It is roleplay! I love roleplaying, in highscool I was in theater club and we would skip classes to reherse out plays, we would work hard for a year and put out really good well organized theater shows at the end of year. Before that too , Skyrim was one of the first games I played and loved deeply very much.
Maybe you can call me crazy, but I like immersing myself deep into the role, with headphones on, with pure focus just become the role and never infringe it never break it. It gives me so much joy to go on adventures like this, with this level of immersion and intense focus on role and character development and sentimentality behind it.
That's why I instantly fell in love with this immersive (Or HighRP as they call it) roleplay multiplayer server called NoPixel for GTA. When I found out about it which was relatively recently last year, I've never played or watch GTA because I was never really interested in it.
One day just out of curiosuty I wanted to just for once watch a GTA streamer. I wondered "GTA is always among most viewed games on Twitch, what are these people even watching." And by just sheer dumb luck, among thousands of GTA streamers I clicked on one of the best gta roleplay streamers. Which I've realzied he was one of the best much later when I tried other streamers.
The level of roleplay, the focus, dedication, amount of effort put into the roles was on another level kind of which I have never seen. Never seen anyone else other than me do at least. The name of this streamer was Peppo and he was roleplaying as a new up and coming detective named Miguel that everyone refered to as Coyote. Here I can write long paragraphs detailing the intricasies of what I refer to when I say " level of roleplay, the focus, dedication, amount of effort" but I don't know who would want to read that and it's better if you watch his streams of murder investigations as roleplaying Coyote than me just writing it all here to you.
And the best part was the server infrastructure supporting this highly immersive roleplay. Gameplay accomodates and enables a lot of it. For instance in game you can talk and send messages to others and all of it is logged in game including contents of messages time and location of the cell when it was sent. In game there are lawyers, prosecutors, judges and you need subpenas to access phone records and for that you need credible suspicion and evidence. And this is barely scratching the surface.
And this is exactly what I'll be looking for in Star Citizen, just pure rp and that requires persistence and stability. Two things Star Citizen is desperately lacking right now naturally until v1.0 is released. That's why I'm not around much in game and have never been throughout development so far. Sometimes once every few months I log in, check what's new and delete again.
Here are some of Peppo's streams and videos about his roleplay scenes:
This one about a new role Edgar:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2463151503?t=0h17m37s
There are also a lot of other really good rp players. And not everyone streams but there are a lot of good options if you look at twitch streams.
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