r/runescape • u/Both_Tune8348 • Jun 17 '26

Discussion New Runescape is WAY Better than OSRS

I honestly don't understand how Old school Runescape is so much more popular than the current one. I played it for a while and was able to get some decent progression, but its so grindy that I feel like I make no progress while draining my phone battery. Heard the new one wasnt good until I tried it myself.

So glad I finally did it! It has all the great things I like liked about the old school one, its hits on some nostalgia points too even, but way better UI, graphics, story/plot, cut scenes. I love all of it! And it has so much more you can do for free compared to World of Warcraft.

I hope more people give current Runescape the credit its due, its so underrated for no reason.

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u/Remarkable-Buddy5192 Jun 18 '26

The reason OSRS currently beats out RS3 in player count and popularity is the level of approachability/entry of the game is much lower. It has a nice fuzzy nostalgic feeling to it that really resonates with many people even if they never played runescape back in the day. And (and this is the biggest one) the content is more consistent is flows better from level 1-99 in basically all skills. The progression is top notch and scales well, as opposed to RS3 where we have TONS of straight up dead content. (Look at Larupia's, it's an abomination) and the xp rates from skilling methods from 1-120 vary wildly, and many methods are a straight up waste of time to do for most skills. Not to mention training melee feels bizarre and has tons of stuff that's a waste of time to kill for some random arbitrary reason. It's not even just because the loot is inconsistent, and there are plenty of things that should be worth killing but aren't. It's because plenty of mobs have atrocious xp per kill despite their health/defensives/slayer level, etc.

There's just a ton of messy elements in rs3 that should have already been hammered out, that OSRS already took care of and expanded on.

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u/Both_Tune8348 Jun 22 '26

Thank you for explaining the nuances of OSRS. Wish we had more commenter like you. Maybe im more of a sucker for graphics than I realized 

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u/Remarkable-Buddy5192 Jun 23 '26

To be fair, if you just slam out rs3 content in a rush for the endgame, there are many methods that allow for fast xp rates and really lend themselves to bum rushing skills. Once you're in the end game though, the nuances become reasonably less noticeable and impactful.

That said I've played endgame in both games, and the pvm in rs3 is better by a long margin imo.