Minecraft; WASD to move, 1st person, Really Loved, Blocky Graphics, Sandbox
Both; Combat, Crafting System, Multiple weapons and tools, Low quality Graphics
Runescape; Mouse Click to move, 3rd person (?), Overly Hated, Semi Smooth Graphics, MMORPG
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I'm afraid it's not as black and white as you're pointing out.
The last time you played Runescape, according to yourself, was yearsa year ago. It has changed a lot.
Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed
Only one year, as i said, feel free to prove me wrong and edit the list.
Your list doesn't really show Runescape off as bad at all, except for being "overly hated".
Runescape and Minecraft have their similarities such as, they are both programed in Java, do not need to be downloaded, and are both great works in a programer's eye. As for the gameplay aspect, they are nothing alike, I enjoy playing Minecraft way more than Runescape. The main thing to me that makes them different is the people that play them, Minecraft's people are way nicer, while the Runescape population are as rude as possible.
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Games are said to rot brains, not MineCraft. It just steals them.
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They have some common ground (IE. crafting, fishing, mining, different materials to make tools, cows, many of the crafting materials are the same) but just about everything else (Playstyle, atomsphere, quality, implementation of gameplay mechanics, goals ect.) is completely different.
And runescape is not a sandbox game you simpletons.
I hate it so much when my friends do this. Minecraft and Runescape aren't even in the same genre. The only similaritiy is the mideival theme (Being made in java doesn't really have to do with gameplay). I suppose if you want to say gathering items and killing things makes them similar then Minecraft is also like EVE, MW2 with scavenger, and GTA.
I played runescape for quite a long time and I won't go out to say it's a bad game...those people have either never played it or didn't get past Lumbridge (starting town) but the only thing minecraft is superior to runescape is the mining.
I would have to agree I see similarities in RSC and MC, but ONLY RSC. The newer RS completely collapsed in on itself by being too catering to a terrible and immature community and posing no real challenges, and having no real rewards.
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"The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding wretchedness; for that runs deeper than death."
IMO Minecraft's community is quite immature these days too...
Of course there are some differences - Runescape is unplayable to free players, members have to pay every month (via PayPal I think). Runescape has skills and levels, Minecraft doesn't (Notch even opened voting for skillpoints and levels and community voted no). Runescape is MMORPG, so the negative impact of immature community is much stronger. But I still think that Minecraft would be much better if it were MMO, with much more players per server, giant cities, minecart railways (I love OpenTTD) etc...
I think that unless this was done nearly perfectly it would degenerate into a sub-RS game due to the griefable nature of multi-player. A game's flaws caused by the immature community are based on how susceptible the game is to immature players; in this case, greatly susceptible. Right now, though, being single player and pure creativity based immature players have little ground on which to stomp.
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"The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding wretchedness; for that runs deeper than death."
There's a lot of similarities, mostly because they are both written in Java. Both are very sandbox driven games, both have very complex resource gathering and crafting systems.
I don't get how people say runescape is crap. Especially for the time it was produced initially, it was a very well put together game. Maybe the game has changed over the years since I haven't played it since 2004? Before they changed it into entirely 3D.
Both are good games, I'd compare minecraft more to Wurm though. Runescape was very click driven (entirely mouse controlled i think too) while minecraft is mostly what you'd get a feel for a first person shooter.
This man, this. RS was a great game in its early days, and I still think it's a cut above the other mandatory pay-to-play MMORPGs like WoW and LOTR:O.
But I agree that MC is more like Wurm due to the complex crafting/building elements in both.
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[f]ire says that runescape is more repetitive, around level 20 its still oh yea, around level 40 itll take around 15 minutes to level up. around 50 itll take around 1 hour to lvl up (any skill) , and overall the only goal in the game is to level up.
[f]ire says that minecraft is endless possibility. There is no goal but your goal. Once you set your eyes on your goal you go. you go untill its done. once its done you set upon a new goal, you are not restricted to anything, other then, your imagination.
I can end this conversation here: Minecraft is NOT Runescape because...
The creator of Minecraft dosen't suck ass...
You don't get bugged by 11 year olds when you log in.
Minecraft is on TV for good news, not bad or hacker news.
Minecraft is growing to be more popular.
I don't want Runescape players to get angry with me. I dont HATE runescape, I dislike it and think it got old. I will dislike minecraft if it ever ends up the same... but that will take a long time.
Your list doesn't really show Runescape off as bad at all, except for being "overly hated".
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Yup. It only makes sense that his previous creations would influence him on making other games.
I have played Half-Life, but only once at lan-world.
reason(s); i hate steam. I have a crappy internet connection.
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By balance, do you mean make it totally worthless?
And runescape is not a sandbox game you simpletons.
Either way, I'd much rather ditch runescape for minecraft than the other way around...
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Just because they are both made with java doesn't mean they are the same game genre...
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Minecraft Mining >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Runescape mining lol
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I think that unless this was done nearly perfectly it would degenerate into a sub-RS game due to the griefable nature of multi-player. A game's flaws caused by the immature community are based on how susceptible the game is to immature players; in this case, greatly susceptible. Right now, though, being single player and pure creativity based immature players have little ground on which to stomp.
I meant Minecraft destroys Runescape as easy as a lighter destroys a piece of wood.
This man, this. RS was a great game in its early days, and I still think it's a cut above the other mandatory pay-to-play MMORPGs like WoW and LOTR:O.
But I agree that MC is more like Wurm due to the complex crafting/building elements in both.
[f]ire says that runescape is more repetitive, around level 20 its still oh yea, around level 40 itll take around 15 minutes to level up. around 50 itll take around 1 hour to lvl up (any skill) , and overall the only goal in the game is to level up.
[f]ire says that minecraft is endless possibility. There is no goal but your goal. Once you set your eyes on your goal you go. you go untill its done. once its done you set upon a new goal, you are not restricted to anything, other then, your imagination.
sums it up.
The creator of Minecraft dosen't suck ass...
You don't get bugged by 11 year olds when you log in.
Minecraft is on TV for good news, not bad or hacker news.
Minecraft is growing to be more popular.
I don't want Runescape players to get angry with me. I dont HATE runescape, I dislike it and think it got old. I will dislike minecraft if it ever ends up the same... but that will take a long time.
My ratings x10 is max rating.
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