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Solanumtinkr

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Wahisietel said :
Svigris said :
Then problem with saying salt in the wound is the worst is that the quest itself is pretty fun. It doesn't make sense but it's still fun to do even if people complain about not fighting the slug queen but in truth I think that's just ego. We don't always need a true boss fight.

SITW's gameplay was passable, but this thread is about best/word quest STORIES , not quests.

While Guthix Sleeps may be the best quest, but that doesn't mean it has the best storyline. IN this case the story was the conclusion to one of the best storylines in RS, in my opinion. And it ended with a Pillar....Everything could have been forgiven for that story if only there was a blasted good reason for it being there. Instead it stood out like a blind cobblers thumb during a rush order after an all night bender.

There was no reason for the Pillar being there and no reason why it killed the unkillable. That there is the worst kind of badly placed plot device. So yes it can take the crown. It might have good game play and story flow, but the ending was a train wreck.

Though there is a chance that future Asganrian content could wrap up the story properly.

Thanks to you, my new favourite theory is that Sir Tiffy and family are all Saradominist Mahjarrat, that is why Sir Tiffy bestirred himself to leave his park bench for the RotM and that the whole family was probably there. Some where. Oh and that the Pillar didn't kill the Slug Queen Eva did on the sly. The Pillar was an excuse. The purpose of adventure is to shine light into dark places,
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31-Oct-2016 06:52:57 - Last edited on 02-Nov-2016 06:30:26 by Solanumtinkr

Lego Miester
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Sepulchre said :
Best? While Guthix Sleeps, easily.

Worst? Birthright of the Dwarves.

Definitely Birthright of the Dwarves as well for butchering my favorite dwarf main character. From caring about his people to just "KILL RED AXE" 24/7 any time I tried to talk to him.

Salt in the Wound is also up there, for making Kennith suddenly an adult for no reason (and literally stating his powers have no basis, just fourth wall breaking) and cliche-ifying the villain to death (well, technically pillaring her to death, stealing my kill, which I also hated.) A complete rewrite of the quest or a twist that it was all a sea slug trick and we just killed a bunch of innocent miners and a little girl on our way down might salvage it.

The elf finale was just disappointing because it was rushed. At least that dev work went into Prifddinas I guess. Headcanon Haven, where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
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31-Oct-2016 19:31:37

Dark Fury

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Also...As for Salt in the Wound, its ending is basically a rip-off of Tomb Raider: Anniversary.
You peer into a Chapel of Zamorak, which appears to be abandoned. Before you can close the doors again, a Revenant Chaos-Bringer flies at you and slays you instantly with a bolt of Shadow Lightning. Oh dear! You are dead!

01-Nov-2016 19:21:49

Rondstat

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Lego Miester said :
Sepulchre said :
Best? While Guthix Sleeps, easily.

Worst? Birthright of the Dwarves.

Definitely Birthright of the Dwarves as well for butchering my favorite dwarf main character. From caring about his people to just "KILL RED AXE" 24/7 any time I tried to talk to him.


It makes me sad to see the single Runescape quest whose narrative is probably MOST driven by a character development arc, get criticized on the basis of character inconsistency.

I strongly urge you to take another look at this quest series (particularly the John A entries). If you can overlook all the mechanical and graphical issues (and some of the clipped dialogue with its abysmal localization budget), you'll find it's actually one of the most impressive storylines in the game (I know, I know, that's a lot to overlook).

Anyways, after I replayed the Dwarf quests back-to-back, saw the story as a whole, BotD elevated from what I originally thought a disappointment, to my favourite quest series finale in the game. Not saying you'll have that sort of epiphany. But I think an examination of the series as a whole could enrich your views on the quest.

02-Nov-2016 04:48:07

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Rondstat said :


Anyways, after I replayed the Dwarf quests back-to-back, saw the story as a whole, BotD elevated from what I originally thought a disappointment, to my favourite quest series finale in the game. Not saying you'll have that sort of epiphany. But I think an examination of the series as a whole could enrich your views on the quest.

I have. You meet Veldaban as one of the guards. You work with him to foil the Red Axe's ever increasing plots. We get the sense that Veldaban really cares about the citizens of the poorer district of the city, which are being taken by the Red Axe and no one in the rich district or the consortium appears to care, so there's that growing resentment against them and he begrudgingly becomes king. Then by the finale all that stuff about the poor citizens seems to be out the window and it's just a big ball of "kill the red axe and anyone even remotely affiliated with them."

Me: Well some of these guys barely seem affiliated at all and probably aren't involved in the plot...
Veld: Kill 'em anyway.

Me: Whoa, he built an entire copy of the city? What do you think, Veldaban?
Veld: KILL RED AXE.

Me: And he's used the captured citizens to build this weird mock consortium of brainwashed dwarves!
Veld: KILL THEM. BETTER DEAD THAN RED [Axe].

at the end:
Veld: Welp, the Red Axe is dead, despite not posing a threat to anyone at this stage. My life's only purpose is complete. Just let me die now.

On reflection, I think a lot of it was how he had no reaction whatsoever to anything I tried to talk with him about in the mock Keldagrim, but really throughout the quest I didn't see any of the Veldaban I'd come to know. Even the post-quest dialogue felt kind of "meh." For someone who was trying to stand up for what's right even when stripped of his badge, giving up to become a miner just because he can't kill Red Axe anymore is sad. Headcanon Haven, where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
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02-Nov-2016 05:08:09 - Last edited on 02-Nov-2016 05:09:08 by Lego Miester

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Lego Miester said :
Rondstat said :


Anyways, after I replayed the Dwarf quests back-to-back, saw the story as a whole, BotD elevated from what I originally thought a disappointment, to my favourite quest series finale in the game. Not saying you'll have that sort of epiphany. But I think an examination of the series as a whole could enrich your views on the quest.

I have. You meet Veldaban as one of the guards. You work with him to foil the Red Axe's ever increasing plots. We get the sense that Veldaban really cares about the citizens of the poorer district of the city, which are being taken by the Red Axe and no one in the rich district or the consortium appears to care, so there's that growing resentment against them and he begrudgingly becomes king. Then by the finale all that stuff about the poor citizens seems to be out the window and it's just a big ball of "kill the red axe and anyone even remotely affiliated with them."
...Power corrupts? NO
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02-Nov-2016 06:47:27

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Dark Fury said :
Gower Quest. Reason?

The atrocious bar, which takes more than half the quest with you, the player, near-mindlessly running around in there doing stuff random NPC's want. Plus, the bar is post-modern and basically full of crap. Go figure, good fight, Jagex. My score: Zero...FAIL! It was never meant to be taken seriously. It was meant to be ridiculous NO
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02-Nov-2016 06:51:13

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ZAmorakZaros said :
Lego Miester said :
Rondstat said :


Anyways, after I replayed the Dwarf quests back-to-back, saw the story as a whole, BotD elevated from what I originally thought a disappointment, to my favourite quest series finale in the game. Not saying you'll have that sort of epiphany. But I think an examination of the series as a whole could enrich your views on the quest.

I have. You meet Veldaban as one of the guards. You work with him to foil the Red Axe's ever increasing plots. We get the sense that Veldaban really cares about the citizens of the poorer district of the city, which are being taken by the Red Axe and no one in the rich district or the consortium appears to care, so there's that growing resentment against them and he begrudgingly becomes king. Then by the finale all that stuff about the poor citizens seems to be out the window and it's just a big ball of "kill the red axe and anyone even remotely affiliated with them."
...Power corrupts? I was going to say that losing the one he loved turned him into that, not power. The sadness made him insane. Prepare for hell on RuneScape in Naval Cataclysm!

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02-Nov-2016 07:10:16

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