Looking Across the Way

Something I've been increasingly curious about is a certain game that I was originally familiar with by the spam that Parallel Context would get when I checked the blog's email:

From Steam.

I'm not going to dissemble here, but all that spam initially turned me away from ever wanting to consider playing Old School RuneScape. So that I'm now actively considering checking out OSRS just to see what's up, I'm either deep down the rabbit hole of Stockholm Syndrome or maybe I've come around to wondering if the OSRS method of horizontal progression is what WoW Classic+ ought to be.

Knowing how I work, I never do things on impulse, so it's not like I'm going to drop everything and try out OSRS in the next month, but MadSeasonShow's video that dropped yesterday about the differences between WoW Classic/Season of Discovery and OSRS got me thinking about this very thing.

Don't get me wrong; the graphics are something I'd have written in the 1980s, and if you thought that Vanilla WoW had some clunkiness, OSRS makes Vanilla WoW look like the latest Call of Duty game. 

No naked elves dancing atop the Stormwind Fountain.
From Runescape.com.

The graphics don't bother me that much, but the gameplay might. We'll see, when I go try it out. (Probably 2026, knowing me.)

#Blaugust2025

EtA: It's 2025, not 2026.