Post by Zeli on Nov 30, 2006 7:52:47 GMT -5
source: QJ
www.qj.net/category/World-of-Warcraft/cid/2794
World of Warcraft: Role-player profiles....or not
Posted Nov 30, 2006 at 04:15AM by Tim Y.
We all love Role-players. Whether they be the next in-game demi-god, the next black sheep of the gaming community, or the 3000-year-old leprechaun that's seen it all (and speaks in a convincing Irish accent), role-players add much-needed flavor to any MMORPG. Any good role-player will tell you of the sleepless nights spent lovingly writing their character profile, interweaving it into the game's story canon without suffering from the dreaded "Mary Sue" complex. It's a process sometimes as painful as birthing a child, but it's worth it.
At least, that's the ideal. Them demented dudes over at somethingawful.com have just set their sights on everybody's favorite MMORPG of the moment - World of Warcraft - and its flagRSP mod. The said mod allows guys over at the RP servers to post their character profile, permitting the community to interact with them accordingly. The problems is, as we looked over these profiles they've picked up, we couldn't help but wonder: Why, God, why?
(Dis)Courtesy of somethingawful, we present you with some of the more eyebrow-raising profiles spotted over at WoW. The less...appetizing...images can be spotted over at their main site, but here's a sample of what to expect.
www.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/74643/alvinetto.gif
www.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/74643/zhadow.gif
www.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/74643/dragonslayer.gif
www.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/74643/sorry.gif
and then you have the other side over at Something Awful
www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=4276
www.qj.net/category/World-of-Warcraft/cid/2794
World of Warcraft: Role-player profiles....or not
Posted Nov 30, 2006 at 04:15AM by Tim Y.
We all love Role-players. Whether they be the next in-game demi-god, the next black sheep of the gaming community, or the 3000-year-old leprechaun that's seen it all (and speaks in a convincing Irish accent), role-players add much-needed flavor to any MMORPG. Any good role-player will tell you of the sleepless nights spent lovingly writing their character profile, interweaving it into the game's story canon without suffering from the dreaded "Mary Sue" complex. It's a process sometimes as painful as birthing a child, but it's worth it.
At least, that's the ideal. Them demented dudes over at somethingawful.com have just set their sights on everybody's favorite MMORPG of the moment - World of Warcraft - and its flagRSP mod. The said mod allows guys over at the RP servers to post their character profile, permitting the community to interact with them accordingly. The problems is, as we looked over these profiles they've picked up, we couldn't help but wonder: Why, God, why?
(Dis)Courtesy of somethingawful, we present you with some of the more eyebrow-raising profiles spotted over at WoW. The less...appetizing...images can be spotted over at their main site, but here's a sample of what to expect.
www.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/74643/alvinetto.gif
www.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/74643/zhadow.gif
www.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/74643/dragonslayer.gif
www.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/74643/sorry.gif
and then you have the other side over at Something Awful
www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=4276
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Caylen "Abraham" Burroughs
The Wonders of FlagRSP and Roleplaying
One thing I've always, always hated about World of Warcraft are the Role Players - people who pretend they are important, fictional characters in game , only more so than the people who choose not to role play. As kind as it was for Blizzard to isolate them from the rest of us sane, normal, healthy individuals who spend 30 or more hours a week in game raising our numbers for no real purpose, they recently allowed many of the Role Playing Servers to engage in Player Versus Player combat with the introduction of Battlegrounds.
All previous unfounded allegations that all Role Players are untalented idiots at playing the game properly were made into fact. Not only are they awful, and do you have to play with them, but when you try to tell them in the nicest of terms (Please, you dumb asshole...), they respond with fake dialects and "in character" jargon that translates to us normal poopsockers as "Dumb Ren Faire Idiot".
Then, a Something Awful good made me aware of this fantastic player created mod called FlagRSP, which just about every Role Playing server character uses to describe their in-game character, as well as how to interact with them.
Basically, they make fun of themselves for us. Which is good, because that suits the needs of Art of Warcraft quite nicely.
i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/11/abraham/dragonslayer.gif
i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/11/abraham/supersayjin.gif
i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/11/abraham/betraya.gif
i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/11/abraham/eaterofworlds.gif
i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/11/abraham/kaminee.gif
(there's more, click on the source page to view 'em)
And that’s about all I was able to tolerate from the RP servers. Speaking of tolerance levels, we are done for today with this write-up, so you are free to go. I’d like to thank the Something Awful goons who play World of Warcraft for the inspiration to make this article (we are all hardcore Role Players, especially on Kel’Thuzad); and an extra special thanks goes out to forum members John Dyne, Pierson and Rincewind for making me realize how funny FlagRSP could be. Have RSP profiles you want to send me? Screenshots? Tales of fucking people over on the Burning Crusade beta? Why don’t you email me, and see where things go from there. Next week: a new prank!
Caylen "Abraham" Burroughs
The Wonders of FlagRSP and Roleplaying
One thing I've always, always hated about World of Warcraft are the Role Players - people who pretend they are important, fictional characters in game , only more so than the people who choose not to role play. As kind as it was for Blizzard to isolate them from the rest of us sane, normal, healthy individuals who spend 30 or more hours a week in game raising our numbers for no real purpose, they recently allowed many of the Role Playing Servers to engage in Player Versus Player combat with the introduction of Battlegrounds.
All previous unfounded allegations that all Role Players are untalented idiots at playing the game properly were made into fact. Not only are they awful, and do you have to play with them, but when you try to tell them in the nicest of terms (Please, you dumb asshole...), they respond with fake dialects and "in character" jargon that translates to us normal poopsockers as "Dumb Ren Faire Idiot".
Then, a Something Awful good made me aware of this fantastic player created mod called FlagRSP, which just about every Role Playing server character uses to describe their in-game character, as well as how to interact with them.
Basically, they make fun of themselves for us. Which is good, because that suits the needs of Art of Warcraft quite nicely.
i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/11/abraham/dragonslayer.gif
i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/11/abraham/supersayjin.gif
i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/11/abraham/betraya.gif
i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/11/abraham/eaterofworlds.gif
i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/11/abraham/kaminee.gif
(there's more, click on the source page to view 'em)
And that’s about all I was able to tolerate from the RP servers. Speaking of tolerance levels, we are done for today with this write-up, so you are free to go. I’d like to thank the Something Awful goons who play World of Warcraft for the inspiration to make this article (we are all hardcore Role Players, especially on Kel’Thuzad); and an extra special thanks goes out to forum members John Dyne, Pierson and Rincewind for making me realize how funny FlagRSP could be. Have RSP profiles you want to send me? Screenshots? Tales of fucking people over on the Burning Crusade beta? Why don’t you email me, and see where things go from there. Next week: a new prank!
And THEN he expanded, saying that I wanted him so bad because well.....let's just say, he built a story around how he was particularly "gifted" in certain "art". Uh huh. Excuse me, to each his own but do NOT involve me in your cyb0r fantasies, thankyouverymuch. Well, I figured if he could spring that story on me, that gave me licence to rattle things up as I went along, (much to the delight of the "other woman", I might add.....she thought it was HILARIOUS.) 