The past 2 or so years, RuneScape's lore has been becoming much more relevant. The other guy here mentioned that there's no story and character development - with that I disagree. The combat now feels much more alive, an action bar along with abilities have entered the game, making bossing much more interactive and fun as well as player killing (although many disagree). The combat has been completely revamped as well as the interface (you can now fully customize it) and depending on how far back you've played RuneScape, the graphics as well. Some say it's for the worst, some say it's for the best myself included. First of all, the RuneScape you knew before 2012 has changed. But I am here to hopefully convince you that it's not and also explain my 8/10 rating. Now then, RuneScape has a reputation of being a 'childish' or perhaps 'bad' game. I am still playing this game and I can safely say it's better than back then. I kept playing and playing, on and off sometimes but still being really active. Then inevitably like every game the craze died, everyone suddenly stopped playing RuneScape at my school and my friends moved to other games. This game was really, really addictive, I was playing for hours without end just to get higher levels than my friends I couldn't stop. I got introduced to RuneScape by a friend in High School, I have of course heard of it before but never decided to give it a try until my friend convinced me to. I started playing in 2007, many consider it late, but if I'm not mistaken that was the year that RuneScape had the most subscribed members, bots or not doesn't matter it was popular as hell. once the game is won (or lost) you may never see those players again, and you are left with nothing showing your victory other than maybe an arbitrary number next to your name.I believe every gamer has heard of or even played RuneScape sometime in their life. I dont like games that are 'individual games' as such (like most fps games, and games like dota/hon/lol) although those types of game can be fun, and you have the chance to quickly show others your superior skill. So again, something similar to old runescape in which you solo'd skills whenever you pleased to attain rewards that would help you skill better, gaining more experience, enabling you to climb the highscores faster than most. Similar to Diablo 3 in that you farm mobs for hours in order to attain rewards, however, diablo 3 doesnt offer any opportunity to show off your hard work as there is no 'central hub', unless you are in a game with a person, the world will never know of your many hard hours grinding pixels :P. I also like the game to be mostly solo content. I like being rewarded for time well spent, being efficient in playstyle and that being recognized by some form of benefits capable of creating envy. In runescape, spending 100's of tedious hours and accuring millions of gold allowed you to accumulate items that 95% of the play-base would only ever dream of attaining.

In TBC WoW, having amazing looking pieces of gear, that were very rarely seen and were equally powerful as their rarity. To sum my preferences up, I like being able to be idolized in a game. Both of these games have however become extremely homogenized and easy, with little reward for your efforts that differentiat yourself from the casual players as the spastics that play games want to be on the same level as a person that LOVES that game, and therefor puts alot of effort into perfecting their playstyle. What I loved about these games was the exclusivity, customisability and the uniqueness you could create in your character by completing difficult/tedious/lengthy tasks.

In the past I have loved WoW (solely TBC, although I have continued to play, it has remained very casual and used mainly as a time sink these days), I also really enjoyed Runescape (I know, easy kid-game) Im actually 21 years old, I just really loved that game in the past. I have been looking for a new 'main' game for quite a few years to no avail so I will now put myself in the capable and experienced hands of the internets. Im aware that you 'cant suggest a game I would like as it is all up to personal preference' but I will attempt to describe the feature I enjoy most in a game.

Runescape time sink