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I'm kind of disheartened, I've defended jagex over so many things this year and tbh i might have been wrong to do so this sh*t sucks.
I came back to RuneScape right before elder god wars, from osrs. I love RuneScape in general and I had left when EoC came out like many people, I was stoked when osrs came back out because I could play the game that I loved, I was on YouTube and I saw a RuneScape 3 live stream where mod ramen was talking about the elder god wars coming out the next month and I was like a ten year old again, I was so excited. I know it's controversial but I absolutely loved the elder god wars story and even the battle of the monolith because it actually gave us a lot of contextual clues about Xau Tak and Vos (in hindsight)
The game I came back to was wonderful! I had missed truly favorite pieces of content now, the elite dungeons, a storyline of an Eldritch horror from another universe corrupting and influencing RuneScape and all the threads connected Dungeoneering, Curse of the Black Stone, Senntisten, Zaros, Mah, Dragonkin. ALL OF IT.
We get an abrupt ending and like you would expect the gods who were forced to leave had their generals fighht over the remnants. Yet literally the greatest actual questions and storylines are left unfinished and unmentioned.
Gnomes had nothing to say about The end of Gielenor? No one has said "oh sh*t Raksha was screaming about EREBUS, let's go investigate what it knows" (or any plot point to mention an Erebral titan that's chilling) NO LETS MAKE A QUEST SERIES FOR THE EARLY GAME. While the UI makes early game virtually unplayable for a new player.
But my biggest issue is the stuff that takes minimal development cost.
We got NINE quests for Necromancy and two bosses. We have ZERO idea of what the hell the well of souls is. The first Necromancer is literally in a floating library and neither him or his minion drop lore books, The entire Forinthry quest like could've been two quests and we got an entire 3 months of build up for it to be a 15 minute quest to an important dragonkin cite that has ZERO lore pages or books, and ZERO post quest interaction with the archivist an apparent Dragonkin encyclopedia.
Even though I know battle of forinthry was of course mostly centered around the boss fight we have zemos imprisoned and get a small cutscene at the end with a small lore Revelation I will admit, but there's zero post quest interaction, and oh ANOTHER BOSS that drops zero lore books.
While I recognize most people aren't really into the story, the people who are going to stay around and defend the game even when all the other stuff is bad are the people who enjoy the narrative.
Sorry for the rant but as a person who spends a lot of time enjoying the awesome storyline (up until now) I'm so disappointed.
All while this year osrs also took the coolest piece of RS3 lore and added it to Lassar (Xau Tak + sliske)
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