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"I am not going to be reading comments or interacting with other players in any way." "I am going to be completing every quest in the game." Gonna be fun to see Shield of Arrav and Heroes' Quest with those restrictions.
Theres no way he will go completely unguided someone or himself are going to ruin it for certain quests or overall account progression eventually somehow.
@@ShrekNoScpe_NoOnions I remember in 6th grade I used to complete RuneScape quests for classmates in exchange for money, but ah... let's just say I wouldn't wish Mourning's End Part 2 on anybody, let alone without a guide or anything explaining wtf to do. Even with a guide and being fully prepared knowing what's coming that puzzle is STILL a god damned nightmare. I definitely expect that to be something they remark on is that quest difficulty out of nowhere, especially with the non-linear nature of the questing and just out of nowhere really ramp up. Especially when you think about quests that were made much later so they have a natural difficulty curve in them that blindsides you where "hard quests" back in the day might pass as an intermediate quest by standards of a couple years later. Not to mention backported quests that had their difficulty ramped up like While Guthix Sleeps because the original fight while being ridiculous for that time compared to the average player skill, would be a joke compared to today just because high level play back in that era is now "decent" and something that's kind of a basic skill people have. Prayer swapping and gear switches are done by moderate players instead of exclusively sweatlords playing within the sauna itself.
My one, major, non spoiler piece of advice for someone trying to do every quest: Go into your options, and look into sorting the quests by which ones you meet the requirements for. The default list order is bad.
"Oh, but that's not the original intention!" The original intention was decided when there were less than 10 quests and they all fit into the default view, not hundreds.
Nah bro this is exactly what he meant - the same principal as training at goblins for 4 hours 😂 plus looks like he’s doing them via the map instead of quest book
@rom3756 he got confused at why he couldn't start Lost City, whereas later quests will point out what the name of the quest is, and the pre reqs, that quest is so old it doesn't say anything. Completing every quest, requires knowing how to even start the quests.
Alien Food is currently doing that right now. He's gotten quite a bit into the game without using a single outside source. Some quests take him actual days to do since he doesn't know where to get certain items. I really hope MadSeason's middleman gives him advice for Shield of Arav and Heros' Quest, since he completely disabled chat already.
Alien Food has some information he´s running on, from having played years ago. Image this one is gonna be very different. with no concept on how skilling works and what different quests and areas contain and unluck, this could e a VERY slow thing... which kind matches the way he speaks
I think once he hits the GM quests like SOTE, MM2, DS2, DT1&2 is where his rock of a head meets the immovable object that is jagex properly explaining quest steps and not “I found the key to the priests cage” without hinting it isn’t the right key and the real one is in the damn mausoleum on a damn statue. (Bonus points if you know what quest I’m talking about)
Honestly, I would turn on public chat. there's just something magical about running through gielinor and passing by people having conversations, getting snippets like a soap opera. can't think of the last time I've heard a runescape player say something helpful in chat without being directly asked, but even then most people just use the wiki to get those answers instead of asking strangers in game chat. I'd say it's probably a safe spoiler-free setting to turn on, and it really adds to the game.
12:44 - I never thought the phrase "I Hearth back to Lumbridge" would combine so much nostalgia for two games that made up so much of my life all together in one moment.
Pretty sure its no guides in general not just quests... As a brand new player... and an ironman. This series will be comparable to testicular torsion for him.
@@Tytusmin I mean this series will be going on for years if he keeps these restrictions or he quits. I truly dont think he is aware of the grind required in this game
@@nx47 ME2 is bad but sote is totally fine, i did it guideless day 1 and it wasn't really that bad. The SOTE puzzle is a lot more fair and doesn't have the dumbass shades attacking you so its actually very fun to do blind, honestly i recommend everyone do the library puzzle themselves
Long time OSRS player here, just wanted to say that I love this series so far from these two episodes. It's really cool to see someone experience your favorite game with fresh eyes. If there's some spoiler-free tip I could give for your friend to pass along, is to take a minute to scroll through the settings. Both the quick settings panes and the full settings menu. There's some nice QoL things you may find in there to make your experience more enjoyable. and welcome to the game! I look forward to seeing you on Gielinor!
First off, loving the series. Second: You were totally on track with the Random NPC's popping up as a form of "Bot control" - These are called Random events and they used to be forced on the players, today they're optional. Bots became so advanced that it was no longer a deterrent, but players missed the interactions and little cosmetic rewards and such so, Jagex reincorporated them back into the game. With the exception of the aggressive ones. There used to be a few that would pop up and start to kill you. For example the "Evil Chicken" was notorious. Instead of removing it entirely, the Evil chicken now has been resided to a peaceful lifestyle in a small chicken coop inside the Champions guild south of Varrock.
The tree spirit and swarm random events were nightmares to me when I was a kid lol. I even recall trying to 1v1 the swarm and people around my tried to cheer me on xD
The random events was made as an antibotting measure. Back in the day there used to be events that could spawn aggressive enemies and also sometimes your axe/pickaxe would break so you had to repair it. If you didn't respond to the NPC they would teleport you away. They eventually made it optional since players thought it was really annoying and it didn't really help against bots.
Yea, I remember there used to be, like, mosquitos or gnats or something that would randomly attack me way back in the day but when I stopped playing for 8 years and came back, wasn't a thing anymore. I feel like I had dreamt that up, but maybe it's what you're talking about???
Eh, I think as they currently are, they still kind of help with rudimentary botting. An annoyed real player would just react and right click dismiss or do the event if they're not annoyed/ busy. I would find it hard to believe a bot was stable enough and advanced enough to be able to perform the appropriate reaction when the events spawn. So I could see it as sort of a screening process for Jagex to pay attention to accounts that don't interact with the event at all and let the events go away on their own multiple times. Not immediate signs of bot behavior but at least an account to look into more.
😂 I just started OSRS myself about 1.5 weeks ago, having only ever played Runescape 2 (at the time) over a decade ago, and I'm absolutely hooked already. I'm delighted by the sheer coincidence you're actively playing and enjoying it as well now, too. Looking forward to more (no longer hardcore) Ironman content. Maybe I'll (Yurlungur) see you in game, sometime.
Highly recommend NOT using the wiki or quest helper until you get stuck. And even then, try for a while before. The quests are one of a kind, and turning them into a task list makes them drudgery instead of the adventures they are.
Not using any guides for quests is really an ironman way to do it, even back in the day we all used guides to do quests. Mad respect because some of the stuff is quite cryptic.
@@jamesn3122I just hope he downloads at least a couple RuneLite plugins lmao, if his friend is reading this, at least tell him about some of the good plug ins please.
Very much appreciated MadSeason's game sense. Very quickly he realized that traversal and a limited inventory are key elements of the game's design. A lot of people see these as problems, but real ones know these are very important pieces of a complex and beautiful puzzle.
I'm actually so excited for this series! I'm a long time OSRS player who's just recently started playing vanilla WOW again in which I've only played expansions on and off casually, so I feel as if I'm doing this but in reverse. Just wiped my entire group because I didn't realise you could pull Captain Greenskin from the boardwalk below, so things are going well!
20 year RS2 (osrs before it was osrs) veteran here. NO SPOILERS btw. It's so refreshing to see the game through the eyes of a beginner OSRS player, but literal professional MMO player. The dichotomy of not knowing how the games specific's mechanics work, but being able to intuit the importance of certain items e.g. the ghostspeak amulet and solve quests blind makes for a really engaging watch.
(MOD?) You know what would enhance this even more. The fact that you have no social interaction in-game at the moment, is in it’s own right a pity, for your game experience. Particularly because many of us that have played the OGRS, learned about the world of RuneScape together. Perhaps if you are able to make a community of true Newbies (vetted by tests), you could have a sort of that same experience. To learn and teach each other, to have a possibility of that same type of experience. Not only would that possibly enhance it, it would make this series hyper-unique, and even more legendary. Apart from that, the current format is amazing! Love to see this dude! Hyped for the series and this journey!❤
Osrs just hits diff bro. I played other games like WoW for years, by the time a few dozen/hundred of hours go by I'm bored af. With osrs I'm still having fun & making progress on account thousands of hours in
Can't wait for more of this Series. It's so amazing being able to watch someone experience OSRS blind for the first time. I look forward to learning with you!
Don't particularly care for streaming for the live aspect of it, but it would be nice to have full unedited vods of the journey with the glorious goblin slaughter with you probably not saying anything for 20 minutes included, rather than just the summary of the adventure. Would love to see all the nuance of figuring things out and all the decision making along the way, that may seem too trivial to include in these videos.
I agree, having to cut the majority of the *boring* or *tedious* gameplay is fine for video form of this video. However, I find it incredibly interesting to see how MadSeason navigates the game as a new player. Seeing how he makes decisions, what routes he takes in progression, etc just sounds like a lot of fun (yeah I should get a life).
I’m so excited to watch this series and see how you progress. This game has its quirks seeing as it’s 20+ years old, but it’s so damn charming. The quests in RS are the absolute best too. They don’t take themselves too seriously, and they can be quite funny and self aware. They can also be a bit obtuse at times, so I think you’ll struggle with that given your self imposed conditions. But I hope you enjoy your time playing, and I look forward to seeing more. I hope you and yours are well, and I wish you all the best.
Long time MadSeason enjoyer and even longer Runescape fiend, super excited to see you going on this journey. There will be frustrations along the way, but can't wait to experience them with you. The journey is definitely more more important than the destination. Completely separate discussion, but I just started reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series (if you haven't read/ listened to the audiobooks, I'd HIGHLY recommend!) But upon revisiting your channel, you're giving off some serious Carl vibes, which is pretty funny. Keep up the good work!
This game may not have any "kill 10 goblins" quests but you will have to grind for hundreds of hours to be able to do all of them, thousands if you aren't using any guides and haven't played the game before
The random events are in fact bot control. They used to attack you if you ignored them for too long, which bots back in the day couldn't deal with easily. But, people got annoyed by them, so they eventually changed.
Former WoW player current runescape player myself, played WoW from AQ release until partway through Shadowlands, plus classic wow when it came out. Got sick and quit (for real) a few years ago. Tried OSRS with a buddy to guide me through the early game, been playing it as hard as I ever played WoW ever since. Really enjoying your blind playthrough so far, mr not-reading-the-comments.
Havent watched the whole video but you can right click and Examine every npc and thing in the game. There are a lot of humorous descriptions and sometimes vital tips for advancing quests.
When I made my Ironman last year, in August, I challenged myself to do the quests without using the wiki, since I always did them that way as a kid. I managed to make it through 26 of the 158 quests (at the time) in the game, before abandoning this idea. (The quest that made me give up was Ghosts Ahoy, due to the amount of backtracking in and out of Morytania for key items, like the milk for the tea and the dyes.) This is coming from someone who’s played RuneScape for 18 years, and has done most of the quests at least once in the past. Good fucking luck doing them without guides - you’re gonna need it, I promise you that.
@@currentcommerce4774 leagues is not the time to run blind quests plus you barely quest in leagues beyond xp drops or requirements for certain activities. the majority of important, long tedious, quests are completed already in leagues.
this comment is for the algorithm, just hope more people run into this video/your runescape content in general. pretty cool seeing you play this game, especially in this way. stoked to watch all of this and i really hope you keep making these.
Can’t wait to watch all of this, it’s gonna be great. Btw, if you haven’t discovered, the weight of your armor DOES have an impact on your stamina. It just doesn’t help to take it off since it’s still in your bags. Your inventory weight slows you down too
Oh my god man as an old time osrs enjoyer I’m so excited for this series. Another creator by the name of Alien Food has a newer series using the same ruleset but he had played decent chunk of main content like 4-5 years prior to giving the series its start. Been amazing watching him, it will be another level to watch you experience the game with absolutely no knowledge
Hey, I would recommend using Runelite and the GPU plugin (addon) that increases graphic fidelity slightly to smooth out text and UI for recording purposes & slightly improve things like having anti-aliasing since the base client has nothing of the sort. There are more in-depth ones (HD rework, but that's a little extreme for me personally.) As others have mentioned, I would turn off some of the default addons (called plugins) like "Quest Helper", "Puzzle Solver" and "Clue Helper" so you have a true blind experience!
@@LoganChristianson It's literally just the standard and it's like no work, 90% or so of people who play the game use the runelite client, jagex even built it in to their own launcher. If you're running runelite it's just a one click toggle for either the gpu plugin or the hd plugin
@@scaredofvirtualdeath It offers a lot of things on *by default* which he has explicitly stated *he does not want*. So if he's going to use the client, that means doing a bunch of configuration, and for what benefit to the game? To make it look nicer? He's played WOW for the last 20 years, or at least so he says. I can't imagine graphical fidelity is very important to him.
This is the most interesting osrs Ironman series I have ever seen. Usually the other ironman series are made by people with a lot of experience in the game and they use a lot of plug-ins and guides to help them. But you are doing it completely blind also you are a new player with zero experience, so it makes the videos extremely interesting. Keep it up!
Hope your friend can explain to ya that the wow questing of killing mobs is actually a skill called slayer in osrs. There are no quests really like that, quests are more like puzzles. Really fkn hard puzzles if ur not using a guide
Historically, those minigames were for anti-bot measures and you were forced to do them or the NPC would kill you if you ignored them and the rewards were there for the inconvenience. The OldSchool team opted to take them out as they are a bit annoying as a forced gameplay mechanic, but it has its charm and they polled the community who opted to keep them but make them optional. There are other anti-bot "minigames" they took out altogether though as they only existed to punish. While fishing you could lose your net and it would flow downstream and you'd have to retrieve it, while wood cutting or mining your axe head would fly off (and if you didn't pick it up within a minute, other people could take it), and some creatures would spawn to just straight up kill you and you had to flee because they scaled to be above your combat level.
I dont think he realizes the difficulty of what he thinks he is going to do. Quest cape with 0 guides? Yea, sure mate. He will either quit, start using a guide, or finish in over 5 years time. He really has no idea lol
Mad I'm proud of you, from a life long OSRS player and a fan of yours I love this. The middle man who's reading comments: just let Mad know completing the game is 99 all stats. Good luck!
been a longtime watcher as well as someone who has played both wow and osrs (and rs2 when it was current) since childhood. i know you're not reading comments but super excited for this series
hah alright as a runescape fan who has pretty much never played the game (but got sucked into Settled's Swampletics series), this is what I need. Blind playthrough that takes one million hours, cozy comfort watch for the rest of my life. Subscribed.
9:47 The armor you have equipped doesn't affect the energy expended when you run, they count as in your inventory when worn. It's about the KG (weight) in your actual overall inventory. You can find items that reduce your inventory weight to negative numbers which helps running even more. Boots of Lightness if I remember correctly.
@@Unkindpigeon. "The armor you have equipped doesn't affect the energy expended when you run" I just realized what you meant by that. I think you could've worded it better but oh well.
@@Unkindpigeon. I mean, technically armor equipped DOES affect the energy expended because we know there are weight reducing pieces of gear that don't take effect when in inventory. So even the original statement isn't true even though I understand what you meant.
I am so incredibly excited for you. You have thousands of hours of exploration, adventure, and fun ahead of you.. Best of luck, MadSeasonShow! Iron Sharpens Iron!
Even though I lost interest in Runescape back i middle school this series makes me want to play it again. I still love how the game handles quests and wish we had more sandbox mmos that used that formula.
Honestly love seeing the no guide play through of one of my favorite games! Definitely reminds me of my first time playing especially having that one friend to give a helpful nudge in the right direction :)
It’s so awesome you decided to go with the IM game-mode. I’m beyond excited to binge this series - was so damn happy when I saw the notification and realized what’s gonna happen from here on out. Good luck man! May the rng gods be forever in your favor! ⭐️
Run Energy regenerates based on Agility level and on weight. That includes inventory and equipped items. Basically, every 5 agility levels, you get into the next category for run energy, starting at 7.5 seconds per 1% energy (spe). This can be reduced down to 1.875 spe with high enough levels and full graceful. This turns a 12.5 minute regen into just over 3 minutes. Another tech is Canafis Rooftop is glitched. You'll get the most marks on it, so just sticking it out there is what many players do until they get their full set. No Spoiler Version: dev won't fix glitch, makes OP for funny tradition
Dude I hadn't thought about the highlighted things in scooby doo since I was a kid. I always thought it was because the way it was animated with different layers. Nostalgia hit there
YES KEEP GOING MADSEASON !!! I have played RS since 2004, and I have watched you for years despite not really playing WoW - you quitting WoW was heart breaking for me because I love your content. MADSEASON MEETS RUNESCAPE!??!?! NO FUCKING WAY DUDE YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Random Events definitely started as an anti-botting measure, and worked quite well in the early 2000s. They also were less frequent but NOT optional (NPCs would attack you, take you to "jail", break your equipment, etc. if ignored for too long). Unfortunately bots evolved and were able to solve them with ease, so now they're just in the game as a way for low-level accounts and ironmen to get small rewards. There's also some "rare" unique items you can get from them (un-tradable cosmetics, mostly), so some people like to try to collect them.
Some of these quests feel like they would be near impossible without guides. But someone had to figure them out to begin with! God speed Madseason lol he doesn't seem to know how exponential levels are yet
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Seemed like you guys enjoyed the Runescape video, so I decided to make it into a series. I'll be doing this along side the normal WoW/MMO stuff.
First time seeing your vid was the first RS video. Here for the content!!
Heeellll yesss!!! Been wantig something like this from you! Have fun❤
Making an Ironman was the smartest decision you've made in your RS career lol
Whoooo
I cannot believe it. So wished do come true! Madseasons Monotone Madness in RuneScape is gonna be a blast.
"I am not going to be reading comments or interacting with other players in any way."
"I am going to be completing every quest in the game."
Gonna be fun to see Shield of Arrav and Heroes' Quest with those restrictions.
He's got his middleman friend, I'm sure he'll get a spoil free nudge for that
Going from Cook's Assistant to Recipe for Disaster is quite the jump too, I got a good laugh there.
Theres no way he will go completely unguided someone or himself are going to ruin it for certain quests or overall account progression eventually somehow.
All he has to do is read the fucking quest and then ask someone or use his other account
@@ShrekNoScpe_NoOnions I remember in 6th grade I used to complete RuneScape quests for classmates in exchange for money, but ah... let's just say I wouldn't wish Mourning's End Part 2 on anybody, let alone without a guide or anything explaining wtf to do. Even with a guide and being fully prepared knowing what's coming that puzzle is STILL a god damned nightmare.
I definitely expect that to be something they remark on is that quest difficulty out of nowhere, especially with the non-linear nature of the questing and just out of nowhere really ramp up. Especially when you think about quests that were made much later so they have a natural difficulty curve in them that blindsides you where "hard quests" back in the day might pass as an intermediate quest by standards of a couple years later. Not to mention backported quests that had their difficulty ramped up like While Guthix Sleeps because the original fight while being ridiculous for that time compared to the average player skill, would be a joke compared to today just because high level play back in that era is now "decent" and something that's kind of a basic skill people have. Prayer swapping and gear switches are done by moderate players instead of exclusively sweatlords playing within the sauna itself.
Oh boy. A hardcore ironman progress series where the first 3 episodes arent wintertodt and barbarian fishing.
But he deliberately died as well. lol
This has just became may favourite series
same he gotta post more tho LMFAO
"I wonder if there is a way to get a bigger bag"
*laughs in 28 inventory slots forever*
i mean... runepouch? seed box/herbsack/etc. there's kind of ways to expand your inventory a little if you squint?
Coal bag, gem bag, looting bag, log basket ect. @superpepleen
he has a bank did not do a Ultimate iron man that only has 28 slots
They should make a bigger bag gold sink tbh
@@dtk1994 they really shouldn't, the game is balanced around it and it's the game's limitations that make it so unique.
My one, major, non spoiler piece of advice for someone trying to do every quest:
Go into your options, and look into sorting the quests by which ones you meet the requirements for. The default list order is bad.
Seconding this mr madseason’s friend
"Oh, but that's not the original intention!"
The original intention was decided when there were less than 10 quests and they all fit into the default view, not hundreds.
Nah bro this is exactly what he meant - the same principal as training at goblins for 4 hours 😂 plus looks like he’s doing them via the map instead of quest book
@rom3756 he got confused at why he couldn't start Lost City, whereas later quests will point out what the name of the quest is, and the pre reqs, that quest is so old it doesn't say anything.
Completing every quest, requires knowing how to even start the quests.
@@GnomeAndHalflingEnjoyer he found it on the map not on quest log tho - even if they were in order the same thing would have happened
3:23 hearing madseason show emotion and genuine laughter did catch me off guard
yeah lol, i'm at work crying right now lol!
SAME
Bro that shit got me SHOOK
"Cause I'm not reading that shit" LMAO
I haven't heard a laugh like that since the infamous "Bear Tartar" moment.
If you complete every quest in OSRS without any guides of help you deserve a fucking medal.
Alien Food is currently doing that right now. He's gotten quite a bit into the game without using a single outside source. Some quests take him actual days to do since he doesn't know where to get certain items.
I really hope MadSeason's middleman gives him advice for Shield of Arav and Heros' Quest, since he completely disabled chat already.
Alien Food has some information he´s running on, from having played years ago. Image this one is gonna be very different. with no concept on how skilling works and what different quests and areas contain and unluck, this could e a VERY slow thing... which kind matches the way he speaks
Honestly doubt it, its taken so long for alien food to get so far, and he has years of experience.
Especially without ever having touched the game before. Realistically no chance he follows through on that lol
@@drumline17It will take a While.
This series is going to be fantastic. Can't wait for episode 76 in 2028 when he finally gets his quest cape
more like episode 120. Episode 76 will be part of the 3 part series of finding the god dam Goutweed without a guide
@@fabiopauli420hahaha omfg i forgot about the goutweed bro lmaoo.
the more he plays the quicker it will become. :)
You think he'll get it that quickly?
I think once he hits the GM quests like SOTE, MM2, DS2, DT1&2 is where his rock of a head meets the immovable object that is jagex properly explaining quest steps and not “I found the key to the priests cage” without hinting it isn’t the right key and the real one is in the damn mausoleum on a damn statue. (Bonus points if you know what quest I’m talking about)
Once he discovers that right clicking npcs/objects gives a list of everything you can do in the game, this man will be a force to be reckoned with.
immensely frustrating to watch someone put hours into this game without ever right-clicking
@@herpdaderpderp I find it very odd that people don’t immediately click and try every single button in a game.
@@NoContextOasisyeah or atleast open the settings and see what kind of options there are for controls etc.
100% because of WoW. The only purpose of right click in wow is to move the camera angle.
Honestly, I would turn on public chat. there's just something magical about running through gielinor and passing by people having conversations, getting snippets like a soap opera. can't think of the last time I've heard a runescape player say something helpful in chat without being directly asked, but even then most people just use the wiki to get those answers instead of asking strangers in game chat. I'd say it's probably a safe spoiler-free setting to turn on, and it really adds to the game.
Unless he finds WT or Trawler, other than that he should be good
For sure, I was a bit disappointed when he said he turned off chat. Private? Sure. But public chat is part of the experience!
Just don't go to willows on the f2p world unless you want 'heated' political debate straight outta year 10 highschool.
Great comment. He won’t ever read it.
@@dvsaleios That's the best part!
12:44 - I never thought the phrase "I Hearth back to Lumbridge" would combine so much nostalgia for two games that made up so much of my life all together in one moment.
Every quest without guides. Holy shit brother. Good fucking luck. I’m excited for this
Mourning end 2 and SOTE is going to absolutely blow his mind hahah, can’t wait
This will probably be like Alien Food's Unguided videos, just from a brand brand new player's perspective
Pretty sure its no guides in general not just quests... As a brand new player... and an ironman. This series will be comparable to testicular torsion for him.
@@Tytusmin I mean this series will be going on for years if he keeps these restrictions or he quits. I truly dont think he is aware of the grind required in this game
@@nx47 ME2 is bad but sote is totally fine, i did it guideless day 1 and it wasn't really that bad. The SOTE puzzle is a lot more fair and doesn't have the dumbass shades attacking you so its actually very fun to do blind, honestly i recommend everyone do the library puzzle themselves
Long time OSRS player here, just wanted to say that I love this series so far from these two episodes. It's really cool to see someone experience your favorite game with fresh eyes.
If there's some spoiler-free tip I could give for your friend to pass along, is to take a minute to scroll through the settings. Both the quick settings panes and the full settings menu. There's some nice QoL things you may find in there to make your experience more enjoyable.
and welcome to the game! I look forward to seeing you on Gielinor!
This one.
First off, loving the series. Second: You were totally on track with the Random NPC's popping up as a form of "Bot control" - These are called Random events and they used to be forced on the players, today they're optional. Bots became so advanced that it was no longer a deterrent, but players missed the interactions and little cosmetic rewards and such so, Jagex reincorporated them back into the game. With the exception of the aggressive ones. There used to be a few that would pop up and start to kill you. For example the "Evil Chicken" was notorious. Instead of removing it entirely, the Evil chicken now has been resided to a peaceful lifestyle in a small chicken coop inside the Champions guild south of Varrock.
The tree spirit and swarm random events were nightmares to me when I was a kid lol. I even recall trying to 1v1 the swarm and people around my tried to cheer me on xD
The random events was made as an antibotting measure. Back in the day there used to be events that could spawn aggressive enemies and also sometimes your axe/pickaxe would break so you had to repair it. If you didn't respond to the NPC they would teleport you away. They eventually made it optional since players thought it was really annoying and it didn't really help against bots.
Yea, I remember there used to be, like, mosquitos or gnats or something that would randomly attack me way back in the day but when I stopped playing for 8 years and came back, wasn't a thing anymore. I feel like I had dreamt that up, but maybe it's what you're talking about???
@@LoganChristiansonIt’s been too long so I can’t remember exactly. I just remember the evil chicken.
@@Affzer Yea... I vaguely remember the evil chicken event. Maybe I should just look at the wiki, lmao.
I actually liked the random events, made the world feel very dynamic and active in the Fantasy-aspect
Eh, I think as they currently are, they still kind of help with rudimentary botting. An annoyed real player would just react and right click dismiss or do the event if they're not annoyed/ busy.
I would find it hard to believe a bot was stable enough and advanced enough to be able to perform the appropriate reaction when the events spawn. So I could see it as sort of a screening process for Jagex to pay attention to accounts that don't interact with the event at all and let the events go away on their own multiple times. Not immediate signs of bot behavior but at least an account to look into more.
Im hyped for the day he learns about right clicking or that theres a map
It is absolutely crazy that he hasn't right clicked lmao
He's pulled up the map before already.
Episode 2 of "I can't wait til this guy finds out about his right click button"!
fun note, alot of the random events back in the day would actually kill you! they removed/changed them over the years though
This is going to be the best OSRS series. I’m here for it
😂 I just started OSRS myself about 1.5 weeks ago, having only ever played Runescape 2 (at the time) over a decade ago, and I'm absolutely hooked already. I'm delighted by the sheer coincidence you're actively playing and enjoying it as well now, too. Looking forward to more (no longer hardcore) Ironman content. Maybe I'll (Yurlungur) see you in game, sometime.
Highly recommend NOT using the wiki or quest helper until you get stuck. And even then, try for a while before.
The quests are one of a kind, and turning them into a task list makes them drudgery instead of the adventures they are.
Not using any guides for quests is really an ironman way to do it, even back in the day we all used guides to do quests. Mad respect because some of the stuff is quite cryptic.
Dude it was so good to hear you actually laugh holy shit that made my day lol
Mans accidentally recreated Alien Food’s Unguided series and I’m loving it!
Somehow with less knowledge lol
@@jamesn3122I cannot wait, I just hope he downloads at least some RuneLite plugins
@@jamesn3122I just hope he downloads at least a couple RuneLite plugins lmao, if his friend is reading this, at least tell him about some of the good plug ins please.
If madseason somehow catches up to alien food I feel like they should be allowed to share findings
Thats how guides and wikis were born my dude@MrFluffytheTurtle
It's so refreshing watching a runescape series from someone who knows less about the game than me for once, lol.
Very much appreciated MadSeason's game sense. Very quickly he realized that traversal and a limited inventory are key elements of the game's design.
A lot of people see these as problems, but real ones know these are very important pieces of a complex and beautiful puzzle.
I'm actually so excited for this series! I'm a long time OSRS player who's just recently started playing vanilla WOW again in which I've only played expansions on and off casually, so I feel as if I'm doing this but in reverse. Just wiped my entire group because I didn't realise you could pull Captain Greenskin from the boardwalk below, so things are going well!
20 year RS2 (osrs before it was osrs) veteran here. NO SPOILERS btw. It's so refreshing to see the game through the eyes of a beginner OSRS player, but literal professional MMO player. The dichotomy of not knowing how the games specific's mechanics work, but being able to intuit the importance of certain items e.g. the ghostspeak amulet and solve quests blind makes for a really engaging watch.
2:58 'on the very small chance I die' kek, just wait till he realises
always right when you least expect it..
This made me chuckle, he's going to leeaaaaarn
“I’m twinked out of my mind rn” is such a WoW statement
Good friend to direct you to play Ironman since it's right up your alley
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You know what would enhance this even more. The fact that you have no social interaction in-game at the moment, is in it’s own right a pity, for your game experience. Particularly because many of us that have played the OGRS, learned about the world of RuneScape together. Perhaps if you are able to make a community of true Newbies (vetted by tests), you could have a sort of that same experience. To learn and teach each other, to have a possibility of that same type of experience. Not only would that possibly enhance it, it would make this series hyper-unique, and even more legendary.
Apart from that, the current format is amazing! Love to see this dude! Hyped for the series and this journey!❤
Osrs just hits diff bro. I played other games like WoW for years, by the time a few dozen/hundred of hours go by I'm bored af. With osrs I'm still having fun & making progress on account thousands of hours in
Can't wait for more of this Series. It's so amazing being able to watch someone experience OSRS blind for the first time. I look forward to learning with you!
Don't particularly care for streaming for the live aspect of it, but it would be nice to have full unedited vods of the journey with the glorious goblin slaughter with you probably not saying anything for 20 minutes included, rather than just the summary of the adventure. Would love to see all the nuance of figuring things out and all the decision making along the way, that may seem too trivial to include in these videos.
I agree, having to cut the majority of the *boring* or *tedious* gameplay is fine for video form of this video. However, I find it incredibly interesting to see how MadSeason navigates the game as a new player. Seeing how he makes decisions, what routes he takes in progression, etc just sounds like a lot of fun (yeah I should get a life).
I’m so excited to watch this series and see how you progress. This game has its quirks seeing as it’s 20+ years old, but it’s so damn charming. The quests in RS are the absolute best too. They don’t take themselves too seriously, and they can be quite funny and self aware. They can also be a bit obtuse at times, so I think you’ll struggle with that given your self imposed conditions. But I hope you enjoy your time playing, and I look forward to seeing more.
I hope you and yours are well, and I wish you all the best.
I like how he had to search the internet for a laugh sound bite as he is unable to laugh.
Long time MadSeason enjoyer and even longer Runescape fiend, super excited to see you going on this journey. There will be frustrations along the way, but can't wait to experience them with you. The journey is definitely more more important than the destination.
Completely separate discussion, but I just started reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series (if you haven't read/ listened to the audiobooks, I'd HIGHLY recommend!) But upon revisiting your channel, you're giving off some serious Carl vibes, which is pretty funny.
Keep up the good work!
This game may not have any "kill 10 goblins" quests but you will have to grind for hundreds of hours to be able to do all of them, thousands if you aren't using any guides and haven't played the game before
It’s so amusing to me that “quests” in most other mmorpg’s are basically literally the whole ‘Slayer’ skill in Runescape.
This is a beautiful arc
Love that you’re playing this
i like you reading the quest dialogues, no OSRS player does that lmao
The random events are in fact bot control. They used to attack you if you ignored them for too long, which bots back in the day couldn't deal with easily. But, people got annoyed by them, so they eventually changed.
Former WoW player current runescape player myself, played WoW from AQ release until partway through Shadowlands, plus classic wow when it came out. Got sick and quit (for real) a few years ago. Tried OSRS with a buddy to guide me through the early game, been playing it as hard as I ever played WoW ever since. Really enjoying your blind playthrough so far, mr not-reading-the-comments.
14:51 dude idk why that just got me good. solid kek. why does the dumbest, most immature thing possible bring so much joy?
Havent watched the whole video but you can right click and Examine every npc and thing in the game. There are a lot of humorous descriptions and sometimes vital tips for advancing quests.
Opening up with walking on the INCORRECT side of lumby castle. This is going to be awesome.
Holy shit never clicked on a video faster
same dude
One of the most entertaining videos I've seen all week - and this one was pretty chill.
When I made my Ironman last year, in August, I challenged myself to do the quests without using the wiki, since I always did them that way as a kid.
I managed to make it through 26 of the 158 quests (at the time) in the game, before abandoning this idea. (The quest that made me give up was Ghosts Ahoy, due to the amount of backtracking in and out of Morytania for key items, like the milk for the tea and the dyes.)
This is coming from someone who’s played RuneScape for 18 years, and has done most of the quests at least once in the past. Good fucking luck doing them without guides - you’re gonna need it, I promise you that.
ghost ahoy is so brutal it makes me afraid to quest when league/DMM comes around because it makes me think theyre all going to be that bad
@@currentcommerce4774 leagues is not the time to run blind quests plus you barely quest in leagues beyond xp drops or requirements for certain activities. the majority of important, long tedious, quests are completed already in leagues.
Bro. This is some nostalgia right here. Glad to see your enjoying Runeacape. It really is a fun game.
ChadSeason doing some hardcore clicking
This is great, wait until he starts bossing and seeing the unique mechanics that will destroy you if you dont know them
The hero we never knew we needed
this comment is for the algorithm, just hope more people run into this video/your runescape content in general. pretty cool seeing you play this game, especially in this way. stoked to watch all of this and i really hope you keep making these.
3:22 Nikadoavacado lost his weight, Asmongold got a temp ban and now madseasonshow shows actual emotion.
2024 has been wild, what a time to be alive.
You know sh*ts been boring as f*ck when this is what excites people.
dont forget the big guy taking chip damage on his ear
Can’t wait to watch all of this, it’s gonna be great.
Btw, if you haven’t discovered, the weight of your armor DOES have an impact on your stamina. It just doesn’t help to take it off since it’s still in your bags. Your inventory weight slows you down too
Oh my god man as an old time osrs enjoyer I’m so excited for this series. Another creator by the name of Alien Food has a newer series using the same ruleset but he had played decent chunk of main content like 4-5 years prior to giving the series its start. Been amazing watching him, it will be another level to watch you experience the game with absolutely no knowledge
never have I enjoyed a video as much as I enjoy this one. The combo of both my favorite games coming together. Bellissimo.
Hey, I would recommend using Runelite and the GPU plugin (addon) that increases graphic fidelity slightly to smooth out text and UI for recording purposes & slightly improve things like having anti-aliasing since the base client has nothing of the sort. There are more in-depth ones (HD rework, but that's a little extreme for me personally.) As others have mentioned, I would turn off some of the default addons (called plugins) like "Quest Helper", "Puzzle Solver" and "Clue Helper" so you have a true blind experience!
You're asking him to put a lot of work into getting the game into a state that's better *by your own preference*.
@@LoganChristianson It's literally just the standard and it's like no work, 90% or so of people who play the game use the runelite client, jagex even built it in to their own launcher. If you're running runelite it's just a one click toggle for either the gpu plugin or the hd plugin
@@scaredofvirtualdeath It offers a lot of things on *by default* which he has explicitly stated *he does not want*. So if he's going to use the client, that means doing a bunch of configuration, and for what benefit to the game? To make it look nicer? He's played WOW for the last 20 years, or at least so he says. I can't imagine graphical fidelity is very important to him.
I can't believe you lost your hardcore the very first episode 😂 I'm excited to keep watching though
3:20
The most emotion shown by madseasonshow throughout his career in the internet
You've never watched his stream I guess. He was always being like that in his streams.
as a fan of the channel and a lifetime wow and osrs/rs2 player this makes me more excited for a series than i can describe
Theres a 99.9% chance you die
He already did in the video lol
i am so in love with this series i cannot get enough of it
8:01 Not DSP 💀
I thought I clicked off this video
It wasn’t his fault dood he was pressing buttons!!!!
This is the most interesting osrs Ironman series I have ever seen. Usually the other ironman series are made by people with a lot of experience in the game and they use a lot of plug-ins and guides to help them. But you are doing it completely blind also you are a new player with zero experience, so it makes the videos extremely interesting. Keep it up!
Hope your friend can explain to ya that the wow questing of killing mobs is actually a skill called slayer in osrs. There are no quests really like that, quests are more like puzzles. Really fkn hard puzzles if ur not using a guide
can't wait until he wonders into the wilderness
Historically, those minigames were for anti-bot measures and you were forced to do them or the NPC would kill you if you ignored them and the rewards were there for the inconvenience. The OldSchool team opted to take them out as they are a bit annoying as a forced gameplay mechanic, but it has its charm and they polled the community who opted to keep them but make them optional.
There are other anti-bot "minigames" they took out altogether though as they only existed to punish. While fishing you could lose your net and it would flow downstream and you'd have to retrieve it, while wood cutting or mining your axe head would fly off (and if you didn't pick it up within a minute, other people could take it), and some creatures would spawn to just straight up kill you and you had to flee because they scaled to be above your combat level.
You're the only youtuber i don't skip the Ads, you deserve it
I dont think he realizes the difficulty of what he thinks he is going to do. Quest cape with 0 guides? Yea, sure mate.
He will either quit, start using a guide, or finish in over 5 years time.
He really has no idea lol
I haven't played much but I love this game. Always feels so nostalgic! I'm really looking forward to this series, it'll be fun to watch for sure.
started it now and i think that is the first time i heard you laugh xD
Mad I'm proud of you, from a life long OSRS player and a fan of yours I love this. The middle man who's reading comments: just let Mad know completing the game is 99 all stats. Good luck!
been a longtime watcher as well as someone who has played both wow and osrs (and rs2 when it was current) since childhood. i know you're not reading comments but super excited for this series
This is the best possible video you could have posted, I love the WoW x Runescape crossover stuff so much
I've never been so happy and excited to see the start of a series before. LETS GOOO
Love it! Please keep this series up :D
I just rewatched the OG video so now I’m ready to properly watch this with context
Your regular monotone voice turning into a maniacal laugh was incredible
hah alright as a runescape fan who has pretty much never played the game (but got sucked into Settled's Swampletics series), this is what I need.
Blind playthrough that takes one million hours, cozy comfort watch for the rest of my life. Subscribed.
26:49 Blouses LOL!! Love the reference... LOL!!
9:47
The armor you have equipped doesn't affect the energy expended when you run, they count as in your inventory when worn. It's about the KG (weight) in your actual overall inventory. You can find items that reduce your inventory weight to negative numbers which helps running even more. Boots of Lightness if I remember correctly.
equipped armor also contributes to weight
@@polishspy3088 Yes but equipped armor also counts towards your overall inventory including weight. Everything you carry is your inventory.
@@Unkindpigeon. "The armor you have equipped doesn't affect the energy expended when you run" I just realized what you meant by that. I think you could've worded it better but oh well.
@@polishspy3088 yeah you're definitely right, my wording isn't the best but you understand it after rereading so I think it works.
@@Unkindpigeon. I mean, technically armor equipped DOES affect the energy expended because we know there are weight reducing pieces of gear that don't take effect when in inventory. So even the original statement isn't true even though I understand what you meant.
yeeeeeeeeeesssssss! Huge fan of WoW, Runescape, and your videos. I can't wait to see what you make of this side of the pond.
Sneaked in some sweet Lufia II music in there. Thought it was playing in my head at first.
"...the milk you get from eggs in a farm across the river..." - 7:16 I lold
I am so incredibly excited for you. You have thousands of hours of exploration, adventure, and fun ahead of you.. Best of luck, MadSeasonShow! Iron Sharpens Iron!
I think this is the first time we've heard you lose your shit 😂
Looking forward for more episodes, this is great!
Even though I lost interest in Runescape back i middle school this series makes me want to play it again. I still love how the game handles quests and wish we had more sandbox mmos that used that formula.
Really enjoyed this, so excited to see RuneScape through fresh eyes once more.
Honestly love seeing the no guide play through of one of my favorite games! Definitely reminds me of my first time playing especially having that one friend to give a helpful nudge in the right direction :)
It’s so awesome you decided to go with the IM game-mode. I’m beyond excited to binge this series - was so damn happy when I saw the notification and realized what’s gonna happen from here on out. Good luck man! May the rng gods be forever in your favor! ⭐️
Run Energy regenerates based on Agility level and on weight. That includes inventory and equipped items. Basically, every 5 agility levels, you get into the next category for run energy, starting at 7.5 seconds per 1% energy (spe). This can be reduced down to 1.875 spe with high enough levels and full graceful. This turns a 12.5 minute regen into just over 3 minutes.
Another tech is Canafis Rooftop is glitched. You'll get the most marks on it, so just sticking it out there is what many players do until they get their full set.
No Spoiler Version: dev won't fix glitch, makes OP for funny tradition
Dude I hadn't thought about the highlighted things in scooby doo since I was a kid. I always thought it was because the way it was animated with different layers. Nostalgia hit there
YES KEEP GOING MADSEASON !!! I have played RS since 2004, and I have watched you for years despite not really playing WoW - you quitting WoW was heart breaking for me because I love your content. MADSEASON MEETS RUNESCAPE!??!?! NO FUCKING WAY DUDE YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Random Events definitely started as an anti-botting measure, and worked quite well in the early 2000s. They also were less frequent but NOT optional (NPCs would attack you, take you to "jail", break your equipment, etc. if ignored for too long). Unfortunately bots evolved and were able to solve them with ease, so now they're just in the game as a way for low-level accounts and ironmen to get small rewards. There's also some "rare" unique items you can get from them (un-tradable cosmetics, mostly), so some people like to try to collect them.
Some of these quests feel like they would be near impossible without guides. But someone had to figure them out to begin with! God speed Madseason lol he doesn't seem to know how exponential levels are yet