I like to pretend I'm actually in the game. For instance, in Civ4 or EU2, I pretend I'm actually in charge of a country. When a neighbour is being a bitch to me, in my mind I play out my people crying out for their blood. When I'm playing an RTS, assuming I can spare them, I will save my "veteran" units and keep them safe in my base, even if there is no veteran system in the game. When I'm playing Spore or GalCiv2, I play a specific role (cunning mercantile race, ruthless conqueror) even if it exists outside of intended mechanics of the game. For example, in Spore I made a race of creatures that hated ALL LIFE that existed outside of their homeworld, to the point of only colonizing worlds with species and plants from their native planet. Even when I received the Staff of Life with this race, I wasted the 42 charges and basically threw it away.
When I make my character in an RPG or simulation, I model the character after myself. For example, I rarely make female characters since I am not a female. My character is an extension of myself or an idealized version of myself.
When I'm out adventuring, I like to think I'm actually in the game. I can't really explain that much further.
The only thing that I've noticed about this whole thing is that I tend to enjoy games a lot more, and time goes by VERY fast when I'm playan them.
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:18 No.20999716I do too. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:18 No.20999735sort of. I try not to die when I'm playing a game. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:18 No.20999745And this is how kids kill thanks to violent games |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:19 No.20999760It's called being 11. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:19 No.20999762Nope. I became so obsessed over casualties in Blitzkrieg that my girlfriend made me stop playing when I kept a book of every person I named who died in battle and when and how. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:20 No.20999797I always do this in strategy games, it makes them 10x more awesome |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:20 No.20999799No but I get so into games I start talking to myself |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:20 No.20999806 File :1223356848.jpg-(26 KB, 385x340, george.jpg) ![]() >>20999762 |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:20 No.20999809>>20999782 |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:21 No.20999828The first part was pretty normal, but it sounds like you roleplay a little too much |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:21 No.20999844I'm exactly the same way, actually, even worse. I can't play any game without it having a story in, and I prefer the story to be one I've written myself. Case in point, The good old Age Of Empires games. Fuck the campaign, I make my own campaign of the grand rise of the Davini tribe to world dominance. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:22 No.20999868I noticed this when I was playing the new Colonization game. Except I would talk aloud about crushing the puny natives if they did not choose to "civilize" themselves. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:23 No.20999897I like to get way into games too. It's fun and an enjoyable escape. Also a good way to shit bricks when you're playing something creepy. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:25 No.20999955I like creating Militiristic facist nations who use human wave. I had so much fun creaitng a Prussian empire in Europa universalis 3 that held all of russia, and the middle east (I also converted the ENTIRE middle east into catholocism, HA!) the only problem was I relied on the human wave a bit to much, my inflation got ahead of me, and I couldn't keep up with FUCKING AUSTIA GODDAMNs technology. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:27 No.21000087Medieval Total War was the BEST for this. Every province you conquer comes with a little scroll you can give to any general, making him the Duke or Earl or whatever of that province. The way great generals gain repuations over time, and how you can reward your favourates by making them, say The Earl of Wessex. Fuck I love that game. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:27 No.21000092I did that once with freespace 2. I broke the rudder button on my throttle and I couldn't yaw (or strafe, I forgot how it worked in that game). I started screaming "MAYDAY I'M HIT" and started role playing with myself until I finished the mission. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:30 No.21000200I do this all the time when I'm playing as the Germans in CoH. I always make a lot of infantry units, and the ones that survive long into the game become my hardened veterans, where I imagine that the squad has been through hell and back together. Kind of like the movie, Cross of Iron, but in RTS form. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:31 No.21000254S.T.A.L.K.E.R, OL. Shitting bricks, cowering in the corner of some old abandoned house in the middle of a blowout, honestly fearing for your character's life, praying to god no-one finds you here, barely holding onto conciousness, just kept alive through constant application of drugs. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:32 No.21000264I mostly just yell smart ass comments at enemies while I'm killing them. Kinda like Duke Nukem, except more badass. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:34 No.21000353ITT we talk about actual in game roleplaying, notice how little it has in common with the so-called "Roleplaying Game" genre. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:36 No.21000417If I could actually go back to doing that again, I wouldn't be reading /v/. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:39 No.21000530Nothing wrong with some RP. In all seriousness, do you play MMORPGs? Get thyself some WoW, WAR, or LOTRO, and I think you'll have a great time on a RP server. That said, I always used to party my JRPG characters together based on their in game pairings. These two are in love? Always in a party together. One is a servant of the other? Together. Brothers or sisters? Together. That sort of thing. Ie. In FFVI, Locke, Celes, and Terra were ALWAYS in my primary party. Mostly because Locke is alwesome. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:39 No.21000554THIS, THIS is what makes Morrowind/Oblivion rock. Try playing the game in any other way and shit sucks. But roleplay the motherfucker, and you find it's basically made for this type of gaming. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:41 No.21000626I used to, until I became a fag, so now I can't enjoy games. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:46 No.21000810One word. X-COM. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)01:54 No.21001074How else are you meant to play games? |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)02:01 No.21001243u r all fagets lol. RP stands for Really Pathetic. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)02:03 No.21001285when i play through bioshock, i act as if im actually in a movie. ill make my character look around like hes scared trying to adapt to the new environment |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)02:13 No.21001586I do this... somewhat. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)02:18 No.21001728only do it for one player games, if it's multiplayer any weird shit I think of stays in my head. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)02:28 No.21002010Congratulations, OP. You are enjoying video games. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)02:29 No.21002054>>21002010 |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)02:34 No.21002197 File :1223361275.jpg-(40 KB, 206x191, rage fire 3.jpg) ![]() >>21002010 |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)02:36 No.21002272I used to do that when I was younger. I can't do it anymore for some reason. Maybe I'm too old, maybe the games don't just feel the same.. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)02:40 No.21002397I still try to do this, but it's harder now that I'm older. I've always loved all the fluff that comes with games, or used to. Game manuals used to be like novels, and now it's just a pamphlet with the controls and main menu explained. I guess READING is too hardcore for the casual gamer. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)02:46 No.21002562 File :1223361990.gif-(14 KB, 459x374, 1219256036556.gif) ![]() >>21002010 |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)02:48 No.21002623>>21002397 |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)02:50 No.21002699I always saved my vets too. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)03:47 No.21004325OP is a retard. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)03:56 No.21004566X-com:Apocalypse - that is all |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)04:57 No.21006105I would've taken Putin as a Zune kind of guy. |
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Anonymous 10/07/08(Tue)05:08 No.21006317I do this too. |