why rs3 over osrs?

[vtuber enjoyer]

only play osrs but im curious why you play rs3 over osrs

[Orochi Samurai]

Works better (mechanically) and there is way more to do in terms of content.

[Phirestar]

The main reason is that I don't play Old School very much (apart from flipping) is the fact that it still feels like a game from 2007 in how it plays. RuneScape 3 has made improvements towards modern PC features that Old School lacks. I find OSRS difficult to play due to how camera movement is locked to the arrow keys, which I feel are awkward to use, and I'm forced into using M3 instead. This leads to the game being uncomfortable to play in long sessions, when one hand is used for every action. It's also annoying how short the render distance is, as I like having the ability in RS3 to click far in the distance and have my character travel a long way before needing to reset the marker.

(And before people go saying, "Just download Runelite", I am well aware of it. But I do not like the idea that a third-party team is having to provide options that are standard now-a-days, especially for a game which is built specifically to be played on PC. It's on Jagex to provide more options on the vanilla client, in my opinion.)

Beyond that, I feel that there's not much I can get out of Old School that I don't already have with RuneScape 3. This game has all of the same skills and quests as the other, along with the addition of new ones and expansions onto existing content. I know the consensus in the OSRS community is that it's "EasyScape", but I disagree with that opinion for several reasons:

1. A game being easy isn't inherently a bad thing, in the same way that a game being hard isn't inherently a good thing. I've played easy games that I enjoy, easy games that couldn't hold my interest, hard games that I love, and hard games that I despise. It's all about having the right balance and design for the level of challenge you're after.
   
   
2. While the argument is that it's easier because you're able to level up much faster, most people tend to disregard the fact that RS3 has begun to raise its level cap for both old and new skills. It now requires roughly eight times as much experience to reach max level in RS3 (for skills with the 120 cap) as it does to max a skill in OSRS. And as I said in a different thread, even a high experience rate of 1 million per hour would still require over 600 hours to get all six currently qualifying skills from just level 99 to 120.
   
   
3. You can solve that issue by creating an Ironman account, like I've done.

As for the statements of how it "invalidates" peoples accomplishments, or how they hate that someone was able to do something without putting in the same effort as them... I just don't care, honestly. I've played a ton of challenging games that require lots of dedication to overcome, and I liked them because of my own sense of self-accomplishment. I'm not interested in taking pride over "being better" than other people, and frankly I don't understand why people think like that to begin with. (Maybe it's because I've been exposed to enough of it in competitive multiplayer titles, where that kind of attitude turns the community into a toxic environment.)

I do want to play OSRS, though, to see the content that's exclusively to that version of the game. That's what makes it appealing for me: seeing two different sides of my favorite game, and getting twice as much out of it.

[Yournewstepmom]

In between the years of 2014 - 2017 i switched from one to the other congruently. I did this until OSRS become almost completely unrecognizable from the nostalgia it pulled. Now it's in 720p and isn't even the same game anymore.

[John Columbo]

Honestly? I prefer RS3 over OSRS because I follow the lore storyline of RS3, even though I hate the way it's going. The whole "chosen one destined to save the universe" is the most clichéd and lazy trope in games, it just makes me sick! (I miss being a random nondescript adventurer, wandering around and getting into trouble.)

Sadly, I'm too invested in the story to quit now...

Did try OSRS again the other day, but years of being able to run forever and teleport freely in RS3 have pretty much ruined me, and I can't get used to the more sedate pace of OSRS.

[The Commendatore]

I main OSRS but play RS3 on the side, mainly for the quests.

[Aeryonis]

Technically, the RS3 account I play once was OSRS - it's so old that it's crossed a few versions.

I play RS3 now as opposed to OSRS just because I'm lazy, which is the honest truth of it. I put so much time into this account that I'm frankly unwilling to start a new one. I have a few RS3 alts (for money-making sake), but I will only ever have one main.

[Vin362]

RS3 I have been playing regularly since about 2013 (on and off again before) and I become invested in the storylines that quests have to offer and even when I don't like an ending I prefer it to the ones OSRS has to offer or the lack of continued storylines.

I also agree with the point that OSRS became unrecognizable I understand the need to make it different from RS3 but so much content has been added that the only thing Old School about OSRS is the combat, plus the claims that RS3 is too easy is starting to lose ground now that skilling bosses are becoming a thing.

[vtuber enjoyer]

Dark님이 먼저 게시:

The only reason people play osrs is nostalgia.

not true i starting playing osrs in 2018 and never played rs before. to me its a very comfy game

[dog]

There's a couple reasons for me. I was one of the first to jump on the osrs bandwagon and make an osrs account in 2013, but I realized I just wasn't really having fun replaying a game I already played through once and achieved my goals on. Nowadays it's a completely different game, and I've gone back and dabbled here and there, but I haven't been keeping up with osrs so it's so foreign and unrecognizable to me that I would have no idea what I'm doing with the game.

A lot of what I enjoyed about runescape is is missing from OSRS, and and borderline useless now in rs3. Looking back I realize my favorite time on runescape was around 2011, back when dungeoneering was new and fresh. The game I loved is dead and gone, and I don't really much enjoy either game like I used to anymore, but I play because there's no game that really scratches the same itch that runescape does. I chose rs3 over osrs mostly because of sunk cost fallacy. I've invested so much time into my rs3 account that it seems silly to abandon it for a different version of the game I'd have to start on new now.

I could honestly go either way. I'd love to explore osrs and try it's high level PVM and bosses. But it's not the same game I'm used to, and I don't have the time to invest in it anymore.

[nuck]

Played OSRS but burnt out on it. I like the QOL of RS3 and I honestly prefer the combat system over old school. Will definitely play whatever leagues go on in old school though.

[vtuber enjoyer]

i was told you have to do 80% of quest to do the fun stuff. true?

[Exothermically Eclectic]

right wing weeb님이 먼저 게시:

i was told you have to do 80% of quest to do the fun stuff. true?

false

[vtuber enjoyer]

something about requirements for elf quest line

[Vin362]

If you mean Prifddinas that is more less a high tier Varrock and since its introduction Prifddinas has lost some of its status as having the best xp rates, there also a few quest locked slayer monsters and masters but that isn't any different then OSRS.