Week Ten Blog

This is my final blog post and as per the class discussion I will be giving my reactions to the class as well and what I got out of it. I think its great to look at games and the literature that goes with it in an academic setting. I learned a lot and the class let me fall in love with games all over again. There were some games that I just did not care for, but that is not what the class is about. It is about learning the different games and talking about them in an academic setting. That is just what the class did. I learned that table top RPGs are not just for geeks. I really enjoyed running call of cthulhu, and would also love the opportunity to be a player. I would have liked to see where the imagination of the keeper goes as the story progresses. I liked it so much I decided to make a table top based on it for my final project. I am almost finished with it and it is coming along quite nicely. I would have liked to have seen more of the FPS type games as they are my favorite. One of them that I used to play a lot was counterstrike. I would have loved to see some literature come out of that since that is the game I enjoy the most. Another big one is Diablo, with the new release of Diablo 3 it would have been nice to see some literature come out of the first two. I understand that there is limited amount of time in the class, however I did get a lot out of what we did cover and was very impressed by the term. I enjoy games and this class really let me get back into them, and meet new people. I do also wish the class would have met more often as once a week did not seem to do as much justice as I had hoped for. I think that the topic is one that can definitely be explored more as an academic.