Lately, there has been a lot of talk about RP games on social media like TikTok. This is due to the viral video of an 11-year-old child who was caught playing the said game. The video, which was originally uploaded on the TikTok account @bintang_3124 (which has more than 12 thousand followers), quickly became viral. Because of it, the uploader of the video, which was known to be the father of the child who was caught playing the RP game, was finally deleted. But it's absurdly viral, the video has been re-uploaded by many other TikTok accounts.

In the video, you can see a little girl who is crying because she was scolded by someone who recorded her, who is suspected of being the father of the child. She was scolded for playing RP games without her parents' permission. Due to the virality of this case, many netizens are curious about what the actual RP game means, especially since many parents are starting to wonder what kind of game actually is. Therefore, for those of you who are curious and want to know what RP games actually mean and how these games impact children, Dunia Games will discuss it this time.

What is RP Game?

In the gaming world, RP stands for Roleplay, which is one of the many game genres that gamers can play. If you've ever heard of the RPG genre, that stands for Role Playing Game. Some of your RPG games are familiar, such as Ragnarok Online, Genshin Impact, Seal Online, Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy, and other games where you have to play certain characters in your adventure against enemies and carry out missions.

However, the RP game that is viral on TikTok is intended for a type of game where players have to play a certain character or pretend to be someone else, where the players are usually referred to as roleplayers. The players will act according to the characters with the traits they form that are different from life in their real world. RP games are not limited to just playing the games that are already available, there are also many roleplayer games that are played via social media such as Twitter, Telegram, Tiktok, or Instagram. Through this social media, players will create an account to determine the character they want to play. They will act like the characters they want to play, such as making statuses, uploading photos, and interacting with other people like the characters they form. But these RP game players usually don't reveal their real identities.

Players can play the role of existing famous artist figures, for example, what roleplayers are busy playing are members of popular K-pop boy bands or girl bands. Where they try to form their original nature and character and act as the artist. Apart from social media, there are also RPs that can be played through certain online games. As previously mentioned, you usually find this RP game in games that have the RPG genre. The way to play it is quite the same because players still play certain roles but have a complex storyline.

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RP Games that Can be Played

Apart from RPG games that can be played as RP games, several online games also allow players to customize their own characters and build their self-image with the traits and characters they want. One game that is famous for its RP game is GTA V Roleplay and Roblox Roleplay.

RP Game Roblox

In Roblox, for example, it allows players to form characters, places to live, and make friends with many other players in this game. This game, which is mostly played by children, allows players to act according to the character they want on several servers or games that are in Roblox that players can play. Some examples of roleplaying games on Roblox games are Livetopia Roleplay, Seaboard City RP, Playville, Robloxaville, or Roblox High School which allows players to play the role of ordinary citizens, build houses, own vehicles, have certain jobs ranging from doctors, teachers, students, to become parents. Here, players are free to choose a server or game in the Roblox world that they want to enter and start a life in an RP game.

GTA V RP Game

The GTA V RP game itself is a game mode based on the game Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V). Actually, this game mode is not an official feature issued by Rockstar Games. However, Rockstar Games itself supports its players to be creative by providing this multiplayer game mode service through their third-party server, namely Five M. Five M is a platform that provides custom server facilities that allow anyone to create roleplay servers and run GTA V mods online.

In this game, you can create your own character and join thousands of available roleplay servers. You can even choose the job you want by following the roles you form. For example, being a policeman, doctor, mechanic, or even becoming a criminal. Every server that you enter has rules that players must obey, this is done to maintain mutual comfort in this game. Keep in mind, this is a role-playing game which, of course, from the game GTA V itself is a game that must be played by those who are 18 years and over. So, it needs wise consideration between players who play their roles in the game so they don't get carried away to the real world.

Do RP Games Have a Negative Impact?

RP games are played a lot because they are used as a medium for relaxation and a medium to meet many other players so players can interact with them albeit virtually so that players feel the pleasure of the role they play. But indeed something that is overly excessive is not good, according to Good Therapy. Roleplay games can have an impact on addiction for players. Players can feel more comfortable interacting and socializing for days only in the virtual world and start forgetting the real world.

The result of this addiction can also make players focus more on the characters they form in the virtual game and make them forget their true identity. Play RP games properly, and don't go so far as to neglect real-world responsibilities, and forget about your real-world social life. RP games don't always have a negative impact, as long as you can balance real life and life in the game.

So that's some information about the RP game which has been busy being talked about on social media lately. Hopefully, those of you who play the game can be wiser when playing roles in a game and parents who are worried about their children playing RP games can be even stricter in supervising the types of games played by children.

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