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8:35 Not me currently doing tempoross to level fishing so I can complete Hero's Quest so I can finish the final step of this clue to then finally finish my slayer task as this video came up in my recommended feed.
I hate when people say you can't get into it now, I won my fantasy football league last year and part of my friends punishment was they had to make a group ironman with me. 3 out of 4 of them still are playing to this day and only one of them has played in the past. Ironically enough he is the one who doesn't really play anymore
I firmly believe nostalgia has nothing to do with the games popularity. Its just the best mmo, hell even one of the best games around. The love and passion oozes off it
It's a shame that it's so damn grindy. It's like i want to play but then I do and I realize that the gameplay is literally just clicking the same shit for hours on end.
@@Phizzuurp if you're going to afk you might as well be botting. I botted for a while and I honestly had more fun managing the bot than I did playing the game manually.
@@SelectKiko Clicking the same shit for hours is literally how the game works. You DON'T want to play it. Also botting is for absolute virgins that's so pathetic.
RuneScape and old school are just really great sandbox experiences that always gives you something to do. It’s unique that the game is about the journey, not the endgame that your supposed to rush to
@@GabrielScoville-v9k I'm not actually sure, methods have gotten so crazy these days im sure some sweaty people might be able to do it faster. but then again, what even is "complete"? No one will ever complete the collection log, not enough time in 100 lifetimes to do that with the 3rd age drop rates.
The real answer is, OSRS is genuinely fun without being mentally taxing. It's what people want in video games lately. A game they can afk thousands of different tasks and still have fun progressing. Afk is a loose term, honestly it should be called "attention free" tasks. The point is, it's what we like deep deep down. We don't want to always be utterly maxed out on adrenaline playing call of duty every day. And if you do, and you are depressed, ayyeee here's your sign... OSRS is the embodiment of "Achievement" and without pay to win bs it remains something people revere in terms of the accomplishments some accounts can achieve. ANY account can achieve, and just by playing the game as casually as possible. Then you get into late game and get into more complicated things and it's just amazing and satisfying. Just my opinion :)
It's kinda funny and feels like we've come full circle in that regard, because I remember when I was playing around 2005-2007 as a teenager, a lot of people had this attitude of "You guys don't play with game music muted? lol what's wrong with you, the game's music sucks!" while blasting their favourite rock band or something haha. I don't think I've ever seen a video from back then that actually just had the game music, there was always some loud track playing over the top, but these days it's super common for OSRS youtubers to make a video with some calm in-game track in the background.
I got side tracked once like 8 months ago when I came back to osrs after a break. I told myself I would get elite void. Then I was like well bosses are cool so I should get hard CBAs to speed up this grind for void. Now I’ve done the inferno and I still don’t have elite void
Yea, i never played rs before osrs, but now im giga-addicted. Maxed an ironman account and a uim. Nostalgia has nothing to do with my love for the game.
I think most of us watching this video has their comfort games. For me personally, they are PoE and Maplestory, which neither are normally considered comfort games, but they still are to me! What OSRS has in common with these two, is that "You can say you quit, but in truth, you only keep long breaks". EDIT: It's not a spork, its fwapoon
Because it’s fucking dope. I can chill on mobile and afk fish sharks, which gears me up for combat, where when I’m on desktop, I can then use those supplies to turn this medieval cookie clicker into a 100bpm rhythm game. The progression feels very satisfying with little upgrades feeling massive (thread of elidinis) Suffice it to say, it’s got range baby, range. (Not the skill, but broad appeal and engagement levels for each skill and money maker).
As someone who has younger people in his community it's hard for me to explain to them why OSRS is my favorite MMO / one of my favorite games. Now I can show them this vid instead! It probably won't help but I'll do it anyway 😅
I think the main reason games like this do well is because there's no artificial FOMO interjected into it the way WoW and FF do with gear treadmills. It's the same reason GW2 does well, the world feels more alive. It's more of a matter of experiencing the game, rather than rushing to a specific goal. I quit WoW and FF when I realized I just didn't care about getting to max level to do content that would largely be irrelevant a year down the line. It just felt temporary and fruitless.
Marstead covered the evergreen content and items very thoroughly in his video about why RuneScape is awesome. I won't link it because I don't want to be that kinda guy. But those are keywords if you feel inclined to search for it.
FF's gear treadmill is basically non existent, you can clear 99% of content with marketboard items, and getting BIS is guaranteed due to it's book/tome vendor system. Infact some people rant about how much they hate theres no gear to chase after in FF, but most of the time you are chasing Glamour (the look) and not stats (this is how I perfer it) WoW on the otherhand can be extremely gear treadmilly depending on expansion.
I think a big contributor to runescape's success is the ability to do semi afk alot of content. It often doesn't require full attention and can be played on a second monitor.
Especially after watching, I think there are some similarities between Minecraft and RuneScape. Both drop you into a world with simple blocks and components without any initial goals or obvious progression path. Neither force you to do anything you don't want, but provide a context that's interesting enough for players to want to explore and expand on without much preempting. With modern MMOs, you might get sudden invisible walls, pointing quest arrows, a flat progression path with everything you need to do prepositioned for you to get it done without thinking. These things make playing easy, but removes player agency. I love planning "oh, i gotta get to this level so i can unlock this so i can complete this", and i love staring at the skill progression charts, thinking about what i could unlock, then making a plan and making it happen. In contrast to a game holding my hand and going "Oop we're going up the stairs now! Place your left foot here, and then your right foot here!"
Mr. President. I have been sharing this exact narrative with people extensively over the last month so happy to hear almost the exact same love reflected in your video. I think another thing that adds to it's popularity is the that all your progress and grinds are permanent. And all new content is optional (unless you play an iron) and you can do it at your own pace. When new items come into the game it doesn't make your current items obsolete, if I haven't played in 6 months usually the new quests guide me to the new areas and bosses, if I want to go play another game for a few months everything is waiting for me when I come back.
For those just starting out, for the graphics, there is a RuneScape HD style from 2009 that still carries the soul of OSRS without screwing it like RS3 does along with some additions, you can play OSRS with this style using the "HDOS" launcher.
when something isn't made to look hyper real then the imagination fills in the gaps both story and visuals and gives you a better experience than real life even. Your take on it is spot on! And the first I have heard of it. Thanks. I played from 2001-2004 and was captivated. I thought I'd play until i was 90 years old. Now I really appreciate the game still but I couldn't go back because adult life obligations and other hobbies don't allow for the "grind" and I wouldn't play any other game because I love the grind. Getting to rune mining and 99 fishing and woodcutting in RS Classic taught me the skill of determination and willpower which are still in me to this day and have gotten me some great things in life.
One unique thing that rs has is also very rich, coherent and interconnected world. A lot of mmos worlds are vast empty zone filled with a lot of mobs that are categorized by how strong they are, so it basicly goes to: I am that strong I go there, when im stronger i go elsewhere and never return. Where Runescape has a world that is just one chaotic breathing world filled with all kinds of stuff, adds a lot to immersion
Oldschool runescape is just soo good. I’ve been playing on and off since 2006 (7 years old) and I’m 25 now. My account is now finally progressing in a way that surpasses previous accounts and I’m having such a blast. Just purchased a 12 month membership aswell.
My life truly started and will/is ending with RuneScape. I used to run home from school off the bus to get 30 minutes of RuneScape in on my parents computer before they saw I was “gonna cause a virus”. My grandma let me sneak the game time in because she watched me I appreciate her so much for it. Literally 16+ years later and played several MMORPGS for 100’s+ hours RuneScape is the goat! So much a part of my life. So many breaks, on and offs. Getting mobile time in between responsibilities, work, and family. Absolutely one of my favorite things ever. I thank jagex for giving me an experience that couldn’t be replaced
One aspect of OSRS that is a pillar of it's success is how engaged every player feels to the greater community. Whether you you're in a clan, sitting at GE, playing mini games, skilling, bossing, raiding or whatever you do, you'll always run into people. Some other MMOs aren't as engaging in that aspect. Some you can basically play the entire game with needing to engage in the community at all.
It’s popular because 1. there isn’t another game that plays like it. 2. it came out during the early 2000s a time where most of us were getting into online gaming for the first time so it’ll always have the nostalgia of being most people’s first mmo. 3. everything involved trading with real players (and no auction house) the game had a large and social community and while a lot of that has died there’s still more social elements compared to most mmos now.
It's simplicity combined with some truly INSANE mechanical skill at the highest level of the game. Go watch Xzacts 40 combat infernal cape if you think this game is just a braindead joke.
It is a braindead joke, you are just dealing with insane jank and claiming mechanical skill, this isn't a fighting game, this isn't a RTS, or a Moba ect. Raiding in FF14 and WoW even within the same MMO pockets are way more complex, although jagex's more recent combat related updates are trying to put the game up to par. As long as it's on this engine it's just manipulating tick, and dealing with really awful ui and inventory management.
i cant remember who said it but after you get home from a hectic workday its really tiering to jump right into sbmm hell. Its nice to just play runescape and let it take the time it takes slowly without having to rush or anything
Currently finishing all quests just so I can have a faster teleport to a fairy ring to afk fish karambwans to lvl 82 so I can progress my master clue scroll. God I love this game
5:08 oh well played... "And fight... Until you are teleported to the city of lumbridge". Idyl out here throwing sneaky underhanded shade in the same way flight attendants say "you're trash".
No other game has ever topped the feeling of making it to Seers' village, cutting trees and socializing with all the woodcutters. The bank being so close and seeing people trade freely pre-GE was something to behold. The game felt like a living, breathing world and we were its inhabitants. Now we just minmax the fun out of everything.
I love getting sidetracked in osrs and do fishing, so I could do cooking, so I could kill monsters, so I could get the specific drop I'm after so I could do something else later on etc etc. It's a wonderful rabbit hole to go down and an experience any other MMO has never given me.
Being able to choose to pay attention, or choose to afk, is a huge success for the game. Gives more ability to login at points where you want to just be brain-off
RuneScape is one of the only games out there that I feel can legitimately deliver on that notion of “a world where you can do whatever you want”. Many games try and claim this, but ultimately fail. Most open world games that tout “player freedom” are restricted down to only letting the player do whatever content the developers specifically crafted for them to engage with. And a lot of them end up adopting the same ideas as each other, which results in the things that you’re able to do, becoming the things that you already _can do_ in every other game. This is where RuneScape’s simplistic mechanics and “dull” gameplay turn into an advantage that it holds over those other games. Developers tend to focus on doing one thing extremely well - combat, story, etc. - and not much else. As a result, you could never have the breadth of content that RuneScape offers in those other games. You couldn’t have all of the 23 skills in a game like Elden Ring, or a game like Baldur’s Gate 3, or in any other game that was an open world / RPG. Because it would just require too much time and resources in order to match the level of choice offered by RuneScape in those other games. The basic point-and-click controls, the tile-based movement, the “dated graphics” - all of these aspects of the game that are _perceived_ as drawbacks, from an outside perspective, are the whole reason why were able to have a giant world where almost everything is interactive and beneficial to gameplay. You won’t get the same _amount_ of options in most other games that you can with RuneScape, and that’s what makes it different. That’s why it’s so special and why there’s nothing else like it.
Watched this while standing and wacking at a bush in the jungle and having a snake attack me the entire time to get a gout tuber in order to work towards my medium karamja diary which will probably take me 3-6 hours. But while I do this 3-6 hour grind I'm also simultaneously working towards 60% Tai Bwo favour which will allow me to do the my arms big adventure quest which is why I decided to go for the gout tuber in the first place. But since I'm already getting my favour up for trading sticks I might as well work towards the 4000 something trading stick requirement for the brimhaven dungeon shortcut. Ahh, if I'm already in karamja I might as well... Ah fuck not again. What quest was I trying to do?
I love runescape because no matter how much or how little time I have, I can progress towards something. Games like wow put you increasingly further behind if you don’t play for awhile. RuneScape, you quit for however long you want and your pretty much exactly where you left off which as I get older and have increasingly less time makes RuneScape just increasingly appealing
I love the grinds. I got the 600 beginner scroll emote, and it felt so satisfying. There is a linear path, but there are so many ways to play the game that it can always change for players. Also, a lot of games now are all about graphics and lack depth,and runescape lore runs deep, but it isn't necessary to learn it to progress. The chaos of it is appealing to me. I go to 301 sometimes just to watch the ge go nuts.
The game is incredible. You can make what you want of it, and it’s so endlessly nuanced that you never feel embarrassed about your own journey. It’s a truly spectacular game that will likely never be beaten.
I didn't play a lot during the last year, but still watch osrs videos daily and still sometimes think fondly of my 99s and quest cape. Logged in again for varlamore p2 for the quests ofcourse
I never played as a kid, started in 2022. I think the main point is having motivation to progress from the start, I got hooked on OSRS PK videos and the wildy as my main game growing up was DayZ and the wildy is quite a similar concept to DayZ. That motivation prior to playing is what pushed me past the 'I don't know what I'm doing phase'
I would like to see long skill tasks that operate similarly to quests and give rewards at the end. just less annoying and grindy than doing a repetitive task over and over
I just recently finished a multi-year long sidequest and finally got my diary cape. Had a very clear goal in mind after that, and immediately got sidetracked again 🤣
Because OSRS is "safe", and of course because it is a genuinely good game. It doesn't have pushy microtransactions, it hasn't been designed to be frustrating in order to boost MTX sales, it most likely won't crash and burn overnight(again). It has no FOMO, you can logout, then login 1½ years later and pick off exactly where you left off. All your of progress intact, none of it invalidated let alone outright removed. In short everything we've come to detest in modern MMOs and games in general just isn't present in OSRS. It is as its name suggests, Old School.
16:11 this is the point I would have led with. it's a project you can work on while you do other important or not important things on the side being 10 mins afk orrr like intense tribrid pking
I have no nostalgia for this game, started playing 2 years ago, but it has some of the most enjoyable quests and quest dialogue I’ve encountered in an mmo. I love this children’s clicker game.
I love runescape, been playing since 05 myself. Just recently got my first fire cape, huge achievement! I wish I could play more often, but they've raised the price of mems recently, so I've been taking a break.
i played osrs from 2013-22 on and off and i only paid for membership a couple times. you could easily pay for membership through bonds (not sure how true this is anymore). also gz on your firecape!
I don't play as much as a few years ago since trying to finish up my grad school program, but in my opinion the reason why osrs is my favorite mmo is because it has the best long term progression. For many mmo's the main thing that ruins the fun is when the developers push out some new expansion, making all your gear worthless hence devaluing all your hard work. Osrs practically never does this; can walk away and play other games and come back to find all your gear and progress is still fine so can pick up where you left off. That combined with the sheer difference in your skill as you play game and learn mechanics; starting fighting lil rats and by end game doing crazy difficult gameplay on bosses. Honestly excited as fuck to play group ironman with girlfriend cause ironman seems like even more fun than main
Number 1 thing for me is no micro transactions it’s so normalised now and so refreshing I also love the fact that’s as Ironmans. Nothing beats the feeling of earning your rewards and people know that you didn’t just pay to win it.
Simple. OSRS, out of any MMO, is the simplest to get into and has an addicting gameplay loop, so people stick around. And because it's so popular on streaming websites and in meme culture, there are a lot of new people joining.
I love the aspect of being dropped into a game and figuring it out slowly as you level up and get sucked into the world. Its kind of the same feeling as elder scrolls 3 morrowind
19:07 How dare you! Mobilising Armies was incredible... It was so, so badly made that I had a 99% win rate at it because noone know what they were doing.
when i originally played rs2 in the mid 2010s going for my first max cape + even more beyond that - jebrim was somebody i saw training agility. crazy to think that mf just never stopped
The real answer, you can play it with your friends or you can play it solo. You can play it when you are taking a shit, you can play it afk at work. You can play it in an uber. You can enjoy it while not progressing. You always have something to do. You don’t have to do all of it. You can do some of it. You can do the other something of it. It’s just chill bro.
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I was gonna comment I have that shirt before you plugged it
my bday is also feb 22nd! love the vids man !😄
Oh boy, the president of MMOs talking about my favorite MMO!
Wait wasn't Idyl originally an OSRS content creator? lol
@@WhittaII He is (was?) and I'd say the president of MMOs has to be Josh S. Hayes. Idyl can definitely be his vice president.
@@MixturexD Nah, Josh is the GOAT, beyond just MMO's. His "Was it any good" videos are masterpieces.
That Green Day Boulevard of Broken Dreams went hard.
I have actively written down your birthday. If you do not receive a happy birthday from me, then I have died.
I wrote it down and put the note in a safe place so I wouldn't forget about it
I have actively written down your username. If Idyl does not receive a happy birthday from you, I will mourn you
thats sad. your life is sad
I have written down both of your usernames and if Jason doesn’t say happy birthday to idyl I will assume he died and If you don’t come here to mourn him… I will assume you both died and mourn you both!
Lame dude get a life this is pathetic
The simplicity of the game has kept me playing since Classic. The game can be what ever you want it to be exciting, chill, you name it.
8:35 Not me currently doing tempoross to level fishing so I can complete Hero's Quest so I can finish the final step of this clue to then finally finish my slayer task as this video came up in my recommended feed.
I dropped the clue seconds before the clip came on
literally doing tempo rn l0l
I hate when people say you can't get into it now, I won my fantasy football league last year and part of my friends punishment was they had to make a group ironman with me. 3 out of 4 of them still are playing to this day and only one of them has played in the past. Ironically enough he is the one who doesn't really play anymore
I firmly believe nostalgia has nothing to do with the games popularity. Its just the best mmo, hell even one of the best games around. The love and passion oozes off it
It's a shame that it's so damn grindy. It's like i want to play but then I do and I realize that the gameplay is literally just clicking the same shit for hours on end.
Come play ultima online outlands
@@SelectKikoMaybe grindy, but most methods are highly AFK training wise
@@Phizzuurp if you're going to afk you might as well be botting. I botted for a while and I honestly had more fun managing the bot than I did playing the game manually.
@@SelectKiko Clicking the same shit for hours is literally how the game works. You DON'T want to play it. Also botting is for absolute virgins that's so pathetic.
"There are lines and markers on the ground that tell you what to do"
*Runelite sweating nervously*
RuneScape and old school are just really great sandbox experiences that always gives you something to do. It’s unique that the game is about the journey, not the endgame that your supposed to rush to
I've played solely f2p since 2004.
nah we don't degen osrs for 10k to 50k to 100k+ hours b/c it's popular or w/e. we got some shit with ourselves to prove. it ain't for u
Yep. Maxed f2p is what I wanted as a kid, gave up when EOC came, and restarted a couple years ago when I found the mobile client was a thing.
100k hours is wild but there are def ppl who do it. That's over a decade of non-stop playing.
@@itskmillz yerrr. I’m just saying if someone wants to ‘complete’ the game then that’s the ballpark hours eh 😐
@@GabrielScoville-v9k I'm not actually sure, methods have gotten so crazy these days im sure some sweaty people might be able to do it faster. but then again, what even is "complete"? No one will ever complete the collection log, not enough time in 100 lifetimes to do that with the 3rd age drop rates.
That screenshot at 0:41 just hit me like a train of nostalgia. MAN.
The real answer is, OSRS is genuinely fun without being mentally taxing. It's what people want in video games lately. A game they can afk thousands of different tasks and still have fun progressing. Afk is a loose term, honestly it should be called "attention free" tasks. The point is, it's what we like deep deep down. We don't want to always be utterly maxed out on adrenaline playing call of duty every day. And if you do, and you are depressed, ayyeee here's your sign...
OSRS is the embodiment of "Achievement" and without pay to win bs it remains something people revere in terms of the accomplishments some accounts can achieve. ANY account can achieve, and just by playing the game as casually as possible. Then you get into late game and get into more complicated things and it's just amazing and satisfying.
Just my opinion :)
Afk? Only pathetic people do that
This. Plenty of goals to achieve, but all in your own pace, with a lot of people sharing in the journey.
Preach
It can also be mentally taxing if that's the type of content you want. For example, soloing Expert mode TOA or CM COX
It is the music. This is a fact.
yeah its a nostalgia machine
Not even that shits just fire lmao@@777Jamez777
It's kinda funny and feels like we've come full circle in that regard, because I remember when I was playing around 2005-2007 as a teenager, a lot of people had this attitude of "You guys don't play with game music muted? lol what's wrong with you, the game's music sucks!" while blasting their favourite rock band or something haha.
I don't think I've ever seen a video from back then that actually just had the game music, there was always some loud track playing over the top, but these days it's super common for OSRS youtubers to make a video with some calm in-game track in the background.
my wife plays with no sound or music, did i marry a monster?
Runescape captures the feeling of a DnD campaign better than any other game I've played.
Guys, we got his birthday. Now we just need his social and his mothers maiden name.
Addictinggames, haven't heard that one in 20 years
Your fucking "hey, youre a patron" song literally plays randomly in my head suddenly ALL THE TIME
And idk whether i love you or hate you for it.
Dude I found Runescape on Miniclip as well :) It was on my grandparent's laptop. What a trip!
I got side tracked once like 8 months ago when I came back to osrs after a break. I told myself I would get elite void. Then I was like well bosses are cool so I should get hard CBAs to speed up this grind for void. Now I’ve done the inferno and I still don’t have elite void
1:05 Moments like these really make me regret making Sea Shanty 2 my ringtone when I work on call for a living.
16:14 I was honestly zoning out during this video until I heard him bring up my favorite anime out of no where and I had to do a double take
busted out laughing with some hot tea at those title XD
Super gay
How can you possibly like a show with disgusting incest like that? You need your hard drive checked and I hope you don't have any female siblings.
@@ldj1631Hey you don't have to announce that here man.
nostalgia is always such a dumb argument. ive played this game more and for way longer than the period im supposedly so nostalgic for.
only a fool thinks they’re immune to psychological tendencies
agree, so many people are playing old mmos in private servers or whatever they find
yeah, don't think the 10 hours or so i spent mining as a kid on RS has anything to do with why I enjoy the game now, lol.
I had an epiphany the other day when someone asked what my favorite game was and I actually thought about it and just said runescape
Yea, i never played rs before osrs, but now im giga-addicted. Maxed an ironman account and a uim. Nostalgia has nothing to do with my love for the game.
Including Colosseum music is almost a surefire way to get a like out of me.
Misread as sunfire. Still made sense.
I think most of us watching this video has their comfort games. For me personally, they are PoE and Maplestory, which neither are normally considered comfort games, but they still are to me! What OSRS has in common with these two, is that "You can say you quit, but in truth, you only keep long breaks".
EDIT: It's not a spork, its fwapoon
Because it’s fucking dope. I can chill on mobile and afk fish sharks, which gears me up for combat, where when I’m on desktop, I can then use those supplies to turn this medieval cookie clicker into a 100bpm rhythm game. The progression feels very satisfying with little upgrades feeling massive (thread of elidinis) Suffice it to say, it’s got range baby, range. (Not the skill, but broad appeal and engagement levels for each skill and money maker).
As someone who has younger people in his community it's hard for me to explain to them why OSRS is my favorite MMO / one of my favorite games. Now I can show them this vid instead! It probably won't help but I'll do it anyway 😅
Me, already an OSRS player, listening to idyl talk about my favourite game while I play my favourite game, vindicating me in the process 👍
its popular becasue all the kids who played it grew up and now we can afford our own computers
There's a lot of new players like me too. I'm 27 and have never played runescape before, yet I'm hooked on it!
I have a 4090 playing osrs only 💀😊
I think the main reason games like this do well is because there's no artificial FOMO interjected into it the way WoW and FF do with gear treadmills. It's the same reason GW2 does well, the world feels more alive. It's more of a matter of experiencing the game, rather than rushing to a specific goal.
I quit WoW and FF when I realized I just didn't care about getting to max level to do content that would largely be irrelevant a year down the line. It just felt temporary and fruitless.
Marstead covered the evergreen content and items very thoroughly in his video about why RuneScape is awesome. I won't link it because I don't want to be that kinda guy. But those are keywords if you feel inclined to search for it.
FF's gear treadmill is basically non existent, you can clear 99% of content with marketboard items, and getting BIS is guaranteed due to it's book/tome vendor system. Infact some people rant about how much they hate theres no gear to chase after in FF, but most of the time you are chasing Glamour (the look) and not stats (this is how I perfer it) WoW on the otherhand can be extremely gear treadmilly depending on expansion.
I think a big contributor to runescape's success is the ability to do semi afk alot of content. It often doesn't require full attention and can be played on a second monitor.
Especially after watching, I think there are some similarities between Minecraft and RuneScape. Both drop you into a world with simple blocks and components without any initial goals or obvious progression path. Neither force you to do anything you don't want, but provide a context that's interesting enough for players to want to explore and expand on without much preempting.
With modern MMOs, you might get sudden invisible walls, pointing quest arrows, a flat progression path with everything you need to do prepositioned for you to get it done without thinking.
These things make playing easy, but removes player agency. I love planning "oh, i gotta get to this level so i can unlock this so i can complete this", and i love staring at the skill progression charts, thinking about what i could unlock, then making a plan and making it happen. In contrast to a game holding my hand and going "Oop we're going up the stairs now! Place your left foot here, and then your right foot here!"
Man, seeing the old Newgrounds really takes me back those 25 years to 8 year old me.
Mr. President. I have been sharing this exact narrative with people extensively over the last month so happy to hear almost the exact same love reflected in your video.
I think another thing that adds to it's popularity is the that all your progress and grinds are permanent. And all new content is optional (unless you play an iron) and you can do it at your own pace. When new items come into the game it doesn't make your current items obsolete, if I haven't played in 6 months usually the new quests guide me to the new areas and bosses, if I want to go play another game for a few months everything is waiting for me when I come back.
For those just starting out, for the graphics, there is a RuneScape HD style from 2009 that still carries the soul of OSRS without screwing it like RS3 does along with some additions, you can play OSRS with this style using the "HDOS" launcher.
Because the OSRS dev team genuinely cares about the game and improving it.
Yeah sure they fucked it up with death rework and nmz shit is pathetic
@@SwineofSlaughter Haven't seen the playerbase make a big deal about that whatsoever, and I'm sure they'd respond if we did.
It's only another game filled with woke shit for mentally ill to spread their message.
I regret every hour I spent on this crap.
IS woke in the room with us right now? (please go outside)
@@ArmaHipHopTV was when released for nmz many didn’t like death rework and randoms removed nmz is pretty much dead now death rework blamed on ddos
when something isn't made to look hyper real then the imagination fills in the gaps both story and visuals and gives you a better experience than real life even. Your take on it is spot on! And the first I have heard of it. Thanks. I played from 2001-2004 and was captivated. I thought I'd play until i was 90 years old. Now I really appreciate the game still but I couldn't go back because adult life obligations and other hobbies don't allow for the "grind" and I wouldn't play any other game because I love the grind. Getting to rune mining and 99 fishing and woodcutting in RS Classic taught me the skill of determination and willpower which are still in me to this day and have gotten me some great things in life.
One unique thing that rs has is also very rich, coherent and interconnected world.
A lot of mmos worlds are vast empty zone filled with a lot of mobs that are categorized by how strong they are, so it basicly goes to: I am that strong I go there, when im stronger i go elsewhere and never return.
Where Runescape has a world that is just one chaotic breathing world filled with all kinds of stuff, adds a lot to immersion
Oldschool runescape is just soo good. I’ve been playing on and off since 2006 (7 years old) and I’m 25 now. My account is now finally progressing in a way that surpasses previous accounts and I’m having such a blast. Just purchased a 12 month membership aswell.
My life truly started and will/is ending with RuneScape. I used to run home from school off the bus to get 30 minutes of RuneScape in on my parents computer before they saw I was “gonna cause a virus”. My grandma let me sneak the game time in because she watched me I appreciate her so much for it. Literally 16+ years later and played several MMORPGS for 100’s+ hours RuneScape is the goat! So much a part of my life. So many breaks, on and offs. Getting mobile time in between responsibilities, work, and family. Absolutely one of my favorite things ever. I thank jagex for giving me an experience that couldn’t be replaced
I've been looking for a video to show some friends that encapsulates what playing runescape is like, and this is it ❤️
main takeaway i got from this video - you love agility and zulrah. absolute mad lad
One aspect of OSRS that is a pillar of it's success is how engaged every player feels to the greater community.
Whether you you're in a clan, sitting at GE, playing mini games, skilling, bossing, raiding or whatever you do, you'll always run into people. Some other MMOs aren't as engaging in that aspect. Some you can basically play the entire game with needing to engage in the community at all.
I wanted to vote to make nailbeast sound louder but it wasn't an option :(
just like classic wow, d2 and so on, there are not really any content thats fully dead, which is nice (and now i will watch this video)
It’s popular because
1. there isn’t another game that plays like it.
2. it came out during the early 2000s a time where most of us were getting into online gaming for the first time so it’ll always have the nostalgia of being most people’s first mmo.
3. everything involved trading with real players (and no auction house) the game had a large and social community and while a lot of that has died there’s still more social elements compared to most mmos now.
It's simplicity combined with some truly INSANE mechanical skill at the highest level of the game. Go watch Xzacts 40 combat infernal cape if you think this game is just a braindead joke.
Or really anything by Rendi
It is a braindead joke, you are just dealing with insane jank and claiming mechanical skill, this isn't a fighting game, this isn't a RTS, or a Moba ect. Raiding in FF14 and WoW even within the same MMO pockets are way more complex, although jagex's more recent combat related updates are trying to put the game up to par. As long as it's on this engine it's just manipulating tick, and dealing with really awful ui and inventory management.
i cant remember who said it but after you get home from a hectic workday its really tiering to jump right into sbmm hell. Its nice to just play runescape and let it take the time it takes slowly without having to rush or anything
Currently finishing all quests just so I can have a faster teleport to a fairy ring to afk fish karambwans to lvl 82 so I can progress my master clue scroll.
God I love this game
5:08 oh well played... "And fight... Until you are teleported to the city of lumbridge". Idyl out here throwing sneaky underhanded shade in the same way flight attendants say "you're trash".
No other game has ever topped the feeling of making it to Seers' village, cutting trees and socializing with all the woodcutters. The bank being so close and seeing people trade freely pre-GE was something to behold. The game felt like a living, breathing world and we were its inhabitants.
Now we just minmax the fun out of everything.
I love getting sidetracked in osrs and do fishing, so I could do cooking, so I could kill monsters, so I could get the specific drop I'm after so I could do something else later on etc etc. It's a wonderful rabbit hole to go down and an experience any other MMO has never given me.
Being able to choose to pay attention, or choose to afk, is a huge success for the game. Gives more ability to login at points where you want to just be brain-off
RuneScape is one of the only games out there that I feel can legitimately deliver on that notion of “a world where you can do whatever you want”.
Many games try and claim this, but ultimately fail. Most open world games that tout “player freedom” are restricted down to only letting the player do whatever content the developers specifically crafted for them to engage with. And a lot of them end up adopting the same ideas as each other, which results in the things that you’re able to do, becoming the things that you already _can do_ in every other game.
This is where RuneScape’s simplistic mechanics and “dull” gameplay turn into an advantage that it holds over those other games. Developers tend to focus on doing one thing extremely well - combat, story, etc. - and not much else. As a result, you could never have the breadth of content that RuneScape offers in those other games. You couldn’t have all of the 23 skills in a game like Elden Ring, or a game like Baldur’s Gate 3, or in any other game that was an open world / RPG. Because it would just require too much time and resources in order to match the level of choice offered by RuneScape in those other games.
The basic point-and-click controls, the tile-based movement, the “dated graphics” - all of these aspects of the game that are _perceived_ as drawbacks, from an outside perspective, are the whole reason why were able to have a giant world where almost everything is interactive and beneficial to gameplay.
You won’t get the same _amount_ of options in most other games that you can with RuneScape, and that’s what makes it different. That’s why it’s so special and why there’s nothing else like it.
As someone who uses a 5th gen i5 and 4gb of ram. I enjoy OSRS.
I'm a simple man. I see numbers go up, and monkey brain makes happy juice.
When I started playing I fully committed to being a lumberjack and I loved it.
Nostalgia and chillness in my opinion.
Watched this while standing and wacking at a bush in the jungle and having a snake attack me the entire time to get a gout tuber in order to work towards my medium karamja diary which will probably take me 3-6 hours. But while I do this 3-6 hour grind I'm also simultaneously working towards 60% Tai Bwo favour which will allow me to do the my arms big adventure quest which is why I decided to go for the gout tuber in the first place. But since I'm already getting my favour up for trading sticks I might as well work towards the 4000 something trading stick requirement for the brimhaven dungeon shortcut. Ahh, if I'm already in karamja I might as well... Ah fuck not again. What quest was I trying to do?
because it's fucking cool
Played since 2002 quit after eoc was so relieved when osrs launched.
You know it's a good video when the background music is from Pokémon Colosseum.
I love runescape because no matter how much or how little time I have, I can progress towards something. Games like wow put you increasingly further behind if you don’t play for awhile. RuneScape, you quit for however long you want and your pretty much exactly where you left off which as I get older and have increasingly less time makes RuneScape just increasingly appealing
I love the grinds. I got the 600 beginner scroll emote, and it felt so satisfying. There is a linear path, but there are so many ways to play the game that it can always change for players. Also, a lot of games now are all about graphics and lack depth,and runescape lore runs deep, but it isn't necessary to learn it to progress. The chaos of it is appealing to me. I go to 301 sometimes just to watch the ge go nuts.
The game is incredible. You can make what you want of it, and it’s so endlessly nuanced that you never feel embarrassed about your own journey. It’s a truly spectacular game that will likely never be beaten.
I didn't play a lot during the last year, but still watch osrs videos daily and still sometimes think fondly of my 99s and quest cape. Logged in again for varlamore p2 for the quests ofcourse
My mining grind ended up with me doing the Ratcatchers quest.
The sidetracking is real.
Birthday as 2-22 classic idyl
I never played as a kid, started in 2022. I think the main point is having motivation to progress from the start, I got hooked on OSRS PK videos and the wildy as my main game growing up was DayZ and the wildy is quite a similar concept to DayZ. That motivation prior to playing is what pushed me past the 'I don't know what I'm doing phase'
Did I just listen to Boulevard of Broken Dreams in the Runescape soundfont?
I would like to see long skill tasks that operate similarly to quests and give rewards at the end. just less annoying and grindy than doing a repetitive task over and over
I've played rs for over 20 years and I could happily play it for another 20. I feel the simplicity helps make it timeless.
I just recently finished a multi-year long sidequest and finally got my diary cape.
Had a very clear goal in mind after that, and immediately got sidetracked again 🤣
im a normal person watching video essays about a 20 year old MMORPG
Oh my fucking god the impossible quiz! This is the first time I’ve heard of it since 2005, I’ve never had a memory unlock moment like that
You come for nostalgia but you stay cuz you learn they added a bunch of shit while keeping the old feel so it still feels like a massive new game
Because OSRS is "safe", and of course because it is a genuinely good game. It doesn't have pushy microtransactions, it hasn't been designed to be frustrating in order to boost MTX sales, it most likely won't crash and burn overnight(again). It has no FOMO, you can logout, then login 1½ years later and pick off exactly where you left off. All your of progress intact, none of it invalidated let alone outright removed.
In short everything we've come to detest in modern MMOs and games in general just isn't present in OSRS. It is as its name suggests, Old School.
16:11 this is the point I would have led with. it's a project you can work on while you do other important or not important things on the side being 10 mins afk orrr like intense tribrid pking
I have no nostalgia for this game, started playing 2 years ago, but it has some of the most enjoyable quests and quest dialogue I’ve encountered in an mmo. I love this children’s clicker game.
That clip of the acc getting killed by the troll is literally how i died on my first hardcore... lol
"Speaking of skateboards, have you subscribed yet?" Smooth.
Oldschool has a strange addiction and it’s grasp is a strong one. You don’t quit OSRS only take breaks
I'd be so happy if it actually snowed like that these days
Is that “Harvest MOON: Back to nature” background music I heard?
Great video!
I'd like to point out a vast amount of people use quest mods and other mods that do basically the same hand holding that Rs3 does.
I love runescape, been playing since 05 myself. Just recently got my first fire cape, huge achievement!
I wish I could play more often, but they've raised the price of mems recently, so I've been taking a break.
i played osrs from 2013-22 on and off and i only paid for membership a couple times. you could easily pay for membership through bonds (not sure how true this is anymore). also gz on your firecape!
easy to understand, hard to master, can play super relaxed or go sweaty try hard mode, create your own adventure/goals
I don't play as much as a few years ago since trying to finish up my grad school program, but in my opinion the reason why osrs is my favorite mmo is because it has the best long term progression. For many mmo's the main thing that ruins the fun is when the developers push out some new expansion, making all your gear worthless hence devaluing all your hard work. Osrs practically never does this; can walk away and play other games and come back to find all your gear and progress is still fine so can pick up where you left off. That combined with the sheer difference in your skill as you play game and learn mechanics; starting fighting lil rats and by end game doing crazy difficult gameplay on bosses. Honestly excited as fuck to play group ironman with girlfriend cause ironman seems like even more fun than main
Number 1 thing for me is no micro transactions it’s so normalised now and so refreshing I also love the fact that’s as Ironmans. Nothing beats the feeling of earning your rewards and people know that you didn’t just pay to win it.
I've played off and on since 2006, and i've never heard the game explained as good as this. There really is no game like it.
Simple. OSRS, out of any MMO, is the simplest to get into and has an addicting gameplay loop, so people stick around. And because it's so popular on streaming websites and in meme culture, there are a lot of new people joining.
The clue scroll thing is too real. I have completed a several hour long cascade from a clue scroll only to forget what I was originally doing.
I honestly only heard half of what you said while the instrumental “Walk Alone” was playing..
Is that a microphone cable or are you just happy to see us?
I love the aspect of being dropped into a game and figuring it out slowly as you level up and get sucked into the world. Its kind of the same feeling as elder scrolls 3 morrowind
"I have gone many times over the droprate several times..." as a 488kc 1/512 tanz fang drops. Somebody queue Over the Drop Rate
I played so much mobilising armies I got the highest tier for the outfit, RIP it’s gone
19:07 How dare you! Mobilising Armies was incredible...
It was so, so badly made that I had a 99% win rate at it because noone know what they were doing.
when i originally played rs2 in the mid 2010s going for my first max cape + even more beyond that - jebrim was somebody i saw training agility. crazy to think that mf just never stopped
The real answer, you can play it with your friends or you can play it solo. You can play it when you are taking a shit, you can play it afk at work. You can play it in an uber. You can enjoy it while not progressing. You always have something to do. You don’t have to do all of it. You can do some of it. You can do the other something of it. It’s just chill bro.