ITT: games you wanted to get into but couldn't

Grinding IS the game. If you don't enjoy grinding then the game just isn't for you.

I enjoy the grind quite a lot. I listen to music and put myself in to a kind of meditative trance. Clears my mind.

Minigames and quests were not locked behind grinding, what are you a retard

Level 60 in the important skills is enough to experience like 90% of the game, which is easily obtainable in like two weeks at an easy pace if you know what you're doing

This is how the modern redit audience has coped with RuneScape

It's an old game that was great for it's time. People were also much more social in RS back then and it was more of a cool new world to explore rather than 'meta tic-perfect teak chopping and fishing'

Redit and the modern times have left the game feeling soulless

I enjoy a lot of the game though. Just not the mindless slow unbalanced skilling grind. The content that's unlocked is actually fun. The quest would be just as good or even better in a polished single player game for example

for 9.50 euros a month actually

it was the same shit back then
you were just younger and the xp rates were lower and methods more limited

try f2p and doing the quests
if you want MORE then get membership
no skill should be leveled past 40 on f2p

You don't need to pay for membership
You need to grind a fuckton the first months, tho

This. Devs originally never intended for someone to go for maximum levels. That's why they made it a ridiculous grind. It takes the same amount of experience to get from level 1 to 92 as it takes to get from level 92 to 99.
And that's why back in 2005 it was so rare to see someone with 99 levels and that's why they were heroes. That gave the whole game this magical feeling. Most of the content you could do easily with lower levels.

The social aspect also made the skilling much more tolerable and sometimes even fun