Don't you guys love to RP? : V - Skyrim

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:40 am

I'd really love to get into roleplaying a character, but I just can't do it. It intrigues me how so many can and do.

I find the dialogue often so crap it ruins immersion and any quests you do hideously linear, I can't see how you can stay 'in character' without shutting yourself off from huge swathes of the game because the quests don't offer choices that reflect what different personalities might do. I could do it with New Vegas because it was a more convincing fictional world and you had lots of options about what to do. I really enjoyed my lunatic playthrough of that whereby the courier had been brain damaged by being shot in the head and attacked everyone he met - I can't even do that in Skyrim because of all the essentials.

I love the game as a mindless romp, but I find it too vacuous to support really getting into a character unless that character potters about in the world not doing any proper quests, which personally I get bored with.

I had the same problem, but a journal fixed that. Write down a journal entry for your character every few days or even weekly, and do small things like cook, hang out by the water, decorate your home. Once you start writing things down it kind of just "sticks" to what your playing.

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:27 pm

I had the same problem, but a journal fixed that. Write down a journal entry for your character every few days or even weekly, and do small things like cook, hang out by the water, decorate your home. Once you start writing things down it kind of just "sticks" to what your playing.

Thanks for that, perhaps I will give it a try.

But another thing is, it means I have to stay away from cities. I find it difficult to not see the game as a set of linear triggers when entering settlement sparks a set of scripted events that have NPCs harassing me about stuff I've seen a gazillion times before. I find that in the cities at least the game does a very poor job of allowing the illusion you are a part of the world as opposed to what the entire world revolves around. At least in the wilds you can wander around a very nicely realised landscape.

I don't myself think the game qualifies as an RPG - I think it's more an open world action game.

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 1:33 pm

Absolutely. I doubt I'd still be playing the game if I didn't roleplay. Bringing a character to life is a huge joy to me, and I love been able to sit back with a character and say that I've told their story. Skyrim is almost perfect for roleplaying in - the faction questlines provide many opportunities to roleplay both during and after the questline. The little roleplay mechanics make characters so much more alive - marriage, cooking and woodcutting, for example.

Yes, I love to roleplay. And I'm glad you do too!

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 1:23 pm

Thanks for that, perhaps I will give it a try.

But another thing is, it means I have to stay away from cities. I find it difficult to not see the game as a set of linear triggers when entering settlement sparks a set of scripted events that have NPCs harassing me about stuff I've seen a gazillion times before. I find that in the cities at least the game does a very poor job of allowing the illusion you are a part of the world as opposed to what the entire world revolves around. At least in the wilds you can wander around a very nicely realised landscape.

I don't myself think the game qualifies as an RPG - I think it's more an open world action game.

If you want to feel inspired, look for seph videos on youtube, amazing assassin player. Roleplaying can be used to make the game more challenging for you, not jut immersion. Seph for example will drop a valuable item like a rare gem if he screws up on an assassination job, or he will give himself assignments like "wipe out everyone in Solitude".

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 3:03 pm

What i did today was,Going on a trip to windhelm to gather my stuff and move it to my new house,Once i am finished i am just taking it easy,Even baking bread and other delicious stuff :3 Love the food from heartfire,Seems silly that i like a type of food in a videogame but x) They look like they taste good! Then i am out hunting,Killed an elk. Went home and cooked some meat.

yeah.. thats the life currently of my character,Once a barbarian/Warrior/adventurer.
Now taking it easy in his cozy home in the pale.

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:43 am

Absolutely. The only reason I still play this game and Oblivion is the roleplaying. Every new character I play is a new person waiting to be met, and a story waiting to be told.

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 5:55 pm

It can get pretty intense when your hunter sets his eyes on bigger prey - namely Dragons and mammoths.

I know, The last hunter I Rp'd ended up discovering he was dragon born and he set out to hunt the ultimate prey and make armor out of their scales

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:36 am

I do roleplay as in making characters with different abilities and morals (good or bad). I don't however roleplay to an extent where I make up or make new game mechanics.

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:42 am

hmmm Roleplaying in a Roleplaying game seems silly

I love to Roleplay i cant to anything else in TES games

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:11 am

I love to Roleplay i cant to anything else in TES games :biggrin:

Once upon a time.....I used to just play TES for the content...Since my first RP character I can't do that anymore, it just feels idk wrong lol