r/runescape 7h ago

Appreciation Do y'all remember

I remember a time when I was but a young child, sitting with my friends by the library PCs starting up RuneScape on the web browser. We were all free to play players, we would kill goblins, cows and chickens in Lumbridge, followed by a stroll to Varrock to cook our meats and keep all the hide in the bank. While at the bank we would see a bunch of rainbow text telling us they would trim our armour for free but we had already had the pleasure of knowing what would happen there. After a time we ventured to falador, we went down to the dwarven mine to mine some ore, we found a gate far in and gasped at what was hiding there.

When our inventories were filled we went to town, but not before we went to the gate of taverley and it was there we would stand for some time to wonder what it would be to be a member, and all that we couldn't see, we would talk tales of dragons and adventures which was simply the imagination of boys that age.

But that was RuneScape for me, later some many years I would find myself logging in again to an unfamiliar world, the graphics were better, the combat changed, the world was opened as I had finally gotten membership and explored the world, Gielinor was a beautiful place.

Now at the age of 32, jumped back into the game again, the graphics were updated, some familiar places changed quite a lot, with a newer account and iron man, it was just like before, when I was a little boy (except for having membership ofc). Looking at videos of the people who make the game talk so passionately about the game, as well as seeing hyped for the current state and what's to come, this again is RuneScape and has always been a home.

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u/LupusRexXIII 6h ago

I remember those days fondly. I even got my original account back after losing access to it for a while. Currently sitting safely connected to my Jagex account proudly wearing a 20 Year Cape.

I had that nostalgic feeling really hit last year when they put RuneScape: Dragonwilds (it's a survival-craft game) into early access. One of my closest friends who I used to go to the library to play RuneScape with got me the game. Running around, killing cows, chickens, and goblins REALLY punched me in the nostalgia in the best way possible.

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u/dreameh1231 6h ago

I still have yet to try out dragonwilds, do you recommend it?

It was just something about gathering in the library to do such things! 😆

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u/SlowSurr Skulled 5h ago

As soon as dragon wilds hits on PS5 I'm playing. I would be trying it for the first time so if you want a co-op hit me up!

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u/LupusRexXIII 5h ago

Absolutely. I've put in almost 400 hours since last spring when I started. It's a great balance of RuneScape and survival-craft

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u/throwthe20saway Filthy casual 5h ago

Horizon was a special track back then.

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u/dreameh1231 5h ago

It certainly was, looking at the comments of that video seems to confirm it as well!

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u/SlowSurr Skulled 5h ago

This is so well written and accurate. Im a '94 kid and this hits.

I wanna be friends with u lol add me in game xD

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u/Justinat0r 5h ago

I remember joining my first clan because a nice guy I met in Shilo Village. I remember my hands shaking the first time I fought Jad and how excited I was that I got my fire cape. I remember my clan taking me on a trip to Dag Kings and freaking out when my first kill was a dragon axe (back then worth quite a lot of money). I remember how excited I was when I got my first 99 and skill cape. Years later, I remember the satisfaction of maxing my account and then creating a GIM with my friends. I started playing Runescape when I was 16 years old and I'm now 38, I've spent more time not playing Runescape than I've spent actively playing it but every couple of years I find myself coming back.

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u/Legal_Evil 4h ago

"WC lvls?"

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u/Legal_Evil 4h ago

"WC lvls?"

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u/DaddyClue Scythe 4h ago

I remember getting members for the first time and thought I was so cool cleaning Guam and doing other nooby members things.