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Role-Playing in MMO's

reavoreavo Member Posts: 2,173
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I remember playing Everquest when it first came out and the people playing it did a lot of role-playing.  At the time I sort of thought it was weird.  But now I really miss it.  It seems like the people that were role-playing were the most fun people to play the game with. 

Now it seems all that is going on is a bunch of street talk in a fantasy setting.  And with the voice chat options it's even worse. 

Do you guys think there will ever be a game that attracts that role-playing crowd again?  I think it would take a very high-fantasy game to pull it off.  Or is there one out there now that I'm missing?

And PLEASE do not tell me about how there is a small degree of role-playing going on in games.  I know that.  I'm talking about the big time role-playing that went on like in early EQ.   image



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  • MajorBiggsMajorBiggs Member UncommonPosts: 709

    I think there'll be more games out there that will let us have that RP feel again. When i was playing Neocron (cyberpunk MMO), there was actually a hell of a ALOT of RPing believe it or not.

    We'd have faction meetings in the meeting rooms of the HQ buildings with representatives of each faction. And we actually sat in the chairs and listened to each persons opinion as if we were really there.

    Amazing.

  • MiNaAuMiNaAu Member Posts: 382

    I know of a game that's still in development that has really good role-playing, you see people talking like they are actually living in the game world and are part of it, they talk like they live in the game.

  • Jade6Jade6 Member Posts: 429
    I used to do pen and paper roleplaying games long ago, but I just find it a bit awkward in online games. I mean, RP was mostly about imagining things that weren't there, and trying to adapt into that world; in an online game you aren't required to imagine anything since you can see everything on the screen. So my approach has been not to actively play a role, but to avoid giving out personal details about my real self, so I guess in some sense it could be described as roleplaying. I'm not required to imagine the game world, so instead I try to forget that there is a real world outside the game for the duration of my gaming session. How's that?
  • KnightblastKnightblast Member UncommonPosts: 1,787
    It'll never really come off.  The reason is that the sort of folks attracted to these games are a different slice of people than the sort of folks who are attracted to "traditional offline roleplaying" .... not that there is not an overlap, there is one, but the vast majority are not people who are currently (or even retrospectively) PnP roleplayers, but are instead computer gamers.  Computer gamers who have never done offline RP are much less likely to do online RP, even in an mmoRPg ... because when they play an "offline" CRPG, they also are not "roleplaying" as people mean that in the RP community ... they are "roleplaying" as people mean that in the computer game and video game community, and that's something that's vastly different from what one does in PnP roleplaying.  So I think that the RP community in online games will always be smallish ... it will be there, but it will be outnumbered by people who are simply gamers who like "CRPGs" rather than "roleplaying".


  • AwakenedAwakened Member UncommonPosts: 595
    I think roleplaying is retarded, so to prevent from offending anyone I won't comment futher on the subject.

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  • ThunderbladeThunderblade Member Posts: 16

    The only real game I RP'd in was the original EQ. Other then that, I haven't RP'd much. Well, I'm not much of an RP'er to begin with. But it was fun the little time I did do it.

  • GRIMACHUGRIMACHU Member Posts: 528
    Originally posted by Awakened
    I think roleplaying is retarded, so to prevent from offending anyone I won't comment futher on the subject.

    Then aren't you playing the wrong sort of games?

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  • morbatailmorbatail Member UncommonPosts: 7

    I belong to a Role-play guild in DAOC that has moved from game to game.  I love the roleplay aspect of the games my wife and I play.  To the extent that I have developed a seperate personality for each character that I play and it does not happen over night either or at least for all but one.

    My first char on DAOC that I RP'd was my cleric I had played him for so long that he became a "crotchity old man" a bit bitter tired of being out and generally you couldnt find him except out fishing on the dock if you needed him couse he wanted to retire.  He refered to most of the other players as children or pups and would sigh and shake his head at the exuberance of youth.  He'd complain of his bones and his feet hurting before he got a horse. then he would complain about his horse and just about everything else.

    Other characters followed after him a Merc and a pally. The Merc was just plain ornery and itching for a fight and reguardless of the odds would go head first into one. the pally was a Bit off more of a Kender even though there are not any in Albion just how I played him and I had fun with him.

    Each character was a bit of my own personality and depending on my mood would be who I would play.  The best part of this would be when we would find other people willing to stop their running around and roleplay with us.  Get into character and really play their hearts out.  How often I would be running through Camelot and start to tease some Armsman or Pally for being a "bucket head" or turn around when and argue with an NPC about his prices and get a few other players to stop and wonder just what the heck I was doing.  Did you know that if you talk to an NPC (like the guard going into the throne room) and he start talking back to you telling you to move along or ask you "dont you have somthing better to do then to bug me".  A lot of people miss content that was specifically set for RPers.

    Roleplay is up to the Roleplayers to do.  If a person is not intrested in Roleplaying that is what other servers are for.  Just remember that Just becouse you dont or think it's silly does not mean that there are others out there who dont enjoy doing it. Dont ruin it for the roleplayers after all remember what mmoRPG stands for. 

     

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