Poll: Do you RP when playing RPG's?

[Roamin11]

I was recently talking to a friend about fallout 3 and we were talking about our skill sets and then I asked him what did he RP as and all he said is "what do you mean" to this I ranted to him that Fallout 3 is a FPSRPG to which he said he didn't care enough to play it he just wanted the FPS parts of the game. SO do you RP when playing RPGs? eg: prior to playing fallout 3 I found a silver dollar which I keep on my person and I played as some sort of two face like charater fliping the coin to see if some one lives or dies like megaton, lets just say megaton didnt have the bes of luck.

Edit: I would also like to hear what you usally role play as.

 

[Xvito]

Yes... Of course, that's what they're for.

 

[Kiutu]

Very much so. TES is my favorite game series cause of that. I have a whole cast of characters for the games, my hero from the 1st and 2nd being the father of my hero for 3 and 4, while also having side characters, who usually take care of the parts of the game my main character wont do, such as the Fighter's guild. Infact, as of now I am planning the potential linking story for TESIV to TESV, and wether or not I am going to have it be the same character from Oblivion or if I will need to make a new one (which would be someone mentored by my character from 4)

Sorry for actually detailling it if you dont care...I got excited.

In Fallout 3 however, I only had a couple and were all 'altered timelines'. As in, a good character or instead an evil one. (I got the neutral achievements on my good one by saving, becomign neutral, leveling up, reloading)

 

[Ronwue]

I generally keep to my character abilities and statuses while deciding what choices to take.

 

[Abedeus]

Rarely.

Although I have been roleplaying for a long time online in Neverwinter Nights.

 

[Eipok Kruden]

I only RP in EVE Online, but if I had Fallout 3, I'm sure I would RP in that as well. *cries* I wish I had Fallout 3..... waaaaahaaaaa!!!

 

[Axolotl]

I only RP in EVE Online, but if I had Fallout 3, I'm sure I would RP in that as well. *cries* I wish I had Fallout 3..... waaaaahaaaaa!!!

Fallout 3 isn't really conductive to role-playing.

I try to but most games suffer from poor dialogue and trying to RP either makes your character a saint or a jerk with little room in between.

 

[Erana]

Oh, starting a grand adventure!
*decides personality of the character*
Off we go!

Day 1: I escaped from evil dungons, rose through two ranks of the fighter's guild, got to rank three in the mage's guild, became a part of the Blades, closed a portal to oblivion...

Well, that's exaggerating it, but you get the idea. Games typically go by too fast for one to roleplay with 'em.

 

[Undeadpope]

I would for some online with more of a feel for RP.
After playing World of Warcraft(no RP)to level 80 I found it hard to start a new on a RP sever and get into the grove which for so long I had been used to "LF1M [instance/quest name here] DPS /w me" I could not get in the grove into saying "I seek a brave soul,in which to protect our group from the wrath of our enemies"its rarely necessary,but if your going to RP it might as well be all the way.

 

[Bling Cat]

RP is seriously pathetic people who do it should have more fun in their REAL life than in a game made by other people

By that point, all videogames, movies, books, TV programs and the internet itself is pathetic. Hence, everyone is pathetic, at least according to you. Me, I'm going to go have fun being pathetic.

 

[Silver]

I do it when I play other games as well. As long as they have some sort of choice, and/or customization.

 

[NeonZombie]

RP is seriously pathetic people who do it should have more fun in their REAL life than in a game made by other people

By that point, all videogames, movies, books, TV programs and the internet itself is pathetic. Hence, everyone is pathetic, at least according to you. Me, I'm going to go have fun being pathetic.

In tv programmes and movies you don't pretend to be someone your not.. Indeed you can empathise with the character but you don't psyically pretend to be them... thats lame

 

[Logan Westbrook]

Let's stop flaming other users shall we Zombie?

 

[NeonZombie]

Let's stop flaming other users shall we Zombie?

Ah sorry it just annoys me coz i don't like it - not really sure why i just think it's quite sad

 

[Ansem-The-Wise]

I only do it for a few, and only on some occasions, but it's really fun once you get into the mindset.

 

[Eipok Kruden]

I only RP in EVE Online, but if I had Fallout 3, I'm sure I would RP in that as well. *cries* I wish I had Fallout 3..... waaaaahaaaaa!!!

Fallout 3 isn't really conductive to role-playing.

I try to but most games suffer from poor dialogue and trying to RP either makes your character a saint or a jerk with little room in between.

Same. I haven't been able RP in any other single-player RPG. MMORPG's are much better for RPing because there's other people, not NPC's.

 

[Jaedon]

Depends, for online rpg's, no, though I've tried a few times, like on Neverwinter Nights player modules, I either get bored of staying in character after a while or lose immersion from the little things like npc's with no lives, repeating speech, respawning monsters, well, y'know the stuff, some can tune that out but I find it hard to.

Offline ones, I guess I semi-roleplay. I don't just like, pick an alignment and stick to being the good or bad guy, I do what feels right for the character to do with only the odd occasion of letting my own personal motives getting in the way in a situation where the npc talking to me pisses me off, 'no I won't save your mother, your voice acting is terrible!'.

 

[DirkGently]

Yes, if it suits me. It adds a level of spice and entertainment to a game. Though, as Erana said, it can get a bit ridiculous as to what you can do in one day, so I'll limit myself to what actions I accomplish in a day. I don't have a real system, I just sort of make it up as I go along, but I don't treat it like Calvin Ball.

 

[xxcloud417xx]

Vote for Pedro!

 

[Valiance]

I would for some online with more of a feel for RP.
After playing World of Warcraft(no RP)to level 80 I found it hard to start a new on a RP sever and get into the grove which for so long I had been used to "LF1M [instance/quest name here] DPS /w me" I could not get in the grove into saying "I seek a brave soul,in which to protect our group from the wrath of our enemies"its rarely necessary,but if your going to RP it might as well be all the way.

whisper, and I'm not kidding:

"heil, brav adventurur, wood u care 2 venture into the deepths of the steem valts???"

It made me lol so hard I said "I will happily lend my blade to the slaying of naga."
And he said "form my runins with thos cursd naga, they ar quiet scaree beests. ((also i mite hav 2 go cuz my dads making dnner.))"

This is why I don't RP online much at all. I do a little bit with people I know who are competent in typing complete sentences, but that's about 30% of the WoW players I saw...xD

I actually have posted giant lulzy RP-style invites to groups, it gets me more people, to be honest.