INSANE LORE - Can Mod Stu Save RUNESCAPE? Beloved developer talks Lore, New player experience!
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2024
- BIG THANKS To Gonbe for being such a stand up lad. we love him. our new PRODUCER!
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Question order
How are you? (note: interview recorded Fri 12th April evening)
How do you feel about the final product [Requiem for a Dragon]?
How did you first hear about RuneScape?
Transition from sci-fi to medieval & RuneScape humour
Do you believe in aliens?
Favourite sci-fi franchise / Westwood's Dune
New player experience:
Favourite tutorial?
Have we thought about putting Davendale on desktop? (A/B testing)
What's the hardest part of making a new player tutorial? (politics - problem 1 & 2)
The monumental task of tutorialising RuneScape
Ashdale focused on core principles (particularly EoC as it was at the time)
Ashdale vs Burthorpe as new player hub
Ashdale as the minigame hub
A Shadow over Ashdale quest:
Favourite part of design process (environmental storytelling)
Is one of the cutscenes deliberately referencing Alien?
Shattered Worlds:
Design aim of Shattered Worlds
Do you see a quest or lore being added to supplement Shattered Worlds?
Could you see an elite dungeon mode for Shattered Worlds?
Is the Nexus in Lumbridge connected to Shattered Worlds lore-wise?
The Death of Chivalry quest:
What was one of your favourite parts of Death of Chivalry? (design reviewership)
Respect for the Black Knights’ Fortress quest
Art & audio
Could the Wand of Resurrection connect to necromancy stories? (the intended theme)
The overarching theme that the dead should stay dead
The human cost of immortality (Saradomin)
Saradomin and the needs of the many
Saradomin vs Guthix
Would you want to work on a continuation of Sir Owen's story?
Dimension of Disaster:
New Varrock is beautiful. Do you have a favourite thing about it?
Musical inspirations
Closed economy
Who's your favourite mahjarrat?
The fatal flaw of the mahjarrat
Random lore questions:
Who's cooler, Kerapac or Kranon?
What is the hidden meaning of cats in RuneScape (particularly Pieces of Hate)?
Are banite and black stone similar materials? Like iron and steel?
Does RuneScape exist in a multiverse?
Dimension of Disaster's uchronia lore (Varrock & Falador)
Invention's Talking, Mysterious & Hallucinogenic perks
Are dark portals the same phenomenon as Teragard's Schism?
Did the same force corrupt Mah's egg and consume Jas?
Could Jas be corrupted like Seiryu was intended to be?
(Lore disclaimer - narrative serves the release schedule)
Was Mur a shadow leviathan?
Is the shadow that Guthix fears the same force that Rasial warns us of?
Are these shadows the same force that is whispering beneath Daemonheim?
Guthix seems to view shadow as necessary. If so, why?
What are anima, anathema and Raksha's "something else"?
Could you define necrotic energy and underworld energy and how they're different?
Jas created the Needle; can she time travel without it?
Why does Xau-Tak seem to be outside of time?
Is Guthix truly gone forever?
Could Seren become an elder god?
Did Sliske and Guthix have an agreement, somewhat like Dumbledore and Snape?
Could Guthix and his daughter ever be reunited?
Was Loarnab a shadow colossus?
Are all of the things connected? (with segue to why Loarnab is in New Varrock)
Wushanko guardians
What is Moia's armguard made of?
Is Moia being setup like an anti-World Guardian?
Is the energy surrounding Bilrach at the end of Battle of Forinthry necrotic energy?
We think Prideslayer is going to enjoy Requiem for a Dragon - we had you in mind when writing this quest
Is Bilrach's resurrection related to Lucien's resurrection in the 'Til Death Do Us Part halloween event?
What are mahjarrat?
Could you see another Ritual for the mahjarrat, to make more?
Does Moia have a soul, being half-human?
Could you see us re-visiting Ungael? (this one aged like wine since last Friday :D)
Using the shard of Zaros on the Monolith
Easter eggs in Requiem for a Dragon
Is Zemouregal Orcus? And if so, where is the real Zemouregal?
Clarification that Zemouregal reverted to skeletal at the end of Succession
Zemouregal's characterisation & preference for mindless minions
Wights and Sliske
Do necrotic energy and shadow anima have similar characteristics?
Xau-Tak and black stone hands
Making things make sense - everything is connected
Synonyms and resonating stories
Upcoming (now past) Requiem for a Dragon livestream, dev diary, etc
Vor in Vorkath?
Do you think the shadow realm (lore book) might appear in-game at some point?
Closing questions:
If you had unlimited budget, what would you do? (improve UI & core experience)
What content would you most like to be released? (Complete Menaphos quest series)
Favourite storyline? (Mysteries of the Mahjarrat)
Are the poison wastes of Arposandra perhaps connected to Xau-Tak's corruption?
Do you really think you can save them? - Hry
I Swear this guy is the best thing to have ever happened to the RS Content Creator scene.
Like i said on Reddit, nothing but respect for this man :)
Oh my God, is that the fucking ambassador!
CASTIL KREATH FIA ROAKE KAL SKEK LAC ORTIUS
Google can't translate Dragonkin. 😟😥😢@@prideslayer77
"there was a kitten in pieces of hate?" bro 😭I love you Stu
he literally got me. lmao
Thanks for all the great content Pride, keep it up. Can’t wait to see what you post in regards to the ‘Requiem For A Dragon’ lore and lore that’ll be coming out of the new Daemonheim digsite. You are a great world guardian and we will take down XAU-TAK! “Do you really think you can save them”?
bro that was so kind tysm
Dude you're amazing. Not only on RS but IRL too. I feel compelled to watch everything you put out cause it's so good and relevant. I hope you go to massive heights!
Thank you for the interview!!! Love the content a little bit of a suggestion if you know what you’re going to talk about, throwing images or small video snippets would definitely elevate the quality of your videos
I definitely agree and I need feedback like this if I want to improve! Thank you so much and I promise I'll do better 😊 like it means the world to me that you'd give it a listen!
Next time you talk to Mod Stu you gotta ask him a couple questions for me. Who is his favorite God? In the recent livestream they said that they will not make another grandmaster quest. How does he feel about this?
Great interview man keep up the great work.
They didn’t say they wouldn’t make another just that it’s not really time for one any time soon and that they’ll have to decide when it’s better for one big quest for the entire year verse a couple spread out ones. It’s less never and more not planned right now but no grandmaster quest is planned far out.
@@Hirokey123 im team grandmaster quest wby you all?
@@prideslayer77 Team Grandmaster all the way man :D
This was a great listen, keep up the amazing work pride❤️ looking forward to what comes ingame in the upcoming future
Me too my friend!
Another great Interview!! 😀
log u big homie
been binging all your interviews/lore content lately, excited for this! amazing stuff! keep going bro
hey erik tysm man!!!! aint no stoppin us!!!
Honestly great interview, loved it.
I love Mod Stu. He always came in clutch for me
He's like legitimately Guthix incarnate
Btw subbed - scrolling through your vids was nostalgic lmao
Lmao I love the intro so much
Bro haha I'm glad! I wanted to make sure I put as much fun into it as Stu does in his work - needed to be funny - but epic. Bro ty for the support it legit makes me ready to pump more stuff out!
That Ashdale minigame hub is brillaint!
What a legendary interview! Thank you!
Ashdale being converted into a minigame hub or playing host to a minigame hub sounds like a fabulous idea. Especially as it both frees up space on the mainland, and would nicely potentially lead to minigames getting at least a bit of spit polish. This would also make it very convenient as the ring of dueling or/and gaming necklace will put people in the hub. Especially if the hub pulls a page from clan citadels and pulls people in from all over so folk who want to play minigames can easily find each other. I see it possibly even having room for things like the current spotlight system, but in a distraction and diversion format where suddenly during the day as people are engaged with minigames, one of the heavy hitter A-list minigames gives greater rewards for playing it.
I absolute love this idea! Hope this comes to fruition
Such a solid idea man. Make Ashdale great again!
It would be cool if there was a minigame randomiser which put everyone in a random minigame together, as well as exp lamps in return for thaler and better thaler rates. Would likely attract more people to it
A wild idea to this could be adding more stuff to Thaler Shop(assuming it gets better rates).
More useful items in Thaler Shop or more cosmetic overrides :O
Oooooh was hyped for this!
Ayeeee me too lmao ok it's cheesy AF but I'm still watching again 😂
That Zemoregal/Orcus hypothesis is incredible!
Man, Stewart just wouldn't back down on stomping on my heart with Guthix's loss.
Old time player returned for osrs, but loving these lore vids for rs3 makes me want to come back some day
LETS GOOOOO 2 hours of pure enjoyment ahead of me.
great video, huge lore gainz!
Great video, and great conversation to listen to. Much love brother!
If/when RS3 makes its triumphant return, in addition to the wonderful and passionate Mods, we'll also have PrideslayerRS to thank. 😊☺️🤗
Awesome video!
The Dragon quest will be awesome. We love you Stu
I could legit listen to him talk all day lmao
Dude!! Idk what else to say man, your the Goat! I been screaming that:D Great pod as always man:D
Two little corrections…
Raksha doesn’t produce shadow anima prideslayer. Raksha needs its shadow batteries because it can’t make more it just constantly bleeds out. That’s why it eventually falls into a coma, without functional batteries it effectively dies. The monolith provided shadow and then in absence the batteries did the same thing.
Raksha also isn’t drawing from “something else” either, rewatch the scene. It says “somewhere else” and then compares it to elder gods the beings that source magic/life. In other words it’s talking about a location or a creature, that’s what Stu is dodging around. There is something that is the source of shadow anima just as there is elder gods who were the source of anima, that somewhere else is what Raksha draws power from. It’s power is shadow anima from Erebus, but where shadow anima comes from that we do not know.
Great content though! Sorry didn’t mean to hit reply before I finished!
the reason i said something else is in the unused assets , there are black hands in the cache and it has the voiceline "do you really think you can save them" it also was the direct inspiration behind Kranons hateful vision that convinced him to become the ambassador. i asked the questions this way so i didnt have to just say "xau tak" tbh since these pieces of content hint it. thats why i use the verbiage "something else" because as you said it compares them to beings. i cant find anything about raksha bleeding it, varanus literally says "the shadow grows thicker" "do not let him absorb it" he want us to pick it up or stop him from absorbing it if it put him to sleep. also i see raksha tying into all this via moksha device, and yes its been dissected by the dragonkin ( i suspect it will gather its glands in the future and become its original self) but i cant find anything about it bleeding it.
@@Hirokey123 and thank you! i like these conversations tbh - especially with homies who watch it - btw u on disc? would LOVE to chat more
About to play this while cooking dinner. Looking forward to to this!
Hey bro hell yeah save me a bite 😂
I hope you enjoy friend! 💕
@@prideslayer77 I'm no bro but I am enjoying the video :3
@@WingsofAbsurdity im sorry i just kind of use those casually and was talk to texting and i couldve been more considerate sorry!
@@prideslayer77 It's no problem :o
It happens, it's okay!
Ha! 1:38:15
Nice dodge, Stewart!
Name the time and place of these interviews and im tuning in!! These are absolutely amazing keep up the great work
Moia is basically a nephilim, pretty much.
omg, I been pronouncing Zemouregal as Zem-more-eee-go. I guess I had been saying this Zamorakian's name wrong the whole time :P
Only thought about it now. So we rely heavily on Guthix so much in making sure our gear's perks functions as intended even if he is definitely gone gone. Now I remember Saradomin absorbed some of his juice during Battle of Lumbridge, I wonder if this juice influences Saradomin in some way?
I didn't even pay attention to Moia's arm until you mentioned. Now it has me curious what it could be. Still upset about what she tried to do in Extinction.
haha :) you know my theory! i love her in a way and also despise her, i think she will make a rlly cool boss eventually. i get the feeling shes gonna be like a Phoenix force from marvel
@@prideslayer77 Indeed! Like you mentioned, she probably is like the anti-world guardian but I would like to see where the story heads first! Considering we lost our World Guardian powers, I wonder how that's going to go.
Schrödinger's Jas! man.. I LOVE THIS!!!
I'm going to make a meme at some point lmao
Schrodinger's jas lmaooo
lmaooooo stu must be protect at all costs lmao. hey thanks for watching man!
this is an excellent interview ❤
@@prideslayer77 dude I am a female lol yw btw I was out of game for a while two people passed away last year I was very close to my dad was one and another was my mom’s friend I laughed because you thought I am a male however my hubby is in my profile pic with me I look like this irl
@@khanbibi im so sorry! tbh i had this happen earlier bc i kind of talk like Hulk Hogan, so i need to pay more attention to my replies. please accept my dearest apologies friend! and my deepest condolences on your family! i hope you and your husband are well and i am glad you enjoyed the chat! i will be talking to mod stu again in the future as well :D
been looking forward to this one, seen some of the shorts didn't dissapoint :) would happily watch 2 more hours
also, i was wondering why saradomin was such a cold heartless guy, i can't remember which quest or miniquest it was but when all the gods left gielinor and you have that final talk with saradomin i was just like welp cya later then, you won't be missed xD
but his character makes so much more sense now, because he was immortal i guess he kind of got used to loved ones dying and learnt to detach from any emotional connection, kind of sad really
That's one of my favorite things about these types of talks is that I get to look in at some of these characters well we all get to look in, and you never know what cool little bits of the story We overlooked!
He's actually going to come back on after the quest is released so you'll get a chance to hear more! Do you have a question for him you would like me to answer?
Yeah I remember reading something about he having something belonging to his family and due to his time being a god they long have disintegrated. Me knowing loss that would make me feel some sort of way. Never judge a book by its cover for the most part lol.
@@prideslayer77 I'm a bit of a lore noob so I'll leave the questions to you man! Appreciate the offer though, looking forward to next episode 🙏
oh my lord, 2h of interview content. it's going to be a good morning
Runescape RTS when?
The pattern of tutorials, so insightful
THERE WAS A KITTEN IN PIECES OF HATE LMAOOOOO
Bro I really hope you enjoyed it! I know I did haha this was one of those conversations like lore connoisseurs can get all that sweet sweet dopamine 😂
2hr video!!!! lets fucking go! thank you very much prideslayer.
nah thank you big dog!!!
@@prideslayer77 just about done finishing up watching, you got some really good questions for mod stu in this haha.
I say it everytime but..THIS IS AMAZING!
Do Mod Jack next 😀, but I'm going to guess he doesn't want to do it. Mod Rowley and Shrike would also be a good lore talk imo
Jack is down to come he's just rlly busy haha. Trust me those two would be welcome anytime.
Kentucky, eh? What part? I was gonna guess Tennessee, so I was close!
Interview with keeper and mic when
Actually emailed mic recently I'm trying :p
Moia is not the anti guardian, Nomad is
2:07:57 *NOT* cool!! 😡😡🤬
I already get a chill down my spine when I hear or read that line! It's even wormed its way into my nightmares!! 😳😳😱
The reason I don't like the Burthorpe tutorial is because it's a bit silly. You're fighting level 6 trolls, when most of them are level 70s or 80s or even higher. It's just a bit ridiculous, because they're about the same size, and look similar, but they're so low-levelled, it seems obvious they're babying you at the start.
Farscape??? Mod Stu put Muppets in RS3 NOW
Mods jack, Jed, Luna, Bruce, keeper, Mic, and stu are singlehandedly keeping RuneScape alive.
I really do think we have some awesome mods mod Jack might be on next month (awaiting confirmation)
Luna would be really insteresting, could ask her a lot about the wiki since she was originally (and still is) one of the wiki admins long before becoming a jmod. Could also ask some of the other wiki admins if any of them would be up for it - Cqm, Gaz, Cook, Jayden, Salix, etc. I really liked their Runefest 2019 panel, "Another Slice of W.I.K.I", getting more talks with the wiki team would be nice.
@@Californ1a i would legit love that!
Na games dead mtx will only ever get worse
Only thing dead is your brain
its so dead i got this comment as soon as i made this public lol
Toxic osrs/mtx crybaby spotted
@@prideslayer77I love RuneScape I have a comp cape but it’s only been going down hill we honestly need rs4
@@ThemTwoGamerGuys then help save it World Guardian.