One thing I did (just for a couple of days, then it became boring) was really "roleplaying" in Oblivion. So I played this hunter and I actually went out hunting, ate the meat, went to sleep, etc. Like I really lived. No fast-travelling. I did some quests while roleplaying and it was really good fun. I rode from town to town, checked the time, went out for a quick hunt, bought a room, ate some venison and went to sleep and stuff like that. It wasn't fun anymore after a couple of hours, but at first it was pretty cool.

So I'm asking, did you ever try something like that? Did you ever play your character like he/she was real (with eating and sleeping etc.). Did you ever create a character with an occupation that you actually exercised (apart from mage,warrior,thief). Like a hunter or a merchant or a smith.

So what say you?

Personally I haven't, but I heard its really popular. I might in Skyrim though.

No, but I'm going to roleplay in Skyrim.

I'll run around with a cowboy hat and leather chaps, rustling cattle and telling bandits "Arrrr! You be walkin' the plank!" Right before I string them up.

It'll be awesome!

It was just something I did on a bored afternoon. It was cool until I felt an overpowering urge to hit the fast-travel button. Sometimes you don't want to ride all the way from Anvil to Bruma for a quest.

But for a short while it was really cool. I think I'll try it again in Skyrim.

EDIT: @ Three96: Now I'm just sad it doesn't have multiplayer. You might have to mod in the bandits though.

How is this "roleplaying"? I mean, no one acknowledges you being a hunter or a smith or whatev so what's the point? :shrug:

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I almost always role-play. which does have it's drawbacks of spending a couple hours to ride from town to town, but I figure hey if this was real life. I wouldn't be allowed to fast travel. I'm definitely going to do a full on hardcoe roleplaying when I do Skyrim and I'm pretty sure I'm going to set the difficulty all the way from the very start. that way it's super realistic in the form of [censored] don't die! excuse the language.

It's ok use your imagination.

If Skyrim had multiplayer, I'd play with you.

I'd even craft you a pair of spurs made of pure mithril.

You act and (try) to feel like an actual person in the world instead of running around for days, not eating for months and flashing all over the map. It gives some more immersion into the game and it expands on the "be who you want to be thing".

No one in the game acknowledges it, true. But it's impossible (or really stupid) to make a mod that makes NPC's react to your occupation.

But in Skyrim you will be able to be a "smith", so that's good news.

EDIT: I want those spurs. I'll find you a dwarven cowboy hat to pay for it.

For about a week or so I ran around without fast traveling or looking at the map.

The most accurately I've roleplayed was an escaped Battlemonk. I kept her shackeles on, avoided major cities, and only removed them when I encountered someone with Heavy Armor. (It was a slight step in logic, that anyone with heavy armor may have an Armor/Smithing ability, and thus would help remove her shackled for the right price).

After that, she only avoided the Imperial City.

I have to say, it's original majesty really comes back when you roleplay the inability or unwillingness to go inside. Everywhere you go you can see the White Tower and think "Man, so close and yet so far."

Unlike what I usually do, just fast travel to the Market, unload my crap, and go back to what I was doing. It's any old city if you do that.

Yes, i was a begger who had to steal bread to eat sleep on a mat, and spread disease.... It was a lot of fun because i stole an morter and pestal, gathered herbs, eventually got enough money for a house and worked my way up.

I mean, there are games that do that and it has a purpose. I can't understand why peeps do that in BGS games. Is it a LARP culture thing?

I'm not a LARP fan so I don't think it's connected. It's just a lot of fun to have extra limitations to work with. More "real-life". Your character actually becomes a person.

roleplaying is absolutely where its at imo.

its not so much about eating 3 times a day and sleeping in a bed.

its more about getting into the mind of your character, and acting in accordance with what they would do.

You can't understand why people would roleplay in a roleplaying game? In a game that takes place in Bethesda's best attempt at a living, breathing fantasy world? In a game that puts the player deep into its setting, tells a story, and treats the player as another aspect of that world? Really? Really?

Oblivion dont gave me any chance to roleplay because it nearly always gave me no choice but to solve stuff in only one way, fake-LARPing is not roleplaying for me, the game must gave me a purpose to roleplay, if i want to imagine things i would play a tabletop

Live-Action roleplaying is what the name says, live action meaning real people, not people in a game. Damn near everyoneone on this forum rps in one form or another.

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I fully agree.

I roleplayed in Oblivion. Still do. Whenever I play it in fact. It is true that you cannot get the depth of roleplaying from a computer game that you do with a pen and paper roleplaying game, where you are surrounded by real people you can interact with. But it is also true that you can use your imagination to fill in the gaps to a certain extent. It is more like writing a book, except you only write the protagonist, rather than the entire world, and things happen that you did not expect. Since I enjoy writing as well, crpgs are a natural fit for me.

I didn't RP with my first two characters.However, neither one lasted for long as I lost my save games again and again.I RP with my current character though.It makes the game more fun for me.I wouldn't steal and lie to defend thieves IRL, but why not do that in a game? That's the point of RP-ing, try to act like someone else and feel good about your nasty or less nasty achievements.

Have I ever done that? It's what I always do. :stare: