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Grommok:
Naaah, COD is too hard for all those brainless anti-rp guys. You must have reflexes, while in FOnline you mustnt.
jonny rust:
--- Quote from: Eternauta on September 14, 2011, 04:31:23 PM ---The part that I don't understand is why all those "anti-RP" people play a game like this. If you are interested in combat, the are games which are a lot better than this one in that sense, and where you don't even need to spend time levelling a char, getting proper gear...
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that has been my point for a long time as well. Fallout has always been an RPG and to have 'fans' who don't enjoy RP is strange to me. But then again I'm sure that there are similar 'fallouts' on D&D servers.
The problem is that RPG's are sensationalized now. Many people who saw Lord of the Rings never read the book just like many people who play D&D (or other RPG's) don't even know what pen and paper is about.
It's sad because imo the only way to actually get your own imagination involved in a game such as this is to RP, otherwise you are simply learning rules and then exploiting them like a worker bee. In fact I believe that if you are playing an RPG computer game without actively participating you're own imagination it can actually be harmful to your imagination as it never does any work! the game gives you 'everything you need' and your right hemisphere can just go to sleep.
An analogy that comes to mind when thinking of Fonline in this new Pop-fantasy climate is a highschool cafeteria where a bunch of geeks are playing P&P at a table. A bunch of jocks look over at them and think "hey, we don't know why but we want to play too!". So they sit down at the table and begin to play with the geeks, however they play the game like they are playing football (and who knows why since they could just go play football, which, was designed top be played like football) in stead of using their imaginations and actually RPing as the game intended. Now, who knows why they wanted to come over and play an RPG anyway since they obviously don't know how or just don't like to. Perhaps it has something to do with the new popularization of fantasy, but I think it boils down to the way in which this newly popularized fantasy is spoon fed and hardly fantasized at all... anymore.
JovankaB:
--- Quote from: Eternauta on September 14, 2011, 04:31:23 PM ---The part that I don't understand is why all those "anti-RP" people play a game like this. If you are interested in combat, the are games which are a lot better than this one in that sense, and where you don't even need to spend time levelling a char, getting proper gear...
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If you are interested in roleplaying, I'm sure there are games which are a lot better than this one for RPing. Where you don't have to be afraid of bombers, imba player killers, non-rp trolls...
Grommok:
--- Quote from: JovankaB on September 14, 2011, 07:15:57 PM ---If you are interested in roleplaying, I'm sure there are games which are a lot better than this one for RPing. Where you don't have to be afraid of bombers, imba player killers, non-rp trolls...
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But guess what? We are here, why movin' when we have a such... good thing like FOnline. Fuck useless RP-haters, makes no sense. (since this is based on fallout, fallout is an RPG, they possess fallout to play this game, enhce they play RPG, so why hating RPG? RPG RPG RPG ;D)
jonny rust:
--- Quote from: JovankaB on September 14, 2011, 07:15:57 PM ---If you are interested in roleplaying, I'm sure there are games which are a lot better than this one for RPing. Where you don't have to be afraid of bombers, imba player killers, non-rp trolls...
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A. I dont mind a threat of death looming everywhere I go, it enhances my RP.
B. I don't play any other MMO's but from what I hear they all have troll problems
What I suspect about MMO's is that, no matter which one you go to, there are always going to be people hiding behind their characters rather than living through them so that they can act out and be jerks without anyone actually knowing who they are. I guess anti-social behavior is easier when you have a mask on. If this were a massive p&p or board-game we would have far less trolling because people would be less likely to act like jerks when face to face with all the other players.
C. I LOVE fallout, and I'm not leaving. It's not like I struggle to RP, I do it whenever I play this game and I do it successfully. If there is no one else I can find that is willing to RP then I log out and try again later or take care of a few mundane tasks. There is no way I'm going to stop playing just because there are anti-RP players around.
It doesn't surprise me that we are having this problem in the least. Kids used to have to hide in order to RP playing the games that these games are all based on, and they did it to be social. These days kids can hide from the people they are playing with (i'm 27 btw, not some old man with a switch jaded by youth) and instead do it to be anti-social, most likely because they have never played a real life board game... or even worse because they were never taught how to play with other people.
All that means for me though is that I will play the game as best I can in a way that makes it fun for myself and anyone else who isn't here to be a jerk and perhaps I can set some small example for people who don't know how to interact... mostly I just want to have fun though. and I do!
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