The most particular way to play an RPG according to you

[Mexi]

Highly against modding. I don't even patch the original Fallout games anymore since Killap's shitty patch always seems to break it. I get a CTD when I get to that Wanamingo Mine area, even played it at a later time and still got that crash. Anyways, completely stopped doing that. Game works just fine without any faggy fan-made patches for me anyways. I don't even like modding BG, and some utter faggot actually modded Alpha Centauri--may he burn in hell!.

Skyrim does need modding, but it's quite fun to do it and play with the mods.

Other than Skyrim, I'm highly against modding anything. Shitty-built games like VTMB and FNV do need modding, but you don't need many. Tru-Patch for VTMB and unofficial patch+lag stopping mod+JESawyer and you're good to go.

 

[fork]

Most particular? There really isn't any most particular way anymore. You go on Steam, download the game, play it with your brian disengaged because the game is so shitty, consult YouTube for walkthrough if you don't succeed with any challenge in it the very first time.

But here's the way it used to be:

- Go to software store
- See a new RPG in a glorious box you've never seen before
- Pick up the box, excited, and look at the back
- "Oh, I gotta get this one," pay for the game at the counter
- Drive home at dangerous speeds
- Boot up your trusty PC
- Insert Disk #1, the installation disk
- Pray to God you didn't get a bad copy
- Insert remaining disks as prompted
- While waiting, prepare desktop (your actual desktop) by moving extra clutter out of the way, sharpening a couple of fresh pencils, tear off the top sheet of your pad of graph paper ready to start mapping
- Get a nice hot cup of coffee
- Boot up the game and admire its opening screen and catchy music
- Open the game's manual
- Smell the manual
- Read the manual, probably while taking a bathroom break
- Click on Start Game (or Venture Forth or whatever phrase is used)
- Create characters

Gone are the olden days. If you never experienced any of this, despair, young man.

Well, I also miss that store/buying/physical copy/manual part.
But the greater loss are the games worth playing. But people who missed them or were too young/not born yet can still play them. Not too late for that yet. They just have to have an open mind and will to play them. The good ones are still good.

 

[Gastrick]

By entering the computer and becoming the Player Character. It really adds weight to C&C when it's your life on the line. The thoughts running through your head are intense, like "how will I move this turn", "better not miss". You also can be shot without dying while in the game but they heal on their own over long traveling. The romance scenes are much better though than just watching on your chair. Also if your PC power ever dies and the game crashes, you are painfully shot back to the real world in an instant through emergency code. Anyone reading should try it sometime.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Quite a long time ago already, I installed my old Oblivion copy for my son on his PC because it's a game where kids can run around and admire things. He played it for like 2 hours and quit.
The other day I saw him with the game's title screen on and asked if he's going to play Oblivion now. "No", he replied, "I just started it so I can hear the music".

Is your son aware that the title music of TES IV: Oblivion is merely an inferior variation on the title music from TES III: Morrowind (Call of Magic a.k.a. Nerevar Rising)?

 

[Trojan_generic]

Quite a long time ago already, I installed my old Oblivion copy for my son on his PC because it's a game where kids can run around and admire things. He played it for like 2 hours and quit.
The other day I saw him with the game's title screen on and asked if he's going to play Oblivion now. "No", he replied, "I just started it so I can hear the music".

Is your son aware that the title music of TES IV: Oblivion is merely an inferior variation on the title music from TES III: Morrowind (Call of Magic a.k.a. Nerevar Rising)?

That's your and my opinion, but with kids I can never guess. It's a matter of time.