Quote (garbo @ May 20 2011 10:48pm)

humm, is this university or highschool anthro?

Quote (mjm69 @ May 21 2011 02:50am)

university

Quote (garbo @ May 20 2011 10:55pm)

humm, so you want to write on HON directy?

Quote (mjm69 @ May 21 2011 02:57am)

Well HoN is where I'm going to base my perspective in the essay, but contrasting it with other game genres (MMO's, FPS, etc) also work, so input on the culture surrounding HoN or other games is useful.

Quote (garbo @ May 20 2011 11:04pm)

humm, ok I'm kinda drunk so I'll give you the best I can for ideas for topics/paragraphs

can start with general intro to gaming.
                -differential gaming

- then explain differences between MMO, RTS, FPS
        -classify HoN as RTS?


- then possibly HoN as a competiive game in comparison to others

- hon as "casual" game in compared to others

i dont want to down you but games are REALLY hard to write an essay about, i can tell this because multiple people have asked help for writing topics about this sort of thing, i hope this helps you.
I am fucking hammered.

Quote (mjm69 @ May 21 2011 02:45am)

Good input, I actually had a similar idea about the anonymity factor and the breeding of trolls and griefers. Are trolls and griefers considered the same thing? I always thought trolls were the people (winning or losing) who explicitly try to get an emotional response out of people... Like those people who are winning and repeatedly flame the other team for sucking would be considered trolls, while people who just try to throw games would be griefers. This is my take anyway.

As for the lack of females, wouldn't it just be because they have less of an interest in competitive games like HoN? The female population goes up quite a bit in MMORPGs since they are less competitive.




LOL the addiction part is very true, didn't think about this... but will probably write about it now. I don't really get the part where you say the learning curve shifts once a public score is involved though, what do you mean?




Yea the ego thing is a big factor, will definitely write about that.

Thanks for the input everyone, sent each of you some fg for your ideas. Still open to new ideas if anyone has some.

Quote (mjm69 @ May 21 2011 07:17am)

Well the thing is I wasn't going to base my essay really around HoN, just from the perspective of a HoN player (I probably didn't explain that too well in my original post)... So like I would talk about gaming culture in general and relate it back to my experience in playing HoN. I was going to discuss aspects that pertain to all gaming, rather than just 1 game.

I don't think this paper will be too hard to write, I already got some good ideas from this thread. Plus the papers aren't even graded, we just gotta write em, discuss em, and we get an A.

Thanks for the input though and everyone else, I probably got enough now.