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DangerAardvark

DangerAardvark

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So I'm killing shit, as is my wont, and I start noticing more and more players standing around in circles and emoting at each other. I'm like: "okay, they're just bored, whatever". LOTRO is very lore-heavy, so I guess you can't blame some people for role-playing. Then I see some people standing in a circle playing a suspiciously gay song, so I go over and ask them how to play sharps and flats but get no response. Then one of them goes: "let us depart to Tuckborough" and the others emote their agreement. Then it dawns on me... I ask in OOC (what passes for general chat) what OOC stands for. "Out Of Character", they reply. All the signs come flashing back like at the end of 6th Sense. Oh shit, I just pwnd myself into a RP server.

I'm already about 10 hrs into this game and at level 13, but I don't want to have to talk in old English just to get into a guild.
 
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Schfifty Five

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Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
So I'm killing shit, as is my wont, and I start noticing more and more players standing around in circles and emoting at each other. I'm like: "okay, they're just bored, whatever". LOTRO is very lore-heavy, so I guess you can't blame some people for role-playing. Then I see some people standing in a circle playing a suspiciously gay song, so I go over and ask them how to play sharps and flats but get no response. Then one of them goes: "let us depart to Tuckborough" and the others emote their agreement. Then it dawns on me... I ask in OOC (what passes for general chat) what OOC stands for. "Out Of Character", they reply. All the signs come flashing back like at the end of 6th Sense. Oh shit, I just pwnd myself into a RP server.

I'm already about 10 hrs into this game and at level 13, but I don't want to have to talk in ye old English just to get into a guild.
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Bateluer

Bateluer

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Jun 23, 2001
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Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
server.

I'm already about 10 hrs into this game and at level 13, but I don't want to have to talk in old English just to get into a guild.
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I can't speak for LOTRO, but in other MMOs I've played, very few RP guilds are that hardcore that they enforce speech requirements for open chat.

RP servers usually have higher maturity and better players than PvP and normal based servers in most MMOs. WoW is the exception, all players are 12 year olds with partial frontal lobotomies.
 
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ITPaladin

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Dec 16, 2003
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No one ever said you have to speak on olde english.
Have you read the books? How did they speak?
RPing is not talking about your stats...I have 200 strength...NO!...you are strong but could do better.
RP is about talking normally in every day speech within the setting, not geekdom D & D speech.
 
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Xavier434

Lifer
Oct 14, 2002
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Originally posted by: ayabe
Originally posted by: shinerburke
Originally posted by: Feldenak
Originally posted by: shinerburke
Just go outside and meet a girl.
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MMOs and a social life are not mutually exclusive.
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Myspace and Facebook don't count as a social life.
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But he has 52,000 friends, don't be jealous.
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Moderation = Successful Life (in most cases...to my knowledge, moderating your intake of things like nuclear waste will only get you so far ;))
 
Throckmorton

Throckmorton

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An RP server is the only way to play an MMO. Otherwise why bother. You don't have to speak in "Old English" (they are actually just using archaic words not real OE). Just speak in character and do things your character WOULD do- That's the point of an RPG anyway.
 
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Xavier434

Lifer
Oct 14, 2002
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Originally posted by: Throckmorton
An RP server is the only way to play an MMO. Otherwise why bother. You don't have to speak in "Old English" (they are actually just using archaic words not real OE). Just speak in character and do things your character WOULD do- That's the point of an RPG anyway.
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There are tons of reasons which answer that question, but I won't go over any of them. I will say that all of these games are being given the name "role playing game" for traditional and categorical reasons. They have evolved so much since they were first being created and so many people play them for so many reasons beyond role playing that the category really doesn't define the games anywhere near as much as it used to. Don't ask me what to call them instead though lol.
 
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skace

Lifer
Jan 23, 2001
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Hold shift to play sharp notes. At least thats what I think sharp notes are. I just run up to people leveling and yell "battle music" then start hitting all the keys on my horn. Makes me laugh anyways.
 
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CP5670

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Jun 24, 2004
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Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Throckmorton
An RP server is the only way to play an MMO. Otherwise why bother. You don't have to speak in "Old English" (they are actually just using archaic words not real OE). Just speak in character and do things your character WOULD do- That's the point of an RPG anyway.
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There are tons of reasons which answer that question, but I won't go over any of them. I will say that all of these games are being given the name "role playing game" for traditional and categorical reasons. They have evolved so much since they were first being created and so many people play them for so many reasons beyond role playing that the category really doesn't define the games anywhere near as much as it used to. Don't ask me what to call them instead though lol.
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The term "role playing game" could applied to just about anything if you take it literally. You're playing a role in any game where you control a character, which for example includes every FPS out there. :p
 
jonks

jonks

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Feb 7, 2005
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Originally posted by: Throckmorton
An RP server is the only way to play an MMO. Otherwise why bother. You don't have to speak in "Old English" (they are actually just using archaic words not real OE). Just speak in character and do things your character WOULD do- That's the point of an RPG anyway.
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What if you play your character as if a 21st century person were transported into a medieval setting? I don't usually name my avatars Tristram or Thunderhawk. I go more for PsychoDude the Barbarian or Neo or whatever. Playing your character however you want to, archaic or anachronistic, that's the point of an RPG.
 
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Xavier434

Lifer
Oct 14, 2002
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Originally posted by: CP5670
Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Throckmorton
An RP server is the only way to play an MMO. Otherwise why bother. You don't have to speak in "Old English" (they are actually just using archaic words not real OE). Just speak in character and do things your character WOULD do- That's the point of an RPG anyway.
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There are tons of reasons which answer that question, but I won't go over any of them. I will say that all of these games are being given the name "role playing game" for traditional and categorical reasons. They have evolved so much since they were first being created and so many people play them for so many reasons beyond role playing that the category really doesn't define the games anywhere near as much as it used to. Don't ask me what to call them instead though lol.
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The term "role playing game" could applied to just about anything if you take it literally. You're playing a role in any game where you control a character, which for example includes every FPS out there. :p
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Pretty much
 
Maximilian

Maximilian

Lifer
Feb 8, 2004
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Run around screaming JOUST! and killing everyone of a lower level, theres a surefire way to have fun.
 
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