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RuneScape Attacked By Lisa Butcher

T-BirdT-Bird Registered User regular
edited July 2008 in Games and Technology
For those who can remember this ugly duckling of the MMO world you might be interested to know that its just had an allover facial, tummy tuck, nose trim, manicure, pedicure, wardrobe rebuild, fitness regime, and from the looks of it about a 3 month marinade with some of that really expensive mud that's supposed to contain essence of philosophers stone but your sure is just mud.

Video's of this new (relative) beauty can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFIgCIjKGMs
From going in and having a run around I can tell you that the content is basically the same as it was about 2 months ago however much as a change is as good as a rest it does feel like a new game (especially now its Full Screen! which is some sort of technical revolution that non of the other people in the worlds I went to would shut up about)

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  • SilvoculousSilvoculous Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    So many of this game's players abandoned it forever when they abolished player-killing. Looking at the FAQ, it looks like you could call this "RuneScape 3" just like the upgrade from Classic in 2004.

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  • agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Who is Lisa Butcher?

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  • Asamof the HorribleAsamof the Horrible Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    agoaj wrote: »
    Who is Lisa Butcher?

    I was thinking the same thing

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  • T-BirdT-Bird Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Asamof the Horrible wrote: »
    agoaj wrote: »
    Who is Lisa Butcher?

    I was thinking the same thing

    Brit fashion guru and hosts the TV show "what not to wear", not sure who the US equivalent would be.

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  • tgbobtgbob Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Is the title supposed to be pun on this "Lisa" thing making over this "Runescape" thing?

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  • Retr0Retr0 Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Yet the community still sucks.

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Yeah the title is an obscure reference and a half.

    There was an article about these guys in Edge last month IIRC. It might be on the website now that this month's is out. Looked pretty slick considering it's all in Java, but I've never been one for MMOs.

    EDIT: Here it is: http://next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10840&Itemid=51

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    T-Bird wrote: »
    Asamof the Horrible wrote: »
    agoaj wrote: »
    Who is Lisa Butcher?

    I was thinking the same thing

    Brit fashion guru and hosts the TV show "what not to wear", not sure who the US equivalent would be.
    Clinton Kelly and Stacy London.

    ...

    Shut up.

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  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Clinton Kelly and Stacy London.

    ...

    Shut up.

    Don't worry. No one is thinking that you probably love dudes more than chicks.

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  • GrennGrenn Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I remember a few years ago a friend and I created characters for a laugh (never played an MMO before) and ended up playing right through the night and into the next day... continued like that for part of the week and then became suddenly completely burned out and never played again.

    But for a brief period of time, it was clearly the BEST game we'd ever played in our crazy little lives!

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  • AntihippyAntihippy Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Grenn wrote: »
    I remember a few years ago a friend and I created characters for a laugh (never played an MMO before) and ended up playing right through the night and into the next day... continued like that for part of the week and then became suddenly completely burned out and never played again.

    But for a brief period of time, it was clearly the BEST game we'd ever played in our crazy little lives!

    I was like that.

    Only that I stopped at Lvl 81.

    Ah... to be young again...

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  • SomestickguySomestickguy Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Man i've been subscribed to this for ages and haven't been on it at all

    I guess when I get back home Smash Bros will be getting a break

    EDIT: man I'm making a lot of typos

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  • SomestickguySomestickguy Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Hey wait wasn't this update supposed to come out next week?

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  • TrevorTrevor Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    My Google-Fu seems weak today and you people seem knowledgeable. Is there a monthly fee for this game?

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  • DarkstrykeDarkstryke Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Trevor wrote: »
    My Google-Fu seems weak today and you people seem knowledgeable. Is there a monthly fee for this game?

    It's "free" in the sense that you get to play about 20% of the content and get to play with all the annoying, immature dicks. You have to pay a monthly fee for more.

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  • TrevorTrevor Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I might give this a try someday, I can't imagine spending money for it or wanting to play more than 20% of an MMO.

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  • DarkstrykeDarkstryke Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Try to play with friends or something. It gets very boring. Probably the second grindiest MMO I can think of.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    The crafting in this is so simple, but so worthwhile that it's amazing.

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  • ScroffusScroffus Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I should check this out when i get home, played a lot of this game back in the day. The game is grindy as hell, the community is one of the worst I've ever seen and combat is down right boring but it had the best quests I've ever seen in any MMO ever (infact it's better than a fair few single player games also). Between that and everything being player crafted (thus creating a live and active marketplace) I played for a good few years.

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  • DeadlySherpaDeadlySherpa Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I gave the first runescape a shot, was turned off by the horrid graphics and the grindfest. Nice to see they've updated the looks to 10 years ago though; it could give Unreal a run for it's money.

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  • SomestickguySomestickguy Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Scroffus wrote: »
    I should check this out when i get home, played a lot of this game back in the day. The game is grindy as hell, the community is one of the worst I've ever seen and combat is down right boring but it had the best quests I've ever seen in any MMO ever (infact it's better than a fair few single player games also). Between that and everything being player crafted (thus creating a live and active marketplace) I played for a good few years.

    Forgotten Tale of a drunken dwarf

    Yes

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  • AntihippyAntihippy Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Aye.

    The only reason I could be arsed with the game at all is because of the quests.

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  • noobertnoobert Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I played this game so hardcore when i was ~14.

    Good to see it's still going strong *login*

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  • SilvoculousSilvoculous Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Every so often I start to miss playing this.

    High Detail is still in beta, so if you're not a member, you won't be rocking any fancier graphics yet.

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Blackjack wrote: »
    T-Bird wrote: »
    Asamof the Horrible wrote: »
    agoaj wrote: »
    Who is Lisa Butcher?

    I was thinking the same thing

    Brit fashion guru and hosts the TV show "what not to wear", not sure who the US equivalent would be.
    Clinton Kelly and Stacy London.

    ...

    Shut up.

    I used to watch that show just to ogle Stacy London. I also at one point dated a girl who looked almost exactly like her.

    Esh on
  • citizen059citizen059 hello my name is citizen I'm from the InternetRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I've never played Runescape, but I guess there's some appeal to it.

    Otherwise, it wouldn't be in second place behind WoW in total market share:

    http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart7.html

    D:

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  • TrevorTrevor Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    That chart is fascinating, but I can't help wishing there were some solid numbers on it, or at least a rough estimate of the number of people currently playing MMORPGs.

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  • PlacerPlacer Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I played this way back, it was fun enough till they started butchering PvP.

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  • citizen059citizen059 hello my name is citizen I'm from the InternetRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Trevor wrote: »
    That chart is fascinating, but I can't help wishing there were some solid numbers on it, or at least a rough estimate of the number of people currently playing MMORPGs.

    According to one of their other charts, Runescape appears to be sitting right around 1.25 million subs.

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    So... is this a game on? Or does RuneScape still not support clans?

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  • PlacerPlacer Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I think they have clans now, yeah.

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  • AccualtAccualt Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    DeadlySherpa wrote: »
    I gave the first runescape a shot, was turned off by the horrid graphics and the grindfest. Nice to see they've updated the looks to 10 years ago though; it could give Unreal a run for it's money.

    Hey now, those are some damn nice looking graphics for a browser based game.

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  • FugaFuga Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Holy shit, full screen? Maybe in 10 years they can run with WASD.

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  • SomestickguySomestickguy Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Hey, so why don't we make a PA clan for when we do go on runescape and don't want to be greeted by Neanderthals.

    My Runescape name is somestickguy, of course

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Whoa shit WoW is a beast. Aren't they had like 10 mil subs or something, I thought I saw that on there banner on the Blizzard page while I was checking out D3. Still that's a pretty hefty income they have...

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Frem wrote: »
    So... is this a game on?

    That's actually a damn fine idea.

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  • SorensonSorenson Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    The thing I hate about sub comparisons is that everybody claims they've got a shitload of accounts on their games, and then you find out that ~95% of those are from people who played for 5 minutes and then uninstalled or put their account on hiaetus. Someone should figure out a way to check the average number of accounts that log on at least once a week or month or so and work off that.

    Anyway, I never could understand why people are so infatuated with this game. The writing is awful, the control is awful, the gameplay in general is awful, and why use such a limiting medium like java to program the game instand of a stand-along executable they can tweak to their heart's content?

    (Forgive me if I sound snide or something, but I absolutly loathe Runescape and the kind of mentalities it fosters).

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  • ScroffusScroffus Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    It was done in java because it was made by a company who did small java based browser games. They made a small browser based java game that had multiplayer and it just got bigger and bigger. I think a lot of the appeal of the game is you can play it just about anywhere (eg school/library/work), if they made it a stand alone executable they would likely lose a lot of this.

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  • agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    What would we do in a [game on]? Group PKing is gone. The only thing left is to try to take over the economy.

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  • ScroffusScroffus Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    agoaj wrote: »
    What would we do in a [game on]? Group PKing is gone. The only thing left is to try to take over the economy.

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