What is more enjoyable, playing CRPGs or talking about them here?

[TemplarGR]

This is a serious question. Seeing as many people are always online and discussing CRPGs all day, and thinking that CRPGs are generally time consuming endeavors, it is easy to assume that most people that talk too much here don't actually play a lot, unless they are unemployed bums with no social life living in their moms' basements, but then, how can they keep paying internet and electricity? It doesn't make sense to me. So please, share your thoughts, how are you spending your CRPG time and what is more enjoyable, actually playing the games or just talking about them on the codex, especially trash talking every game and calling it shit?

 

[Sigourn]

 

[overly excitable young man]

I actually hate games and only enjoy talking about nazis.

 

[TemplarGR]

I actually hate games and only enjoy talking about nazis.

I love your honesty. I think the majority of people here hate games. That is why i made this poll. :D

 

[†††]

your mom lol

 

[Rat King]

For the love of god shut the fuck up

 

[Chunkyman]

I don't even play video games.

 

[Obsequious Approbation]

Personally, I prefer reading others bitching about video games to playing video games or bitching about them myself.

 

[JarlFrank]

I'd play more of them if more that I like were made.

 

[overly excitable young man]

Well foot fetish hasn't really turned into a trend in crpg design yet.

 

[Lemming42]

I'd rather get stabbed by crackheads under a fucking bridge than do either at this point.

 

[Ol' Willy]

unless they are unemployed bums

I have over one hundred posts here and most of them I posted from my work. Checkmate, china

 

[Sigourn]

it is easy to assume that most people that talk too much here don't actually play a lot, unless they are unemployed bums with no social life living in their moms' basements, but then, how can they keep paying internet and electricity? It doesn't make sense to me.

1. I live in my own room, not in the basement. What kind of person lives in their mother's basement? I'm guessing it makes sense if you moved out of your parents home and for some reason they decided to use your former room for a different purpose, but even then your parents must not really love you if they don't clear that room up for you.
2. They pay for Internet and electricity.

 

[AwesomeButton]

To be honest, I was thinking about this recently - the Codex indicator that an RPG is good is how small the thread is or if it's centered around bulds and strategies discussion.

Check out the threads for Pathfinder Kingmaker or Underrail. There are no long winded discussions or flame wars, everybody is discussing builds, mechanics and strategies. Then check out any thread about an Obsidian game.

Personally I tend to post the least about the games I like the most. One reason is that I have nothing to complain about, another is that I want to discover stuff for myself and don't want to get spoiled.

 

[Lacrymas]

I don't even play video games.

I have never seen a video game being played in my life. Hell, I don't even know what a "video game" is.

 

[Chunkyman]

Hell, I don't even know what a "video game" is.

It's right next to the definition of RPG.

 

[Vlajdermen]

Personally I tend to post the least about the games I like the most. One reason is that I have nothing to complain about, another is that I want to discover stuff for myself and don't want to get spoiled.

Agreed, all I usually do is gush in a post or two about how great the game is, but I rarely have anything of substance to say that hasn't been said already.

Honestly the main reason I'm even here is to look for recommendations

 

[luj1]

CRPG theory interests me as much as playing these games. Voted a balanced approach.

 

[luj1]

I think the majority of people here hate games.

They hate shit games. Like Skyrim and Fallout 4. A harsh stance is better for everyone in the end.

 

[Ontopoly]

Play rpgs when you can. Browse this forum when you can't. On the bus? Pull out your cell phone and see what new stupid ass shit TemplarGR is taking about now

 

[urmom]

your mom lol

yes wut?

 

[TemplarGR]

I have over one hundred posts here and most of them I posted from my work. Checkmate, china

That is why the West is full of debt and capitalism is on its knees. People are surfing online and watching porn during work hours.

 

[NJClaw]

I have over one hundred posts here and most of them I posted from my work. Checkmate, china

That is why the West is full of debt and capitalism is on its knees. People are surfing online and watching porn during work hours.

Very big words from a guy that calls everyone retarded for thinking that CDPR profits mainly come from its games and not from GOG.com, when the actual ratio is almost 90:1.

 

[TemplarGR]

To be honest, I was thinking about this recently - the Codex indicator that an RPG is good is how small the thread is or if it's centered around bulds and strategies discussion.

Check out the threads for Pathfinder Kingmaker or Underrail. There are no long winded discussions or flame wars, everybody is discussing builds, mechanics and strategies. Then check out any thread about an Obsidian game.

Personally I tend to post the least about the games I like the most. One reason is that I have nothing to complain about, another is that I want to discover stuff for myself and don't want to get spoiled.

I haven't read every single thread on the Codex, but my perception is very different from what you describe. Threads like Kingmaker or Underrail mostly talk about how "incline" they are and how they sold compared to the competition. Yes late in their life cycles you get more discussion about gameplay issues but this is normal for all games in general. After some point, you are just repeating yourself. You can't keep praising MCA 24/7 for years, it will get boring, you need to mix it up. The reason you don't see the same in Bethesda games and other "supposedly hated on the Codex" CRPGs is twofold:

1) Enjoying quality AAA CRPGs like Skyrim is looked down upon here. You have to do it in secret and tell nobody. It is like drugs or cheating your wife in rich polite upper class societies. Almost every single one is doing it, but they hide it and act insulted if you mention it in public.

2) When a video game is about proper roleplaying, there is no point discussing builds, mechanics, and strategies. Roleplaying games are NOT strategy games or wargames. Roleplaying games are roleplaying games. Yes the tabletop versions introduced some wargaming elements but that was because there was no other way to structure the player's fantasy. There is no reason to emulate that in a computer when everything can be structured by the game engine transparently in real time, and let the player just role play in peace. Proper roleplayers just wear their favourite uniforms and use stats not to min max but to adopt their avatar to their own fantasy. Skyrim is the ultimate role play experience, it is not a wargame, so no point discussing builds. I have created 500 different builds in Skyrim, i have never discussed a single one online.

 

[TemplarGR]

Very big words from a guy that calls everyone retarded for thinking that CDPR profits mainly come from its games and not from GOG.com, when the actual ratio is almost 90:1.

What? There is no way this is true kid. Get real. Show me a link proving that.