/v/ - Video Games

reminder that it was never good after the grand exchange

>>15723342

>large launch of old widely loved video game on phone

>/v/ say it shit

Like pottery

>Oldschool Runescape

>Huge part of the content isnt oldschool at all

What the fuck

>>15723326

Jagex truly struck gold with runescape, 17 years since launch and it's still being widely played by millions of normalfag cattle, solely based on nostalgia factor alone.

>>15723348

>loved for what it was befoe GE and pride parades

fuck of faggot, theres nothing old about this progressive shitfest

>>15723386

what is EOC?

>>15723904

What do you mean you miss it, isn't it still around?

>>15723931

The server was hacked a few months and the security is balls. You'd be putting yourself at risk by playing it.

>>15723904

It was near perfect, save for that gay ironman shit. Being a second-class gimped player that has to grind much harder just to show off how hardcore you are is retarded and it only made sense in the context of GE where trade was made instant and trivially easy.

>>15724070

>>15724049

>>15724135

i fucking hate nmz. shittiest content in the game. luckily theyre taking some of the rewards out in favor of the new skill if it gets passed. with zulrah you cant afk, but the money is retarded. the biggest thing that pisses me off about osrs is crafting/gathering materials as drops from monsters. its really useful for ironmen, but i hate it past that.

why the fuck does my xs max get so hot playing this

Also, fuck off Jagex. I shouldn't have to grind for another couple thousand hours because you kikes decided you wanted to do your runescape 3/nx BULLSHIT. Give me my account from 2007 back you fucking faggots.

>>15724188

kill yourself nigger.

>>15724217

the "pride parade" was 1 npc who gave you a raindbow tie, and as far as im aware no one was banned.

>>15724248

It won't be bombarded with MTX because the mobile version isn't on its own servers. It's with the PC version. They play together. If they introduced pay to win, Jagex would kill its cash cow. Not that they haven't been trying already.

They turned up the random event rate and now some faggot in Lederhosen won't leave me alone while I'm mining.

>>15724209

I forgot exactly how bad it was but they could get your IP and shit just from hacking the game.

>>15724209

>>15724376

Private servers for RS have been used as malware distributors for ages, but in vscape's case they just gave up all your account and connection info because of some full retard security decisions.

It's supposed to be better now, but remember that vulnerability starts with the retards in charge.

On the topic of retards, though, it's unfortunate that the Group Ironman mode has been dropped completely despite overwhelming community desire for it.

>>15724395

Isn't playing the game regularly just one big group ironman

>>15724404

If by 'regularly' you mean without the Grand Exchange, then I guess so.

>>15723386

What's EOC?

Just started playing vscape.

>31 online

What a shame. At least I can get some of my runescape fix

>>15724491

see >>15724070

it was Jagex's sad attempt to "modernize" the increasingly shit game

>>15723489

Yet still, to this very day, there isn't a single Runescape clone in existence, just because it isn't WoW.

game went downhill when the miniclip kids poured in

game officially died with the skillcape update and its corpse was ravaged by the GWD update

t. 2001-2009 player

>>15725036

>You misspelled removal of free trade and wilderness.

not gonna disagree. it's been so long i don't remember when any of that shit happened anymore

>t. 2006-now player with 11k hours in Runescape

you don't know what it was like before the skillcapes came out. completely changed how the game was played and permanently fucked the market. all because faggots wanted to e-gloat about their non-accomplishments.

>>15723342

Very true. GE update ruined everything, not just because everything was suddenly easy to find, but because people knew the worth of everything and it ruined trading too. Before the GE update I traded some rando a mithril scimi for 3M. That was fucking insane. Plus the GE was a fucking cancerous hub of gemcutters and such, as well as those twats grinding firemaking.

>>15723512

Ive played rs a long while

Bonds dont matter because they let you play for free

The new content is mostly balanced

Its a mix between pre eoc and 2007 runescape

Very fun actually

Best the game has been since 2006 easily

>>15730800

The item drop time is like 1+ hour now.

buying gf

>>15731151

>>15730800

getting killed by mobs or PKers? wasnt it always this long before? or did your shit really insta appear the moment you got iced by an NPC?

>>15731391

holy fuck that's gay! I mean it's helped me recently when i got raped by wizards. but damn does it take out all the risk of the overworld

>>15731458

very hard if you die in the crandor/karamja volcano. ever since they took out the draynor/lumbridge achievement diary ring from f2p

>>15723326

At least they're playing something good.

>>15724188

Waste of hitler dubs.

Asking any kindhearted anon to spoon-feed me: is there any game like RuneScape but singleplayer?

>>15742682

>doesnt know what java is

>>15742669

Of course NPCs are programmed in Java. Only language the fucking pajeets can program in.

>>15742581

You want cRPGs and aRPGs. Anything from Pillars of Eternity, to Divinity: Original Sin 2, to Grim Dawn.

The player driven parts of RS died right around the grand exchange.

When did the quests part of RS die? Elemental Workshop 3?

>>15742799

Yeah the conglomeration of ads into two main sources (jewgle and faceberg) have really hurt the value of advertisements.

>>15724503

What be Zeah?

>>15742955

Remember the rumored eastern lands we were all so excited to explore back in 05? Well fuck you, it's a western continent full of memes and streamer-friendly content.

The only fun left in OSRS is luring the dark wizard into the Draynor bank on F2P and watching it kill low levels and bots. I had a wannabe streamer flip out on me once for killing his willow alts

>>15742669

>NPC

Has the exodus already started? >>>/cuckchan/

>>15744339

Yeah it did, and it's been stolen by cuckchanners.

>>15744354

Mocking normalfags is not worth accepting cuckchanners.

>>15744319

Nigger, NPC has been used by halfchanners for weeks now.

>>15744400

I'd say that's it been used by them for at least 2 months now, either way, anytime someone uses that here it's almost always because they're a cuckchanner.

>>15744339

Anything /pol/ does triggers normalfags. That's not a special quality. The NPC meme is cancer

>consensus is formed

>someone disagrees

>366 replies with a grey wojak "beep boop he can't think for himself lol"

I can't believe that nobody sees the irony. Take it out back and shoot it

>>15744463

ok cuck

>>15744521

>those large ears

>those serpentine eyes

el goblino

if you guys actually want to get back into this, the old 8ch v clan chat still works

>>15746672

kys fag

>>15743185

I thought the eastern lands were the Elven lands? Or am I getting things mixed up and that was the direction where the barrows brothers and slayer tower was?

>>15747066

Elven lands, Tirranwyn, is to the west and part of the main continent. This is where the elf city is only now being planned (just in time for RuneFest(tm)) and no doubt it will be yet another meme cesspool osrs reddit can have field day with.

Zeah is another continent to the north-west of the elf place. To the east is where Morytania is (with the barrows and vyres), The Eastern lands were supposedly eastward across the sea from here (there is an 'asian' npc in port phasmatys that hints this. It technically exists in rs3 but it's composed of fragmented instances and combersome menus as part of the 'Player owned Ports" which is really just a mobile-esque click-for-progress feature to appease their chinese overlords.

>Paying a subscription for runescape.

>>15747320

Oh yeah, whatever happened with the elf city? When I tried playing RS3 I wasn't aware OSRS existed at the time and also I'm a sucker for treasure trails/trials(?) what I could gather is that it was now the new cool kids gathering spot instead of the GE.

I tried playing both vscape and osrs, and just couldn't give a damn to play. Sure there's some nostalgia, but I'd rather just have my old account back and continue from there. Preferably without paying some stupid fucking subscription. I can't believe they still get away with that crap.

I guess no paying for vscape, but I can't be assed to redo all the stuff I did before. It felt like a chore to play, not like what I remember as a kid.

>>15747361

It's just another overblown update with another GE. Lots of fancy clutter to fill up the trailer with but ultimately it's just under place you can be anti-social and grind non-production skills at. rs3 has thousands of cosmetic overrides. Last I played was 3 years ago and even back then the GE was a furry carnival so I dread to think how worse it is today.

>>15747552

Honestly the only remotely decent thing RS3 introduced could have been Dungeoneering, but of course that shit released as the buggiest possible launch you could have and that tainted it in the eyes of pretty much all players.

>>15744521

My sides.

>>15744472

Get out.

>unironically playing redditscape

where the fuck did you kids come from anyway? never forget that you were the shit eating retard mobile gaymers of your time. you're still garbage

>>15751137

literally where in the game is their a right click laugh option?

been playing this on the shitter the past 2 days and am nearly done with the tutorial

Please dont play this its too addictive

How do i stop

>>15751181

check the emote menu

Is this the pinnacle of bathroom gaming?

>>15752131

im me, chainsword audion

>>15751868

NPC memes belong on cuckchan.

>>15752068

All MMOs are. That's why it's tradition to piss in a bottle.

>>15724340

Random events have been optional since 2014. You can just ignore them and they will go away.

>>15730835

why does every complaint about the GE basically boil down to "it made it much more difficult to scam people"?

>>15774836

Because you're mentally cherrypicking only the shit arguments so you could feel better about liking casualized un-social shit mechanics.

>>15774862

okay, give me one reason the GE made the game worse that isn't "because I could rip off children".

>>15774879

Less player interaction. Trading is a significant social feature that affects item management and market values, and GE removes it entirely. The fact that you're too lazy to shout in falador is a feature, it changes how you think about items and their value, it changes how and where you trade for items or whether you think it's even worth keeping. Maybe you'll toss it to someone nearby instead, creating an interesting event to that person which would not exist without your laziness.

>>15775024

Right, less time wasting hours just trying to sell or buy stuff, and more time actually working on skills or quests. I had way more interesting encounters with people while mining or fishing then I did standing in varrock in a super crowded world typing as fast as my 12 year old fingers could.

Also the GE did not remove trading, it's still possible to trade with someone if you want to. If you want to give some kid a bunch of stuff for peanuts you can do it whenever. This is pretty much a non-argument and I don't know why you people always bring it up. You can trade face to face whenever you want, what does the GE have to do with it?

WE PAY NO GAY

>>15775711

>I want less player interaction so I have more time to grind XP

You sound exactly like the kind of ADHD instant gratification low brain activity retard who ruins MMOs because you want everything to work instantly and automatically and be auto-queued into a dungeon in an auto-built party instead of actually interacting with other people.

>You can trade face to face whenever you want, what does the GE have to do with it?

GE makes face to face trading obsolete, inferior, unrecommended, obscure thing that's actually hard to do because everyone does everything in GE as soon as they want to trade. People used to be stocked with things they want to trade because you couldn't sell everything instantly at market price by pressing a button. You'd wait until you have lots of things and then go sell them, and the more time went by the cheaper you'd be willing to trade it. People used to trade all over, in banks, in training spots, in minigames. Sometimes you'd get a crazy good deals for things because some guy was too lazy to sell it properly and thus traded it while fletching in Camelot.

There's things that used to be difficult to trade without GE due to low demand, encouraging you to drop the price a lot, giving other people opportunities to flip the items. But you can't do that now because that item can be dumped to GE and sold instantly. People were more likely to throw stuff into the party room or give them away because you used to see items as "things I need to sell sometime", not "[marketvalue]*[itemcount] amount of money". The difficulty of trading used to be a property that you'd consider when evaluating the item's value and what you'd do with it.

Also consider this: if Jagex made an update that allows you to teleport to any arbitrary point in the map without any cost as long as you've visited before, would you consider that an improvement? Would you then cry "lol walking to places used to be so boring! I'd rather spend time grinding xp than moving my character!" It's basically the same argument, you're arguing for more efficiency by reducing gameplay depth.

Nobody is saying the previous system was perfect either, there's ways you could improve trading without GE. The ability to copy paste chat messages. The ability to add item icons onto the chat text. Labeling different locations in a city for different items, e.g. there's place that's labeled for archer items, so you'd know to go there for those.

>>15775890

>GE makes face to face trading obsolete, inferior, unrecommended, obscure thing that's actually hard to do because everyone does everything in GE as soon as they want to trade.

But the GE isn't instant, it can take hours or even days to trade something. If you hear someone asking to buy or sell something, you can send them a trade request and be done with it right away. You can stand around varrock all day if you want to typing up messages asking to buy or sell and see who bites. Sometimes people have a buy order on the GE and it's taking too long so they'll gladly trade with you right now instead of waiting. Sure you can put up items or put in a buy order but I've come back days later with nothing. If anything, having the GE in place actually facilitates face-to-face trading to an even greater degree, because it's in a central location with multiple ways to get there.

I could make the same argument about teleportation with you. Should jagex remove every teleport option besides lumbridge and ardougne because it makes the game too easy with those other options? I mean just think, if you had to walk basically everywhere, you might (possibly) encounter someone and be able to trade some random crap!

I think being able to copy/paste chat and put in icons would be a bit of a disaster. with copy/paste people would just spam random bullshit all the time, non-stop which would be incredibly annoying. And it doesn't necessarily fix the problem, you can copy/paste all day, if someone doesn't need what you're selling you'll still be wasting hours and hours with nothing to show for it. Introducing zones or whatever just gets us halfway to the GE in the first place. Then you'd complain that it's too easy and people just flock to one zone and it should go back to being more difficult for no reason.

>>15776143

I dont get it, from everything I have read about the NMZ it doesnt seem like good xp to me at all. Fighting boss monsters seems inefficient as fuck. Then there is the whole "just afk with guthans" thing I dont get, is it only good because you can afk and dont lose items when you die? What about just regular melee, is that good xp or what? This oldschool runescape has so much shit in it that wasnt there when I last played I feel overwhelmed

For reference, when I last played they just added the corporeal beast if I recall correctly. And what is up with some of the changes? Where is the slayer master in pollivneach? She was my favourite one

>>15776554

nice

>>15777220

There is a whole process to doing NMZ.

In Nightmare Zone you can buy Absorption Potions once you get NMZ points. The Absorption Potions can give you 1000 points of damage absorption. You can take a whole inventory of them into NMZ. Then you get a Dharok Set and lower your HP to one with a rock cake. Now you can only be hit for 1's so your damage absorption will drain even slower and your DH will be doing max dps. Then you can pop Overloads to boost your stats even higher meaning you get exp rates far better than any other method of training.

You can also toggle the 2x Hp restoration prayer to reset your HP regen so you stay at 1 Hp the entire time. It makes NMZ the absolute best for melee training. You get anywhere from 85k-150k an hour depending on your levels.

>>15777623

Oh that clears things up a bit, thanks.

>>15723931

>>15723952

>>15723904

shits all fixed now, 2FA & everything

>Retards install fag pride, devalued-achievement, reddit-directed game onto their spyphones

Gaming is saved guys

>>15776143

Mobilefaggots are the single largest market. Of course it would boost numbers.

>>15776016

>If anything, having the GE in place actually facilitates face-to-face trading to an even greater degree, because it's in a central location with multiple ways to get there.

This used to happen in commonly agreed upon locations in every MMO anyway. Players would just naturally gather around convenient central spots with banks etc and those would over time come to be known as the trade area. Maybe if you weren't underage during the golden age of MMOs you'd know this.

>Keep getting iron dragons assigned

>Ranged and melee combat is in the 70s

>Magic is shit because im a lazy fuck who cant be bothered to even high alch

>Slayer lvl 65 and im still not seeing money from it

Almost at the same point as my old account was, also going for the skill xp gear is soul crushingly boring, at least there is tons of new shit I have yet to do. I cant imagine playing this shit on a mobile, maybe shit like wc or fishing at best.

>>15800465

Babbys like him just think of the current game and then minus GE. Then they would imagine it would be tedious to find trades.

Normalfags killed OSRS and mobileshit will only make it worse. Literally every question put into a poll passes because retards have no attention span and demand constant new content. I don't mind quality of life updates, i don't mind GE, but it's gotten so far from the original intention at this point theres no going back.

>>15789644

>devalued-achievement

I've been playing since this February and I always saw people saw this, I used to think it was bullshit but now I am afking blood runes to sell to a shop for like 200k/hr raw GP (ironman btw)

It really is a sad shell that you have to put serious blinders on to get any enjoyment out of, a lot of the mobile people are proving this because obby capes and d chains have skyrocketed because they either don't know about all this new aids or are ignoring it.

>>15763196

>>15774885

The NPC meme started here on 8chan. We got bored of it then years later cuckchannel picked up on it.

>>15810234

True but it's still not a cuckchannel meme in the true sense.

>>15810241

I'd say it is, as it's so far from its origins it's closer to a wojack recolor than anything else.

>>15789644

Mark needs to disable TOR already.

>>15810234

More specifically, we didn't screech at everyone and call them NPCs or spam yet another lazy wojak edit. The way you can tell it's cuckchannel shitstains doing it is that they will quickly default to using "NPC" as an insult, rather than as a descriptor of a phenomenon or type of behavior.