The game itself is a click-based tile movement system, meaning you move wherever you click with your mouse rather than using the keys on your keyboard. The world of Gielinor has it all and no matter where your adventure takes you, it truly feels like your exploring a living breathing world with its intricate biomes and interesting NPC’s. Travel through dense woodland packed with wildlife, cross boggy swamps where the dead will greet you with a not-so-friendly stab to the chest, or venture through sandy wastelands and find bugs the size of cars ready to make you their next meal. The land of Gielinor is Runescapes gigantic word that has everything you would expect an epic fantasy world to have. OSRS not only brought back previous players of the classic game but with the game’s recent steam release there is a whole new wave of players filling the world once more. The appropriately named launch of Runescape was a complete mirror of the 2007 version of Runescape, which many players considered to be the golden age of the game. Old School Runescape made its triumphant return in 2013 Then, in February 2013 Jegex (the developers of Runescape) rose from the ashes like a fiery Pheonix, giving the world Old School Runescape. So, a huge chunk of players put down their swords and hung up their wands, deciding to leave the world of Gielinor for good, ending the golden age of Runescape. The update completely tore the fan base in two, with half of the players claiming they loved the newly updated combat and others saying the new combat is straying too far from what makes Runescape the brilliant MMORPG it is. It would be an understatement to say this update caused controversy among the player base of Runescape. On the 20th of November 2012, the Evolution of Combat update was released.ĭescribed by the developers as “One of the largest content updates in Runescape history.” It completely overhauled the original combat system, giving the combat more strategy by adding weapon speed, new abilities, and adrenaline to manage, as well as many new features. The world of Runescape was positively alive and booming, so what happened? Marketplaces would be bustling with players trading every resource known to man, warriors engaged in sword to face combat, and other players navigating around the chaos to catch some fish or chop some wood. No matter where you traveled, the world would be filled to the brim with players living their own virtual lives in the fantasy world of Gielinor. Not long after release, RuneScape became a giant in the MMORPG scene, gathering hundreds of thousands of daily players.

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