Why Old School RuneScape Will Never Die

[@TastyLifeRS]

Go to expressvpn.com/tastylife and find out how you can get 3 months free.

[@Cleanbunny54413]

Can’t wait to keep playing in the retirement homes with y’all. Might have a max cape by then

[@Mattiasje]

Hahah right there with you. Just got 99 farming boss

[@RealTestikills]

I'll be there boys

[@usiel3104]

By that point 3b will be child’s play for us

[@JohnFromAccounting]

@@Mattiasje Getting 99 farming next week. Feeling good.

[@the_vampyre_cs]

"Might" XD

[@professorakali]

OSRS will never die because the disgustingly talented creators giving Jagex infinite free marketing with high quality videos - exact opposite of games like LoL where legit everyone including myself just spam dog content for ad revenue

[@TastyLifeRS]

@@professorakali based

[@markgoodwin9948]

Based and humble comment indeed 💯

[@krakenroadkill2988]

Bro you are so hated in the league community and known scammer, get a life lmfao.

[@undercoverspy123]

all the good content creators for league grew up and moved on since like s4

[@wyattplayzgames2918]

prof has dropped league to full time play osrs. I approve! Half-Joking aside, I really love your Akali vids and the fun you create. Maybe make a rank grind soon, or some other fun content that you find fun.

[@lolmeatu]

Osrs is the game for the Adults who have to do Adult tasks. You can AFK and feel like you are still progressing. You can tailor your play session to how busy you are. Know you need to step away from the PC every 5min becuase you are looking after your children? Lets do some bank standing skills. At home working so you are afk for very long periods of time? NMZ afk or do a herb run. Finally have time to do some pve? You can do a raid for 40min, or fight a boss that only takes 2min. You can tailor your Pve to how much time you can actually commit to your computer. It really is the perfect Adult game.

[@pearlposs5843]

OSRS a hardcore adult game

[@Pfuetz4]

Not to mention the phone app is actually functional and fits perfectly with RS gameplay style. I can log in and grind for literally 5 minutes with no delay wherever I am.

[@igotapk]

It depends because with the phone…You can’t afk as long as you can on the pc. Also if you’re afk with your phone in your pocket, at work because you don’t want to be seen on your phone, you can ghost swipe…So Afking on the phone is convenient as much as being on pc.

[@VeryDope101]

Or Phone* when your on the go.

[@quasarkid]

as a former WoW player, the lack of weekly reset was one of the most refreshing things. I don't HAVE to get on at specific times with 24 other people to kill every boss once a week. Feeling like if you take a break you're that much time behind everyone else was a nightmare. You can still spend the same amount of time playing osrs as you do in WoW but it is much more respectful of your time, in my humble opinion. Even knowing the insane grinds that exist.

[@matthewaustin247]

I agree, I had the same reaction. Even if the grinds are longer, your progress is never reset. You are always getting stronger. You can decide what you want to work on in almost any order you feel like. It's hard to explain to players who don't play osrs who just know about the long grinds and think its the opposite.

[@quasarkid]

@@matthewaustin247 self determination is the biggest strong suit. and the fact that any amount of time spent is still progress being made

[@Adamantium93]

This is one of the most counter-intuitive but true things about OSRS. It respects your time. I can log on right now, play for 15 minutes, and have made progress on my account. It might be small and incremental, but it's progress. If I want to go and do a quest, that progresses my account. If I get sidetracked and fish for half an hour or start a slayer task, that also progresses my account. There's no pressure to level and clear content quickly. You progress at your pace and the content that is there today will still be there and be relevant tomorrow, or next week, next month, next year.

[@DreadLordBerri]

Runescape is actually just the " one small favour " quest as a whole. And we all love it

[@jordanhardwick9046]

You arent wrong i am dying because its true LMAO

[@im_Smitty]

OSRS being a crossover between WoW, Counter-Strike and Guitar Hero is the most accurate description I have ever heard in my life

[@toastwiz]

I've always made that comparison and people think I'm crazy. Guitar Hero and Counter Strike are 2 of my all time favourite games, so it's no wonder I love OSRS PVM so much. Outsiders just don't get it unfortunately. I have plenty of friends who love all of those games, but they won't give OSRS the time of day

[@Tyler-qh7bf]

Guitar hero? R u serious lol

[@NerevarineKing]

@@Tyler-qh7bf The highest-level content in OSRunescape requires a lot of precise clicking.

[@CaelenSawyers]

20:12 On my first main account I ended up with 99rc as my 2nd 99 because I got a DKs task... 1. Got DKs task 2. Wanted noted bones 3. Noted bones require elite Fremmy diary 4. Was missing rc levels for the level 82 req for the diary And then... 5. Enjoyed the low apm blood rc 6. Leagues 1 came out and played it on a different account which led to me needing a low effort thing to train Concluding in... 7. An entire leagues worth of time spent doing blood rc and 99rc because I wanted noted DK bones

[@matthewnieto6935]

This is literally me right now, like exactly me lol

[@KillBill6040]

to this date, eoc is one of my worst memories in life. comparable with my first break up

[@acow1385]

Bro had to break up with his RuneScape gf too…

[@Keirmarchant]

😂

[@NukeTheLeuk]

And summoning 😂

[@lambosnicko]

Get over it. Rs3 has its problems but it’s a fun game if you don’t look at it from the same pov as osrs. If they cut the predatory mtx and doubled down on content then it would improve.

[@074FaTiiH]

True

[@swagikuro]

For me, it's the fact that OSRS is simultaneously the most simple MMO in the market and one of the deepest. The core gameplay of OSRS is so simple a toddler could probably grasp the basics, but the amount of content and love poured into the game in the last 20+ years, and the amount of player-made content in the form of guides, youtube videos, player lore, and analysis' of the game's mechanics - to the point where it's understood mathematically - have made the game one of the deepest MMO's in the market. One can hop on OSRS and have a simple stress free experience, but also be able to look forward to tons and tons of rich content. Can't really say that for any other MMO. They usually fall into being too complicated and convoluted or being shameless shallow rip-offs.

[@feldamar2]

I specifically invited my sister to play it because of it's simple to use interface. She has bad hand eye coordination and is never going to do a platformer game or drive a car. But she CAN click on a tree or goblin and go grinding! She can totally do slayer right next to me! She recently got level 60 slayer!

[@XtremeSol]

Low skill barrier of entry, with potentially very high level of skill expression.

[@D-MdAhnafBinHasan]

😊😊

[@brikaro1]

I've met a lot of younger players in their early 20s who didn't play as kids but picked up the game because they heard about it and love it. I think there's a lot less of a stigma for "bad graphics" now than there was when we were kids and they're more open to stylized games like this.

[@ernestsgailits7428]

Early 20s play prbly because of older siblings 😂

[@yungleray2991]

@@ernestsgailits7428 exactly hahaha me

[@SirCornFlakez]

This is me. I picked it up late high school because my friends who played as kids wanted some nostalgia and looped me in.

[@cheddyh4032]

@@ernestsgailits7428 I don't I play because of Gnomonkey

[@breezeMathband]

lol im litterally 20 and started playing a year ago. love it!

[@BrokkYT]

In the grand scheme of the gaming studios as a whole, us OSRS players are lucky to have the devs we have

[@picnadoxd6011]

Ahh the memories of signing up at the library to get my 30 minutes of computer time to play RuneScape classic with my friends after school

[@jb__iii]

Go bolts !!!

[@narcissisticidiot1727]

Hell yeah same shenanigans in Laredo texas baby

[@AColdOneYT]

Flawless execution of ad integration. Don't forget to add a pinned comment

[@TastyLifeRS]

@@AColdOneYT they can’t make me

[@AColdOneYT]

@@TastyLifeRS Hello this is Bob from DogVPN, unfortunately your neglect to add a pinned comment within the first 30 minutes of videos public launch has caused your contract with us to be null and void. In all seriousness i forgot who the sponsor was but you guys should buy or download it cause Tasty decided to let them have a space in his video.

[@Raisin_Fighter]

It's still hard to believe osrs only came out 3 months after EOC, it felt way longer than that.

[@imjustcarzon]

Wait WHATTTT. I’ve been playing since 08 and that honestly surprised me

[@AllHailNumo]

Felt like a couple years lol

[@XionicAihara]

When your game can hold players and ring true to the statement "you never quit, you only take extended breaks" you know you have a great game. Especially if you can break for multi year hiatus, and come back and just pick it right back up.

[@rightinthedome9973]

I stopped playing 5 years ago, I logged out on the karajama docks fishing swordies. I logged in yesterday randomly and immediately resumed fishing lol

[@theonlygumibear9242]

Runescape 2 (04’) - Rs3 (13’) OSRS (13’ - 24’) Old School Runescape has now been around longer than Runescape 2 ever was

[@MrMaazMuhammad]

Old School Runescape and Super Smash Bros Melee are the 2 classic old school games that will never die

[@gavinrichardson3123]

Forgot to mention when someone else recreated old school RuneScape and the only reason jagex took action is because they saw the massive amount of players leave them and go to this new version of old school, so they sued the guy and THEN made an attempt to ask players if they wanted osrs. Only after they saw the success the other guy had

[@mattsterman100]

As a fellow bald man. I can see the pixels along the top of your head. It made me chuckle. Great points made.

[@zachartzler]

Cookie clicker but there are 23 cookies all over the place, and each cookie is a different size and you can’t get the bigger ones unless you have bigger xp

[@MYFATGAM3R]

If you want a more indepth video about the design philosophy of osrs and don't mind a 3 hour long video. Marsteads video on why runescape is awesome is a great watch

[@solthas]

It's a big part of what got me playing! Great video.

[@emma_tm]

oh damn dude you're going in hard on this one. Genuinely a very good vid, would love to see more (of whatever it is that makes you this passionate, doesnt have to be rs specifically)

[@Decibillion]

i love osrs... been playing for 20 years on and off almost now... insane

[@thomasbritt5265]

Here's an idea, I've had it for this game for so long. remember when you were grinding to get that graceful armor for light weight running gear? then they decided to give cosmetic changes to the outfit and a player choice color for each set of graceful. Instead of it being cosmetic only, my idea was since there is skilling outfits in the game like lumber jack outfit, prospector outfit, runecrafting, outfit, smithing outfit you name it. most for each skill. the idea was to turn each of those cosmetic colors into a skilling outfit. fusing graceful into say your prospectors outfit. or lumber outfit. allowing you to wear the graceful but gives you the xp bonuses for woodcutting trees or smithing your bars faster with the smithing outfit. btw the designs of the skilling outfits. they are top notch in design for the most part. now they added a way to turn run always on even if you hit 0 you still get 1 run back and you automatically run every time it regenerates. Anyways the original design was piscalarious, shizan, arceaus, lovakaijn, and hosidius. yes i butchered the names. but each color could act as the skilling outfit. say farming or woodcutting. that is if you have unlocked the full outfit you get the full boost. its just a thought. and say red, now we all know having graceful for combat in some sense would actually be stupid. your supposed to wear heavy armor and at times your best in slot gear. but what if you could apply a graceful boost to say your shaizen armor when your fighting lizardman. instead of sipping brown potion all the time. and spending what 40mill on a ring of endurance that practically never really works. its best used for blast furnace but that's practically it and your still sipping brown potion. brown potion bad. and its hard to get. i just don't think graceful sets should just be cosmetic only. i think each house color should be for a skilling outfit set. i even had a list for each color set. I'm practically a veteran player and i think noobs would like this idea just as much as players who have played the game for over 13 years.

[@meadandmilk]

Tell me you’re a Redditor with net negative downvotes without telling me you’re a Redditor with net negative downvotes.

[@chaz4240]

Profit principle takes the soul out of everything

[@MadScientistGuild]

Ok yeah the earing is needed because otherwise you just have to stare a handsome version of jimmy or the president of mmos

[@LBenn302]

Played RuneScape when I was in second grade while it was on miniclip. I continued playing until maybe 2011 or so. Picked it back up in 2020 and I haven’t stopped playing. I’m 2276 total level. The last 5 runecrafting levels have taken me like 4 months because I’m just so burnt out at this point. BUT! It’s still easily the best game I’ve played to this day. Destiny 1 and elden ring are in my top 3 but I continue to put RuneScape as my number 1 if someone were to ask. It’s simply just the best. A lot of the times I’ll have it up on the side while I’m playing something else because it’s just so easy to chill and not worry about impressing someone on it. You definitely could chase things in it to impress your friends, but I find it’s the only game where I truly feel satisfied with my time spent in it. It’s just perfect. Jagex is the best developer out there by far. Fromsoft and rockstar games are a close second

[@H1storix]

Love to see someone else who has OSRS and Destiny 1 in the Top 3! Eyes up Guardian 💪🫡

[@MaxTaylorHayden]

I love this type of video from you. Hearing about the state of video games/companies and how it’s changed. Would love to see some more stuff like this!

[@mauricemaurice6184]

I can always count on tasty to make a banger. I am in my 20's and I did not play RuneScape as a kid. I found this game because I was looking for something to sink spare time into and build a character that I could call mine. And now that I just hit 1k hours, I can say that I will never quit, I just take long breaks.

[@nicknichols5283]

I flipping loved this. Sick video essay my guy! Played since 2005 on and off and videos like this just make me see clearly why I always come back to RuneScape!

[@Idontalwaysfeelgood]

I started playing runescape the week it released, literally quit when eoc came out, and started playing again when osrs mobile came out.

[@k2a2l2]

i feel like jagex is a company that actually listens to the players and puts in lot of work for new content and that’s what keeps this game so alive. also the fact that the game just never ends so you can come back anytime and theres always something new to do

[@VladiatorX]

What is that picture blurred in the background at 20:01?

[@lukemcfarland8011]

This is such a good, well thought out video. Couldn’t agree more with 95% of what you said. Man, I love this fucking game. Take my like KZbin man, see you in the stream.

[@SobaCha]

Just a call out they did have classic servers for basically the whole time rs2 was running, so they were always kinda ahead of the meta

[@DaeHoLeeGrail]

Came for the bald man, stayed for the Dr Diddly jokes

[@Schtickey]

My favorite thing with OSRS is somehow this game can capture a level of immersion even most AAA titles cant do for me. For example when I am just walking througle the wilderness, I truly feel so alone and it feels so eerie. When I am walking through varrock late at night in a dead world and no one is around, it feels so peaceful. I am not entirely sure how they can capture this level of immersion but they do it so well

[@theoyourecool]

lol at 6:59 that music is actually from Modern OSRS

[@gamewithadam7235]

How much do you play a day?

[@VeryDope101]

Every single Video game CEO, movie & show Director needs to watch this and take notes.

[@catsforlifeosrs]

This was a great video, incredibly well put together and entertaining. Love Tasty's content and seeing him pop off, keep it up! I will forever have love for our game!

[@krk_457]

What chair you got in this video??

[@stephen827]

What song is playing @12:30 I can’t think of name help

[@mikenelson6939]

Best youtube essay i've heard in a minute 💯

[@johnfiorentino1681]

Your content is A1 tasty! Awesome breakdown.. you definitely put ALOT of effort into these videos

[@ShaggyGriff96]

also bear in mind that with the 450,000 signitures, you needed to have membership which makes it incredible.

[@xAshesreborn]

my sweet summer child Tasty. When i started in 02/03 there was only 1 type of axe and 1 type of pickaxe. The glory days

[@Jay-Roddd]

Honestly very entertaining video essay. Would love more of these from you.

[@KamielDomenie]

You are gifted Tasty! I really liked your analysis and you just got all-round great insight, man! Subscribed, and bless you, brother!

[@KamielDomenie]

Now, that I think about it. This video should be "THE AD" for runescape lol

[@Fuerwahrhalunke]

Runescape really has been a constant in my life for the past 20 years. Whatever may change in my life, I know Runescape will always stay true to it's self. That's also why the "You never quit RuneScape, you just take breaks" rings so true with it. Identity really is the biggest sales factor for me. And yes, after a 6 month break, I'm back to Runescape. I'm sure I will take my next break in the coming weeks, but I'll be back later.

[@MSeroga]

Runescape will not die because this game is very simple, and there will always be simple folk in need of a simple game.

[@JullianChavez]

World of Warcraft's expansion model is what eventually killed it for me. I played WoW for thousands of hours, but i eventually got fed up with all of my progress being wiped out every time a new expansion dropped. It felt like nothing really mattered. I like OSRS specifically because I know even super old content is somewhat relevant. If WoW's content always remained relevant when new content dropped, it would be an incredible

[@SageRap]

I didn't know Keegan Michael Key played osrs, this is awesome 🔥🔥🔥

[@ayyrazza]

i stopped playing when summoning was introduced. That to me was the first time i realized my childhood had ended.

[@imjustcarzon]

I think it’s fair to note that we had to petition for osrs, they didn’t just ask us if we wanted it. The rise of private servers was a major threat especially w some getting really popular.

[@imjustcarzon]

For anyone curious more about the history. Can’t ever discredit SoWreck3d for how he helped the community. 2006scape was the biggest private server at the time. I was super excited for it and jagex noticed how many users these servers got and shut it down shortly before releasing osrs. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKK8m3ygeaaXg5osi=jK4DCukUTh_qB7QG

[@QueueKyoo]

My twin brother likes to joke about the fact that ive been playing dark souls 1 basically every day for the past 13 years since we were in middleschool... meanwhile he's been playing runescape religiously since 2006. This game isn't going anywhere any time soon

[@cota7739]

At 20:21 he describes 9Rain so eloquently

[@Trippolette3]

Back in 2009 is when I first truly remember the discussion amongst the playerbase at the time, forecasting when/how Runescape would die. Popularity definitely slowed down from that point, up until 2012 when EoC was Jagex's attempt to breathe new life into the game - which, as we all know, did exactly that. Just in a roundabout sort of way. Nowadays, this game is so fucking big yet still so fucking niche, that it will probably be around in some form, basically forever (hypebole, yeah, but you know what I mean). You captured this feeling really well, Max. Your style of humor interlaced with a well-put together list of ideas makes for a really great video. Thanks for all you do for this community.

[@Jawdii]

"You never quit runescape, you just take very long breaks."

[@jamie12O9]

This is a top tier video tasty. I personally wouldnt bother with the behemeth channel unless they are literally so low effort videos that you may as well. This shit slaps

[@hellomang420]

Nice video! Always love these

[@saxassoon]

I think one thing that a lot of people overlook with the OSRS relaunch is that it was not a static "nostalgia" server. It was a "reload save and try a different path" server. Song of the Elves, Zulrah, Tombs of Amascut. These are content I never saw in RS2 because they never existed in RS2. There are players alive nowadays that remember getting their first tanzanite helm as their "nostalgia" instead of smithing their first ady bar like OG skillers like myself. THAT, in my opinion, is the difference between OSRS and other "nostalgia bait" games. Jagex simply reset the clock for themselves and tried something else.

[@juliocast3326]

Leagues are such a good way of introducing new content, basically the same game with a few things that are different. Like heightened exp gains, special abilities, like the resource collection that notes all collections of etc.

[@Silly_Rum]

I stopped playing after eoc and went right back to wow until I noticed osrs. And started playing that after watching boaty on the release of cox. I started that day.

[@boofhitter21]

i see RuneScape 3 as a gigantic tragedy, they were forced to limit trading because they'd be denied payment from banks if RWTing kept happening, they limited PKing for the same reason, and the only way they could've gotten out of it was a game changing update, which flopped cause they were too desperate to hear out the community, of course, they also tried scummy tactics like MTX, its still weird to think of that timeline where RS3 wasn't forced to do any of these things, they'd most likely still turn into an MTX haven due to how the MMORPG market has changed, but if the devs of OSRS were still working on it, I doubt that would've happened.

[@nickbmxguy]

Man, some of the best memories were playing Runescape Classic as a kid.

[@gagez4life]

Great Video Tastey, much appreciated 👏 💐

[@ajbreadandbakery]

This is probably your best video. Usually find them annoying but this hit different.

[@crimsonkey8429]

Man that reading the manual on the ride home as a child comment hit me right in the feels lol

[@zdude1793]

This is the best tastylife video to date. Great work!

[@Duckablo]

Hawt dawn, that questing tangent was so real for a new player like me. Great video, worth every plug!

[@raykhamis933]

Bro EOC was so devastating. I was severely addicted to RuneScape and thought I’d never quit. But literally the day EOC got released I quit effortlessly

[@spencerwarry9582]

subbed broheim. keep up the dope content

[@joker432]

Really great video man, gave me a lot to think about

[@randomnerd112]

man not sure if it's my ptsd or if that was the best troll intro ever. RIP my original main 2002-2013.

[@t-yoonit]

This comment is for anyone that is new or is put off by the fact that endgame content in OSRS is thousands of hours of grinding to access. First, the content creation community of OSRS hosts a plethora of series' where the content creator chases endgame content with various restrictions or in certain ways. You don't have to grind for thousands of hours and max your account to go run boss fights or raids. I am a 20 year veteran player of this game and have played exclusively on free servers. I have paid for "membership" bonds with in game currency only to obtain skill capes for the two skills I have maxed. I'm going super grindy as I'm aiming for a f2p completionist account, but the free game has a ton to offer and really gives new players the opportunity to find what they like, or just see if the game itself is fun, without any investment needed other than your time. That is one of the biggest draws to this game. And even if you're a higher level player, you can cut your membership and still enjoy f2p content.

[@GUTHICC]

Good job leaving out the actual method of getting the Rogue's Outfit. Don't want to scare off new players too early... Dope vid, Tasty!!

[@rutgerderuijter2143]

Great video! As a regular player I agree and you gained a sub my man. Keep it up

[@mishelleyamata5984]

Such an amazing video! :D

[@lookatthemstatsyo]

This video single handedly sources all the examples I need to explain to my non scaper buddies as to why Ive been unbelievably hooked for 20 years straight.... and my wife. 10 outa 10 video my guy.

[@michaelm6395]

Great and unexpected vids dude, well done!

[@Borchert97]

9:23 bro literally described my average experience getting new Pokemon games when I was a kid LOL

[@TrasheyeGym]

i try this game so many times but i can never get stuck in it. i just dno how to keep myself in it. Maybe i have to pay for the membership to have the most fun?

[@Keblash]

I feel like this video is a direct response to a video Asmongold did a week or so ago about how every MMO nowadays has turned into the time gated, micro transaction, unfinished, hellscape you mentioned haha

[@jjop810]

This was a great video makes my love for this game grow bigger.

[@MeanBeanComedy]

EOC is *AMAZING* now. Come back. Better than ever before. 👍🏻

[@unrealmagic6519]

EoC you mean necroscape? I quit after necro made every other combat style irrelevant and crashed all their prices. they dont know what they're doing

[@ThirdXavier]

8:58 using Dark Souls is pretty ironic here, as someone who bought it at launch it actually did not sell well at launch and was one of those games that started selling more as word of mouth spread. It came out a month before Skyrim which I think hurt its exposure. But Remastered and the sequels sold much more. It was also incredibly broken at launch and the online was barely functional and weapon scaling with your stats was bugged so unscaling weapons were by far the best, later they patched the game to fix scaling and also have enemies drop more souls which in turn made it much easier (in a good way). Not super relevant just like to ramble about the early years of Dark Souls 1.

[@ProdenII]

16:18 Herblore and RC problems?

[@Bioluscent]

Every once in a while i see a video and now i gotta start playing again bro

[@lariosmendoza]

Btw keep up the great work! Subscribed 😊

[@DavidKreitzer-ng2fe]

We were never monkeys. Good grief. 😂

[@KGAGamer]

EOC was a rough time, i still loved Runescape and played it with the change. I play both OSRS and RS3, more so OSRS as of late but still. I will always love Runescape, it was my childhood and will continue to be in my life for a long time to come

[@Dapper_Dan_Man]

you in NC fam?

[@Oct0ber_Skyy]

Hey, fyi, it wasn’t too late to make that joke.

[@McFox111]

They should make Wrathmaw like Shooting stars where it just moves around the world rather than having limited spawns.

[@Qwepzy]

Runescape never leaves your soul

[@sufferrng1717]

I still feel like the only change they should have made was wrathmaw on all world with a random respawn timer between 30 minutes and 6 hours

[@nickorama230]

Really appreciate your perspectives here Tasty, couldn't have said any of it better myself. I'm not a fan of the removing polling rhetoric, even if 95% of topics easily pass these days. It's a hallmark of the unique brand of communication our community has with our dev team, outstanding as they are, and should not be done away with lightly. It provides opportunity for discussion to be had amongst players of all skill levels, without which, the game would die as you said.

[@calebgraham3334]

I bought Morrowind about 19 years ago cuz it reminded me of Asheron's Call. Such great memories playing those gems.