I'm playing Runescape 2007 and some of these lines are hilarious

I'm playing Runescape 2007 and some of these lines are hilarious.

Runescape has always had nice writing. Honestly has some of the best quests out of any MMO.

Go on...

I can post the ones I liked enough to screencap.

Runescape's quests felt like a lot of old point and click adventure games where you had to do puzzles, there was great writing and characters with actually funny writing and because of that Runescape probably has the best quests out of any MMO I've ever played and absolutely blows WoW out of the water.

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Fucking great

Runescape was/is the only MMO where the quests actually feel like quests and not menial tasks. They have actual storylines, puzzles and RPG elements (e.g. needing certain skills/items to overcome obstacles) and don't spoonfeed you the objectives.

I can't remember, but there was a quest where if you have all the required items in inventory, the guy you talk to finds it really weird that you already have the items you need to proceed.

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Fremmenik Isles, don't have the pic on me, I'll see if I can find it

The problem is the absurdly tedious grinding between the quests.

Yeah, it had surprisingly strong characterization for an MMO too. Some of the lines the player character has is hilarious such as during the My Arm quest where you watch a cutscene of a person being cooked by a troll and you try and pick up the expensive, dragon equipment on the ground. The troll who is telling you the story scolds you and tells you to stop being so distracted.

Talking to random NPCs in Runescape is so great

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im also remembering a f2p quest that did this too
i think is was that one where you had to save the prince in al karid, or im remembering wrong

The problem with the old adventure game format is that it predictably leads to a lot of obscure solutions, like the vodka in Eadgar's Ruse.

Can we all agree that the Wise Old Man is the GOAT Runescape character

I don't see how anyone could have done every quest without a guide
>that light puzzle in MEPII

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Elemental workshop three is worse

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It wasn't that bad, just required a particular brand of autism

The quests are why I still feel like revisiting the game. I feel like I could enjoy it as a single player game to some capacity.

I moved on before remembering to screencap, so I pulled this from a YT playthrough vid.

I haven't reached that yet, but I'm going to give it an honest try. Having pen and paper on hand really helps with some puzzles, even if you're just reduced to brute forcing.

Why does he not look like his iconic image

because im too far away to make it to the tree gnome stronghold and capture stuff before the thread dies
so i pulled something google

>One Small Favor

>enjoyed 1 and 2, later 4
>try to solve 3 without a guide
>pulling levers at random, don't know what anything does
>look up the only guide available at the time
>guy writing it barely knows what to do either
>have to figure out how to put all the blocks where they originally were to make sense of his instructions
I could have sworn it was released near Pillar in the Wound so Jagex could harvest the greatest amount of butthurt, but they're about a year apart so it's probably just the PTSD talking

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>parody shit games' fetch quests and make your players suffer
the madmen

Last one. This one's a bit funny in light of While Guthix Sleeps starting the trend of taking the factionism too seriously.

I'm sorry I cant remember his name but the postman that is a skull or whatever?

jagex used to release like a sort of blog every once in a while where he talked about the world or interviewed npcs, that shit was fucking great.

fuck. runescape taught me a lot of shit. economy, how being a merchant works, smelting, problem solving, tons of shit like that.
its weird to think a game helped me become a person

Salt in the wound was so bad they literally erased the guy who made it, he got memoryholed hard.

Thank you.

>tfw

Postman Pete. Those blogs were pretty fun to read, I don't know if they're archived anywhere in the old website layout.

My nigga Postie Pete. And you're thinking of Postbag From the Hedge, that shit was great.
Actually you can still see Pete occasionally pop up and talk to NPCs in game.

And there's still no goddamn Acolyte nor Partisan Temple Knight armor. Fuck, that's the one place where IT WAS ALL A DREAM would fit, Mother Mallum could have actually been possessing you all that time, making you hallucinate SitW.

Seems like Jagex refused to admit they've ever done anything wrong and remove universally despied updates like with the climbing boots fiasco.

markdonalds was a mistake.
There was a documentary about the fifteen years of runescape.
I've not seen it, but apparently you can see the gower brother's crushed souls.

They should have moved him to a prison in a castle.

>climbing boots fiasco
i remember climbing boots used to expensive for some reason what was the deal behind it?

I'm going to start using this to shitpost about video games

I'll never forget the construction update and how much money I made from years of autisticaly gathering planks from the wilderness for years

Fishing lvls?

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7

Anytime a quest asks for nails and planks I'm just going to bring 400 so I don't have to deal with "you didn't bring the correct multiple of 15" which happens every other time.

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9

Comfiest town.

[55:58-57:56]
Andrew Gower:
I wanted to get myself in a position where...I could still...advise Jagex, and still, you know, I loved RuneScape. I absolutely wanted to keep working on it, but I didn't want the responsibility and the stress, um, of being in charge of something so big an so important. So I started looking at selling my remaining stake in Jagex. But it wasn't meant to be a radical shift, it was just meant to be a way I didn't have to be a director of a huge company.

Whilst I'd been quite stressed being in charge, I suddenly realized that, when I wasn't in charge, all of a sudden what I had to say didn't matter so much. And you know, people were doing things not the way I wanted them to do them. And, that was the whole point, of course. The whole point was I didn't want to be responsible, and, uh, you know, I just wanted to be able to advise and help, and...and...and, you know, nurture the game I've made without having to be so responsible. But as soon as that responsibility was taken away, I, I realized...oh dear. Um...you can't have it...you can't have it both ways. Without responsibility, you also don't have the authority. You can't...and...and you know, you can't have one without the other. And by trying to make myself less stressed and reduce the responsibility, I'd also reduced the authority. And all of a sudden I'd found that...you know...uh...I didn't have the final say on things, and other-you know-other people had the final say on things, and...I'd made a mistake, quite frankly. Eventually it just reached the point where I just wasn't doing anything for Jagex anymore. But there was no sort of date where I left. I didn't have a sort of leaving due, or anything like that. It just sort of faded away.

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the comfiest place was the cooks guild for me

[1:01:45-1:02:10]
Paul Gower
I think I actually left the company...when they, um, started introducing, um...microtransactions to the Wheel of-Squeal of Fortune. Because...one thing which we'd always publicly said to the players was the we wouldn't, um...start, um...(sob?)...selling microtransactions. So...by them doing that, if I was still involved with the company, it sort of felt like that made me into a liar. I sort of said we'd never do that and we did.

;_;
Fuck IVP

fuck man he was one of the good ones

That's why I didn't really mind when the Gowers were really cracking down on RWT, you could see that they actually cared about the health and economy of the game despite that update being unpopular as fuck.

Wheel-of-Squeal was a fucking knife in the player's back and the Gower brother's back.

legitimately saddening

christ, no wonder all the old and original content was god tier mmo material

I found out yesterday that the area behind rogues castle is pretty relaxing

Despite being in fucking high level wilderness and the chaos elemental on the other side of the castle in general seeing the ocean in the wilderness feels comfy for some reason to me

83ish

>Watch Paul Gower's segment
>He's a typical middle aged nerd with shitloads of boardgames in the back

He was a real human bean

A couple of somebodies (with at least one inside man) bought a ton of boots before an update that split the boots into 75k store/45k alch +2 str boots and 12 gp store +0 everything boots, with the reason given that 'rune boots have +2 str too, and they're worth a lot!'
Said somebodies made a lot of gp with little effort, pures and

is osrs worth playing? havent played since 07 myself

Zezima shot me in the dick in the wildy once with a magic bow

Oh yeah, this Logdotzip guy asked around about it, made some videos about it, and got b&.
Forum moderators were doing everything they could to cull discussions on it.
Dunno if there was ever any comeuppance for the guys responsible, but I sort of doubt it.

just let the memory die in peace user.
take it from me

It's IVP no more.
Jagex was bought by the chinese.
Specifically a mining company looking to diversify it's holdings.
A failing mining company.

Absolutely Halal

That was fairly recent, climbing boots happened in 2010's summer.
If anything, the chingchongs are behind the mining updates, using their firsthand expertise.

This.

if you're not extremely autistic like me and don't care about levels, yes. I had to quit because I get pulled into playing for 16 hours a day.

Fucking hell, there is no god.

That just happened
It was IVP that killed the game

Not if you're using harpoons. Misclicking every orher fishing spot is a pain.

You gotta watch out for those fucking zammy mages that live underground out there though

I know.
But the chinks are the final bell tolling.

watching the documentary live, i got so sad during this part. I will never forgive jagex for the MTX bullshit. They even had a statement on their website before MTX was introduced that said they would never let players gain an ingame advantage using real life gold.

Never got into RuneScape but, i'm thinking of giving it ago. What are some tips?

>Nexon buys runescape next

I only care about levels to the point at which they allow me to do quests. that was mostly what i did in the past id probably just try and do every quest

The fun part takes an eternity to get to. The fun part is even longer

>grows too old to the point where he doesn't want to have the stress of managing something so big, but still hoped to have some say
>he didn't realise he would lose any good amount of control, and has to watch his nearly 2 decades of work and arguablely his greats asscomplishment being Defiled before his eyes, and people blaming him when he doesn't like the stuff
This is the kind of shit that destroys a man physically and emotionally

>Chinks
WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH CHINESE AND SCOOPING UP VIDEO GAME COMPANIES I CAN'T THINK OF ANY OTHER FUCKING COUNTRY THAT DEVOURS SO MUCH OF THE INDUSTRY, THEY DON'T EVEN NEED THE IPS TO AVOID LEGAL BULLSHIT IT'S FUCKING CHINA

fuck im currently at 10 hours a day and I know it has to stop.

>/ck/

The Chinese investing in Runescape wasn't all bad...

It did cause Jagex to start creating content geared towards the East. So now there is a Katana set, Samurai armor, and a whole region based on Chinese architecture.

Also there is a nine-tailed fox pet. So there's that.

Don't it's objectively dated shit, I'm only playing still because I've played too long to quit.

If IVP was bad, the chinese are much much worse.
Can't wait till jagex starts selling official bots.

All of that sounds bad.

That was the Wise Old Man, during Swan Song.
I think it was the Prince Ali Rescue quest.

This game was my fucking life when I was younger. It pains me to see where it's headed, but it was bound to happen eventually. Back in '09, they finally caught me for botting like three years before then, and temp banned me. Rolled my stats back, and couldn't bring myself to do it again. So, I stayed in Barrows Brothers. Every day for hours in Clan Chat, made more money than I knew what to do with and started giving barrows armour away for cheap. It's going on 5 years since I last played RS, and I'm seriously considering to go back and make another account.
Help me Sup Forums

LOL

Have some podcasts or videos lined up to listen to as background noise. As great as the soundtrack is, it's not worth hearing the same song over and over while grinding a skill.

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What did jagex mean by this?

Don't bother. The only people playing it now are fueled purely by nostalgia and habit. Getting into it now as a new player isn't worth your time

I hope he doesn't an hero
I want to one day do a nice detailed in depth Interview or book with members of the team and get their inspiratons thought process for stuff they added to the game, like specific quests, writing, locations and other dumb things like that

Cheeky British humour at its finest.

How was Runescape able to become as good as it was?