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On April 21 2011 13:30 imjorman wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2011 13:27 Chill wrote:On April 21 2011 13:00 imjorman wrote:On April 21 2011 12:57 Chill wrote:
I don't get how you can't explain Starcraft easily to someone... That's my delima Mr. Moderate temperature. I want her to get it, but I also don't want to flood her head with tons of data she's not gonna use and simply confuse her. This also has other practical applications. my apartment mates have no idea about starcraft and I suck at explaining that to them as well : / Just explain the basics. The basis of the game is getting resources. Players make units to kill each other. Tell them about unit control and if something cool happens, explain what the player physically did that makes that cool. I can't really help any more. I've never had any problems explaining it :O Your also a top caster 
Tell her to call me. I'll help.
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show her starjeweled. i showed a female friend (not girlfriend, though) a lot of starcraft, only because she was curious what i was paying such attention to when we were skype camming. she always knows i watch lots of starcraft, so she started to watch it too, knowing absolutely nothing.
then she saw starjeweled, and she fucking loves that game. so thats the gateway to getting her into the game proper.
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On April 21 2011 13:33 Chill wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2011 13:30 imjorman wrote:On April 21 2011 13:27 Chill wrote:On April 21 2011 13:00 imjorman wrote:On April 21 2011 12:57 Chill wrote:
I don't get how you can't explain Starcraft easily to someone... That's my delima Mr. Moderate temperature. I want her to get it, but I also don't want to flood her head with tons of data she's not gonna use and simply confuse her. This also has other practical applications. my apartment mates have no idea about starcraft and I suck at explaining that to them as well : / Just explain the basics. The basis of the game is getting resources. Players make units to kill each other. Tell them about unit control and if something cool happens, explain what the player physically did that makes that cool. I can't really help any more. I've never had any problems explaining it :O Your also a top caster Tell her to call me. I'll help.
PM your skype info lol, I'd appreciate the help :D
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On April 21 2011 13:34 annul wrote:
show her starjeweled. i showed a female friend (not girlfriend, though) a lot of starcraft, only because she was curious what i was paying such attention to when we were skype camming. she always knows i watch lots of starcraft, so she started to watch it too, knowing absolutely nothing.
then she saw starjeweled, and she fucking loves that game. so thats the gateway to getting her into the game proper.
We've played a team game of starjewled once. She did the actually bejewled part and I picked what units to send, it was fun.
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Mmmm... I had a good friend who was playing sc2, and got curious about it. I went and watched about 12 hours of husky (I know he's not a high level caster, but for someone with no idea about rts games, you can get the gist of what's happening at an intro level fro him), and learned to recognize the units of the different races, the general look of the meta game in the different matchups, and the basic macro ideas. Pretty much watching and paying attention to intro level casting (I think totalbiscut also does some intro type stuff) for a week or so should give you enough of an idea of the game to be able to watch and appreciate it with someone you can ask questions to.
And get her to play custom games with you. It's much more laid back than ladder games, and a lot of variety. I'm sure there will be some games she likes that make a good introduction to actually playing the game.
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On April 21 2011 13:40 RedJustice wrote:
Mmmm... I had a good friend who was playing sc2, and got curious about it. I went and watched about 12 hours of husky (I know he's not a high level caster, but for someone with no idea about rts games, you can get the gist of what's happening at an intro level fro him), and learned to recognize the units of the different races, the general look of the meta game in the different matchups, and the basic macro ideas. Pretty much watching and paying attention to intro level casting (I think totalbiscut also does some intro type stuff) for a week or so should give you enough of an idea of the game to be able to watch and appreciate it with someone you can ask questions to.
And get her to play custom games with you. It's much more laid back than ladder games, and a lot of variety. I'm sure there will be some games she likes that make a good introduction to actually playing the game.
good help bro! I'll defiantly check out some H to the usky Husky tonight.
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On April 21 2011 13:35 imjorman wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2011 13:33 Chill wrote:On April 21 2011 13:30 imjorman wrote:On April 21 2011 13:27 Chill wrote:On April 21 2011 13:00 imjorman wrote:On April 21 2011 12:57 Chill wrote:
I don't get how you can't explain Starcraft easily to someone... That's my delima Mr. Moderate temperature. I want her to get it, but I also don't want to flood her head with tons of data she's not gonna use and simply confuse her. This also has other practical applications. my apartment mates have no idea about starcraft and I suck at explaining that to them as well : / Just explain the basics. The basis of the game is getting resources. Players make units to kill each other. Tell them about unit control and if something cool happens, explain what the player physically did that makes that cool. I can't really help any more. I've never had any problems explaining it :O Your also a top caster Tell her to call me. I'll help. PM your skype info lol, I'd appreciate the help :D
LOL. chill & your gf 1 on 1 time do ittt!
On April 21 2011 12:53 Roe wrote:
oh and does she have any hobbies she likes that you dont? does she do anything to get your interest in them?(DONT tell me boobies I already thought of that)
and hahaha, this is hilarious.
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Sounds like Chill's about to get a +1.
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I'm going to go ahead and echo the sentiment that she is mostly doing this as something to spend time with you. Make sure you, in return, take an active interest in something she does. Healthy relationship, and all that.
Dr Phil advice aside, consider just explaining the basics of how the game works, and make sure you watch as many games cast by Tasteless and Artosis as possible, as they tend to explain thigns quite well in beginner terms (my own fiancee watches SC2 with me)
Is she not at all interested in playing the game? That would be the best way.
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Watch HuskyStarcraft with her, I watched him for at least 30 hours before I bought the game.
And I was someone who had never played Starcraft before, but when I bought the game I could indentify all the units, their abilities and roughly what they countered and how each unit was made.
Sure I wasn't great at the game nor did I have a refined build order or anything, but I understood how the game worked.
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have her watch the day9 daily
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my gf plays bw, D- Zerg... amazing...
when his bothers and his friend get together and play she always go with them and pwn em, i went once and i won 2v1 and 3v1 vs these guys XDD
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My girlfriend is willing to watch some GSL now that she played a bit of the SC2 campaign. I explained it to her back during GSL1 and she watched FD vs Rainbow with me(she fell asleep around the Desert Oasis game though) but it wasn't until I had her actually play that it really clicked what was going on in the game.
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Hey at least u made the right move in watching casts with her first. It's much harder for them to follow an actual game behind ur back (at least for me - I lost a csl match, turned around and she said "oh ur done? did u win?") but at least with casts, i can explain what things do
Just make sure she understands the concept of
1. get workers to mine minerals and gas
2. use resources to make buildings
3. use those buildings to make an army
4. repeat
personally i feel comfortable telling her wahts going on and why its exciting - i'd rather not listen to a cast or a day9 daily b/c then we dont get to talk about the game during =)
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I have a somewhat stranger dilemma.
My gf is a gamer, and has been one since a long time ago. She plays bw and has played every damn rts, fps, unheard of genre there is.
I can't get her to play sc2. She simply doesn't want it.
What should I do?
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On April 22 2011 00:50 Eluadyl wrote:
I have a somewhat stranger dilemma.
My gf is a gamer, and has been one since a long time ago. She plays bw and has played every damn rts, fps, unheard of genre there is.
I can't get her to play sc2. She simply doesn't want it.
What should I do?
You should cry
Or get her to watch the day9 daily.
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On April 21 2011 13:28 Chill wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2011 13:17 mikeymoo wrote:
Does she really care about the game or does she want to spend time with you? Does she have any interest in learning what the hell you're watching? Irrelevant. I've never seen anyone have Starcraft explained to them well and show no interest.
Chill, will you explain Starcraft well to my gf please?
OP: I think it's difficult for someone with no hands-on experience with the game to get excited to watch it (at least initially.) I'm sure people have discussed it before, but the reason many people watch professional sports on US television is because they can relate to it-- they know the rules of the game, have played it themselves, or have grown up being influenced by it in one way or another.
That being said, if she continued to watch it with you I'm sure she would pick up on more things and it would be more exicting, but when you have no idea what's going on it can't be very fun to watch.
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On April 22 2011 00:50 Eluadyl wrote:
I have a somewhat stranger dilemma.
My gf is a gamer, and has been one since a long time ago. She plays bw and has played every damn rts, fps, unheard of genre there is.
I can't get her to play sc2. She simply doesn't want it.
What should I do?
You should pick up BW, and play that with her .
Problem Solved.
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