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Play Your Own Way

Submitted by tokiokobayas on Thu, 04/25/2019 - 18:10

    With sandbox game modes, the player is able to choose the way they play without any sort of quests or challenges to guide them through the game. These kinds of games allow the player to progress as fast or as slowly as they want, and to play the game in any way that they want. An example of a sandbox mode MMORPG is Old School Runescape, where the game is set in a medieval time with a very large world and different skills a player can level up to unlock more content. With a setting like this, the options are endless and there’s a lot of unlockable content. Yet with all this freedom, recently a Youtuber named Settled decided to fix his own rules, and lock his character in just a specific area of the map, called Morytania. This portion of the map is very swampy, and thus he named his character “Swampleptics”. By restricting his character to a specific portion of the map, he’s forcing himself to come up with new ways to train abilities and to level up his skills. By documenting this new way of playing the game, the content becomes an interesting way of looking at the game that a lot of people don’t look at it anymore; a feeling of exploration. For a game as old as Old School Runescape, which has all the most efficient leveling up methods explored already, to discover new things that have still been in the game for so long brings up a feeling of nostalgia for old players that they haven’t felt since playing the game as a kid.

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