Part One: Tutorial Island RuneScape's commitment to fantasy fonts demands respect. A smile that says "I appreciate what you're doing, but I'm not sure this'll work, and you really shouldn't exist". A smile that you'd give a unicorn that trying to give you a neck massage. But from the first burst of pitch-bent MIDI trumpet on the title screen, there's a worried smile on your face. The fact that it's so hugely popular makes RuneScape a game that demands to be taken seriously. RuneScape has the strong whiff of the Rogue-like about it - which isn't necessarily a bad thing, when you consider how involved and deep some Rogue-likes can be.
When children would stand in plastic tree trunks and pay 15 pounds per hour to wear a cripplingly heavy VR helmet and try to pick up an imaginary key. A year when people would gather around a 386 processor and listen to the latest public-domain MIDI files. Some skills, such as thieving and agility, aren't open to guests, and the majority of quests will be denied anyone logging onto the guest servers.įinally, RuneScape is everything that seemed amazing in 1990.
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So kids can play without having to install anything, and even the most restrictive corporate networks will usually allow a nice bit of certified Java. A Java-based browser application, it'll run equally happily on PC, Mac and the years-old laptop I installed Ubuntu onto for a lark. I'll start with my guesses as to its popularity, then play it.įirst, RuneScape is accessible.
Nip in, work out what everyone loves, hide my conclusions at the end of some amiable fluff, and phone my bank to tell them not to be shocked when millions of Eurogamer pounds fly into my account. It seemed like a nice job: to be given the opportunity to write a light-hearted piece on the first steps in the browser-based MMORPG RuneScape - an industry outsider that's quietly the Western world's second most successful MMO.
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