Your ideas for LARPing in games?

[Kev Inkline]

Some kind of summer lunacy taking over codex?
A thread extolling the virtues of ME1 and now this?

 

[Tweed]

I LARPed as someone having a good time when I played Pillars of Eternity, but it only lasted a few hours before I had to face the facts.

 

[Gregz]

LARPing doesn't have to mean restricting your playstyle. In fact, if your imagination is active enough, you don't need to modify anything.

 

[Lemming42]

How do you connect your backstories with the game? Like, I can understand if you playing the game for the second time, since you know how things goes you can make some backstories that connects to the game(locations and what not) and even if has no connection with the plot, it still connects with the world of the game. An example is how you character in FO1 has a curiosity with the world outside the vault and that is the reason he was picked and so on.

Oh yeah, it's only for replays. I'd be reluctant to do any mechanics-based LARPing on a first playthrough of anything anyway because a game should stand on its own without the player bringing that element to it.

 

[Saerain]

Ideas for LARPing in games... Like beating your monitor with a foam hammer to kill the dragon? I'm lost.

 

[DraQ]

Joined: Oct 3, 2012

Here's your citation.

 

[laclongquan]

In games with character creation, I sometimes write out whole backstories for characters in MS Word, and then refer back to the document while playing the game. It feels extremely lame but I've done it multiple times for Fallout/Fallout 2/Fallout: NV and LARPed with those backstories and traits in mind and I honestly think it takes cRPGs to the next level.

That little text in character descriptions is why anyone would play premade characters in Fallout 2. Because even modify it lose that text.

 

[theSavant]

Joined: Oct 3, 2012

Here's your citation.

Don't play dumb. This is what you have to do -->

If you are not satisfied in how people use this term, then educate them - in a topic which can easily be found by the people (probably sufficient to have the keywords "definition" and "larping" in its title). This way everyone can reference it. I'm looking forward to this topic. Until then don't complain about it anymore.

 

[HeroMarine]

My LARPing example: In my last playthrough of AoD, I pretended the characters in the game were actual human beings with normal emotional development instead of Eastern Europeans. I think I died in the 3rd mission.