Ever RP in a video game?

In Warframe I RP a guy with a ton of cosmetics and gear but is still shit at the game.

How's it going Jayce?

I did it a little bit. Was pretty fun to be a regular smuggler among all the Jedi and craziness. Game was super dead though at the higher end of things.

I love Garry's Mod

I kind of RP on a Gmod Spacebuild server.

Anyone ever try Stellaris RP?

>MW4 NBT-HC
Oh hey, that takes me back! Spent years there, but only performed a few official drops with Clan Wolf-in-Exile. Good community on the whole; glad to hear they're doing MWO nowadays.

Used to do HL2:DM RP servers years back. Actually was an admin for various communities over the years. Players eventually left, most migrating to GMod, and after that I kinda just stopped. Told the other Admins on that last server that we should make the jump since HL2DM was being eclipsed, but they didn't listen or want to bother. Was a shame, since we had someone make a great custom map for us that unfortunately saw almost no use in the end.

I use ork dialect sometimes when I play Eternal Crusade, but thats about it.

No, too many people doing it are cringeworthy, I'd rather not interact with them more than necessary.

MMO RP is a beast unto itself. You've got a large amount of people with varying degrees of competency and respeect for the material. It really is like a trainwreck on many occasions: it's as bad as people say it is. That said, you can occasionally find that rare diamond in the rough; if you do, you have to do everything in your power to hold onto that person and never let go.

If it's with the right crowd, it's worth a shot.

Unfortunately, that's rarely the case, and my opinion is more akin to .

This is generally also how I feel.
I did RP for a long time in City of Heroes/Villains, Champions Online, and Star Trek Online, and depending on who you surround yourself with, you can either have a great time, or be stuck with mongoloids who play the most generically edgy shit imaginable.

Star Trek was especially problematic with this, due to the propensity for these edgelord players to just not fit in at all with the environment and lore... at least with superhero games, edgelords are part of the scenery.

There's also the issue of not being able to fully influence the world around you. You can only pretend you're doing things in the grand scheme of it all.

I've only ever RP'ed in games.
It's really difficult to find a group where I live. That said, Lord of the Rings Online had a pretty steady roleplaying community when I used to play it. Thinking about getting back to it sometime, actually, I've been tossing a few character ideas around in my head.

Oh, and as a whole, good serious roleplaying servers on gmod are 4/5 times a total joke, and in the aftermath that they aren't, become very short lived after the fact.

youtube.com/watch?v=0EnfhwPahsg
This entire channel is just taking the piss out of Gmod RP.

Nothing major but when I first started playing Battlefleet Gothic: Armada I really loved the Orks. At the start of every game I'd say something Orkish and the opponent would respond in a way that fitted their faction. It was really just a couple of short exchanges but those brief moments really got me into a WAAGH mindset which made the matches awesome for me, win or lose.

Yeah, but from what I've seen, that's all dark rp + equivalent. I'm talking about more HL2rp, things on Clockwork and Nutscript.

Y'know, like these for example
youtu.be/9T8yRTIdo1g
youtu.be/bwYZEqHAuBc

As retarded as that was, it looked like they were having fun.

Used to roleplay in a lot of MMOs (EQ, WoW, SWTOR).

It can be a lot of fun playing in games but usually it's just trash.

I tried it years ago when I was playing World of Warcraft. It was some of the worst shit imaginable. Just a bunch of people sitting around Orgrimar describing themselves, describing their movements, describing their emotions. It was very weird and incredibly uninteresting.

>Star Trek Online

Military sims like Arma.

shit's cash when the other players roll with it

I used to RP as a Rogue Drone in Eve for a bit. There was a whole corp of us. It was pretty fun.

Beep boop.

SS13 and the mod Colonial Marines can be so good for vidya role-playing. When everyone is on the same page RP wise you can end up playing for hours as mysterious cultists, enigmatic scientists, psychopathic traitors as well as a hardened Marines or sexy aliens.

>Colonial Marines

Disgusting.

Kidding, but seriously, I can't stand trying to roleplay on that server, because a) most people are pants-on-head retarded and b) it's the exact same shit, round after round carlos.jpg . Still fun to blast xeno scum, though.

Back in the day I was in a roleplaying clan in Warcraft 3 called Light's Dawn. We had our own in-house mappers, hosting/chat bots, and around 50 active members at our peak. I had tons of fun, met a few people there that I talked to for years.

Eventually we all ended up migrating to an Enjin website, and slowly dispersing. I still have fond memories of those times though, never found anything quite the same afterwards.

Well it's been nearly half a year since I last played it so a lot might have changed.

>BEEP BOOP GET GANKED FLESHBAGS

Im in some rpg forums.

Niw before yiu brush it off please give me some slack. Some can be really spergy and unprofessinal others are just a side hobby for writers and actual editors and stuff. I joined a SW rpg forum with like 10 actual people. One of the Moderators is an editor in publish and the other mods appreciate newbies, talk to you and direct you quite well.

They all rp through google docs and post in bulk, so every post is essentially a collaborated story/chapter rather than a string of long posts.

It all depends on who is moderating with these forums, I found another prospectful group for Fallout on jclink but they arent as professional or as friendly to newibes as the SW group. I recommemd you don't join any rp community that uses any free forum hosting. Not only are they lesser quality they are often offshoots of larger communties and spite groups.

Sorry for the mistakes, I'm a little drowzy today and a little bit high on codeine from a sprained knee.

I started roleplaying in City of Heroes/Villains. Well not so much role playing as staying in character.

My favorite was a Mastermind mad scientist who lost his family in a horrible accident and put their brains into his robotic minions to save them. I had elaborate emotes out the ass.

My friends introduced me to WoW, and I did some RP there, but was never active enough to really get caught up in plots and was never interested in the constant hooking up.In fact, I ended up making celibate, ugly, or really old characters just so people wouldn't bother. It worked for the most part.

My favorite character was an old Troll voodoo fortunetellling lady. It allowed me to just log in, convince people to come over and give me their IC story and latest drama (which many were all too eager to do), offer my prediction/advice, get paid a couple gold/items, and then send them off.

I actually ended up being privvy to lots of gossip and quite a few secrets. There was more than one occasion where my predictions/advice was spot on because I had already spoken to someone planning on breaking up with, betraying, or pulling a fast one over on someone else.

I role played on Natural Selection 2 one time
Never again

This was the reason I disliked fallout 4 (or one of them) was that you couldn't do just that.

Fallout NV - my couriers have included
>The Wasteland Lawyer
>The last sheriff
>Slub

In BFG Armada I enormously enjoy shouting gibberish with my ork fleet or thematic things in chat.

Hell even in Total War I try and do things that are character appropriate.

It really makes me enjoy the game that much more

Second Life
Pic related was the worst i ever saw that wasn't a fetishfag.

That said, so much fun was had just RPing stupid shit in other peoples regions with friends.

>all the in character banter in BFG:A
>2v2 battle, all orks
>amazing bantz
>amazing fight, rammin, boardin, dakkin, zappin all in a massive clusterfuck waagh in the middle of the battlefield

Search for roleplay servers, not roleplaying games.

I used to admin some stuff on gmod, it was fun back in the day. I can't go back to it after getting into Veeky Forums though. Still some of the funnest RP I've ever had though.

Wait, is there a Veeky Forums Elite group?

>Elite
>group
But it's a solo game, user.

Oh I'd join that, if the game wasn't completely fucked. The Oceania-US link is down so I can't play with any of my friends.

NWN2 persistent world servers are fun. Very Veeky Forums related. The are pretty much MMOs but without a sub fee and actual roleplaying. Pic related was me running around the Planescape one.

>City of Heroes
Had a lot of good memories on the Virtue Server.

Yes

It makes me sad how hard it is to do this in Skyrim/Fallout 4 etc

>are
>not were
never tried nwn2 online. is the community still active at all?

Cringy as it is I tend towards Minecraft RP when I'm desperate and between campaigns.

I've found some of it is better than WoW RP.

>Entire corp of rogue drones

Jesus Christ how horrifying.

OP pic related is a hella easy game to RP in in the rare event you establish communications with another player.

Private groups were a mistake.

I roleplayed as a monogamous Geralt in Witcher. It was hard.

See for yourself
nwnlist.com/
There are still a decent amount of people playing in them. It might be worth buying the NWN games during a sale to give them a shot. Despite Gamespy being dead you still need a unique serial code to be able to connect to any of the servers.

I have a FAS. They made AI ships harder to kill so bounty hunting is super shitty now.

I'm CMDR Cottonwood, haven't been playing all that long, working my way to A-Spec on my Viper IV.

Are you in Oceania or US? I'm in NZ.

Yeah, I RP'd in classic WoW for the first year it was out. Community pretty much sucked, so I only actually RP'd with a few guild mates, one of whom I RP'd out a great story with. In retrospect, people apparently "scripted" out what they were going to do, but I never did this, so I probably came off as weird and an ass. I mean, I never did anything actually out of character assholish (like ninja loot or other shit), but my character was an asshole. I also trolled the forums, so there's that.

Did any of you WoW RPers play on servers with evolving plot lines that affected the realm, or was the RP limited to character development?

Character development, for the most part. If ever there were any overarching plot lines, they were kept to the small circle of players you were a part of. Occasionally, there are regular open events that people can participate in (one that I remember was the weekly story circle in Thunder Bluff where people would sit around a bonfire in the center of the city and tell all manner of stories).

If I were to set up some sort of Veeky Forums Elite Dangerous group, what would the best place to set it up?

>I found the ultra-serious RP servers were usually too cliquey and stifling, but there were so many active servers in the mid-2000s that I could pick from a selection of less serious roleplay-action hybrid type games
Yeah I had the same problem with nwn unfortunately all the servers became like that after the master server died, it killed the community.

It's really not the nwn community has gone to shit everyone moved on.
The few servers that are still active, because a lot of the stuff listed on scry is empty almost 24/7 have either very small communities or very clique communities that are hard to get into, I have been basically run off a few servers for not going with the cliques.

I played WoW on Moon Guard when it was still a low-pop server. Wasn't terrible then. Then I jumped ship to Wyrmrest Accord when the free transfers opened up.

Met my wife through a WoW RP server. I should mention, private wow rp servers like Freedom or Paragon or the now defunct CoTH are far, far better than retail servers, typically because they remove the levelling/gameplay parts and are pure RP. With dedicated builders, DMs/GMs, etc.

If you're into WoW RP, I recommend Freedom over the others. It's less vitriolic than Paragon, though this being the chans you may feel more at home on the latter simply because of everyone talking shit about everyone else on the latter.

Played Freelancer on Discovery, NWN2 on Sigil - The City of Doors, CoH titan/Paragon Chat... Veeky Forumsstation... Swtor on
The progenitor..

On ARK I started a tribe that roleplayed as caveman-nazis.

We built a huge castle and our MO was to capture and entrap other players in cages, of which we had a couple dozen in a field outside our castle with a sign that read "lil' Auschwitz."

We pretty much just ran around raiding other tribes yelling silly nazi stuff and breeding insane high level dinosaurs to ride into battle until the server alphas got butthurt and wiped us off the server.

Was pretty fun while it lasted though.

>Get game when it first came out.
"Cool! I can be a super hero!"
>Come back years later
"Cool! I can be any fetish!"

Virtue server, Podge Hodge, Operative May, Descended Bone Daddy

I used to play on one of the NWN strict roleplaying servers, but there was a lot of drama ooc. Then I ran a gmod RP server and made a few long term friends. I never bothered with anything else, got my fix in tabletop games.

Any remnants of old Jedi Academy RP?

I just about got into that but my net was too shitty at the time. When I finally got back into it, no one was around. It's not like the RP could progress very far when all you could do is battle.

I did a stint of that once, after following a WoW friend into it. That was a little kooky.

Iunno m8 I'm having fun making the Alliance a safer place.

>Ever RP in a video game?
Pretty much always, but I'm more likely to do it in singleplayer. Getting in-character and adding another layer of imagination to everything just comes very naturally to me.

I try in multiplayer if it's the kind of game where one roleplays, but I usually don't play MMOs and the like, and I generally find the communities kind of shit. I get my fix of social roleplaying from the two tabletop groups I'm in, so I don't really feel like I need to roleplay with others in vidya, even if I gladly will (as long as it doesn't get too awkward).
I just generally have more mediocre to bad experiences than good ones roleplaying in MMOs.

LOTRO, RP guild. It was fun at first, but turned into roleplay clusterfuck pretty fast, sometimes boring, sometimes hilariously stupid, but rarely pleasing. No character development, no story progressing, everyone is a self-insert Mary Sue, but don't you dare to run instead of walking in the town area, instant kick from the guild and lots of shaming.

I sometimes play Second Life just to crash parties or caper roleplays. Or I did, a few years ago.
My personal favourite was that time I managed to convince a group of Attack on Titan roleplayers to accept me as a magical catgirl, and drew them with me on a highly improvisational adventure, as we crossed many lands and public places in search of mythical giants. Probably had them tailing me for well over an hour.

I RP in Minecraft