Runescape Doesn't Need Nostalgia

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Today, we talk about the role that "Nostalgia" has played throughout Old School Runescape's existence - and discuss reasons behind this 20-year old MMO's true success.

Reacting To Asmongold's React

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#runescape #osrs #oldschoolrunescape

[aero_spaced]

Nostalgia might be the reason why most people start to play, but it for sure is not the reason we stick around.

[Gooorg]

Ah yes, another video to send my friends who don’t play RS.

[-dogs]

i cant lie, the only reason i came back to runescape was for a hit of nostalgia, but thats not why i stayed. i ended up falling in love with this games ability to put me in a flow state and just let me exist peacefully, the fact that every breakthrough feels so potent but also reveals more challenges behind it. And most importantly, the game always provides ways of playing which matches the level of energy i can afford to give it. if im too tired to go bossing, i can just chop trees and chat people, if im feeling froggy i can go solo a boss or get wrecked in PvP. the game is always willing to meet me where i am, and thats a mechanic which is VERY specific to runescape.

[AntVenom]

Man, I remember saying something in 2008 to Regicidal that I’ve never forgotten. That, at that time, we were in the golden age of Runescape content creation. That it wasn’t gonna get any better. And for well over a decade, I thought about how true that statement was. That 2008 was the golden age. That it did all go downhill from there. I’m so happy that statement is no longer true. Even though I don’t sink as much time into the game as I used to, the amount of content and excitement I’ve seen and felt with this game over just the past few years has really made me feel that we’re in a golden age right now. And I hope that golden age doesn’t end any time soon.

[fullparagon]

"Ask WoW players, they're right here." So damn true. And honestly, yeah, I think OSRS has the potential to outlive WoW for one simple reason: I can play this medieval clicking sim on my phone. That's just huge.

[低九級渦輪增壓]

The ad segment was genuinely funny enough to make me watch the entirety of it despite the fact its probably the 100th time I've seen a Hello Fresh advertisement.

[Vesskel]

"1 HP LOCKED, JAGEX YOU IN ON THIS?!?" *pan the camera to the Jagex logo shaking in a corner*

[bernardthequagsire]

hearing " you never quit you only take breaks" after just coming back after 2 years and continuing my ironman grind hit hard

[AlienFoodage]

Oh boy, I'm feeling warm inside. What a video, what a community, what a game.

[Some_Awe]

YOUR SMILE "they're right here"

is so so good. hahahahaha

[TheReiindeer]

I never played or even heard of RuneScape pre-eoc. I tried RuneScape 3 like 4 or 5 years ago because I was a kid looking for free games, tried it and got bored pretty quickly. Fast forward 2022, my friend convinced me to give oldschool a try and I did because I had nothing better to do. Here I am today with nearly base 70s, starting a new group hc with my friends just for the fun of it, and my passion for oldschool RuneScape isn’t dwindling one bit. I love this game because of how it is.

[BirnieMac]

I love how much of that montage is Jim calling out his mates, especially settled
Its beautiful especially following straight into the section about your love of the community and their creativity

Like By Release is such a unique series especially when factoring in the banger tracks you’ve written for some of them
And so many others are doing similarly creative things too

[GregBroDudeMan]

It’s funny that anyone could think nostalgia is powerful enough to make me put thousands of hours into this game while getting bored of every other game after 10 hours. It’s just a great game with a great community and there’s nothing else like it.

Great video Jimmy!

[somnixu]

I'm 14. I play old school runescape. I wasnt even alive in 2007. Its just a good game.

[TheGuyACE]

8:13 - 9:48 <3 Woaw, nostalgia and a whole lot of feelings behind the series and youtubers

[SuperKamehameha]

“You never quit you only take breaks” describes me perfectly. I played on and off since 2005. I was really bad at the game as a kid and when OSRS came out I was so hyped to get to relive it. Now I’ve surpassed where my old account was and I’m planning to come back to the game again soon

[MAGonYoutube]

As a WoW player who started a new OSRS ironman last month, why you gotta call me out like that?

[Fenrirs_Rose]

its really funny hearing ppl say that nostalgia is the only reason this game is successful when ive sunk hundreds of hours into it in the past few months after starting to play and i never once even heard about it as a kid, goated game fr

[xefjord]

I watched your previous video on no good MMOs for a while, and your reaction to Asmon's reaction. I see your love for Runescape and so I decided to give it another go.

Runescape was my first MMO ever, when I was in like the second grade of elementary school (I am 4 years out of college now), but I have always considered myself a "Social gamer" and that is why I ultimately ended up enjoying vanilla WoW and Final Fantasy 14 far more than Runescape for the longest time. Runescape felt weirdly anti-social to me, like there wasn't really group content or easy ways to support one another (Not that I could remember from my childhood anyway) beyond just some simple trading and asking for directions.

That said, the music has always been nostalgia inducing and I have been looking to introduce my girlfriend to the worlds that influenced me in my Childhood. She has been playing a ton of survival games, and that's when I had an epiphany. When I think of Runescape as a Social MMO, it always felt like it fell short of Vanilla WoW and FFXIV. But when I think of it like an MMO survival exploration game, it actually competes better than any survival game I could ever want to play.

I don't enjoy fighting that much, I enjoy doing professions and building a house in all my survival games, I also enjoy stories and exploration. Runescape has all that. Yeah leveling can feel like a monotonous grind, but survival games aren't any different. Except my progress actually means something in Runescape, as opposed to survival games where I just keep restarting my character because I get bored with the end game.

Getting back into the game I have realized that is much more social than I remember it being, it doesn't seem like much, but when you are loitering about fishing with not much else to do, you can actually have conversations with people, where in other games people just don't really talk at all anymore. Ultimately I agree with your conclusion that RS will likely outlive WoW and FFXIV, even though I loved both of those games, that style of MMO just hasn't aged well compared to Runescape. Thanks for all the great content!

[thinkublu]

I've watched this video so many times, it's just a really nice love letter to the OSRS community