EPTSC2 as a Spectator Sport - Page 2
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AppleTart
United States1261 Posts
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Alou
United States3748 Posts
 Enjoy watching it so much. | ||
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palanq
United States761 Posts
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ohN
United States1075 Posts
I would NEVER do that for sc2. BW is waaay more fun to watch but sc2 isn't [i]that[i/] bad. If Blizzard didn't nerf everything that made for cool-spectator moments it'd be a lot better. (mothership, storms, emp, neural, burrowed roaches, etc). | ||
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avilo
United States4100 Posts
but stay tuned, all Terran games soon to be mass marauder marine if blizzard goes through with their patch notes (they already have become mass bio-fest). | ||
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Takkara
United States2503 Posts
Gretorp v Silver, Socke v drewbie, TLO v NaDa and numerous other games are already just fascinating to watch. In a couple years, with some new units to match a mature metagame and progamer-level talent? Have no fear, SC2 is here to stay. As long as the community's passion doesn't falter for Cataclysm or Diablo 3 or some other RTS that may come along. | ||
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MacroNcheesE
United States508 Posts
On August 29 2010 07:32 Grobyc wrote: I prefer watching BW easily, but I don't completely hate watching SC2 or anything. I also really love playing SC2, so it's not some kind of biased thing. This could change, because I think one reason some people enjoy watching BW more is because you are often able to determine the outcome before it happens. Maybe, it's just me, but in BW if I see 12 marines and 5 medics against 12 hydras I know the Terran should win; in SC2, if it's 12 marines and 5 medivacs against 12 hydras I don't for sure(pretty sure hydras would win though). In BW, I know the timings of stuff; I know when players should be able to do damage, so if I see one player moving out I go "OMG WTF CAN TERRAN DEFEND THIS???", but in SC2 I don't know those as well either. Half the time I think one player has nice timing he ends up getting crushed easily and it's just not as epic as I think it should have been. Yeah but it's going to take time and familiarity before the OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG moments truly start to happen. We have some now but they aren't the same as in bw, I agree. However, bw has been around for ages and a lot of us have played for 10 years or so. So obviously we know the ends and outs (or is it the ins and outs... I've actually never typed this phrase before... interesting) of it and can look at a situation and have a good idea of the turn out. | ||
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FraCuS
United States1072 Posts
On August 29 2010 08:14 AdamFox wrote: Yeah but it's going to take time and familiarity before the OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG moments truly start to happen. We have some now but they aren't the same as in bw, I agree. However, bw has been around for ages and a lot of us have played for 10 years or so. So obviously we know the ends and outs (or is it the ins and outs... I've actually never typed this phrase before... interesting) of it and can look at a situation and have a good idea of the turn out. Well when the mother ship gets a buff that allows it to use planet cracker then i might enjoy it. | ||
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Loanshark
China3094 Posts
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SubtleArt
2710 Posts
On August 29 2010 08:14 AdamFox wrote: Yeah but it's going to take time and familiarity before the OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG moments truly start to happen. We have some now but they aren't the same as in bw, I agree. However, bw has been around for ages and a lot of us have played for 10 years or so. So obviously we know the ends and outs (or is it the ins and outs... I've actually never typed this phrase before... interesting) of it and can look at a situation and have a good idea of the turn out. Ins? | ||
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zenMaster
Canada761 Posts
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zer0das
United States8519 Posts
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
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supernovamaniac
United States3048 Posts
IEM was pretty good. MLG should never happen again. | ||
thedeadhaji
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QuanticHawk
United States32160 Posts
On August 29 2010 07:32 Grobyc wrote: I prefer watching BW easily, but I don't completely hate watching SC2 or anything. I also really love playing SC2, so it's not some kind of biased thing. This could change, because I think one reason some people enjoy watching BW more is because you are often able to determine the outcome before it happens. Maybe, it's just me, but in BW if I see 12 marines and 5 medics against 12 hydras I know the Terran should win; in SC2, if it's 12 marines and 5 medivacs against 12 hydras I don't for sure(pretty sure hydras would win though). In BW, I know the timings of stuff; I know when players should be able to do damage, so if I see one player moving out I go "OMG WTF CAN TERRAN DEFEND THIS???", but in SC2 I don't know those as well either. Half the time I think one player has nice timing he ends up getting crushed easily and it's just not as epic as I think it should have been. I think a lot of the disliek for sc2 as a spectator sport from old dudes is just this. With so many years playing sc, youre used to recognizing shit right away and analyzing. | ||
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thopol
Japan4560 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33711 Posts
In particular, zerglings can be really unclear, because their blood is too dark to be distinct when zerg is certain colors or playing on a certain tileset. In BW, their blood pool graphic was actually bigger than their actual unit graphic =o | ||
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
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Keldrath
United States449 Posts
thats just my view on it and overall im very happy. + Show Spoiler + On August 29 2010 08:13 Takkara wrote: It would be impossible for SC2 to already surpass BW watchability. Does anyone really expect it to be better at this point? SC2 metagame and talent is in its infancy. BW is a finely aged wine. Of course BW is better to watch, however, for it's youth, SC2 is amazing fun to watch. Gretorp v Silver, Socke v drewbie, TLO v NaDa and numerous other games are already just fascinating to watch. In a couple years, with some new units to match a mature metagame and progamer-level talent? Have no fear, SC2 is here to stay. As long as the community's passion doesn't falter for Cataclysm or Diablo 3 or some other RTS that may come along. i'm going to have to disagree. it may be more fun to watch for some hardcore gamers, but the graphics just arent good enough and its too complicated for average people to want to watch. yes i know graphics dont make a good game, but it does dictate whether its watchable as a spectator sport. | ||
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