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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6793190" data-attributes="member: 5834">Did you really role-play? Did you? The raid bosses you talked to responded to you? As did the shopkeepers and orc chieftains and the random wandering creatures? They responded to your attempts to role-play? You mean I was missing out when I was reading quest text and I could have talked to them like I do in pen and paper D&amp;D? Or do you mean you were talking with other players? Making friends and conversing with other players is not role-playing. Who gives a crap if you spoke with the other player &quot;in character.&quot; The world itself does not allow role-playing. You can't interact with the creatures in ways other than the set parameters of the game. You don't get to negotiate with the Lich King or the dragons in the world.Sorry, there was no role-playing in WoW. At least not what I consider role-playing. The world was a preset, preprogrammed world that responded the same way every time. That is why raid and play strategies were a matter of rote memory rather than creative play. There is no getting around it even if you and your buddies were talking &quot;in character&quot; among yourselves. It had no effect on the reactions of the game world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 6793190, member: 5834"] Did you really role-play? Did you? The raid bosses you talked to responded to you? As did the shopkeepers and orc chieftains and the random wandering creatures? They responded to your attempts to role-play? You mean I was missing out when I was reading quest text and I could have talked to them like I do in pen and paper D&D? Or do you mean you were talking with other players? Making friends and conversing with other players is not role-playing. Who gives a crap if you spoke with the other player "in character." The world itself does not allow role-playing. You can't interact with the creatures in ways other than the set parameters of the game. You don't get to negotiate with the Lich King or the dragons in the world. Sorry, there was no role-playing in WoW. At least not what I consider role-playing. The world was a preset, preprogrammed world that responded the same way every time. That is why raid and play strategies were a matter of rote memory rather than creative play. There is no getting around it even if you and your buddies were talking "in character" among yourselves. It had no effect on the reactions of the game world. [/QUOTE]

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