Runescape

[leoman]

who here plays runescape???

 

[GenMarshall]

Not me, but this should be in Other Games section of the forum as well as a better discription of the game for thoes who dont know what it is.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

I have nothing but contempt for that game. It's crowded with noobs, has bad graphics, and is hopelessly laggy most of the time.

Note: this is not to be taken as a criticism of those who play the game.

 

[silver 2039]

I lost intreast rather quickly.

 

[Rambuchan]

I played it in its early days, when it was Runescape Classic, before it tried to become 3D. I also played it for a few months after the upgrade to 3D.

To be honest, for the year or so that I played it, I really enjoyed it (but then I was quite severly depressed at this time and badly needed escape). As someone who had largely stayed away from computers and the internet for my whole life and understood little about both, my mind was boggled that I could enter into a virtual world and interract with other people through it. It didn't matter that the vast population of Runescape was in fact very immature and annoying or that it was simple cutesy 2D graphics. I just found all of that interractivity quite amazing, plus I found some nice adult friends on there and we had our own fun.

To give an idea of how much I played it back in the day and quite how depressed I was then, let me tell you that I became a bit of an uber-god. My character's name was Devastrix btw. My thing was trading. I got seriously rich from trading coal and all kind of potions and armours to high level players. This wealth afforded me the best armour, food, potions, runes, weapons etc.

It therefore became easy to level up and I got into the high rankings pages before long. Eventually I got to lvl100 or thereabouts and things started to lose their appeal for me. I had bought everything in RS worth buying, especially all the rare and collectable items (full set of coloured berrets, Santa hats, Halloween masks, all the God armours etc etc). I had also pummelled every monster in that world at some point or other. So it all became a bit repetitous and boring, despite the fact they were adding new worlds quite often.

Then I started getting curious about what other kind of games like that there might be out there. So I sniffed around and found Anarchy Online. Immediately I saw Runescape for what it really was. ie. an MMORPG designed for kids. When I checked out AO, I realised how shoddy the RS graphics were, how cliched the fantasy concept of RS was, how idiotic the community there was, how little Jagex actually gave a damn about the users. I realised that RS was crap in other words, on every level you choose to rate an MMORPG. So I stopped immediately.

Looking back on all that now, I would say that I have never done anything quite so pointless in my life. I got three things out of it I reckon: a) Escapism from real life, b) geeky stories I could tell you about it (I'm quite happy to give advice to noob players btw) and c) just one half decent and interesting friend on MSN. All that doesn't stack up to much and I can safely say that I got nothing of real worth out of that game that I could take forward into life. It was virtually a complete waste of time.

 

[Maniacal]

*looks further down the page* Oh looky here:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=171184

 

[Avelon]

RS used to be amusing as a distraction. It's more fun to try and beat the censors than play the actual game, though - i.e. try to get off a full sentence without getting anything censored. Just a normal, polite sentence will do.

 

[Rossiya]

RS used to be amusing as a distraction. It's more fun to try and beat the censors than play the actual game, though - i.e. try to get off a full sentence without getting anything censored. Just a normal, polite sentence will do.

the censoring in that game was rather pathetic. putting something totally innocent would often be censored.

 

[Avelon]

the censoring in that game was rather pathetic. putting something totally innocent would often be censored.

Exactly.

I like to play Civilization 2 on rainy days!
becomes
I **** to **** civiliz****n 2 on ****y days.

Hate how it messes with capitalization and punctuation - I know what I'm doing, you tinpots! >_<

Also, if you construct a sentence with the first letters from a profane word (we'll say 'damn' as an example, not really profane but whatever) in their natural order, uninterrupted by one another, it will be censored.
Do a mop net!
*o * *op *et.

EDIT: And no, it doesn't have to be the first letter in the word - just so long as you don't have 'Do a Dutch mop net!' or something, where one of the letters in the profane word interrupts, it will be censored.

 

[Tenochtitlan]

I played it in its early days, when it was Runescape Classic, before it tried to become 3D. I also played it for a few months after the upgrade to 3D.

To be honest, for the year or so that I played it, I really enjoyed it (but then I was quite severly depressed at this time and badly needed escape). As someone who had largely stayed away from computers and the internet for my whole life and understood little about both, my mind was boggled that I could enter into a virtual world and interract with other people through it. It didn't matter that the vast population of Runescape was in fact very immature and annoying or that it was simple cutesy 2D graphics. I just found all of that interractivity quite amazing, plus I found some nice adult friends on there and we had our own fun.

To give an idea of how much I played it back in the day and quite how depressed I was then, let me tell you that I became a bit of an uber-god. My character's name was Devastrix btw. My thing was trading. I got seriously rich from trading coal and all kind of potions and armours to high level players. This wealth afforded me the best armour, food, potions, runes, weapons etc.

It therefore became easy to level up and I got into the high rankings pages before long. Eventually I got to lvl100 or thereabouts and things started to lose their appeal for me. I had bought everything in RS worth buying, especially all the rare and collectable items (full set of coloured berrets, Santa hats, Halloween masks, all the God armours etc etc). I had also pummelled every monster in that world at some point or other. So it all became a bit repetitous and boring, despite the fact they were adding new worlds quite often.

Then I started getting curious about what other kind of games like that there might be out there. So I sniffed around and found Anarchy Online. Immediately I saw Runescape for what it really was. ie. an MMORPG designed for kids. When I checked out AO, I realised how shoddy the RS graphics were, how cliched the fantasy concept of RS was, how idiotic the community there was, how little Jagex actually gave a damn about the users. I realised that RS was crap in other words, on every level you choose to rate an MMORPG. So I stopped immediately.

Looking back on all that now, I would say that I have never done anything quite so pointless in my life. I got three things out of it I reckon: a) Escapism from real life, b) geeky stories I could tell you about it (I'm quite happy to give advice to noob players btw) and c) just one half decent and interesting friend on MSN. All that doesn't stack up to much and I can safely say that I got nothing of real worth out of that game that I could take forward into life. It was virtually a complete waste of time.

Heh, I quit when they released the new RuneScape. My main was a trader and I had a plate pure . PKing on classic was fun. Too bad it got shut down now.

My plate pure: The Republic
Main: Venom__X

Had over 1 billion worth of stuff (inc. over a dozen party hats) when they shut it down, never got to play with a decent internet connection

Still, good times

 

[Maniacal]

Exactly.

I like to play Civilization 2 on rainy days!
becomes
I **** to **** civiliz****n 2 on ****y days.

Hate how it messes with capitalization and punctuation - I know what I'm doing, you tinpots! >_<

Also, if you construct a sentence with the first letters from a profane word (we'll say 'damn' as an example, not really profane but whatever) in their natural order, uninterrupted by one another, it will be censored.
Do a mop net!
*o * *op *et.

EDIT: And no, it doesn't have to be the first letter in the word - just so long as you don't have 'Do a Dutch mop net!' or something, where one of the letters in the profane word interrupts, it will be censored.

Well people were going Dg5 A][- M;'' Ng9 You!

But yeah, it censored anems of games. So it would be more like: I like to play ********** * ** ***** *****

Then it censored the WHOLE SENTANCE! : * **** ** **** *********** * ** ****** *****

:shakehead:

You still could get past the filter by typing one letter at a time.

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[Tenochtitlan]

Anybody remember the cabbage! days?

 

[azzaman333]

I played it for about half an hour when i began to think... "Why am i wasting my time on this crap?" I promptly opened C3C after that.