The Evolution of Combat - A RuneScape Documentary

[@bobbynobank]

I want to thank everyone for watching and showing support. This was my biggest project ever, and honestly, I'm very happy that the 4 months of work, editing, researching, and scriptwriting didn't go to no avail. I've read every comment so far, and the overwhelming majority of these comments are positive. It's great to see a lot of people sharing their experiences during this time period, as well as sharing how they found the video moving. The support means the world to me. Thanks again!

[@johntree4378]

Awesome video, brother.

[@almostkinda]

Fantastic work

[@AloushMan]

Holy shit this was an awesome watch! Just subbed

[@Sicaughtik]

Every time I regret not becoming a youtuber, I see comments like this about the work that goes into a video and immediately change my mind.

[@rezarfar]

@@bobbynobank good work, love to see more.

[@francisbalfour1243]

It's an absolute miracle ash hasn't been fired for the numerous times he publicly stood against his employers for the communities good. What a God send we still have this angel

[@wesleylowe4256]

Ash is a buddy of Andrew’s and has been with the game and interacted with the player base for longer than most people have been with the game and is considered such a good developer that other companies look at his work as a standard. He knows his worth and I’m sure he and his bosses know when he does speak up it’s for the better of the game and community

[@Elit3Blaze]

GOD ASH

[@marisasob]

All hail god Ash, king of the goblins

[@JColdery]

Fck I love God Ash so much I want to have his children

[@fusrosandvich3738]

They know that A: He knows the game better than practically anyone else, and B: If he were fired, the community shitstorm that would follow would instantly kill runescape dead. In that light, him being kept around could also be seen as a sign of a smart employer, because many higher-ups nowadays don't want to hear criticism and will fire employees or threaten you otherwise for levying it against them. Even if the boss makes major mistakes and doesn't know what's good for the game, him not firing Ash makes him more competent than most by a country mile.

[@marisasob]

The fact that nearly no one at Jagex believed that OSRS would survive more than 6 months, while now 11 years later, we're literally in the top 3 most played MMO's, makes me happy and proud. Great video btw!

[@trainerkyohei5009]

We gotta aim for #1 😩

[@scrung]

we are? wait, how do you know?

[@MrPatrickbuit]

Though to be fair MMOs are a very dead genre these days

[@jeffyboi6969]

they have no idea what a good game is. idiots completely destroyed rs2.

[@marisasob]

@@scrung There's a video that came out recently with top 15 most played MMO's at the moment. TOP3: Final fantasy #1, World of Warcraft #2 and OSRS #3. I'll post name of the vid if i find it again

[@TheHeroBeats]

Honestly the EoC probably saved lives with how many people quit their Runescape addiction.

[@cool-lemon]

You say that like there isn't currently over 130k people on OSRS right now 😂

[@anthonykonosus406]

@@cool-lemon 80% = bots....

[@clinical_caliber]

@@cool-lemonyeah but a lot of that 130k are returning players. i’m sure a portion of the returning player base came back with a healthier mindset and balance

[@justjake2849]

Still mad about EoC to this day

[@stanb7126]

Same. Almost all my friends quit because of it, as did I.

[@micahhorton5252]

Imagine how far behind in life we would be

[@mail-qh2qc]

Jagex should delete RS3 and replace it with RuneScape 2008/2009 with wilderness, free trade, and gambling.

[@raphaelribeiro8212]

Im a new player and I actually like it

[@mail-qh2qc]

@@raphaelribeiro8212 you’ve been corrupted

[@GrandDab]

The RuneScape community doesn't deserve a man like Mod Ash. I lived through the removal of wilderness and free trade and stuck around for 8 years hoping the game would someday relive the glory it had in 2006. The man deserves to be up there with the Gower brothers when it comes to recognition for the success of the franchise.

[@bobbynobank]

He truly is one of a kind!

[@derekjeter9083]

I wish I could pinpoint when I stopped playing RS. I was in the top 100, level 126 somewhere between 2005 and 2007, and like the 90th person to 91 rune crafting. I don't even recognize OSRS, and that's okay. A part of me thought I'd regret not "making memories" in real life, but I think it shaped who I am. Without trying to be the top level in RuneScape, I wouldn't have strived to be a top level software engineer in real life as an adult. I do remember the end of the wilderness too. That was the beginning of the end of my interest in the game.

[@crw662]

Wait, OSRS does not have wilderness any more?

[@amogusenjoyer]

​@@crw662RS3 doesn't anymore. It's some stupid "ask if the person wants to pk" meme now. It's due in part to the man babies on Reddit crying about PvP (also happening a lot on OSRS), and the fact that PvP in EOC was complete trash

[@crw662]

@@amogusenjoyer I don’t typically go to wilderness because I’m not a big combat person, but I can’t imagine runscape without it.

[@amaterasiuuu]

as someone who started osrs last year, I'd like to thank my runescape forefathers for fighting for the old school client

[@ignisflames469]

no problem mate❤

[@TheRbsnoopy]

You're welcome little buddy enjoy the grind my days are over maybe

[@rebirth26]

RS player, started in 2007. Quit maybe 2010. Just got back in and I prefer OSRS over RS3. Glad we still got the old school servers

[@TBAYMenace]

@@rebirth26 obviously.

[@ryanneal4]

❤

[@rezarfar]

In 2013 Mod Ash hoisted the entire company on his shoulders and carried them to where we are today. That's why this game is alive today.

[@poro3246]

All this while they didn't want him to and didn't believe in him. Tbh it shouldn't have worked if it wasn't for the dedication of that small OSRS team that put way more hours in it than they should and lived the game instead of just working on it.

[@ikillyou121]

There's a reason a lot of the playerbase call him "God Ash"

[@Tehblood]

(god) Ash is an absolute legend. and not just for this. hes insanely active on twitter, absolutely devoted to runescape and making it as good as it can be. wonderful guy.

[@Sicaughtik]

That's God Ash to you. And to all of us.

[@KittyCatnap]

I remember these events still clearly. I was so mad 2012-2013 at Jagex, even quit for a private server. I immediately dropped the private server when I heard about the OSRS poll, the day I logged on "2007Scape" as it was called back then, is still to this day, one of my best gaming moments ever.

[@Kaiserfi]

Yup, looking at that shitty poll on their website for EOC

[@FloridaWinter]

JUST THE INTRO ANIMATION ALONE FOR THIS IS GOLD!!! please keep going my guy we need more creators like you!

[@bobbynobank]

Thanks! I'll try my best

[@wescooper4809]

In actual TEARS. What happened to RS was so saddening. OSRS happening was one of the best things to happen in gaming history. What a video, bless, my friend. Amazing.

[@bobbynobank]

Thanks so much! The lore behind OSRS is definitely amazing

[@pilapila1997]

First day of 07scape being online was maybe the best gaming moment ever

[@sidequest_adventures]

I remember standing in Lumbridge with a group of people protesting in the final moments because the game got turned off to switch to EOC. Very sad day

[@BarrackObamna]

I quit when 3 came out. Didn’t start again til I heard OSRS came out and that was years after it was released

[@Huntdab104]

Well that was easily the most impressive intro to a KZbin video essay I’ve ever seen and probably will ever see.

[@tvdvd8661]

Easily impressed lol

[@YodaSGamerTag]

@@tvdvd8661 Your trolling. That was an AMAZING intro!

[@kingocowata]

@@tvdvd8661Mad that more people are impressed by the intro than your shit gameplay vids?😂

[@thisisntsergio1352]

I'm really happy he used the RuneScape 3 theme. It's such a beautiful composition that gets slept on.

[@xCoffeeNWeedx]

lol i had skip that.

[@TemptationS_LIVE]

this absolutely saved Runescape.... as a whole.... I started playing on Miniclip WAY BACK WHEN and always find myself coming back to just check on my characters, and kinda go on a nostalgia trip about one of my favorite MMOs of all time

[@nitsua3479]

I lost my brother earlier this year and just a week ago I started osrs for the first time, we used to play from 05-08 and it’s helped me recover so many great memories from those years. I’m so grateful for videos like this that put that timeline in perspective.

[@SoupRS]

What an incredibly well made video - well done!

[@bobbynobank]

You have no idea how much this means coming from someone like you lol Thank so much!!!

[@landmine36]

Mod mark was one of the worst things to ever happen to RuneScape.

[@blendon8]

I remember playing runescape during that time I had a blast before. Then all of a sudden I log in and so much changed. It felt like a mid life crisis but back then I was 15 years old 😂 No idea why developers choose to destroy a good concept.

[@DaveKoehler1992]

exactly what I'm sayin 18:16 homies being asked by his primary source of income (fans) about something they want, and he makes that stupid face in response. Its like he forgets Jagex makes its money from fans of runescape

[@hyvenia6157]

I really hated how everything Mark said and wanted basically boiled down to making the game excessively more "epic" or "awesome", failing to realise that the simplicity was what kept people engaged. Not just the combat too, the fact that you could just meet the Gods of the game face to face just completely shattered all mystery for me.

[@cool-lemon]

@@hyvenia6157 He wanted RuneScape to be more like World of Warcraft. Failing to realise that the reason why RuneScape was successful around that period was due to the simplicity of it all. Take a look at RS3 now. People were happy that last month had an average of 20k+ players online for the first time since Necromancy released. It's a sad state of a game, spearheaded by people who have long forgotten the reason why RuneScape was so popular. Now look at OSRS. 130k+ online right now. Yeah, people can say there are a lot of bots. But just look at how well it performs online on KZbin and Twitch. It's a massively popular game, because it's simple. Sweaty methods are there, but it's less than 1% of the playerbase actually participating in said methods. Nobody, and I really mean nobody (well, aside from Mod Mark and his goons) wanted RuneScape to become World of Warcraft lite. We're 10+ years on from OSRS releasing, and just look at how well that turned out for the game. OSRS is getting REAL content updates on the regular. Whereas RS3 contents are whatever the latest TH event is and a new boss every 5 months. Love to see somebody as clueless as Mod Mark be proven massively wrong.

[@JohnDelmas]

I just don't understand how they went through with the update given how much opposition there was.

[@PhilTruthborne]

As someone who played runescape since shortly after RS2 was released it really brings a tear to my eye to be reminded of everything we have gone through and how far we have come today... It really shows that in the right hands the passion we have gor the things we have can live on forever.

[@poro3246]

OSRS is actually older than RS2 was. It's proof that RS3 never needed to happen. I cried at some of the clips on the outro. OSRS is more nostalgic than RS2 at this point. The community is amazing, lead by the dedicated OSRS Jagex team that put their heart into this game.

[@aeiouaeiou100]

Wow, the time between RS2 and RS3 release dates is a little over 9 years while the time between OSRS release date and today is well over 11 years. That's mindblowing.

[@user-ck9tb4fv2x]

Rs3 Needed to happen. Theres a good population of the player base that would've never played Runescape without the EOC update. This is just opening the player base up to Runescape in general. Some from Rs3 will try, maybe convert, maybe not, or maybe both. I think I would be a statistical proof that Rs3 did need to happened because without it I Wouldn't have jumped in and fell in love with Runescape as a whole. I'm sure I am not the only one here.

[@eatmorvegetal3444]

@@user-ck9tb4fv2xI started with RS3. I tried out OSRS but didn’t really like it.

[@kingocowata]

Tell me you’re a 20something that got into OSRS because of B0aty without telling me 😂 You have NO idea what you’re talking about. RS2 will always be the goat over OSRS

[@l4rryh00verftw]

@@kingocowata ya know i used to think the same about RS2. But honestly.. I think oldschool at this point is way better. I do everything I used too + 10x more lol.

[@BlaBla-jl6ji]

I still remember after eoc when they made every weapon basicaly 4 tic without adjusting any stats. Very smart team who thought that was a great idea.

[@jaymay7957]

lol eoc was so broken, felt like the npc weren’t balanced properly for it. I just remember wrecking stuff

[@hulkhogan2113]

They spent like 3 years straight just killing the game, first they made the armors looks terrible, rune bandos barrows armors now looks terrible. They changed the weapons made the whip look like trash. They got rid of trading and wilderness, then they make all the og armors and weapons useless by releasing chaotics and other op armor and weapons that literally made the old endgame items garbage. Archers rings were like 25k when I looked at my bank last.

[@hulkhogan2113]

Also changed the look of how you do combat, changed the hit splats to where you now hit 100 instead of 10.

[@hulkhogan2113]

Overloads and soul split/turmoilalso ruined pvp and made pvm way too easy.

[@BlaBla-jl6ji]

@@hulkhogan2113 i feel like some of the mods back then just had no respect for the existing content and threw it in the trash.

[@Vetionarian]

Bro that intro segment animation was absolutely freaking beautiful. I really hope you blow up because seriously your quality is top notch.

[@4VaultBoy]

The 70% community vote needed for updates, is one of the greatest things gamers have ever been given. Its amazing

[@albanybestdrumline]

Somewhat because they will often put something players don’t want back in the polls with something that players want.

[@l0lan00b3]

@@albanybestdrumlineplenty of decent little updates that failed by 1-2% no reason not too, possibly redefine, repoll them.

[@jeffyboi6969]

to this day the most important thing I've voted for :')

[@Swanzu]

@@l0lan00b3 If I remember correctly, when they first started polls, being able to move the camera with middle mouse button originally failed lmao.

[@OGXenos]

Its really great how many decent updates have never passed because of merchers and elitists.

[@woef]

insane production big shoutout, amazing video beginning of osrs was so magical, glad i was a part of that

[@TheAxeFace]

Bro that intro was unbelievable. Bravo my guy.. bravo!

[@AnthonyJames7]

So many of us logged into Falador on that fateful day and never logged back in....until ONE DAY in 2013 :)

[@urwifesbf]

Was until 2018 for me lol. I quit after trying the beta and figuring out they aren't going back on this. So I had no clue they ever made osrs until I saw a random ad for it.

[@somainswakadoad5684]

I was one of those, I logged in, moved the camera around, saw the icons, logged out and never came back. They really did drop the ball there. Never trust a jagex employee named mark again. lol

[@TheIronicRaven]

Very happy to see you point how Jagex changed their own rules during Squeal of Fortune. Its a small detail that is often overlooked when people talk about this, but its so important to showing how Jagex worked at that time. For me, this was the big update that made me feel Runescape was dead. Adding in microtransactions and changing their rules quietly, made it feel like could change whatever they wanted and they weren't going to be open about it to the players. It created this feeling of separation that Jagex typically didn't have. At least not for monetary things which could affect the game so drastically.

[@TacetTheTerror]

Really miss some of the content that didn't make it because of the 2007 cut. Things like Stealing Creations was one of the best minigames they ever made, Fist of Guthix that came to shape an entire new F2P meta both for gear and skilling, and the few balanced aspects of Summoning was a nice spin on the common MMO follower system. I remember when I first tried OSRS in 2017 going to where Fist of Guthix was in the wilderness to go train up magic, only to find that it and some of the better content from 2008-2011 didn't make it into the game.

[@importantie]

I hope they add them eventually, loved it so much. Dungeoneering too, they’ve tried to introduce similar mechanics but it’s all end-game..

[@albanybestdrumline]

I personally liked the polypore concept of a built in spell item and I’m glad they came out with the trident as something similar in osrs. I also wish they had flasks in osrs

[@PaulRudd1941]

I miss playing FOG so much! I'd run around as a 50 attack pure with 99 range and magic and just punish main accounts with switches. 😂 Ah, the good old days. When I had no money and my parents beat me. At least I had Runescape.

[@puff7145]

As much as I loved them back in the day, FOG and SC were only fun because we were clueless noobs. If they released today they'd be minmaxed to hell and be dead within a week just like every other PVP minigame

[@Tylohhh]

@@importantiethey’re about to add sailing and i feel like it’s gonna be horrible

[@TuuukkaTime]

Shoutout Oxie from the XP Waste Pod for this. No idea a video like this existed. Very very great video and the memories of watching what happened back then honestly is sad. But the OSRS community has uplifted all the bad memories of everyone’s childhood games being destroyed by still being a great game since the release in 2013. Happy Scaping!

[@bobbynobank]

Thanks so much! I ended up listening to their episode due to this message Glad you enjoyed my video as well!

[@KeytarArgonian]

It might seem nuts now, and it doesn’t get a mention here, but at the time the addition of the G.E was actually really controversial. It killed off most in world trading, absolutely nuked the industries that were operating on the Forums for Trade. There was literally a trading floor going off in the forums, you’d have to bump your thread every 5/10 mins that’s how busy it was. Buying BS at 100gp ea spinning like 10k of em, PAYING PEOPLE to do so in gp and then selling them for 150-170 ea depending on when the US servers woke up. Sometimes you’d have someone desparate for a sale who would offer 180gp each and you bit that guys arm off, you dropped what you were doing and sold all you had regardless of where you are in your processing.

[@alanburns9466]

Ngl pre GE was kinda trash for anyone who tried to couple having a life while playing. I login to runescape to play, not be a stock trader lol. Still one of the best updates ever imo

[@Benjo_]

It's clear how much love, effort and attention has gone into this video and the result is wonderful. I had to go back and watch that intro again just to appreciate all the themes you managed to convey visually. You did such a good job in building up the feelings of hope towards the end of the video as well, and then eventually celebration as OSRS returned. I almost felt as though I had gone back in time and was experiencing it all again. Beautiful.

[@bobbynobank]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it a lot. 😊

[@dizzytoad]

we are so freaking lucky to be able to still play our favorite childhood mmo game as popular and as content rich as never before

[@GizzyGazza]

Randomly had this video pop up in my homepage and its so well done and well documented, and I got a very cheeky cameo! I quit in 2012 because of the microtransactions and the combat update, and while I'm not much on KZbin these days, I'm still an avid OSRS player and almost maxed (which I never did in RS3). Great vid!

[@cmart9240]

This video was amazing. I started playing during the RSC era and am still playing to this day on OSRS. I was one of the thousands of players who quit because of EOC, didn't even know OSRS was brought back until 2017 when a childhood friend of mine told me about it, and have been playing it again every since. It's crazy to see the game go from an internet browser, to playing it on my phone during down time at work. We all owe it to Mod Ash and the 2 other mods who were brave enough to speak their opinions and get the ball rolling for the roll back.

[@korbythebullsfan]

Criminally underrated channel. You really went above and beyond finding all those old videos and other RS youtubers I follow don't have nearly half as much of that. You deserve far more attention and subscribers just for this video alone. Keep up the great work!!

[@TheLittleInternet]

Amazing video! The compilation of old YT videos about the polls was my favorite part but the intro and outro also gave me chills. Crazy how much work you put into making this! Gz on 100k views, well deserved.

[@bobbynobank]

Thank you very much!

[@JPazer]

Love the intro, especially the music. Sounds like James bond, The Incredibles and Tintin all at once. Fills you with a sense of wonder and mystery.

[@ontopofbottom]

Can tell a lot of work went into this. The editing was superb. I mean even the intro felt like a legit movie intro. Very well done!

[@ChiefMasterGuru]

Probably the first time youtube rec'd a lower sub/view channel video without it being complete garbage devoid of any production value. Amazing video, will be checking in for more

[@user-ck9tb4fv2x]

No Content = Trash opinion on video making. Make some videos bro then get back with this one when your quality meets or exceeds this one.

[@ChiefMasterGuru]

@@user-ck9tb4fv2x What are you yapping on about, I'm saying the video is good

[@aeiouaeiou100]

The first time. Okay. Have you been on yt for 5 days?

[@fusrosandvich3738]

Iunno, youtube recommends random low-view count videos (im talking single digits sometimes here) all the time. I think you just need to actually click on those videos more often for it to realize you're open to watching unpopular stuff that's not taken off or anything yet.

[@CWCvilleCop]

No offense, boyo, but it sounds like you need to watch some better vids. The rec feature sure ain't perfect, but it jives off what you've been watching. Or at least tries to.

[@heyitzphil]

Honnestly, the way this community gathered to bring back a game is so heart warming. Go nerds

[@joshjustison3421]

That intro went hard. Edit. The production value throughout goes hard

[@TheVoidpure123]

Spotted this video in my recommendations box, watched the whole thing in one sitting, insanely well made documentary!

[@jjopilis6634]

That intro is so cool dude, so much work put into this video

[@panterathx]

I quit the game in 2011 and thought I'd never look back. When the OSRS poll came out i called all of my old Runescape clan together and got them all to vote in the poll, even when almost all of them stopped playing like myself. The outcome was incredible and its insane to see OSRS still live and kicking to this day.

[@KnightofBretonnia]

only 4600 views? we gotta pump those views up, this is an excellent video.

[@7ehNP]

24k+

[@cailax11]

They will remove all MTX from RS3 (allegedly) and RS3 will now completely overpower ols school as the best runescape version to play.

[@bobbynobank]

Thank you for your support!

[@killler240]

​@@cailax11it's not being removed. They are rethinking it, but that doesn't mean removed

[@bronsonvlahov850]

Every detail in the intro sequence was on point, absolutely loved the amount of effort put into that

[@asher_chs]

912 subs, production quality on hollywood.

[@chriscrowe11]

Completely new to this channel and absolutely blown away by the quality of this doc!! I haven't touched the game in years, but this was such a trip down memory lane. I remember talking about the changes to the game with my friends at school and protesting in the GE, it was really something i cared deeply about at the time. Runescape truly has a special team of players and developers behind it and that is showcased really well by the care put into this video. cheers

[@defnotteek]

I just started playing OSRS again after 12 years. Feelsgoodman

[@crazynoob3]

Probably the best dive into the history surrounding RS2 and EOC I've seen. Also one of the few videos in recent years I've seen that mentions So Wreck3d - who unfortunately seems to have been forgotten about despite the big part he played in getting us Old School servers. Good job with this video.

[@catqueen1946]

The production value on this video is 100x better than 99% of the other videos on this platform

[@itsgrazzin5871]

Insta subscribed

[@Boscorice]

This was perfectly put together. 10/10. ahhh the golden days

[@Derpiano]

A member of my clan linked this video - I wanted to comment to let you know I enjoyed the entire video and you did an excellent job! I look forward to seeing more

[@somainswakadoad5684]

The vote compilation of creators reaching out for osrs votes... brings tears to my eyes, how people can just come together like that. Amazing stuff.

[@osrsMonk]

Wow the introduction editing is really impressive! Great work and attention to detail :)

[@bobbynobank]

Thank you!!!

[@peterrestine8237]

This was so well produced. Very moving. I played through EOC and play Old School now because I could never get my hands on membership back in the day. Great video!!

[@Matu007]

I paid some $$ to the 2006scape owner to get in to the beta testing, 11/10 experience, shit was so good. Don't really feel like I got scammed because he put so much time and effort in to creating it, he deserved some money for his effort before Jigflex axed his project.

[@scrung]

@@Matu007 i did as well but it was really janky, i remember being disappointed cause i set my expectations too high 😂

[@jacoba4246]

Facts. 06scape was SO fun!

[@daret9056]

This video deserves even more views. That intro sequence alone looks like it took ages to make! Props to you man!

[@bobbynobank]

Thank you very much!

[@clownymoosebean]

That intro reminds me of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Bobby Python.

[@detectivebloor4011]

Me to myself 5 seconds into the intro animation: “Someone grew up on Monty Python” Great work

[@tonywabba5731]

Fantastic video! I love our osrs community. The clips at the end really highlight how great this community is.

[@brosettastone7520]

I remember checking the vote meter for osrs every day….watching this hit with hard nostalgia for 2013, and I’ve even played since 2004. It was like RS2 beta release all over again but this time we had social media to share this experience with!

[@trap-wolf]

What the FUCK is the editing on this video. This channel better pop off

[@rgzrgz]

RIGHT

[@bobbynobank]

Maybe one day!

[@BobbiPhantom]

​@@bobbynobankkeep it up like this and it will!

[@andrew4life362]

1,000 subs? Dude, you are insanely talented at making these videos that is CRIMINALY underrating you

[@bohtezlohtez9474]

This is TV documentary level content and editing. Excellent job! I predict 1M views in 1 month.

[@bobbynobank]

Now that would be something! Thank you for the kind words

[@TooBlaziN]

This was a really well put together video and an absolute blast from the past. I remember all of it, and I was among the group that left when Eoc hit and came right back day 1 of oldschool. I still leave the game for extended periods of time but I always come back. Runescape has been as nostalgic as halo for me if not more. Hearing some of the older world soundtracks sometimes is enough to draw me back in. Truly a masterpiece of a game.

[@Dylan-sp9zy]

Honestly such a solid video all around. Neck snapper at the end was a nice bonus

[@kotzka4626]

The peoduction quality is amazing. I loved the intro animation, I've never really seen anyone use that style in a KZbin video.

[@cailax11]

Mod Mark single hand DESTROYED runescape and he is still working for them today. Please I beg you f****** fire the guy. CMMON. Jagex was just bought! and they are now hopefully taking down all microtransactions in RS3, this is AMAZING. Runescape is releasing content and is back alive. We have to fire all people related to RS2.

[@ThatGuyHelm]

I've played RuneScape for 19 years. I'm still on RS3, but I voted for 07, I constantly watch 07 content and just started a GIM on 07. I'll never stop singing the praises of OSRS, it is a game ran the correct way. I wish us in RS3 got the same treatment.

[@ClayHalo]

Love the video! Really good idea since it seems like the story of Runescape has a perfect three-act structure ending in redemption - hope you carry on with these kinds of videos! 😃

[@Schiudkrot]

i love the editing. the cuts and music at major events gave me goosebumps. im too young to have experienced the 2007scape revival but this video gave me ideas how it looked like :)

[@WBApray]

Ain’t nothin better than chilling & playing osrs. Kinda transcends nostalgia for me at this point, just sends the greatest dopamine to the brain. shoutout W420 🐐

[@Cornhusker1994]

Nostalgia is a small part of osrs anymore. It's literally one of the greatest games ever made.

[@xavierkoehler5389]

Im only two minutes in but the editing is movie quality holy shit u deserve way more subs

[@duncanmacleod6274]

I remember having a slightly different issue with EoC (I played the Beta extensively). While the combat system changes themselves were fine and I was open to them, the one thing I really didn't like what the total overhaul of gear and level requirements that they did at the same time. Runescape had (and OSRS has) a fairly unique system of combat stat customization and gearing that allowed for a lot of mix-maxing and custom-fit stat builds to unique gear and abilities. It's the only MMO I can think of where being a really strong level 50 in a game with a level cap of 130 was fun, rewarding, useful, and impressive. It's a game where gear progression is a sloppy mess of many things with many different requirements and specific advantages instead of a progression path or a curve from worse to better. Well, EoC homogenized a lot of things about it, and killed a lot of unique builds. Some of these changes I even thought made sense. Scaling up the basic metal armors and adjusting crafting requirements to be more valuable and useful relative to how difficult they actually are to make, made sense. (smithing level 99 to make a level 40 chestplate is insane, and no one in their right mind would ever smith these items for cash) What didn't make sense was changing the uniquely low defense requirements of ranger (archer) armor that a bunch of people spent many hours gearing their characters around, or any of the other niche gear requirement shenanigans they engaged in. At least when Rune got bumped up from 40 to 50 defence, people with 40 just wore the newly increased Adamant that had the same requirements and function. Rangers who left defense at 1 or capped it at 40 to use partial or full sets of dragonhide were just screwed over on their builds literally overnight.

[@itsme12305]

Smithing a runeplatebody at 99 wasn't insane if you go back to the origin of runescape. Back in classic you couldn't buy armour in shops so if you wanted anything better than full iron you had to go to a smith and have him make it for you. I think I remember bluerose being the person with the highest smithing level and at the time she had the reqs to make adamant square shields which back then was the absolute BIS shield ingame and literally everyone wanted to buy it. I believe people were offering mills for it back then it was quite insane. This was also during the time when rune armour didn't exist yet, so adamant was the absolute bis endgame gear. Anyhow thats the reason why nowadays low level armours have such high smith reqs today. Its due to the fact that back in the day they used to be BIS and there was only one smith who could make them it took a few more months until others caught up.

[@nexpersonal5066]

​@@itsme12305it wasn't insane in classic, but by the time of near combat overhaul it was insane, and even to this day osrs needs an osrs-fied Mining and Smithing rework

[@HaloXIIII]

I had honestly forgotten how bad it got leading up to EOC. It was genuinely mental. This video is so well done though the end with settled on swampletics gave me chills. Really makes you appreciate what we've got now with OSRS !

[@Whoopgnash1]

this video is like a time machine, fucking incredible

[@Skrychi]

Brilliant video. Proud to have been part of history. Thanks for the nostalgia!

[@KFC_Manager]

Markdonalds is the biggest bundle of sticks ever for doing the game dirty like that

[@Dannzio]

Bro, the quality of this video is outstanding. You should definitely do more video essays, so well done.

[@MichaelChiklisCares]

I liked EOC , i ALSO liked the old style , the thing is microtransactions ruined the highscores, that sucks the most for the game.

[@denmarkmafia1725]

Amazing effort put into this video such a good watch! Thank you so much i was there through the whole thing and experienced it as we all did So this took me back! Thanks

[@Jed_Rowahnn]

I fell into a really awkward position when the EOC scism came about. My "golden age" of playing Runescape was 2010, before EOC, but after a lot of other players' nostalgic vision of the game. I remember grinding Fist of Guthix for the spiky berserker shields. I remember really liking the new HD models and animations, while others didn't. I remember loving the new Dungeoneering skill, while a lot of others disliked it. When EOC did come out, I wasn't too happy with it. I felt it was too much of a change. But when 2007scape came back, I didn't like that either because it was before my time. I was stuck between two games I loved and forced to pick a side. I still play RS3 now. I love the world and story, I love the combat system, I love the new content and skills. But I absolutely hate the prevelance of microtransactions souring it all.

[@hulkhogan2113]

Newgen

[@memenazi7078]

You chose the dark side, return to the light!

[@mintcake6895]

been playing since 05. 2010 was also my favourite era of rs. absolutely hated eoc and quit until the return of osrs. dont feel bad for choosing rs3. ignore the weirdos who love stirring the pot between both communities. what matters most is that you have fun 😁

[@hulkhogan2113]

@@mintcake6895 we have no respect for rs3 players, go play wow brother.

[@mintcake6895]

@@hulkhogan2113 id definitely rather play wow than rs3 😅

[@jordancolby407]

I was only 13 when this re vote came around and I think I heard glimpses of the game. I wish I had the chance to experience all these memories everyone has. But I got to experience and create memories starting this last year. I think I have about 4-5 months played and over this time has been amazing. Im currently running two accounts 1 on leagues. I am having a blast and I hope this game never dies.

[@bcd95]

amazing vid, hows the UIM coming along????!!!!

[@bobbynobank]

[@theglitchinreality]

The quality of this production and storytelling is phenomenal - I tip my hat to you sire!

[@soupra777]

The intro was incredible 👏

[@Matt-om1yu]

No ones going to comment on how insane the quality of the intro is?? Fantastic work brother

[@selstad84]

In all fairness, I don't understand the hate of RS3, and I play both OSRS and RS3, as well has having played Runescape since 2000 when it was a Java client with 2D cutouts walking around. The only beef I have with RS3 is the MTX, though playing Ironman I don't notice any difference between OSRS and RS3 in terms of the core mechanics that I like about Runescape, being the grinding out of skills. Main reason for Ironman is that shait called the Grand Exchange, honestly, a lot of videos I see of OSRS is mainly someone buying the top gear and everything they need and stand in the G.E doing their skill levelling. This is why Ironman is preferable in both RS3 and OSRS. Sure you can blame EOC being "dull" but honestly, most of the times in OSRS the combat consist of standing in 1 spot with your prayer, it's not exactly the most engaging system out there. All in all, both versions work for me at least. I play what ever I feel like playing there and then and don't see one being neither superior nor inferior to the other

[@nexpersonal5066]

It's a mix of bitterness and parroting, specially since a lot of people tried the 1.0 version of EoC that was REALLY shit, but never tried the modern one. You can see with a lot of OSRS content creators that try Rs3, almost all of them enjoy the game, but later quit because of the one true problem with Rs3, lack of a decent flow of good new content

[@davidlara7781]

Great watch! Brought tears of nostalgia to my eyes!

[@bobbobinator192]

great video! good job man

[@ruggedthread]

The intro, the narration, the clips/editing...holy shit! The effort shows man. Top tier game, top tier video, top tier rollback. O7

[@JamesBideaux]

As someone who only recently got into osrs, thanks for summarizing these events, runescape is an amazing game with an amazing history.

[@bobbynobank]

So glad to see that you've recently joined the community! I am also happy you found this video to be of some help in learning about its history

[@Pizza4Lunch]

I'm one of the many who quit when EOC came out. Runescape is special and unique the way it is. Changing it to mold it into just another ordinary MMO ruins it. So glad Old School became a thing and is thriving to this day. I truly believe if it wasn't for Old School, Runescape would just be a nostalgic memory of a forgotten game right now.

[@skafabafa]

I still have a runescape account i haven’t touched in 20 years, yet, here i am watching this vid

[@DasMartins]

Log in for the sake of old times

[@derekfuqua1254]

*Loading your greatest adventure.

[@F5BlueWingz]

You got my subscription based off the intro alone, that’s fantastic editing and creativity

[@theboss12319]

this is an amazing video, this will be big for you!

[@LyohKoh]

I was in the wave of players that quit over the Squeal of Fortune debacle. I never came back, not even for OSRS. However I still find enjoyment watching others RS adventures (chunk locks, ect) . What an amazingly well researched video! I enjoyed this thoroughly!

[@LegitHeroGaming]

Odablock at the end 💀

[@mobius3466]

I just want to point out how good this editing and intro was.