idk man... Throughout my years of playing runescape since 2003 i think the longest ive quit has been now, it might actually be final. played from 03 - 2011 pretty much every day. after that i quit till 2012 and then ended up quitting within another 4 months. I came back and played on oldschol os and rs3 many times but could not play the game with the state it was in / the comunity. It was also too painful to look at my endless list of friends who ill never speak to again. I keep trying to come back but cannot play for longer than a day. Who knows... maybe in a nother couple of years itll all come back to me
I got into this game when a childhood friend of mine from church introduced me to it. I missed this style from the 2000's do much. I was 12 at the time, and my 13th birthday was only a few months away, and I was so excited to play this that I made the account the day that he told me. I spent so many hours after school playing it that my mom actually had to lock my computer. I now have my own laptop and am into way more types of games than I thought I'd like. I even made friends who like the same games.
Thank you so much for the time stamps, really helps people find what track they want to get to, i should of put the tracks in the description, but i won't because i will let your comment get all of the attention & love. Thanks for the work you did with the comment means a lot.
@@HomestyleThaJerk Yes, this was 'runescape 2' when it came out. I miss the days of swords just being different colored pixels. But it's weird always seeing nostalgia for runescape 2 but no one ever mentions the OG runescape.
」「 Nah he does mean varrock general store. If you couldn’t find a buyer for your item, you could sell stuff to the shop At which point, everyone else looking in there would see it appear to buy If it was a valuable item, often it’d be sold at fraction of the price too, so bargains to be had if you camped there
I feel Runescape is one of those very rare games that can literally reminisce the exact feeling/environment just by listening to the music. I literally remember the desk, computer, even the baggy t shirt that didnt fit me at 12 and had to wait till I was 14. I remember "No lifing" The game until the rising dawn of next morning having not a worry in the world due to the effect of living my own adventure. Kids these days will read this and say how Nerdy/Cringe it sounds but everyone in my era will see it as remarkable.
I still remember those days staying up late playing runescape on the weekends with some pals online in the old living room the computer screen is the only light that's on while one of your parents is sleeping in the living room with the TV on lol 😢
@@FlavioThepianist bro that was me. Dad would go to bed and mom would fall asleep watching some halmark or lifetime show on the couch. If be up till like 1am on the family pc with its 19" 1400x900 monitor playing clan wars or castlewars, maybe even questing or grinding away fishing
In 5th and 6th grade I’d wake up around 2 and sneak down to play until 4 and then go back to bed before getting up for school. Not sure how I pulled it off, energy wise. Precious times.
I used to go to school at 7:15am, and used to get up at 4 or 5 so I could play for a couple of hours before going to school. Did that from 2009-2011, and then played Runescape in the morning from 2011-2013, and Minecraft in the afternoons from 2011-2015. In my twenties now, but I'm sure there are some games like that in the future where I'll spend a ton of time playing with mates... It's not over just yet friends.
I think why this music hits people so hard is because it reflects a simpler time in ones life, maybe back when they were in middle school, had a big group of friends that experienced everything together, most notably Runescape. Or if you didn't have many friends, Runescape introduced you to thousands of people all over the world and you made new ones. Everyone played it. Now, a good chunk of that generation are in their 20s and have probably moved on from their old group of friends and entered adult life, with little of their Runescape past remaining. I may just be a random fagit on the internet, but I think Runescape, for the generation who played it at its peak, is a beautiful allegory for life, in that you should treasure the moments and friends you had in your childhood and make the effort to stay in touch with old friends, for if you drift too far it will be lost forever.
same here i met my gf on it :D we asked ingame where u live and i found out she lived super close by :O so after a few weeks we met up and had a relation for a solid year :)
Imagine hearing this song in your age 90’s. The memories, they will all come back. Visualizing how you would walk from Lumbridge to Varrock. Spamming the run button because you were broke to buy a law rune.
dont, please dont do this to me. i already feel a strong sense of nostalgia. i feel so sad these times won't come back but I'm truly happy we had them.
@@felixypanaque3155 You can log back in at any time. Or make a new account n that. It's more the investment of time that we cannot put into the game. We're in real life nao.
I'm sitting here in my school library working on a large assignment trying to get some study music to work with, and out of no where I just start crying my eyes out.. Why I gotta grow up man. Time just flies by so fast.
So true. One day you are turning 18 and graduating high school, then the next day you are finally 21 years old. Everyone is like, wooooo you can drink now! Then before you know it you are staring age 30 in the face...it's a weird feeling. I only hope that the day I grow old and find myself in the hospital, hopefully I'll have a roommate who I can talk with about the good old days of gaming and we can laugh at the failures too, like windows vista.
To improve it just a little, to add that « Final touch », you should add some screen shots of the good things that happend during those glorious scapin days.
This is fucking beautiful man, that first song is just, it's so powerful - it really takes you back to a game where your innocent little is safe and has no reason to feel corrupted by what's going on outside the front door. Shit, I played Runescape from the age of 9 (2005) and I played it religiously throughout the remainder of my childhood years, constantly going round my cousins on my little bike at the age of 10 to play on his PC, we'd sit and play for a couple hours before his mother got mad at us for being inside, so we'd get on our bikes and head back to mine to play. I remember being a complete noob, I shared an account with my 2 other cousins and he was called Boytr6, no idea where the name came from but to this day we still talk about it, but back to being a noob, we remember seeing a guy walking around with a dragon chainbody and we were mesmerised by it and were like "Omg he's so powerful" we were so envious over a bunch of pixels and little did we know that we had many more years of learning to come, many more long all nighters doing quests and having fun sleepovers taking turns on playing the account whilst the others played Gears of War on the Xbox 360... Whenever I hear Oldschool Runescape music, especially Autumn Voyage or Book of Spells, my entire childhood just flashes before my eyes, playing this game with my cousins, my friends, and funnily enough my own mother who to this day plays Runescape 3 on her maxed out account she's had since I introduced it to her in 2005... I played for 5 straight years, I was on and off with Club Penguin and Habbo Hotel at the time but Runescape stole my heart. In 2008 though my eldest cousin introduced us to World of Warcraft and I recall being very upset over the fact everyone else had left Runescape behind because I literally adored it, I would wake up on weekends at 9am and play until midnight, perhaps even later... As a child who played video games daily, I have to say that Runescape will always be that one special game that truly saddens me with its powerfully nostalgic music and with each song holds a memory of where I first heard it and what I was doing at the time in real life, whether or not I was surrounded by my cousins, my mother or my step-dad whom my mother met on Runescape, and because of that I now have 3 brothers who are equally obsessed with video games, just as I was... Everyday, even at the age of 20 I'll wake up and see my mam, she'll be in her bedroom playing Runescape 3 on her account and my step-dads, even though I always say Runescape 3 is crap and basically, NOT the Runescape we used to play, she still loves it, and because of that I respect her and approve of it because at the end of the day, it is just a game, but a game we all know and love so dearly. I don't remember my mams official Runescape name but when we first started in 2005 with her account, it was Nebs21, then progressed to 'Uforeal', nowadays I'm not sure but my fondest memories are having my own Kids Ranqe pure and her main account with high skills and loads of money with plenty of wonderful friends, and for those friends I used to defeat the 'Tz-Tok-Jad' for a price of 2million GP, and I was only 10 or 11 at the time, but none of her friends could do it - but nonetheless I had such an amazing time. Sometimes I play oldschool private servers to kill Jad again, to relive the memories of killing it again, that same adrenaline rush always comes straight back. Thank you, Runescape 2 for bringing me, my cousins, my mother and my step-dad closer and into my life, without it I dread to think what I would have to this day, but nonetheless I am forever thankful for being that one in a million player that enjoyed the game not for the XP grinding, but for the adventures and excitable moments. Peace.
This is beautiful. It really was such a place of innocent, childhood wonder. The music gives me such powerful flashes of memories and feelings of nostalgia
Man, this comment is so relatable. Even the 'Mom playing RS' aspect of it, lmao. However, it was my brother that introduced me to the game. Shame that most my family don't still play it nowadays.
I begged my friend in 5th grade to make me an addy 2h bc nobody sold one on the GE for like 2 weeks back in 2008. He said no..... took almost a month to buy that addy 2h..... smh
Man, I remember this one guy showing me the ropes in the beginning. Taught me how to make money, and level up skills fast. Always offered help to n00bs. Months later, after hours upon hours together, he took me to the Wilderness for the first time. He and I cooked some Anchovy Pizzas, damn that shit was good. The real heart breaker was when he never logged back on after that day. I lost interest in playing about 2 years after. Still he hadn't returned. I still log back on every June 11th to eat one of those Pizzas and cry. God damn, 100% I could have been born in the middle ages, the future, fuck even the 30's lol, but no. I was born in the same time frame and existence of this wonderful game.
@@baydenwoodland1235 I remember the girls name that taught me how to play she took me mining (idc if it was a dude lol) telan was her name made me bronze full i felt so cool she taught me to skill up all that stuff and took me under her wing... one day she said bye and never logged back in ;( I still remember the username... dragon claws pk ahhaahhahhah clan wars... teleblocking people ahahaha
Im 17 and play this game I played when I was like 10 and growing up with my brothers and sisters playing this game , still play this game till this day , I need new friends on osrs
It's because we had to grew up with the internet literally it was maturing along with us. we are the information generation we know all the bad shit happening because it's presented to us pretty much everyday. The world is a cluster fuck rn and we just want to go back to when unfortunately we where happier. You can try to argue your just as happy now or happier but your probably wrong that's why our generation relies so strongly on nostalgia to get back what we once had... True happiness. Or maybe it's just me.
The nostalgia actually makes me want to cry. I Remember chilling in my room on my big bro laptop blasting this music in headphones, having adventures, and trying to drown out my parents arguing. 😭😭😭
1. Start mining near Lumbridge swamp 2. Smelt it in Lumbridge furnace 3. Carry it all the way to the Varrock 4. Sprint across mages living near the gate 5. Forge it in the Varrock smithy into Armo and weapons 6. Sell it in the nearest inn 7. Repeat
It's almost insane that so many people in the comments section feel the same exact way I do when I listen to these songs. It combines nostalgia, sadness, peacefulness. What a phenomenal game, so lucky that we were able to partake. Nothing will ever compare. R.I.P. original OSRS.
Yep. Randomly meeting strangers at 3 AM and adding them to your friends list. And then you have a bunch of people in your friends you don't know how you met.
I remember my friend telling me that if you collected 100 cowhides, you could sell them for 10k in Al Kharid, I felt so rich every time I sold cowhides :’)
fuck man, the memories.. best money maker in game. I’m so happy even at 21 i found the love for the game again with ironman mode, but back in 2007 it was a whole different magic around the game
oh boyyyy. i remember no lifing, killing fields upon fields upon fields of cows at like cb level 30 or 40, saving up for full black (g) before the GE was introduced. and then a few weeks later the GE was introduced and the value of my new full black g was suddenly worth like 1/3 of what I had paid. good times, good times.
Remember guys. We're all still on this planet. We can still have fun, whether it be playing the game or merely remembering it. Memories never die, at least we had the privilege to play this game. The best game.
God dammit do I miss this game. Coming home from school with not a care in the world other than 30 minutes homework and slaying cows in Lumbridge to get 40 attack to use the coveted legendary "rune skimmy" that I didn't even have yet because it was SO EXPENSIVE. Only when i discovered the powers of mining rune essence and selling it for 10gp each did I stand a chance of obtaining such an artefact.
Cedric B yup, shows me times change. I actually had a hard time to accept that playing rs will never feel so magical as back in the days.but the music can give me the memories back' luckily
exactly what i feel, i mean the new runescape now doesn't look bad and play bad but it doesn't elicit the same emotions and memories i had when i was a kid :(
I think the issue with the new RS is that they took the simplicity out of the game and tried to make it too intricate like WOW. The best part of old RS was that the graphics were so simple, the details of playing weren't complicated and the rules were much more chill. Surprised they don't realize that they lost a majority of their fanbase and offer the old version. Every world used to be packed and now they're lucky if they can pack a world. My bad, Miss those days, fuck.
Man what an adventure this was.. Just thinking about being 10 years old sitting on my parents computer desk after school playing this. Running around killing goblins and visiting general stores, getting pots of flour and making bread, gearing up for an adventure to karjama to fish. Man... I miss it :''''(
I remember getting yelled at on the baseball bench because my friend and I were talking about Runescape instead of focusing on the game. I was so enamored by my friend and how he had gotten a Dragon scimmy, as if he were driving around a Lambo or something. I remember sketching armor concepts with a buddy in 6th grade that we thought would make great additions to the game. I remember my first real life close friends username still to this day in game, pieman0. Mid-twenties now, and wishing every second of the day that I could care or immerse myself into a virtual world again without having the sound reality loudly knocking at the door. I want to enjoy these games, but real world challenges and worries are too loud and consistent. Back then, it was just silence. Just the game and myself, no worries.
Were gonna make our own memories after you and have as much but make no new friend's so please don't be so rude okay and thanks. :Michael Cooke 2019 October 8th 23:06
@walid jabrane God the old days where you wish you could be in the world with what ever the fantasy was Im currently 17, I feel like that more towards stuff like anime than gaming now
Online gaming has become overly competitive and downright nasty in the last decade or so, especially among team-based games. To think that I played Runescape for three years straight starting in 2004 and almost never ran into hateful or mean people just goes to show how relaxing, fun, and enchanting the game was back then. The universal comradery among the massive playerbase was really something to behold. People were even nice and honorable about PvP most of the time. It's too bad that online gaming can't be as peaceful as it was back then.
Jeff Mitchell yeah you don’t seem like a very fun person at all lol. You’re saying gaming is for children but yet here you are on this video. Go watch cnn and complain about the president or something old man
I remember my first time going into the wild and seeing two high levels fight and dm in full rune, back when rune was 250k and being confused why the guy didn’t run or telly. I was told because you must have honor when fighting in the wild or else the wild will become a pointless cesspool, much like it’s become today. 😔
Bro this makes me so sad ... I still play osrs to this day but it’ll never be the same. It was awesome when I first logged on at tutorial island and had zero idea what was going on. It’s still cool, but rip to the homies who haven’t logged back in
I'm crying so hard right now..these were the days where life was so easy as a kid. The memories make my cry so hard these kids this generation will never understand how this was a huge memory in where we use to be so happy when we had it easy back in the old days. They just won't understand..
im a kid and i have many memories of the golden days, 2012 was the best year in my life, i had no care and my mom just did everything for me, everything was on the verge of switching from less tech based stuff to literally just robots everywhere, but i didnt know of it, it was an inner peace, a very "sunny" world, school just had to turn everything upside down
@@retronull4722 I know exactly what you are talking about. I feel exactly the same. Those years were really peaceful and easy to me because i was a kid and my biggest worry is what i was going to eat on dinner. I used to play a lot with some real friends, like my neighbours. I have practiced and learned a lot of english since 2008, when i was 8. This game was really wonderful to me, and like people says: "No one stops to play, just stays AFK". I really miss the time i had in the game, the sensation of freedom, peace and no worries.
i cry listening to this music of my childhood :( i loved this game so much. depression and alcoholism f-cked me up but when i listen to this i know i can make it through it because i remember i was once happy. Thank you Jagex
yea, this game was so good, the music just made the game more then a game, more then art, it made the game SOMETHING ELSE, i love this RS2 thank you for the comment & for watching.
Since everyone is posting similar stuff, I might as well chime in with my own comment. I think what really made OSRS special was both the simplicity of the game, but also how noncompetitive it was. Playing any MMORPG now, you're faced almost immediately with giant choices that will impact the rest of the game. Things like what race and class you play. OSRS had only one race (the boring ol' human) and no classes, so you could dabble in whatever you wanted. FFXIV is similar in that you can play all the classes on one character, but playing different classes is still massively different from just leveling up the skills you want. OSRS wasn't competitive at all. There were BiS equipment like all MMORPGs, but getting them wasn't important. The difference between a Rune Scimmy and Dragon Scimmy wasn't groundbreaking. This meant that basically everyone playing the game was playing it casually. Sure, they could be spending hours every day playing, but they likely weren't grinding out the best gear to get the highest RNG stats to run the newest raids to make the most money. It was a peaceful game in part because nothing you did really had a giant impact on anything. A character with medium stats could still do *basically* the exact same things that a max leveled player could do
It's amazing how one video game has affected us all in such a way. No film or book or television series has ever evoked such gut wrenching feelings of nostalgia than Runescape has. It speaks volumes on the quality of a video game and its soundtrack that it can make us pine for our childhoods, to bring us back to a time when life was easy and nothing mattered, even if it is just for a fleeting moment. I needed that. I will forever treasure those memories.
I'm writing a 10 page paper right now and this is honestly just so wonderful as background ambience. Ugh, I miss it. This game taught me English. It's been aaaaages.
when i first played i was 10 i think 2001, now i'm 26 & don't play anymore sadly i just don't like what they did with the newer runescape, but i do still play on the old server every once in a while, but dumbass me always forgets my login details, so always end up making a new account. lol thank you for the comment & for watching.
It's 2007. You've just got home from school. Dinner won't be for another few hours. You turn on your CRT screen, turn on your yellowing PC and glare at the Windows XP loading screen. You connect to the dial up internet and load up Internet Explorer 6, type in www.runescape.com, click play, choose the lowest quality and wait 20 minutes for your cache to download. You then login to World 80 and message your friend to see if he wants to help you complete Shield Of Arrav. Life was bliss then.
@Valens I lived in a shitty city that didn't adopt broadband for homes until 2008. Couldn't switch provider, they held the monopoly on all the lines in the town. It was either Dial Up or paying like £700 a month for a business line
1:12:52 hits me right in the feels. I still remember my mom taking me out for breakfast and waiting for her to have her coffee and for the food to come out so she would be in a good mood when I asked her for a membership and coming home and being all excited and hearing that theme after my mom put in her credit card. I can still remember having the taste of eggs and toast in my mouth. Crazy how you remember small details like that.
I used to play so differently when I was little, no wiki or runehq just walking around when I logged on collecting every thing I could. I still have my account with tons of books and keys from quests and what not in my bank because I wanted to hold on to them. One thing I loved collecting was the songs and when I would log on, I’d flip to the music tab (instead of opening a music playing app) and play my favorites. Always fully listening and appreciating a new song when I got one. It really would just take me to a whole new world walking around in the area you discover the new song in, especially when it’s so beautiful.
Grey Five Nine maybe it was me! 😄 Probably not but I played all day every day for a good few years of my life, and I played for friendships and the social aspect of it so it’s possible, this was my exact username in RuneScape too lol.
Man I played runescape in like 2008 when I was 9 and I just remember slaying goblins and spending so much time in the dungeon thing in the barbarian village. I would make friends just to go through that dungeon. I also remember having a really cool pair of rainbow boots
After I left RuneScape around 2008, for years I have switched between WoW, Mu, Eudemons, Cable, ArcheAge, Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls, Tera, Rift, FFXIV, 2moons, and probably tried a hundred other MMOs, but nothing has ever come close to the original RuneScape experience. Really miss it today even almost into my 30s. Hoping that one day, something will sate my cravings for another amazing game, like RS did back in the day...
I remember when I gave my friend my account password thinking he would be impressed by my progress, but then he dies on the Silverlight quest and I lost my precious white robes and air staff which I thought was rare... I legit was furious at him. Ah, this game. I remember playing it for the first time in grade 6. My friend from school had rune armor already when i joined, i thought he was a lord and went crazy when I saw his username for the first time in game! That I could send him a message from home. That feeling I remember to this day. This game actually made me feel so alive and my heart would pound a out of my rib-cage. I loved Runescape, my first ever PC game... Thank you Jagex and the players I met. Over 500hrs in this game but I have no proof. This was a big part of my teenage years. I loved the escape, the grind, the trading and it gave me something to do directly from home... SAd I never got to meet any of the people in my friends list in person. I played this game mostly solo, only when a quest asked for a second player I would ask around in-game. This game helped me learn Victorian English and add to my vocabulary. I remember lvling up in scorpion pit for 2 weeks, almost every day... It was absolutely addicting to lvl-up
Back when RuneScape wasn’t about grinding for fastest xp. It was about the journey, the growing and making friends from all over the world. I learnt so much about different cultures. This game, was the best game I have ever and will have ever played. F2P castle wars, I miss you!
I’ve wanted to restart in OSRS but that would invalidate so much work on my account that went forward into RS3. It wouldn’t be the same anyway. We’re all in our 20’s and 30’s now. The memories are there. That’s what matters.
Man... where did the time go? I remember this game was my scape from reality, played with some randoms and real life friends.. but nowadays you bring up this game at a house party with some people you played with, and they just laughed.. sigh i miss being young, now it’s all full of stress, bills, relationships, anxiety, depression and so forth... any one born at early 2000’s enjoy your youth please, be yourself, don’t be “matured” because trust me life will sneak behind you and catch you off guard.
I want to cry so much. When i hear these songs. I realize how much rs captivated my time my attention then. I want to go back to the moment of feeling acheivment and lmmersed into this great game. When the community was just amazing friendly and helpful. Memories made. But alas we grow up. Fuck man my adult heart is being unthawed and reminded of how i once thought and acted when i was at that age playing rs.
