Hey, everyone. Thank you all so much for the kind words and support on this video. I'm looking forward to making many more nostalgic videos similar to this one in the near future. Stay tuned! I also want to share some incredibly helpful additional insights from the comments that slightly change some considerations from the video: There were no stat checks for gear at release so you could wear adamant at level 1 instead of level 30. Black, Red, and Blue Capes had different stats until the ability to dye capes made them all equal - blue was best followed by red then black. In RS2 it was possible to change Family Crest Gauntlets but not until August 2005 (not March 2004). Dragon plateskirts were released a couple months after the legs in March 2005. Metal boots didn't have a strength bonus until 2006 or so. The Abyssal Whip was released on February 15th (misspoke), not January 15th. The first Whip was supposedly received at the end of February 2005. I also discovered that the Green Day album came out a year earlier than I said in September of 2004 so it's me. I'm the American idiot.

@123zB3avisz123

3 ай бұрын

Lol "I'm the American idiot," got me. Good content, keep it up! The nostalgia train is real. Started playing in what must've been 2003/4. Just got back into it.

@pkermen

3 ай бұрын

early rs2 post-launch platebodies still had gloves attached, so wearing gauntlets with platebody wouldn't be possible 25:20

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

@@pkermenRS2 Beta is not part of this video so that's not accurate here.

@JimMilton-ej6zi

Ай бұрын

pp

A small story of how I got my first whip. I was a pretty big noob and could never afford one. My brother was a much bigger player and he had a friend who lived in Europe, we were in the US. His European friend had the slayer level to kill Abyssal Demoms and while he slept, my brother would use his account to grind demons for whips to sell and split the profits. One day while my brother was at a party and I was at home, I snuck into my brothers room, found the paper with the login info and got on. I grinded out demons til a whip dropped, took about 3 hours. I traded it to my account and replaced all the food and supplies I had used on the account and put it back where he was originally logged out at. They never knew and that’s how a total noob was able to get a whip.

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely devious and yet something we all would have done if given the opportunity.

@Non-disjunction

3 ай бұрын

Pretty smart thinking for a kid

@ryanmsch14

3 ай бұрын

I woulda took everything 😂

@DadyVersys

3 ай бұрын

I joined a clan and won a whip about a week later from some celebration event. Needless to say, all the OG clan members were PISSED that some FNG took the top prize of the day 😂😂 I will never forget that day 😊

@austinwilburn1772

3 ай бұрын

I also had to grind all weekend because I didn’t have the attack level to wield it lol.

It really felt like Jagex was timing their updates just to crush BlueRose. We will never stop stanning our queen.

@snoopdogg2912

2 ай бұрын

Yes, they were stopping monopolizing gear 😂

@Rspknlikeab0ssxd

Ай бұрын

Jagex par excellence lmfao

The funnest part watching this was seeing Classic's BIS gear development largely be "Bluerose gets an important Smithing level milestone and Jagex comes in with the steel chair" numerous times

@quirkyelephant

3 ай бұрын

"Jagex comes in with the steel chair". What does this mean?

@Turbo-DF

3 ай бұрын

think a chair match in WWE or w/e lol

@babel_fishing

3 ай бұрын

“WATCH OUT WATCH OUT WTCH OUT”

@seeker296

Ай бұрын

​@@quirkyelephant punish/hurt them out of spite From wrestling, where they hit each other with steel chairs

As a guy that's been playing since early February 2002, this video is top quality content and took me down memory lane. Thank you

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the trip down memory lane! The new series hitting the channel next will scratch that same itch.

@Radtastical

3 ай бұрын

@@HamOSRS Sounds great bro. Earned a new subscriber, and I'll turn the bell on. Can't wait.

@G-bl8hj

3 ай бұрын

I know I started in 3rd grade which was 01/02 but how in gods name do you know the month

@G-bl8hj

3 ай бұрын

@@HamOSRSvideo question I started in 01/02 but I’m wondering when I started jagex had stated the game had been available since 99 you just stated 01 . Edit this based on the copyright for RuneScape starting in 99

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

@@G-bl8hjRuneScape opened in January 2001. Prior to that, there was a web game called DeviousMUD made by the Gower brothers but that very quickly shut down while they began working on RuneScape. You can find out the age of an account by talking to Hans in Lumbridge, but be careful keep his answer to yourself because that info can be used to steal an account via account recovery.

>Bluerose grinds her ass off to get to new most powerful item Jagex: I'm about to end this items whole career

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

The timing makes me really wonder whether it was intentional or not. Was it really just a coincidence that it was quite literally the very next day?

@Jpbawlings

3 ай бұрын

​Definitely not, but she would have become way too rich otherwise. She would have had a literal monopoly on the item production.​@HamOSRS

@steveprefontaine5977

3 ай бұрын

Blue rose was scummy. Price gouged worse than the guy who jacked up the aids medications 700%

@GhostLyricist

3 ай бұрын

Rune was definitely planned ahead of time anyways, the levels to 99 and name just make sense. Clearly they did seem to rush the update out after she got the smithing level though. Maybe they didn't like her or thought she was botting.

@Abigail-hu5wf

3 ай бұрын

​@@GhostLyricistI suspect it was shock. "Wait, someone ALREADY got there? God, we need new content for her."

Hit me right in the nostalgia. I spammed lyrics to American idiot at castle wars all day everyday as a little kid. Good times, good times.

@astronemir

2 күн бұрын

😢

I wonder if they are holding a smithing update hostage, out of spite for Bluerose13x

9:24 the teacups in the water was an AWESOME and underrated visual gag. That was great lol 10/10 great video, this is the kind of content i love to see. Interesting & informative, no clickbait thumbnail, just enough humor and perfectly paced and not one subject is drawn out too much. Genuinely loved the video and you got my subscription!

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and that gag. It was one of my favorites to sneak into the video.

@RickyThaRat

3 ай бұрын

@@HamOSRScant be understated how great this video was to watch. Long time player since classic and watching this kind of thing always sparks my interest Ill be watching the next upload for sure

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

@@RickyThaRat You're going to love the main series on this channel coming very soon then. It's in the same spirit as this video but it's not in video essay format.

I was just a kid, maybe 6 or 7 when I played for the first time way back near the beginning. This game’s been with me for life. What a nostalgia trip. Great video!

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

I'm glad to hear you were able to enjoy a stroll down memory lane! Stay tuned for more!

The quality, editing, and attention to detail in storytelling is crazy good. Wow. Keep it up dude. I enjoyed every video edit and visualization.

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

The editing really is incredible, but it's not my own. I'm a pretty big fan of their work too needless to say.

Good vid, I remember collecting runes to trade bluerose to make my rune square shield when it first came out, also I was one of the people perma banned for pvping with the knife bug. Good times

Great video man, keep it up. I loved the references to your personal rs experience.

I watched this video and was amazed by the amount of research and dedication you created for this. I started RS just as the construction skill went live, so this was a great trip down memory lane. I went to your channel, and you only have 500 subscribers?! This is top tier content, and I can't wait for the many more videos to come.

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Half of my subscribers are from 4 years of making videos up until 16 years ago. The other half are from yesterday!

This was great, love this kind of content. Would love to see more video essays/time pieces.

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

The main series on this channel coming soon won't be in that same format, but it should be very similar in spirit to what you're looking for.

i miss these days so much.. I have vivid memories of being in 5th grade, sitting at school drawing zammy armor, thinking about how the night prior i unlocked water bolt and was excited to run home and train with it.. Ugh... I need to go back.

Wow, this was an incredible deep dive into Runescape's development history. Honestly even with all the research I did for Time Traveller Ironman I still learned so much. Nice work!

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! This means a lot coming from one of my biggest inspirations for resurrecting my channel. Love your series!

This was great make another. I went to your channel thinking you have been doing this forever because of how well polished it was

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! To be fair, I did start making videos on this channel in 2007. Just a very long break in between.

So incredibly well researched!

Been waiting on a new video ever since your falador park one!

Great video! Love the in depth research! Keep it up!

Love this video, I hope this video leverages your content to the right people and you smash it!

Cool video my guy. Great editing and quality.

It's worth noting that when whips came out, they cost ~60m gp, and they attacked as fast as throwing knives which made them massively op... Jagex had to nerf to what it is today.

insane commitment and well elaborated research!!!

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! It was a lot of fun to put together and it was a very nostalgic journey for me.

Just checked your channel, and you casually come back after 14 years and drop this fire? Sheeesh, gj bro, subscribed!

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Debating whether or not to make some old videos public again, but we'll see. It was a different game on KZread 15 years ago.

This brought back so many good memories, thank you for making it! Also, the level of research and time it would have taken to make this video shouldn't go unnoticed. Well done!

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it, stay tuned for more nostalgia trips coming soon!

Dude nice I love these timeline videos!

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it - stay tuned for more!

Awesome and very well made video man very interesting and chill watch keep it up bro :)

Class video this is a proper nostalgia trip and it's well presented! And humorous :D Looking forward to future content!

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Stay tuned for more very soon.

Great video - glad I got recommended it by the algorithm! :)

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm really glad to see the algorithm pushing the video to the right audience.

S tier video! Thank you for sharing this with us all, it's great

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Check out some of my inspirations if you haven't for some great content: Colonello, Mote Plox, and July the RuneScape Historian.

Incredibly underrated video! 10/10 loved it!

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

This was a very well made video, definitely earned a sub

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! We are hoping to release many more very well made videos in the near future as well.

great video, i hope you keep at it

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate it! We are launching episode 1 of a brand new series that we are so excited to share with the world in about a week and a half or so. Stay tuned for more very soon.

Great video pal, I hope you make more!

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! We weren't originally planning on making more video essays but we've been blown away by the response to this one so we'll have to add more to the docket now. I've got a fresh idea for the next one that I will start writing soon. In the meantime, please stay tuned for the main series of the channel hopefully premiering later this week or early next week if everything goes according to plan.

I got a good laugh out of the mind goblin joke 🤣 Love the illustration of it!

"You probably still have an obsidian cape and a combat bracelet today in old school" I DO NOT LIKE BEING CALLED OUT LIKE THAT THOOO

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

I used to be pretty bad at bossing, but I found Vorkath in 2018 to be the confidence boost that I needed to tackle other bosses as well. You should check out the new rat boss Scurrius if you want to get better at PvM mechanics. It does a really good job of teaching you the basics and giving you the confidence you need to utilize the skills you already have. Good luck against Jad and the Culinaromancer! You've got this!

@ShizuruNakatsu

3 ай бұрын

I have 94 strength and have never even ATTEMPTED to get a fire cape yet. Or fight any boss for that matter, outside of simple quest bosses. I've been playing RuneScape since 2005, and I've only died once. Because I'm way too scared. I don't really take risks. Though I have completed 102 quests and have 203 quest points. I just don't try anything with advanced combat mechanics, like prayer flicking, or anything where you really have to learn patterns and timing, etc. My health pretty much *never* goes below half, because I'd panic too much if it did. If I ever got hit for 20+ damage, I'd probably react by screaming and closing my laptop 😂

@ShizuruNakatsu

3 ай бұрын

I did do Recipe for Disaster last year though, so I have the Barrows gloves.

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

@@ShizuruNakatsuI too still play like a HCIM 20 years after losing all my items by dying to a Dwarf in the Mines in Classic 😂. You know, you can practice the Jad fight risk free on an alternate profile if you head to a quest speed running world and select Beneath Cursed Sands. You will start with a fire cape so you can use that to get into the inner circle of the TzHaar city and practice the 1 Jad challenge as many times as you like risk free. You've got this!

@_Professor_Oak

3 ай бұрын

NOOB

Keep it up hamosrs this was a great video and concept keep it up brother ✊👍💪

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Stay tuned for the main series of the channel which will be very similar in spirit, but a totally different concept.

throwback af, andrew gowers new game is gnna be so hype

@HamOSRS

2 ай бұрын

It really does look like it has a lot of potential to be great.

Mam comes outta a 14 year dry streak with some decent content. Nice one fella

I love the video and the info is way neat. But that Boston Harbor line got me good 😂 Thank you for that

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

As someone who's also super intrigued in runescape classic and rs2, this video was a real treat!

@HamOSRS

2 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it! The next video was delayed unexpectedly but it will be a nice tribute mostly to some niche memories from RS2 as well as a couple from Classic. Stay tuned!

Very cool to see this in a video. Some of these things you've always just wondered

Yo this video rules! Hope to see you do more in the genre :)

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Definitely more to come. The main series hitting the channel soon will be similar in spirit but a unique twist on how it's presented.

@TheK3vin

3 ай бұрын

@@HamOSRS That's awesome ^_^ personally my favorite part about this one was seeing an overview of the game's development over the years, because it helped me understand how the development of skills like smithing and slayer corresponded with where people's characters were at the time. As someone who played a stint in 2006-8 but never had membership, it's been fascinating seeing the progression of skills, items, and regions over the years since now that I'm playing more "seriously" all these years later. Really makes everything feel more cohesive and logical. Anyway, rant over! Excited to see the next video, regardless of whether it does more of what I described :)

Started playing RS in 2006-2007 when I was 10 years old. I have had huge breaks but I still play now 2024🤙

What a good and underrated video. GGs brother.

I didn't know like ANY of this :)

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Glad you could learn something new! Lining up everything to happen in timeline order revealed a lot of interesting patterns.

This is a great video. You can tell that you are a true fan of runescape.

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Deserve more subs for sure! Amazing vid

I hope we can expect more content out of you. This was great

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

The main series of this channel is premiering very soon. Stay tuned!

me currently rocking the 2007 bis because I just started again and wanted it from my childhood.

That was a really well made and interesting video!! 😃👍🏼👍🏼 I’ve been playing since roughly ‘05/‘06 and I learned a lot there, particularly about classic, which I never actually got to play. Nice job! Subscribed! - Machinist_2

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I always say that any day that you learn something new is a good day.

Me thinking how have i not seen this channel before these are some good quality vids, then seeing the subscriber count. I see a golden gnome in your future!

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

There's a small chance you saw some old videos on this channel 15 years ago on my first try at video making, but my best video back then only had about 86k views. In any case, I'm no stranger to this game even after a long break. Either way, thank you for the kind words!

Forgotten but not lost, well done lad.

awesome video! Thank you

A quality made video, only a few minutes in but going to sub and like to show support.

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! We have big plans for a unique new series coming soon that you won't want to miss.

Oh man. I'm looking forward to more of this haha

wow this is amazing thanks :)

this is the runescape we all would want to play again, if the devs ever bring it back, its the graphics that captivated all of us to play this game. The amount of players playing was insane. The diffciculty of making money back was really hard,, like i remember when cowhides were the best money maker back then. Also the highwayman was definitely the npc i always had to avoid XD. As a f2p player back then, dragon slayer was the hardest quest I ever tried and was also very scary to do.

@cheetah219

3 ай бұрын

I remember training on hill giants with my buddy man. For a few hours just two kids talking shit and clicking on game. Those were the days...training with someone and setting training times for logins. It was sad when I realized I would never talk to some of those people again...

this was fantastic

I played RS around 2005-2010 then stopped. But started watching content about it just recently starting 2020, and lemme tell you this video in particular is hitting me with tons of nostalgia lol. I specifically remember working my 15 yr old ass off to get the "meta" items of the era back in 2010.

The video i never thought i needed but definitely did. Very well done sir! Sub well earned!

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Stay tuned for more very soon.

This video really shows how backwards smithing is in 2024. Why the fuck is the progression of that skill based on equipment progression that is out of date by 20 fucking years? RuneScape needs to figure something out, the longer this goes on the more comical it becomes.

@grandcanyon2

3 ай бұрын

its simple allow a new quest where you can mine dragon ore and make dragon items, except dragon plate body. you would need 99 smithing you can make all items.

In my heart, I want to believe you had already written your Green Day joke and we just happened to upload our cover *the day* before this well researched and well written video was uploaded.

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

That's exactly what happened lmao

ahh the good old days of og runescape! I remember having zero idea what I was doing haha

Damn, that I Mahatma I pk video really brings back some nostalgia. Great video. :)

Awesome video 😊

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Ayy, 1000th subscriber! Great video keep up the great work :)

Really nice content

It’s crazy how I’ve been watching these videos and I haven’t played RuneScape since 2007 I’m 24 now I miss it sometimes

@HamOSRS

2 ай бұрын

Check out Old School RuneScape for a fun nostalgia trip.

amazing video man, little time capsule

Your videos are really good, I hope you keep making them

@HamOSRS

Ай бұрын

Stay tuned for more soon! There was a delay with the third video, but we will resume work on it as soon as possible.

been playing this game for 17 years with no true breaks inbetween and i only just make this timeline in the last two updates lol, thats wild.

High quality video... I love those kind of stuff, maybe consider making Ranged/Magic BiS for RS2/2004 onwards

what a video! well done.

this was a fuckin trip man good work.

Really cool runescape history lesson, and clearly a lot of work was put into this video. Bravo

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Most of the research went toward the main series on the channel which will be premiering in about a week and a half. Stay tuned!

31:38 That makes me wonder what would have happened if Jagex had never tried to put a combat triangle in Runescape, but had made a different method of comparing the different combat styles. If Jagex had decided that melee would be tanky, and magic would be a glass cannon, I wonder how different OSRS would be now.

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

I just wish we had a 2004 melee only Castle Wars server before the combat triable without ancients.

@Sir_Lagg_A_Lot

3 ай бұрын

@@HamOSRS I started playing in 2004, but I didn't become a member till like 2006 iirc. I have never experienced that. I am not sure that old servers would bring back the nostalgia, since people mostly play for the gains rather than for fun. How many people play castle wars on OSRS now? To my knowledge, players are afking for the collection slots rather than for fun. If it is the mindset rather than the mechanics, a new old server won't fix it.

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

@@Sir_Lagg_A_LotOh sorry I meant literally just one world on otherwise vanilla OSRS servers where we could play vanilla Castle Wars not a whole competing version of the game.

Great vid man.

@HamOSRS

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! Working on another nostalgic video essay coming soon.

great concept

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Nice video bro. I'd love if you did a video of the BiS gear from OSRS release day until OSRS in 2024

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

I'm hoping to make that video one day as well. Old School gets a lot more complex with a lot of gear that has special niches rather than BIS everywhere so it will take a bit more research than RSC or RS2 even though I already have the release dates of all the gear in my files.

great well put together video, subbed.

People had the levels to obtain whips a good bit before the d scim came out; you can view historical hi-scores using the wayback machine. For example, as of March 4th, 2005, at least 21 people had 85+ Slayer.

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

3 or 4 commenters have confirmed the same - thank you for the clarification.

Hot damn- a video this long with this great quality on a channel with less than 1.5k subs? Say it ain't so. Great video.

@HamOSRS

2 ай бұрын

Stay tuned for more!

My journey didn't start until 2008 so i imagine those who were around in the early days think "damn things were different back in the day". This kind of stuff is cool to watch

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

I'm glad to hear it! The new series dropping here soon should be of great interest to you then. Stay tuned!

What a time to be alive

You got linked in the World of Runescape discord (WoW merged with Runescape). Excellent video.

@HamOSRS

2 ай бұрын

Great irony that my old videos from 15 years ago had dedicated haters paying me a visit from the WoW forums! Full circle. Looks like an awesome project by the way. Looking forward to seeing the finished product.

Some people got whips before getting 85 slayer. There was a developer oversight for a while where rings of recoil worked on slayer monsters. So with some rings of recoil and an inhuman amount of patience, it was possible to kill abyssal demons without the slayer level requirement.

I remember in RS2 seeing two players in Edgeville trash talk each other to the point that they flew into a rage and did a risk fight for their dragon long swords.

I vaguely recall people getting abby whips on day 2 or so. There was a bug where you could use ring of recoil or whatever, and someone eventually got it. Not sure if Jagex took it away though, but most likely banned the few who got it. I think granite mauls were within first few weeks for sure though. Everyone went crazy over them for several weeks until abby whip became more available, then the price plummeted. I believe it was like 1-2m, then crashed to like 100-200k in a few days. Whips starting at 40m, and in a few months heading into 3-5m.

Hams please make more vids this was awesome. Great work ❤

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! The next one is very close to completion. Same spirit, different format.

I think the first time i ever saw runescape, i was about 8 years old. Making the year 2004ish. I could not believe my best friend was playing such a real looking game. Took about a year after that before i was able to play at my own house on a the new computer my family got. The first skill i ever got to 99 was woodcutting, and id like to say it took about a year to do it. Couldnt grind/didnt have the patience i do now as an adult. Also, there was no profit doing it, either i didnt know how cause obviously noob, the GE didnt exist and or i was just lazy. Now 20 years later i started playing again this year and its still just as good if not better than i remember, now that im older can understand what's going on alot better. RuneScape really was my first video game love ❤️

I remember when trimmed armor came into RuneScape. It was so expensive. I was like 12 years old and I thought it was the craziest thing ever

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Never forget the kind players who would offer to trim yours too for free.

The word 'rune' in Runescape is referencing the magically rocks used for magic spells, aka runes... Not rune armour.. That is why the word Runescape is spelt out on rocks... they're runes.

I really liked this video

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate it.

Runescape 2 till this day is the best version of Runescspe

@theproprod2118

25 күн бұрын

It was very good I was so young I wish I could go back

No way the first person to get 99 smithing was on my birthday

Great video! Are you gonna make videos for the other combat styles as well?

@HamOSRS

3 ай бұрын

We did consider it and we might do so in a combined video later on, but trust me when I say melee gear is a much, much more interesting story.

@miiiiiiiiiiii

3 ай бұрын

@@HamOSRS Thank you for your reply! I'm eagerly awaiting your future content, keep up the great work!

This is awesome, subscribing for more