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What's the best MMORPG out there right now for Roleplaying?
Asteriveth
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I am a roleplayer at heart. I am playing WOW now and the RP seems a little sad here. I had some good rp gaming in UO and Shadowbane (although SB went downhill) I am interested to know what you all think the best RP game is right now.
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Easy.
Persistent Worlds of Neverwinter Nights - Glorwing, Brynsaar, World of Caenyr (been a while), and other highly rated ones. I liked Vives when I played briefly on it.
As you roleplay your character, you'll likely get XP points from monitoring game masters (or those you interact with). An alternative to just hacking at monsters for XP.
EVE would be the best in my opinion (after UO though, since you already noted it). Theres so many options for RP its great.
He's not being sarcastic. EVE has a huge roleplay element, if only because the entire universe exists by rules set by players and their actions.
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
I think City Of Heroes is great game to roleplay. You only need to find the right person, never saw someone roleplaying though, shamefully
Final Fantasy XI has the biggest RP playerbase I have ever seen.
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really?!? all i ever hear about that game is there a lot of farmers/bots
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World of Warcraft has its own servertype typical for roleplay. I'm playing at the european RP server Argent Dawn and have a lot of roleplay stuff. And if there is someone that just want to disturb the peace with out of character talk put a GM on his name and you will be released of him. Only thing is the Blizzard Europe needs more GMs
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If your computer can run it, EQ2 has 2 roleplaying servers, one of which I have friends on that say most of the people on there are roleplaying their characters. Might be worth checking into at least.
Thanks for all of the replies. I have a couple of different optons to explore now.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
About all games I played had their rp core, just have to look a bit behind the obvious scene. Ignore the average mmo player and find your basic rpg group of friends and all will go well. I find the industry to be a mix of community and rpg. If you enjoy the rpg side, go for it, live it, be insolent to non rp'ers. When asked "lvl?", reply "What's a lvl?".
I wouldn't advise for any game in particular, look for the other aspects in a game you like playing. True mmorpg don't exist yet.
As for me I enjoy the rp part of nexustk which provides the true tools needed to develop it. It has a rather small player base, which will give you less of a hard time finding out where the rp core lies. 2D > 3D when it comes to developping that part of the community in my eyes.
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i find this question very interesting .. as this is a mmorpg forum - yet the question does arise a few times / week and i have yet to see someone say "X is great RP" and have no one argue against them. Seems to me either the definition of RP is in the eye of the beholder in some ways, and or has no definition at all. Almost all comp games that have a character are role playing games as you pretend to be the character while playing the game, especialy if you can advance the char or the storyline around the char. But i dont think that would fit the definition many of those looking for RP have of what it is. From what i understand they are looking for a game with almost 100% in char role players, who spend all their time in character and make all descisions based on char empathy, ie "what would they do", not "what do i know by metagame thinking will work best". I think the only thing a true RP'er can do is either pick a game, ignore the rabble and do their own RPing without worrying that some char just said "im l33t i just wtf pwn j00", OR play on one of the purely RPing servers that many games have. As a long term table top RPer i can empathise with the plight, but i truely think that you are dreaming to think you will find a full RP game out there.
And to be a good EvE mark, i will say EvE does have alot of potential for RP as it is a player driven economy / storyline, mixed with a open skill system, no leveling, and no forced activities. Eve does not have an RP server, as all Eve players play on the same server. (daily peak at around 10k)
I dont know if it still alive in shadowbane but there used to be alot of Rps there, considering i was in a huge RP guild that had like 150+ players in it
To me, roleplaying is not just playing a MMORPG, speaking in old-english, bowing to all women, not being allowed to use slang, etc.
To me roleplaying is not just grinding, doing quests and gaining levels.
Here's what I call ROLEPLAYING!
Take Star Wars Galaxies, someone creates a story, with scenarios and scenes. Roughly, our scenario was an Imperial spy within a Rebel guild, who betrays his guildmates by leaking information from the Rebel alliance to the Imperials!
We only built 1 scene, a courthouse! The other scenes were residential houses, a cantina and we used a rebel base and imperial base.
Imagine it starts where, with your guildmates, you all pretend to be real rebels and real imperials and go through a storyline! On one side, you have the traitor being a Rebel, with the rebel guildmates they go around doing missions (all pretend of course) to meet someone, gain access codes (they were just DNA samples we took from creatures), obtain decodes (They were just droid parts), etc. They are placed in the Guildhouse (Which was a Rebel HQ in pretend), and during that time, the traitor then goes to see the Imperial guildmates, pretends to be leaking info on how they have to infiltrate the Rebel Base, steal the codes from the basement, then you have this huge scene where they are sneaking into the base while the traitor distracts the Rebels, etc.
Anyways, I could go on for a long time, the story was very detailed and well written.
But you have a Storyteller/Dungeon Master/Game Master (The guy that handles the story and makes sure it doesn't get mixed up) that's organizing everything, no XP or money is involved, just pure pretend!
THAT'S ROLEPLAYING!
No other MMORPG like Star Wars Galaxies (Maybe except UO cause that too has a quite well developped system) can you decorate a house any way you want, have a huge variety of craftable clothing to make everyone look how you want to, do you have so many animated emotes to really give your character some attitude, etc.
Star Wars Galaxies is THE best Roleplaying MMORPG ever! It's the only game (except UO again, although the graphics in UO suck for our generation) that makes you feel like you're in a virtual world!
If you can think of a scenario, or a scripted movie, or anything... you can do it in Star Wars Galaxies!
World of Warcraft may have Roleplaying servers, but what is there to do? You can borrow locations to do stuff, but you'll always be interupted by other players walking by to finish a quest and stuff. Nothing is private, WoW lacks way too many animated emotes, crafting good looking clothes are expensive since they require pricy loot (5 gold for a Tuxedo!? Give me a break!)
Star Wars Galaxies has set new standards when it comes to a "Virtual World" style game. It's such a shame no one else wants to do a game with the same standards as Star Wars Galaxies.
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Saga of Ryzom has three or so Roleplaying forums that are actually active (compared to UO's dead one forum). Plus there's in-game events and some roleplayers to be found online, as well.
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... well i'll be diffrent and say second life... since thats pretty much all that happens in that game and i love it
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