killing gets you lonely.

There are so few games with realistic and interesting city environments. Games like GTA attempt it, but completely ignore the social aspect. There are a few adventure games that pull it off fairly well, but they're mostly puzzle games (besides Fahrenheit POMG) and I give up on those pretty fast. And then there's stuff like Morrowind or Fallout but the dialogue IS ALWAYS SO WOODEN "How do I heal, Tell me about the caves, Where can I find your lost gem" and the actual gameplay isn't great. I know of Deus Ex and the KOTOR series which have a very heavy social ambiance (civil war, racism, personal struggles, economics- truely amazing games), anything else?

Counterstrike!

Find me someone willing to invest money in a startup company.  Seriously.    

>>3

i'll send you a dollar via paypal

>>1

MMORPG's?

Most MMORPGs are less sociable than /b/. Unless your idea of stimulating conversation is "Heal plz" and "Give me money".

Don't forget the endless "lol"s.

Such enlightened conversation this earth has never seen, I tell you.

>>6

I'm inclined to agree for the most part, but there are a few exceptions. One of which is EVE Online. I only played it for a couple of weeks (free trial) but I don't recall encountering any /b/-esque behaviour whatsoever. Great game.

>>8
EVE is an MMO Spread sheet.

>>7
Destroying the internet is your only option.

"civil war, racism, personal struggles, economics- truely amazing games"
Morrowind hit about all of those.

yeah, pity about every NPC having essentially the same dialogue.

I got beat up by an old lady in that game :(

>>11
Brilliant game concept. Buggiest RPG ever. The threadloading system is... very ambitious, but almost universally problematic. Also, once you start making custom magic items with soulstones, you are UNSTOPPABLE.

>>1
I used to enjoy wandering the cities in Ragnarok Online. If you don't know about it, it has VERY basic (I'd say 20% more than Diablo 1) gameplay, but as you walk a crowded marketplace, you can literally have a couple hundred people on your screen at a time. As with any MMO there are plenty of "HEAL PLZ" types, but you see them less and less as you level up, and generally they're just ignored as some kind of lazy vagrant class. XD

>>14
They should put that in an RPG. Begging all the time, when noticed by a mod, gets you turned into a panhandler or something, and gives you access to stuff like Night Train Wine...rofl that'd rock.

>>15
nah they should introduce a begger class- additional emoticons + HAXED fonts to beg your way to glory.

>>14
Morrowind isn't the buggiest RPG ever, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodliens is. It's not even phyisicly possible to finish the game without patching it first.

>>17
Pool of Radience too! Don't forget that!

>>15
>>16

Ultima Online has a beggar skill, and suggested stat sheet.

Well, originally anyway. They still have the beggar skill, but I don't think it's a suggested character anymore.

Pretty much all it did was auto-follow the target, and spam the area with begging macro's.

If guards saw you, they would complain or attack, and sometimes you could get vendors and the like to take a swing at you. Most of the time they would ignore you, or give you some amount of gold dependant on your proficiency in the skill. I think the most I got was like 18g from a banker NPC.

>>17
Truth.
The funny thing is how awesome the game is. It's totally worth it to slug through all the patching and ignoring the little errors that still pop up because it's such an awesome experience.

City of Heroes had a pretty incredible cityscape, the NPC's however were sadly lacking in the IQ department (watching a police officer having her handbag stolen by a single thug was just depressing).