RETIRED... disappointed...Reminiscing...
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Sad day... I used to frequent Sal's and Runescape on a daily basis for sooo long...
Sadly, events arose I could no longer play runescape as regularly as I used to.
I played as a member for a little over a year, but I was F2P for the longest, I couldn't say for how long before. Multiple years.
I loved the game, I tried to play it in school even though we had blocks on the computers. I would always come home to play it. It was fun and simple and even though I have massive ADD it held my attention with all the different skills you could do.
I was a skiller mostly, but later grew my combat abilities as well. I had some help, MY friend was a decent player who had 99 in a few skills. He wasnt a "let me get 1st place in this skill" kinda guy, but he did good work, made some money, got some neat items to mess around with.
I remember my last sets of items..
I had a full set of Guthens? I believe it was... Barrows armor with the spear and lifesteal properties with the set. I also had dragon scimmy, dragon hatchet, dragon pick, I definitely remember my DDP++ lol. Never had the plate or legs, too expensive for me. But I did have 12-13Mil in the bank last i remembered.
So I login for the first time since Runescape 3.0 came out, I knew I had sold a few things before membership expired, and the rest is sitting in my bank as "members only" items still. I sold my Barrows set. All I have left thats recognizable (by that I mean iconic, the rest are all semi-quest items and small materials for stuff I dont remember how to do so well lol) are my dragon pic, hatchet, and scimmy, got a full rune set still, crystal bow with black D hide, and some rune essence.
So you know, Runecrafting was my favorite skill, so I always had at least 1K essence in the bank and often mined in Ks with abyssal pouches. I often ran through the abyss to craft nature runes and law runes when I Was a member. But the rest of the materials, probably summoning stuff. charms and crystals, a whoooole bunch of seeds I have kept (I DID dabble in farming, low level though).
I remember so much about the game, and If it were the same as I remembered, maybe just with updated graphics (but on the SAME ENGINE and everything), then Id definitely go back to being a member...
But The layout on Runescape 3 is so... different...I really feel like an old man. When I played there weren't so many different forms of interface.. I realize, being an MMORP you're always in competition with big names like World of Warcraft but still. The whole reason I preferred it was because of the simple interface...
I worked very hard on my account, even though I was never the best I DO still have ADD lol. But I got a good bit done. NEver hit a 99, but was fairly sufficient in every skill available at the time. I even had a decent slayer level, summoning, thieving, agility, even construction. Now my house is inaccessible, if it even still exists... kinda sucks I spent money to make it and wont be getting it back lol.
I feel like I have to start a new account on level 1, I cant get back into it with my old acount. Its too high a level for F2p, and i just dont seem to understand how to play anymore :(. It used to be easy enough but I seriously feel like they have doubled the amount of windows and then some. My bank is full anyway from all the members items.. I just feel bummed that though I still have my original account, I have to start over on almost a new platform just to play Runescape again :(. I really wish it was back to 2.0 era... They updated the graphics once that I got to see, and i wish it would have stayed that way. I really wanted to go back to it because here recently I have the time to actually play it like I used to!
I played the most in middle and highschool, then for about a year in college. After that I got too busy with the difficulty of college courses, I had to stop for a while. I cancelled my membership, when I previously kept it going even when I wasnt using it..Made me sad almost, because again, even at that point I had played for so long I felt like I was shutting a part of myself away. That may seem extreme, but its not like I meant my life would get any worse because of it. I FELT that way, but I knew in reality, sometimes you just have to have change in your life. And I had to have it then.
Now I have a parttime job where I am on my 2008 laptop the entire time (as suggested by my own employer lol), and It can't really run much of anything... So naturally, I thought of RUNESCAPE!
It just kinda makes me sad to feel like Skullshogun is dead...
I'm gonna give RS3 a try... gonna make a new account and treat it as a "new game". I dont know if ill be able to get into it like I did skullshogun... if not... then I'm retired for good... man that will be a sad day. I actually LIKE Runescape, and to think if i can't get into it because of the interface (confusing the zamarok outa me) or because I just odnt like it.. I think ill be honestly depressed.
It may sound stupid... but Growing up I wasnt POOR, but I wasnt exactly rich.. I tried not to ask for stuff even though I was an only child because I knew at a young age money was an issue. And though I love platform games, and have owned a few, I rarely owned very many games for them and often had to replay them. If I did I earned it with chores or as I got older with my own money. But in school, the only game I could play was free, and later proving I could juggle my love of runescape and schoolwork was given membership. It was all I needed to entertain me for the longest. People to talk to and skill with, they could help you to do quests, just joke around... It was the only way I could "get out of the house" with an overprotective family, and feel like I had friends. It sounds terribly pathetic.. But whats funny is, I initially went to Runescape because 2 friends introduced it to me. Well, Ok, REIntroduced it to me. I had orginally found RS when it was in CLASSIC, and I forgot the link (I was REALLY young) and never went back to it. RS2, friends showed it to me, but That is when Skullshogun was born. I think part of the reason I liked it was because I knew at least 2 of those little pixelated characters who were chatting to me were real too.
Bleh...
Thats my old fart retired blog post. I may be on here posting random stuffs, who knows. Gotta take a look around... so much has changed..
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