Today’s game is RuneScape. I would like to make a confession with this game, and that is that I have no clue what I’m doing in it. I’ve done maybe 3 quests. I really just like walking around and listening to the music while exploring and taking in the sights. I’m basically using RuneScape as a tourist simulator.
Like today for example. I went by this museum and just checked things out. I imagine it’s tied to a quest, but if it is I couldn’t find it. I suspect maybe it’s under premium or whatever.
The whole vibe of this game also makes me want to play Myst. I have disk copy for MacOS. Like an old one on iMac G3. I’m half tempted to boot it up and play just because of this, but I think I’ll wait and just buy it on Steam. I have to imagine it’s close enough to the same experience, and besides. I have a CRT monitor that I could hook it up to if I really wanted an older experience.
Tangents about Myst aside, I also ventured into this house and killed this imp. I panicked at first because I thought maybe the Imp was with the guy or something but he seemed pretty chill. I head cannoned it as the Imp was like a pest. Or this guy is just a shitty pet owner. Either way I took the spoils from my kill with me. I think I’ll put it in the bank as a weird messed up trophy of sorts. Sorry to that poor Bank Keeper.
Anyways. To end things off I found this village full of Barbarians. Until I boot the game up again I’m going to head cannon that he’s taking a prolonged stay here. He helped bake a cake or something one time. Maybe he can help make food or something to earn his keep.
So much this, it's from an era when games were universally pretty unforgiving. My wife ragequit and refuses to return when she died and learned you lose all but 3 items on death
But if you play casually and explore and just generally vibe it's pretty awesome. Like finding a little lake and fishing some crawdads and cooking them over a fire and pretending to be camping. Or y'know you could do what so many players do and power level as fast as possible and grind away for hours, but I don't see what the fun is in that personally. Me, I just vibe
Vibing is honestly a big part of it for me. I can spend so long walking around and just taking in the experience. Legit one of my favorite things to do is open up the map, pick a place I haven’t been, and walk there seeing what interesting things I can find