Un-Biased Runescape Review: Settling this dispute once and for all
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But when you're addicted to something for some particular reason it will seem decent to you, no matter how bad it really is. I was addicted to RuneScape once and when people we're calling it bad on teh evil internetz I always rushed forward to defend it. But now I know that I wasn't right, but they weren't right either.PhantomEnigma post=326.73533.808622 said:
(This post doesn't make any sense)
Runescape costs nothing and a hell of a lot of people seem to have fond memories of it as do i. Some people may not like it but why would you spend so much of your time slagging something that never cost you a penny. i just bought hinterland on steam and its awful, i paid $24 and played on it for half an hour while i've probably wasted a hundered or so hours on runescape. I wouldnt play on runescape today but still respect where respect is due.
yeah, most people play it because it can be played anywhere with an internet connection, but doesn't cost you a penny.
THE FINAL SEGMENT!
PART 4, NPCs, QUESTS, AND THE BOTTOM LINE!
It's hard to deny, unless you're a child yourself, that runescape is definitely childish. Of course it wasn't always like this. A long time ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and when you had to pay jagex members fee to get sound, the game was a lot more adult. The characters actually said words more vulgar than "crap" (or so I hear), they didn't spout weird comedy lines that make them all look like idiots and make you look like the only competent human in the world, and every Christmas we were NOT given the option to travel to the land of lost toys to help a local merchant stop the evil fairies from ruining our Christmas spirit with their frown ray.
Runescape, over time, has become an incredibly childish game, and I was surprised that they still kept the age restriction of 13 years or older to play after this metamorphosis was complete. But you can still play this, if your 12 and on the escapist for some reason, but you just have to put up with a club penguin esc. quick chat system, because for some reason you're not protected when you can't misspell something without it being mistook as a swear and censored out.
Oh goody
but of course other than that the NPCs are actually believable, they walk around their area a little, it's not amazing like Oblivion or Fable, but at least they don't stand in one place picking their nose all day. You can talk to pretty much all non-monster humans, even if sometimes they cast you off because your not on a member's server, and squeeze off a one-liner while they're at it. You can ask men if they're day is going well, or you can beat them up and take their purse for beer money. The only unbelievable friendly humans are the guards, and it's certainly not their fault. As I said before, other players sort of break flow, so, the pretty much only thing they train on are guards in the cities, so instead of walking into a city and being greeted by some well-made guards in shining armor, you're greeting by a bunch of chaotic grinders constantly hacking away at them, and bunch of useless guard drops littering the ground like it was being used for confetti the night prior.
The extreme high-point of the game is it's quests though, which might surprise you. The quests are the least grindfull things of all. They actually have stories, and not like stories where the person says "go kill some furry animals so I can make some crap." Pretty much 1% of quests are like that, pretty much 1-3 free quests for newbies. But the rest actually force you to travel around, and follow a long path. Quests also make you feel good when you complete them by showing a small scroll on you're screen, with a picture of a key-component in the quest, along with what you earned, and how much quest points you got (basically for getting into guilds). But, since these quests can't be mass produced, there aren't nearly as many of them as in WoW or shit, the free quests basically have 20 of them or so, while the members get a new quest every month or so.
Some quests can be exploited and won easily, granted, and seem stupid, but they're a lot better compared to WoW quests. Would you rather go through a storyline to get a ghost out of the friar's backyard, or would you rather kill a bunch of furry bats for their wings, and the ability to make an imp?
The quests don't follow a path very often though, like in wow noobs can follow a path of quests to kill the animals and level up quick, wear as you're on your own in runescape. This is partially due to the absence of factions you start out as.
All in all, runescape isn't going to please many people old enough to be on the escapist. If your really young, or just want to get through the first couple of levels with your friends to see if the lightheartedness of runescape can win you over, then be my guest, but otherwise, stay away. If you're looking for a regular MMO experience, AKA a grind fest, then you won't have fun here. There's plenty to grind, but it just isn't as fun as WoW or Guild Wars. But, if you just want to have fun and explore, and maybe RP if that's how your gate swings, then try it I guess, but for god sakes, stay away from other players, because they are grinding in runescape, which basically means that they are brain-washed. Most people reading this won't have much fun with it though, most people have gone past the point in their lives were runescape is fun, but if you're still in middle school, you might like it. Not as an MMO though, as something else.
Recommended: No, not to most people here
Score: 4/10, Graphics are EFFING amazing as far as java goes, especially after the HD update, but gamer veterans won't be impressed, can be good if gone into with the right mindset. The community is pretty bad, and it's more repetitive than WoW, in a bad way.
[end of review]
Planning for an EE3 review some time in the future, hopefully I won't get so much bile XD
PART 4, NPCs, QUESTS, AND THE BOTTOM LINE!
It's hard to deny, unless you're a child yourself, that runescape is definitely childish. Of course it wasn't always like this. A long time ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and when you had to pay jagex members fee to get sound, the game was a lot more adult. The characters actually said words more vulgar than "crap" (or so I hear), they didn't spout weird comedy lines that make them all look like idiots and make you look like the only competent human in the world, and every Christmas we were NOT given the option to travel to the land of lost toys to help a local merchant stop the evil fairies from ruining our Christmas spirit with their frown ray.
Runescape, over time, has become an incredibly childish game, and I was surprised that they still kept the age restriction of 13 years or older to play after this metamorphosis was complete. But you can still play this, if your 12 and on the escapist for some reason, but you just have to put up with a club penguin esc. quick chat system, because for some reason you're not protected when you can't misspell something without it being mistook as a swear and censored out.
Oh goody
but of course other than that the NPCs are actually believable, they walk around their area a little, it's not amazing like Oblivion or Fable, but at least they don't stand in one place picking their nose all day. You can talk to pretty much all non-monster humans, even if sometimes they cast you off because your not on a member's server, and squeeze off a one-liner while they're at it. You can ask men if they're day is going well, or you can beat them up and take their purse for beer money. The only unbelievable friendly humans are the guards, and it's certainly not their fault. As I said before, other players sort of break flow, so, the pretty much only thing they train on are guards in the cities, so instead of walking into a city and being greeted by some well-made guards in shining armor, you're greeting by a bunch of chaotic grinders constantly hacking away at them, and bunch of useless guard drops littering the ground like it was being used for confetti the night prior.
The extreme high-point of the game is it's quests though, which might surprise you. The quests are the least grindfull things of all. They actually have stories, and not like stories where the person says "go kill some furry animals so I can make some crap." Pretty much 1% of quests are like that, pretty much 1-3 free quests for newbies. But the rest actually force you to travel around, and follow a long path. Quests also make you feel good when you complete them by showing a small scroll on you're screen, with a picture of a key-component in the quest, along with what you earned, and how much quest points you got (basically for getting into guilds). But, since these quests can't be mass produced, there aren't nearly as many of them as in WoW or shit, the free quests basically have 20 of them or so, while the members get a new quest every month or so.
Some quests can be exploited and won easily, granted, and seem stupid, but they're a lot better compared to WoW quests. Would you rather go through a storyline to get a ghost out of the friar's backyard, or would you rather kill a bunch of furry bats for their wings, and the ability to make an imp?
The quests don't follow a path very often though, like in wow noobs can follow a path of quests to kill the animals and level up quick, wear as you're on your own in runescape. This is partially due to the absence of factions you start out as.
All in all, runescape isn't going to please many people old enough to be on the escapist. If your really young, or just want to get through the first couple of levels with your friends to see if the lightheartedness of runescape can win you over, then be my guest, but otherwise, stay away. If you're looking for a regular MMO experience, AKA a grind fest, then you won't have fun here. There's plenty to grind, but it just isn't as fun as WoW or Guild Wars. But, if you just want to have fun and explore, and maybe RP if that's how your gate swings, then try it I guess, but for god sakes, stay away from other players, because they are grinding in runescape, which basically means that they are brain-washed. Most people reading this won't have much fun with it though, most people have gone past the point in their lives were runescape is fun, but if you're still in middle school, you might like it. Not as an MMO though, as something else.
Recommended: No, not to most people here
Score: 4/10, Graphics are EFFING amazing as far as java goes, especially after the HD update, but gamer veterans won't be impressed, can be good if gone into with the right mindset. The community is pretty bad, and it's more repetitive than WoW, in a bad way.
[end of review]
Planning for an EE3 review some time in the future, hopefully I won't get so much bile XD
If your going to call "discussions" =p on Internet forums "fights", then yes I do. It's mainly because I utterly despise Runescape, and I believed this review was incredibly biased, but having said that, I posted a long time ago. Its really not that bad.fish food carl said:
I'm just following the current Internet trend.
First off,
Secondly, this is more of a discussion then a review I would say.
Nope, I quite like it, but I don't fall under either of these categories.Angrywyvern said:
Secondly, this is more of a discussion then a review I would say.
Too many of these little quips can get annoying. Remember you're writing, not speaking.Angrywyvern said:
I think that, overall, you are reviewing this game in the wrong light. You compare it to big budget titles like WoW and Guild Wars, and seem to enjoy when it doesn't stand up.
You should be comparing it to other browser based flash MMORPGs, at least then it's a more level playing field.
I've never played this game, but I've seen others play it over their shoulder. I'm indifferent towards it, and so I feel I should say that this IS a biased review.
I take this all into account, but keep in mind that reviews are supposed to tell people whether or not to buy/play a game, and even though runescape is on a java engine, it's still considered "hardcore" and not a casual flash game.Danny Ocean said:
And besides, most of my judgments were about it's game play, which I feel wasn't affected at all by the engine handicaps. Compared to other browser based MMOs, I think runescape is the best, but I still can't recommend to but it, so I can't give it a good score.
This might sound like I'm being biased to MMOs, but it's more like this, I can't give a student with 40% an A just because everybody else got 10%.
Runescape is a good game I will admit it. I did spend a year or so playing it with a few friends and it was quite fun. But the slow pace of the game and the removal of good player-killing pushed me away. (And the fact I needed to work harder at school).
I actually like the game but a basically quit doing combat related stuff when i found out you have to level magic to 33 to get the map to kill the dragon, so now all I do is log in once every few weeks and fish or mabey kill a guard or do some random smithing in a pathetic effort to try and raise myself up to rune level without having to go through all the bullshit that is adamantite and mythril as far as the coal requirement is involved. Also I fish, at one point I had actually made like 100k gold on lobsters that I didn't feel like cooking then droped it all at the end of the karajamama island (or whatever the hell its called) dock because I didn't have an actual use for it. Woo Runescape gold. As far as why I like it, I started playing when it had 77k people back however many years ago as a social game so that I didn't have to actually pick up the phone and call the idiots that I ate lunch with at school. I was even a member for over a year so I actually raised quite a few of the members only stats that don't actually go towards your level up a bit. (Naturally I didnt level the bullshit ones like farming because I don't need them.) I think I'm going to go play another round up to the point where I remember how boring and repetative the game is and then log into WoW or go play Gears of War 2 or something.