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i'll probably never play runescape again, i can't stand the progression. i'll always have fond memories of it from playing it as a kid with my friends (and grandpa lol) though.
the game is from a bygone era where devs had such an incredible outpouring of love for their games and the people who played them. you can feel that passion when you play it for sure. the game has soul. i don't think i'll be able to say that about a whole lot of games coming out these days when i look back 15 years from now.
the music especially is something that will never get old to me. here's an classical acoustic guitar cover of autumn voyage, my favorite track in the game, done by josh forbes:
@beardalaxy I think aesthetics were a big part of RS being magical, with the simple graphical style of RS2 the limits ironically helped your imagination fill the world with your own brand of fantasy... It really did feel like you could put yourself in the world and feel like an individual. If there was something that just freeze-framed 2011-ish right before they added microtransactions it would be great.
Hearing this for the first time after begging my parents to pay for a month of membership felt like I went through some sort of character arc, lmao: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpU5owQdVj8
@beardalaxy Summoning and Dungeoneering and some major quests and minigames. It's like a four year difference. I think OSRS just wasn't the right time for the snapshot, being 2007... but they have added on a lot so it's like it's own thing now. One day maybe I'll start up OSRS again and get things to my RS3 levels...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pRVs6igHc4