Adventure time?

smilingbob

I used to play Runescape2, when it first came out. I loved that game. I never played RSC.

 

I loved that game for a few very specific reasons:

 

1. When it first came out, at least in the free realms, the community was awesome. You could log on, run into some random dude and start talking about some random crap, then end up helping each other out cause one of you had a quest you couldn't figure out that the other had already finished and vice versa. Then the next day you could run into someone else that was just as friendly while fishing, and have a hillarious conversation.

 

2. The quests are downright fucking awesome compared to the quests I've seen in other mmos.

 

3. I just simply prefer the leveling system they use. You mine ore, you get mining xp, you whack a rat, you get combat xp, you catch a fish you get fishing xp, etc.

I also liked the crafting interface and how the original system was very interactive. The fact that it was very repetitive didn't bother me because I didn't play like that. I didn't farm large loads then craft them all at once, I simply did what I felt like doing at the time based on what was closeby, usually if there were other people there doing it too.

 

Now, reason's I DON'T like Runescape:

1. The combat is nothing short of a joke. It was perfectly fine when I was low enough level that I didn't need to spend a lot of time in combat to level my combat high enough to do the quests. I just went about it the same way I did with everything in that game. When I felt the killer urge I'd switch it up and go slaughter cows with the other people killing cows and chat with em. But once I started having to spend hours killing to get the combat level I needed to do the quest I wanted to do, I started to realize just how much better the combat could and should be.

2. Graphics.

3. The once awesome community has all but been replaced with mindless grindfest zombies, bots, and bratty elitist 8 yr olds in the library on lunch break who feel an uncontrollable urge to declare their superority over everyone else they come across, because they downloaded a bot and maxed out their character and didn't get caught and banned.

 

Ok now forget all that for now.

 

I kinda liked Wow. At least I liked some things about that game. But those things have been warped and twisted into something that isn't as good as I thought it was going to turn out to be...

The first thing that caught my attention about Wow was the group system. I fell in love with it.

In runescape, there were no bosses, there was no roll over loot, it was just you need to be able to solo what you're killing and quickest to grab whatever drops, if anything.

But now, all of a sudden I actually had a damn good chance at getting something worthwhile out of combat, for the very first time. And it was actually interactive too. Definately nowhere near as fun as any console combat, which was the only other thing I had to compare it to at the time, but it was much better than runescape's.

But...

Then I hit 80, way too quickly and easily compared to runescape's grind, especially considering I hadn't been trying to level fast for most of it. But I hit 80 and discovered for the first time what endgame content meant. When I heard stories about raiding, I assumed it was this epic version of a dungeon that's incredibly more fun and challenging, and has incredibly more exciting chances of getting something way more rare and unique and cool and valuable and fun to use and show off.

What I actually found out was that all of a sudden the entire game transformed into a job, where your ultimate goals in life are to get new clothes, so that you will be able to get the other new clothes.

 

Well sorry for that wall-o-text, but to sum it all up, I'm looking for a game where gear is merly a means to aid leveling, and the POINT of the game is the quests, rather than the quests merly being a means to level, and the gear being the point of the game. A game where the endgame content is an ever expanding list of well written adventurous, truely epic quests that you have to be skilled and geared to complete, and new content that is added to the game comes in the form of new quests, not new dungeons. I'm still kinda playing runescape, slowly leveling up to the point where I will be able to do the next set of awesome quests that I want to do, but the graphics are so pathetically outdated now, and the straw that breaks my back is how horrible the community has become.

So if anyone knows of any game that has quests as epic as Runescape's, but at least has a good community or some decent graphics or isn't nearly as much of a grind to be able to do the end quests or at least makes the combat interactive so you actually want to do it (preferably all of those things, if possible) please, please, please, let me know. Also, if the crafting system is somewhat like the way Runescape's was, or even similar to the was it is now, that would be cool too, but not a gamebreaker by any means.

 

The most important thing is the quests.

I want an adventure!

smilingbob

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