Im taking a Journalism program at my university and One of my classes require us to study Technology and its impact on the media and Society. To make a long story Short we were ask to choose a form of media and analyze the effects and impact it has had on that medium.....In short I did a Paper on MGS4 and The Standard and Impact it has had on Gaming as a whole :D Has anyone else ever had to do an assignment that required them to analyze a video game?

i try every year in college but you would be surprised how many professors refute videogames as a viable form of media..

Actually the funny thing is was that I was afraid of that happening and I asked my prof if I could use video games He said that after Halo and GTA's Hot Coffee the impact and noterity of these games turned Video games into a Viable form of Media and technology.

My favorite was an assignment where I was supposed to complain about my job. It was supposed to be 1- 2 pages.... I more than tripled that.

POST THE PAPER!!!!!

As awesome as a game like MGS4 is, I doubt many (if any) games will copy the unique aspects of that game.

I feel the same way about SMG though, so I'm not saying anything bad about MGS4, I'm just saying I don't know what about it impacted gaming (aside from in game advertising and product placement)

Mine or his?

Post your assignment so we could "paraphrase" for our papers.

I hardly see the influence MSG4 can have on anything....

you should have taken Wii sports or Wii Fit.... that had and still has a lot of influance on the gaming population and the type of games that are proposed right now... hell even the casualisation of HD games is due to this.

In terms of Production values and the way Story can be conveyed to its audience as well as completely obliterating the 4th wall. All these things were either orginated or perfected by the MGS series