Runescape: The hatred of
I hold a secret. Actually, it’s not a secret at all, I tell many people about it. That I hate runescape. It’s true, I think that if I wanted to play a game like runescape I would just dunk my head in a bucket of sea water with my eyes open. I will put cubes at the bottom and it is my duty to throw the cubes at each other, and when they come into contact I get a cardboard cutout of the number 0 and throw it at them, and 1 in 100 time they come into contact I throw a cardboard cutout of the number 1 at it.
Runescape looks like it really had the potential to be mildly entertaining, I wanted to explore it a bit more and decided to get membership, but there really was no point to it. I then proceeded to go to the closest village available and pickpocketed the same villager what I’m suspecting 1000 times with her falling for it again and again, and when I get caught, she slaps me for *gasp* 1 damage! I have 27 health, and usually that 1 damage heals by the time I get hit again, or if I have a run of bad luck then I get all the oodles of cash I got from the same person to go buy chicken soup or some shit and magically heal 1 hp. I then just go back to pickpocketing. Eventually, I decided to start stealing from the gaurds, but they were just harder to pickpocket and gave exactly the same amount of gold as the peasant gave me, and the damage I took made me get more experience in the ‘hp’ skill which goes up when you take damage. So that means that my combat level actually went up, so by pickpocketing the same bloody person over and over I both got better at fighting and roughly the amount of gold that I suspect Kansas is worth. I probobly had more gold than 50% of the people in the game had, which is funnily enough the same amount of people who don’t even buy membership, which is the only way you can pickpocket. I finally decided that I was rich enough and decided to go EXPLORING! However, this wasn’t as exciting as I would have hoped as I wandered around for 4 bloody hours trying to find where to go when I discovered that I was looking at the wrong map on the website. This makes no sense that somebody someday in the game gm crowd decided to release an update that changed the entire landscape and forgot to delete the old map of said lanscape. Anyways, I found myself at the base of a volcano when all of a sudden this player jumped out of nowhere and stabbed me once, doing 54 health. Luckily, in the time I was pickpocketing the gaurd I went from 27 max HP to around about 60. I was still screwed, however, and got bloodily murdered.
Now, PvP is a touchy subject for me. If a game is entirely based on PvP, like Planetside, then I’m perfectly fine with it. But if a game is semi-based on PvP, then I have to check through a few checklists.
First off, if there is no avoiding PvP one time or another, then usually this is a bad thing. Games like CoH have a seperate area for PvP which ties into the non-PvP zones, but villains can’t go in to Paragon City and heroes can’t go into The Rouge Isles. Games like WoW somehow pull it off, mostly because there is only ever a benifit for defeating your level or higher, in which case you would be evenly matched. You could argue that nothing stops high-levels from just hanging out around low-level PvP zones, but usually people call for high-levels to take care of the, uh, high-levels. The problem with runescape is that you get the same amount of XP from killing the same level of monster over and over, so that is just another excuse for high-levels to pick on small fry.
The reason that motivated me to write this post is because there are these kids in our class that have discovered they both play runescape and always talk about it in hearshot of me. This is bullying, people, for hearing things about runescape burns my ears, seeing it burns my eyes and playing it burns my hands. This very post has been a struggle, too, but that still doesn’t stop the fact that we need to stop runescape. DEATH TO THE HERETICS!
