The beauty of RuneScape is no matter what you do its progression in the game weather it be to quests or diaries or better gear. Everything you do in the game serves some sort of purpose so do it all and enjoy the fact you cutting that tree is progress
Well said I've said similar. Runescape is always progress no matter how much or little you can commit time wise. Some MMOs like WoW are so far different that you can lose progress if you aren't active. The fact you always move forward in some way is why runescape hooks people I think
I think that’s why people like the game as a hole. The feeling of always getting progression. He goes on and on about the adventure. Even when I first started it was all about getting the levels then unlocks and just getting that sense of constant progression.
Well, a lot of players which come from other games are used to ... 90% combat. Follow arrow, kill 10 wolves until lvl and gear and kill the raid boss for more gear. That's literally 90% of other Mmos. Obviously to modern gamers runescape is a completely different and unusual experience. They have no clue about 'Skilling' or 'Puzzles'. And the combat is completely autistic to normal ... people. We're pretty biased...
Yeah I totally didn't give a single shit about doing anything optimally when I started playing on my newest account. I just chopped trees and sold em on the GE until I had enough for a bond, then went to the WC guild and chopped magic trees until I got the pet.. just because I like afking trees and I like the sound it makes when I cut em. Inefficient? Yes. Autistic as shit? Also yes. Did I have fun though? Absolutely 😂
@@GameTheist Its a childish argument and I believe most wow players know it but choose to ''mock'' runescape for its graphics anyway. The quest system in Runescape is MILES ahead of WoW's quest system. It's not even a comparison. Also I really love how ALL skills are basically interconnected and even affect the world and travel and tons more.
@@GameTheistat this point, proportionately the graphics aren’t even that different when you consider the whole spectrum of graphical quality. In comparison WoW also looks complete ass.
One of the biggest things I love about osrs is that the old content STILL gives some of the biggest upgrades in the game. No other MMO has MULTIPLE quest that are 20 years old that still give hugely relevant end game gear/upgrades.
I mean not many games were made 20 years ago that are still open but there are a lot of other mmos with quests made when the game was made that are still relevant.
I've been watching a channel called Karadus who's a WoW player trying osrs and it's been an amazing watch, this whole exodus has given some good content for osrs
Seconded, Karadus is great. Really nice dude and it's great to see him go through and just do whatever seems interesting at the time without worrying about "min maxxing" all the fun out of the experience lol
@@Anemeethious Flip (flipwastaken) has a completed series of doing the f2p quests as a completely new player and without guides/help. I believe he was a League player. He's on break right now and might come back to try members.
@@Anemeethious I would say Nerissa Ravencroft channel in youtube, she has lives on runescape for the first time and the servers almost crashed with all the players that came to help her.
@@Anemeethious An awesome channel I've been following i believe is called Alien Food. He's doing an unguided playthrough as an ironman and he's never played and has limited knowledge. Really fun watching him figure quest out and other things.
Lmfao I died at the "Lost? you're right you are lost. Lost in a world where you've never played RuneScape before. But now you're found baby! Found by the RuneScape gods." 😆 SO. FREAKING. TRUE
I too love how diverse the gameplay is in OSRS. Going from intense raids and bosses that require full focus and quick reactions.... To a chill fishing grind or chasing the Giant Mole around on mobile is something I don't think alot of game accomplish. Like rn, I'm at work letting my little guy fish AFK. As soon as I get home, I'm running some ToA
I've been playing RuneScape for 20 years. My oldest daughter, and nephew are now getting into the game. When they asked me what to do I told them to explore, do quests, kill monsters, and try out the different skills.
I never use any of these methods. If it isn't available from my house (portal nexus, jewellery box) or a cape, I pretty much forget it exists and just get there some other way. I've never even used an eagle.
This guy pauses more than Asmon. I've watched him yap for 8.5 minutes and he's watched a whole minute of the video so far. Meanwhile the things he says gets repeated almost instantly in the video after he unpauses..
I have never seen someone describe osrs so well asmongold needs to see this you nailed everything with your talking points you truly explained why osrs is so good and so loved one thing I will add is that for competitive gamers who like high end raids enjoys souls games and even just any intense competitive game that requires skill this game is also for you the end game raids and pvp take extreme skill there is alot of in game mechanics that you have to learn and master this game is a masterpiece and legit has everything you could ever want in a video game
“Humbling” is the word I’d use to describe OSRS. It’s a seemingly basic game that is incredibly complex and will give you years and years worth of content. It’s seriously the best game I’ve ever played.
This game goes deep, especially after 20 years and the things players have mastered about the mechanics now. The movement, the tick system, how you can manipulate those systems
Glad I found your channel dude. We all grew up with this game, and to think I came back to it recently in 2024… after all of the MMO’s we’ve played… all of the awesome raids and graphics of the newer MMO’s.. and instead of playing those flashy MMO’s, I’m standing in the same exact spot in taverly dungeon, safespotting blue dragons, that I was standing 20 years ago as a kid, walking to the library every morning to play RuneScape on their computers all day. And now there’s a whole new generation of kids that can experience the same magical game. Isn’t that insane?
I exclusively play osrs on the mobile client and let me tell you that this game has been a LIFESAVER at work. Super fun and a great way to unwind while I’m on my breaks or on downtime! Currently only a f2p player but I might look into membership in the near future.
What I love about this is that it always brings in a lot of views for the channels that do it. Something about this game draws viewers, even if your account is focused on another mmo.
21:56 Unironically I'm watching your videos a lot recently for this exact reason too.. Coming from a perspective of person who has spent over 10'000 hours on osrs, it's funny seeing your opinions that are still "relatively fresh and new" and often even slightly incorrect, but full of excitement and passion due to the joy of discovery and increasing understanding of the game... You're definitely starting to get the perspective of osrs player who has seen a lot of things, but still has tons of stuff to discover and it'll be interesting to see how those opinions and feelings change over time. So yeah, I absolutely love watching videos of people just discovering the game for first time and fumbling around.. But I also love watching videos of people starting to understand the game better and better because it's such an non-linear path and everyone experiences this game slightly differently (unless they blindly follow guides all the way through)
Idk who you are but you have recently been blasted on my YT page. And I must say. I love seeing someone learn and love the game I’ve been playing for over 20 years now. I’ve meet amazing irl friends through this game and it just makes me happy it is becoming joy for more people aswell
I found the whole "you know what direction to go in WOW" very interesting. I've been an OSRS player for a long time and I felt more lost when trying to work out WOW than OSRS. Not having clear direction was my quit moment in WOW and I went back to OSRS.
Modern MMOs convinced everyone that you’re suppose to maximize your time or you won’t have fun. WoW classic and OSRS convinced you that the journey and community was the way to have fun. Simplicity does a lot more for me than needing to do 7 hours of research before doing anything considered interesting. When I got back into OSRS, I was leveling with a 2H sword and it took about 2 minutes before someone told me I should get a scimitar if I was looking to level faster. This isnt a huge event in my time on the game, but having a complete stranger give me this advice made me like the game more.
As someone who plays both WoW and RS I can say that people who don't play RS on WoW do know about Sea Shanty 2. Lots of gamers seem to know it and one of the most popular WoW streamers have played it and referenced/used it multiple times. So it's not too strange if a WoW-only player has heard or likes it imo.
As a osrs player I realize ALOT of youtubers use osrs music and death animations and sounds in all kinds of videos and it's like Easter eggs in videos when u hear a song ur like do they play osrs. Lol
As someone who's played since 2007, I always tell beginners to make their first goal as 'complete all the free-to-play quests'. There's not that many and by the end you'll have a good general understand of the game. Some require you to level up a few skills and you should have Rune armor by the end. Buy membership after completing this goal and you'll know what you want to do by then.
Don't play efficiently at first, just enjoy the world, don't be afraid to get lost and genuinely discover things for the first time as that's more than half the fun. Use the free-to-play quests as a 'general guideline' of what to do as a new player but don't feel you have to hyper focus on that. Try all the skills available, explore, watch out for scammers at the grand exchange (nothing in life is free), and yea. Just enjoy
Old players have absolutely no freaking clue what new player experience is like. I've started a bit over a year ago and oh my the frustration to see NO ONE understanding what I was going through. I really hated this game at first, I had to try and retry for months before finally getting real genuine fun from this game. It was hard... But the good new is, absolutely no regrets, I don't see myself ever stopping playing. I wish all new players to "survive" through that first month of struggle, it's so worth it. If you really want to help a new player, please for the love of god do NOT tell them to "do whatever you want", that's the worst thing you could say! They're already lost and you're just going to make it worse. Instead, you could offer them a few diverse and short term goals to work towards, so they pick the one they feel like to try and start making their own decisions.
I actually agree with this. I think most people would prefer being given a goal to achieve instead of blindly going in and trying to play for a month. When I started my Ironman and I was basically a new player in 2017 I was following a guide and loved every bit of it. It taught me so much about the game and if I didn’t have it I would’ve just been overwhelmed and gotten nowhere. Some people think guides ruin the fun for new players etc but that’s just not true. You need to get taught the ropes first imo then you really see why osrs shines.
I remember as a child finding OSRS as a child back in 2004, both my childhood friend and I grew with the game through life up until now. OSRS helped me get though my toughest time in the military and this game is a game that will grow with you and won't leave you behind if you take a month or even a year break. OSRS is a game that you can come home at the end of your stressful work day / week and just relax for 10 minutes, 30 minutes or even an hour of your free time to just relax and enjoy the game.
Currently thieving for easy clues, happen on a Master clue (every now and then). Should have been in bed an hour ago but I spent another finishing the clue. What I get? 350k worth of junk. What I do? Go to sleep and start the easy clue grind all over again when I got home from work. That collection log is what's killing me.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude!!!! we need to get Arcanist back!!!! That was such a blast... I remember my dad laughing at how slow and laggy it looked in my old laptop... He found it so funny how I would perform an action and then wait for it to actually playout.... jaja But idk man, I just remember it super fondly....
25:56 coming from someone who started playing OSRS for the first time 3 days ago: yes, Sea Shanty 2 stands out! Especially because you hear it so early on. I like manually turning it on in the menu, and I do a little dance every time I level up :] You said a lot of very interesting things in this video, thank you for sharing your thoughts. Thinking about the game from this perspective was more helpful to me than any of the guides I've watched so far.
"Getting max levels is something that you do in Runescape once you understand the game and you've played a lot of it" Or you can be me, who got 99 wc and 99 fm in the first 3 months of playing the game. I've spent the whole summer chopping and burning willow logs to see if I can commit to a task. Pre-bonfire firemaking was rough tho.
30:50 "This sort of begs the question of why we get into games in the first place." Aktchually, it doesn't beg the question, it raises the question. Begging the question is when you include your conclusion in the question's premise, making it tautological. Great vid btw :P
@@Toommm11 bro, this simultaneously taught me something I didn’t know and angered me. Can you give me an example so I better understand? I love using turns of phrase exactly proper. Also thank you!
@@rubeuscubeus Haha, it's a pet peeve of mine. "Raising a question" is when a set of circumstances makes it obvious there is a question that needs to be asked, for example "we found life deep under the Antarctic ice sheet, which raises the question of how it got there. "Begging he question" is bundling an answer to a question within itself. Say you're discussing what sort of things children should be taught at school, and you and the other person disagree on what's harmful and what isn't. If the other person asks "So you think we should teach children harmful things?" they're begging the question, because those things being harmful is the point of the dispute. Another example would be "we're having lunch now because it's lunchtime". Yeah, but, it's lunchtime because we're having lunch. It's a thing that gets 'misused' a lot, and it's possible 10 years later we'll have to redefine which is which because dictionaries follow usage. But, I will have the correct definition etched on my gravestone regardless.
As a WoW player, the worst parts about runescape is the combat (clicking) and how a lot of BiS items aren’t soulbound. You can just GE stand and wait for lucky raiders to sell items on day one if you have the gp stack.
Everything in RuneScape is mostly clicking. If you want to see how high the combat ceiling can get, go watch a team complete tob or the gdq cox speedrun. Being able to buy bis items can allow variety and cool account builds
I used to play Runescape in the 2000's and few dozen hours in the 2010's. I just started a new character in the most recent version. It's very nice seeing what's new after years off. Nowadays you start the game in Burthorpe after the beginner's island.
The difference between wow and RuneScape is the same as the difference between people, some people have to be told what to do and where to go (wow) and others take charge and make their own path / lead and give orders (osrs) not saying there is a lesser of the two, just a fact. Osrs confuses people because it doesn’t say when you first enter lumby: “get x items and start waterfall quest” as a person who has sunk loads of hours into both, this is how I find it.
I think that I know what wow players and new players feel when they start runescape. Most games normally give you directions and guide the player through progression. WoW has a main questline that guides you, it gives you an objective immediately, there's no much choice: follow the questline and do more quests, unlock new regions and do more quests there. But runescape doesn't have that. You have most content unlocked for you at the beginning, so is up to the player to decide how to experience and progress their character. For someone that already knows what runescape has to offer is easy to choose what is next or the paths that you could take, but for a new player, that doesn't even know the armour tiers, obviously they are going to feel lost, they are going to get bored because the only thing they know and they are shown is chopping trees and click to attack.
Preach brother. The OSRS community is more than welcoming for new players. Whether you are an experienced MMO player or new.. the OSRS community is a good train to hop on. I too have put thousands of hours into WoW and OSRS (~10k hrs in WoW since 2006 and well over 30k hrs into OSRS since 2002) and I can honestly tell you that just like any MMO.. you will have to put in the work to reap the rewards. You want that sick glad mount by the end of the pvp season (WoW) then you're going to have to work hard for it.. same applies for OSRS and those sick rare pets. Except in WoW, once the season is gone.. you can't get that mount anymore... which imo is pointless. Set a goal, work towards it, and when it finally comes to fruition.. nothing amounts to that joy of accomplishment. If you have never given OSRS a "real" shot, maybe only played for 10hrs and then ditched it.. give it another go and keep progressing. It takes some time to get into the meat and potatoes of the game. Its not a graphic's "pretty to look at" game (there are HD settings nowadays) but the actual gameplay in the end-game PvM scene is not one to be reckoned with. Get into Gielinor, find cool people to play with or a clan, and start your new MMO adventure. I can assure you, its gonna be a long and oh so much fun ride. 😎👌
Dude I played this at like 10 years old and twenty years later I was able to access my old account and started back up on mobile and it’s great I get these moments when I flash back and remember how awesome it was to walk around and how I used to feel really apart of the game and now at 30 I’m reliving some of those moments such a great game
the biggest gripe I have with Runescape is it is click to move, if you moved like you do in say Ultima Online or Diablo, I would LOVE it much more for PvP and stuff too.
Really enjoyed the vid you're clearly passionate about MMO's and it's almost refreshing to hear your discussion about it. Don't have any IRL friends that play MMO's lol, and I have always loved them. OSRS is my most played by far but I've played a lot of em. Subbed and I'm gonna watch the maplestory vid next
Another magical thing about runescape is that you can play the game and make progress no matter how little attention you can actively give to the game. I got 99 woodcutting in a couple weeks by cutting redwoods while driving. That sounds super dangerous, but i just had to tap my screen once every 5 minutes, and there are audio cues, so its not aby worse than changing radio stations. You can train most skills or make money as long as you can tap your phone once every couple minutes, or you can go speedrun cox and ruin your keyboard with sweat.
I'd say playing OSRS has helped me in WoW. I pay alot attention to detail within osrs. So when playing wow for the first time ever in Dragonflight. The mechanics for raids were super simple and it blowed my mind that people have issues with WoW Raids within Dragonflight. Like what do you mean, there is no mechanics that require you to tile skip, tick prayer flip. Like all wow mechanics are aoe/floor mechanics, or just DPS/heal Checks. Not downplaying wow. It was fun but really easy.
What I wished I knew when I first started playing OSRS are using the wiki, and join a community and its clan. Having people to talk to, relate too, and celebrate achievements with is just better
Great video!! OSRS is truly one of the best games that has ever and will ever be made. I am a former wow player for years, but I always come back to osrs. Wow doesn't respect your time, you could grind for 100s of hours post-max level and then take a break for 6 months, and all your work is erased with a new expansion. In osrs, all the many goals are always there, its just choosing which ones to work on!
Glow2:Wave2:I was convicted in 2009 for manslaughter, but atleast from my block i can still play Osrs. If anyone would mind helping me with a very rare Key Quest, i can walk you through the instructions, But you have to follow a clue map i will describe to you and live within 30 miles of Kentucky State Super Max Penitentiary. I will share half the reward with you and a Green Halloween Mask.
How long do I have to play the same game? Until I complete my goals. This past year I "finished" my wow account by getting the last of the 3 pinnacle achievements. I got Gladiator 3 times: Burning Crusade S2, Wrath of the Lich King S8, and more recently BFA S2. I earned AOTC for every raid tier since it was released in mists of pandaria by beating the final boss of each raid on heroic difficulty before the next patch. Finally, this year I earned Cutting Edge by killing Fyrakk on mythic difficulty before the end of the patch. I've completed my goals. I started playing in 2006 and it was a good time. Had a lot of fun and made a lot of memories.
With the bit about Sea Shanty 2; we know that he’s playing a HCGIM with some friends that are more knowledgeable about the game. I’m thinking maybe they took him around the game world and when the got to Port Sarim they popped off cuz, ya know, how could you not?
Being 24 now and I started playing at the age of 11 in 2011 I’ve always loved the game and back then no one knew it and I felt like an idiot just saying RuneScape, love how it’s became a common name now.
The only toxic mini game that I am aware of that you MUST look at a guide before hand is barbarian assault, I had very bad experience when just trying to play it with out a guide people can be VERY TOXIC TO noobs in that mini game....
For Attacker and Collector, it's really straightforward. Healer is not hard to learn either. Defender is genuinely horrible without a guide. You will waste everyone's time, and get very few points.
People are toxic because in reality, no one wants to be there they just want the fighter torso. Kinda like Trawler for the angler outfit. The minigame is aids
i started very late, at the end of 2020 cause of the videos popping up and the quests looked so different and fun.. now I'm almost at 4000 hours play time :D I LOVE THIS GAME ps: also I did it while getting lots of breaks and playing so many different games, I just always come back to osrs. Best devs ever
You’re spot on dude. Ive been playing runescape for 20years (Im 30 now). I take breaks and play plenty of other games, but this game has been a staple. And its SO hard to get friends into it.
I was thinking while watching this that whatever browser you use looks real nice, then I realized it was Edge. Lol might have to give it a another try, doesnt look half bad now
the guides are more necessary nowadays because people don't gossip in the sewers about what they know anymore. it's a different kind of world. Also to build on your commentary, I find it interesting that some of the biggest power spikes in player progression in OSRS come from unlocking new faster travel paths I will say as a guy who played Runescape Classic as a kid and remembers the first day of Runescape 2, yadda yadda, they are making skilling too easy with all these event minigames. It has the double purpose of giving active players an advantage over afk/botters, which I welcome, but they have to be careful about it. For example the new trees being on a timer and the frantic clicking on the event entities feels a bit too overwhelming for me, and for woodcutting in general, but now it is the 'meta' way of progressing. There was something special about walking into a tree area and using your higher WC level to bully everyone else out.
15:00 that’s why I play osrs. It’s an afk game that you can get benefits from. Like afk 200 hours and you can use that 200 afked hours to do TOA or other end game stuff. Most afk games you afk 200 hours and yay you get another picture to afk to and never anything to do with that afked time.
I love OSRS because everything you do takes you on a journey that you didn't intend on doing. Oh I want X? I've got to do quest A. But quest A requires me to have skill B, C, and D up to levels E, F, G. Well shoot how do I do that? Dang I've got to have item H and have access to area J in order to train skill B, and unlock item K in order to train skill C. Phew I already have level in skill D thankfully. Sh** I realized quest A also requires quest L to be complete...........
i tried WoW last year and like this guy with RS i was overwhelmed. Building my character to fit the meta and having to preform precise attack strings was annoying. I constantly felt i was watching videos so they may be different games but if you didn't grow up playing one or the other then they are going to feel foreign. That's just natural. I agree 100% with you in the aspect that people just have to be willing to give games a chance even if it's not fun for a couple hours. My viewpoint is if someone can find love and passion for a game like WoW or Rs then there has to be something there i am not seeing. That's the only reason i gave WoW a chance for as long as i did. BTW they brought Arcanist back if you didn't know. It's free on Steam.
I am sure nostalgia helps but I made my main account in 2020 played it for a year and came back in2024 and I am playing a hardcore ironman and it's so fun. No nostalgia at all . Just a good game ❤
I've never even thought about the insane progression of our character. It is extremely funny to realize our character is just stumbling around doing whatever they want... until they are casually slaying powerful gods with nothing but determination and a few prayers 🤣.m
most people never start off with let me get all 99s, heck even vets who started from scratch on osrs didn't go like that. Each person has their own path and journey to progress their toon. You slowly get stronger then kill better monsters get better loot and gear complete quest for upgrade your gear, then onc eyou have a little gp you start lvling the more expensive skills, and progress from there. Runescape isnt like some other mmorp where you can max everything out and best gear in 3-4 months.
When you said if it takes them 20 minutes in a video it'll take 20 hours, I felt that. I literally have a bachelors degree and these videos confuse tf out of me. They make getting the quest cape sound like an early game task lol. You could make a series for new players?
@@swolejohn8658 I’ve sort of been tossing this idea around in my head of streaming a regular play through of osrs a couple times a week and chopping it all up in to content. Not so much a guide but just a “this is what I would do in this game if I was making a new account” kind of thing.
The "i had to suffer so you do too" is a bit misleading.. we dont think you should suffer, but we shouldnt sacrifice the longevity of the game for quicker rewards. Much like a new player falling in love with osrs, a casual player can falling love with skilling methods. As a level 3 this mindset that we just want you to suffer is my biggest fear for osrs, RS3 died a death of a thousand cuts, and i dont want that for my favorite game. Just a criticism, otherwise good vid
You're so right in all your points. Enjoyed just listening and agreeing lol. It's 2024. Anyone who still claims that OSRS is going strong and active due to "nostalgia" is not accurate. Game definitely got its energy and original base players through nostalgia, but it's evolved to its own game attracting new players and growing with a new generation. This isin't nostalgia, it's a GOOD game. Only nostalgic thing is the fact the game doesn't have microtransactions or BS stuff that modern games have. It's grounded.
I don't know 100% how to put into words my feelings on your video, but I am going to make an effort to do so For most of the video I felt like when you would pause to talk about Runescape, most of your focus seemed to be directed at the fact that OSRS is an amazing experience once you hit the 500hr mark. Now, while I agree with this, I also think that there is absolutely something to be said for the fact that Runescape gives 0 direction to new players. To me, this is absolutely a negative thing about the game. the 500hr mark of the video game might be amazing but if a new player is unable to understand what they want to do 5 minutes into the future after leaving tutorial island, that is a problem. I generally think that new players will get the best experience if they spend their first 10 or so hours doing some quests, as those quests will give way to goals that they do not have to initially set for themselves. Once people understand basic concepts about things that they can even do in the game I do firmly believe people would be much more likely to have a good first few hours in Runescape, and I do think it would be good if there was something Runescape used to try and push you in that direction for you first few hours. I'm going to leave my disagreements at that as trying to explain why I think the wikification of games is absolutely a blight on gaming communities would probably take a multitude of paragraphs, and you only mentioned the wikification of video games for a few seconds near the end of your video
Okay so you don't understand why people play the same game for years but then admit that it is going to be a decade before you get anywhere significant in OSRS? Why would I invest that much time to see if I even like the game?
The beauty of RuneScape is no matter what you do its progression in the game weather it be to quests or diaries or better gear. Everything you do in the game serves some sort of purpose so do it all and enjoy the fact you cutting that tree is progress
Well said I've said similar. Runescape is always progress no matter how much or little you can commit time wise. Some MMOs like WoW are so far different that you can lose progress if you aren't active. The fact you always move forward in some way is why runescape hooks people I think
being social is xp waste
@@petakismyname4265 memories with your friends on RuneScape may be xp waste but the nostalgia is the best part of the game, no?
I think that’s why people like the game as a hole. The feeling of always getting progression. He goes on and on about the adventure. Even when I first started it was all about getting the levels then unlocks and just getting that sense of constant progression.
Well, a lot of players which come from other games are used to ... 90% combat. Follow arrow, kill 10 wolves until lvl and gear and kill the raid boss for more gear. That's literally 90% of other Mmos. Obviously to modern gamers runescape is a completely different and unusual experience. They have no clue about 'Skilling' or 'Puzzles'. And the combat is completely autistic to normal ... people. We're pretty biased...
Yeah I totally didn't give a single shit about doing anything optimally when I started playing on my newest account. I just chopped trees and sold em on the GE until I had enough for a bond, then went to the WC guild and chopped magic trees until I got the pet.. just because I like afking trees and I like the sound it makes when I cut em.
Inefficient? Yes.
Autistic as shit? Also yes.
Did I have fun though? Absolutely 😂
The Tism if strong in this one.
Having fun is all that really matters. 😊
You chopped like 130,000 ordinary logs for a bond? 🤣
you chopped 13mil worth of logs? dayum
@@AntonyWaltershe probably cut willows or yews mostly, not regular logs
Thanks for reacting to my vid haha! See ya in Gielinor!😎
as a 19 year Veteran of RS i have enjoyed your video and this creators reaction to yours.
Love the content man can’t wait for the next vid!
turn back now while you have the chance
Started OSRS 3 weeks ago. I quit wow.
So awesome you can look past the graphics for the game itself. Most wow players will not give it a chance solely based on graphics
@@GameTheist Its a childish argument and I believe most wow players know it but choose to ''mock'' runescape for its graphics anyway. The quest system in Runescape is MILES ahead of WoW's quest system. It's not even a comparison. Also I really love how ALL skills are basically interconnected and even affect the world and travel and tons more.
So your life ended 3 weeks ago….nice
@@GameTheistat this point, proportionately the graphics aren’t even that different when you consider the whole spectrum of graphical quality. In comparison WoW also looks complete ass.
Watch Settled’s swampletics series
One of the biggest things I love about osrs is that the old content STILL gives some of the biggest upgrades in the game. No other MMO has MULTIPLE quest that are 20 years old that still give hugely relevant end game gear/upgrades.
quest for dragon schimtar/long , bersker helms, defenders, capes, rune plate body
I mean not many games were made 20 years ago that are still open but there are a lot of other mmos with quests made when the game was made that are still relevant.
I've been watching a channel called Karadus who's a WoW player trying osrs and it's been an amazing watch, this whole exodus has given some good content for osrs
Any other channels?
Seconded, Karadus is great. Really nice dude and it's great to see him go through and just do whatever seems interesting at the time without worrying about "min maxxing" all the fun out of the experience lol
@@Anemeethious Flip (flipwastaken) has a completed series of doing the f2p quests as a completely new player and without guides/help. I believe he was a League player. He's on break right now and might come back to try members.
@@Anemeethious I would say Nerissa Ravencroft channel in youtube, she has lives on runescape for the first time and the servers almost crashed with all the players that came to help her.
@@Anemeethious An awesome channel I've been following i believe is called Alien Food. He's doing an unguided playthrough as an ironman and he's never played and has limited knowledge. Really fun watching him figure quest out and other things.
Its crazy that we runescape players all just had the same childhood. God i wish they brought arcanists back.
They just released Arcanists for free on Steam a couple of weeks ago!
WHAT???
I would argue that combat is a ton of fun in osrs. Going from killing goblins to slaying powerful raid bosses is an incredibly satisfying curve.
Lmfao I died at the "Lost? you're right you are lost. Lost in a world where you've never played RuneScape before. But now you're found baby! Found by the RuneScape gods." 😆 SO. FREAKING. TRUE
You’d like “Runeacape is Awesome, Here’s Why” by Marstead. It goes over what makes OSRS a unique genre.
4:45 ernest the chicken as a kid took me forever dude haha
I too love how diverse the gameplay is in OSRS.
Going from intense raids and bosses that require full focus and quick reactions....
To a chill fishing grind or chasing the Giant Mole around on mobile is something I don't think alot of game accomplish.
Like rn, I'm at work letting my little guy fish AFK. As soon as I get home, I'm running some ToA
I've been playing RuneScape for 20 years. My oldest daughter, and nephew are now getting into the game. When they asked me what to do I told them to explore, do quests, kill monsters, and try out the different skills.
Speaking of teleports don’t forget about all the canoes or even the mine carts
Hot air balloons :D
I never use any of these methods. If it isn't available from my house (portal nexus, jewellery box) or a cape, I pretty much forget it exists and just get there some other way. I've never even used an eagle.
The Gnome gliders are essential, especially for clues.
@@ShizuruNakatsu I don't ever teleport anywhere, I just walk, running is ass cuz you just run out of energy eventually anyway
Canoes are hot garbage
Mine carts are OK since they buffed zeah but there's better stuff out there
This guy pauses more than Asmon. I've watched him yap for 8.5 minutes and he's watched a whole minute of the video so far. Meanwhile the things he says gets repeated almost instantly in the video after he unpauses..
was about to write the exact same thing lmao, I was exhausted after the 10 min, 9 of it which was just preaching so I couldnt finish it.
He be talking yeah feel free to leave tho
I have never seen someone describe osrs so well asmongold needs to see this you nailed everything with your talking points you truly explained why osrs is so good and so loved one thing I will add is that for competitive gamers who like high end raids enjoys souls games and even just any intense competitive game that requires skill this game is also for you the end game raids and pvp take extreme skill there is alot of in game mechanics that you have to learn and master this game is a masterpiece and legit has everything you could ever want in a video game
“Humbling” is the word I’d use to describe OSRS. It’s a seemingly basic game that is incredibly complex and will give you years and years worth of content. It’s seriously the best game I’ve ever played.
This game goes deep, especially after 20 years and the things players have mastered about the mechanics now. The movement, the tick system, how you can manipulate those systems
Glad I found your channel dude. We all grew up with this game, and to think I came back to it recently in 2024… after all of the MMO’s we’ve played… all of the awesome raids and graphics of the newer MMO’s.. and instead of playing those flashy MMO’s, I’m standing in the same exact spot in taverly dungeon, safespotting blue dragons, that I was standing 20 years ago as a kid, walking to the library every morning to play RuneScape on their computers all day. And now there’s a whole new generation of kids that can experience the same magical game. Isn’t that insane?
25:30 everyone knows the real banger is flute salad
I exclusively play osrs on the mobile client and let me tell you that this game has been a LIFESAVER at work. Super fun and a great way to unwind while I’m on my breaks or on downtime! Currently only a f2p player but I might look into membership in the near future.
Solid takes. First video I've seen of yours, and im subscribing since you mentioned adventure quest.
What I love about this is that it always brings in a lot of views for the channels that do it. Something about this game draws viewers, even if your account is focused on another mmo.
runescape is about exploration, collection, hording and murder in a world that never stops expanding.
Great video, you summed up everything that makes this game special!
21:56 Unironically I'm watching your videos a lot recently for this exact reason too.. Coming from a perspective of person who has spent over 10'000 hours on osrs, it's funny seeing your opinions that are still "relatively fresh and new" and often even slightly incorrect, but full of excitement and passion due to the joy of discovery and increasing understanding of the game...
You're definitely starting to get the perspective of osrs player who has seen a lot of things, but still has tons of stuff to discover and it'll be interesting to see how those opinions and feelings change over time.
So yeah, I absolutely love watching videos of people just discovering the game for first time and fumbling around.. But I also love watching videos of people starting to understand the game better and better because it's such an non-linear path and everyone experiences this game slightly differently (unless they blindly follow guides all the way through)
Idk who you are but you have recently been blasted on my YT page. And I must say. I love seeing someone learn and love the game I’ve been playing for over 20 years now. I’ve meet amazing irl friends through this game and it just makes me happy it is becoming joy for more people aswell
Alchemist, armies of gilenor and miner disturbance were such goated games on fun orb.
you forgot arcanists D:
@@gregariousgaming6265 meant arcanist not alchemist
I found the whole "you know what direction to go in WOW" very interesting. I've been an OSRS player for a long time and I felt more lost when trying to work out WOW than OSRS. Not having clear direction was my quit moment in WOW and I went back to OSRS.
Modern MMOs convinced everyone that you’re suppose to maximize your time or you won’t have fun.
WoW classic and OSRS convinced you that the journey and community was the way to have fun.
Simplicity does a lot more for me than needing to do 7 hours of research before doing anything considered interesting.
When I got back into OSRS, I was leveling with a 2H sword and it took about 2 minutes before someone told me I should get a scimitar if I was looking to level faster. This isnt a huge event in my time on the game, but having a complete stranger give me this advice made me like the game more.
As someone who plays both WoW and RS I can say that people who don't play RS on WoW do know about Sea Shanty 2. Lots of gamers seem to know it and one of the most popular WoW streamers have played it and referenced/used it multiple times. So it's not too strange if a WoW-only player has heard or likes it imo.
As a osrs player I realize ALOT of youtubers use osrs music and death animations and sounds in all kinds of videos and it's like Easter eggs in videos when u hear a song ur like do they play osrs. Lol
Are the old mmos you were talking about MUDS? Multi User Dungeons? funfact, thats where runescape 1s engine got its name from.
Sea Chanty2 is a banger. It used to be a meme in the classic WoW community, we would listen to the 10 hour version while grinding.
As someone who's played since 2007, I always tell beginners to make their first goal as 'complete all the free-to-play quests'. There's not that many and by the end you'll have a good general understand of the game. Some require you to level up a few skills and you should have Rune armor by the end. Buy membership after completing this goal and you'll know what you want to do by then.
Don't play efficiently at first, just enjoy the world, don't be afraid to get lost and genuinely discover things for the first time as that's more than half the fun. Use the free-to-play quests as a 'general guideline' of what to do as a new player but don't feel you have to hyper focus on that. Try all the skills available, explore, watch out for scammers at the grand exchange (nothing in life is free), and yea. Just enjoy
and now GIM is here for a while now playing with friends its super fire
"I"m gonna let him talk because I wanna hear the complaints"
*Proceeds to interrupt the video and pause it every 2 seconds for the next 3 minutes.
Old players have absolutely no freaking clue what new player experience is like. I've started a bit over a year ago and oh my the frustration to see NO ONE understanding what I was going through.
I really hated this game at first, I had to try and retry for months before finally getting real genuine fun from this game. It was hard... But the good new is, absolutely no regrets, I don't see myself ever stopping playing. I wish all new players to "survive" through that first month of struggle, it's so worth it.
If you really want to help a new player, please for the love of god do NOT tell them to "do whatever you want", that's the worst thing you could say! They're already lost and you're just going to make it worse. Instead, you could offer them a few diverse and short term goals to work towards, so they pick the one they feel like to try and start making their own decisions.
I actually agree with this. I think most people would prefer being given a goal to achieve instead of blindly going in and trying to play for a month. When I started my Ironman and I was basically a new player in 2017 I was following a guide and loved every bit of it. It taught me so much about the game and if I didn’t have it I would’ve just been overwhelmed and gotten nowhere. Some people think guides ruin the fun for new players etc but that’s just not true. You need to get taught the ropes first imo then you really see why osrs shines.
coming from someone who variety games all the time, i do envy people that have their one game that is home to them.
I remember as a child finding OSRS as a child back in 2004, both my childhood friend and I grew with the game through life up until now. OSRS helped me get though my toughest time in the military and this game is a game that will grow with you and won't leave you behind if you take a month or even a year break. OSRS is a game that you can come home at the end of your stressful work day / week and just relax for 10 minutes, 30 minutes or even an hour of your free time to just relax and enjoy the game.
"Alright let's watch this video" paused before 10 seconds in. Idk, I just thought that shit was kinda funny lol
Currently thieving for easy clues, happen on a Master clue (every now and then). Should have been in bed an hour ago but I spent another finishing the clue. What I get? 350k worth of junk. What I do? Go to sleep and start the easy clue grind all over again when I got home from work.
That collection log is what's killing me.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude!!!! we need to get Arcanist back!!!! That was such a blast... I remember my dad laughing at how slow and laggy it looked in my old laptop... He found it so funny how I would perform an action and then wait for it to actually playout.... jaja
But idk man, I just remember it super fondly....
25:56 coming from someone who started playing OSRS for the first time 3 days ago: yes, Sea Shanty 2 stands out! Especially because you hear it so early on. I like manually turning it on in the menu, and I do a little dance every time I level up :]
You said a lot of very interesting things in this video, thank you for sharing your thoughts. Thinking about the game from this perspective was more helpful to me than any of the guides I've watched so far.
"Getting max levels is something that you do in Runescape once you understand the game and you've played a lot of it"
Or you can be me, who got 99 wc and 99 fm in the first 3 months of playing the game. I've spent the whole summer chopping and burning willow logs to see if I can commit to a task. Pre-bonfire firemaking was rough tho.
30:50 "This sort of begs the question of why we get into games in the first place."
Aktchually, it doesn't beg the question, it raises the question. Begging the question is when you include your conclusion in the question's premise, making it tautological.
Great vid btw :P
@@Toommm11 bro, this simultaneously taught me something I didn’t know and angered me. Can you give me an example so I better understand? I love using turns of phrase exactly proper.
Also thank you!
@@rubeuscubeus Haha, it's a pet peeve of mine.
"Raising a question" is when a set of circumstances makes it obvious there is a question that needs to be asked, for example "we found life deep under the Antarctic ice sheet, which raises the question of how it got there.
"Begging he question" is bundling an answer to a question within itself. Say you're discussing what sort of things children should be taught at school, and you and the other person disagree on what's harmful and what isn't. If the other person asks "So you think we should teach children harmful things?" they're begging the question, because those things being harmful is the point of the dispute. Another example would be "we're having lunch now because it's lunchtime". Yeah, but, it's lunchtime because we're having lunch.
It's a thing that gets 'misused' a lot, and it's possible 10 years later we'll have to redefine which is which because dictionaries follow usage. But, I will have the correct definition etched on my gravestone regardless.
WoW players are gonna realize just how linear their game really is
As a WoW player, the worst parts about runescape is the combat (clicking) and how a lot of BiS items aren’t soulbound. You can just GE stand and wait for lucky raiders to sell items on day one if you have the gp stack.
Everything in RuneScape is mostly clicking. If you want to see how high the combat ceiling can get, go watch a team complete tob or the gdq cox speedrun. Being able to buy bis items can allow variety and cool account builds
This was a great video! Nice commentary keep it up bub
I love how you've paused the video like 12 times before the other guy gets to minute 1 of the video....
Other games had too many options and levels of complexity there's a weird beauty in simplicity
I used to play Runescape in the 2000's and few dozen hours in the 2010's. I just started a new character in the most recent version. It's very nice seeing what's new after years off. Nowadays you start the game in Burthorpe after the beginner's island.
The difference between wow and RuneScape is the same as the difference between people, some people have to be told what to do and where to go (wow) and others take charge and make their own path / lead and give orders (osrs) not saying there is a lesser of the two, just a fact. Osrs confuses people because it doesn’t say when you first enter lumby: “get x items and start waterfall quest” as a person who has sunk loads of hours into both, this is how I find it.
I think that I know what wow players and new players feel when they start runescape. Most games normally give you directions and guide the player through progression. WoW has a main questline that guides you, it gives you an objective immediately, there's no much choice: follow the questline and do more quests, unlock new regions and do more quests there. But runescape doesn't have that. You have most content unlocked for you at the beginning, so is up to the player to decide how to experience and progress their character. For someone that already knows what runescape has to offer is easy to choose what is next or the paths that you could take, but for a new player, that doesn't even know the armour tiers, obviously they are going to feel lost, they are going to get bored because the only thing they know and they are shown is chopping trees and click to attack.
Preach brother. The OSRS community is more than welcoming for new players. Whether you are an experienced MMO player or new.. the OSRS community is a good train to hop on. I too have put thousands of hours into WoW and OSRS (~10k hrs in WoW since 2006 and well over 30k hrs into OSRS since 2002) and I can honestly tell you that just like any MMO.. you will have to put in the work to reap the rewards. You want that sick glad mount by the end of the pvp season (WoW) then you're going to have to work hard for it.. same applies for OSRS and those sick rare pets. Except in WoW, once the season is gone.. you can't get that mount anymore... which imo is pointless. Set a goal, work towards it, and when it finally comes to fruition.. nothing amounts to that joy of accomplishment. If you have never given OSRS a "real" shot, maybe only played for 10hrs and then ditched it.. give it another go and keep progressing. It takes some time to get into the meat and potatoes of the game. Its not a graphic's "pretty to look at" game (there are HD settings nowadays) but the actual gameplay in the end-game PvM scene is not one to be reckoned with. Get into Gielinor, find cool people to play with or a clan, and start your new MMO adventure. I can assure you, its gonna be a long and oh so much fun ride. 😎👌
Dude I played this at like 10 years old and twenty years later I was able to access my old account and started back up on mobile and it’s great I get these moments when I flash back and remember how awesome it was to walk around and how I used to feel really apart of the game and now at 30 I’m reliving some of those moments such a great game
the biggest gripe I have with Runescape is it is click to move, if you moved like you do in say Ultima Online or Diablo, I would LOVE it much more for PvP and stuff too.
Really enjoyed the vid you're clearly passionate about MMO's and it's almost refreshing to hear your discussion about it. Don't have any IRL friends that play MMO's lol, and I have always loved them. OSRS is my most played by far but I've played a lot of em. Subbed and I'm gonna watch the maplestory vid next
spent 2 - 3 hours attempting the gauntlet and got a cystal armour seed on my first kc, thats why i love this game lol.
Another magical thing about runescape is that you can play the game and make progress no matter how little attention you can actively give to the game.
I got 99 woodcutting in a couple weeks by cutting redwoods while driving. That sounds super dangerous, but i just had to tap my screen once every 5 minutes, and there are audio cues, so its not aby worse than changing radio stations.
You can train most skills or make money as long as you can tap your phone once every couple minutes, or you can go speedrun cox and ruin your keyboard with sweat.
hey I like the video style it gives off asmongold vibes. your takes seem chill. I'll see you when you have 1m subscribers : )
I remember how as a teen I tried to max one skill every summer break. Got a couple of easy 99s
I'd say playing OSRS has helped me in WoW. I pay alot attention to detail within osrs. So when playing wow for the first time ever in Dragonflight. The mechanics for raids were super simple and it blowed my mind that people have issues with WoW Raids within Dragonflight.
Like what do you mean, there is no mechanics that require you to tile skip, tick prayer flip. Like all wow mechanics are aoe/floor mechanics, or just DPS/heal Checks.
Not downplaying wow. It was fun but really easy.
What I wished I knew when I first started playing OSRS are using the wiki, and join a community and its clan. Having people to talk to, relate too, and celebrate achievements with is just better
Follow an optimal quest list like the built in one with the quest helper addon. Then get farming going and make the passive gp options a priority
Arcanists was such an amazing game , i was so sad when it went away.
You sir did reaction videos a service . Thanks for the video!
Great video!! OSRS is truly one of the best games that has ever and will ever be made. I am a former wow player for years, but I always come back to osrs. Wow doesn't respect your time, you could grind for 100s of hours post-max level and then take a break for 6 months, and all your work is erased with a new expansion. In osrs, all the many goals are always there, its just choosing which ones to work on!
Been playing this game off and on for almost 20 years of my life, never had a maxxed account, and still learning new shit everyday
Glow2:Wave2:I was convicted in 2009 for manslaughter, but atleast from my block i can still play Osrs. If anyone would mind helping me with a very rare Key Quest, i can walk you through the instructions, But you have to follow a clue map i will describe to you and live within 30 miles of Kentucky State Super Max Penitentiary. I will share half the reward with you and a Green Halloween Mask.
How long do I have to play the same game? Until I complete my goals.
This past year I "finished" my wow account by getting the last of the 3 pinnacle achievements.
I got Gladiator 3 times: Burning Crusade S2, Wrath of the Lich King S8, and more recently BFA S2. I earned AOTC for every raid tier since it was released in mists of pandaria by beating the final boss of each raid on heroic difficulty before the next patch. Finally, this year I earned Cutting Edge by killing Fyrakk on mythic difficulty before the end of the patch.
I've completed my goals. I started playing in 2006 and it was a good time. Had a lot of fun and made a lot of memories.
2:22 Bro's new to OSRS but accounted for Sailing 💀
i used to cut magic trees with this guy and we did it for a year straight nothing else
With the bit about Sea Shanty 2; we know that he’s playing a HCGIM with some friends that are more knowledgeable about the game. I’m thinking maybe they took him around the game world and when the got to Port Sarim they popped off cuz, ya know, how could you not?
The greatest thing about Old School Runescape for me is it IS the intermission. Between other games, I'm playing OSRS. It's the universal constant.
Being 24 now and I started playing at the age of 11 in 2011 I’ve always loved the game and back then no one knew it and I felt like an idiot just saying RuneScape, love how it’s became a common name now.
The only toxic mini game that I am aware of that you MUST look at a guide before hand is barbarian assault, I had very bad experience when just trying to play it with out a guide people can be VERY TOXIC TO noobs in that mini game....
For Attacker and Collector, it's really straightforward. Healer is not hard to learn either. Defender is genuinely horrible without a guide. You will waste everyone's time, and get very few points.
@@JohnFromAccounting very good to know, I might try it again thank you.
People are toxic because in reality, no one wants to be there they just want the fighter torso. Kinda like Trawler for the angler outfit. The minigame is aids
i started very late, at the end of 2020 cause of the videos popping up and the quests looked so different and fun.. now I'm almost at 4000 hours play time :D I LOVE THIS GAME
ps: also I did it while getting lots of breaks and playing so many different games, I just always come back to osrs. Best devs ever
You’re spot on dude. Ive been playing runescape for 20years (Im 30 now). I take breaks and play plenty of other games, but this game has been a staple. And its SO hard to get friends into it.
I was thinking while watching this that whatever browser you use looks real nice, then I realized it was Edge. Lol might have to give it a another try, doesnt look half bad now
the guides are more necessary nowadays because people don't gossip in the sewers about what they know anymore. it's a different kind of world.
Also to build on your commentary, I find it interesting that some of the biggest power spikes in player progression in OSRS come from unlocking new faster travel paths
I will say as a guy who played Runescape Classic as a kid and remembers the first day of Runescape 2, yadda yadda, they are making skilling too easy with all these event minigames. It has the double purpose of giving active players an advantage over afk/botters, which I welcome, but they have to be careful about it.
For example the new trees being on a timer and the frantic clicking on the event entities feels a bit too overwhelming for me, and for woodcutting in general, but now it is the 'meta' way of progressing. There was something special about walking into a tree area and using your higher WC level to bully everyone else out.
15:00 that’s why I play osrs. It’s an afk game that you can get benefits from.
Like afk 200 hours and you can use that 200 afked hours to do TOA or other end game stuff.
Most afk games you afk 200 hours and yay you get another picture to afk to and never anything to do with that afked time.
I love OSRS because everything you do takes you on a journey that you didn't intend on doing. Oh I want X? I've got to do quest A. But quest A requires me to have skill B, C, and D up to levels E, F, G. Well shoot how do I do that? Dang I've got to have item H and have access to area J in order to train skill B, and unlock item K in order to train skill C. Phew I already have level in skill D thankfully. Sh** I realized quest A also requires quest L to be complete...........
The Beauty of both OSRS or RS3 is that there are so many wonderful ways of playing the Game.
one game mode i like to play from time to time is the most inefficiently efficient mode. One Chunk.
i tried WoW last year and like this guy with RS i was overwhelmed. Building my character to fit the meta and having to preform precise attack strings was annoying. I constantly felt i was watching videos so they may be different games but if you didn't grow up playing one or the other then they are going to feel foreign. That's just natural. I agree 100% with you in the aspect that people just have to be willing to give games a chance even if it's not fun for a couple hours. My viewpoint is if someone can find love and passion for a game like WoW or Rs then there has to be something there i am not seeing. That's the only reason i gave WoW a chance for as long as i did. BTW they brought Arcanist back if you didn't know. It's free on Steam.
I am sure nostalgia helps but I made my main account in 2020 played it for a year and came back in2024 and I am playing a hardcore ironman and it's so fun. No nostalgia at all . Just a good game ❤
I've never even thought about the insane progression of our character.
It is extremely funny to realize our character is just stumbling around doing whatever they want... until they are casually slaying powerful gods with nothing but determination and a few prayers 🤣.m
@@deviouschimp4663 lol yeah, just some guy named “ABigSandwich” ruining everything everyone is trying to do.
most people never start off with let me get all 99s, heck even vets who started from scratch on osrs didn't go like that. Each person has their own path and journey to progress their toon.
You slowly get stronger then kill better monsters get better loot and gear complete quest for upgrade your gear, then onc eyou have a little gp you start lvling the more expensive skills, and progress from there.
Runescape isnt like some other mmorp where you can max everything out and best gear in 3-4 months.
When you said if it takes them 20 minutes in a video it'll take 20 hours, I felt that. I literally have a bachelors degree and these videos confuse tf out of me. They make getting the quest cape sound like an early game task lol. You could make a series for new players?
@@swolejohn8658 I’ve sort of been tossing this idea around in my head of streaming a regular play through of osrs a couple times a week and chopping it all up in to content. Not so much a guide but just a “this is what I would do in this game if I was making a new account” kind of thing.
Never would get tired of playin WoW... Wed-Fri ARE STRICTLY RAID NIGHTS
People have a hard time getting into this game because it’s not as social as it used to be.
been in this gme almsot 20 years along the way i got migrated to rs3 maxxed and recently jumped over to osrs. i love it, probbly my fsvorite game
The "i had to suffer so you do too" is a bit misleading.. we dont think you should suffer, but we shouldnt sacrifice the longevity of the game for quicker rewards. Much like a new player falling in love with osrs, a casual player can falling love with skilling methods. As a level 3 this mindset that we just want you to suffer is my biggest fear for osrs, RS3 died a death of a thousand cuts, and i dont want that for my favorite game. Just a criticism, otherwise good vid
You never quit osrs u just take breaks
fairy rings one the must have unlocks
You're so right in all your points. Enjoyed just listening and agreeing lol. It's 2024. Anyone who still claims that OSRS is going strong and active due to "nostalgia" is not accurate. Game definitely got its energy and original base players through nostalgia, but it's evolved to its own game attracting new players and growing with a new generation. This isin't nostalgia, it's a GOOD game. Only nostalgic thing is the fact the game doesn't have microtransactions or BS stuff that modern games have. It's grounded.
Bro pauses more than asmongold
I came back to play on 2022 and played for 6 months hard then I stopped again until this month
Ive played every mmo and moba ... almost ... now i love osrs and eso
Yes, Guardians of the Rift for 11 hours a day on vacation. Yes, so fun. Yes....yes....ye....y....y...system broke.
I don't know 100% how to put into words my feelings on your video, but I am going to make an effort to do so
For most of the video I felt like when you would pause to talk about Runescape, most of your focus seemed to be directed at the fact that OSRS is an amazing experience once you hit the 500hr mark. Now, while I agree with this, I also think that there is absolutely something to be said for the fact that Runescape gives 0 direction to new players. To me, this is absolutely a negative thing about the game. the 500hr mark of the video game might be amazing but if a new player is unable to understand what they want to do 5 minutes into the future after leaving tutorial island, that is a problem.
I generally think that new players will get the best experience if they spend their first 10 or so hours doing some quests, as those quests will give way to goals that they do not have to initially set for themselves. Once people understand basic concepts about things that they can even do in the game I do firmly believe people would be much more likely to have a good first few hours in Runescape, and I do think it would be good if there was something Runescape used to try and push you in that direction for you first few hours.
I'm going to leave my disagreements at that as trying to explain why I think the wikification of games is absolutely a blight on gaming communities would probably take a multitude of paragraphs, and you only mentioned the wikification of video games for a few seconds near the end of your video
Okay so you don't understand why people play the same game for years but then admit that it is going to be a decade before you get anywhere significant in OSRS? Why would I invest that much time to see if I even like the game?