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"No way am I touching that. That is soooo disgusting.'" *While casually stuffing the decapitated head of Elvarg into my backpack with all my loaves of bread for the trip to Edgeville*
Or Underground Pass, where you slaughter not only innocent but righteous men and unicorn (a symbol of purity) for the sake of completing the quest. Looking at that quest morally it was pretty fucked up lol.
Yo don't you handle some suspect stuff when you gotta head down towards Barrows? Like rank ass meats that spread disease throughout you backpack? Something along those lines?
I am so excited for the first fully voiced quest in Old School: Ratcatchers 2, feat. J1mmy voicing every character. Give the people what they want, Jagex.
If nothing else, the need to get a new cat every time you love one would probably kill the RWT side of it before it even starts. Gambling can be wildly addicting, so front loading it with a huge chore might ACTUALLY help people.
Usually I really like how runescape quests seemingly have different style guides and level of detail depending on who wrote it, and it’s not consistent or homogenous. It makes it feel more old school. But the over abundance of blue text stage directions in this quest is fucking insufferable.
Quest 92, Making History: Expands upon the lore of Ardougne, required to complete Song of the Elves. Short-Long, 3 quest points. Quest 93, Ratcatchers: You catch rats and are rewarded with a silly pole upon which to store said rats. Not required for any other quest. Long-Very Long, 2 quest points.
The other one like rat catchers to me is the rag and bone man 2... Im aware it was a "mini" first, doesn't change that it is a quest, and has been so since 2017. It is epically long for some meh fashion scape, that has so-so bonuses, (Specifically the ram helm only for bonuses, the sack is just fashionscape.). Oh, and it's not a pre-req for anything / doesn't give an adequate amount of QPS (1..?), or rewards in general for all the hidden reqs / legging around you have to do. Honestly, the next stand alone "grand master" quest should be a 3rd installment of it that provides some story development besides, "Some weird old mountain dwelling guy, partnered with a *talking sack of bones*, who unironically has a bone fetish, yet is too lazy to get them himself, needs your help!" The 3rd rabm should require getting several boss bones, and or very high level / req npc bones. Which upon completing should give at least 5 qps and an actually decent reward(s) and or a new useful area unlock. Something, literally anything to make this quest line have any purpose.
Fun fact the whole pied piper story says that the villagers didn't pay the piper after he got rid of the rats so he played a tune to lure the children of the village into the forrest never to be seen again
As someone who has edited the RSWiki for quite a while (inactive now) I can say that the 'lead developer' thing probably was taken from the site back in 2005 or so, when the Knowledge Base still existed. So, the Lead Developer attribution was very likely taken from there.
And there's more still to be said about that quest! -Guards in the garden have no pattern and can see behind them! -It's excruciatingly long for no god damn reason! -The flute interface is godawful and no one in the quest explains how to use it! -The minigame is barely playable and is completely random! -And even more!
It brought me such joy that I guessed the quest from just the title. Delete this God forsaken thing from the game. Just highlight all of the code, and delete it. Then give everyone who's sat through it 1m in compensation.
It's the same thing with Client of Kourend. First of all, when your character says "I have no choice" it means they ran out of ideas or incentives for why your character should care about doing the quest. That's when you lose me in RPGs because in an RPG I should never feel like I "need" to do anything. Also don't give your character too much dialogue. RS has always been pretty good at giving your player character just enough witty comebacks to have conversation and be funny but not insert unwanted levels of personality into him. Kourend inserted so much dialogue that it was frustrating.
I felt the same way about the dialogue in the "smoking" Joe (or Jack?) segment. I think my character is a good person with empathy for others. I hated that dialogue.
this quest will always live in my memory because as I was going towards Jimmy Dazzler and at the bar to his east? there was a group of Roleplayers who all logged out as I walked by wearing dwarvern clothes and sick 2008/12 period fashionscape.
Could you imagine the Odablock rage every time his cat lost him a 3B stake? “Why does my cat always lose the big ones!!!!?!! Yagex always messing with me man!”
Another fantastic episode, keep it up J1mmy! -* Aside: God this sucked so much, why do I have to stare at this disgusting gnome man with his 10 foot long microphone?! *-
That quest was super dumb but I at least found it entertainingly dumb instead of "dear lord kill me" dumb. THESSALIA:What's the good news? PLAYER:The King Slime fiasco is definitely behind us. THESSALIA:And the bad news? PLAYER: _It's also in front of us._
Greetings from Hamelin here in germany! (In german we just call it "Hameln") I'm currently living here and well, the whole city is basically using the pied piper as a theme. There are tourist-guides talking about it, food and drinks to befit the topic of catching rats. (We literally have a schnapps called "Rattengift" (Rat's poison)). Keep up the good work! :D
dude yes finally someone who KNOWS how bad the dialogue in this quest is. I was actually dumbfounded when I was completing this like a month ago just how little effort was put into the writing. there are even grammar and punctuation errors
“Is that By Release?” This would’ve been cool to just see the maze part, but I concur that this was not suitable for the whole episode being in the By Release series
Who else paused to read the script 😂😂😂 creepy jimmy dazzler who sports a purple coat made from the skin of children and a wooden stick that was clearly taken from the local church.
I recently did this quest in rs3. Yeah, it's still just as shit. Especially when a rat in the mansion is stuck in a corner and the cat just refuses to even try and go for a kill and just says "nope, can't reach".
Playing these quests by release, as you would have back in 2005, the "I can't believe I'm going to do this. What choice do I have?" makes your character come across as a whiney jerk. You've slain demons, ghosts, vampires, and dragons, slogged through Morytania, been turned into a monkey, and had to put up with Romeo, but *catching rats in a sewer* is what gives your character pause?
J1mmy’s voice and personality is my favorite among the rs community. He may not have the most exciting series but at the end of the day I get more excited to see your videos than most others! Keep it Up man!!
Got my first ever quest cape on my GIM. For a while, I thought my least favorite quest was "Forgettable Tale of a Drunken Dwarf", since I don't like the red axe 'questline', and hated the waiting around for the hops and brewing process. But you make a good point, the ratcatchers quest stands out as some of THE worst writing I've seen in the game. Absolutely vile, with pointless rewards. The best thing this quest unlocks is a minigame teleport to port sarim.
Rats. We're Rats. We're THE rats. We pray at night we stalk at night, we're the rats. IM THE GIANT RAT THAT MAKES ALL OF DA RULZ. Let's see what kind of trouble we can get ourselves into...
I've been waiting for this one. I'm a huge fan of quests myself -- they're easily my favorite part of the game. All of the other content in OSRS is swell, but nothing quite captures the spirit of adventuring like a good quest. And when I started this one, I had pretty much the exact same reaction as you: "Literally wtf is this? Am I the only one who's noticed how awful this is?" And so I searched what people had to say about Ratcatchers and found out that the general consensus was in fact that it was one of the worst quests in the game, but primarily because of the maze, to which I thought, like you, "Nah, the maze is fine. A bit tedious maybe, but so many quests have somewhat tedious puzzles." (Looking at you Mourning's End Part II. Though to be fair, "tedious" doesn't quite capture just how shockingly aggravating that quest is.) Anyway, my point is, I thought this quest was god-awful for the exact reasons you bring up in this video: the dialogue and story. I'm fond of reading every little bit of text in the game (even reading every book I receive in its entirety), but the dialogue in this one consistently made me want to scratch my eyes out and slowly bleed to death. Literally just sentence after sentence of some of the most horrific writing I've ever seen. And like, okay, maybe the guy who wrote the dialogue wasn't super experienced -- I get it. Writing dialogue is hard. But there is NO EXCUSE for the sheer volume of spelling mistakes and other grammatical errors. Setting aside proofreading, which clearly didn't happen, it's like whoever wrote this was doing it as fast as possible and wasn't even looking at the text he had written. And the barrage of totally unnecessary asides and parentheticals! Why are you going to mention Jimmy Dazzler's dazzling smile 75 times if you're not even going to do anything with that information!? Drives me nuts. Anyway, good vid. Legitimately hope someone at Jagex takes you up on that offer of rewriting this quest.
The asides in Ratcatchers are entirely pointless. All they end up doing is interrupting whatever passes for a story. I couldn't even immerse myself in the quest's dialogue because the awkward jokes and stage directions constantly reminded me that none of it was real. Jesus Christ, what were they thinking with this one?
The thing with the dwarf's big ears is just that for some reason they wanted or every new NPC in the quest to have a weird quirk associated with their appearance. That's why you've got Jimmy Dazzler, Hooknosed Jack, and The Face.
when i played it through recently for the first time in at least 12+ years, the first thing i noticed is the length of it, after the stealth segment, youve done 2/5 parts, the reward lines up with that length of quest, then maybe u can unlock the other 3 in your own time since these are miniquests comparable to early RFD segments. theyre all unconnected having awkward locations, ardougne to varrock to keldagrim to port sarim to pollivneach back to port sarim. this isnt a natural chain with aids for low levels like the biohazard boat that goes straight to the chemist. for unique mechanics introduced, stealth mechanics are fun (sorcerer's garden covered), the smoking pot is not used but can be made again, the snake charming pipe is unused, the inspiration from time relevant zeldas using magic instruments is obvious but it's uses are not as plot relevant since it's only taking lvl 5 snakes, removing snakes from jars in pyramid plunder, and moving low level critters, the Rats. to me, it seems like a natural hunter tool, attracting kebbits, chinchompas or rabbits or something, at some point maybe it's upgraded, or you are taught more songs, or u buy it for rat catching tokens who knows. possible changes. the old minigames: Ratpits, Trouble Brewing, Fishing Trawler and Gnome Restaurant, lack in quality of life compared to modern additions; Tempoross, Giants Foundry, wintertodt, GotR. theres no xp, uniques, supply crates, or for ones with a lot of running, an energy recover, when you give them these, there's incentive to play them. as an example, - you could communicate with your cat at the end of a fight and they could catspeak and teach you about agility and thieving as a wily cat, or strength as an overgrown. - each city could have a unique cosmetic contributing to a set, a cat suit or a ratsuit, i dont know. - the towns can each offer different supplies in their crates, port sarim has a food, fishing, jewelry and a rune shop, keldagrim ore, bars, weapons. - more songs for your snake charming pipe, or an upgrade for hunting.
Didn't notice how horrid that dialogue with the dwarf was, probably got sick of the quest during the mansion because those guards aren't on rails, so their paths go out of sync and it becomes litterally impossible to progress unless you can find a world where they aren't broken
On the wiki it says the quest was originally released in 2005.. So how is it possible Chris J was working on this when he only started working for Jagex in 2006??
I really like the reward for this quest because it unlocks about 4 different locations on the Minigame Teleporter that were pains in the ass to get to before as an Ironman.
I did this quest earlier this week and was annoyed out of my mind. It's ableist and the "asides" were quite obnoxious and felt so shoehorned in. ... It kinda feels like it was written by a hateful person.
rs has so much potential on it's minigames. rs3 wiki: The Rat Pits were made inaccessible on 11 April 2016 due to supposedly poor quality of the content, while the Ardougne ones were completely removed.
"Unless you can animate it, don't write a block of text telling me that it happened." Every RS3 player since they started replacing cutscenes with low effort still images and text
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Hey J1m am I getting included in by release I was j1ms leftnut nice smithing btw
Welcome to Texas my man! I absolutely love your content, can't wait for the next vid.
Please bring gambling cat fights to RuneScape.
i ordered one using the code j1m, love the content but please never shave the beard
"No way am I touching that. That is soooo disgusting.'"
*While casually stuffing the decapitated head of Elvarg into my backpack with all my loaves of bread for the trip to Edgeville*
It's also, like, 20 minutes after hanging around in a sewer chasing rats.
Not to mention in the Shilo Village quest your character holds onto a decaying corpse for a decent portion of the quest
Or Underground Pass, where you slaughter not only innocent but righteous men and unicorn (a symbol of purity) for the sake of completing the quest. Looking at that quest morally it was pretty fucked up lol.
Yo don't you handle some suspect stuff when you gotta head down towards Barrows? Like rank ass meats that spread disease throughout you backpack? Something along those lines?
@@ohnoitsu1 yeah, but I needed it to eventually get Iban’s staff. So really, the ends justify the means, it’s a dope staff.
I am so excited for the first fully voiced quest in Old School: Ratcatchers 2, feat. J1mmy voicing every character.
Give the people what they want, Jagex.
The real Jimmy Dazzler
Every rat arena master gets their own rap song
DO IT
I would actually play the shit out of this
Id come back and put memb on my account just for this
The dialogue with the Dwarves sounds like it was written by Sigmund.
underrated joke loool
He really went HAM on that dwarf.
Move over Raid Shadow Legends, ball deodorant is here to take over
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
DVS comin in HOT!! MY MANNN!!!
Real mean shave their ball bag with a butcher knife and Jack Daniels.
@@TexasGreed To dull the pain or to lube it for your girl
@@KustomiseT whatever comes naturally
However silly it was that Rat Pits swap for the Duel Arena is 5000 IQ
But dont let Michael Vick know about it tho
If they fix the bugs, I'd be great
If nothing else, the need to get a new cat every time you love one would probably kill the RWT side of it before it even starts.
Gambling can be wildly addicting, so front loading it with a huge chore might ACTUALLY help people.
I didn't know I needed quests to be written by J1mmy until today
We want j1mmy for the new rat catchers quest!!!
Usually I really like how runescape quests seemingly have different style guides and level of detail depending on who wrote it, and it’s not consistent or homogenous. It makes it feel more old school. But the over abundance of blue text stage directions in this quest is fucking insufferable.
The aside from you offering to redo the quest was phenomenal. Jagex, I’ll buy ten bonds if you let our boy do it.
Rats lives matter
I'll buy 10 bonds as well and give 8 of them away to non-bot free to play players!
@@mikebarnes7441 can I get one of those bonds… I’m not a big XD
I did the quest today and it hasn't been re-written :(
Quest 92, Making History: Expands upon the lore of Ardougne, required to complete Song of the Elves. Short-Long, 3 quest points.
Quest 93, Ratcatchers: You catch rats and are rewarded with a silly pole upon which to store said rats. Not required for any other quest. Long-Very Long, 2 quest points.
The other one like rat catchers to me is the rag and bone man 2... Im aware it was a "mini" first, doesn't change that it is a quest, and has been so since 2017. It is epically long for some meh fashion scape, that has so-so bonuses, (Specifically the ram helm only for bonuses, the sack is just fashionscape.). Oh, and it's not a pre-req for anything / doesn't give an adequate amount of QPS (1..?), or rewards in general for all the hidden reqs / legging around you have to do. Honestly, the next stand alone "grand master" quest should be a 3rd installment of it that provides some story development besides, "Some weird old mountain dwelling guy, partnered with a *talking sack of bones*, who unironically has a bone fetish, yet is too lazy to get them himself, needs your help!" The 3rd rabm should require getting several boss bones, and or very high level / req npc bones. Which upon completing should give at least 5 qps and an actually decent reward(s) and or a new useful area unlock. Something, literally anything to make this quest line have any purpose.
Ratcatchers is required for fally diary
@@Zwickerly2 and the Varrock diary in RS3
By Release performs an aside. He turned to the camera, looked me in the eyes, and he said: *soda can opening*
I want to get smashed now; Also I'm ordering lawn mower 3.0
Can you tell me the origin of the joke? I feel like I missed it but have seen it several times now lol
Funnily enough, RS3 completely removed the Rat Pits from the game
What really? That's hilarious.
@@firebender9010 yea the code was a nightmare that actually impeded future updates (somewhat similar to mobilising armies)...
Wowza. This quest really is trash.
Bad code, bad writing, bad rewards.
Wily cats are good at killing hellrat behemoths but that's about all i can say.
@@stevek1225 Mobilizing Armies is good thought.
Fun fact the whole pied piper story says that the villagers didn't pay the piper after he got rid of the rats so he played a tune to lure the children of the village into the forrest never to be seen again
Honestly fair enough.
And that is ratcatchers 2
If Monkey Madness was just the slider puzzle that you have to do plus you giving 200k to Glouph anyway, it’d still be a better quest than Ratcatchers.
So there’s Jimmy, and then Jimmy after he’s manscaped - Jimmy Dazzler.
Except it ain't his teeth that are dazzlin'
Yeah it’s a different kind of flashing 😏
*Erotic smile*
He polished a different set of jewels
As someone who has edited the RSWiki for quite a while (inactive now) I can say that the 'lead developer' thing probably was taken from the site back in 2005 or so, when the Knowledge Base still existed. So, the Lead Developer attribution was very likely taken from there.
They should of left it at original osrs or bring classic back. I can't play whatever rs turned into.
@@mrk9444 no
“should of”
@@cannonpalms4249 Let's not question his intelligence. He can probably calculate 1 + 1 just as well as the rest of us.
@@CottidaeSEA He can of probably calculate*
"He's a dwarf... Look at the size of HIM!"
had me rolling on the floor hahaha well done dude
Hey ingus, u can change ur @ in ur settings for recognizability btw - i only noticed bc of ur pfp
And there's more still to be said about that quest!
-Guards in the garden have no pattern and can see behind them!
-It's excruciatingly long for no god damn reason!
-The flute interface is godawful and no one in the quest explains how to use it!
-The minigame is barely playable and is completely random!
-And even more!
It brought me such joy that I guessed the quest from just the title.
Delete this God forsaken thing from the game. Just highlight all of the code, and delete it. Then give everyone who's sat through it 1m in compensation.
It's the same thing with Client of Kourend. First of all, when your character says "I have no choice" it means they ran out of ideas or incentives for why your character should care about doing the quest. That's when you lose me in RPGs because in an RPG I should never feel like I "need" to do anything. Also don't give your character too much dialogue. RS has always been pretty good at giving your player character just enough witty comebacks to have conversation and be funny but not insert unwanted levels of personality into him. Kourend inserted so much dialogue that it was frustrating.
Damn good point about that.
I felt the same way about the dialogue in the "smoking" Joe (or Jack?) segment. I think my character is a good person with empathy for others. I hated that dialogue.
Same.
It's one of the reasons I keep falling out of RuneScape, despite loving the overall storyline; the dialog just yanks me right out of immersion.
On top of being useless, rat pits also fostered a cash duplication glitch for a bit.
Honestly surprised he never mentioned that, isn't that the reason it's capped at 50k?
20k. Should've just removed it entirely at that point.
IgnisRex64 not surprised he didn’t like the two English ladies tho lmao he’s mad he couldn’t make some sexist joke about them taking a mans money
this quest will always live in my memory because as I was going towards Jimmy Dazzler and at the bar to his east? there was a group of Roleplayers who all logged out as I walked by wearing dwarvern clothes and sick 2008/12 period fashionscape.
Could you imagine the Odablock rage every time his cat lost him a 3B stake? “Why does my cat always lose the big ones!!!!?!! Yagex always messing with me man!”
I swear you are literally the only creator that can make me actually watch the sponsor segments
Jimmy is the only creator where I actually *want* to watch the ads.
if it's raid shadow legends then no
@@bettertelevision968 idk man. Red: Shadow Maggots would greatly benefit from his sexy manly voice.
@NightBot same :^)
RELLEKA this is fremenik the isles are gettin roudy man
him and EvScape
Another fantastic episode, keep it up J1mmy!
-* Aside: God this sucked so much, why do I have to stare at this disgusting gnome man with his 10 foot long microphone?! *-
J1mmy's gonna make a Rat Pits locked acct where that's his only way of making gp.
This is the best explanation of RatCatchers I've ever seen hahah
Rs3's Once Upon a Slime: Allow me to introduce myself.
hahaha yes
Fucking horrible quest. jesus what were they thinking?
Can't believe they managed to knock ratcatchers off the throne. God damn slime quest was worse at everything ratcatchers was bad at.
That quest was super dumb but I at least found it entertainingly dumb instead of "dear lord kill me" dumb.
THESSALIA:What's the good news?
PLAYER:The King Slime fiasco is definitely behind us.
THESSALIA:And the bad news?
PLAYER: _It's also in front of us._
once upon a slime was dumb, but at least it was short and easy.
and the jokes were actually funny.
and the reward is not totally god awful.
Greetings from Hamelin here in germany! (In german we just call it "Hameln")
I'm currently living here and well, the whole city is basically using the pied piper as a theme. There are tourist-guides talking about it, food and drinks to befit the topic of catching rats. (We literally have a schnapps called "Rattengift" (Rat's poison)).
Keep up the good work! :D
J1mmy had the potential to say "This video is sponsored by Runescap- duh I mean Manscaped"
God, J1mmy is a pretty man.
Dat beard
Agree to disagree
pretty smart
He can't keep getting away with being so handsome
Finally somebody had the balls to come out and say it!
Wilykats are definitely worth the tragedy that is this quest. Spice farming has never been simpler.
please jamflex, let j1mmy rewrite this quest, he's earned that much..
jamflex will pay!
dude yes finally someone who KNOWS how bad the dialogue in this quest is. I was actually dumbfounded when I was completing this like a month ago just how little effort was put into the writing. there are even grammar and punctuation errors
Alternative Title to Video: "How Runescape made its own equivalent of The Room"
Underrated comment
@@xfirexrainx6668 thanks man
What a story, Mod Mark! Ha-ha-ha.
Jagex should let you make a quest so you'd be forever immortalised in the game.
“Is that By Release?” This would’ve been cool to just see the maze part, but I concur that this was not suitable for the whole episode being in the By Release series
Who else paused to read the script 😂😂😂 creepy jimmy dazzler who sports a purple coat made from the skin of children and a wooden stick that was clearly taken from the local church.
I recently did this quest in rs3. Yeah, it's still just as shit. Especially when a rat in the mansion is stuck in a corner and the cat just refuses to even try and go for a kill and just says "nope, can't reach".
This quest frustrated me so much. I had a kitten and the quest took so long. Hated it i also felt so bad for the old dwarf guy
Been waiting for this one patiently, did not disappoint
When can we expect your OnlyFans?
The Guacamole Oven monolouge makes me cry every time.
Playing these quests by release, as you would have back in 2005, the "I can't believe I'm going to do this. What choice do I have?" makes your character come across as a whiney jerk. You've slain demons, ghosts, vampires, and dragons, slogged through Morytania, been turned into a monkey, and had to put up with Romeo, but *catching rats in a sewer* is what gives your character pause?
I just recovered my max melee account from 2009, and I realized I had done every other quest up to 2009, except for Ratcatchers.
Jimmy suggests taking care of your little Jimmy's
or they get rustled
Yeah i would make a whole ass new account and buy a bond just to do a rewritten version of rat catchers written by j1mmy.
"'How's the cat...goin''"?
"Dealin' with their business."
I’m not even gay, but god damn is Jimmy handsome.
TRUE
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@@Exposing21 did he stutter?
J1mmy’s voice and personality is my favorite among the rs community. He may not have the most exciting series but at the end of the day I get more excited to see your videos than most others! Keep it Up man!!
Got my first ever quest cape on my GIM. For a while, I thought my least favorite quest was "Forgettable Tale of a Drunken Dwarf", since I don't like the red axe 'questline', and hated the waiting around for the hops and brewing process. But you make a good point, the ratcatchers quest stands out as some of THE worst writing I've seen in the game. Absolutely vile, with pointless rewards. The best thing this quest unlocks is a minigame teleport to port sarim.
***Aside*** I can see a NPC wave and parenthetical to myself " NPC waves to my toon"
Rats. We're Rats. We're THE rats. We pray at night we stalk at night, we're the rats.
IM THE GIANT RAT THAT MAKES ALL OF DA RULZ.
Let's see what kind of trouble we can get ourselves into...
7:48 did you catch the rat that the dude in full iron was splashing on
you monster
I watched the full ad and it was perfect bro
*I am so excited for the first fully voiced quest. Thanks!*
Agree!
@Anthony Berry 👍👍👍
"I was 1 tick away from .. from my cat dying.."
*cat immediately then proceeds to die any way*
Almost 18 minutes of my boy J1mbo? Inject it into my veins please
That rat and flute stuff about drowning them is a tale of a guy that cleaned a village of rat by making them follow him with music to a cliff
J1mmy: "Take care of your balls"
Me: Looks down. "But I dont have any balls"
I've been waiting for this one. I'm a huge fan of quests myself -- they're easily my favorite part of the game. All of the other content in OSRS is swell, but nothing quite captures the spirit of adventuring like a good quest. And when I started this one, I had pretty much the exact same reaction as you: "Literally wtf is this? Am I the only one who's noticed how awful this is?" And so I searched what people had to say about Ratcatchers and found out that the general consensus was in fact that it was one of the worst quests in the game, but primarily because of the maze, to which I thought, like you, "Nah, the maze is fine. A bit tedious maybe, but so many quests have somewhat tedious puzzles." (Looking at you Mourning's End Part II. Though to be fair, "tedious" doesn't quite capture just how shockingly aggravating that quest is.) Anyway, my point is, I thought this quest was god-awful for the exact reasons you bring up in this video: the dialogue and story. I'm fond of reading every little bit of text in the game (even reading every book I receive in its entirety), but the dialogue in this one consistently made me want to scratch my eyes out and slowly bleed to death. Literally just sentence after sentence of some of the most horrific writing I've ever seen. And like, okay, maybe the guy who wrote the dialogue wasn't super experienced -- I get it. Writing dialogue is hard. But there is NO EXCUSE for the sheer volume of spelling mistakes and other grammatical errors. Setting aside proofreading, which clearly didn't happen, it's like whoever wrote this was doing it as fast as possible and wasn't even looking at the text he had written. And the barrage of totally unnecessary asides and parentheticals! Why are you going to mention Jimmy Dazzler's dazzling smile 75 times if you're not even going to do anything with that information!? Drives me nuts. Anyway, good vid. Legitimately hope someone at Jagex takes you up on that offer of rewriting this quest.
If I wasn’t such a broke boy right now I’d buy acouple of those lawn mowers for the transition alone
Congratulations on your sex change!
Each time you upload a talking about video you look more and more like that hobo in my street with a staggering amount of wisdom
The asides in Ratcatchers are entirely pointless. All they end up doing is interrupting whatever passes for a story. I couldn't even immerse myself in the quest's dialogue because the awkward jokes and stage directions constantly reminded me that none of it was real. Jesus Christ, what were they thinking with this one?
10:48 no comma, no question mark, "anyway" should be two words
i cant believe reldo became an actual 3d person and is now making youtube videos
I knew it was gonna be rat catchers. I hate this quest so much lmaooo
Cats get sacrificed to turn into death runes and they get pitted against each other in illicit betting operations. Jagex really hates cats lol.
Lmao, "look at the size of those ears, wtf he's a dwarf look at the size of him." That got me good
The thing with the dwarf's big ears is just that for some reason they wanted or every new NPC in the quest to have a weird quirk associated with their appearance. That's why you've got Jimmy Dazzler, Hooknosed Jack, and The Face.
when i played it through recently for the first time in at least 12+ years, the first thing i noticed is the length of it, after the stealth segment, youve done 2/5 parts, the reward lines up with that length of quest, then maybe u can unlock the other 3 in your own time since these are miniquests comparable to early RFD segments. theyre all unconnected having awkward locations, ardougne to varrock to keldagrim to port sarim to pollivneach back to port sarim. this isnt a natural chain with aids for low levels like the biohazard boat that goes straight to the chemist.
for unique mechanics introduced, stealth mechanics are fun (sorcerer's garden covered), the smoking pot is not used but can be made again, the snake charming pipe is unused, the inspiration from time relevant zeldas using magic instruments is obvious but it's uses are not as plot relevant since it's only taking lvl 5 snakes, removing snakes from jars in pyramid plunder, and moving low level critters, the Rats. to me, it seems like a natural hunter tool, attracting kebbits, chinchompas or rabbits or something, at some point maybe it's upgraded, or you are taught more songs, or u buy it for rat catching tokens who knows.
possible changes.
the old minigames: Ratpits, Trouble Brewing, Fishing Trawler and Gnome Restaurant, lack in quality of life compared to modern additions; Tempoross, Giants Foundry, wintertodt, GotR. theres no xp, uniques, supply crates, or for ones with a lot of running, an energy recover, when you give them these, there's incentive to play them.
as an example,
- you could communicate with your cat at the end of a fight and they could catspeak and teach you about agility and thieving as a wily cat, or strength as an overgrown.
- each city could have a unique cosmetic contributing to a set, a cat suit or a ratsuit, i dont know.
- the towns can each offer different supplies in their crates, port sarim has a food, fishing, jewelry and a rune shop, keldagrim ore, bars, weapons.
- more songs for your snake charming pipe, or an upgrade for hunting.
What kind of drugs did the folks in the sewer do? Did they take some snape GRASS? Dwarf WEED? Christmas Crack? Ranarr WEED?
I dunno, it is a mystery.
Didn't notice how horrid that dialogue with the dwarf was, probably got sick of the quest during the mansion because those guards aren't on rails, so their paths go out of sync and it becomes litterally impossible to progress unless you can find a world where they aren't broken
You can wipe off dirty herbs with your hands,
then mash an eyeball into a little vial, and your character thinks a dwarf is gross
bro i fuckin love you, idk how you but you always seem like effortlessly awkwardly funny and i just love that.
On the wiki it says the quest was originally released in 2005.. So how is it possible Chris J was working on this when he only started working for Jagex in 2006??
I pray you get top dollar for these ads you do because yours are the only ones that I actually whatch and don’t skip. Fuckin hilarious man.
lmao, the writer obv had some sort of traumatic experience with dwarves somewhere in his life
J1mmy in glasses got me feeling some type of way, whew...
I really like the reward for this quest because it unlocks about 4 different locations on the Minigame Teleporter that were pains in the ass to get to before as an Ironman.
By far, best ad I've actually seen from a creator that wasn't cringy. Well done.
Chris J is credited as developer on Contact, Icthlarin's Little Helper and The Feud. Those are not that bad, even though they're all weird.
they had some good humor too, unlike the disaster writing ratcatchers had
*aside* i shouldnt watch this video, where j1mmy mocks one of the most beloved quests in the game, but what can i do?
I did this quest earlier this week and was annoyed out of my mind. It's ableist and the "asides" were quite obnoxious and felt so shoehorned in.
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It kinda feels like it was written by a hateful person.
Literally
I had to do this quest for a clue scroll, and I was about to go insane. My cat was a kitten, so it took about 10 tries for one rat.
rs has so much potential on it's minigames. rs3 wiki: The Rat Pits were made inaccessible on 11 April 2016 due to supposedly poor quality of the content, while the Ardougne ones were completely removed.
“This guy’s got rats in his fucking place....” 😂😂😂
I watch this every time ratcatchers comes up in my By Release rewatches. It's almost required for me.
look at j1mmy getting all sophisticated looking tossing those glasses on lmao :P
That town crier bit was a gem lmao
The green screen and old school MIC combo really works for you and your type of humor.
You are honestly one of the few people whose sponsored spots I don't skip. You actually make them fun to watch. Keep up the good work dude!
"Unless you can animate it, don't write a block of text telling me that it happened." Every RS3 player since they started replacing cutscenes with low effort still images and text
The simple act of catching rats is 10x as cancerous as the maze.
Even worse was that I saved the maze for last, and my cat grew fat on the FINAL RAT. I was so demoralized...
Imagine being in debt from staking at the rat pits.
Watched this 3 years ago (i was not playing osrs back then)
Just did the quest today and oh my god i realise why you made a video for it
I liked because the transition to that ad was the best i've seen in ages.