Today’s game is RuneScape. I would like to make a confession with this game, and that is that I have no clue what I’m doing in it. I’ve done maybe 3 quests. I really just like walking around and listening to the music while exploring and taking in the sights. I’m basically using RuneScape as a tourist simulator.
Like today for example. I went by this museum and just checked things out. I imagine it’s tied to a quest, but if it is I couldn’t find it. I suspect maybe it’s under premium or whatever.
The whole vibe of this game also makes me want to play Myst. I have disk copy for MacOS. Like an old one on iMac G3. I’m half tempted to boot it up and play just because of this, but I think I’ll wait and just buy it on Steam. I have to imagine it’s close enough to the same experience, and besides. I have a CRT monitor that I could hook it up to if I really wanted an older experience.
Tangents about Myst aside, I also ventured into this house and killed this imp. I panicked at first because I thought maybe the Imp was with the guy or something but he seemed pretty chill. I head cannoned it as the Imp was like a pest. Or this guy is just a shitty pet owner. Either way I took the spoils from my kill with me. I think I’ll put it in the bank as a weird messed up trophy of sorts. Sorry to that poor Bank Keeper.
Anyways. To end things off I found this village full of Barbarians. Until I boot the game up again I’m going to head cannon that he’s taking a prolonged stay here. He helped bake a cake or something one time. Maybe he can help make food or something to earn his keep.
A lot of its mechanics and gameplay are unbelievably outdated. I’m sure I wouldn’t play it if I didn’t as a kid.
So much this, it’s from an era when games were universally pretty unforgiving. My wife ragequit and refuses to return when she died and learned you lose all but 3 items on death
But if you play casually and explore and just generally vibe it’s pretty awesome. Like finding a little lake and fishing some crawdads and cooking them over a fire and pretending to be camping. Or y’know you could do what so many players do and power level as fast as possible and grind away for hours, but I don’t see what the fun is in that personally. Me, I just vibe
Vibing is honestly a big part of it for me. I can spend so long walking around and just taking in the experience. Legit one of my favorite things to do is open up the map, pick a place I haven’t been, and walk there seeing what interesting things I can find