Runescape --> PWND!

[Phinehas]

I have to agree with John_Thazer on this one. Sure, it\'s not fantastic, but it does have it\'s good points. It\'s got a lousy community etc. and I personally find it boring. But that doesn\'t make it a lousy game.

It sux on all sides and it also doesn\'t have a community, 3/4 of it being compose by people who still drinks milk and are affraid to cross the road without their \"mommy\"  

Yes yes, we\'ve agreed the community is lousy. Let\'s move on now.... Also, give \'em a break, little gamers have to start somewhere. I personally started in Runescape.

Graphics on a game don\'t matter? True, but for that there are great muds, way beyond what the game-that-shall-not-be-named will ever be.

True, but this is a nice middler. Personally I find it nice that I don\'t have to read the description of everything I \"see\" and yet the \"graphics(or lack of)\" can be run by any comp anywhere, unlike Planeshift, which takes a semi-decent computer.

Not to mention about the smart devs from there, that simply steals money from idiots to play it

There are dozens of pay to play mmorpgs, why pick on Runescape? That\'s really a lousy argument. And besides, it has a free side.

*resists urge to pick on grammar and spelling*

[dannythompson]

Originally posted by John_Thazer
I personaly don\'t see any reason to hate it, what is there to hate? I really like to hear clarification of why people hate it.

Am I invisible? I posted a pretty defining reason only 2 posts above you.

[Phinehas]

What?!?! Who said that?!?!  

Originally posted by dannythompson
Customization is a null basically in this game. If you play the same way another character plays (and you will, there only so many skills you can use) then one set of armor, one weapon, one peice of clothing etc. can be the best you can wear. There\'s no tactic of using any flame retardant robe or ice retardant or w/e in combat. There\'s one set of armor thats either copper, steel, mythril w/e that is the best you can use and thats it.

True, they don\'t use it in the armor itself. They have prayers and amulets. I find that a lot more realistic, than, \"Here comes a dragon! Better put on my fire-repellant breastplate! Oh wait, there\'s an ice elemental, quick where\'s my ice-repellant robe?\"

No strategy is found in this game, nothing customizable like looks. Theres rougly 30 types of faces that everyone uses, or you can use a helm that like I said is the best for thousands of other people.

Huh? Were you playing Runescape 1? There\'s a whole lot of hairdos and facial types, etc. etc. etc. Sure, there\'s not tons of them, but as many as in most games, and sure they\'re not very detailed, but the devs chose to pay that price to make it small.

Not a very fun game, you could play it offline infact. So it\'s barely an online game. Its more like an offline hack and slash, with a chatroom and a paypal feature. Just about it. You can go the whole game without talking to a soul. Thats totally messed up and defeats the purpose of making a MMORPG.

Not a very fun game? That\'s not an argument, that\'s an opinion. And yes, although people could technically play it without ever talking, no one does, do they? Instead they duel with one another, ambush each other in the wilderness, trade, form guilds, etc. Just because you\'re not forced to do any of that, doesn\'t mean it\'s not there....

[Verser]

ECONOMY ECONOMY ECONOMY!!  RAWR!!

I continue to get picked on after clearing up what I had initially said and focusing specifically on economy, while even stating that, yes, the community is a bunch of whiners! Did everyone just decide to ignore that and continue to reem me? Jerks =P

You can\'t argue with my last post though. It\'s quite possibly the simplest, but most well functioning part of said game, and yet you all seem to ignore that and continue to lash out at the parts which bother you. I also started out in runescape and it was good way back when... Well, as far as community went it was better at least.

Yay Phinehas! Cudos on not jumping on the bashing bandwagon! Although, you may soon be made a martyr with the current feelings in here

[Phinehas]

Originally posted by Verser
Yay Phinehas! Cudos on not jumping on the bashing bandwagon! Although, you may soon be made a martyr with the current feelings in here

Heh. The thing is, I find it boring myself, but A. I\'m sick of seeing these guys gang up on people.    B. Runescape isn\'t fantastic, but it does deserve a bit of credit, and I got bored with everyone pretending that it\'s an abomination. C. I like to argue.  

[Annah]

Phinehas, trust me, I know how their payment works, I\'ve talked with some people over there They\'re robbing people in their faces
 Their free part exists only to make people have the \"gold\" part
 Anyway, who would want to give money on such games when Online RPGs like EVE, Anarchy and others exists  ?(

[Phinehas]

Originally posted by Annah
Phinehas, trust me, I know how their payment works, I\'ve talked with some people over there They\'re robbing people in their faces

Umm... dude, I was a member. Five bucks is not thievery. And the free game is a full game by itself, you don\'t need the member packet.

P.S. How do you \"rob people in their  faces?\"

[acraig]

RS is a good game for what it does and the technology it uses.  I play it every now and then when waiting for stuff to rebulid.  The reason the filter was in place here is because we had a large influx of RS posters when they shut down their forums.  But now a lot of that is directed to the tip.it site.  If you want to complain/praise RS do it there.