Role Players vs Grinders

[@AngryBoozer]

Ah, this reminds me when I once tried Lord of the Rings Online on a roleplaying server. I played as an elf and I encountered two other elf players. I was all “greetings travelers!” and they straight up started talking elvish to me. I had been severely outnerded.

[@tawa7546]

That sounds very probable, could very well have been me if it weren't for the fact that I spent most of the time as a hobbit minstrel singing songs at the green dragon! 😅

[@raiden6583]

Lmao

[@sirenex3242]

Thats hilarious

[@MsMeriones]

Hahaha!

[@TheBooban]

Does google translate elvish?

[@thomasbecker9676]

It's nice to see Ben finally get to wear something out of his own wardrobe.

[@VivaLaDirtLeague]

Yeah it was weird he just turned up in that

[@thomasbecker9676]

@@VivaLaDirtLeague That's fashion-shaming. EDIT: Being that this is the internet in 2022, I should preface that I was being sarcastic

[@Zero-xe6wl]

@@thomasbecker9676 🤦‍♂️ Edit: 🤷👍

[@pulli23]

@@thomasbecker9676 Fashion shaming, it was magnifique!

[@hulkaiden6178]

@@Zero-xe6wl 🤦‍♂

[@triune_blades]

Ben's acting never ceases to amaze. He goes from Death Knight to a dainty role player so seamlessly and it looks effortless for him. Brit did an amazing job dealing with his antics.😆 Keep up the great work VLDL!

[@christophertaylor9100]

I love Brit playing obviously a dude with a cute female character

[@MrAsiris23]

@@christophertaylor9100 if it was a dude playing she wouldnt complaint about skimpy armors

[@mikev1294]

@@christophertaylor9100 what's wrong with her just being a woman?

[@PalleRasmussen]

​@@christophertaylor9100how many "dudes" would say; "You never know who you meet on the internet these days"?

[@classicrkr2480]

After all these years, I've finally accepted the fact that I cannot choose a favorite actor. You all are just superb.

[@VivaLaDirtLeague]

This is correct!

[@sherilda82]

Although for this video , I myself would choose Ben. This guy has range!

[@DarklyDepressed]

@@sherilda82 Its hard, but for me its been Ben since the mental health series, where Rowan plays his depression. brilliant job from both but Ben edges it out with his acting at the end of the skit (alongside Obi).

[@screamingfrogs7917]

Grinders is another word for teeth

[@wizzed]

Right? I was glad I found them so early into their career. Look how big they have become!

[@Pseudowolf]

Loved him going into his backstory. Would've been funny if it was one of those were every player is "the chosen one" and she replied "Yeah, I know, I saw the opening cinematic, too"

[@meoff7602]

She just skipped the opening anyways.

[@VivaLaDirtLeague]

She also skipped the tutorial

[@DrSwazz]

She also skipped the 100% guide after looking it up

[@Delsanar]

In immersion based roleplay you typically can't take the role of the main character.

[@Auriel_Argentis]

@Samus Knight Funny thing is... WoL has no character to speak about.... How do u even roleplay as one? By silently staring at other ppl talking?

[@Madashell1200]

I love how Ben's party invitations thumbnail is him physically leaning in waiting for an answer, like he's literally doing at the moment

[@constructioneerful]

Ah yes! Well spotted.

[@oTurkish13x]

0:32

[@Darkswordz]

LOL! I totally missed that. 😄

[@jojoscats]

Went back to enjoy that!

[@MrDUneven]

He is really talented for managing to make the same face during the filming too

[@informationyes]

"When i was a child My whole village was killed by bandits" Thats more basic than choosing to be a fire mage

[@certaindeath7776]

about as basic as playing the class with the biggest muscles and two handed weapon?

[@informationyes]

@@certaindeath7776 Damn thats basic

[@girlkillsgods]

I mean what else did you expect from someone with a name Fireheart... that's as basic as you get lol

[@zealgaming8161]

@@girlkillsgods In b4 he's actually a bard. And everyone wish he just was a genetic Warrior.

[@W0lverineable]

fire mage sucks go arcane

[@RamseyDewey]

Back in college, my neighbors invited me to play D&D with them. My experience with RPG’s back then consisted of grinding for XP on old NES games. Everyone in the room except me was Ben from this video that day. Meanwhile I was like “How are we ever going to level up if we take an entire hour to fight a single goblin by talking him to death?”

[@Mikeztarp]

"Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination."

[@jackb.207]

@@Mikeztarp "marriage before s3x" Satan

[@jackb.207]

"S3x before marriage" cooler Satan

[@talaniel]

Oh, the coach here? :-) Well, I think it is possible for GM to award XP for a good roleplay too, although XP for kills is easier to count for sure :-)

[@robertmoore4272]

The cross over I never thought I needed.

[@MichaelRicksAherne]

"At no point did I.." "WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I saw a team of bandits murder..." I f'ing lost it. Fabulous on-screen chemistry between these two.

[@AgiHammerthief]

the sort of chemistry NileRed does in his #Shorts

[@olmostgudinaf8100]

@@AgiHammerthief Yeah, like the one with that black stuff growing out of the beaker 😀

[@Dargoneth]

Well, the chemistry had some developement curve. Thinking about the episode were those two are kissing.. alot.. and not very convincing :D

[@Oktokolo]

A match made in heaven. The two will experience a lot of adventures togeth... oh, she left the party...

[@The_LoneHawk]

I was hoping ben was going to kick some ass when the heroic music started playing... then...

[@BoneDaddy_]

Ben is really great in invoking emotions from people

[@mujtabaellari2597]

That emotion usually being anger.

[@alicorn3924]

and sometimes, a particular emotion ;)

[@zevirkann9755]

Oh god, he's so good at making me feel annoyed. Impeccable acting, truly.

[@GaladorLP]

You mean Hamish? ;)

[@ZrInfinity]

Annoyance and anger right? Lol

[@everydaywhale994]

0:33 has the exact frame of his face when its in the party invite

[@princeofsomnia7664]

no shit sherlock

[@christianlamberti6059]

I would actually watch a show about these two. RP learning to be more focused and Pro-Gamer learning to not take the game too seriously

[@DrSwazz]

An emotional short movie releasing in summer of 2023

[@gunh4129]

I like the sequel about this two, too.

[@casshernsins8333]

This I love this idea

[@edwardoliveira1748]

Damn i'd watch that for sure!

[@michaelsayaki3135]

Like a short romance movie

[@WhiteStonebiter]

Ben is embracing this role a liittle too well… 😆😂

[@Diospepreco]

He learned from TheFancyAristocrat after all.

[@reznovvazileski3193]

I mean if you're gonna roleplay as a roleplayer you better :')

[@justanothermeltingchannel]

Role Playing Ben needs to be its own sub series. Holy hell I laughed so hard, it’s so great to see him in a different role than most of the characters he plays, he does it so well.

[@IsopropylRecordings]

Indeed. Bright times ahead 👌

[@DrSwazz]

Shoot man, they saw this. It’s possible we get an Epic NPC Man spinoff after all!

[@hlriiiviiiv]

Role playing Ben vs. Mugger Ben GO

[@shadowheartart3898]

100% agreed

[@ReddFalcon]

Ben could play a potato and it would be amazing.

[@iguanafurgaming2992]

Ben's acting is always top tier no matter the role.

[@flex_cannon]

Okay...I officially need Ben's costume as my casual "Friday night lounging around the house" attire.

[@donnakennedy430]

Nah, wear that outfit to the grocery store or while getting the oil changed. Be brave with your fashion. No one else will.

[@shrujanamsyama9940]

@@donnakennedy430 That dress is better suited for "Pride Marches"

[@Blondie42]

Lounge wear and your local Ren faire 😉

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

It would make me look like "Fancy Man" very much indeed!

[@VivaLaDirtLeague]

I’m sure it would be really comfortable 😂

[@mikehigbee2320]

"I just need to level so Mark from accounting stops calling me a no skin noob in staff meetings." Now there's a game motivation. You're the best Brit.

[@xacharon]

I mean, on one hand it may be an HR violation, but it also sounds like a place I would want to work. :)

[@xawee7254]

But skins are probably behind a pay wall.. soo doesn't really make sense haha

[@cringejuicedavidson8288]

Would he be allowed to do that?

[@auralmalpractice]

Noobs don't start any skin!? What kind of bullshit pay-to-win garbage is that?

[@robrosy]

Hmm… the lady doesn’t quite sound like a Brit though.. I’m getting a bit of South African / Aussie / kiwi vibe from her…

[@Agita_Offline]

Ben can finally immerse himself in a game, since he got that new Razer Keyboard and headset

[@PeterPanik_]

dont forget the gaming catheter!

[@ongbak190]

Lmao. I was gonna say that he wanted that new keyboard just to come do this 😂.

[@lindah6954]

And Mouse. lol

[@Veelasiren]

He already had the flatclicker.

[@jdragyn]

He really be JAMMIN now!

[@karlthegreaterest]

These two going on an adventure arc to save the elves, while running into all the player archetypes would be amusing

[@adrianmcnally5918]

Hamish didn’t seem to care too much about the elves. Probably didn’t pay him for his last batch of nay nays

[@Milamberinx]

Not even one copper piece? For the sick child?

[@itspersonnal6883]

*some fresh nays nays*

[@JThom529]

Probably a distant relative of Isaac or went to same speech etiquette classes or something lol

[@goodlookinouthomie1757]

That or the elves always guess his puzzles straight away.

[@fatalexception1269]

He should care - they're probably in possession of all of his children by now.

[@JennyA]

You need to give the costumers a raise as they are out doing themselves with all these costumes. Loved Ben’s over the top role playing in this one. 👍🏻

[@fastertrackcreative]

They are probably ordered premade as opposed to custom order.

[@stevenweller9413]

He is creepy as hell during the part he was inviting her though.

[@Iruka1991]

they're getting paid the same as everybody else

[@VivaLaDirtLeague]

Massive shout out to the costume team! Always smashing it out of the park! ❤

[@tazbir1cs]

@@VivaLaDirtLeague Rowan: massive pay cut is coming..

[@tylerboyce4081]

I hope we get a sequel with these two. I'd love to see them learn to work together. The Roleplayer learns how to upgrade his gear, and the Grinder learns how to have fun with the game and get into the story.

[@Schrodingers_Engineer]

The twist at the end would have to be that it’s the real angry Ben playing a second character the whole time.

[@gunh4129]

yes, I agree. Please give us the sequel.

[@tylerboyce4081]

So, I just watched the sequel, and that was some beautiful writing, Britt. 🥹❤️

[@MarkLockey]

Was this costume the only one, or was it picked specifically for Ben? Because it suits him and his hair perfectly lol.

[@macmcleod1188]

I think they may have a costumer now as a part of the great expansion.

[@thicniggazinc]

@@macmcleod1188 yep I believe they actually have two costume designers now.

[@susanfraser1118]

Mop

[@happyemochild]

Literally perfect for his hair lol

[@asahearts1]

I believe you mean Gildroy Lockheart.

[@eF_cz]

Ben killed it. And this sketch is a new proof that Epic NPC Man is my favourite and it was this show which brought me to VLDL quite some time ago.

[@CDallas]

What a performance by him, actual high tier acting

[@a1white]

actually, they killed him 😅

[@xCCflierx]

Even in the play tech skits he is just phenomenal

[@loverlei79]

My first vldl was bored because well i was bored so i typed in "I'm bored" in KZbin search. And well... here I am.

[@lazyman2307]

Mám to stejně Franto

[@rainiere888]

Ben trying to listen to the whole dialogue from the NPC was a nice touch! Would love to see how NPCs would react to RP adventurer's listening to their whole dialogues, genially caring and being respectful. (Like being transferred to an RP server all the sudden or sm) I can almost picture Greg's reaction... 😳

[@Pizzagulper]

Dang. That's a great idea. I really hope they make that as a video.

[@VaSoapman]

Greg: "EFFing Roleplayers, keep on interrupting my monologs..."

[@lshewchuk]

Greg: " HELLO ADVENTURER! My sheep have run amok..." RP: "And" Greg : "I'm not sure. I've never gotten this far before a skip."

[@nahman3945]

This!!!!!

[@craigyeah1052]

Would be a shame if they were roleplaying an edgy badass who cares nothing for his sheep...

[@Leongon]

Actually partying with a guy like that that refuses to break character no matter what sounds like the best shit ever.

[@mattstanford9673]

I did an alliance raid in FFXIV, once, where a guy had party-chat quote macros any time he used a spell. It was amusing at first, but every time..........

[@shivam7156]

That would be a nightmare

[@accapaellass]

It depends, if he roleplays but allows others to speak plainly AND isn't an attention seeker it's the best thing ever

[@AbyRemy]

Everything is good with moderation.

[@RyanFaeScotland]

Reminds me a lot of King Ezekiel from The Walking Dead. Could be a lot of fun, be could also be annoying as hell!

[@GodActio]

Then there are the rare roleplayers that are also munchkins, the forbidden combination of overpowered

[@v3ru586]

Sorry, I try to be that. Making up a back story that's consistent with an op build is a fun challenge. On the other hand my adhd is usually in the way of the munchkin part, while my social anxiety is still strong enough in mmos to keep me from openly role playing around other players (also, I've been asked to not role play in eso by multiple people)

[@IndigoWhiskey]

hey it's only mary sue if it has no in world reasons for it. XD

[@MasterGibz]

Pretty sure that's exactly what Ainz did

[@bronzejourney5784]

@@v3ru586 "Role Playing" part doesnt have to include talking, its just some nonsense imposed by the GTA Online RP servers. Roleplaying originally means that you are playing as the role you choose, which is being an elven paladin, or an Hunter Orc. Just playing as those characters is "role playing". And it starts being cringy when you try to talk or text "in-character" because you are not that character, so its fake, and it shows(naturally, because you are not an actor, noone is). Some people enjoy that goofy-cringy chaotic mess though, each to his own.

[@laughingalex7563]

Me in city of heroes. (In fact even my dps toons can single handedly wipe the floor with things and survive being attacked for very long times :D).

[@necasperaterent29386]

For once, Ben got to NOT be the jaded guy that skips all the dialogue. That must have been such a breath of fresh air. 😅

[@carsonrush3352]

This is the guy who skipped everything, but then he met Adam... Now he does role playing.

[@jragorian2960]

I guess this is a prequel, Ben became Ben because of this kind of things happened to him lol

[@MrR0ch]

@@jragorian2960 yeah and puppies quest also

[@ErwinPommel]

@@MrR0ch Those poor puppies.

[@macmcleod1188]

@@ErwinPommel Yes.. the puppy quest broke him.

[@willb4775]

Whoever designs their costumes are just on point

[@lishe8287]

VLDL is lucky enough to have a fantastic costume department working for them!

[@baldroflight6008]

It's always a delight when Ben puts on a new character. But it feels weird seeing happy Ben compared to angry and rageful Ben

[@GTAVictor9128]

If anything, I always imagined Ben as more of a grinder-type of player.

[@DrSwazz]

I think we all might have expected Britt to be the RP in this skit, very glad they switched it up on us 😆

[@gregtalley1601]

Oh this is outrageous...and quite frankly insulting.

[@scaponyx]

...to annoying Ben :D

[@genevievec.8002]

I dunno, my favorite character of his is the Death Knight, and he's very sweet and kind of happy.

[@AdaKitten]

Great skit!

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Problem is when the grinder play on an RP server and doesn't even respect ungoing roleplaying. There are even grifters set out to sabotage roleplaying with obnoxious behaviour. WoW GM's never, ever cared about policing such disruptive behaviour.

[@deltav864]

@@michaelpettersson4919 In Ultima Online I had a solution for that; before I got into RP I was the typical teenage competitive gamer and made friends with top PvP guilds and players, duelling them for hours on end, day in day out, until I was one of them. When I got caught in a roleplay scenario I was sold by the concept and eventually I spent more time RP'ing than PvP'ing. As you probably know for some reason RP'ers seem to be griefer-magnets, but that was a mistake if you did it in '99-01 on the Atlantic server when I was in the crowd; your name would be dropped in the appropriate IRC channels and more often than not be dealt with swiftly and paint a permanent target on your back by the server's best PvP'ers.

[@Romanoff.Kalashnikov]

Wise word O' Noble Princess

[@sgt.thundercok4704]

@@Romanoff.Kalashnikov You still ain't hitting anything.

[@mrosskne]

@@michaelpettersson4919 then stop being cringe and stop roleplaying, weirdo.

[@reddragonAndrew]

I'd like to see Ben listening to Greg the garlic farmer as a role player. Greg would be shock someone actually wants to hear the whole spiel. lol

[@Aileil]

What a beautiful sight that would be XD.

[@TheChocoDoll]

There was once that adventurer who was running from a giant monster. But Greg did not share many stories to further the adventurer's life. I'm sure he did it on purpose lol

[@erlendvageskar3356]

I want a skit of that now =)

[@KyuuTomoyaki]

We need a sequel to Baelin's Route that's just The Adventures of Ben the Roleplayer. Would be epic!

[@6kang971]

@@haroldhall1517 seconded

[@geekmastermind]

90 minutes of Ben getting group-kicked and slaughtered by low level mobs? I'm there!

[@petiteexplication6249]

Seeing more of this duo could honestly be so good

[@Necrovamp101]

A crossover of bored and npc man where Ben's computer keeps breaking and has to keep going back for more hardware.

[@seregrian5675]

I think that's a grand scheme! VLDL, I hope you're listening!

[@wumpusrat]

Not going to lie, I was half-hoping that the roleplayer was going to just casually mop the floor with the ambush, and the grinder go "...huh. Okay, maybe I can put up with this for a bit."

[@luisahewitt2722]

I half thought it would go that way too!

[@agnidas5816]

yeah ... this seemed oddly... an attack on actors while they themselves are actors... It's the general attitude of VLDL though - shitting on things is okay, enjoying and having fun doing your job is not okay... a really toxic self hating attitude which runs through all their skits... some times it totally kills the comedy

[@AnotherViewer]

Another downside of a roleplayer is that they tend to use weapons and armor that look the role they are playing, thus their gear tends to be much lower level than the content they are going up against.

[@LadyDoomsinger]

@@AnotherViewer What's the point of the graphics, character designs or storylines if you just skip everything? You might as well just stare at a sheet of paper, with numbers going up every time you press ENTER. And if you really want a challenge, maybe you need to alternately press ENTER and SPACEBAR - wouldn't that be a fun game? Look how the numbers go up!

[@Kaotiqua]

@@LadyDoomsinger They need cookie-clickers. ;)

[@Shogoeu]

I've had only one encounter with a role player - he was walking, literally, from Stormwind to Ironforge - must have taken ages.

[@BroBrotherThe]

Wow

[@witchyrabbit7331]

There's literally a griffin taxi service that brings you to Ironforge in a lore friendly fashion...

[@criztu]

I'll never forget the day we - a group of lvl 20sh, went to Stranglethorn Vale (lvl 40) trying to join up with a raid for Stormwind. we were hoping to at least watcg the fight at the gates... Seeing the alliance realms was poetic, like a dream.

[@johnmaco]

It would be great if he had found hidden treasures, secret quests or unique events during that journey. The vast majority of games, even MMORPGs, do not reward roleplaying...

[@youtubeistryingtocensorme]

I met a different kind of role player. I was in the in the Imperial fleet in Swtor. And I walked in and I saw two players. 1 male and 1 female. Both were “naked” or in skimpy outfits however you wanna look at it. The female was bent over and the male was attached to her from behind. I walked the other way

[@SaltStorm007]

Always knew Ben could play a great ‘Dandy’! HAMISH IN THE HOUSE...he is one of my favorites! Love waking up to a Viva video!💯

[@Fesh3314]

Man, I LOVE role players! one time I met one in a game called sea of thieves, and it was just a blast.. so fun seeing people speak pirate, voting captain, and just enjoying the game on their own terms.

[@TravisFabel]

Oh my God this dude has his acting on point... I mean perfect for the character. And to look her in the eye and not break character while she's giving him that look of "what the fuck man?".... I don't know how he didn't break character. Excellent work. And that's without even bringing up how well The camera work, costumes, etc just all came together. It's like you guys just leveled up all of your videos.

[@VaelKyrun]

According to Rob Hartley, their DM on the DnD channel, Ben very rarely "corpse" when acting, and that's a true skill in comedy :P Whereas Allan and Rowan ... well xD

[@Csatadi]

@@VaelKyrun corpse??

[@VaelKyrun]

@@Csatadi it's the act of breaking character laughing ;) the exact definition is : to start laughing in a way you cannot control during a performance, or to make someone else do this; a word used by actors and performers

[@Csatadi]

@@VaelKyrun thanks

[@TravisFabel]

@@Csatadi they literally kill the take... That's why it's called to corpse the scene or take or whatever. It's kind of used differently everywhere.

[@fabribertani]

love how Britt can hardly contain her laugh here

[@TrueFunFan]

At the end I was hoping for "FireHeart" to kill all those bandits with ease, as he is Role-Player so probably he did all the side quests. And then "Gronkboy" would say "f*cking roleplayers!" but positively surprised. Anyone else had similar hopes? 😅

[@JThom529]

A bit too-immersed

[@mokkorista]

Role players usually don't care about end level content. That's why their gear sucks and usually have but a little understanding of the game mechanics. You don't want to team up with them because you end up doing all the work for them.

[@TheFinius]

I'd hoped he'd win as well. Despite what the other commenter said roleplayers do care about end game because obviously it's the end of the story. Their gear isn't as good because they care what it looks like over how good it is.

[@neowolf09]

@@mokkorista you're playing with wrong role players then.

[@TheAzureGhost]

Depends on the Roleplayer and what they roleplay. A poor Mercenary/Adventurer might wear anything they pick up (looting can also be integrated into roleplay) unrelated to how it fits together /looks as that ragtag look is part of the role. Many "Gamemechanics" in general can be included into the Roleplay depending on the game. Nowdays most Online RPG Videogames have skins/transmogs so stats are unrelated to visuals. Been a while that i actively played MMORPGs but back in Vanilla WoW for example my RP Guild even went to Molten Core / AQ and cleared the whole raids while maintaining In Character talk, outplaying Character quriks (which made it quite more difficult) and so on. (though most of us had characters on non RP Servers too and knew the content already from there)

[@MrMigeco]

This was one of the best acted and best comic timing of all the VLDL sketches I've seen!

[@Ajoh]

When I saw “gronkboy” over Britt I nearly spit take. The way she was walking… just perfect.

[@Voltaic_Fire]

Why? What is 'gronkboy'?

[@chompchompnomnom4256]

@@Voltaic_Fire Gronk is the nickname of an American footballer, and I guess he has a funny walk

[@FaultAndDakranon]

Yup. I love every detail of her character.

[@ChRW123]

So she IS the real role player.

[@Inertia888]

@@Voltaic_Fire I took it as the player is a noob, and chose 'gronkboy', because is a fan of Rob Gronkowski, the American football player, but doesn't care much about matching names to characters, because noob, so picked a female character. Or I could be thinking too much into it. But I'm sticking with it until Brit tells me otherwise.

[@nellysimpressions5514]

Thanks! Your comedy is the best. You never fail to make me laugh.

[@redt3788]

Ben looks ridiculous in that outfit Ben:"this is outrageous"

[@MirrorOfEmotions]

It's unfair!!!!

[@KadinMomand]

RPer for life! I've always found that the world of RP is much more enjoyable than what is set in stone. And, during my first playthrough of a storyline, I always read the quest text.

[@schattentaenzerin]

The way he was prancing into the clearing in the beginning 🤣 I need a video of Ben just frolicking in the sunlight, as a happy half-elf!

[@sweetdreaming7104]

Yes please 😊, the world needs this

[@439sparky1]

Britt almost lost it when Ben started crying after discount-baradoon left. You can see her smirking :D

[@SaltStorm007]

Bens costume is HILARIOUS AF...OMG I’M ☠️💯😂

[@TwojaStaraIFrytki]

kickstarter money well spent

[@marble228]

Ah, yes makes sense he’s SKULL 100 CRYING

[@tarekmoneimsaid]

@@marble228 100 skulls crying... Sounds like he's in hell! How can someone dislike a video so much?

[@KyrianLDT]

When you're both, it stuns other players to see you change from a passionate RPer, to a resource hungry ghost in one second. 😂

[@gwouru]

That, is just called a bad rper.

[@KyrianLDT]

@@gwouru I don't deny that but sometimes the drops are just too good.

[@fjoltnyr2464]

"QUICKLY, we must escape before it's too late- oh, shiny loot. Nice!"

[@wesleyang9718]

You see, the magic is in stayin in character while you strip your surrounding of life and material

[@blacklight1104]

@@KyrianLDT When the loot is too good that you break immersion. That or when the loot that I got was so unlikely from the guy you killed that it makes you curse from the absurdity.

[@dragontear1638]

I was expecting Ben's character to be terribly competent, after all he looked like he knew what he was doing. Turns out he was terribly incompetent, and merely gave the illusion of looking like he knew what he was doing. I can relate.

[@mastervision5902]

Yep, that's me. I can put together a mean transmog ensemble, play the part well...and still get slaughtered in battle quickly. 😅

[@strehlow]

Imposter Syndrome is the best syndrome.

[@mikesemus9773]

@@mastervision5902 lol yup, but at least you look great laying face down in the dirt

[@hypermaeonyx4969]

Sameeee

[@dragontear1638]

@@strehlow And the most persistent one.

[@willmtheman]

Britt and Ben definitely need a series working together now. I can see this being on of the best in this series!!!! Please make more with them together. 😎👍🏼❤️🔥

[@flynnmorrow6945]

Love Ben. And I love that you're trying out different things with each actor. He did this so well.

[@whitewalker9862]

Starting a RPG: Going full Ben, enjoying the enviroment, listening characters, learning the lore with interest. After spending many hours in a RPG: Turning into Britt, not giving a shit to anything other than completing the quests and the main story.

[@JamesDeal1982]

Exactly dude. I'm the same. I'm gonna role play the SHIT outta this game! I love the idea and story of it! Then I get into the game, do that for about a day and by day two, I'm just skipping dialogue and running quest to quest. I think this is a problem with gaming as a whole and one developers need to work on. In fact, I'm in Game Design School at Full Sail and I'm going to make this a priority with my work over the next 2 and a half years.

[@whitewalker9862]

@@JamesDeal1982 It's probably because open world games are just getting bigger and bigger, after a while you eventually start to lost interest doing the same thing over and over again. The story, characters, world design and gameplay should be very engrossing to keep player's attention level high even after spending many hours. Unfortunately not much games are able to do that. Probably that's why games like The Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2 beloved by so many and considered modern gaming milestones.

[@joshuamurphey1806]

Like it or hate it, its been my experience that while the grinders get things done first, it's the role players that get the most enjoyment, and longevity out of games.

[@RSProduxx]

When you´re occasionally roleplaying and know both sides too well... This is fantastic :)

[@mateuszbanaszak4671]

As a moderate Roleplayer it hurts me when I see someone skiping dialogues, but as a damn Player it also hurts me seeing him dying from such low-level threat like bandits.

[@rcslyman8929]

He body-pulled the entire pack! I don't care how low level the encounter is, shit like that's gonna have you corpse running.

[@viperukyt5698]

I honestly just wanted to watch him destroy them all and her be there like "wtf?"

[@ultimate-venom-games]

I HATE it when people skip dialog. Especially in games like ESO where they clearly went to great lengths and spent some money make each and every character fully voiced. My wife will read it faster than the npc talks and skip it when she finishes, while I let the npc say their lines. I have played so many games that aren't voiced at all so I appreciate ones that are.

[@vonfaustien3957]

I rember TOR had it so everyone in the Flashpoints and operations (dungeons and raids) had to skip otherwise the people who did just stared at a loading screen untill the people who didn't finished watching. It was always funny when a new player was watching and half the party was whining in chat because they had to wait 20 seconds

[@redmane6468]

@@ultimate-venom-games I always skip after the first playthrough. I can also read really fast so I often skip on the first play through.

[@Chineselegolas]

Darn it, I wanted the role-player to be surprisingly competent

[@Vevvev8]

Same lol I know in Elder Scrolls Online finding roleplayers that are actually good at the game is difficult. But when you do they're the most passionate about the game and can be a bit terrifying with how strong they can get.

[@Arc_Viper]

That role player looked like he was really having so much fun right up until the point where he was getting shanked from all sides

[@ozarkbanjerman5329]

As a role-player, I demand a video from a reverse perspective where the grinder finds themselves in a position where they desperately need the role-players lore knowledge.

[@bulbifabs7397]

Giga grinder here, never happened xd

[@cenaloh4714]

Nope

[@jamesb120]

if you're not over leveled by at least double the recommendation for the boss, go grind some more. or find the level cap, at least.

[@sirhana]

PFFFFFFF

[@mihacimpric745]

@@jamesb120 It's either that, or "the recommended level is just that, a recommendation, right?". A curbstomp or a come to Jesus moment.

[@lucasblanchard47]

Pretty hilarious to see Ben role playing instead of grinding and skipping all dialogue as usual haha! Great content as always, much love from Texas!

[@ZrodyApo]

The pressure she feels for joining and accepting an unwanted group request, been there so many times 😆

[@catz4m8z]

ah, that instant moment of regret when you click on 'accept'.....

[@leafylilli]

Then you accept and after a few minutes panic and leave the game

[@VivaLaDirtLeague]

Lol yup I think we all know that 😂

[@chris_dowsett]

Love to see more of these two characters together.

[@lightforgedcrusader2992]

1:31 Britt holding the laugh 😂

[@7031iVi1307]

Tremendous acting from Ben! I’d love to see more of this player-Style!

[@AdamShepherd1]

Out of all the cast who could have played a super-ponce, I would not have expected Ben to pull it off. Well done that man!

[@xxbomba9780]

To me roleplayers are people who want to enjoy a game to the fullest extent possible

[@LadyDoomsinger]

And who actually want to play the game - not just watch numbers on a sheet of paper go up.

[@Commietaku]

Heck I even role play literal idle games where you're meant to sit and watch the numbers go up. I always get into the lore if it exists.

[@scaryhyena1]

Tears of passion for how Fireheart here stole the show XD Finally someone who appreciates the dialogue of the npc in games! Just you wait, that role player is going to end up finding the most rare item to ever exist in the realm of Honeywood thanks to their top tier acting.

[@nfadel1]

Ben is so outrageous in this. I love it. Hope to see more flamboyant Ben. It suits him well

[@Pizzagulper]

Not going to lie, if I ran into a guy who was roleplaying this hard, and wanted to party with me, I wouldn't care how bad he was at the game, I would drop everything I was doing to see where this goes. Not going to lie, Be's acting here was awesome. I was kind of rooting from him the whole time.

[@Taliesyn42]

Back when I played EverQuest, I ran into a guy who was not only a committed roleplayer, but also entertaining rather than annoying. None of the out-of-place excessive drama, but at the same time, NEVER broke character. Even down to things like calling the Cannibalize spell 'wincin' because of the spell text. Lost touch eventually, though. Every now and then I still wonder what good old Buzzlegrugg is up to.

[@damionkeeling3103]

Rooting from him sounds different to what I think you meant gulper.

[@macmcleod1188]

@@Taliesyn42 We'll never see the like of EQ again. 72 person raids. Losing *everything* when you died. Bad Fear breaks. The drama over nerfs (I took part in the big Monk Nerf Protest when feign death became "train everyone to death when you stand up."). The Uber guilds poaching your best members. The fallen Ubers who couldn't do it any more but wanted to play "casual"... and a few weeks later going insane playing "only" 15 hours a week. The fan fests. Went to two in Vegas and one in Dallas. I think if EQ was *20%* easier, it would have been as big as WoW. But McQuaid had... "The vision" and it was hard core.

[@chernicharo85]

I’m so confused… Ben usually is the impatient “all-I-want-is-to-finish-the-game” player, which is the role Britt is playing. On the other hand, he is also perfect in this “majestic” emotional role as well… Must have been a very hard casting choice I reckon. Also, kudos for Hamish wearing eyeliner XD

[@Evija3000]

He's usually the most ridiculous person in a sketch and here that was the role player.

[@Adam_okaay]

@@Evija3000 "Ahem" Rowan Bettjeman had entered the chat.

[@Evija3000]

@@Adam_okaay Well, of course except for Rowan, especially the skits where it's the two of them, like the robbers or fighting over game mechanics. I did use "usually".

[@MonasteryOfSilence]

I love that britt is back and i love ben's acting in this one, he is fabulous.

[@snowy5628]

When you're in between the two of them it's hilarious seeing both of them 🤣 Great work guys!

[@jonasspiro6476]

That was one of the best characters Ben has played yet. It reminds me of playing with one of my buddies. I tend to skip the dialog and my buddy gets upset. He's the type of person who finds every story entertaining.

[@peterpeladon]

If you ever get sucked in to a few great stories in games, you'll likely be more inclined to give stories a chance in the future. Some games don't care about stories, but the ones that tell them well are often beautiful. No judgment, though; enough games are just about the action that it's easy to see how some people only play for that aspect of them.

[@simonw3858]

I like stories but not in MMO's. They just don't put the effort into quest storylines to make them appealing or interesting it all. Rpg's however do a much better job.

[@mrosskne]

@@peterpeladon No video game has ever had a story worth reading.

[@peterpeladon]

@@mrosskne In no particular order, some games with good stories: Outer Wilds, Omori, Hades, Danganronpa, Papers Please, Celeste, Bugsnax, God of War, Portal 1 & 2, Half Life 2, Psychonauts 1 & 2, Sekiro, Most Zelda Games, Most Pheonix Wright Games, Bioshock, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Chrono Trigger, The Stanley Parable, Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Mother 3, Going Under. To name the first 20 or so that come to mind. I recommend all of the above depending on your likes/dislikes. A good number of these are also voice acted if you have trouble with reading for whatever reason. If you don't want anything to do with stories, you do you of course, but saying no games have good stories just says you haven't played the right games for them. Hades, the Portal games, and Sekiro in particular all have great stories that go on kind of in the background while you advance through the game.

[@mrosskne]

@@peterpeladon yikes. please read literally any book.

[@aliy235]

The costumes are great! And also seeing Hamish in that dark outfit with eyeliners on his eyes was very cool :D

[@hiddendesire3076]

Reminds me of some of the antics I used to get up to on Fallout 76. The day of the release, my entire server was full of guys who remade Gary from Vault 108. They used soundboards and followed others. Some time later, I used to come across BoS player patrols, but they were a bit too much like the FO4 types and hounded you if you had power armor. More recently I had a group of players come across the hidden entrance to my cottage’s cellar. Had used the butcher items to make it look like a cannibal had been busy down there. Lead to a long confrontation about them wanting to purge Appalachia of cannibals, that only got longer after I fled into the abandoned mineshaft and forbidden digsite shelters I had. Never had a gunfight in there prior to that day, but i’ll admit, it was fun. Ended after one of them got fancy with his nuke mines and explosive perks. He did stick around to help repair afterwards.

[@growthisfreedomunitedearth7584]

Ben is very good in this kind of role. this was gold. Britt keeping a straight face is profesh, too.

[@Matt_Romans116_Morris]

I get it! When Bob dies in the D&D campaign this guy will be Ben's replacement character 😂🤣

[@Vermouth_19]

I don't think he can last a day with Bodger on the team lol

[@LucaGrossiMusic]

"when" is so much more accurate than "if"😂

[@PoochMG]

omg that would be so funny

[@Veelasiren]

FireHeart carries around a piece of his dead mothers' ear and asks people if they want to touch it. He'd fit right in with Baradun and the dickheads.

[@kuglefang]

One is definitely having more fun than the other

[@ChRW123]

One is playing the other is doing work to keep up with no-RL 24/7 players

[@chabri2000]

if you are having fun, then you are probably playing it wrong

[@connordickerson6815]

For me the best is a mix of both, sometimes I want to get immersed and other times just put on a youtube vid and mindlessly gather

[@sauliumedia]

depends for what reason you play

[@guldi3]

Ben is amazing in this one. It's weird people like the one he's playing here that make me love mmorpgs.

[@lenwae3053]

Mark from accounting must be one of the third type of players: The PvPer. They who look down on other players the most and yet have the least fun.

[@gregtalley1601]

The only thing worse than role players....Mark from accounting.

[@stephenlitten1789]

@@gregtalley1601 Of course, he's an accountant, so... charisma bypass and numbers, numbers, numbers!

[@lenwae3053]

@@gregtalley1601 I am a roleplayer and honestly, I found Ben's interpretation hilarious. It's less what roleplayers are actually like and more how other people percieve them. I dont know anybody who actually plays in-character all the time like that

[@sclarke6969]

least fun? You mean enjoy the challenge of playing against something which (potentially) can think/react and not be easily exploited like the AI?

[@EntertheFray1]

You've never played PvP'd at a high level if you think it isn't fun. Me and My old guild in WoW were 2.2k+ arena players in TBC. Got gladiator rank a few times. The intensity of high level matches can be stressful, yet immensely rewarding. But for straight up no stress fun, in TBC, we'd do things like go outside a dungeon entrance. About 5-10 of us. There was one particular entrance where people had no choice but to run past, as flying mounts was disabled in that area. So we'd camp there every day at peak times between around 5pm-10pm. We even had a smoke screen maintained at all times a little outside the dungeon entrance on the pathway. Using engineering flares, so that anybody riding past would have their entire screen filled with smoke. I could say that it was to ambush, but that would be a lie. Since we were using the old Ogre Suits you get from dire maul, so we towered above the flares lol. The hilarity of killing players going to their dungeon and being attacked by 5-10 giant ogres and killed with the screen filled with purple smoke flares was just too much fun. Even on their end, I imagine it must have been "wtf just happened/wtf is going on" type of moment. Anyway, every night we did this, so we killed many, many, many people going on the way to the dungeon. Several times sometimes, and we basically interfered with daily quests, since the dungeon was close to the daily quests where was an alleway that people could only get to via there. We did this for about a week or two before dozens of posts on the official server forums started to whine non stop about us. We just trolled them for fun. In the end, it resulted in a 20-40 man alliance raid at doing the same thing we did to us and taking control of that dungeon entrance. Eventually they got bored and stopped, but it was all fun while it happened. Some PvPers are truly arrogant. But you have that with elite PvE'rs as well. Others aren't, they just bait players in order to get a rise so they can kill them. Others do it as a tough love type approach to self improvement of playing the game. Like clicking for example. I look back on the hilarity of that more than I ever did any PvE content that I did. Don't get me wrong, there was some amazing fights and content as well. Nowadays as I'm older, I prefer doing PvE content in MMOs in modern games, as the fights are far more complex compared to back then. But there was a time when that PvPing was fun.

[@majormoron605]

"I still have the taxydermied ear of my mother" Is Bob bleeding into Ben's other characters or does he just always get the most disturbing ones to play?

[@ancapftw9113]

Exploding people and carrying their body parts are part of elf culture. He's a half elf, so it makes sense to follow his mother's culture to honor her.

[@Molandria]

It's funny how their roles are basically reversed. She's even the one saying "Skip" lol This was a pretty good episode! :D

[@HariSeldon913]

I expected her to start saying, "Skip!" when Ben started telling his story.

[@faolan2174]

@@HariSeldon913 that would've been funny xD

[@rhysbaker7456]

You can tell there was a random taxidermic ear item in the game, and the roleplayer saw it and thought "well somebody's gotta find a use for this..."

[@viktorreaper9748]

Oh God. It's like watching the two sides of my RPG gaming personality have a conversation about who gets top billing during my 6 hour playthrough. Well done friends. Cheers.

[@MinnesotaCouchpotato]

I love this skit. Especially since I am very much a role player and seek to find every bit of lore in a game, yet most of my friends fall squarely into the "grinder" category and will skip any dialogue, cut scene, or just plain speed run levels instead of looking around.

[@LadyDoomsinger]

Only thing unrealistic about the skit is that "FireHeart" actually expected "Gronkboy" to care. Every seasoned RP'er knows the chance of meeting another role player in an MMO is 1 in a million. I stopped trying to reach out to other people in character long ago, even on so-called "RP servers".

[@cenciende9401]

What the hell is the point of playing!? If they just want to see some numbers they can go look at a spreadsheet...

[@twillij29]

I love lore but you don't have to be on the same level as Ben... There's certainly a middle ground where you care enough about the lore but don't have to be obnoxious to party up with for grinding.

[@kazfirepsn614]

In all fairness though, I don't think I've ever had any real enjoyment out of RPGs due to my obsession with grinding, and reaching the "end game" just for the numbers. Role players seem to find a way to make even the most boring fetch quest seem like an adventure, and tend to have a great grasp on the lore of the world, where as I couldn't even name an NPC beyond "the blacksmith in town#3"

[@MK_ULTRA420]

Ed Smith Ted Smith Ned Smith Fred Smith Personally I think it's funnier if they're all unrelated.

[@swaglevi4315]

@@MK_ULTRA420 don't forget dudelia mann Such a well rounded NPC

[@SunnySzetoSz2000]

maybe try genshin, it don't give you a skip button, it force you to read the story, when you start to read it, you sink into it.

[@artix003]

@@SunnySzetoSz2000 mute it auto then alt tab stopped playing it when i started doing that for events its just too long. Used to alt tab while listening to voice over when it was the main story and not side quest/event and most do not have voice over.

[@nautilus9406]

0:57 Omg I love how he did a full 360 got me rolling. Hopefully he respawn at the nearest city so we can get a part 2, I love this dichotomy!!!!

[@sunshine8338]

Ngl, Ben and Brit's synergy is so good.

[@deepzerocool]

1:30 she couldn’t hold her laugh 🤣

[@GrimNightengale]

Amusing, lovely and over the top. I used to hang with a bunch of RPers that also could fight and PvP. The day some dude showed up on our server and said we should go to a REAL pvp server, he was killed by 3 of us and just left silently....it was gold, some RPers do want to kick ass AND look great.

[@diegovicente8756]

Okay okay, now I reaaaly want to see those two making even more acting scenes together. Is just so perfect. More of then please. And if in my opinion VLDL doesn't not have any history for a long production (like baelin route)... Here. This video. Is perfect for this.

[@rowansheppard4062]

Ben had way too much fun in this skit and I love him for it.

[@baker570]

Ben's costume really suits his behavior.

[@BiglerSakura]

"Tis behaviour in this particulair case.

[@FaultAndDakranon]

Phantasmo staff?! Rowan's Iso Games character is back in the Canon? Viiivaaaaa~ Ben is definitely playing his half-cousin.

[@Andrew-rr6wu]

Honestly people like Ben's character are a breath of fresh air sometimes. I love encountering someone online who wants to roleplay or just HAVE FUN. It's better than the people who kill every living person they come across, for absolutely no reason. (Looking at you GTA and RDR Online)

[@electrichumbug]

These characters need to be recurring! I need to know how the rest of their quest goes!

[@stevzky]

I was expecting a “prepare to die!” after the “you killed my family” line

[@caspearious-ghost]

I was expecting the same thing... Expectations subverted. D:

[@jacobrev6567]

i love ben because he is so dramatic this sketch

[@TheAeris07]

If they ever make a movie based on the Zelda games they need these people.

[@R2debo_]

Whoever designs their costumes are just on point

[@Niichiro]

Do they come in men sizes?

[@TheFiddleFaddle]

@@Niichiro Why? Do you know any men?

[@marrionmoogaming]

Their production quality surpassed Netflix crap movies.

[@FaultAndDakranon]

They have two costumers on staff.

[@LHyoutube]

@Debo_Gaming, did you literally just copy-and-paste the exact comment from Will B further below which was made six minutes before yours was?! 😂