Today’s game is Old School RuneScape. I was left with an urge to play today, so I booted it up and decided to focus on a task instead of my usual wandering.
My first idea was to do the quest where you kill the Vampire. Only. Problem. Turns out I’m far from a high enough level to pull it off. The guy is like level 20, and I’m level 6 (4 at the time of attempting it). So obviously I was gonna run into some issues.
I did the first thing I assumed I could do and went to killing things. I found this farm full of Goblins and just started mowing them down until I got low on healthy. Turns out the goblins are Semi comparable fighters. I went until I got to 2/10 health.
I then went on to try and slaughter some cows to gain experience. Because surely the cows won’t fight back. Plot twist, turns out they do and I got my ass kicked by them too after killing 4 of them. I didn’t have food so I’ll have to run into town.
Finally. After that I went to the pond in the main picture. I meant to kill some ducks, but they were just too harmless to kill I felt like so I left them be. I doubt they’d offer much EXP anyways. So I’ll just stick to healing and killing cows for now.
bootstrap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
This reads like my childhood internal monologue, thank you for the walk down memory lane.
You only ever get to play OSRS innocently / for the first time once.
warm@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
If you want to relive it, MadSeasonShow on YouTube has been doing a blind playthrough for the last couple years and it's pretty nostalgic to watch!
the_shwa@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
My wife and I are very much enjoying watching MadSeason’s playthrough
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I think Innocently has been the only way I’m playing. I always just end up wandering around and messing with things while listening to the soundtrack. It’s honestly become a “cozy” game for me. If it wasn’t for the price being so steep I might have just bought a year of the Membership too
firebarrage@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Definitely fortunately. There’s no wrong way to play that game, wandering around trying random things is my favorite way to do the early game too.
Carl@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I very distinctly remember the “just wander and figure the details out later” feeling of adventure from my first time playing. As a noob, I carted most of the starting gear (basically everything that exists on your toolbelt now) just in case I needed it while I was out and about. Because I didn’t have a good idea of the map yet, (and the game map at the time didn’t give you a “You Are Here” marker) so I didn’t want to find myself lost in the middle of nowhere without a tinderbox or fishing net.