Now that some time has passed, was Runescape a good rpg?

>>3790364 (OP)
only if you're comparing it to korean ones

>>3790364 (OP)
there are no good online rpgs. their purpose is making an addictive experience, not making an rpg.

>>3790364 (OP)
Yeah if you buy gold. Otherwise the grind is too shitty. Ironman is for massochists but it is also very pure. The final 10 levels in a skill shouldn't take 12-18 hours each. Otherwise yeah it's fun.

>>3790364 (OP)
it was ugly so no
>>3790381
at least some korean ones looked cool

>>3790515
>choosing graphics over gameplay
wrong genre, ngmi, kys, smհ fäm tbհ

>>3790528
There is ugly but whatever, and absolutely hideous and burns my retina. I'd rather play text adventures than Runescape

I got my quest cape on 2007scape than quit playing. I can't imagine getting 99s. But doing all the quests was a great experience.

I don't know if I'd call it a good RPG, but it brought a lot of interesting emergent gameplay ideas. I'm still waiting for a single-player game that handles tribrid/gear switching as well as OSRS does for certain bosses. And niche loadouts for specific use cases on a "main" is more interesting than just building up a single BIS kit for your character's build.

>>3790515
>it was ugly
Soulless tranime faggot.

>>3791503
>Soulless tranime faggot.

>>3790364 (OP)
Ofcourse, its one of the best mmorpgs ever made

>>3790364 (OP)
It was the shit way back in the day on runescape classic in 7th grade on dial up.

I'll never forgot when I overheard people in Varrock talking about a guy who has been training on rats in Varrock sewer for weeks on end. That guy was my childhood best friend IRL and every time he tried to move out of Varrock sewer his computer would crash. Our group of friends called him the sewer king for years.

RS classic really was fun, extremely basic and excessively tedious even for its time but still fun. I'm not sure that any other MMO ever had it's "end game" so insanely hard to reach than OG RuneScape classic. Somehow this made it even more fun, but I'm not sure that can work these days.

>>3790364 (OP)
Yeah

>>3790364 (OP)
It wasn't a good rpg because it didn't have enough stats.

>>3790364 (OP)
Yes. But only the original Runescape where you could PK anywhere if you were on a PK account. RS with the wilderness and RS2 were garbage.

>>3791526
its genuinely and honestly one of the most pure distilled sovlful games ive ever played. There are many problems with it, but soul isnt one of them

>>3790364 (OP)
Yeah it was great.
But it lost its soul when they started focusing on PvM content and bosses started making skilling inferior.

playing as an ironman makes it have one of the best progression systems ive ever encountered in an rpg. the only issue is the amount of time it takes to progress.

>>3790364 (OP)
Now that the settle has dusted

>>3790457
Group ironman with the boys is peak

>>3790364 (OP)
Pre-GE yes.

>>3793672
It's good early game but once you unlock midgame bossing it gets quite dull.

If there was a single player version that massively cut down xp and item grinds and finished the questlines it would be a top 10 of all time RPG.

>>3790364 (OP)
Yes, one of the best. The only one that felt like medieval Europe
>>3790457
you're too new to the game to understand.
>>3793307
exactly

>>3794807
That's rs3.

It's fine. The biggest problem in the game is that they refused to rebalance some old content when new content was added. It was supposed to be a much more limited experience, and the current game is all over the place. Some parts of the game are still built around the idea that rune full is something you really have to work towards. Now, that's absolutely not true.

yes, it's one of the few MMOs that doesn't forget the MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER part of the genre

One thing that's especially great is how one skill can work on another (crafting can help you make simple tools or ranger amor instead of buying it, mining and smelting work on one another and makes you able to make your own armor or mining for runes to use for rune crafting which in turn you can use for magic). More games should use such an intricate system and it's sad games not doing something like this
I also like how dozens of spots have their own theme, no matter how big or small

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMNAcMNedOc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEtNpEGaPoY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tSfgO3AbwE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d4hNLA1fZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T6Le21bzBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZPE-45HJIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRAEpWP7Rm8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhreN5xyjkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7hhc_P4HN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcrLBc1A4Hg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rptxw5O-nww

>>3790364 (OP)
roleplaying as an adventurer is fun until it turns into roleplaying as a wagie

>>3795087
>rune full something you have to work for

Even 12 year old me had a full set of gold trimmed addy. Would have splurged on the rune but never got my defence high enough

I've nearly maxed my UIM and most of the game is alright. Some of the skills should be reworked to be more useful. Smithing is poorly scaled. There should be more agility shortcuts to traverse some of the more tedious areas of the game (I think the agility shortcuts should be created through other skills and quests, such as cutting a particular tree down to cross a river, growing a magic plant to climb up a convenient section of wall, etc). Unrestricted accounts rarely have a reason to level skills past quest requirements so it would be a neat way to add more content for each skill

No. It was just something to play on your school computers in 2003. It was popular because it worked on just about any PC at that time & it was a lot of people's first experience in an MMO. The year WoW came out I was in 7th grade and EVERYONE jumped ship from Runescape. Last year I replayed OSRS for the first time in 20 years & it had absolutely no appeal.

>>3790364 (OP)
it was great addictive fun back in like 2003 2004. jesus I feel old

I'm maxed and only really play new content nowadays, but it's pretty enjoyable overall. The biggest problems on OSRS are the drop rates being way too low on some bosses, smithing scaling horribly, and XP rates being too low on agility and runecrafting. In spite of that, the quests are actually really fun and it's nice to have permanent progression. You can still kill basically everything in the game with some combination of a whip, fang, blowpipe, rcb, and a trident, although it'll be harder than having max gear, of course.

>>3796353
How exactly did everyone in 7th grade afford a wow subscription? The main reason for runescape's popularity was that it could run on any potato pc AND that it was free.

>>3790865
Yeah. RS is only fun as a single player game anymore. Very soulful with the music and slow opening up of the coll world. Morytania is my favorite. Even in the golden age when the people playing weren't all insane it was pretty limited in the whole multiplayer content thing outside of PKing. WoW was always 100x better with friends than RS.

>>3797279
Didn't this version of Runescape get released in 2007? Or are you an original RS1 player?

>>3795063
RS3 has annoying forevergrinds too.

>>3798079
RS2 was 2004, first (or what later became classic) was 2001 and RS3 was 2013

>>3790364 (OP)
>was Grind the game a good rpg?
no

>>3795088
i like how rs3 has linked the different skills together more in that regard, they're really trying to make it so you can leverage your current skills to assist with most other skills, but i don't really care to play rs any more and it's a damn shame the game wasn't always like that
smithing your own gear originally was just completely untenable, in the time it'd take you to get the mining/smithing levels to make full bronze, your combat stats would be up in the 40s across the board, by the time you get the smithing to make full level 40 gear (i.e. full rune) you could literally have completed every single piece of content in the game, and maxed all your other skills
and yes i have actually, unironically grinded smithing in classic
it was just silly, it's such a shame it took them 18 fucking years to address such a basic thing

>>3795088
>it's one of the few MMOs that doesn't forget the MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER part of the genre
What? With PvP/minigames dead, where is the '>MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER' aspect of runescape?
They made an entire gamemode to play the game solo and never interact with anyone else, which has become the preferred way to play the game.
Not to mention that 'raids' in runescape are like dungeons in any other MMO, being done with a group of 4 (or less) outside of 'mass' events, whereas raids im other '>MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER' games have 20-40 people.
Current day runescape is by all means a 'social' single player game.