• Half-Life 2 Roleplay in a nutshell
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[video=youtube;x8LvKE-n2-0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8LvKE-n2-0[/video]
RP, while fun at times, has always been incredibly silly if you take a step back and look at it
[QUOTE=LieutenantLeo;45062451]RP, while fun at times, has always been incredibly silly if you take a step back and look at it[/QUOTE] That's what makes it amazing.
I can confirm that this video is incredibly accurate.
[QUOTE=Kalan Yamato;45064302]I can confirm that this video is incredibly accurate.[/QUOTE] thank you professor, i don't know how we would have managed without your expert opinion on the matter
That kind of roleplay has always been so damn stupid. Playing completely text based role-playing in an active medium like video games is just a waste.
[QUOTE=Axznma;45065032]That kind of roleplay has always been so damn stupid. Playing completely text based role-playing in an active medium like video games is just a waste.[/QUOTE] Certain people enjoy certain gamemodes. Who are you to judge?
Problem with most HL2RP servers is there's fuck all interesting to do as a civ, and most servers need you to do fucking forum applications to get anywhere near being cp, boring.
[QUOTE=Axznma;45065032]That kind of roleplay has always been so damn stupid. Playing completely text based role-playing in an active medium like video games is just a waste.[/QUOTE] It's form of opinion. I'm sure you do things against the social norm sometimes. [QUOTE=Netsc;45065651]Problem with most HL2RP servers is there's fuck all interesting to do as a civ, and most servers need you to do fucking forum applications to get anywhere near being cp, boring.[/QUOTE] I hate to sound like a hipster, but it's due to the 'new-gen' servers and the fact that 12 year olds are getting their parents credit cards and have no idea how to actually run a server. Go check out low population servers, due to them usually having better roleplay/roleplayers.
Let's not let this turn into the Facepunch equivalent of a bunch of drunk guys buying a bar again.
[QUOTE=Netsc;45065651]Problem with most HL2RP servers is there's fuck all interesting to do as a civ, and most servers need you to do fucking forum applications to get anywhere near being cp, boring.[/QUOTE] The fucking worst is when they actively forbid you from even running and you have to walk everywhere.
[QUOTE=Netsc;45065651]Problem with most HL2RP servers is there's fuck all interesting to do as a civ, and most servers need you to do fucking forum applications to get anywhere near being cp, boring.[/QUOTE] Oh my god, I remember an HL2RP server I played on back in 2006 that did exactly this. They had a forum which you needed to be invited to and then request to join to an admin to even get on. To actually get on CP there was like a 6 month waitlist. Noped the fuck right out of there pretty quickly.
I also hate how the roleplay usually devolves into an admin circlejerk and players just become 'ambiance'. This pretty much happened to the community I'd been with for almost a year since its founding, used to be good but now it's like a high-school teenage simulator where the CPs are weepy schoolgirls and the citizens can go fuck themselves if they want fun. I might as well also mention that constantly enforcing the idea of 'passive rp is gud rp!!1' is not good. Yeah, sure, every now and then is good, but it becomes really fucking repetitive and boring.
Bean in German is pretty different, but still equally funny.
Hey guys we should totally make a HL2 RP server.
[QUOTE=Masterofstars;45068068]Hey guys we should totally make a HL2 RP server.[/QUOTE] There have been some great servers in the general games discussion section. My favorite HL2 RP server ever has died twice, no one is truly interested in any real community these days. If you guys are wanting to get back into RP even for a little bit, do some facepunch servers a favor and check the Games in Progress section.
[QUOTE=Netsc;45065651]Problem with most HL2RP servers is there's fuck all interesting to do as a civ, and most servers need you to do fucking forum applications to get anywhere near being cp, boring.[/QUOTE] Back in the day I used to be a metrocop on TnB, and unlike most others I spent my time preparing or organising minievents for civilians. My favourite was the improptu surprise forced labour, but what I mostly got was bitching :c
There's also a part two up, for anyone who didn't know. [QUOTE=Masterofstars;45068068]Hey guys we should totally make a HL2 RP server.[/QUOTE] I think one time around the block is enough.
[QUOTE=DBFT;45066127]I also hate how the roleplay usually devolves into an admin circlejerk and players just become 'ambiance'. This pretty much happened to the community I'd been with for almost a year since its founding, used to be good but now it's like a high-school teenage simulator where the CPs are weepy schoolgirls and the citizens can go fuck themselves if they want fun. I might as well also mention that constantly enforcing the idea of 'passive rp is gud rp!!1' is not good. Yeah, sure, every now and then is good, but it becomes really fucking repetitive and boring.[/QUOTE] I think the issue with Passive RP is that YOU NEED something to happen to give people something to talk about. Its why you see most 'slice of life' servers die quickly over the Military RP servers which fucking take forever to die if the admins aren't assbackwards.
[QUOTE=Swilly;45069402]I think the issue with Passive RP is that YOU NEED something to happen to give people something to talk about. Its why you see most 'slice of life' servers die quickly over the Military RP servers which fucking take forever to die if the admins aren't assbackwards.[/QUOTE]i'm surprised more people haven't figured this out i used to run gmod RP servers when i was 10 and did "zombie RP" because it was the easiest way to get people to play. those servers would last forever
meanwhile in garrysmod rp... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RHodg1Ah6U[/media]
HL2RP is actually extremely fun, especially if you like the HL2 lore. A lot of the servers are shit, though. I'd be surprised if there are any decent servers left.
I swear the only kind of fun you can have on an RP server is either as a cop or admin. Being anything else is boring.
I have a secret dream of running an office building RP server. With constant shenanigans interrupting the eternal office work, made only worse by incompetent managers and disastrous bureaucracy
[QUOTE=Géza!;45071725]I have a secret dream of running an office building RP server. With constant shenanigans interrupting the eternal office work, made only worse by incompetent managers and disastrous bureaucracy[/QUOTE] Better be a Nerf Gun dealer class
[QUOTE=kaze4159;45071746]Better be a Nerf Gun dealer class[/QUOTE] Naaaah. Now a STAPLER dealer, that truly is something.
[QUOTE=Géza!;45069320]Back in the day I used to be a metrocop on TnB, and unlike most others I spent my time preparing or organising minievents for civilians. My favourite was the improptu surprise forced labour, but what I mostly got was bitching :c[/QUOTE] Oh god, you just reminded me of an incident I saw on TnB once. I was in the apartment complex when I heard some announcement that Civil Protection will be making a public example of several resistance members. Only they weren't resistance members and were actually citizens forcibly dressed up like them by the CPs. One CP had them all lined up against a wall and was about to routinely execute every single one of them... ...until a higher ranked CP came along and broke it up. Pardoned the citizens and gave them rations and then had the other CP permakilled. Bullshit.
[QUOTE=Géza!;45071725]I have a secret dream of running an office building RP server. With constant shenanigans interrupting the eternal office work, made only worse by incompetent managers and disastrous bureaucracy[/QUOTE] This was actually an idea by a man (kid) named Sixx. It's a really cool idea.
[QUOTE=Blooper Reel;45071979]Oh god, you just reminded me of an incident I saw on TnB once. I was in the apartment complex when I heard some announcement that Civil Protection will be making a public example of several resistance members. Only they weren't resistance members are were citizens forcibly dressed up like them by the CPs. One CP had them all lined up against a wall and was about to routinely execute every single one of them... ...until a higher ranked CP came along and broke it up. Pardoned the citizens and gave them rations and then had the other CP permakilled. Bullshit.[/QUOTE] First (and last) time I played T&B I downloaded all 3gb or so (On my terrible connection) of shitty models, walked out into the street, got yelled at by a CP and shoved into a hotel. I then spent the next 20 minutes locked in a hotel watching two admins noclip around outside, dicking about with an NPC gunship that shot anyone who walked outside Left and never came back, fuck "serious" RP
[QUOTE=ultra_bright;45069662]meanwhile in garrysmod rp... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RHodg1Ah6U[/media][/QUOTE] I love how terrible the admins were, couldn't even figure out how to ban him after he just d/c'd. Lmao.
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