What kind of roleplay is overplayed/overrated?

[caballero]

1 hour ago, Petey said:

Facts

Facts 

[Lurleen]

On 5/10/2021 at 11:25 AM, DLimit said:

The R.P. in K-Town is solid, same with Chinatown. Just still find that there's too many Asians, in general. Something's wrong when I see more Asians and Eastern-Europeans than Hispanics.

I agree, most of them are great RPers but... there are barely caucasian americans in Los Santos.

[Lazarat]

Lesbians are overrated as fuck.. If you go inside a club and shout fuck lesbians you will see 80% of the playerbase slide out their ak47 and ck you

[Skip]

GIVE ME A BEER.

[Engelbert]

If I hear "Ayo shawty you bangin or wassup?", one more time behind my back, I will just turn around and start shooting. Honestly, happens every day everywhere.

[Zayyy]

70% of the asians driving classics

[Snowy]

Being super wasted everyday in clubs and driving home 🥂

[Wannas]

Asian wannabe Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift characters. Also, 80% of the female characters here are depressed lesbians who drive supercars or Harleys. What the fuck?

[Yoak]

perfect characters, lemme see some idiots pls for once in a while play someone with proper flaws.

[Slimeball]

On 5/10/2021 at 11:01 AM, Akali said:

I feel like the most overrated roleplay that's not only overplayed, but saturating the market right now is white people.

 

Somehow everyone immigrated from Leeds, London, Paris, Berlin, Essex or Dublin (You know who I'm talking about...) to go to Los Santos to start a successful career as a stripper/guard/trucker/taxi driver. And I'm not just naming the jobs that they can do, it's the jobs they all actually do. You'll always find someone who's somehow a jack of all trades and knows how to fix a car, tend a bar and practice law without any typical background or depth to how they came to learn those trades.

If you go to a bar, the usual ethnicities are: White (65%) Asian (30%) Black (2.5%) Hispanic (5%). These percentages can shift depending on the bar and the area where the bar is, but White is usually the strong majority in these cases.

 

Perfect characters and Mary Sues/Gary Sues are also a problem. They name specific measurements for body parts (Erotic and non Erotic) of course which I can understand, but I don't really need to read how jiggly a girl's ass is. They have no blemishes on their face, lovely soft skin, shiny brown hair... whatever happened to a person's imperfections? At the end of the day, you're playing a character not a Second Life sex object. 
 

I've had it a few times on my Middle-Eastern woman that she's been privately speaking Arabic to someone and then out of nowhere, a plain Jane white girl rocks up with the blonde hair, 18 years old and is somehow able to converse in Arabic... Then they disappear, go sit down with their friend and start doing sign language.

 

It's becoming more and more common that if something is said in a foreign language that is directly talking about somebody else's character, somehow they metagame the information and they're suddenly able to speak the language.

 

All in all - just be original (<--- Here's a good example) .  Don't be too unique but be unique enough for the person who's roleplaying with you to know that you're playing an individual, not an emotionless superhero with a God complex.

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE ROLEPLAYERS IN THE BACK!

 

And yeah, I'm a gang roleplayer so what I see most of the time is people attempting to portray real life Bloods & Crips gangs rather than making their own emulation of them with its own lingo & cultural background.