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mika_mika@lemmy.world 8 hours agoVintage gaming?? Runescape??
I played during the height of it’s Runescape 2 popularity in middle school and I don’t think I’m that antique yet. 😭 Minecraft released while I was a high schooler playing alpha and the kids still like it!! I’m not old!
RuneScape’s age shows more I think because it was entirely playable in a browser window (which came with its limitations). Aside from having a hefty chunk of free content, this is what I credit its success to.
My poor self was happy to be playing anything on the, even at the time, old family PC. A choppy fps low polygon RPG on a java game, because that’s all I could afford, was quite swell after school with my friends online. Anyone could just pull it up on theirs, no DL.
It was accessible and didn’t require a lot of machine power. It’s got a player base today not because it’s a fantastic game, but because there’s a lot of people who are nostalgic for it.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
I said vintage in reference to Runescape Classic, so the version of Runescape that was live from 2001-2004. When I played RSC (back when Jagex stood up an RSC server around the early 2010s) it really reminded me of trying to play DOS games in terms of the lousy UI, lack of QOL fixes, general jankiness and unforgiving gameplay. It felt like a game that was about a decade older than it actually is because of that.
Personally as much as I enjoy playing various older games, I’ve found there’s absolutely limits to what’s still enjoyable and for me it’s around the mid-90s where before that point the gameplay is too unforgiving for my taste, and the controls and UI tend to be way too janky
mika_mika@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Oh yeah, I didn’t think RS was very popular before RS2 so I wasn’t aware they made an original RS server later on.