Runescape, for the gameboy!

[no_username4]

(yet another "I hate the updates!" topic!)

 

 

 

So I ask, what now is the difference between Runescape and a single player game (take pokemon, for instance)? You can run around, buy from the stores, train your skills and kill monsters. With specialized "game link" technology, you can even occasionally trade with friends! Don't worry though, you'll never get ripped off more than a petty amount.

 

Also with "game link" technology, you can fight with your friends! Amazing!! Doing so in groups will be difficult, but we're working on ways to facilitate such super advanced features.

 

 

 

So what is the difference between this and a single player game? 5 dollars a month I say.

[Bloodredsword]

ehhh.....no.

 

 

 

 

 

It mabye would be fun for someone who had never played rs as an mmo, but not for us mmoers. I also don't think jagex would ever do that.

[bombpie]

The difference is the Internet and capabilites...pokemon got boring fast, theres always something new on rs.

[no_username4]

ehhh.....no.

 

 

 

 

 

It mabye would be fun for someone who had never played rs as an mmo, but not for us mmoers. I also don't think jagex would ever do that.

 

 

 

I'm comparing the current RS to a gameboy game. It has about the same amount of inter-player interaction.

[me]

Andrew Gower was actually asked about this a few years back on IRC:

#RuneScape - Sun Aug 19 2001 (source)

 

[18] andrew, going to make runescape for GBA? lol everyone here will have one in 1 second heheheh

 

[18] <@MrAndrew> I don't think runescape for GBA would be very good, because it would have to be single player

[maxdout4life]

well there working on a cardgame on the other topic, why not =-/

 

 

 

No, serious a gba game? thats low, and it would attract players under 13 to play the actual game

[monkeyboo2]

(yet another "I hate the updates!" topic!)

 

 

 

So I ask, what now is the difference between Runescape and a single player game (take pokemon, for instance)? You can run around, buy from the stores, train your skills and kill monsters. With specialized "game link" technology, you can even occasionally trade with friends! Don't worry though, you'll never get ripped off more than a petty amount.

 

Also with "game link" technology, you can fight with your friends! Amazing!! Doing so in groups will be difficult, but we're working on ways to facilitate such super advanced features.

 

 

 

So what is the difference between this and a single player game? 5 dollars a month I say.

 

 

 

\ \ Satire Ftw \ \ =D>

[highlanders]

There are many differences between a portable console game and Runescape:

 

 

 

- For starters, in the Poke game, the other trainers are computer generated, and tell you boring little automatic lines at the beggining of each fight. In Runescape, there is actual real people all around you that can talk to you and that you can become friends with.

 

 

 

- The Poke game will not change, nor evolve. The damned undergroud will never open, the damn npcs won't say new lines, the guy that walks on route 3 is going to stay there forever. In Runescape, you get weekly updates and additions, and thus things in the game change and evolve.

 

 

 

- Since in the Poke game, there is never addition of new content, after some hours you end the game, you can keep playing to get more pokes or to raise your own higher, but the point is pretty much gone. Runescape can last countless hours, there's always something new to do, as much as you want until you get bored.

 

 

 

- The poke game plays itself on a portable console, and Runescape plays itself on a computer connected to internet. They are different kinds: apples and oranges, and thus to try a comparison between the two is pretty much ...weird.....

[no_username4]

It's a freaking satire. Gosh.