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Posted: Mar 03 2009 06:56 pm

So, most of you probably have heard of Runescape, that dreadful misconceived, game with terrible graphics. I know the argument. But, you Runescape haters, when was the last time you played? How do you know what Runescape is like? Really. Think about it.

Ok, to the point. Runescape is a growing game that has the largest fanbase, next to World of Warcraft. Runescape has 10 million active Free-to-play and subscription based users. The biggest argument against liking the game is the controls and the graphics. Now I know I am going to be flamed because of this, but I believe for a Java game, made by a 21 year old with no plan to expand the game and no idea how popular the game will be, it has pretty good graphics. Recently, the game has made a massive upgrade to it's engine, for it to include full-screen and texture. For a Java game this is pretty amazing!

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Ok, now think... why do you hate this game? In your responses please give a intelligent and clear answer. If the reason you hate the game is because of graphics, you shouldn't be on this forum because the point of this website is to discuss pop culture including old games.

I will add on to this later... but ThatGuy is an idiot and wants his computer back.
Also, do not believe his lies!!!

-Jimmy

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Posted: Mar 03 2009 08:19 pm

Alright well I'll explain my view. Runescape is a game for unsophisticated gamers. You play it and it kills brain cells faster then siphoning gas out of your ex-girlfriends tank. I mean this game gives you a shitty tutorial, bad communication powers, and simply enough you need to be "Pro" to have all of the benefits.
And on the graphics side... this is by far the shittiest looking Free MMO there is... I look at that and weep. You want prove of a good free MMORPG that has fucking awesome graphics, look at this from SMT Imagine

not only is the graphics good in this game, The gameplay itself is phenominal. It uses tried and true tatics of talking to demons to befriend them, Instead of just swords you get guns and ultimately the story is much more engaging then anything Jagex could pull out of their asses.

Posted: Mar 03 2009 09:05 pm

Eh, for a free game, Runescape is good. It's pretty decent for a free game; the controls are fine and you can see everything perfectly fine. However, it is pretty mindless and the communications features aren't that great.

What I'm saying is, Runescape is good for anybody who wants to play MMORPGs, but not want to (or is unable to) pay several bucks a month to play them.

Posted: Mar 03 2009 09:11 pm

I tried Runescape a few years ago while at school, it bored me to tears.

Posted: Mar 03 2009 09:39 pm

Slayer1 wrote:

Alright well I'll explain my view. Runescape is a game for unsophisticated gamers. You play it and it kills brain cells faster then siphoning gas out of your ex-girlfriends tank. I mean this game gives you a shitty tutorial, bad communication powers, and simply enough you need to be "Pro" to have all of the benefits.
And on the graphics side... this is by far the shittiest looking Free MMO there is... I look at that and weep. You want prove of a good free MMORPG that has fucking awesome graphics, look at this from SMT Imagine

not only is the graphics good in this game, The gameplay itself is phenominal. It uses tried and true tatics of talking to demons to befriend them, Instead of just swords you get guns and ultimately the story is much more engaging then anything Jagex could pull out of their asses.

Holy shit, that's free? Where do I sign up?

Posted: Mar 03 2009 09:55 pm

SMT Imagine is FREE!!!!! It's found at aeriagames... this is the MegaTen website

http://megaten.aeriagames.com/

Posted: Mar 03 2009 09:58 pm

Remember Runescape is made with Java... and how is it mindless?

Posted: Mar 04 2009 03:48 am

JimmyLazer wrote:

Remember Runescape is made with Java... and how is it mindless?

In the beginning, I'll concede you have a fucklot of things to do, especially if you already jumped on the paid account wagon. However, the XP system they use is pretty lame and it takes more and more of the same task to level up, to the point that even when you gain new things to do with your skills (like smithing) it doesn't make much of a dent in the effort needed to advance forward.

I quit playing a couple of years back, but apparently a check on the hiscores shows I'm still ranked in Crafting, Smithing, and Mining. When I played, I put a self-imposed restriction that I'd only fight with weapons and use armor I made myself. It made things a bit more amusing, but ultimately I wound up with better games to play.

If I wasn't so bloated on Wii games to play (and my graphics card could handle it), I'd jump on that other MMO in a heartbeat!

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I like how Runescape is free and doesn't take space on my browser. I play about a week, get bored for a month, then come back.

I usually do something else at the same time though, like loading a youtube playlist of videogame music and reading a manga,
sometimes looking at my character to see if he finished doing whatever I told him to do 2 minutes ago.

Posted: Mar 04 2009 04:23 am

lavalarva wrote:

I like how Runescape is free and doesn't take space on my browser. I play about a week, get bored for a month, then come back.

I usually do something else at the same time though, like loading a youtube playlist of videogame music and reading a manga,
sometimes looking at my character to see if he finished doing whatever I told him to do 2 minutes ago.

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So what you're saying is the game is basically a candidate for white noise?

Posted: Mar 04 2009 12:19 pm

it's not a bad game, especially considering that it's free and (unlike most MMORPGs) will work on any OS that supports Java (that includes Linux, Mac, BSD, etc, along with a couple more obscure OSs that have ports of Java). Then again, because the possible market is so large, the community is just as large, thus why 99% of people seem to be idiots.

I guess the real flaw isn't how 99% of local chat messages are stuff like "LUKIN 4 GF" or "WTS FULL PLAT FOR *extremely overinflated pirce*", it's how the game itself is tedious as hell. You want to become good at chopping wood? then go chop wood for the next half hour. You want to level up so people won't tp you to a PVP area and steal your stuff? then go fight stuff for the next few hours. It's like WoW or Eve online, but free (for the most part). Thus why, on the rare occasions I do play as my generally crappy runescape character, I make sure I have something to do that doesn't involve watching the same goddamn chopping animation for 30 minutes.

Posted: Mar 04 2009 04:04 pm

tuddy wrote:

it's not a bad game, especially considering that it's free and (unlike most MMORPGs) will work on any OS that supports Java (that includes Linux, Mac, BSD, etc, along with a couple more obscure OSs that have ports of Java). Then again, because the possible market is so large, the community is just as large, thus why 99% of people seem to be idiots.

I guess the real flaw isn't how 99% of local chat messages are stuff like "LUKIN 4 GF" or "WTS FULL PLAT FOR *extremely overinflated pirce*", it's how the game itself is tedious as hell. You want to become good at chopping wood? then go chop wood for the next half hour. You want to level up so people won't tp you to a PVP area and steal your stuff? then go fight stuff for the next few hours. It's like WoW or Eve online, but free (for the most part). Thus why, on the rare occasions I do play as my generally crappy runescape character, I make sure I have something to do that doesn't involve watching the same goddamn chopping animation for 30 minutes.

If I want to cut wood, I'll go out behind the Rugby house and start splitting wood...

Posted: Mar 04 2009 04:32 pm

I won't play runescape, because runescape is an MMO, and any MMO is a waste of my time.

I have work, school, friends, movies, anime, books, AND a whole bunch of real videogames with a real story and REAL gameplay to squeeze into my day, and I can't spend my time on an overrated time waster.

Posted: Mar 04 2009 06:22 pm

RobotGumshoe wrote:

I won't plasy runescape, because runescape is an MMO, and any MMO is a waste of my time.

I have work, school, friends, movies, anime, books, AND a whole bunch of real videogames with a real story and REAL gameplay to squeeze into my day, and I can't spend my time on an overrated time waster.

It doesn't have a plot?

Well is a evil Necromancer/ Demigod is trying to take the power of the god of evil and make himself the god. At the same time his siblings are fighting for control over the rest of Runescape. Then a supossed "good guy" is trying to ressurect the ancient god that once controled over all of Glienor(The World of Runescape's real name). And...There are many subplots about this conflict.

Not a story line?

Posted: Mar 04 2009 06:30 pm

I never really liked it because the of the lack of specialization. The only way to raise your level is via combat, which is usually done with sword and shield. After all, why waste money on runes when a bronze sword is practically free? So basically what it amounts to is a bunch of warriors running round with swords and armour. Where are the wizards, the rogues, the barbarians?

Posted: Mar 04 2009 06:39 pm

JimmyLazer wrote:

RobotGumshoe wrote:

I won't plasy runescape, because runescape is an MMO, and any MMO is a waste of my time.

I have work, school, friends, movies, anime, books, AND a whole bunch of real videogames with a real story and REAL gameplay to squeeze into my day, and I can't spend my time on an overrated time waster.

It doesn't have a plot?

Well is a evil Necromancer/ Demigod is trying to take the power of the god of evil and make himself the god. At the same time his siblings are fighting for control over the rest of Runescape. Then a supossed "good guy" is trying to ressurect the ancient god that once controled over all of Glienor(The World of Runescape's real name). And...There are many subplots about this conflict.

Not a story line?

It has a backstory. Yeah that shit happened, but you can't do shit about it. An MMO can't have a plot, because you can't be the "one true warrior" When there's 100000 people just like you.

Posted: Mar 04 2009 06:42 pm

ThatGuy wrote:

JimmyLazer wrote:

RobotGumshoe wrote:

I won't plasy runescape, because runescape is an MMO, and any MMO is a waste of my time.

I have work, school, friends, movies, anime, books, AND a whole bunch of real videogames with a real story and REAL gameplay to squeeze into my day, and I can't spend my time on an overrated time waster.

It doesn't have a plot?

Well is a evil Necromancer/ Demigod is trying to take the power of the god of evil and make himself the god. At the same time his siblings are fighting for control over the rest of Runescape. Then a supossed "good guy" is trying to ressurect the ancient god that once controled over all of Glienor(The World of Runescape's real name). And...There are many subplots about this conflict.

Not a story line?

It has a backstory. Yeah that shit happened, but you can't do shit about it. An MMO can't have a plot, because you can't be the "one true warrior" When there's 100000 people just like you.

The whole thing I told you happensduring quests. And alot of questsare Co-op.

Joined: Oct 12 2007 Posts: 821

Thorinair wrote:

I never really liked it because the of the lack of specialization. The only way to raise your level is via combat, which is usually done with sword and shield. After all, why waste money on runes when a bronze sword is practically free? So basically what it amounts to is a bunch of warriors running round with swords and armour. Where are the wizards, the rogues, the barbarians?

Runescape works off a Rock-Paper-Scissors system, where melee (swords, axs, ect.) beat range (bows and arrows), who beat magic (runes), who in turn beat melee. This normally has very little effect on gameplay until you start doing PVP.

The thing with Runescape is it is basically free WoW, but even more barebones and has even more grinding. Like all MMOs of the WoW style, it caters to certain types of gamers. The game has no appeal to me because I don't feel any accomplishment by grinding for days on end. I don't care if people play the game, but there is no real argument you can make to make me like it because I am not the gamer it caters too.

Posted: Mar 04 2009 07:28 pm

nihilisticglee wrote:

Thorinair wrote:

I never really liked it because the of the lack of specialization. The only way to raise your level is via combat, which is usually done with sword and shield. After all, why waste money on runes when a bronze sword is practically free? So basically what it amounts to is a bunch of warriors running round with swords and armour. Where are the wizards, the rogues, the barbarians?

Runescape works off a Rock-Paper-Scissors system, where melee (swords, axs, ect.) beat range (bows and arrows), who beat magic (runes), who in turn beat melee. This normally has very little effect on gameplay until you start doing PVP.

The thing with Runescape is it is basically free WoW, but even more barebones and has even more grinding. Like all MMOs of the WoW style, it caters to certain types of gamers. The game has no appeal to me because I don't feel any accomplishment by grinding for days on end. I don't care if people play the game, but there is no real argument you can make to make me like it because I am not the gamer it caters too.

You know whats funny? Runescape was created before WoW, so it should be a "Runescape-based" mmo.
RS:1999
WoW:2004

Posted: Mar 04 2009 07:35 pm

You know what's funny? Runescape has had 5 more years to improve than WoW, and it STILL sucks donkeyballs!

Joined: Oct 12 2007 Posts: 821

JimmyLazer wrote:

nihilisticglee wrote:

Thorinair wrote:

I never really liked it because the of the lack of specialization. The only way to raise your level is via combat, which is usually done with sword and shield. After all, why waste money on runes when a bronze sword is practically free? So basically what it amounts to is a bunch of warriors running round with swords and armour. Where are the wizards, the rogues, the barbarians?

Runescape works off a Rock-Paper-Scissors system, where melee (swords, axs, ect.) beat range (bows and arrows), who beat magic (runes), who in turn beat melee. This normally has very little effect on gameplay until you start doing PVP.

The thing with Runescape is it is basically free WoW, but even more barebones and has even more grinding. Like all MMOs of the WoW style, it caters to certain types of gamers. The game has no appeal to me because I don't feel any accomplishment by grinding for days on end. I don't care if people play the game, but there is no real argument you can make to make me like it because I am not the gamer it caters too.

You know whats funny? Runescape was created before WoW, so it should be a "Runescape-based" mmo.
RS:1999
WoW:2004

But WoW is more well known, thus more people would understand what was meant by WoW style as appose to Runescape style.

Posted: Mar 04 2009 08:24 pm

nihilisticglee wrote:

JimmyLazer wrote:

nihilisticglee wrote:

Thorinair wrote:

I never really liked it because the of the lack of specialization. The only way to raise your level is via combat, which is usually done with sword and shield. After all, why waste money on runes when a bronze sword is practically free? So basically what it amounts to is a bunch of warriors running round with swords and armour. Where are the wizards, the rogues, the barbarians?

Runescape works off a Rock-Paper-Scissors system, where melee (swords, axs, ect.) beat range (bows and arrows), who beat magic (runes), who in turn beat melee. This normally has very little effect on gameplay until you start doing PVP.

The thing with Runescape is it is basically free WoW, but even more barebones and has even more grinding. Like all MMOs of the WoW style, it caters to certain types of gamers. The game has no appeal to me because I don't feel any accomplishment by grinding for days on end. I don't care if people play the game, but there is no real argument you can make to make me like it because I am not the gamer it caters too.

You know whats funny? Runescape was created before WoW, so it should be a "Runescape-based" mmo.
RS:1999
WoW:2004

But WoW is more well known, thus more people would understand what was meant by WoW style as appose to Runescape style.

Actually Runescape is the second most reconized MMO in the western audiance.

Posted: Mar 04 2009 08:41 pm

MMORPGs are terrible. They're nothing but pointless grinding and people somehow get addicted to the pointless grinding. I know people who schedule the rest of their fucking lives around their WoW guild's raid schedule. It's fucking sad.

That being said, Runescape isn't noticeably worse than any other MMORPG, and at least it has the decency to be free.

Posted: Mar 04 2009 08:46 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

MMORPGs are terrible. They're nothing but pointless grinding and people somehow get addicted to the pointless grinding. I know people who schedule the rest of their fucking lives around their WoW guild's raid schedule. It's fucking sad.

That being said, Runescape isn't noticeably worse than any other MMORPG, and at least it has the decency to be free.

I really play MMO's for the socil aspect of it, like a chatroom with a game attached. And, when you level together it actually can be fun!