I use to play RuneScape, and I enjoyed it.
As I have grown, however, (and purchased an xbox 360), I have lost interest in it.
As I have grown, however, (and purchased an xbox 360), I have lost interest in it.
Why does everybody hate runescape?
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Sure it is- though I'll admit, I don't think he was talking about yarn [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worsted].delta4062 said:
"Realise", on the other hand is not found in any dictionary I've ever seen. Tip- when playing the role of a grammar Nazi, at least spell check your own post- better yet, don't be a grammar Nazi.To those of you complaining about Runescape's fetch quests and grinding, I'm curious how other MMOs are any different. I'm not trying to troll here- I'm genuinely ignorant on the subject, never having been able to bring myself to spend the equivalent of the cost of a brand new game every two months to continue playing an old game. My understanding of the genre was that grinding and fetch quests were pretty much the bulk of game play. How is Runescape any different in that respect to WoW or Everquest? Is there some aspect of those games I'm unaware of that makes them worth the money?
I would really like to know because I've been on the fence about whether or not to try them for quite some time.
First of all, what's with all the grammar nazism in this thread? Do people seriously get off on finding someone's typo and nitpicking about it? Is that all you have to contribute to the thread?
Now, back to the topic at hand, Runescape was one of the games I tried recently when I set out to try a bunch of free MMOs and find a good one. My search came up with zilch. Free MMOs are almost universally crap. To be fair to Runescape, it's no more or less crap than other free MMOs.
Having said that, MMOs mostly rely on communities to make the game truly fun. If you can find a good guild any piece of shyte is entertaining. That's the basis on which free MMOs thrive. But in the end, they are just really bad games. Personally, if I ever go back to playing MMOs, I'll go for a subscrition based one. At lest they tend to have some level of actual gameplay in them.
Oh, and I have a degree of hope for the upcoming free version of DDO to satisfy my freeloading needs. But yeah, Runescape sucks.
Now, back to the topic at hand, Runescape was one of the games I tried recently when I set out to try a bunch of free MMOs and find a good one. My search came up with zilch. Free MMOs are almost universally crap. To be fair to Runescape, it's no more or less crap than other free MMOs.
Having said that, MMOs mostly rely on communities to make the game truly fun. If you can find a good guild any piece of shyte is entertaining. That's the basis on which free MMOs thrive. But in the end, they are just really bad games. Personally, if I ever go back to playing MMOs, I'll go for a subscrition based one. At lest they tend to have some level of actual gameplay in them.
Oh, and I have a degree of hope for the upcoming free version of DDO to satisfy my freeloading needs. But yeah, Runescape sucks.
I never played it, what I saw of it looked like a terrible Diablo ripoff, and there are many other mmorpgs that are 10 times prettier and easy to use.
Actually, in England we use -ise instead of -ize in most words. A little transatlantic pitfall for all you would be nitpickers.dorm41baggins said:Sure it is- though I'll admit, I don't think he was talking about yarn [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worsted].delta4062 said:
Also, runescape is a total gridfest filled with 10 year old jerks. Does not equal fun times.
Even if you aren't willing to pay for it, the bowl of sauerkraut is still probably the better option.Stevedave00 said:
Runescape is inhabited by people between the ages of 11-14 who are after a free game to play so they can have something to talk about while the teacher is trying to talk and so they can use their 'conquests' as some form of penis extension.
I am an ex-player and now I realise just HOW fruitless my time was spent on that game. It was decent for someone with a low spec computer but even that is pushing boundaries.
Motto of this story. If you want a 'good' AND 'free' MMORPG, you're best choice is to just get Guild Wars (and even that isnt totally free)
probably because people think of it as a WOW rip-off, I had a free account but then but a members account and found it loads more fun than WOW, it was faster paced and I just seemed to like it more, plus my friends had accounts, I quit a while ago though, round about the time they abolished real world trading
I played Runescape for around 1 year when I was 12 and then I went to login one day and it turns out i had been hacked many curses were shouted that day... but back onto topic i would call Runescape really just a thing that most people do around that age and it is usaully the first MMORPG people play and after a while most people either stop playing it and move onto a other MMO most likely WoW or LotR or thats the last MMO they ever play in my experiance.
Its like 'My First MMORPG', people play it, like it, pay for it(sometimes), and when they leave it for other games/MMORPG's they realise that they could do a-lot better. Its like an introduction to gaming at that level.
I loved it when I was younger, played it day and night (and day again [sup]Argh no sleep[sup]I don't want to keep doing bowstrings I just need the money[/sup][/sup]).
And it was not only a fun game at the time, but it also provided me with a solid social scene in which to set myself as other all played it too
I loved it when I was younger, played it day and night (and day again [sup]Argh no sleep[sup]I don't want to keep doing bowstrings I just need the money[/sup][/sup]).
And it was not only a fun game at the time, but it also provided me with a solid social scene in which to set myself as other all played it too
I remember I used to play it a bit when I was 8 or so, but even then I got bored of it. I'm not saying that you have to be under double digits to play it, but just that most people that I know who enjoy it are. I personally don't like it because the graphics are horrible, and I never really enjoyed that kind of game- seemed boring to me. Make a fire, kill a skeleton, and get gold.
Still, it's free, so I can't really bash it too much.
Still, it's free, so I can't really bash it too much.
I used to play it all the time, I was like addicted. I liked the grinding, didn't mind the crap graphics. I left the game for about two weeks and when I came back it was the shittyest thing ever.. I mean like really crap. So I'm going outside now and I haven't looked back... except for all the times I look back for about a day when I get nostalgic, remember it's crap and leave.
IMO they've fucked it up totally in terms of the balance of members/non-members stuff.
They should, now that they're popular and are actually capable of putting ads everywhere, just put ads everywhere around the game screen. That way they'll make up the same quantity of cash they get from memberships thus meaning you can actually DO things in it.
I was bored enough one day and the non-members content is like 4 days long. FOUR DAYS LONG. I mean from bronze to runeplate, killing Elvarg and finishing every damn quest in the non-member game only took me FOUR FUCKING DAYS. The fact they lock off 3/4 of the world until you pay for content that's not even that great is astounding. They could make everything open to you and do what I said in the first paragraph and I might still be playing that game. It was a great game while I played it, I even got into the membership content a little.
Not only this but there's WAY too much grind, even for an MMO. It out-grinds WoW for Christ's sake and that is onehard almost impossible feat to accomplish with a game. About 3 days of the 4 days it takes to finish non-member (out of my total playtime that is) was me grinding my skills so I could actually use rune.
Of course I did reach level 65 non-members and I have full rune atm but the game's not good enough for me to come back to it unless I render myself MASSIVELY bored one day.
Graphics in it is another story however. They've recently done an update on it, the HD version actually looks HD compared to the SD version now. It's got 2002 graphics, which aren't that much of an eyesore.
They should, now that they're popular and are actually capable of putting ads everywhere, just put ads everywhere around the game screen. That way they'll make up the same quantity of cash they get from memberships thus meaning you can actually DO things in it.
I was bored enough one day and the non-members content is like 4 days long. FOUR DAYS LONG. I mean from bronze to runeplate, killing Elvarg and finishing every damn quest in the non-member game only took me FOUR FUCKING DAYS. The fact they lock off 3/4 of the world until you pay for content that's not even that great is astounding. They could make everything open to you and do what I said in the first paragraph and I might still be playing that game. It was a great game while I played it, I even got into the membership content a little.
Not only this but there's WAY too much grind, even for an MMO. It out-grinds WoW for Christ's sake and that is one
Of course I did reach level 65 non-members and I have full rune atm but the game's not good enough for me to come back to it unless I render myself MASSIVELY bored one day.
Graphics in it is another story however. They've recently done an update on it, the HD version actually looks HD compared to the SD version now. It's got 2002 graphics, which aren't that much of an eyesore.
D'oh! Got me there- I usually try to be sensitive to international variations, but I completely missed that one. In my defense, I did google 'realise' before I posted and was not able to find any source that listed it as an accepted spelling. Maybe if the OED didn't barricade itself behind a huge concrete paywall...Kevvers said:
Anyway, my point was not to nitpick, but to point out the folly of nitpicking, so I think we can probably agree on that point.
You'll get no argument from me on that point. I'm still waiting to hear from someone who plays WoW or some other popular MMO on how those are any different, though.Kevvers said:
C'mon guys- I really do want to know!