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Elegance
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada917 Posts
September 09 2009 19:37 GMT
#1
So i have an English assignment/essay that i have to do. And the task is simple, i have to write an essay about defending something that is under-appreciated. So my obvious choice was Starcraft, i can probably write a 5 page essay on how good starcraft is but, the problem is, why is it under-appreciated other than Graphics? Need help with some points thanks!

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Power of Ze
Caller
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Poland8075 Posts
September 09 2009 19:39 GMT
#2
why are you doing this
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Elegance
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada917 Posts
September 09 2009 19:41 GMT
#3
On September 10 2009 04:39 Caller wrote:
why are you doing this

Class assignment :/ plus the teacher said that i have to write about something that i can represent well emotionally.
Power of Ze
levelzx
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Poland174 Posts
September 09 2009 19:41 GMT
#4
Be more specific: write why Queens are underappreciated in SC. Or Valkyries
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Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
September 09 2009 19:42 GMT
#5
In that case, I think you'd be better off writing about yourself.
Elegance
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada917 Posts
September 09 2009 19:43 GMT
#6
talking about why the game itself is under-appreciated by the mass lol sorry for the confusion
Power of Ze
Snet *
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States3573 Posts
September 09 2009 19:43 GMT
#7
Oh lord, I see a repeat of that one thread were the kid couldn't do a project because there were no credible sources for Starcraft. However, seeing how you are in Korea, a project on SC might not seem so out of the ordinary and to put it bluntly, stupid. If you were in the US however, that would probably be an epic fail topic.
MutaDoom
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1163 Posts
September 09 2009 19:44 GMT
#8
It's underappreciated because a good portion of the online gaming community is distracted by WoW.
EscPlan9
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2777 Posts
September 09 2009 19:44 GMT
#9
The learning curve is extremely high for the game. Nearly every unit requires a lot of management. It takes a while to get the mechanics down and the multi-tasking required is extremely high as well.
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levelzx
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Poland174 Posts
September 09 2009 19:44 GMT
#10
But seriously: you may use argument that many people think SC is simply a 'click-fest', and they think agility/velocity is more important than strategical insight... Which is not true.
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Elegance
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada917 Posts
September 09 2009 19:45 GMT
#11
On September 10 2009 04:43 Snet wrote:
Oh lord, I see a repeat of that one thread were the kid couldn't do a project because there were no credible sources for Starcraft. However, seeing how you are in Korea, a project on SC might not seem so out of the ordinary and to put it bluntly, stupid. If you were in the US however, that would probably be an epic fail topic.

Oh im in Canada lol, however, i did ask the teacher if a specific game was a valid topic, and he did say that i can write about anything, as long as i could write it like i really care.
Power of Ze
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
September 09 2009 19:45 GMT
#12
On a serious note, you'd be better off writing about your parents...
Aesop
Profile Joined October 2007
Hungary11291 Posts
September 09 2009 19:45 GMT
#13
Maybe talk about how e-sports players are real athletes, contrary to common cliches like nerdy cellar-childs.
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selboN
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States2523 Posts
September 09 2009 19:47 GMT
#14
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.

lololololol
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Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25980 Posts
September 09 2009 19:48 GMT
#15
Write about something else.
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QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32054 Posts
September 09 2009 19:55 GMT
#16
If you're dead set on writing this, you might as well write a follow up on your social life.
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Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
September 09 2009 20:07 GMT
#17
On September 10 2009 04:48 Chill wrote (RECOMMENDED):
Write about something else.

Nada's body is South Korea's greatest weapon.
D4L[invd]
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada110 Posts
September 09 2009 20:40 GMT
#18
You can write about how the starcraft AI is terrible.
Your average D Protoss that can't get out of D because it is full of Protoss and my PvP sucks.
Kau *
Profile Joined March 2007
Canada3500 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-09 20:41:51
September 09 2009 20:40 GMT
#19
On September 10 2009 04:48 Chill wrote:
Write about something else.

Write about ESPORTS! (I passed my class writing my paper on that haha)

Edit: It wasn't an English class though.
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Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
September 09 2009 20:55 GMT
#20
I never was under the impression that Starcraft is under appreciated at all. Most of the Western gaming community highly respects the game because of the great influence it had on RTS design.

There are probably some people who don't respect it because it's old, has dated graphics, and a difficult hotkey system so I guess you can make a case that people shouldn't judge something without understanding it. You could write how these inherent weaknesses are actually what makes starcraft so great.

As long as you go into details about the competitive community, the complex gameplay, and the influence it's had on the RTS genre, you can write a strong essay. Just make sure you give context and terminology so that your teacher can understand what you are talking about.
Naib
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Hungary4843 Posts
September 09 2009 21:14 GMT
#21
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.
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Failsafe
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
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
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Kaniol
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
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
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada917 Posts
September 09 2009 22:22 GMT
#24
Thanks guys! I hope it works out well
Power of Ze
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
September 09 2009 22:37 GMT
#25
Starcraft is loved by everyone as a classic, tho it's not popular anymore.
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Bebop Berserker
Profile Joined April 2009
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.
Whatever happens, happens.
3 Lions
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3705 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-09 23:18:19
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
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24680 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.
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LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
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
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
September 10 2009 03:21 GMT
#30
Id white about why heavy metal is under appreaciated.
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pinenamu
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States770 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-10 03:28:30
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
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32054 Posts
September 10 2009 13:22 GMT
#32
On September 10 2009 12:28 JinSol wrote:
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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

It was a GE class. You probably had a shitty adjunct who felt bad and gave you a passing grade.
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EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
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
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9103 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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