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I'm glad to see you're getting responses in zebedee via this thread. I'm also happily surprised to see so many thoughts about the variety of RP enforcements on different games. It's certainly been enlightening.
The underlying reason I even brought it up....
I played an "encouraged" game. I wanted to be one of the people who dig into my role and my character's surroundings. But I found it impossible to do, because I'd try to interact in an IC way to this or that person, only to get an OOC response.
Example:
>You look about the room, admiring the paintings on the wall.
>Joe exclaims, "Only 44 exp to lvl!"
>Sue bounces around Joe.
>George beams happily at Joe.
>Andy says, "d00d u wanna duel after u lvl i give u a new wep"
You arch an inquisitive brow.
>Joe points at you and says, "u wanna duel"
You tell Joe, "Why would I want to do that? Don't even know you, and other than your obvious brain rot, you've done nothing offensive."
>Joe snorts and says, "its just a freekin game d00d chill"
quit
So if I WANT to try and interact in an IC way, and I'm surrounded by people who don't want to, where's my enjoyment? If I'm trying to be IC, and my envoronment doesn't support it, then how could it -be- a roleplaying game at all?
I hope this explains why I'm puzzled.
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