Subject: Hated Team Heroes Topics
Posted by: Terry
Date: Sep 08 23
I have just added a handful of new Team Heroes topics that I believe have enough universal appeal as to work for the game.
On the other side of things, I'm curious if there are any universally reviled Team Heroes topics that (nearly) everyone wishes were removed from the game.
"Paganism" and "Universities & Colleges" are two that I have seen mentioned.
Any others that don't make great Team Heroes topics?
Posted by: Terry
Date: Sep 08 23
I have just added a handful of new Team Heroes topics that I believe have enough universal appeal as to work for the game.
On the other side of things, I'm curious if there are any universally reviled Team Heroes topics that (nearly) everyone wishes were removed from the game.
"Paganism" and "Universities & Colleges" are two that I have seen mentioned.
Any others that don't make great Team Heroes topics?
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Thesuperyoshi
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I think that there are a couple very obscure countries in Team Heroes. I am interested in obscure countries such as St. Vincent and the Grenadines, but I know basically nothing about them. Reply #1. Sep 08 23, 2:29 AM |
Gumby1967 
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Religion is too frequent. I wouldn't mind so much, if we could get some Sport in there at times. Reply #2. Sep 08 23, 2:40 AM |
rossian
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The Universities and Colleges issue is that it is labelled as World, meaning the category the quizzes are in, which misleads newer players into thinking it will be about worldwide colleges. Looking at the main page, which does have some mixed quizzes, half of the quizzes were written by the same person who makes it clear the quizzes are going to be nearly all American. I think these crop up more in Duels than in Heroes though. Another topic I don't particularly care for is the 'which college did a particular athlete go to', which means matching someone I've never heard of with a college I barely know. I am aware that collegiate sport is a big thing in America and no doubt Americans feel much the same when they see British royalty as the topic. Reply #3. Sep 08 23, 3:48 AM |
| Gumby1967
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Each of the 20 Categories should be represented in Team Heroes. Sport and Children are never there. I appreciate all of the Categories and would like to see them all presented. The weighting of such presentation is up to Management, as some Categories have much more variety, Reply #4. Sep 08 23, 4:37 AM |
LadyNym
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I don't "hate" topics per se (though there are quite a few I don't know much about) as much as the questions that more often than not crop up in some of these Heroes games. What I have noticed is that in some of the categories that people often mention as their least favourite the quality of the questions is really very poor, which compounds the frustration due to the obscurity of the topic itself. A particularly egregious case, in my view, is the Rap and Hip-Hop subcategory. Reply #5. Sep 08 23, 5:45 AM |
kaddarsgirl
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rossian, as an American I have no idea what college any professional athlete went to, and neither do I care. Most of those questions tend to be about NFL and NBA players who I don't know anyway since I do not watch either sport. But I certainly couldn't even name the colleges that athletes I care about it other sports (MLB & NHL) attended. It's just not something that matters to me. Reply #6. Sep 08 23, 6:04 AM |
spanishliz
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I cringe when I see anything related to Tolkien, but I know I'm in the minority there. I'd like to second the motion for including more Sports topics. Reply #7. Sep 08 23, 6:15 AM |
| Gumby1967
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Thanks spanishliz. I have been on the Site for over 7 Years. To my knowledge, Sports, Children and BrainTeasers have never appeared. I hope this improves. Reply #8. Sep 08 23, 6:22 AM |
| rossian
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Sports would be a good addition. When Wide World of Sports comes up in GC it's usually accessible and enjoyable. Reply #9. Sep 08 23, 6:37 AM |
| Thesuperyoshi
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There are probably a lot of Formula One fans on the site, so I would like if they added Formula One-related topics to the Expert game. Reply #10. Sep 08 23, 6:38 AM |
| kaddarsgirl
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I love Formula One! but some of the trivia I've played in that category is so obscure. If there was a way to keep all the questions except the ones similar to which driver won a random race two decades ago, I would be all for adding that to the game! Reply #11. Sep 08 23, 6:47 AM |
KayceeKool
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I would also love to see the addition of Sports to the TH roster even if it starts with the more general, mixed sub-categories. I enjoy that the variety in TH gives different people a chance to shine in a subject that they are particularly strong in. Reply #12. Sep 08 23, 6:50 AM |
Qmel
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I would love to see less of Islam, anime and cricket. Those categories are too specific and difficult for those who don’t follow those categories closely. Reply #13. Sep 08 23, 11:17 AM |
runaway_drive
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Islam isn't very specific at all really, you only need a baseline knowledge of the religion to get most of those right and the questions repeat a lot. The Christian categories are far more specific and appear too often, I don't think we need as many as we have. Reply #14. Sep 08 23, 12:09 PM |
WesleyCrusher
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Can we just do away with any questions that could be rephrased as "Who played..." in general? Actor vs role I'd not watch, Band vs title I never heard, Sportsperson vs obscure feat. No? Thought so. They're actually very legitimate trivia, so that wasn't a serious request. It's just pretty much the only kind of question I personally dislike, simply because there are so many thousands of works these days. And one can only care about a small fraction of them. Reply #15. Sep 08 23, 12:19 PM |
| LadyNym
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Based on my experience playing those Heroes games, questions about Islam or Judaism are not particularly specific - which, of course, is no help if you don't know anything at all about either religion. On the other hand, the average Hinduism Heroes game contains more questions about characters in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana than about the religion itself. This makes things even more frustrating to those who have a limited knowledge of the religion. It is as if a Christianity Heroes game (which we had a couple of days ago) was mostly about obscure characters or episodes in the Bible rather than about Christian doctrine or practices. Reply #16. Sep 08 23, 12:42 PM |
Stonecreek
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@Gumby1967: Religion is too frequent. I wouldn't mind so much, if we could get some Sport in there at times. This, exactly. The across-the-board lower scores on the religious topics should be an indicator that, at the least, the question pools for those topics need to be examined. And sports doesn't have to be a niche subject; there are many broad questions that show up in the Piece of Cake and Mixed Hourly games that even someone with only a passing familiarity with a given sport could likely answer. There are other topics, like the Literature ones, that draw too heavily from one source (Beowolf, the Chinese epics, Star Wars books). And still other topics (many in the World section, like currencies) rely on questions that were relevant decades ago and not so much now. Reply #17. Sep 08 23, 1:10 PM |
moonraker2
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I would also like to see sports topics added to the schedule, but there is an inherent problem with a number of the questions. Although sport has always been important in my life, unfortunately simply as a spectator now, questions that ask what was the match score in a certain year, whether in soccer, cricket, rugby or any of the American sports, there is little chance of knowing the answers. Reply #18. Sep 08 23, 1:42 PM |
andymuenz
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I (almost) agree with Gumby. I don't know that there are enough multiple choice questions in Brain Teasers that could be solved quickly enough to be in Team Heroes, but I think the other 19 categories should be in the rotation. For those who think that religion comes up too frequently, I believe there is a rotation so that it comes up no more or less frequently than any other main category. Ideally, rather than straight up eliminating topics, it would be nice if there were a way to cherry pick the specific questions that make sense for a mixed quiz that is going to be played across the site. Who won his 5th consecutive Formula One Championship with Ferrari in 2004? is a perfectly reasonable question in the Formula One category (Michael Schumacher). Who won the 2003 Belgian Grand Prix? is probably a bit too obscure (especially since the answer is No One as it was cancelled due to Belgium's tobacco advertising laws with several tobacco companies sponsoring cars in F1). It seems like the ideal would be to find a happy medium between these two levels of obscurity in the question pool. Reply #19. Sep 08 23, 2:50 PM |
Cymruambyth
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I don't 'hate' any of the team heroes quiz topics, but I must admit to cringing when technology or anything to do with mathematics or science is the topic of the day (I flunked pretty much every math and science course I ever took, or just scraped through with a passing mark to go to the next level!). I'm peeved when the topic is a sport I know nothing about (or players in that sport), or when the topic - whatever it is - is ethnocentric (it may come as a surprise to some but the centre of the universe is nowhere to be found on planet Earth), unless it is specifically about Australia or Europe and so on. I cheer when it's history, geography, literature, religion, or world, though. Reply #20. Sep 08 23, 3:54 PM |
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