and it's really cool that you are taking the time to explore them in this video. It really let me know as someone who respects the game and has been playing since 2006 that it's okay to slow down every once in a while. Most players (including content creators) probably use RuneLite and the plugins that come with it. It makes the game more convenient, but it doesn't really help with the vibe of the game. It's all about plugins, max gp per hour, and efficiency in skilling/bossing tasks. I don't think we can ever get back that true adventurous feeling from back in the days of RuneScape. But the game was released as "OldSchool" and it's been alive for 10 years! So hey, I know it may suck that it isn't something we can get back, but we can at least recreate those nostalgic memories. So again, I appreciate that you made this video and really made us veteran players feel that sort of lost "adventure" feeling. This game is so important to me, and I think that the Newbie Melody is perfect for remembering it. The song almost feels like a story of your RuneScape life, and death. Give it a listen again with that in mind, and see what I mean. It's pretty cool!
also you can get on top of bank in lumbridge with the stairs on north side.
and you can get on top of the lumbridge gate.
Used to hang there sometimes with friends when we were young was like a meeting point.
We need more of this but with lore explanations, narrations, creative ideas theories
I will absolutely quote you on that! I've had to go to that room for a clue scroll. Had me search the crates
NGL I've played Runescape since the early 2000s and I never *ever* noticed that the first building on tutorial island has a rooftop chair area lol
I started back in 2005 and this video is a nostalgia trip. Lmao. Thank you for it.
October 2005 here as well! Known about the game earlier that year being on Miniclips, but saw that it had a price tag and wrote it off as some scam game until my cousin introduced it to me.
Up until a few months ago I exclusively still played like that. I had a lot of fun doing modern challenges playing without plug ins.
You know what. This is one of the best Runescape videos I've actually ever seen. Thank you for this.
Is there a timestamp of the room??
bunch of these areas (lumbridge castle entrance guard tower, falador houses, etc.) are used for clue scroll steps.
big mercher back in the day, i can tell you that the map of falador was more of a guide but was followed much closer than you might think a bunch of teenagers and kids would
I love giving attention to little details in games that the devs probably barely give a second thought to aside from adding to the fullness of the world
I'm telling you that guide never leaves that house.
First time on your channel. Just wanna say I LOVE the moments where you just have shots of scenery and play BGM. Throwing in the timer bar is just amazing QoL and awareness. This game is awesome btw, if anyone's not played it. Have a few friends I've only ever known from old school. One whom I've even bought doordash/cigs for on hard times. This is one of the FEW games with GENUINE good people(there's still trolls so be cautious and safe). The bonds I've made through that pixilated world... wouldn't trade em for a thing!
In half a sentence: "A room that requires 1500 runeversi points to access."
#StopClickbait
It's also entirely visible, making it an even more egregious and purposeful misdirect.
Sucks how many people do gross stuff like that and take the fun out of watching.
I can tell you for certain that if you wanted to sell lobsters in Fally back in the day you HAD to stand on or near the bridge
Also, nobody followed that map at all, the majority would be near the bank or the bridge
13:49 yes, i do infact enjoy my jar of *orange* i take with me everywhere
I enjoy a lot your RuneScape videos! I've been playing since around 2006.
Highlighting RWT spots
Back when it was against TOS, I used to drop trade in those isolated places on the map to reduce chances of other users snatching my loot and/or reporting me.
Of course modern Jagex no longer cares if you trade with yourself.
I like the pace of this video a lot. Thanks for sharing pretzel.
One of the things I used to do as a kid was just explore all of the stray rooms in the game. In terms of how the main cities are placed, they genuinely feel interesting to walk through. Not to insult any other particular games, but there are a lot where the world is open but it feels like any place I go is the same as the last. I think Runescape has a very good, medium sense of scale for most of the map.
Triple commenting because I'm just thinking about stuff as I watch. The short render distance reminds me a lot of why I liked biking. 'Cause cars are more convenient but it feels like you just pass everything before you can even think about it. On my bicycle I could still get to places in less than half a day but still had the time to look and appreciate all the stuff people were just doing in the world.
One of the things that really sucked last time I played Runescape was that I desperately wanted to socialize and play minigames, but any content that doesn't give rewards falls out of favor. I had a blast playing Trouble Brewing, but most people playing sat afk after getting their credits for cosmetics. Which is fine of them, but unfortunate for me. It feels like a lot of people play Runescape concurrently, but not together.
Responding to your last comment, honestly, that's kinda what drew me to OSRS. The fact that it's pretty much a "singleplayer MMO" in a lot of ways. I was never really drawn to joining a guild and doing group activities in MMOs, so I've always felt a draw to games where you can do nearly all of the progression yourself.
I know what you mean. The way OSRS is designed, it kinda attracts players that aren't really interested in socializing as much as players who would play WOW, for example.
I used to use the room at 6:38 to drop trade way back before you could log more than one account in at a time.
Played tons of RuneScape in 2007, selling full set of steel armor for 5k outside Falador bank.
That's when I learned to type super fast: gotta advertise in detail and color and never let that text disappear.
Definitely did not use those colored regions though.
Man. You have so much to learn. 0:50 in, you say "the majority of people probably just have one [account]" ... between bots and alternate accounts, the only people who have just one are brand new first-time players
a jar of...orange. What else do you need. Incredible video my dude.
6:35 haha the only uses i've seen for this locations is drop trading.
a player with great items would head there. drop them.
then log onto their other account and wait for them to appear
of course. they prevented this evenutally. but it was fun seeing a geared high level players sneak off this beaten path like nobody is gonna notice.
then see a low level run in.
We need more parts of this in the runescape world!
Lot of the unused rooms are most likely used for clue steps
Many had beds during RSC-era where you could sleep in them to reset your fatigue meter.
I really hope you take a look at Runescape 3 and see about how it compares, how well the upgrade might've gone. Tutorial Island can now be revisited... as a quest and monthly event. Not bad. It's actually rather peaceful down there, underneath the sea. It's the same kind of way Donkey Kong Country is eternal relaxing through its water levels. The background is this vast expanse as far as you can see the sea, letting you go tranquil to the vibes...
The amount of random places I explored in the game…
I discovered it over the spring break of 7th grade (2005) and by nature did not want to do much besides explore.
Killed a lot of cows, and assumed Silverlight was THE strongest weapon in the game. And used only it and NO armor (I thought you looked cooler and more unique out of armor) for an insanely long time.
A wise soul took pitty on my and gave me a set of steel armor and a mythril scimi (which I SCOFFED at) until I realized how much less I died 🤣
It's always a pleasure seeing one of your videos in my feed, and this was no different.
Man I just subbed and then you post an osrs video. This is the game I play the most so good timing :)
I'm starting a group hardcore and I think this video will help me pay attention to my character and surroundings a little bit more :) thanks. but i'll still be rushing graceful outfit
I just got Graceful for the first time, and wow. That was my first big grind of the game and fortunately it didn't feel TOO bad. I'm curious if I have the heart to do the more intense grinds later down the line.
@@PretzelYT If I just leave my account logged in on the side I can pretty easily click through hundreds of laps of agility at canifis and it helps knowing it’s going to help save me from all the WALKING while questing lol
I did ~700 laps getting my marks. I watched almost all of the Scream movies and TV show during that. This is a great game to get me to watch all those shows I've been meaning to over the years 😅
If you like patiently exploring quaint, atmospheric game spaces, I think you'd like Steambot Chronicles.