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Huge thanks for the overwhelming support on this video, it's kind of insane how much it blew up! Don't forget to like and subscribe and I'll give you a high five!
Been playing since I was 12 and in foster care, gave me the escape I needed. Now i'm 29 and still playing. There's no MMO quite like RuneScape. I legit mowed lawns and actually mailed in my membership since foster parents didn't trust me with their credit card lol.
The only person IRL I ever played this game with was my brother. He died in a wreck in 2019 and to this day when I get on this game it almost feels like a part of him is still with me. We played this game for years. I’m 27 now and we started in our preteen years lol. Love RS just wish it was what it used to be.
RuneScape has a special place in my heart. Always will… I’m 30 now, but I played for several years when I was a young teen. 12-16 or so…. Glad to see it’s still around and doing great. This game is truly amazing and so very deep and involved. Good job RuneScape!
Yeah seriously. I am total lvl 2073 atm (highest I've ever had, I finally surpassed my rs3 total from before EOC :D), and I've only now started to think about MAYBE maxing one day lol ... Got half the capes and the other stats are 70 & 80+. I don't play that much nowadays, so I'll be glad if I can max in +- 3years (when I hit 30 xd). Not sure if I'll ever do it, because I'm great at starting things and not so much at finishing. However I started rs at 11, and still playing frequently at 27 (with some breaks here and there ofcourse), so I'm keeping my hopes up. Would honestly be sick if I got it one day, but if not, then i'll still be happy with my account's achievements c: And the huge nostalgia is already a win on its own imo. Have a good day!~
@@jag0wnsu man that’s the story of my life, i played the game back in 08, came back to osrs when i grey up which is like in 2015-2016 now I’m 24 years old with a 2053 total level account, and just now i started even considering maxing
Im gonna be lvl 80 smithing after just returning and starting a new character within a month and half 19 lvls away but with double XP all the boost they add for new players I give it another month or 2 maybe but worth it now my money makes itself! 🎉
After playing this game for years and being deep in a gim (that I just pulled a tbow on ;) ) I showed my now pregnant wife this video after she mentioned being interested in trying it out. Your video has single handedly swayed her to try it out and start an account and I’m setting her up now. Thank you for doing God’s work! You’ve earned my sub!
For me, the game is more time timeless than any other. Even some of my most beloved games don’t look or play how I remember them as a child but RuneScape really is like a time machine to a place of innocence and wonder
OSRS is the only game in the world that can consume hours of my time and not make me feel intense anxiety about wasting it, and I think that's because it genuinely makes me feel like a kid again. No other game has the same sense of intrigue and mystery to me.
117's HD plugin for the game (on runelite) gives it a nice HD face lift for those tired of "potato graphics." it still has the charm with some modernizing.
Been playing since classic in 2002. Took multiple breaks along the way but always find my way back to relive the nostalgia. Will probably pass it on to my future children.
thank you for posting this video. this means alot. ima old school player, still to this day. and they keep updating it and i wish my friends would play they just all still watch pvp videos nobody says they have time because were all around the age of 25-35 now so were growing up. but amaizng video bro
One thing i love about osrs is the content on each site, on twitch and youtube there is so much content to watch if thats a hour long series or educational content for the game there is everything
Iv been focusing on myself atm but just logged into my account 99 mage, rng, hp, def, 85 str, att. I was looking at my skills and remembered I was on my goal to get the quest cape 😫. Waiting to get accepted to this coding school. I’ll be playing it again on my free time when I’m done with homework and studying. It will give me that comfort I had when I was playing this game back in 2005 after coming back home from school. Love that this game is still going so strong
Man, I'm 16 and Just recently bought a bond and all I can say is wow, Runescape is the only game I haven't gotten bored of. The quests are pretty well written, the world is vast, and the items are powerful, Its everything you want in an MMO.
I miss this game so much. Thinking back to playing it in 2005-2008 are so many incredible memories where I was so happy and excited to be alive. I so badly want to return to it and relive those memories and experience new ones, but every time I play again, I am so disappointed of what I am presented with. There is no longer any mystery to the game. I miss exploring the world of RuneScape with my friends, learning new training tactics and debating others about what the best training methods are. And then when I moved on to the pking scene, I missed there being tons of different account builds with no one truly understanding what they are doing. I miss taking breaks from training and pking to explore and take part in games like castle wars with friends. Even though the game has grown a lot since 2005 in terms of content that is available, it feels like it has shrunk immensely because most of the content now is dead content. I feel like I can't let go of RuneScape because of the strong impact it has had on my life and I always find myself wanting to return, but every time I do, there is nothing there to keep me playing because the game has so much less to offer me than it once did. I miss RuneScape and am not sure I will ever find anything like it again. It was an incredibly unique experience to have been able to play it in the mid 2000s.
You will never find anything like this. It's not the games that changed so much, it's us. I could use your whole post and swap a few words and it would reflect how I feel about Guild Wars Prophecies. Or how my girlfriend feels about WoW. The awe and mystery is gong. Post Information Society will catalogize everything a game has to offer within a few hours and construct a whole wiki, as seen with New World, which hat the game understood to its bare bones, before it even released. I think it's important to be thankful, that we had the ability to play in the mid 2000s, where everything was different. Those days won't come back. That all said it's still possible to have fun. Just ackknowledge that this part of gaming will never return. Just like you will never see LOTR for the first time. But the thirteenth time is still fun. Or the fiftyth time.
Fuuuuuck the old login screen music you had in your intro... It always makes me tear up, completely overwhelmed by a wave of nostalgia, excitement, and a sense of something truly epic that I can not explain. It still brings to be a flashback to the time I was a mere 5 or 6 years old at my grandpa's new PC back in 2005, when his neighbor's kid 4 years older than me, showed me RuneScape. That music made an immediate impression. This was something different. This was no lego Star Wars on gameboy. This was no ordinary browser game off miniclip. This wasn't dad's formula 1 game. I was completely immersed and taken over by RuneScape. It was an entire world where I had the freedom to do what I wanted, when I wanted, where I wanted, and with anyone I wanted. I got my school mates to play the game at first grade, and we would constantly talk about RS, how we would all get lobsters when our mate would get his fishing to 40 today. How we could finally go kill fire giants instead of hill giants and moss giants. We would be the biggest ballers if we got that fabled rune scimitar drop. There was no GE back in those times, so we were rocking our adamant scimitars. We were too poor to afford a Rune Scimitar, and we were afraid of scammers. All those sleepovers where we would stay up into the night, playing RuneScape and planning how we could progress as a group. The GE sort of ruined that for us. Trading was made so easily accessible. There was no longer any reason to plan group progression with friends. Later when we progressed to big boy members worlds a couple years after GE was developed, I had no incentive to grind things such as slayer to get us whips. I had no incentive to grind fishing or cooking to unlock sharks. They were just one click away. no incentive to get that crafting level up to make amulets of glory or later fury. It's in the GE. And we could get all the money we wanted, because the big brother of one of my mates, taught us to do barrows. And we would be millionaires by just spamming barrows runs. Needless to say, after we got ourselves all the cool stuff off the GE, our passion kinda died out. Our talking points at lunch breaks devolved into who got how many million gp off barrows yesterday. We all sort of slowly quit then. However, I have to say that Group IronMan (GIM) really brought this flame of passion back. After over a decade of not playing RS or OSRS actively, it again consumed my life when me and a couple of fellow IT students at university, decided to give GIM a go. After all, we had 5 pals and 3 of us had played thousands of hours of RS as kids and shared a similar story of how we enjoyed it. And man did it reignite our RS addictions. And as a bonus, one of the guys who never touched it before, got so addicted he almost has more hours on the account than I do. We got that feeling back, where one of us spammed hunter early to gather rune weaponry, dragon weaponry, mystic gear, and powerful amulets off implings. I cleared quests ASAP and went into slayer to get us herbs, seeds, ore, bars, and powerful gear. And I am not kidding, I felt so accomplished and proud when I started unlocking things for my friends. First slayer helms, dragon boots, whips, and tridents. I went to good old barrows and got a thousand completions to get us the best early-midgame armor. One of us spammed fishing and cooking to get us the best food. One did all the farming and herblore with all the seeds and herbs we got. It again felt like a well oiled machine. We would talk on discord constantly, sharing our latest drops and unlocks, our plans to advance both our own accounts as well as the group.
ive been playing runescape since late 2001- early 2002. I watched it grow from Classic, with "Classes" before tutorial island came out. Back when you had to sleep in a bed to clear the fatigue so you can get more XP. Back when Woodcutting acted like how Mining does in OSRS. I have played OSRS , and RS3. It has most of my life. It is a piece of me. I will never forget the countless nights of just running barrows back with slayer/magic dart, i remember my first attempt at KBD with full rune, and the anti-dragon shield. I remember back when Castle Wars first was released, and not being able to play it until i was given members for my birthday in 2005. I couldnt recommend a better game.
I think all the old school graphics are super charming (big eyed goblins) and that if I’d of known about RuneScape when I was WoWing back in the day I’d have been ALL OVER IT ❤️🔥 Another great video Gilgidane! Excited for the next!
There's bosses that anyone can kill after a week of playing, not just end game bosses. Also if people are playing that little, they're always gonna be shit.
Vorkath, Muspah, Zulrah, Entry ToA can all be reached in 6 months of playing or earlier depending on how good you are. Sarachnis, Calvarion, Artio, Spindel and Giant mole can be done very early. Obor and Bryophyta are baby bosses for people with 40s stats
I'm telling you right now do not play this game there is a 50/50 chance you'll either find it extremely unappealing and boring or it will consume you for the rest of your life. There is literally no inbetween. You will never quit Runescape if you get properly into it. Maxed btw. Great video though.
Only way to quit is to ask jagex to disable your account and then really focus on doing the stuff you needed/wanted to quit for. You most likely will never come back and even if you do want to come back for a minute, the fact that you'll have to start all over again and lost everything you worked for should be enough of a reminder to why you decide to quit in the first place.
Remember playing this a lot as a kid in the early 2000s. My brother hogged the computer most of the time, and played it with his mates from school. Remember going to school and asking your friends if they were jumping on runescape tonight. Then you'd get home, do your homework, then jump on. Good times.
Ive been looking all night for which version of runescape to play and so far this is the onlyone that has given me some kind of an answer so might see me in runescape soon.
@@Gilgidane refute it then? Explain the 2 year rmt price drop followed by a massive economic crash of most items, why is every skilling resource going for the same or less than high alch value?
I was addicted to the MMO flyff as a preteen like 15 years ago. I don't have any desire to start a new one ever again, even if it's amazing. But I had to check out what the hell all the people talk about, the video did a good job
I just got my firecape. I gotta say that the advice you give here is pretty good. It's basically how I have looked at the game. There's always something to work on and 99 in a skill is sometimes just the beginning!
One awesome part is; My account is 16 years old, yet I've only played 480 hours. I played when I was younger, took an 8 year break, played for a little while, quit for another 4 years and so on. You never fully quit the game. Also; Just after watching this video, I downloaded the game again, picked up my stuff and headed right to taverly dungeon to grind a little bit of ranged XP. Sometimes I stick around afterwards, sometimes I leave the game be for another period of time. There's something about it that just grabs me for a short while until I get on with my life again. Though that's just the case for me, a friend of mine, who started at the same time, never stopped and still has stuff to do. I will play Runescape for as long as it will exist, that's for sure.
Can't lie, runescape was peak back in 2007 and 2006. So many fond memories of it years ago, but when osrs came out I played it for around 2 years. and almost maxed but got burned out and quit. Haven't bothered going back, but its a fun game to play and more so watch now a days.
1 thing I'd say to new players, DON'T BE AFRAID TO SPEND ON GEAR!!!! That +5 str bonus or 15 slash boost might not sound a lot and may seem way too overpriced for something that costs 3mil, but It is fucking worth it!! Find a clan, there are a lot of simple chill clans where the people are really nice and they WILL help you out. Honestly if it wasn't for clans I wouldn't be playing, now clans can be cruel and have certain goals you have to hit and if you don't you get kicked, but there are clans for literally just chatting. I recommend joining those ones.
18 years and going here. this game has saved my life as i deal with multiple psych disorders and this game is amazing for coping and giving a way to occupy time.
@@Turbo-DF I'm not 18. I got my psych issues from a traumatic brain injury I received on active duty in 2012. so try again to be edgy if it will fix your self esteem. 18 years and going is my time playing this game as i like most, discovered it as a child and took off and on breaks and got back into it.
i have roughly 350 hours in the game i started playing a couple months ago. i really like the game but all my friends that try to get into the game quit as soon as they realize it takes like 1000 hours (probably an over exaggeration) before they can start doing these end game bosses that look really fun, i personally havent done any yet myself but i am really looking forward to doing them. My least favorite part of the game is the quests, ik they are really good in this game and quest helper makes it really easy but i just hate quests in general, I wish i didnt have to do things like monkey madness, rfd, dragonslayer etc to be able to partake in these end game bosses, but i do see why it is necessary.
i mean 1000+ is not exaggerated maybe even more but the fun of osrs isnt the engame content i mean yeah its really fun but thats not the point its the way to the engame content the journey you could say as corny as it sounds but its true
I still have my main from original osrs since 2006. Still trying to max in both rs3 and osrs. It's a true sandbox, and you can play it as casually or as seriously as you want. There's no right or wrong way to play, to each his own. Farming is super chill and relaxing, herb runs! 🌿
@@Peglegkickboxer They are saying they are playing their original account on RS3 and started a new account on OSRS like the rest of us. Their original osrs main is referring to their original RS2 account (now on RS3 or "Runescape")
Tbh I'd be amazed if this will nudge anyone into the addiction that is RuneScape, but it's a solid try, let us hope it works. I've tried to get friends into OSRS for years without any luck, even though I know that they will love it
Maybe they could keep people around if they didnt fucking balance the game around iron men and have every item be worth its high alch price because doing 1 boss drops all the mats youll ever need for skilling
been playing for almost 18 years now, my mom still has my drawings of items i made with my buddies back in the day, the games has been running for 20+ years for a reason, it's amazing. 10/10 would recommend ( might loose gf if u get too deep )
I actually started playing OSRS again 2 weeks ago after 7 years away. Mostly wanted to try the ironman mode, particularly HCIM. Still not dead yet, but also still in early game at 1,200 total level. Runescape one of only four games I have over 20,000 hours in. Checked the defense pure I made around 7 years ago that is nearly a 99 maxed defense pure to see that it alone has 8,000 hours not even counting the decade and a half prior of other accounts over the years.
gameplay is simple you have to left click right click, then you learn about prayer flicking, then you learn about boss delayed landing spell on ground, then you learn about runelite, then you learn about plug in, then you learn you will have to train your skill for 1 intense years to do fun content and dungeon, then you want to switch to pvp, then you learn about 1 tick 6 way while switching prayer and casting spell at lighting speed, then you switch back to pve after loosing all gear. The game is fun but the amount of time you have to train skill with your brain turned off or having to do it on a second monitor while listening X series/movie to do the fun content is crazy. If you played in 2001ish and think to yourself : hoo look they released a new dungeon , maybe i should try this game i played long time ago and give it a go. God have mercy on your soul. You'll maybe be able to attempt it next year if you commit hardcore to it. The game is fun tho at 85+ skill everywhere.
Started playing xmas 2020, great game. Just got max cape at around 5700 hours, now most of stuff left to do is my favorite, fighting bosses :) less go gimme the loot
Playing for just over 18 years. Lost my main to RS3 so I started again. Lvl 3 skiller just plodding along at my own pace. Great intro video to the game 👍
Playing since early 2004, and still as into it as I was when I was 12 years old. Obviously life gets in the way a little bit but I still spend a ton of hours a week playing it, it's the only game I play these days. Best game ever made, thousands of options at any minute, and as someone that originally hated ironman mode and ironmen in general, I now ONLY play ironman as it's SO satisfying. It makes the game feel new again, like I'm happy to get such little items that I took for granted.
@@alexanderulv3886 basically you just gotta earn your own stuff, you cant just buy gold etc, because you cant trade with others. No use of the grand exchange. PvM deaths are still safe ( you can run back and get ur stuff or collect them from deaths office) but ofc pvp deaths you lose stuff, but in pvp fights you cant loot other peoples stuff, so its more of a PvM build.
I have been trying to talk my friend group that ive gamed with for over 10 years to try runescape, but they all refuse merely based on silly memes on the internet and "how bad the graphics are". We have tried almost every other large MMO out, and all the trendy ones over the years like Lost Ark, New World, and others. But I always end up back on runescape. I enjoy its differences to how every other major MMO tackles things. Just wish I could get my friends to stop being so stubborn and close minded, because I know they would get hooked if they just gave it a fair shot
@@stayontrack If they have a problem with addiction then yeah, not recommended. But grinding on Runescape is far better than downing a tank of alcohol and wasting your savings in the club, so, idk let people do what they want with their lives haha. If you're doing the latter, no judgement, we're here for a fun time.
Played about 17 years now. Reason I still play because it bring back memories of my childhood when getting off from school just to play and staying up all night on the weekend. Now I’m grown with a beautiful wife and two kids 😂
I am going to download and start again I think, I have not played this game since about 2007, I remember being quite a high level however I no longer have the email address that I used back then so I will have to start again which is probably best any way as I can not remember anything about it really other than killing chickens for feathers, I just wonder what the community is like in 2023, I remember back in the day going to the grand exchange and people saying they would double money for you but they would just take your coin and leave, now there is literally scammers everywhere even Facebook and what not so I just hope the community isn't toxic, this game was when I first heard the term "noob", I will be downloading this game and starting again I just hope it is as wonderful as I remember.
after personally learning the game on ironman I would highly recommend this. I think if I had access to Grand Exchange early on, I would have simply resorted to buying a lot of quest items and not experienced even a fraction of what the game has to offer early-mid game. Also you always have the option to turn your ironman account into a Main account (one way) if you feel like the game is too grindy for you and then you can experience the Main account anyway.
Listen this game is amazing, if you buy the membership. In all reality I’d buy the 60$ 1 year version. Also I play RuneScape 3 instead of old school. But it’s almost the same, the quests on this game in my opinion really make it, you can unlock bosses, new places around the map, teleports, there summoning if you’re into anime, there’s so much more to unlock then even that. Osrs is great but it has less skills than RuneScape 3, less customization, there’s a event passes where killing or skilling will earn you items, daily items that help out a lot. Total different grand exchange too, I’ve been playing RuneScape in general for 6 years and am in love with it.
Started back in 2006 quit around 2010, and then came back on mobile in 2019, ive been on and off since then, got 4 accounts and 1000 hours on my main and yet i cant get enough of runescape, rs forever ❤
20 Year Runescape Vet here. Just wanted to say that the video is wonderful! Ill be sure to share this with friends that are thinking of playing. Cheers!
I've created an account over 4 years ago but never played the game (didn't do the tuturial for that matter) now upon attempting to log on I told my account has been involved in serious rule breaking LOL
I can get my 20 year cape in September. I had a maxed main in EOC but stopped playing that long before archeology came out, i play osrs now and have a reasonably good account there playing when i can.
after about 22 years of playing i can confidently say that you will never find another game like this one. Not only that, yhis video was only focused on osrs, rs3 although hated by the osrs community for nostalgia reasons, has a shit ton of seperate content with a more active combat system if you like oushing shiny buttons and is actually a good game once you learn it. but i recommend starting with osrs and then giving rs3 a try later when you finally get hoiked
My goal has always been a QP cape. I originally got one on RS3 but eventually lost it when some newer quests came out (because the boss fight was bullshit) and now I'm pretty close on OSRS. Just a few big quests to go.
OSRS is genuinely the best RPG I've ever played by far, let alone MMO. Even if all the servers shut down I would probably download a local server and play by myself. I tried to get my friends into OSRS and they always bring up 2 things, the graphics and the time investment. Saying OSRS has bad graphics is kind of a cope since these people still play games like Minecraft and Terraria, but the time investment I understand. My one friend has 2 jobs and a kid so he would only be able to play like 3 hours a week which isn't really enough time to do much of anything in OSRS.
Huge thanks for the overwhelming support on this video, it's kind of insane how much it blew up! Don't forget to like and subscribe and I'll give you a high five!
been playing for over 16 years and have a disgusting amount of hours, with this experience I can strongly say that this game is alright
it was ok until covid hit and I spent way too much on it, I can't look at it anymore it's dry af
"the game turns 10 this year how have you been playing for 16 years?"
EOC PTSD sets in. "yeah lets not talk about it."
@@Hoontor yeee was playing way before eoc and obviously quit when they fucked the game and started on the start of osrs release
@@Hoontor this game was released almost 20 years ago if I’m not mistaken, I started playing this in 2006
Damn 16 years. Nice you must have a max account with over max cash stacks?
Been playing since I was 12 and in foster care, gave me the escape I needed. Now i'm 29 and still playing. There's no MMO quite like RuneScape. I legit mowed lawns and actually mailed in my membership since foster parents didn't trust me with their credit card lol.
Foster care sounds awful. God bless you
@@icanbreathe9161tbf, it really doesn’t sound bad. bro just had to pay for his own runescape membership ☠️☠️
@sauruspooka14 I said foster care not card learn how to read
@@cozmoee foster care is terrible
@@icanbreathe9161 shut the fuck up, nobody said anything about him being sad about foster care or anything for that matter except you bro
The only person IRL I ever played this game with was my brother. He died in a wreck in 2019 and to this day when I get on this game it almost feels like a part of him is still with me. We played this game for years. I’m 27 now and we started in our preteen years lol. Love RS just wish it was what it used to be.
What a beautiful comment
Rip to your bro 🕊
Dude that made me tear up 😢. May your brother’s spirit always be there every time you play.
What’s ur rsn?
@@tohileka My main is on RS3 but I don’t like EOC so I’ve made a new OSRS acc. My rsn on OS is SGpreterist
RuneScape has a special place in my heart. Always will… I’m 30 now, but I played for several years when I was a young teen. 12-16 or so…. Glad to see it’s still around and doing great. This game is truly amazing and so very deep and involved. Good job RuneScape!
30 here as well lol, just got my membership again.
Start a new account! :)
I swear it’s as big now as it’s ever been. If you want an addicting game that won’t make you rage (as long as you don’t pk), osrs is for you.
no one should instantly aim for max cape otherwise you wont last
Yeah seriously. I am total lvl 2073 atm (highest I've ever had, I finally surpassed my rs3 total from before EOC :D), and I've only now started to think about MAYBE maxing one day lol ... Got half the capes and the other stats are 70 & 80+. I don't play that much nowadays, so I'll be glad if I can max in +- 3years (when I hit 30 xd). Not sure if I'll ever do it, because I'm great at starting things and not so much at finishing. However I started rs at 11, and still playing frequently at 27 (with some breaks here and there ofcourse), so I'm keeping my hopes up. Would honestly be sick if I got it one day, but if not, then i'll still be happy with my account's achievements c: And the huge nostalgia is already a win on its own imo. Have a good day!~
@@jag0wnsu man that’s the story of my life, i played the game back in 08, came back to osrs when i grey up which is like in 2015-2016 now I’m 24 years old with a 2053 total level account, and just now i started even considering maxing
Im gonna be lvl 80 smithing after just returning and starting a new character within a month and half 19 lvls away but with double XP all the boost they add for new players I give it another month or 2 maybe but worth it now my money makes itself! 🎉
Disagree, I made a new account less than a year ago just to max and I'm already at all skills 92 lol, doing 1 level at a time for every skill.
@@MichaelFeliciano-ny1mm On oldschool? Damn
After playing this game for years and being deep in a gim (that I just pulled a tbow on ;) ) I showed my now pregnant wife this video after she mentioned being interested in trying it out. Your video has single handedly swayed her to try it out and start an account and I’m setting her up now. Thank you for doing God’s work! You’ve earned my sub!
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Lucky man
For me, the game is more time timeless than any other. Even some of my most beloved games don’t look or play how I remember them as a child but RuneScape really is like a time machine to a place of innocence and wonder
innocence 8D. toxic af community. maybe if ur public chats set to Off
this
OSRS is the only game in the world that can consume hours of my time and not make me feel intense anxiety about wasting it, and I think that's because it genuinely makes me feel like a kid again. No other game has the same sense of intrigue and mystery to me.
117's HD plugin for the game (on runelite) gives it a nice HD face lift for those tired of "potato graphics." it still has the charm with some modernizing.
Been playing since classic in 2002. Took multiple breaks along the way but always find my way back to relive the nostalgia. Will probably pass it on to my future children.
You don't quit, just go afk
thank you for posting this video. this means alot. ima old school player, still to this day. and they keep updating it and i wish my friends would play they just all still watch pvp videos nobody says they have time because were all around the age of 25-35 now so were growing up. but amaizng video bro
One thing i love about osrs is the content on each site, on twitch and youtube there is so much content to watch if thats a hour long series or educational content for the game there is everything
Iv been focusing on myself atm but just logged into my account 99 mage, rng, hp, def, 85 str, att. I was looking at my skills and remembered I was on my goal to get the quest cape 😫. Waiting to get accepted to this coding school. I’ll be playing it again on my free time when I’m done with homework and studying. It will give me that comfort I had when I was playing this game back in 2005 after coming back home from school. Love that this game is still going so strong
Good luck getting into the school you want! Runescape is sick but i guess there are some things that are slightly more important ;P
Man, I'm 16 and Just recently bought a bond and all I can say is wow, Runescape is the only game I haven't gotten bored of. The quests are pretty well written, the world is vast, and the items are powerful, Its everything you want in an MMO.
Played for 18 years it's fun
I miss this game so much. Thinking back to playing it in 2005-2008 are so many incredible memories where I was so happy and excited to be alive. I so badly want to return to it and relive those memories and experience new ones, but every time I play again, I am so disappointed of what I am presented with. There is no longer any mystery to the game. I miss exploring the world of RuneScape with my friends, learning new training tactics and debating others about what the best training methods are. And then when I moved on to the pking scene, I missed there being tons of different account builds with no one truly understanding what they are doing. I miss taking breaks from training and pking to explore and take part in games like castle wars with friends. Even though the game has grown a lot since 2005 in terms of content that is available, it feels like it has shrunk immensely because most of the content now is dead content. I feel like I can't let go of RuneScape because of the strong impact it has had on my life and I always find myself wanting to return, but every time I do, there is nothing there to keep me playing because the game has so much less to offer me than it once did. I miss RuneScape and am not sure I will ever find anything like it again. It was an incredibly unique experience to have been able to play it in the mid 2000s.
You will never find anything like this. It's not the games that changed so much, it's us. I could use your whole post and swap a few words and it would reflect how I feel about Guild Wars Prophecies. Or how my girlfriend feels about WoW. The awe and mystery is gong. Post Information Society will catalogize everything a game has to offer within a few hours and construct a whole wiki, as seen with New World, which hat the game understood to its bare bones, before it even released.
I think it's important to be thankful, that we had the ability to play in the mid 2000s, where everything was different. Those days won't come back.
That all said it's still possible to have fun. Just ackknowledge that this part of gaming will never return. Just like you will never see LOTR for the first time. But the thirteenth time is still fun. Or the fiftyth time.
@@maikawasumi1256 A sad realization everyone has to come to. Those days were truly incredible.
nah ur baked
@@whitebwoi I don't smoke sorry
It's less about RS and more about the 2000s just being the last sane decade in general.
great video, as an almost maxed account i still enjoy the nostalgia
Fuuuuuck the old login screen music you had in your intro... It always makes me tear up, completely overwhelmed by a wave of nostalgia, excitement, and a sense of something truly epic that I can not explain.
It still brings to be a flashback to the time I was a mere 5 or 6 years old at my grandpa's new PC back in 2005, when his neighbor's kid 4 years older than me, showed me RuneScape. That music made an immediate impression. This was something different. This was no lego Star Wars on gameboy. This was no ordinary browser game off miniclip. This wasn't dad's formula 1 game.
I was completely immersed and taken over by RuneScape. It was an entire world where I had the freedom to do what I wanted, when I wanted, where I wanted, and with anyone I wanted.
I got my school mates to play the game at first grade, and we would constantly talk about RS, how we would all get lobsters when our mate would get his fishing to 40 today. How we could finally go kill fire giants instead of hill giants and moss giants. We would be the biggest ballers if we got that fabled rune scimitar drop. There was no GE back in those times, so we were rocking our adamant scimitars. We were too poor to afford a Rune Scimitar, and we were afraid of scammers. All those sleepovers where we would stay up into the night, playing RuneScape and planning how we could progress as a group.
The GE sort of ruined that for us. Trading was made so easily accessible. There was no longer any reason to plan group progression with friends. Later when we progressed to big boy members worlds a couple years after GE was developed, I had no incentive to grind things such as slayer to get us whips. I had no incentive to grind fishing or cooking to unlock sharks. They were just one click away. no incentive to get that crafting level up to make amulets of glory or later fury. It's in the GE. And we could get all the money we wanted, because the big brother of one of my mates, taught us to do barrows. And we would be millionaires by just spamming barrows runs.
Needless to say, after we got ourselves all the cool stuff off the GE, our passion kinda died out. Our talking points at lunch breaks devolved into who got how many million gp off barrows yesterday. We all sort of slowly quit then.
However, I have to say that Group IronMan (GIM) really brought this flame of passion back. After over a decade of not playing RS or OSRS actively, it again consumed my life when me and a couple of fellow IT students at university, decided to give GIM a go. After all, we had 5 pals and 3 of us had played thousands of hours of RS as kids and shared a similar story of how we enjoyed it. And man did it reignite our RS addictions. And as a bonus, one of the guys who never touched it before, got so addicted he almost has more hours on the account than I do.
We got that feeling back, where one of us spammed hunter early to gather rune weaponry, dragon weaponry, mystic gear, and powerful amulets off implings. I cleared quests ASAP and went into slayer to get us herbs, seeds, ore, bars, and powerful gear. And I am not kidding, I felt so accomplished and proud when I started unlocking things for my friends. First slayer helms, dragon boots, whips, and tridents. I went to good old barrows and got a thousand completions to get us the best early-midgame armor.
One of us spammed fishing and cooking to get us the best food. One did all the farming and herblore with all the seeds and herbs we got.
It again felt like a well oiled machine. We would talk on discord constantly, sharing our latest drops and unlocks, our plans to advance both our own accounts as well as the group.
This video made me want to play Old School Runescape, but then I realized that I already play
ive been playing runescape since late 2001- early 2002. I watched it grow from Classic, with "Classes" before tutorial island came out. Back when you had to sleep in a bed to clear the fatigue so you can get more XP. Back when Woodcutting acted like how Mining does in OSRS. I have played OSRS , and RS3. It has most of my life. It is a piece of me. I will never forget the countless nights of just running barrows back with slayer/magic dart, i remember my first attempt at KBD with full rune, and the anti-dragon shield. I remember back when Castle Wars first was released, and not being able to play it until i was given members for my birthday in 2005. I couldnt recommend a better game.
I think all the old school graphics are super charming (big eyed goblins) and that if I’d of known about RuneScape when I was WoWing back in the day I’d have been ALL OVER IT ❤️🔥 Another great video Gilgidane! Excited for the next!
Great video, really breaks down why osrs is simple but one of the best mmos on the market.
Wild Darnic comment high praise! Loved this video
Ur a legend bro
Gotta love videos that show bosses like it doesn't take a year to get to that point or longer for most people
There's bosses that anyone can kill after a week of playing, not just end game bosses. Also if people are playing that little, they're always gonna be shit.
@@Blakefulable facts, you warm up on the f2p bosses the bald dude and Bryophyta
Vorkath, Muspah, Zulrah, Entry ToA can all be reached in 6 months of playing or earlier depending on how good you are. Sarachnis, Calvarion, Artio, Spindel and Giant mole can be done very early. Obor and Bryophyta are baby bosses for people with 40s stats
I'm telling you right now do not play this game there is a 50/50 chance you'll either find it extremely unappealing and boring or it will consume you for the rest of your life. There is literally no inbetween. You will never quit Runescape if you get properly into it.
Maxed btw.
Great video though.
It’s true, I tried to quit. I took about a 2 month break and I’m hooked again. You never stop playing RuneScape, you just take breaks
Only way to quit is to ask jagex to disable your account and then really focus on doing the stuff you needed/wanted to quit for. You most likely will never come back and even if you do want to come back for a minute, the fact that you'll have to start all over again and lost everything you worked for should be enough of a reminder to why you decide to quit in the first place.
Remember playing this a lot as a kid in the early 2000s. My brother hogged the computer most of the time, and played it with his mates from school. Remember going to school and asking your friends if they were jumping on runescape tonight. Then you'd get home, do your homework, then jump on. Good times.
Ive been looking all night for which version of runescape to play and so far this is the onlyone that has given me some kind of an answer so might see me in runescape soon.
Osrs has held up so damn well over time! Also great videos!
Game known for its economy now has the worst economy its ever had due to dupes and poor decisions by devs
@@bootykraken7177 that's just not true though lol
@@Gilgidane refute it then? Explain the 2 year rmt price drop followed by a massive economic crash of most items, why is every skilling resource going for the same or less than high alch value?
@@bootykraken7177 its fine, they have implemented gold sinks and taxes, they know how to keep runescape running hence they been out for 20 years lol
@@AJ42069 how they got rid of the biggest gold sink in the game with removal of the duel arena
I was addicted to the MMO flyff as a preteen like 15 years ago. I don't have any desire to start a new one ever again, even if it's amazing. But I had to check out what the hell all the people talk about, the video did a good job
I just got my firecape. I gotta say that the advice you give here is pretty good. It's basically how I have looked at the game. There's always something to work on and 99 in a skill is sometimes just the beginning!
Man the intro hit me so much in the feels with the music!
You never quit playing RuneScape, you just take breaks
I come back to play Barbarian Assault.. sigh you never quit.
Listen listen I have been playing since I think 2019 or 2017
@@CristianLopez-st6ep stop the cap
One awesome part is; My account is 16 years old, yet I've only played 480 hours. I played when I was younger, took an 8 year break, played for a little while, quit for another 4 years and so on. You never fully quit the game. Also; Just after watching this video, I downloaded the game again, picked up my stuff and headed right to taverly dungeon to grind a little bit of ranged XP. Sometimes I stick around afterwards, sometimes I leave the game be for another period of time. There's something about it that just grabs me for a short while until I get on with my life again. Though that's just the case for me, a friend of mine, who started at the same time, never stopped and still has stuff to do. I will play Runescape for as long as it will exist, that's for sure.
Can't lie, runescape was peak back in 2007 and 2006. So many fond memories of it years ago, but when osrs came out I played it for around 2 years. and almost maxed but got burned out and quit. Haven't bothered going back, but its a fun game to play and more so watch now a days.
nicest thing in osrs even every holiday items u can still get even if its way way back
Stopped playing in 2006 so missed the 2007 hype but still gonna try and get back into it.
1 thing I'd say to new players, DON'T BE AFRAID TO SPEND ON GEAR!!!! That +5 str bonus or 15 slash boost might not sound a lot and may seem way too overpriced for something that costs 3mil, but It is fucking worth it!! Find a clan, there are a lot of simple chill clans where the people are really nice and they WILL help you out. Honestly if it wasn't for clans I wouldn't be playing, now clans can be cruel and have certain goals you have to hit and if you don't you get kicked, but there are clans for literally just chatting. I recommend joining those ones.
18 years and going here. this game has saved my life as i deal with multiple psych disorders and this game is amazing for coping and giving a way to occupy time.
Good shit brother same here. Let’s go do toa if you want
sorry about your parents, maybe if they spent time developing themselves instead of playing runescape theyd have been able to give you a proper life
@@Turbo-DF where do you see the words parents? trust me they don't play runescape
you basically say youre 18 and wanna die thats not great parenting if anything
@@Turbo-DF I'm not 18. I got my psych issues from a traumatic brain injury I received on active duty in 2012. so try again to be edgy if it will fix your self esteem. 18 years and going is my time playing this game as i like most, discovered it as a child and took off and on breaks and got back into it.
i still play this after 18 years in memory of my cousin, so many memories of this game. ❤
i have roughly 350 hours in the game i started playing a couple months ago. i really like the game but all my friends that try to get into the game quit as soon as they realize it takes like 1000 hours (probably an over exaggeration) before they can start doing these end game bosses that look really fun, i personally havent done any yet myself but i am really looking forward to doing them. My least favorite part of the game is the quests, ik they are really good in this game and quest helper makes it really easy but i just hate quests in general, I wish i didnt have to do things like monkey madness, rfd, dragonslayer etc to be able to partake in these end game bosses, but i do see why it is necessary.
i mean 1000+ is not exaggerated maybe even more but the fun of osrs isnt the engame content i mean yeah its really fun but thats not the point its the way to the engame content the journey you could say as corny as it sounds but its true
@@eliasmyer1160 yeah i was getting that feeling
U can afk combat for 100 hrs then do bossing
Bosses wernt even in the game back in the day its super fun even if you dont fight bosses imo
I started playing TODAY, I'm loving it!
Started playing in 2020, I love this game so much
First time seeing your channel, super chill content! Hope to see more - subscribed
Thanks for making this. I enjoyed so much!
Best game I've ever played in my life. I'm nearly 20 years in. Still love and play it!
I still have my main from original osrs since 2006. Still trying to max in both rs3 and osrs. It's a true sandbox, and you can play it as casually or as seriously as you want. There's no right or wrong way to play, to each his own. Farming is super chill and relaxing, herb runs! 🌿
How? I wanted to play osrs using my old account and it reset me to 0. It's still there on RS3
@@Peglegkickboxer They are saying they are playing their original account on RS3 and started a new account on OSRS like the rest of us. Their original osrs main is referring to their original RS2 account (now on RS3 or "Runescape")
I really vibed out to the music in the beginning
Tbh I'd be amazed if this will nudge anyone into the addiction that is RuneScape, but it's a solid try, let us hope it works.
I've tried to get friends into OSRS for years without any luck, even though I know that they will love it
Maybe they could keep people around if they didnt fucking balance the game around iron men and have every item be worth its high alch price because doing 1 boss drops all the mats youll ever need for skilling
@@bootykraken7177 Clown
@@ordelipyorinen8235 did I hurt your feelings?
@@bootykraken7177 No, but you are absolutely clueless clown.
Nice video good job glad this blew up the way it did.
been playing for almost 18 years now, my mom still has my drawings of items i made with my buddies back in the day, the games has been running for 20+ years for a reason, it's amazing. 10/10 would recommend ( might loose gf if u get too deep )
Use to play this when I was 14 with my younger brother. Going to log back in soon and see whats new :)
Great quality! Your channel is so small and you're doing great, keep up the good work and you'll get big
Great video! This makes me wanna play & I've already been playing for years!
I actually started playing OSRS again 2 weeks ago after 7 years away. Mostly wanted to try the ironman mode, particularly HCIM. Still not dead yet, but also still in early game at 1,200 total level. Runescape one of only four games I have over 20,000 hours in. Checked the defense pure I made around 7 years ago that is nearly a 99 maxed defense pure to see that it alone has 8,000 hours not even counting the decade and a half prior of other accounts over the years.
man i hope your pure is maxed after 8000 hours lol
I truly love this game and the friendships I've made thru it ❤❤
You are insanely underrated, you deserve much more subscribers. Good luck on your journey!
Great video man! I love these types of retrospective videos, and you made an amazing one. A+
After seeing a freind get addicted to this game I will respectfully decline
lmao just have to control yourself
respectable and propably wise
Homie you just have to come and get addicted like us it’s okay
Then why are you even watching RuneScape videos?
That's actually really weird.
@@michaelj4256 To learn more about what it is and why his friend became addicted to it?
What a quality video - you're incredibly skilled at making videos!
gameplay is simple you have to left click right click, then you learn about prayer flicking, then you learn about boss delayed landing spell on ground, then you learn about runelite, then you learn about plug in, then you learn you will have to train your skill for 1 intense years to do fun content and dungeon, then you want to switch to pvp, then you learn about 1 tick 6 way while switching prayer and casting spell at lighting speed, then you switch back to pve after loosing all gear.
The game is fun but the amount of time you have to train skill with your brain turned off or having to do it on a second monitor while listening X series/movie to do the fun content is crazy.
If you played in 2001ish and think to yourself : hoo look they released a new dungeon , maybe i should try this game i played long time ago and give it a go. God have mercy on your soul. You'll maybe be able to attempt it next year if you commit hardcore to it.
The game is fun tho at 85+ skill everywhere.
Great vid! I do wish I could play with a chill clan or some sht, none of my irl friends play anymore.
I started RuneScape for my first time this last December 2022 and I’m so pissed I didn’t start sooner.
First video I’ve watched of yours, great content 👍
Been playing on and off since 2008, one does simply not just retire from this game
Started playing xmas 2020, great game. Just got max cape at around 5700 hours, now most of stuff left to do is my favorite, fighting bosses :) less go gimme the loot
I've played during 2004 and 2006, came back in 2017. This game did what WoW will never make me do: come back after quitting.
Playing for just over 18 years. Lost my main to RS3 so I started again. Lvl 3 skiller just plodding along at my own pace. Great intro video to the game 👍
Playing since early 2004, and still as into it as I was when I was 12 years old. Obviously life gets in the way a little bit but I still spend a ton of hours a week playing it, it's the only game I play these days. Best game ever made, thousands of options at any minute, and as someone that originally hated ironman mode and ironmen in general, I now ONLY play ironman as it's SO satisfying. It makes the game feel new again, like I'm happy to get such little items that I took for granted.
Do you play OSRS Ironman, and what are the rules?
ironman makes you learn the game. your accomplishments feel way more valuable too. Its a genius implement by Jagex
@@alexanderulv3886 basically you just gotta earn your own stuff, you cant just buy gold etc, because you cant trade with others. No use of the grand exchange. PvM deaths are still safe ( you can run back and get ur stuff or collect them from deaths office) but ofc pvp deaths you lose stuff, but in pvp fights you cant loot other peoples stuff, so its more of a PvM build.
the fact that ive been playing this for years and i still enjoyed this
You have gained a sub bro!
I used to play this back in the day, it is so nostalgic man 😮
I have been trying to talk my friend group that ive gamed with for over 10 years to try runescape, but they all refuse merely based on silly memes on the internet and "how bad the graphics are". We have tried almost every other large MMO out, and all the trendy ones over the years like Lost Ark, New World, and others. But I always end up back on runescape. I enjoy its differences to how every other major MMO tackles things. Just wish I could get my friends to stop being so stubborn and close minded, because I know they would get hooked if they just gave it a fair shot
Maybe you can get them to use Runelite with the hd graphics plugin, it's honestly such a step up.
@@cliff1745 oh I’ve tried that, they just simply refuse sadly.
RuneScape knew that quests and PvP were the most fun parts of the game and made sure to make those better than the other MMOs.
Trust me it's better for them that you DO NOT make them hooked on this crap.
@@stayontrack If they have a problem with addiction then yeah, not recommended. But grinding on Runescape is far better than downing a tank of alcohol and wasting your savings in the club, so, idk let people do what they want with their lives haha. If you're doing the latter, no judgement, we're here for a fun time.
I am a bit late to the party but I dig this. Great video :D Definitely will check out your other series.
ive been playing this on and off since i was in middle school and absolutely love the game.
18+ years in and I still love osrs and rs3 (more so osrs)
Returning to OSRS, thankyou for the video - checking out infernal dream now
Played about 17 years now. Reason I still play because it bring back memories of my childhood when getting off from school just to play and staying up all night on the weekend. Now I’m grown with a beautiful wife and two kids 😂
I highly recommend leveling RC in Guardians of the Rift and Smithing through Giants fouuundry:D!
The music does it for me!
I am going to download and start again I think, I have not played this game since about 2007, I remember being quite a high level however I no longer have the email address that I used back then so I will have to start again which is probably best any way as I can not remember anything about it really other than killing chickens for feathers, I just wonder what the community is like in 2023, I remember back in the day going to the grand exchange and people saying they would double money for you but they would just take your coin and leave, now there is literally scammers everywhere even Facebook and what not so I just hope the community isn't toxic, this game was when I first heard the term "noob", I will be downloading this game and starting again I just hope it is as wonderful as I remember.
Been playing runescape for 20 years now. Always take a break and come back.
after personally learning the game on ironman I would highly recommend this. I think if I had access to Grand Exchange early on, I would have simply resorted to buying a lot of quest items and not experienced even a fraction of what the game has to offer early-mid game.
Also you always have the option to turn your ironman account into a Main account (one way) if you feel like the game is too grindy for you and then you can experience the Main account anyway.
Listen this game is amazing, if you buy the membership. In all reality I’d buy the 60$ 1 year version. Also I play RuneScape 3 instead of old school. But it’s almost the same, the quests on this game in my opinion really make it, you can unlock bosses, new places around the map, teleports, there summoning if you’re into anime, there’s so much more to unlock then even that. Osrs is great but it has less skills than RuneScape 3, less customization, there’s a event passes where killing or skilling will earn you items, daily items that help out a lot. Total different grand exchange too, I’ve been playing RuneScape in general for 6 years and am in love with it.
Always progressing your account, one exception is the Bank Standing skill :P
I havent ever played, but its been playing me for 20 years.
got blorva, infernal, and many pets, within a year period, doesnt matter how much you play, it depends how much you want to achieve
Started back in 2006 quit around 2010, and then came back on mobile in 2019, ive been on and off since then, got 4 accounts and 1000 hours on my main and yet i cant get enough of runescape, rs forever ❤
I can recommend playing OSRS in 2023 as well, I even make videos about my beginnings in OSRS^^
After playing the game since 2005, I can most definently say that Runescape is a game
Been playing since 2003. turning 30 this year 😂 on and off of course. Ya never truly quit
I was there in 07, I was there.
20 Year Runescape Vet here. Just wanted to say that the video is wonderful! Ill be sure to share this with friends that are thinking of playing. Cheers!
Waste of time
@@liambeaton8318 Always cracks me up when ppl think that having played runescape for decades is something they should be proud of.
I've created an account over 4 years ago but never played the game (didn't do the tuturial for that matter)
now upon attempting to log on I told my account has been involved in serious rule breaking LOL
I can get my 20 year cape in September. I had a maxed main in EOC but stopped playing that long before archeology came out, i play osrs now and have a reasonably good account there playing when i can.
Got my first infernal cape
after about 22 years of playing i can confidently say that you will never find another game like this one. Not only that, yhis video was only focused on osrs, rs3 although hated by the osrs community for nostalgia reasons, has a shit ton of seperate content with a more active combat system if you like oushing shiny buttons and is actually a good game once you learn it. but i recommend starting with osrs and then giving rs3 a try later when you finally get hoiked
Great quality video!
There is only one way to play that is considered "wrong".
And that is picking fighting boots in the stronghold of security. #ColorfulBootGang
My goal has always been a QP cape. I originally got one on RS3 but eventually lost it when some newer quests came out (because the boss fight was bullshit) and now I'm pretty close on OSRS. Just a few big quests to go.
osrs is the greatest MMORPG in my opinion. It's the only game I've managed to never quit in the past 16-17 or so years.
OSRS is genuinely the best RPG I've ever played by far, let alone MMO. Even if all the servers shut down I would probably download a local server and play by myself. I tried to get my friends into OSRS and they always bring up 2 things, the graphics and the time investment. Saying OSRS has bad graphics is kind of a cope since these people still play games like Minecraft and Terraria, but the time investment I understand. My one friend has 2 jobs and a kid so he would only be able to play like 3 hours a week which isn't really enough time to do much of anything in OSRS.