Read the writer's original draft of this sentence from
paragraph 1 of "Welcome to 'Rise of the Knights." Before
the game came out, the writer replaced the word great
with epic. How does the connotation of the word epic affect the tone of the paragraph?

In this sentence, "epic" means the same thing as "great". The main difference is in the fact that this word would attract the audience more easily than the word "great". With this word, the writer tends to be more authentical and leave a bigger impression on the audience, by representing an exceptional game, characterized by its heroic actions and adventures.

This word makes the paragraph more interesting and appealing to the audience.

In other words of what the other person said, its impressive.

Explanation:

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human