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[Conniving_Eagle]

Roleplaying Syndrome (RPS for short) - the incessant need to roleplay in video games, even if they are not RPGs.

Does anyone else have this disorder other than me? I'm compelled to roleplay in almost any game I play, RPG or not.

Let me give you some examples:

Assassin's Creed: I use killing as a last resort, I don't go around randomly killing guards for the lulz. If I am ever surrounded by enemies (let's say more than 8) I try to play it realistically and escape with a smoke bomb or something, even though I could easily kill all those guards. I also only free-run on roof tops, I tend to walk and sometimes jog on the streets.

Battlefield/Gears of War: I will only use weapons and camos that make sense. For example, my Locust characters will only use the Hammerburst. In Battlefield, I will only use NATO weapons when playing as a Marine, I will also select a camoflauge that is appropriate for the map.

GTA/RDR: My character will sleep during appropriate times of the day, walk around the city/town, participate in many miscelleneous activities and so on.

In certain RPGs, like Bethesda's games, I will take my roleplaying to the extreme. I might have my character pretend to be a bandit for an in-game week and things like that.


If you also have RPS, feel free to share what you do in other games.

[Jadebaby]

I played RDR and GTA also. In GTA I would obey the traffic laws and stop for red lights etc... It got really boring and I didn't always do it. But when I felt an immersive pull into the game I would.
In RDR I would do the same in sleeping at night time. And then on those carriage trips between cities I would sometimes just let it ride out w/o skipping it.

Assassin's Creed I did the exact same thing! haha.. Especially in Assassin's creed Brotherhood when you upgrade your town's shops. I would walk around the town calmly pretending i'm 'mayor Ezio" and then return to the mansion.

I go kind of crazy in Bethesda games though.
Skyrim:
Sleeping at night.
Fast travelling to a nearby location instead of my destination so I can ride my horse or walk to the destination.
Eating fruit and other foods when I don't really need to.
Wearing really basic clothing like "belted tunic" that I've enchanted because it looks more normal. THen chaning into "nightingale armor" only when I'm about to go into combat.

Fallout 3 and New Vegas:
In fallout 3 I was pretty crazy too..
Sleeping at night like Skyrim.
Changing into "sexy sleepwear" when I did go to sleep.
Fast travelling to nearby destinations instead of the destination.
Drinking water and eating food when I didn't necessarily need too.
Fallout New Vegas gave me such great immersion because by adding hardcore mode they gave me an actual reason to drink water, or eat or sleep. That really added to the immersive experience. Damn I love Fallout: New Vegas.

The only game I haven't done it on that I frequently play is Gears of War. Just because I mainly play MP and it's just too compettive to screw around lol.

Nice thread idea though, I had fun thinking about and answering this. I'm sure there's more games that I have gone all Roleplay fanatic about. So will add them when I think of em.

[AresKeith]

I role-played in those games too except Battlefield/Gears of War

[Conniving_Eagle]

I only uses carriages in Skyrim. DID and Expert difficulty. Hell yeah!

[KENNY4753]

Bethesda games yes. tried to be as realistic as i could

[Jadebaby]

is DID an acronym for something? =/

I didn't even know there were carriages in Skyrim.. Really?

I've played like 300+ hours on my character LMAO

[KENNY4753]

I miss Morrowind!

[Carcharoth42]

Jade8aby88 wrote...

is DID an acronym for something? =/

I didn't even know there were carriages in Skyrim.. Really?

I've played like 300+ hours on my character LMAO

DID = Dead is dead. If you die, you start a new game.

[horacethegrey]

I like to do this as well. Anytime I play any Assassin's Creed game I always avoid killing innocents, just my targets. Ditto with GTA, I won't run down innocent passerby, but if the pigs are on my tail, all bets are off. And in Red Dead I always play Marston as a heroic gunman, since the story seems to favor that characterization.

[Rockworm503]

Quite the oposite actually. I've tried several times to roleplay my shepard or warden the way I planned it out in my head but my ADD wont allow it. I do what feels right in the moment. Most recently during Assassin's Creed if I saw a guard I want out of my way to kill him. In GTA sometimes I'll go out of my way to kill someone. That guy just knocked me down with his car he's lucky I don't hunt down his family and kill them!!!!! Seriously I recently got hit my a taxi driver in 4 the other day and the guy got out and ran. I got in his taxi and followed him 3 blocks before I ran over him several times. If someone insults me I'll make it slow and bash their heads in with a bat!!! If I'm going to roleplay as the characters in GTAs I'd be more close to them anyway because their all clearly psychos.

[bussinrounds]

"Roleplaying" just means you're just playing according to your character. Playing as a thief ? Sneak around, steal stuff, hide in shadows...

If the game acknowledges your actions and has mechanics that recognize and support that, you're "roleplaying", If you're going around making up s**t in your head and the game doesn't acknowledge it, your LARPing.

[Alpha-Centuri]

bussinrounds wrote...



If the game acknowledges your actions and has mechanics that recognize and support that, you're "roleplaying", If you're going around making up s**t in your head and the game doesn't acknowledge it, your LARPing.

Live Action Role Playing, in a digital medium... Brilliant!  

[Zanallen]

Nope. I don't even really roleplay in RPGs. I play the games to experience the story, not make my own. If I want to make my own story, I'll write one.

[Olaf_de_IJsbeer]

Quite the opposite with me, as I don't even roleplay in RPGs. For the most part, if a game has a blank slate character, I just project my personality onto that character. Though if a game has a karma system of any kind, I do tend to play an evil character first and a goody two-shoes later.

[Jadebaby]

Rockworm503 wrote...

Quite the oposite actually. I've tried several times to roleplay my shepard or warden the way I planned it out in my head but my ADD wont allow it. I do what feels right in the moment. Most recently during Assassin's Creed if I saw a guard I want out of my way to kill him. In GTA sometimes I'll go out of my way to kill someone. That guy just knocked me down with his car he's lucky I don't hunt down his family and kill them!!!!! Seriously I recently got hit my a taxi driver in 4 the other day and the guy got out and ran. I got in his taxi and followed him 3 blocks before I ran over him several times. If someone insults me I'll make it slow and bash their heads in with a bat!!! If I'm going to roleplay as the characters in GTAs I'd be more close to them anyway because their all clearly psychos.

[Wentletrap]

I keep looking for people in games to romance.

I blame this entirely on BioWare.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

horacethegrey wrote...

I like to do this as well. Anytime I play any Assassin's Creed game I always avoid killing innocents, just my targets. Ditto with GTA, I won't run down innocent passerby, but if the pigs are on my tail, all bets are off. And in Red Dead I always play Marston as a heroic gunman, since the story seems to favor that characterization.

Seems reasonable as I do.

[naughty99]

To an extent this is common for many games. Any time you consider the character you're playing and imagine what that character would want to do next, you are engaging in some level of role playing.

This is part of how the human mind perceives story, and why some stories are more engaging than others. Even when you consume passive entertainment such as movies and books, your mind doesn't simply shut off, it's working, imagining what will happen next, whether that unlocked back door is going to come back and bite the protagonist in the ass, etc., what you would do in a similar situation.

Obviously some games provide a much better framework for RP than others, but on some smaller level even many linear action games these days have role playing elements, some sort of story where you have at least a basic concept of the character you are playing and imagine what he or she would want to do, how he might respond to certain NPC dialogue, or which approach he would choose for completing the level, etc.

Arguably certain action or stealth games with emergent narrative and sandbox gameplay mechanics, such as Deus Ex, Thief, Bioshock, RDR, GTA, Saints Row, DayZ, etc., provide a better framework for imagining what your character would want to do, compared with highly linear games like Diablo and Torchlight that have been called "action role playing games" by some reviewers.

Modifié par naughty99, 22 août 2012 - 02:38 .

[Lotion Soronarr]

Sometimes. I wish games would gives us more options on what to do in many cases.

What I often do is play the job right.
Playing as Sam Fisher? Eficency. Get trough undetected if possible. I will study guard patrols and be in and out wihout anyone knowing.

[RedArmyShogun]

Olaf_de_IJsbeer wrote...

Quite the opposite with me, as I don't even roleplay in RPGs. For the most part, if a game has a blank slate character, I just project my personality onto that character. Though if a game has a karma system of any kind, I do tend to play an evil character first and a goody two-shoes later.

Hmm pretty much this minus on the Karma system I let it reflect my own morals which are more paragade lulz.

[IElitePredatorI]

The Mad Hanar wrote...

Well I try to.

....then I get bored and kill everyone.

That sums up what I did when I tried Saints Row the Third.

Anyways, depending on the game I sometimes will but I don't really take it to extreme levels or anything.

Modifié par IElitePredatorI, 22 août 2012 - 02:09 .

[Buddy McFlurry]

I do have role-playing syndrome. And I'm really enjoying it. I'm getting Sleeping Dogs soon and from the vids I saw, it looks like a lot of fun. Hell of a lot of things to do.

The only exception is Assassins Creed. The combat is fast and awesome. Kill 20 guards in one battle without loosing a single health point and you feel like a killing machine.

BTW Fallout is the best, especially on hardcore difficulty.