The greatest criticism against the event is one so incredibly insulting I have to say it first. Jagex, (the creators of Runescape) DID NOT DECORATE anywhere outside of the event. Nothing! Not one tree! Not one trace of Christmas to be seen. Still the same old dull, dark, green, rather ugly Runescape. Now they did decorate the event somewhat, but not anywhere near the way they should have. But I'll tell you all about it in a sec....
Again, you have to find where the event portal thingy is. Which is a magic wardrobe. Unrelated to Christmas, I know. You go through it and are met with snow, which is perfect to do, yet the snowflakes look odd. Christmasy fences, other Christmasy decor I can't really seem to find the words to title, and.... well that's it. Oh, and hundreds of friggin' little blue imps everywhere.... EVERYWHERE! Which is perfectly ridiculous and totally confusing. They often, hell, way too often cover up a person you are looking for, and just stand there. The whole area was really unthought-out looking. A fence everywhere you go, a dead end, a "you can't go there" type message, an imp, an imp, ANOTHER IMP! To be honest, it all just seemed, miss-placed, unorganised, uncategorized, and seemingly randomly placed. And that's just the first thing you'll notice.
Go a little ways and you run into two large "feasting" tables. Which is fine I guess, but wouldn't that fit Thanksgiving more? Hell, much more. Well, we started doing the quest. And I'll sum it up very fast. To the best of my memory.
You get an imp.
You talk to people.
You find out someone stole Santa. And Christmas. Or something. :\
You find out that someone was "Ebeneezer Scourge".
You go to his house.
In the house you find Santa in a cage. Now, I know Santa is supposed to be big, but damn... not BIG. He looks like a giant. What the heck is up with that?
You talk to Scourge's invisible self in a living room.
You later find out he is afraid of ghosts.
You need to look around his house to find some stuff to make a ghost outfit.
And then we noticed something... This is turning out to be like the '09 Halloween event... and the house therein... THIS IS THE HOUSE! Well, not exactly, but it's the same walls just colored different. Which is just plain lazy of them.
So you search around, find the stuff, make the suit, and go upstairs to the embodied version of Scourge.
You try to scare him a time or two. After random, ignorant, jabbering.
That don't work and it makes him mad.
He puts Christmas fire around the people at the feasting table.
You gotta help of-course.
You put 'em out with buckets of icy water.
You go back with Tiny Thom, who is "seflish". - You'll see why that is misspelled later.
He tells scourge he's mean and want his Christmas presents.
Scourge don't care.
You try one last time.
You show him his future. The grave.
He is struck with horror.
He lets go of Santa.
You go back to the feast table which is filled with four different types of food.
You talk to giant Santa. He says thanks, go to the tree, there is a present for you and your imp under it.
Your imp gets a scarf. Unimportant I know. You get two old emotes, and one new one. And a cool candy-cane to hold and flip around... but it's not worth a coin.
Christmas over.
Yeah, a lot I know. But if you play it just do what we did and skip through the novel sized dialogue intervals. Trust us, you won't miss a thing.
Oh, and you can get snow balls from a mound of snow located here and there to throw at people. Which honestly is the best thing this event has going for it.
So with all that said and done. Here is something we have been planning to do for a good while. Because we knew this event would turn out this way...
Here are some pictures of some of the stuff we have been talking about...
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- What I was talking about earlier. Their laziness shows up in their spelling of selfish. I guess Jagex doesn't have spell check. If so, they're too lazy to use it.
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- They didn't show any tales whatsoever. This shows the random, useless, confusing, parts of dialogue and fillers that are so common in that event. It's like they wanted to try and make the event seem bigger than it really was. Well, it didn't work. We saw right through it. It's scrawny.
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- That's the best they could do when making a Christmas tree?!... It looks like a five year old made it over night... with play-dough. Oh and by the way, that's the only Christmas tree in the game. Yeah, they are that boring.
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- Here is a picture of our drop. So you can look at it with more clarity than the video. :]
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So that was Christmas on Runescape... Well, sort of. Thanks Jagex, but no thanks.
- Stefan and Joey
