StarCraft is rarely under-appreciated. Maybe in spoiled European countries, but if any1 knows jack about ESPORTS they know that SC should be worshipped.

I would think writing about SC being underappreciated in S. Korea (!) would be a huge failure that comes crashing down. But I don't live there - so I can't know.

Failsafe

United States1298 Posts

September 09 2009 21:51 GMT

#22

it's inconceivable to me that a person from (South) Korea can't write a 5 page paper defending starcraft

Kaniol

Poland5551 Posts

September 09 2009 22:04 GMT

#23

StarCraft isn't under-appreciated. It may only be hated by hardcore fans of other RTS with multiplayer options (it's hard to say "other popular competetive RTS" since other RTS games aren't that popular in competetive sense except for WarCraft3). I've been playing Supreme Commander for quite a some time - it really is fun game, though in multi it's "mass one unit type while slowly making your eco stronger" type of game and it gets boring pretty fast, and all i can say is that people there really hate SC and use arguments like "fools play it because its big name, but you cant zoom map out and have no automated production, and it is about clicking faster instead of thinking" (it really is funny if you ever played this game - since it's all about spamming, clicking everywhere and flooding enemy with units, literally no place for any varied strategies, plus you have like 1 and only BO for all races which is the best and noone tries to play anything other way)

Elegance

Canada917 Posts

September 09 2009 22:22 GMT

#24

Thanks guys! I hope it works out well

Zoler

Sweden6339 Posts

September 09 2009 22:37 GMT

#25

Starcraft is loved by everyone as a classic, tho it's not popular anymore.

Bebop Berserker

United States246 Posts

September 09 2009 23:15 GMT

#26

I think starcraft is under appreciated but only by newer gamers. They don't understand that Gears of War 2 and L4D aren't competitive games. I have no idea how games like that are thought of as competitive. If you take a game like starcraft, you'll see that there are so many different options, and just playing "standard" takes 100%+ more skill than any other game I have ever come across.

3 Lions

United States3705 Posts

September 09 2009 23:17 GMT

#27

Many RTS gamers I know don't like starcraft because they think "zergling rush" is overpowered...

edit: There are a lot of stereotypes of Starcraft in the gaming world, before many of my gaming friends met me they thought Starcraft was all about 4pooling and was an Asian game and that all the progamers were 40 year old virgins or something.

micronesia

United States24554 Posts

September 10 2009 00:22 GMT

#28

Starcraft is mainly underappreciated by complete noobs who know almost nothing about it... but this barely constitutes a good topic for writing. I'm glad you feel passionately about this but I agree you are better off choosing something else. This can't be the only thing you can use for your class.

LuckyFool

United States9015 Posts

September 10 2009 03:11 GMT

#29

I would never ever write about starcraft in an academic environment. The amount of legit english sources are low, the pre-knowledge level of a professor and peers who may read the work is literally 0% most likely they have never even HEARD about the topic which makes it very uninteresting in my opinion.

Just my thoughts though, I see people post blogs all the time about how they want to write about starcraft or progaming etc and I rarely see and hear good results. It's just too much work. Sure you know alot about the subject personally but it's a dead end sort of path to write/do academic research on.

D10

Brazil3409 Posts

September 10 2009 03:21 GMT

#30

Id white about why heavy metal is under appreaciated.

pinenamu

United States770 Posts

September 10 2009 03:28 GMT

#31

On September 10 2009 04:48 Chill wrote:
Write about something else.

starcraft essays are possible lolol. in doc3, which is a ge class in UCSD's marshall college, i wrote about how starcraft can relate to conformity and how some players play without conforming to the current norm and make new norms blah blah haha

QuanticHawk

United States32027 Posts

September 10 2009 13:22 GMT

#32

On September 10 2009 12:28 JinSol wrote:

Show nested quote +

It was a GE class. You probably had a shitty adjunct who felt bad and gave you a passing grade.

EsX_Raptor

United States2801 Posts

September 10 2009 14:05 GMT

#33

On September 10 2009 04:45 Aesop wrote:
Maybe talk about how e-sports players are real athletes, contrary to common cliches like nerdy cellar-childs.

QFT

Seriously, this will give you at least 6 pages of pure argument. If I was you, I'd definitively go for it.

Jonoman92

United States9101 Posts

September 10 2009 17:01 GMT

#34

Well as you said the graphics, and also the fact that it is a 10 year old, supposedly out-dated game. Also, RTS imo, has never really been a "cool" genre in the way FPS is and it is seen as a nerdier game.

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