This Is How You Roleplay
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2024
- I discovered one of my new favorite channels on TH-cam, and I had to share it.
Channel:
/ @gamesonhardmode
Videos I show clips from:
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We did it everyone. We got Tim Cain in the Bethesda challenge TH-cam pipeline!
Nice to see you watching king Cain
Hey it's Joov.
Hi joov
honestly it’s not too surprising that a veteran RPG designer like Tim would be enamored with this sort of thing
I was literally just about to recommend your channel in the comments for anyone interested in other similar channels lol
“I watched one… I watched several more.” That’s this channel for me.
For real though
same bro same
Yep
That happened to me today with this channel!
There was a guy roleplaying as a "Torso" in Kenshi: NO legs, NO arms. Kenshi is alegedly great for roleplayimg. Its a sandbox rpg game with no quests but great systems. Lots of cool RP Kenshi videos.
Actually, there are a few Torso roleplayers.
I was roleplaying moonshine guy, but Holy Nation had another plan for me. Now I have orange robe and broken legs❤
Ambiguousamphibian did a “torsolo” playthough. Solo and limbless
This is one of the few, and perhaps the only CRPG where I told a story to myself while playing the game.
I tried to roleplay badass desert wanderer and then due to an unfortunate incident with The Holy Nation I ended up roleplaying one armed slave.
Hi everyone, it's me Tim
Today were talking about youtube "meta" comments, and how they show appreciation for your specific type of content.
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hi everyone, it's us, us
Hi Tim, it's everyone
I like Gopher’s let’s plays. He role plays in a very immersive way. He only really does quests if his character in universe hears about them or if he has a narrative framing device for the video. He does the let’s plays basically entirely in character
I love his videos too. He's a great roleplayer, and being Bethesda games basically sandboxes, he sort of makes his own stories in them. That's an excellent way to enjoy those games and adds a lot of replayabiliy.
TIM: "I'm retiring."
*watches GamesOnHardMode*
TIM: "Weeeell... maybe I'll make one or two more games just for this guy."
Good morning Tim! Bethesda games actually have a good challenge running scene, with TH-camrs like Ymfah, Joov, ItsJabo, etc. All super funny and use such creative ideas for how to interact with the gameplay elements. Ymfah actually completed Skyrim without walking at all!
ItsJabo represent
Let's not forget our fallen brother MittenSquad.
@@simonfinch9277 he was the best
So my most recent Fallout: New Vegas playthrough involved me playing a character named 'Raoul Duke' and cranking my Charisma stat to 10 (because Charisma effects Companion Nerve), my only skill was Speech / Barter and I let E-DE and Veronica handle the combat because my Character's entire goal was nothing short of being the wastelands biggest degenerate junkie gambler. I would load up on chems / alcohol, walk up to people and ask to play Caravan and go into the Casino's and gamble my ass off and sometimes ... sometimes I'd get shredded by a deathclaw.
fear and loading in new vegas
Did you ever find the Brown Buffalo?
That’s sounds really fun. I just replayed New Vegas and it’s DLCs. It was really fun, the depth didn’t make it feel dated.
Honestly, anyone whose Charisma is more than "1" in FNV and whose Int is less than 5 gets my ultimate respect. We fellow roleplayers must stick together against the minmaxing gamers
I love Tim's genuine enthusiasm for gaming.
Running a dnd campaign was the first time I got to see this in action. The best ideas happened when boxing in the players or allowing them to have permanent flaws, and seeing what crazy ideas they come up with to get around them. Definitely a case of 'art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.' So much more fun to watch then letting everyone become superheroes.
A friend of mine once played a fighter who was a bit dim and at one time he managed to enslave himself to a pixie we had in our party. A chaotic neutral (or evil?) pixie with power ambitions (we somehow managed to make her a local god somehow). He basically granted her full control over himself, but she gave him back most of his free will (as long as he was useful enough) because she got bored controlling him all the time
You did a great job promoting this guy's channel, showing clips to gain interest but not too much that you don't have to go to their channel to watch the originals like, cough cough, react content.
This is the same reason I like watching Gopher's playthroughs, super involved, tons of character background, creates stories and arcs for his character and plays them out and is witty as hell to go with it. Not quite as "memey" as picking one skill but more like he creates a very realistic character for games universe he's playing in. One of his Skyrim playthroughs had him not become dragonborn until halfway through the series that consisted of many chapters.
Nuh uh
I’m glad to see someone else mention him
Hahahahahaha! Alison Chains! I'm fucking sold right there hahahaha.
1:17 Oblivion: great systems with great jank. I LOVED IT!
There's a guy who played the entirety of FO:NV as Christian, devout christian. He never stole, never swore, never killed, always abided by the 10 commandments, and somehow got to the very end, it's just amazing to see. (authentic animations channel I think)
SorcererDave is my goto for this type of content. He even has a series where he roleplays Rome: Total War 2, writing an entire backstory and cool intros for every episode. Worth the watch
I used to be on a forum with him before he started doing YT. I do like him (we could clash a lot, but in good natured ways), and he puts a lot of effort into his characters, but I find [very] longform playthroughs quite hard to watch and stick through these days.
Been watching him since back in the "Jingles" days!
I quite enjoyed his recent KOTOR playthrough on Twitch. He said “no” to the game with a binary morality system and made his own decisions.
I remember in college, after playing FO New Vegas the umpteenth time, I decided to role-play as a guy obsessed with personal property rights. He wouldn't steal, loot corpses (stuff belongs to next of kin), and he wouldn't pick up anything that could conceivably belong to another person. He would also refuse to do quests that involved any kind of theft. It was the most fun I'd had since my first playthrough.
Also, my friends at the time loved watching me go though as the character, and we'd have debates on if a certain building counted as "abandoned" and thus would be able to be looted by my guy.
Very similar to the boasting for Fable quests. You could boast that you would not wear armor for the quest, or fight unarmed, and get a bonus after.
So glad you discovered one of my favorite channels! Gamesonhardmode really GETS the unique story telling potential of RPGs, even if the way he does it is super silly
Hi Tim! Fellow gay gamer here. I love your content! Just wanted to share how much I enjoy your presence on this platform. You exude such happiness/positivity and it’s infectious. I wish you all the best!
Christopher Livingston wrote a series of awesome articles about his playthrough of oblivion and skyrim where he had to behave like an NPC, walking everywhere, avoiding conflict, doing mundane chores, ETC… This is the same dude that made that hilarious webcomic back in the day, “The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman”
He did one for crusader kings 2 as well if memory serves. Loved those articles sooooo much
I highly recommended you the channel Rycon Roleplays, I'm sure you gonna love his channel. He immerse in the roleplay waaaay more than anyone i've ever seen in youtube, it's basicly an fusion between an actor and a let's player .
That's the way to play! My current char is a Paladin from the Mojave Chapter that started as an Initiate scout, doing every single BOS-related quest and night scouting with his trusty Recharger Rifle and binoculars. Crazy how there's at least 4 to 6 related quests that fit very well to each RP character, and I'm not even mentioning mods...
Watched all of the Twilight Eclipse videos in a row. Just loved it all. Had to leave a message that you sent us. 😁
Going to check the others out also. Really, thanks for the recommendation!
Hi Tim,
If you enjoyed these videos I cannot recommend manyatruenerd enough!
His challenge runs are not quite as extreme as these but they are similar in their friendly humerous tone, superb roleplay and in taking a huge amount of joy in diving deep into game mechanics.
My favourite's include "The worst courier" where he plays a Fallout new vegas on survival difficulty with a character who starts with 1 in every SPECIAL stat and "Fallout 4 you only live once" where he plays the game on survival, with a single health bar and all healing disabled. Its a really compelling series.
He has played Fallout, and Outerworlds although those are more traditional playthroughs and has made some very interesting Fallout based video essays.
He has also made some wonderful series on strategy games like Crusader Kings and Stellaris and plays those games in a way where they effectively become role playing games which I think you would get a kick out of.
Anyway, ive never commented before so I'll take the chance to say thank you for your videos and for your incredible work in video games.
All the best
Neil
MATN is one of the best. His Fallout 3 kill everyone challenge is amazing as well. Evil Jon is such a great character
I hope you know what a great honour it is for you to praise a channel like this. It's so good to see, considering you are one of the founding fathers of roleplaying games! There's a channel named Rycon Roleplays who creates stories within games. He doesn't quite do the same thing as the channel you found, but thought you might find it interesting nonetheless!
7:22 the snoring dog is awake!
Imagine the games this dog gets to play, with the perfect balance of player agency and Good-Dog-based progression.
I love that you upload during the mornings so I have a chance to watch your videos before going to work everyday
“I watched one… I watched several more.”
Yes, that how good channels work. I'm not ashemed to say that half (if not more ) of my YT subsciptions are things that just randomly popped into my feed one time that I ended likeing so much. Inclouding this very channel :D
Your videos really make me happy. I love listening to you talk about whatever and your passion really shines through on the subjects you talk about.
Hey Tim
As someone who's doing a roleplay series of Fallout 1 on my channel, I'm so thrilled to see you actually get into the roleplay genre on TH-cam. I'd like to give you recommendations of roleplay channels I grew up on:
Rycon Roleplays
InfernoCanuck (Fallout 3 Ironman)
SpiffySquee (Oblivion, Fallout 3)
SorcererDave with his Oblivion Series
Those are more of "the cinematic" series of roleplay where the channel you're showing off seems more of a fun mechanical play.
You've made my day Tim ❤️
This is so cute I love this kind of analysis of player behavior!
I forgot what video I saw YEARS ago that got me to understand the concept of Roleplaying in an RPG. But I do remember that the first time I sat down and really wrote up a character and then played them (this would have been Skyrim at the time) I had more fun than I had ever had with any other character I've ever played.
From then on Roleplaying in RPGs became the only way to play.
Currently roleplaying a hardcore run through Tale Of Two Wastelands.
I really like finding people who are good at narrating weird challenge videos. It can be really hard to find a challenge that's clever and forces you to rethink everything though
If you like this channel you probably know about Many a True Nerd, but if not check him out. He's done some classic Fallout runs.
@@pitchforker3304 I actually never played a fallout game and don't have much interest. I really like ymfah and his Dark Souls and TES challenge runs though. As for why I follow Tim... well I still think his advice is valuable.
@@MAYOFORCE Whatever floats your boat, that's cool. Many a True Nerd has play throughs on tons of games, include TES. Cheers!
Its fun to play games this way. I enjoy playing a character! The most important thing a game does to facilitate this, is letting me say no to something, even if there isnt an alternative to complete that quest or whatever. Some characters just arent going to do some quests, its against their theme.
That is pretty much how I play most open world or sandbox games, restrict myself so I can roleplay a certain character, this of course leads to moments of where canonically my character would die cause it’s next to impossible to escape that situation
Hi Tim! Thanks for highlighting this channel as it really highlights the fact that so many people play games in so many different ways. There are those who play games to min/max and take it super serious and then some who do the craziest thing just to make themselves or other people laugh. A weird but funny parallel is pro wrestling. There are guys who are giant muscle men who show off feats of strength and then a guy like Orange Cassidy (look him up) who basically couldn't be bothered and is just this small, scrawny guy who just lays down and rolls into the ring, lazily. There are heated debates and arguments about what is real wrestling and I'm on the side of "goofy wrestling for life" just like this guy's content I'd categorize as "goofy gaming" and I'm here for it.
Hey, Tim! It's Dean. I really like the idea of you sometimes doing fun videos on Fridays! (struggled to avoid using the obvious alliteration)
Thank you for all of your insight!
That's actually what got me into modding in the first place; i wanted to play my own silly little way, and sometimes the game doesn't let you. I blame you, Tim, for setting my expectations so high!
since everyone is putting their youtubers, ill throw my hat in for one i havent seen people mention yet, Reggie, who does a lot of really good strategy and RPG videos, like this one where he RPs as the worst doctor possible in Kenshi:
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Completely agree with you! This guy inspired me to stop perfectionise walkthroughs and act maybe disastrous, but in character
This is why every time I replay New Vegas, I give my character low speech to make it harder. It’s also fun roleplaying some jughead who doesn’t know how to talk to people.
The game Project Zomboid makes a really good blank canvas for roleplaying like this.
The spirit of this has been core to the Soulsborne community as well as the Old School RuneScape community; finding challenging and interesting ways to play the game.
If you like that channel I'd recommend watching amphibiousamphibian, I especially like his project zomboid videos.
I don't even like Zomboid, but I love his videos on it. He's just that good.
A role playing channel that I like is Jacoby Wakeby. He does Skyrim and he doesn't do challenge runs, as much as he does role playing runs, Skyrim as a woodcutter or as a fisherman... he really goes into what it would be like to be a regular person working a regular job living in the world of Skyrim. His characters aren't big heroes, but he does dive deep into daily Skyrim life.
Kenshi (game) is great for roleplaying that way. A true sandbox.
Jacoby is really underated. Great chill RP.👍
I'll have to check his channel out. Thanks for mentioning it.
I got a kick from hearing about Nordique Arrow-knee, who finally reached High Hrothgar after roleplaying a Whiterun guard for years. GamesRadar ran an article about him. Too fun. I tend to stay away from the vast majority of TH-cam "Let's Play" channels for (likely) obvious reasons. Most of the best roleplayers are probably toiling away in obscurity. :)
@@UlissesSampaio Kenshi has no preestablished story or characters, at least from what I understand, so I don't know that I'd classify it as a RPG, per se, but I've been playing games like it recently simply because they are sandboxes in which you have only your own and friends' imaginations to accompany you in an imaginative setting. Some are calling games like this "pure" RPG. To my mind, we just don't have an accurate classification for them.
I've mentioned before (and it is just an opinion) that 7 Days to Die might actually be better off if TFP never get around to that story mode promised in their Kickstarter. Why? It's the sandbox people are enjoying playing in and have been enjoying playing in from day one. It helps that it was designed to be played with friends, but now they're talking about thinking of things for players to do in the upcoming story mode. Ah..."stuff to do." Well, we all know how that's likely to go: fetch this; fetch that; clear this; clear that. {groan}
A good RPG, of course, has you "doing" more than playing fetch. It has you solving mysteries; interacting with interesting characters and factions and philosophies and worldviews; etc. So, yeah. Not really looking forward to that 7DTD story mode myself.
@lrinfi taking the name "RPG" by the letter, I'd say that Kenshi is an RPG. It also contains character progression, which is a deeply rooted RPG feature (but not a necessity for "role playing" imho). In fact, Kenshi gives much more room for role-playing than most other RPGs out there. I think we tend to limit RPG too much and often treat it just as meaning an "D&D-like system". E.g., Imho some of the basic D&D tropes like character levels are overused in RPGs (I much prefer the GURPS or Vampire The Masquerade point system, for instance)
Thank you for another great channel recommendation, Grandpa Tim!
Tim, I've been a fan of yours for decades. I'm sold on this person's role-playing and humor, too. I love that you found the fan you write for. It's a struggle to answer the question, "who/what is this for when creating." Thank you for all you do.
Love the roleplay videos! As a roleplayer, I commend you for showing us these clips. One thing that is great about roleplay is that it will create emergent game play. Brand new ways of playing their games. I love it. I do not mind being level 7 forever as long as I can play my characters. This indie developer is so excited to see what is next.
I’m glad there’s someone like you in the industry to vouch for players like us. We need more real role paying in this day and age
Good morning Tim. Have a fantastic day. Thanks again.
I was surprised to see Cleric as the most unpopular choice in BG3, I played as a Light Cleric that could only ever use fire damage and it was super fun to get into the roleplay of being a Cleric that just wanted to smite all evils with holy fire
Everybody thinks it's some boring healer class, and they know they'll romance Shadowheart, and will keep her in the party, making another Cleric unnecessary.
@@Hrimstal I noticed when playing with Shadowheart in my party that she didn't really start pulling her weight in fights until she got access to level 3 spells and up. Maybe I just built her wrong though. Most of the other classes seemed more powerful out of the gate, or at least easier to understand how to play.
it just speaks to how popular Shadowheart is as a companion character. And yes, the clerics come across as weak compared to other classes.
@@ciaacho1 it's understandable with Shadowheart being so popular, she starts as a Trickster Cleric which doesn't have your big damage numbers to draw people in
@@yewtewbstew547tbf she is more of a „tools“ character than a fighting one, you have to think creatively and sometimes it doesn’t work out. That’s why many people respec her.
Always excited when I see a new video thanks Tim . Can't wait to see the Play Watch Listen Episode !!
I love playing games this way! In some I'd make very detailed characters and give it a go. Sadly some games don't allow you to try very "plot flexible" characters which is a bit of a let down, but when the game allows it's always fun
Thanks for sharing that awesome channel, I love that kind of stuff!
I personally love roleplaying as well, it opens up a whole new world of fun limiting oneself
Oooo fucking love challenge run channels! Each of them have their own little spin and flavor that makes them all super refreshing to watch even if they do the same challenges. I’d like to recommend a fantastic channel and creator. The late mitten squad. Really great vids that helped me thru hard times, made me laugh, and wonder how the hell this man so patience to go thru some of these excruciating challenges. May his soul be resting in peace. ❤
I've never had the heart to create bizarre or amusing characters like this, but on many, many occasions I have simply lifted characters from entirely different settings, multiverse style, and then put my backbone into truly representing their responses whilst out of place. It's still great fun.
People will usually say this is why New Vegas is so good, because it allows for so much roleplaying.
But... New Vegas is just one of tons of games you can play like this. You can do this in any game that isnt completely linear and its so much fun to create a concept and run with it.
The difference is that New Vegas actually acknowledges all these paths (similar to the original Fallouts, really).
In Skyrim you have to completely play pretend. And as the channel argues, it's playing the game the hard way. The reason is precisely that: The game doesn't actually acknowledges completely different roles and playstyles at all.
The channel Minnmax had an interview with Skyrim's lead Bruce Nesmith a while ago: "Skyrim’s Lead Designer On Starfield’s Origins And Bethesda’s Evolution". At some point, they're starting to talk about Baldur's Gate 3 (the section is marked in the timeline). And Nesmith would reveal that they're not doing this at Bethesda because, eventually actually choice&consequence is money spent on content that only a fraction of the playerbase is gonna see.
Nesmith even acknowledges that doing such makes things feel MEANINGFUL. And that he personally actually enjoys it. But they'd rather have two or three bigger choices at best. For everything else there is no limit to anything. Without that, it's all rather hollow though. And a big part of why their games play like offline MMOs at times. If you strip away exploration and world design (their forte), there's really not much substantial left.
@@snakeplissken111 Yep if you go "out of bound" within you character role playing in Skyrim, the game ends up acting like Daggerfall since the base system is the same across the entire board of the main Elder Scrolls games. Even further I think that the very basis of both games can be exchanged without much change as a result since they look so similar, with the only difference that the "life simulation" of skyrim is more focused on specific elements you expect to see, unlike Daggerfall which gives you the text inputs without showing you what is happening or had happened around the world.
This is a fascinating approach to how the difficulty affects the narrative. Both its face value and how the mechanics relate to the character's story.
This is what my Fallout 1 essay, and my subsequent ones, bring into question! How do the limits and restrictions of the player, and the world they live in, create the actual story the player experiences?
Uncle Tim,
That was a nice interview on play watch listen.
I often go for comedy when I pick a letsplayer so I might give this guy a chance. On the line of comedy Tenfey really good imo, I can watch him play anything for ours just waiting for the next pun or silly joke. XD
If you like things like this, you should check Many a True Nerd Channel. He has these almost roleruns where he can't take any health or rads damage in fallout 3 and new vegas, or it's permanent, the YOLO series. It's super interesting to watch and pushes these games in incredible tense ways.
The Spiffing Brit is another channel I love because he’s all about having fun with exploits
i love oblivion. i used to make characters and never let them level past 8, to create an archetype for them and to have the character diversity. i had about 6 different characters.
I've become addicted to your daily videos tim. Insightful and entertaining. Keep em coming.
I love this concept, it's how I played as a kid all the time! Now that I played games over and over, I tend to be more into challenge runs; "can I beat X without Y". Can I beat Skyrim without walking? Or a really funny one, made by the No Doors Consortium: beating Zelda OoT without going through any doors. Arbitrary restrictions that you give to yourself add so much to a playthrough.
Nerbit is even better at this. Personally my fav was the Aberham Lincon runs, but the while being chased videos and fork run for skyrim were also really nice.
When i replay a fallout game i do it the same way ... i mostly try to do this. A character that has a goal, or gets one on the journey through the wasteland. Would be really cool if more videos like this exist.
that sounds like roleplaying a roleplaying game
It's all about immersing myself. In New Vegas I would never use fast travel and walk most of the time and it never got boring because I felt like my character was interacting with the game world.
I love how you started this one almost laughing
Good morning Tim! I love this perspective. Thank you again
this is how i try to explain why i love a game like starfield, its like yes i understand you may dislike certain design decisions the developers made, i understand that it has a lot of flaws that are important to highlight but at the end of the day, RPG games are a conversation between the developer and the player, the player in my eyes (even in the most well made RPG's) has to put in effort to really get the best experience from it. It's what makes RPG games special, that i can make a character and have them go on this journey that can entertain me for a few hours or maybe even hundreds of hours, so im so glad a channel like this was highlighted! Ly Tim
Yea i do like how both Daggerfall and Starfield let you roleplay a lifestyle. Both games let you roleplay as bounty hunters in an immersive way due to the radiant bounty board system.
You can also roleplay an explorer type, although this is something shared with NMS.
I do wish Starfield took one step further from Daggerfall's book and actually made procedurally generated dungeons as well as NPCs.
Because besides the combat system and space powers, I felt like a lot of what I liked about Starfield can be found in other games done better (Elite: Dangerous to be a space trucker, No Mans Sky to be an explorer (although both Starfield and NMS suffer from the entire galaxy feeling colonialized already), Mass Effect to have a crew as a space soldier)
This is why new vegas is so fun. It really rewarded skills in outcomes in almost every situation.
This reminds me that I really need to get back to finishing my play through idea for New Vegas that I dubbed "The Tarantino experience". Basically, the courier ended up with brain damage from the events at the start, and would try to find whoever did this to him and get rid of them violently. SPECIAL stats were meant to go low perception, intelligence and charisma, high strength, endurance, luck, and remaining points on agility. Traits were Wild Wasteland and Four Eyes.
Why Four Eyes? Well, once I installed a mod in which taking Four Eyes made your character's vision blurry (not unusably annoying, but just enough to have a visual reminder of your character's impairment), and I loved that immersion. It really inspired the idea of this run. Wild Wasteland and low intelligence are there to make the brain damage part more tangible and turn the play through into a feverish dream. And of course, no Tarantino experience can be complete without gore, so Bloody Mess is a must. You would mostly use whichever melee weapon you could get your hands on, and wouldn't bother repairing anything or bartering much, as you would be some sort of madman in a self-righteous quest for revenge, which the outside world perceived as a violent lunatic.
The fun part is, to a degree, that you would only side with and become friendly towards the first people you saw when equipping your first pair of glasses. And, depending on the type of glasses you got equipped, your vision would be affected (again, thanks to whichever realism mod I had installed), making you react differently to the world, and play accordingly. Darker shades would fill you with despair, reading glasses would help you see more clearly.
Anyway! It was a super fun idea to think about, and I wanted to do it mostly with vanilla gameplay, save a few mods like what I mentioned earlier. Never got around to it, but I really want to.
So a normal playthough with extra steps?
@@wesss9353 That's what roleplaying is, yes
RP FTW!!! By far, my favorite Skyrim build was my Khajiit thief/assassin. No archery or magic, dagger only, in civilian clothes unless on a guild job, and an obsession with acquiring every whole cheese wheel she saw (cut wheels have been sullied by filthy hands and unworthy of this one's collection). I HAD to buy/take/steal once I knew of them in an area, and take it back home. On DB jobs, my goal was to only kill the target and holy crap did it feel good to sneak my way aboard the Katariah and ONLY engage the Emperor!
There are several people doing this. Like, there is a guy who played BG3 without killing anyone, a guy who beat the game just by walking, and just several people beating the game with similar restrictions. The one playing the pacifist run was, honestly, the most impressive to me though.
But yeah, I love the Twilight Eclipse saga a bunch too.
Hello tim, your videos are really enjoyable I have been a painter all my life and recently have gotten into music production and animation. I realized I have gotten so skilled at asset creation and animation that I could really make something just spent two years on a film, you got me interested in making an RPG game. Im no programmer but I can make a pitch and make a skybox and animation and 3d assets im good in maya. Thanks for being inspirational.
I always play RPGs like this... not necessarily the challenge mode I-am-only-using-one-skill playthroughs, but I usually decide who my character is, personality wise, and what their philosophy is because it's the most fun I can have with a game. Dragon Age II was a game that I absolutely loved partially because I played it like that and I had the most amazing moment when my Hawke experienced completely unscripted character growth. I had set rules of how she behaved towards her family and friends and how she behaved to everyone else and there was a moment where one of the people she disliked the most, maybe one of the few people this hardened, ruthless woman hated, but he changed her mind and I didn't see it coming at all. Rarely do the characters I'm playing have character growth that I don't plan out myself. But all of her rage at her uncle went from this deep loathing to just... sadness and fatigue and a seed of sympathy. The game didn't tell me to do this, but it happened.
I love my playthrough of Pillars because it really empowered the player to have a defined personality within the game systems. I loved how the game really empowered players to just do sub-optimal things because their character is a passionate-clever Dracozzi Paladini, so do I choose the option that I think is optimal, or do I throw wine in their face because that's the passionate option? Obviously B.
I honestly thought he was gonna talk about legendary Kikoskia. Now I have a new role players I add to my watch.
I literally have documents of my character desings. And its not like just few things about their skill and agenda , nope. Every each one of them have their own lore and sometimes the lore interacts with other characters. And sometimes i even try to fill the holes in the games story if there is a mod or mods that allow me to do that. And i always have an absolute blast playin a restricted run cuz you end up using some game mechanics that you wouldn't use normally or abusing some mechanics that you didn't know you could abuse.
my latest addition to my crazy gang of brahmin bangers was bankybonkybaby in fallout 4 so this guy is a troubled man who think himself a superhero who "help" people but he don't know what helping means cuz one of only few things he knows is swingin a baseball bat to someones face , yeah he got a permenent memory loss and brain damage so zero int and zero charisma cuz imagine a guy call himself bankybonkybaby and wear women's clothing and making weird noises when he does something what a gentlemen
but he got a motive , before all this he was a gunner and he had been sent to jamiaca town to recover the treasure and he did recovered the treasure but a ghoul gave him a nice dose of headbanging that messed him up
he k*lled the ghoul but now the other thing he knows is deliver the treasure but he forgot to whom so he wanders the wasteland on a mission he forgot
that was the character i put together to test out the nex gen update and immediately found a bug that causes a memory leak that crashes your computer
bughesta bughesta never changes
7:24 doggo spotted
Amazing video as always. Love your content, stay safe and keep it at.
3:00, Let us remember Mitten Squad, the internets greatest masochist.
R.I.P 🙏
P.s. Loved your video, Tim! Ur awesome! 🎉
I once played FO2 with a door opener that had intelligence as his lowest. I said he was hit in the head too many times by the elder for not passing the trials of the temple. That's when I found out that if you have an INT of 2, the conversation with Torr in Klamath is glorious. Best playthrough ever.
I was also watching a guy called Callum Bradbury who played games such as BG3 with increased difficulty, always solo, such as a character who was not allowed to directly cause harm, and still beat the game on high difficulty by killing every enemy. Its really entertaining to see the strategies he came up with.
Reminds me of how I played New Vegas, I made a character that was bad in everything, needed glasses to see properly,
and I discarded everything I was given in the beginning of the game (even my clothes) xD Also with the "hardcore mode" on.
I had to do with what I happened to find. Made the game so much more fun.
Fallout 1 & 2 were so hard I didn´t feel I needed to add difficulty on top of the base game x3
I often play games that aren´t even rpgs by role playing, I did that in Need For Speed Most Wanted, Gran Turismo 4 and Mashinky xD
Created some funny adventures
This is something I do struggle with. I do love RPGs, I do love choice and consequence, and I do try to come up with a character concept and act accordingly. But I also like to see all that a game has to offer, and if a game won’t push against choices I made, I will probably end up doing as much as possible.
I will have to watch the BG3 video as I struggled with roleplaying in that game. As game allows you to do pretty much anything at any point regardless of your build and choices made I found it difficult to feel like anything in game actually mattered. Curious to see how he approached it.
That’s interesting to me you are describing more of a “challenge run” player style rather than role playing but I may not have a true understanding of what the term role player means.
I’m doing a lot of what you are describing with self imposed restrictions in Fallout 76 currently! It’s crazy and it’s the most fun I’ve ever had playing; what I discovered and how I would describe it is this “invisible secret game” the devs left for the players to fall into if they choose to go that way. It’s incredible actually and I named my channel after the name I have for this “invisible game.” 😁😁
" you are describing more of a 'challenge run' player style" -- Same. Self-challenge runs are not identical with roleplay in the sense of playing a role in a story though it can be done and done together well. Strikes me as reductionist to limit the definition of roleplay itself to playing around with mechanics and self-imposed mechanical restrictions. If even Tim strictly defines it this way, I guess I may as well give up all hope for RPGs as an art form.
He's not the only one doing these, but yeah, I love these roleplaying channels, they are awesome.
Thank you for the video.
It would be really fun if RPGs used optional background or trait selection (often find in their character creation) which imposed interesting constraints on how you play or more accurately how you can roleplay. Maybe you are a pacifist who can not raise their hand against another person, or an oath bound paladin who has to kill every drow and goblin you see.
Also like the idea of starting the game with some mid-to-long term goal like buy a house in town X, become rich, visit every cave etc. The completion of said goals can be maybe incentivized by gating XP gain on sub goals that get you closer to the long term goal. Table top RPGs do such character creation options all the time.
The above might be too restrictive for first time but maybe cool as new game plus options.
Anyhow, thank you Tim and have a great weekend 😊
And this is why I love your games! ❤ I once played through the Outer Worlds without killing anything. This included robots and animals and the rule applied to my followers as well. So I set my followers to passive (LOVE that feature) and off we went! I finished the base game and even the Gorgon DLC without killing anything and only left Eridanos and a couple of side quests untouched. The Outer Worlds is my favorite game of all time and I still find new ways of playing it - and every time I do, I fall in love with it all over again. Thank you for making games for role players like me, Tim! 🙏❤️
That's the beauty of roleplaying games, if done right they encourage you to play them new ways.
Once I played Fallout roleplaying Vash the Stampede (low luck, high perception, good, chaotic) and it was kinda possible, then in Arcanum there were better options to play that way, in Outer Worlds that ws default character.
Honestly it, your channel itself is awesome. There lots of TH-camrs that do fallout challenges. ItsJabo, Nerdbit and MittenSquad (RIP) are one of the best. But for Bethesda game there are a lot more.
If you like this kind of way of playing RPGs, you might be interested in the game Age of Decadence, which I'd describe as a hardcore RPG.
It's hardcore in the sense that the character you build mechanically is enforced roleplay-wise - if you create a character which is both weak and lacks coordination, expect to not be able to climb up walls, and have very little ability to win even the most basic fights. The game effectively says: not every encounter and situation is for every character. Sometimes you'll *need* to run away - sometimes you can solve things though alternative means (sneaky characters can sabotage in the middle of the night, merchant characters could hire mercenaries to solve a problem, or you could just backstab the person hiring you for the quest and join the other side).
Actually, I'd be interested in hearing your take on the concept of "mechanical choices being enforced in roleplay". Another game that does this is "The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante" - if your character spends all his time relaxing, he won't be capable of great feats. If he doesn't study the faith as a priest, he won't be able to ratify miracles, etc.
Awesome recommendation. I do this kinda thing too but I don't always do such extreme things. I'm not quite so good. I need to make a chronical for my URW character.
Time to fall down this rabbit hole and spend my entire night watching that guy's videos, thanks for sharing
One of my favorite RPG experiences was playing the role-playing focused Wildlander mod pack for Skyrim.
Role-Playing in Role play games is just ton of fun. Me and friend been doing that for months in Conan Exiles. We walk for hours, talk hours as how our characters would talk and create stories as we go. In fact, our stories are so deep that if I was proper writer, I could've write a book. Sometimes it's not about beating the game, it's the journey and silly things you can do.
If you like people roleplaying games you should take a look at The Geek Cupboard doing his Crusader Kings 3 videos, in that game you play as different chracters in a dynasty and each has a different personality like wrathful, calm, greedy, lazy and lots more, and The Geek Cupboard plays each character so well even if it means not doing "well" in the game so he might go to war, even if its a bad decision because his character is wrathful. Geek Cupboard is SO underrated I think you should take a look!
Tim, unbeknownst to you, the colors of this video are so good. It's so vibrant and lively.