(04-16-2014, 08:42 AM)Ignacius Wrote: Definitely violent justice. Â Not only that, but I suppose most people don't have the research put into criminal activity, gang culture, and organized crime that I do. Â One of my favorite things to do in RP is to bring that up and run with it.
Take, for example, justice. Â Just about all criminal organizations, from your local slicer-dicer gang to La Familia have a strict code of silence. Â You don't go to the police ever, not just on behalf of a victim but on behalf of yourself. Â If someone breaks into your house, you don't call the police. Â If someone shoots your best friend, you don't call the police. Â You get justice yourself, blood for blood. Â That's not something, I hope, anyone here has experienced or really understood. Â It's not just that your angry and want revenge, it's literally an honor-bound code for vengeance and violence that you have no choice but to participate in.
Ah, if only I could just move that character over. Â Love playing him. Â If only Final Fantasy had room for that sort of brutality, but even I feel like that would be a stretch. Â I'll have to get back into WoW a bit now that my internet is working.
Yeah, I honestly used to be a lot looser about research and stuff -- and then I started rping with this sarcastic mofo with a need for things to make sense. Every idea went through the grinder of his mind, with such questions as "How does that even work?", "Does that really make sense?" , "Why would they do that?", and one of my favorites, "Are we doing that? We're not doing that." (loosely paraphrased) He's bossy and brutally honest, but I really do feel like my writing has improved by going along with him. . .even when he shreds my ego into pieces. Still have a tendency to propose off the wall ideas to him that he takes all of .03 seconds to shoot down, but I've really learned quite a bit, and I feel like hte resulting rp feels fuller, I guess? I get more fulfillment out of it. And now I also do more research! Spent a few weeks researching the origination of the mafia for one rp, and Spanish court systems in the 15th-16th centuries for another. Still doing a lot of research into medieval trade (particularly around the mediterranean, because hte mediterranean is love) -- there is a lot of really, really cool stuff.
Sounds like you've still got more time into it then I do, but hey, if you've got any fabulous links to stuff please do share.
And, well, if you have ideas about brutal criminal stuff for Final Fantasy and don't mind forum rp, I'd be totally down.
(04-16-2014, 08:48 AM)ArmachiA Wrote: Because it's a style of acting. Some actors don't get into character to the extent of others. ...
I prefer the Hoffman approach because I feel I can be more authentic. That's all.
Quote:(sometimes I even have a sense of unholy glee when putting my characters through awkward/embarrassing situations. heh heh heh)
It should be known I love putting my characters through a lot. I believe in character growth through adversity. Armi has been stabbed by the enemy (4 times since the games launch), shot, kidnapped, almost killed my her friend, possessed by a voidsent, had limbs broken, been beat up, fought Garleans regularly, lost to Garleans reguarly, killed people in war, etc etc. I enjoy that kind of RP as well. I enjoy, also putting my character through those situations.
with that as well. It's not just "This happened, oh well time to go to a bar."
Character growth through adversity! Yes!! Perfect way of putting it.
As for the former, I misspoke a bit, I think. While I am not the type to enjoy method acting, my point was more that it's not necessary for me to employ it, but I still have fulfilling and enjoyable rp without it. What I was trying to clear up is that it is still possible to have good rp without feeling exactly what your character is feeling -- even if it doesn't work for one person, it can still work for the other and vice versa (though, I still have my bias and that won't go away any time soon -- I was traumatized by the earliest rp I was in, haha).
(04-16-2014, 09:29 AM)ExKage Wrote: I feel like this thread exemplifies why whenever someone states an opinion there's always that [for me, my belief, my opinion] that's usually just left unsaid but is meant and implied. As stated before, not everyone needs to be a method actor. For some, they feel that that is the best way for them to experience everything. Obviously not everyone believes that or feels that it's necessary.
We just have a lot more method actors in here ;3
Other than that... I really can't say much more on that topic for now other than echo what ArmachiA has said.
Yeah, I do expect that everything people say is their opinion and they're not stating it as the end all be all of truth, but when I read something as "I don't see how that could ever be fun" my immediate response -- if it's fun for me -- is to try to explain how it's fun for me. Likewise if I say something along the lines of "I don't see how (whatever)" I'd hope that if someone has a different way of looking at things they'd speak up. I like getting a peek inside how other people's minds work. Even if, at the end of the day, I'm still like "I don't get it, I could never feel that way" at the very least I've learned something new about someone else/the way others think, and that sort of thing is invaluable to me.