I think rs4 is a bit of a misnomer, its not part of any of their current games but an additional standalone game. From their website:
“RS4 is not a replacement for any of our games, be it Old School, RuneScape or Dragonwilds. Those games have their own dedicated teams, exciting roadmaps and continued investment. We’ll be designing RS4 to sit alongside them as an additional way to experience RuneScape and the world of Gielinor.”
then they did a big graphical overhaul and went from 2d to 3d that’s runescape 2
then runescape 3 coinciding roughly with evolution of combat and a big rework to ui, graphics, and music (much to community hatred)
then osrs which is runescape 2, but a “what if we didnt do some of those unpopular changes and made you all vote on what content enters the game”
there are lore differences between osrs and rs3, arguably you can call these two games completely different timelines at this point.
Osrs is currently the most popular version of the mmo, and this probably won’t change for awhile.
Off to the side we have dragonwilds, a survival crafting game set in the runescape 3 universe, but on a different continent that is unkown in runescape 3 or osrs.
runescape 4, unlike runescape 2 or runescape 3 is supposed to be its own version based more on dragonwilds than an upgrade from the previous version (rs3 in this case)
I think rs4 is a bit of a misnomer, its not part of any of their current games but an additional standalone game. From their website:
“RS4 is not a replacement for any of our games, be it Old School, RuneScape or Dragonwilds. Those games have their own dedicated teams, exciting roadmaps and continued investment. We’ll be designing RS4 to sit alongside them as an additional way to experience RuneScape and the world of Gielinor.”
Yes runescape game naming is kinda weird.
Theres “runescape classic” aka rs1
then they did a big graphical overhaul and went from 2d to 3d that’s runescape 2
then runescape 3 coinciding roughly with evolution of combat and a big rework to ui, graphics, and music (much to community hatred)
then osrs which is runescape 2, but a “what if we didnt do some of those unpopular changes and made you all vote on what content enters the game”
there are lore differences between osrs and rs3, arguably you can call these two games completely different timelines at this point.
Osrs is currently the most popular version of the mmo, and this probably won’t change for awhile.
Off to the side we have dragonwilds, a survival crafting game set in the runescape 3 universe, but on a different continent that is unkown in runescape 3 or osrs.
runescape 4, unlike runescape 2 or runescape 3 is supposed to be its own version based more on dragonwilds than an upgrade from the previous version (rs3 in this case)