Today’s game is Old School RuneScape. I was left with an urge to play today, so I booted it up and decided to focus on a task instead of my usual wandering.
My first idea was to do the quest where you kill the Vampire. Only. Problem. Turns out I’m far from a high enough level to pull it off. The guy is like level 20, and I’m level 6 (4 at the time of attempting it). So obviously I was gonna run into some issues.
I did the first thing I assumed I could do and went to killing things. I found this farm full of Goblins and just started mowing them down until I got low on healthy. Turns out the goblins are Semi comparable fighters. I went until I got to 2/10 health.
I then went on to try and slaughter some cows to gain experience. Because surely the cows won’t fight back. Plot twist, turns out they do and I got my ass kicked by them too after killing 4 of them. I didn’t have food so I’ll have to run into town.
Finally. After that I went to the pond in the main picture. I meant to kill some ducks, but they were just too harmless to kill I felt like so I left them be. I doubt they’d offer much EXP anyways. So I’ll just stick to healing and killing cows for now.
10 Comments
bootstrap@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 7d
This reads like my childhood internal monologue, thank you for the walk down memory lane.
You only ever get to play OSRS innocently / for the first time once.
warm@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 7d
If you want to relive it, MadSeasonShow on YouTube has been doing a blind, no help, no wiki playthrough for the last couple years and it's pretty nostalgic to watch!
the_shwa@programming.dev · 3 pts · 7d
My wife and I are very much enjoying watching MadSeason's playthrough
Carl@anarchist.nexus · 3 pts · 7d
Yeah, I very distinctly remember the “just wander and figure the details out later” feeling of adventure from my first time playing. As a noob, I carted around most of the starting gear (basically everything that exists on your toolbelt now) just in case I needed it while I was out and about. Because I didn’t have a good idea of the map yet, (and the game map at the time didn’t give you a “You Are Here” marker) so I didn’t want to find myself lost in the middle of nowhere without a tinderbox or fishing net.
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 6d
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I think Innocently has been the only way I’m playing. I always just end up wandering around and messing with things while listening to the soundtrack. It’s honestly become a “cozy” game for me. If it wasn’t for the price being so steep I might have just bought a year of the Membership too
firebarrage@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d
Definitely fortunately. There's no wrong way to play that game, wandering around trying random things is my favorite way to do the early game too.
Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 7d
Oh my goodness! This is amazing, I love seeing new people start up osrs!
Coolcoder360@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7d
I think the move is to start with chickens, then graduate to cows. That's how my friend taught me many years ago when I started osrs (coming from RS3)
It is very tedious at first, I usually do cycles of playing and not playing because of the amount of grinding involved
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d
I’ll start with chickens then first. The cows being able to fight back definitely threw a wrench in the works
FoxAlive@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 5d
F2p cow boss would of been a better goal. Short quest all done in lumbridge, I killed the cow on a account with 1 attack 1 def 40 str and was using goblin cannon as a weapon.