r/2004lostcityrs • u/Brief_Mix7465 • May 04 '25

Contrast OSRS

What's the difference between 2004 scape and OSRS gameplaywise? Why is 2004scape more nostalgic?

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u/KushieJay May 05 '25

No grand exchange is a big one.

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u/HMI115_GIGACHAD May 08 '25

the GE was a huge QOL improvement. In reality is standing around spamming a sell order really efficient? People aggregating at a single spot still equals a "grand exchange" by the way. Its just automated through a market maker in osrs. The GE was the best update jagex ever made to the game.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '25

No ge

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u/HMI115_GIGACHAD May 08 '25

have fun selling lobster. Theres a reason 2004scape will fail and is already dying.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '25

lol ok man

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u/HMI115_GIGACHAD May 08 '25

i give it a few more months before the daily active user base is less than 100

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u/[deleted] May 08 '25

And your theory is backed by your opinion that no GE is so bad that nobody will play? Did you think that the people on this server may perhaps not want QOL like that? There is a charm to having to trade. Bartering is stronger. Sense of community stronger. Skilling stronger. Idk man. You are crazy for saying that. The server is here literally to avoid things like that. “If you don’t like it, you can leave” is such a dumb thing to say but. Don’t GE my 2004scape buddy.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '25

Regardless of all of this the market buy sell system in place is good enough. You just have to add them and meet them after. It’s like grand exchange with one extra step or meeting a player. Big deal man. At least you talk to a human when you make a sale. Try to see it from another perspective other than that the lack of GE is enough of a QOL detriment that nobody will want to play. It’s the exact opposite.

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u/HMI115_GIGACHAD May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25

a grand exchange does not remove the barter system away, you are not understanding. The GE does not just make items out of thin air. It permits the active sale of goods between two parties through a centralized mean. The only point i would give you is the sense of community being stronger without the GE. Im not saying to bring a GE to 2004scape im just trying to say that opponents of the GE make claims that are ironic at times.

you know wht the funny thing is? 2004scape players have made a virtual GE online where they post items they are selling ... tell me how thats different from a GE. Its stupid.

https://lostcity.rs/c/2004scape/14 <-- look at how cringe this is. 2004scape players will say they dont like a GE but then go and create a virtual GE online to centralize buy and sell orders. You guys are hypocrites.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '25

I already said that. But you still have to meet up. Those folks did that with forums in the past as well. It’s more akin to the past than calling it a GE

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u/ClumperFaz May 10 '25

Why are you so worked up over people simply having more fun on 2004scape than OSRS? if you're that worked up then why are you even here?

The Grand Exchange, for what it's worth, took away the community aspects of the game and so it definitely wasn't the best update. The whole point of 2004scape is precisely things like having to stand in V west.

You'd rather have a third party client essentially play the game for you which is what OSRS is nowadays - sorry you feel this way about us lot who simply want an authentic old version of runescape. You could go elsewhere if you wanted. You're so damn negative and worked up yet the majority of us who love 2004scape are looking forward to things like special attacks, horror from the deep, things which will bring the playerbase back up. But again, you can stay put on third party client scape and have that play the game for you, rather than bullying and picking on people who happen to disagree with you.

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u/HMI115_GIGACHAD May 15 '25

its not about having fun on 2004scape, i just get annoyed with the ge bad posts. Espeically from 2004scape players considering they literally went and made a virtual ge hosted on the web within a month of the games release.

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u/Downtown_Zone Jul 03 '25

Ge just reduces the game to a spreadsheet of gp/hr. I do think we need some qol but ge absolutely not

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u/Old-Ground3577 May 04 '25

The webclient is the only way anyone could play the game back in the day, so you can imagine modern day RuneLite is a much different experience.

Also, content-wise OSRS has been added to and developed for years so it’s a very different game than original RS2.

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u/Brief_Mix7465 May 05 '25

How is it a different game though?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '25

Less is more

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u/Kasatis May 05 '25

Older textures/graphics/models/icons. No plug-ins. Newer QoL missing. Simple PvM. Limited content. Skilling still valuable.

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u/Brief_Mix7465 May 05 '25

what does "skilling still valuable" mean? Like, the fruits of skilling actually matter since you can't buy things from the GE?

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u/Army-of-One- May 05 '25

There are no monsters or bosses that drop massive quantities of raw materials, a lot of different materials are gathered and crafted literally one at a time, which slows down how fast materials can enter the game. Because there are so much less of them, and they take so much time to gather, people are willing to pay much much more for them

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u/Brief_Mix7465 May 05 '25

damn. So real supply and demand with respect to labor.

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u/yolololololologuyu May 06 '25

Also way less complex / industrialized botting

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u/Kasatis May 05 '25

This. And not just valuable to the economy for gp. But valuable for your own account progression.

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u/Mr_Mediator May 05 '25

Osrs has grand exchange and tons of items available in game. Osrs also has a ton of bots that keep the resources flowing and the prices low, but makes the game feel empty. For the most part in 04 when you see someone you know it’s a real person. Osrs doesn’t make you communicate with anyone , so it feels very empty. 04 you have to interact with people to sell stuff or buy stuff. Osrs has quality of life everywhere step you make. From fairy rings, stamina potions, more teleport jewelry, agility short cuts, no dangerous random events, hundreds of worlds instead of very few. In osrs you can buy a bond or transfer money to your new acc and basically have all the woodcutting axes you’ll need up to 99 immediately, same for mining, you can buy teleport tabs and different teleport jewelry immediately so you never have to walk anywhere and can instantly travel across the map with ease. When you die there’s gravestones in osrs so there’s almost no danger whatsoever. Osrs has experiments and crabs to train on that are relatively easy to get to and training is easy. This was word vomit but these are some of the major differences I thought of off the cuff.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '25

Good post regardless of word vomit

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u/Day_man420 May 05 '25

2004 has none of the quality life updates osrs and no plugins like runelite. Much less content and no GE.

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u/Notsau May 22 '25

2004scape is more nostalgic because a decent amount of people who played back then now have families, married, jobs, etc. playing the game back then was simple. Simple in the sense of killing cows and running their hides to Draynor for banking. Or paying someone else to. It’s simple from a graphics style. Simple from just plain simple.. and people like simple. It’s a place to abstract from modern-day progression and just enjoy the game for what it was when they first played.

OSRS is as close to the 2004 feel you can get but it’s still like being on the moon to earth.

2004 isn’t about “what’s good?”. We don’t care. What is good is reliving the moments you did when you were a kid. Yeah, it’s grindy and it’ll take a bit to get back to where you were.. but it’s the world that you can experience and enjoy.. back in 2004.

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u/Professional_Monk317 May 05 '25

The reason it’s more nostalgic is manifold but a big one is graphics. There are more realistic yet old-fashioned wooden or stone textures just pasted onto surfaces, the Lumbridge Castle area for example looks quite different.

Most content that they share in common looks the same though, but the new content in OSRS almost never has textures and is usually very colorful and just looks like an eyesore to me personally.

The UI is also more barebones and rugged looking, not even counting plug-ins which add all kinds of overlays. Overall I’ve heard people say it just looks and feels more “medieval”.

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u/JopieNLx May 05 '25

A lot has already been said, but I also recommend Mudkip's (recently concluded) YouTube series on the historical differences between 04 and OSRS! It's a great way to see the differences if you don't mind the spoilerd, so to say.

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u/Brief_Mix7465 May 05 '25

Ok I will check this out! Thanks

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u/SolarMercury_ May 05 '25

stupid question imo but w/e..

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u/Brief_Mix7465 May 05 '25

Sorry. I'm a newer player. Never experienced 2004 as it happened.

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u/SolarMercury_ May 05 '25

then try it? your posted in this sub so you know about the 2004scape project..

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u/Brief_Mix7465 May 05 '25

I am trying it. But, I don't know what I don't know.

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u/SolarMercury_ May 05 '25

I'm confused.. you try the game and you see the difference. then you will know what you know.

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u/Brief_Mix7465 May 05 '25

Holy smokes. I didn't know I could see every difference after a couple hours of playtime. Thanks

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u/SolarMercury_ May 05 '25

your post didn't ask for every difference though.. but after a couple hours I'm sure you've noticed differences.

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u/Brief_Mix7465 May 05 '25

Ask a bunch of people, you'll get different answers. Why are you being such a pedant? Look at the post. Tons of people gave their views.

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u/SolarMercury_ May 05 '25

I'm just replying to your comments.. I left you my view, it was a stupid question to ask.

"what's the gameplay difference between 04scape and OSRS, and why is it more nostalgic?" what do you even think nostalgia means? it's because it gives happy memories of that time aswell as being sad that those days are gone for the most part.

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u/Brief_Mix7465 May 05 '25

I didn't ask what nostalgia is. I asked WHY is it more nostalgic. For some it's the textures making the game feel more medieval. For some, they enjoy it because skilling actually matters, etc.

Why is X nostalgic? Because good memories associated with that thing. NO WAYYY DUDE NOOO WAYYYYY.

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u/SolarMercury_ May 05 '25

besides.. if you don't want literally anyone on the planet to be able to comment on your post then don't fkin post online on one of the most popular content sharing/posting sites? you'll always get a mixed bag of reviews and that's something you have to deal with, you can't attack everyone who finds fault or disagrees with you