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Rshop2018
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It will all sorts of new tricks, it has charm and character |
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My experience of Runescape in 2006 was mainly
this: grind for hours, buy a few shiny new gear, smash keyboard upon
realising my combat level wasn't high enough to equip it, grind combat
degrees, equip gear, get murdered in buy RuneScape gold
the Wilderness, lose shiny new gear, replicate. Every month or two I
would decide it was time to initiate a new account, motivated by a few
expert build I'd seen or an inexplicable urge to live a simple life and
become some sort of fabled hermit. Frankly, 12-year-old me thought that
would be an enjoyable thing to do.
Logging into Runescape is like coming home to discover your parents
have gotten a new dog without telling you, and they absolutely refuse to
say what happened to a beloved Brassica Prime. At first you might sulk
and long for your puppy that once was, but soon enough you begin to
notice the pet is gorgeous compared to its haggard predecessor. It will
all sorts of new tricks, it has charm and character, heaps of endgame
content and doesn't need to be fed or walked as often.
Where Runescape used to involve offering up one's hands to hours, or
days, of grinding for piecemeal progress, now it hands out flat
increases with a regularity that's hard to stomach if you can remember
sinking 20 hours of continuous play into acquiring just half of the XP
you need to level up.
Out of blind habit, I invest my initial hours mining ore, killing
cows, burying bones, chopping wood and light fires. Happy with my
advancement, I place an extra eight hours into fostering my abilities.
At this time my overall impression is that Runescape has just gotten
prettier and easier, which would not be enough to drag me back into its
F2P clutches.
What did manage that (I begrudgingly admit) was the amount and
quality of quests to be performed in RuneScape. Quests are everywhere,
and each one is its own foray into a very small fragment of Runescape
lore. They also come in all sizes and shapes, from shearing sheep and
running errands to slaying dragons or planting your own prison escape.
Runescape's tone is joyously light, and with fewer level cap hurdles
to jump over you are free to adopt and explore it without submitting to
the mill. That is great, because Runescape's quests haven't really
required you to use skills aside from combat, and have generally
incorporated puzzles or interactive elements which have more in common
with old school point-and-click experience games than fantasy questing.
Areas that used to be empty are now RS gold
brimming with NPCs, quests and stories. Each inch of the world has
been filled in, or sometimes expanded, so as to incorporate all the
characters, enemies and also features that Jagex are busy stuffing into
the match for the past decade. The simple fact that Runescape is an
internet game is now a bonus as opposed to its primary attraction. Jagex
may take their match entirely offline and it might still be worth
playing.
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Re: It will all sorts of new tricks, it has charm and character |
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