In a world in which almost all of the regular status indicators, clothes appearance accent ect., no longer play a role the online community uses another set of criteria for measuring others. This system is based primarily around intelligence grammar and spelling as well as general writing style all can and are used to measure [...]
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29
Nov
The Tier of Respect for lvl 99s in Runescape
Posted by unnoticable Published in A Day in the Life, How-To, Lore, Narrative, Overheard, Participant-ObservationWhen I see a skill scape around Runescape, I give a certain amount of respect to the one that got it. So I started chatting with people around me to learn their opinion towards the skill cape, and found out some skill capes get more respect then others. Here are the tier of respect I [...]
Tags: crafting, lore, MMOG, MMOs, respect, Runescape, virtual worlds
18
Nov
Staying longer in the server, chatting and reading the chats, makes me understand and learn alot more about Minecraft Knowing that beside mechanism, there are runecrafts. Runecraft is a gameplay modification for the Survival Multi Player (SMP) that adds magic to the game in the forms of “runes” User can add functionality and other things [...]
15
Nov
Hunt BIG – Monster Hunter Frontier
Posted by Asian Power Published in A Day in the Life, Avatar, Links, Lore, Machinima, PetsMonster Hunter Frontier is an online MMORPG on the PC with a great amount of new weapons, quests, armor, and monsters. The purpose of the game is to gang up (MAX 4 Players in one gang) and fight against giant monsters, kill them, peel their skins, take their parts and craft own armors and weapons. Monster in [...]
Tags: co-operative, loot, lore, MMOs, Monster Hunter Frontier, play, quests, RPG, structure
15
Nov
Red Shirt Guy
Posted by Black104 Published in A Day in the Life, Links, Lore, Overheard, StereotypesRecently on YouTube I came across a video which caught my attention in relation to this class. From the thumb nail I assumed that it would be another embarrassing nerd video such as “Star Wars Kid” but it turned out differently. The video takes place at Blizzcon 2010 during the Quests and Lore Question & [...]
Tags: Blizzcon, lore, ludology, Red Shirt Guy, RPG, Stereotypes, stories, structure, World of Warcraft
27
Sep
The opposition between these two can be compared to some other traditional oppositions, like the opposition between the ‘real’ rules of the game and what we used to call ‘chrome’ elements (stuff which adds ‘feel’ but doesn’t change how the game ‘works’), or the opposition between the ‘real’ stuff (the stuff that affords or is [...]
Tags: canon, games, lore, ludology, MMOs, narrative, quests, RPG, stories
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