In middle school and high school I played a real time strategy game called Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and later the expansion pack Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. The game provided a feature that allowed individuals to play custom made games. Around 2005, a custom game was developed called Defense of the Ancients (DotA) [...]

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12 million people can’t be wrong. This was my reasoning when I choose World of Warcraft as my game to study for this course. There were other games that were free, but I found some of them (Runescape) to be very lackluster in graphics quality. I had signed up as a Blood Elf Priest, and [...]

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Weapons: Combat in MHF is flexible, player do not need to build up hunter skills or skills tree, but player build up their equipments. Which means, player can select difference  weapons according to their preference.  And there are total 12 different weapons for selection. The weapon categories can divided into: Sword and Shield, Great Sword, Lance and Gun Lance, Hammer [...]

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Monster 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 [...]

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Recently 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 & [...]

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Egregious The Guild references aside, there should be a special hell set aside for the designers of loot tables. How many times have you run an instance, cleared out trash mobs, wiped, paid several gold in repairs, spent hours of your life, and when you get to the big boss, the guaranteed drop doesn’t happen. [...]

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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 [...]

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