It’s machine that turns a monthly subscription into compressed nostalgia
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
I tried to play this game and it’s fucking weird
click click, click click going around in a circle a thousand times. stupid fake retro sound effects
bro, this isn’t good. this isn’t a good game. you shouldn’t be playing it. this is bad
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
I played the older rune scape growing up, like a lot, it was my first MMO.
The draw of the game, at least for me, were two things.
One: the punishment for dying was losing all but 3 of your items, do there were high stakes that made enemy encounters kinda exciting. It was pretty unique at the time, though maybe Ultima Online had that too, not sure.
Two: the quests in run escape actually slapped. Unlike literally every other MMO on the market (which had simple fetch quests or kill X amount of things quests), Rune scape had really well written, funny, interesting quests that often played like an older point’n’click adventure, many of which gave really unique and odd rewards that you could practically use in other parts of the game.
Those just blew my wee little mind back then, and I was absolutely hooked on it. I think in particular the quests would hold up, even against modern titles.
The downside was to get to those quests, you had to grind like a motherfucker to get the required skill levels to start it. That padded out the play time by hundreds of hours, but doing it with friends or chatting while you did cooked some lobster for the 300th time made it bearable, sometimes even soothing to zone out to.
I could never tolerate the grind today like 12 year old me could, it’s unbearable, but if I could play a version of runescspe that removed the grind, I’d be tempted just to play allthe quests I never got to.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
oh yea the grindy is too much and too click intensive now that people are older and cant afford to destroy thier hands and waste thier time. thats why they played the newer one instead.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
yeah what you’re saying is what I’ve often heard about it. it’s a nostalgia thing. it’s the MMO that they played and that’s why they like it because they like remembering being a baby or something
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
Uhh, no? I pointed out the good parts about it that stand out even to this day, and that I had a much higher tolerance for endless grinding when I was younger (the clear negative of the game).
Your response is leads me to believe you’re either trolling or only read the first few words of my comment.
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I just started like 3 months ago and I’m fucking obsessed. It’s so zen and grindy and full of content both old and fuck and super fresh.
You can pay as much or as little attention as you want and still make progress in a million different interconnecting ways.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
To quote JoshStrifeHayes:
This is a Chatroom first with a game slapped onto it.
You won’t be able to fully enjoy it on your own.