Brighter Shores: New MMO from Jagex/RuneScape Co-Founder Andrew Gower

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The game is set to release in Early Access on November 6th

From what we’ve seen, it seems to take heavy inspiration from RuneScape—which, in my opinion, is a great thing. Many of us likely have fond, nostalgic memories of playing RuneScape, and Old School RuneScape (OSRS) remains one of the most popular MMOs even today.

Brighter Shores appears to be a true passion project led by Mr. Gower and his small team. (I believe he mentioned on Twitter that around eight people have been working on it over the past few years.)

What are your thoughts on this? Who’s planning to give it a try?
 
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I tried to check it out on twitch and whomever was streaming said they got kicked after the tutorial 3x already, and have to keep redoing it.

guess the servers are too busy and I'll give it a pass
 
Had a little go over lunch. Assume this is very similar to runescape? My mmo history is more EQ and DAoC so this seems very hands off in terms of combat, no classes that I can see and pretty basic all round.

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Yeah this isn't for me. Loads of quest lines tied in with really high skill requirements like foraging or fishing. I don't mind picking a trade in MMOs but i'm not up for being forced to do all of them. It's way too grindy just sat doing nothing.
 
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Yeah, this certainly isn't going to be for everyone. A lot of inspiration has been taken from RuneScape so if you've never played RuneScape before or didn't like RuneScape then this will not be for you.

It's also still very early access but we do have access to quite a few different parts of the maps and lots of different skills.

The quests seems relatively decent so far, with the typical witty humor you'd expect from Andrew Gower.

A lot of the negative reviews are referencing your character 'resetting' when you move to the next zone but this isn't entirely true. You instead get access to different skills per zone and you don't actually lose any progress, it's not the best design choice I have to agree but I think once people fully understand the zone/chapter switching they won't be as bothered about it

I've also seen many complaints about there not being a global bank in the game like RuneScape has, however there's a quest line in the 2nd chapter I believe that gives you a new spell where you can have access to all of your different banks on certain parts of the map

I don't think a global bank is a bad idea personally, most MMOs have them after all, but I feel like Andrew just wanted to do something different

So far though I am enjoying it and I shall continue to play
 
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