Guild Wars 2

I used to play Dark Ages, in that game, roleplaying was essentially enforced unless you did the whole (()) thing. I’m not a roleplayer at all, did I roleplay in Dark Ages? I guess I did but it was more being myself just not mentioning anything outside of the game.

Funny story, my wife guested onto TC to see what all the fuss was about. The first thing anyone ever said to her was something like, “Excelsior m’lady, would you care to be a part of this -something or other- experiment?”, she promptly screamed, ran away from the guy and logged off. It was pretty funny to watch. Aah.

Anyway, back to what I was saying. I find role playing odd, I think ERP is completely unnecessary, I guess I’ve borderline roleplayed in other games in the past and it was fun enough. Will I ever go hating on people because I think roleplaying is weird? Heck no. Let them have their fun and they’ll let you have yours. When either party gets in each other’s faces about it, that’s when there’s problems.

The one thing that RP and non-RP things have in common however, is people. People is a whole other thread.

Isn’t RP just a form of improv? I don’t RP (tried it for one day – too time consuming), but I don’t see why it’s awkward and juvenile…

Whoa now, I never said a kitten thing about sex.

I am talking about enhancing story, I making that very clear right now.

How are some of you jerks associate sitting in a bar talking about finding orichalcum or offering to help noobs while in character, and confusing all that with cybering and sex in a game you can’t even tell someone’s sex or age… it’s beyond me.

Then Hellgaunt opened his mouth and started talking about ERP…
ok then I guess that’s where the hate comes from…

I should have been clear about RP and this post is not ERP.
BUT I would think everyone would be mature enough to understand what I meant.

EDIT: as a rule of thumb, if you cyber (be it on a game, facebook, or chatroom) you are seriously running a gambit. You have no idea of the person’s age, or sex.

I dont roleplay myself, but i loved the rp server on aoc.

live and let live, its that simple actualy.

Let people do what they want, and if its a rp server, hey people roleplay.

Hellgaunt.1734:

Anyways, that’s off topic. RPers can do whatever they want and if you are too narrow minded and too scared or too insecure that you need to hate on other people to maintain a sort of selfworth you shold just go do something meaningful in life or read more books and analyze yourself!

I can just hear his blood pressure rising as he typed this. The perfect example of a rage post, becoming less coherent with every word typed. =D

Anyhow, I can’t imagine the GW2 RP community could ever hope to be as bad as Moanguard from WoW. If folks wanna ERP (aka cyber AOL chat style :-P) in game have at it… In whispers. But if the rest of the population has to be subjected to their nerd-lust descriptions of their fantasies / what they want to do to the pixelated female in front if them, then surely they can expect an equally appropriate response from those nearby.

Even RPers shy away from ERPers.

Tolmos.8395:

Hellgaunt.1734:

Anyways, that’s off topic. RPers can do whatever they want and if you are too narrow minded and too scared or too insecure that you need to hate on other people to maintain a sort of selfworth you shold just go do something meaningful in life or read more books and analyze yourself!

I can just hear his blood pressure rising as he typed this. The perfect example of a rage post, becoming less coherent with every word typed. =D

Anyhow, I can’t imagine the GW2 RP community could ever hope to be as bad as Moanguard from WoW. If folks wanna ERP (aka cyber AOL chat style :-P) in game have at it… In whispers. But if the rest of the population has to be subjected to their nerd-lust descriptions of their fantasies / what they want to do to the pixelated female in front if them, then surely they can expect an equally appropriate response from those nearby.

Even RPers shy away from ERPers.

I can’t side with you guys on this.

I’m am posting an argument about RP… not about potentially illegal ERP sex-chat.

Grimm.2906:

This is why I firmly believe that EVE Online is the only MMO that really supports roleplaying. Instead of just typing about what your character does, you actually do it. I consider “roleplaying” that’s not backed up by rule or mechanics to be just talking funny and composing fan-fiction.

In most MMOs, you can say “I am Lord Awesome, General of the Black Legion, feared by all, blah blah”, but you still play the game in exactly the same way as everyone else—you run around and kill monsters and whatever. “Roleplaying” exists purely as an added layer of talking on top of the game.

Compare this to EVE, where you can actually do things you can only talk about in other games. You can be an admiral of a fleet of hundreds. You can be a trading tycoon and control the economy of large regions. You can be a pirate, preying on the weak and unprepared. You can be a diplomat that creates coalitions of thousands of players. You can be a mercenary who fights for the highest bidder. EVE’s mechanics actually allow you to do the things you want your character to do instead of just talking about them.

This is why I think most roleplaying in most MMOs is pointless. I instead prefer what I call “immersionism”. I try not to talk about out-of-world things, but I also don’t type whole paragraphs describing what my character is doing, because to me, that’s not roleplaying—that’s just talking funny and writing bad fan-fiction in realtime.

All that said, I don’t insult or otherwise pester people who chose to do so.

This. EVE isn’t the only one, since most sandboxes are that way, but I agree wholeheartedly.

I played an MMO called Shadowbane that was basically like a medieval EVE. Sandbox, do whatever whenever kind of thing. RP in the sense that this game has was nonexistent. No one sat around /chatting their characters actions while idling in town. And yet, it was impossible to play WITHOUT RPing. The stories I have from playing that game are more intricate in their politics, character development and execution than anything I’ve seen in manufactured RP in games like WoW and GW2. And it all happened in spite of none of us being “in character”. As the Silent Brotherhood sieged the town of Tombstone, on the northern desert Island held by The Lord Knights Keep, we were all chatting about what PS2 games we liked, what we were eating for supper and who was playing football that weekend. And yet, our stories ended up with intricate plot twists, stories of betrayal and loyalty, and all sorts of other neat stuff.

I think that’s why I could never get into this style of RP. I just don’t get the appeal. To me, RP should just… happen, despite the player. In a game like EVE or Shadowbane, there is no such thing as an RPer… And yet it is impossible to play without RPing. That, to me, is the mark of a truly amazing game. And it’s something the scripted, linear theme parks haven’t quite mastered yet.

I do have to say, though, I am happy with where TC is at PvP wise now. It has really turned into a formidable WvW server. My first encounter with RP PvPers in GW2 was… less than favorable. Back during headstart I tried out WvW. We were all upleveled, having fun… and getting destroyed. But what made it the hardest was convincing others not to RP on the battlefield. I mean, there’s a time and place, right?

Try as I might, though, the battlefield RP still happened. And it made life a royal pain. Big battle going on, I’m over there screaming “TARGET THE ELEMENTALISTS!” and they are screaming “PREPARE THY SELVES, FOUL MEANIES, FOR MY VENGEANCE!”. Oh the brutality that happened to us that weekend.. the horrible, horrible brutality.

I think there should be a dedicated ERP server. But, what should it be named?

I could never fathom why people hate on Role-players. It’s just a sub-section of the player base doing what they enjoy doing. If another player is making time to abuse or belittle those that are doing it – it says more about their lack of social-awareness. And the PvPers cannot complain either. Tarnished Coast is a Tier-2 server. Hmmmm…

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