Back in twelfth grade, there would have been no question as the the format of an english class. We would read classic literature, discuss the plots, and occasionally write a paper. If a teacher deviated from that course then they would in small cases receive a terse email from the administration or in extreme cases get fired.
But, only two terms into College, and I'm being assigned to play World of Warcraft. By a grad student none the less.
That is not to say that this is going to be an easy class. These blog entries are being graded believe it or not. And there will be a large paper do at the end where I will have to rhetorically asses the game, the blogging world and you, the world of warcraft community.
But that doesn't change the fact that I am playing a video game for four credits.
My blogs are going to be looking at the game itself by and large. I'm a born RTS/Platformer person (I realize that those are essentially the opposite of one another), so MMO's are going to be a new experience.
When I judge the game there will be one main question on my mind: is it better than Runescape? My only stint with an MMO, Runescape falls in the same category as Tim Burton and Green Day in that I enjoyed it until I turned 12. So. Is WoW going to be a new step in multiplayer games, or simply Runescape with updated graphics? You probably already know, but I'll see.
No comments:
Post a Comment