/v/ - Video Games

>>>/tg/ stupid

nowhere it's dead

Alternatively to the anon’s post above, an actual video game that gives you the same shit as /tg/ without needing to spend a shit ton on different board games or dnd shit is Tabletop Simulator. If you just want the dnd role play experience you can try roll20 or something similar. You’d just need friends, of course.

>>15968255

>>15968256

That's unfortunate.

>>15968265

I'm not looking for board games.

FFXIV on Balmung is good for nonerp.

Assuming you can actually get in.

And unironically Second life is good for that too

skyrim

You might enjoy VRChat. Granted it has no gameplay, but its hard to find RP in a game with gameplay besides MMOs. The key aspect of "a game you can roleplay in' is character customization, but its not required. I remember there being some sandboxish war game where people roleplayed as a squad but I can't remember what it was.

>>15968277

Unfortunately, my computer is too shit for that game. I checked the specs and my piece of shit computer can't run it. I have Intel HD Graphics 520 and pretty much can only play Skyrim on low settings, current retail WoW runs at like 20-30 FPS, and I usually can't play many newer games, unless they're low graphics. This kills.

>>15968291

VRChat looks like a game with voice chat. I could enjoy it. It's just I also to type rather than talk.

>>15968306

If you're autistic, you could try Space Station 13. There are servers for it still running over on 4chan's vg. I think tg has a server too, as well as some others like goonstation, but I don't know their statuses. I spent most of my time playing as a MoMMI robot fixing the ship and skittering and beeping away from other crew members.

>>15968314

I've never tried tabletop games or anything like dnd. When I first started roleplaying, I was infatuated with screaming into the mic and roleplaying in non-RP games and having friends larp as opposing civilizations. I was always the villain and liked to be a barbaric civilization with slave labor. Then I moved on with text-based MMO RP and fantasy characters in a virtual world and this was immersive. I found plenty of people in-character and going around. I miss both of these experiences.

>>15968320

That game is fun.

>>15968351

every single halfway decent roleplay experience I've had in online games has been shattered by autistic grognards obsessed with their petty idea of control, masquerading as "in-character". It's cool bro, my guy's goal is just to make your guy have a shitty time!

in traditional roleplaying this is cancer and it is called "my guy syndrome." in online games it is accepted because the faggot in question is friends with one of the server admins. you will always have a better experience roleplaying around a table

>>15968273

>I'm not looking for board games.

You wont find good RP then. MMO rp is cancer, unless you are looking for ERP, degeneracy, Mary/Gary Sues, or tavern "RP".

>>15968426

How do you RP in a strategy game?

>>15968426

the only time I've ever roleplayed is as Hulk Hogan while playing MTG, so I can understand that

>>15968427

Well, how do you roleplay? You suddenly jump into character and pretend you're in the game. It can be done with any game you play, really. I've roleplayed in FPS for the first time I ever roleplayed because it's something I always wanted to do, but I never knew what roleplaying was. You see, anon, I always liked playing pretend as a kid and I brought it into gaming.

>How do you RP in a strategy game?

You usually roleplay as the nation or military. It's easy. It takes RP to a diplomatic angle where now you aren't only roleplaying as a person, but as a whole nation.

>>15968442

Strategy games seem too limited for RP beyond just having reasons for trying to win. Grand Strat or 4X might be different enough of a scope though.

Heck, I even roleplayed in Minecraft. Is Minecraft a game where people traditionally go to roleplay? No, but Minecraft is still fun to RP in.

>>15968502

It's surprisingly easy to do in Dominions due to the very thematic nature of the nations and the way the message system works. The only way to communicate between nations (players) in game is to send a message, which arrives on the target player's feed at the beginning of the next turn. It also helps that "you" are actually a pretender God with a name and body type that you choose. Usually people embellish these messages, giving themselves titles and such, writing the way they think their pretender or his subordinates would write. R'lyeh players might write some creepy, cryptic shit, while Man players might write like King Arthur and Marignon players might pretend they're the Spanish Inquisition.

SS13 has light/medium/heavy roleplay servers. I'm playing on /vg/ station which is pretty fun light-medium roleplay.

>>>/tg/

Vidya sucks for actual roleplay.

>>15968686

Cards and board games are boring..

NWN and DDO

What do you guys even RP as? I don't choose characters from any media even if I like them. Instead I brainstorm custom ones based on that character but try to differentiate as much as I can. The best ones I think are the those that are only good at one thing, are very simple and limited and often times suffer from severe shit. Like making a piglegged fencer, or a wizard with concussion.

>>15969040

It's always fun dealing with these types of fuckwits that actually expect you to remember their made up, nonsensical gender horseshit. Anyone who's arrpeed for any amount of time runs into the problem of needing to remember people's characters and their quirks. Nobody will care to memorize intricate details about your OC, fucking nobody.

This isn't vidya related but rp forums have become a mine field of this kind of shit.

>>15968686

>doxing yourself for a game

>>15968320

>>15968567

Thirding Space Station 13, it's got as good a mix of gameplay functionality and roleplay as you could reasonably ask for. Don't know about any other servers, but years back cuckchan /tg/ server was the light roleplay one while /vg/ was the powergaming munchkin one but those tables have turned. Also /vg/'s code is insanely good, shit runs silky smooth, characters aren't on an air hockey rink, and there's some new mechanics like the more in depth medical system and hull breaches and opening doors to space being more deadly

There used to be an RP community on Neverwinter Nights 1, but that went away with Gamespy shutting down.

I would say WoW, but the quality isn't exactly high and the game itself doesn't lend itself to roleplaying very well.

Part of me thinks this is deliberate. They're trying to trim all of the RPG elements out of RPGs at the moment, since they view things like mechanics as gatekeeping. This is impacting tabletop, too.

>>15969623

I missed when being a special snowflake meant having actually fun traits like being a mute half-elf sorceress (real character I played with on an NWN server, much more fun than I expected) instead of pretending that you have a vagina and it's also bleeding constantly.

>>15969857

>force numbers over imagination

What's wrong with this? I'd rather use numbers to determine if something succeeds over the player's decision as you'll end up with everyone godmodding which is boring as fuck.

Even if you played with people who were willing to lose occasionally it's not as fun for someone to choose to fail some action than to want to succeed, but fail due to the roll and then trying to figure out how to handle the situation.

>>15969880

>fun

lol gay

>>15969880

>>15970248

Rolling is fun for both occasions.

For example, RP fighting is best determined with rolls. Otherwise you get a real shitshow.

>>15968370

Shitty players are called "That guy" not "my guy"

>>15968526

Minecraft is actually an amazing game for roleplaying due to ability to build structures and it's sandboxy nature.

Also Legends of Aria (formerly Shards Online) is supposed to have community-run servers with custom content, if the game turns out to be decent it might be worth giving a shot regarding roleplay.

Aren't you a little old to be playing make believe?

>>15971020

It's a reference to what the player says when they justify their shitty roleplaying you dumb faggot. If you had input the phrase "my guy syndrome" into any search engine you'd have understood what I was talking about. The idea is that a player allows their limited knowledge or perspective on what their character does to completely drive their decision making, precluding any attempt at actually having fun. Entire groups can suffer this phenomenon, to the point where everyone agrees not to have fun because "that's what their guy would do."

>>15968914

>And I wish I had somebody to play board games with

I have a fuckhuge collection of physical board games and nobody to play them with. IKTF.

>>15970248

>he doesn't know how to make godmodders fuck off

I remember when I used to participate in a few forum RPs that didn't do numbers at all, and most people were doing okay with pretending to struggle in-character. Of course, a couple godmodders showed up but we made them fuck off by godmodding enemies against them until they were reduced to a blubbering mess. Once the deed was done, power levels went back to normal.

>>15971849

Semi-unrelated but how is Enhanced edition compared to the HD or wahtever it's called? I was considering getting into the game but don't want any post humeous sjw additions to the writing.

>>15972281

EE did absolutely nothing to the original campaign, all it did AFAIK was adding some shit to the map editor, so it's basically a full-priced DIY game. Sadly almost all established servers have switched to it because of working server list and whatever else they promised.

If you want SP, download or buy an old CD of diamond edition. Many custom modules don't work on EE despite all these promises (like ADWR). If you want to play MP you're forced to buy the Engorged Edition.

>>15972281

They lied about almost everything. None of the bugs that actually matter, like weird movement shit and camera shit, were fixed. Many modules were broken despite promises that they wouldn't be. They didn't bother to implement proper UI scaling for higher resolutions, it's glitchy as fuck and the "slider" only allows you to choose 1x or 2x with nothing inbetween. So you either get tiny as fuck or way too huge at 1080p. As far as I can tell none of the promised expanded modding potential was delivered, or at least no one has utilized it yet. It's a pathetic excuse for an "enhanced" edition and a blatant cash grab on a fucking 16 year old game.