Loved RS but it’s too grindy for my life now. I don’t have hours to click on trees to level up :/ Definitely one of my all time favorites though, something magical about the game and hitting a 99 really took time / felt like an achievement. Excited to give this a try once it’s ready!
I think paradoxically in your comment, a lot of people associate a game with a time before life got optimized in various ways, things running at their own pace. You would do stuff you found fun or found the idea of it fun. Like making 100 cakes from scratch or something, but if you would play the game today, you would look up a guide, maximize your money asap to buy what you need for the cakes, find the stove closest to a bank, etc.
So what I think was magical about the game was that the ends were different back then (process then vs levels now). I really have to think about it consciously today when I play various games because it really does improve the enjoyment.
I dunno about this. I know several people who got into coding because they were writing little scripts to autocraft in RuneScape. Min-maxing profit/skills has always been a thing in these games. As far as looking it up goes, we’d go to GameFAQs or forums (both are still viable - for older games I still use the text guides if I can find them because they were often so well written).
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So what I think was magical about the game was that the ends were different back then (process then vs levels now). I really have to think about it consciously today when I play various games because it really does improve the enjoyment.
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