I chose this video for my post because it shows how many nerds there are out there in the world and how into their games they really are. This is a video of the game "World of Warcraft." "World of Warcraft" is a massively multiplayer online role playing game. In games such as this you create a character and fight him through many dungeons or worlds to make him stronger. Each world or dungeon however gets progressively harder and harder to beat. In "World of Warcraft" you can enter into dungeons with friends that also enjoy playing the game and set up strategies to defeat certain stages of the game. You can talk to friends that also play the game using special headsets that are provided by the "World of Warcraft" Corporation. In this video a large group of friends are taking on an especially menacing dungeon which they have tried and failed multiple times. This time they think that they have a great plan to defeat the dungeon with relative ease. However, one of the members of their party enters the dungeon early and gets them all killed. All the other members of the party are mad at the one who ran in early, throwing away their well planned attack. The frustration show by the other members of the group show how much people care about games. These people seemingly have no life, all they do is play video games, such as "World of Warcraft" all the time. People like this are often times labeled as geeks or computer nerds. This is especially funny because I am one of those people that takes video games very seriously, although I don't play "World of Warcraft" I understand why all the others are mad at him. You just can't abandon the plan.
T.I.
1 comment:
I think that your description of this video clip is very helpful. I, myself am not one of the "nerds" that you refer to who play these video games all the time, but you still made this intersting to me. I think that the explanation of the game, along with your description of emotions that the players feel when playing helps the non-gamers understand why games like World of Warcraft are so addicting and popular. I enjoyed the animated clip as well. It showed how many players could come together to try and fulfill a purpose--to get to the next level. Your reflections about the World of Warcraft game, although you don't play it yourself, are very interesting to read. You give the players a sense of being on a team. It's like sports mixed with war. One guy abandoned the plan and they broke down and got ticked, failing to easily beat the dungeon. I think that the hyperlinks you chose to use were good. As someone like me who knows nothing about video games starts getting interested in what you have to say, they will more than likely want to know specific details about your subject, so the multiplayer online role playing game and World of Warcraft hyperlinks would be very interesting to them.
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