EPTWhy Mario Kart is not an e-sport - Page 2
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julianto
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paper
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On January 04 2012 06:13 DJEtterStyle wrote: 1. Terran is by far the easiest race to play. The low level of effort required to be competitive with Terran is a clear imbalance. 2. Fog of war means that StarCraft: Brood War is too luck-based to be an e-sport. 3. StarCraft: Brood War's maps need a total overhaul. Many blatantly favor one race over the other two. Those are terrible analogies to prove any point lol... You obviously know that BW has historically been one of the most balanced games ever made, whereas light-weight classes are clearly superior in Mario Cart. Fog of war is equally distributed to both players, whereas items are luck-based and screw over players with advantages. (Can you imagine how long TvT would take if any advantage turned against you?) Many maps do favor one race over another, but there are many statistically balanced maps for competition to thrive on. | ||
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Masamune
Canada3401 Posts
On January 04 2012 06:39 paper wrote: Those are terrible analogies to prove any point lol... You obviously know that BW has historically been one of the most balanced games ever made, whereas light-weight classes are clearly superior in Mario Cart. Fog of war is equally distributed to both players, whereas items are luck-based and screw over players with advantages. (Can you imagine how long TvT would take if any advantage turned against you?) Many maps do favor one race over another, but there are many statistically balanced maps for competition to thrive on. I'm actually sad knowing that that post was written by someone who was once in charge of the power ranks here on TL  | ||
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TelecoM
United States10700 Posts
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RogerX
New Zealand3180 Posts
Nintendo can make the adjustments however if we don't have that factor where your coming last; how are you gonna catch up now with your bullet bill? Its quite impossible from being 12th to first if there are pro players. Nintendo should easily be able to nerf some stuff so no problem there though | ||
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skindzer
Chile5114 Posts
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DJEtterStyle
United States2766 Posts
On January 04 2012 06:39 paper wrote: Those are terrible analogies to prove any point lol... NO KIDDING? The point is that trying to discredit any game/sport is idiotic, as are the OP's arguments. Good lord. Read between the lines the tiniest bit. | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On January 04 2012 07:12 GGzerG wrote: Actually... a lot of the smaller characters like toad would get owned by bowser if you controlled him correctly, you can hit the speed boost or just hit the Eee's and slam into him and he will spin out very easily, as will a lot of the other smaller players, so to say the smaller characters are imbalanced when they give you tons of powerups as well on top of the fact that you can SLAM into people with the bigger characters, just makes you flat out wrong. I was really good at Mario Kart 64, I played it for years. You didn't watch the video, did you? With the items, you have a possibility to catch-up, but straight-up driving between two equally good drivers makes Yoshi, Peach and Toad way ahead of Bowser. | ||
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JohannesH
Finland1364 Posts
It's just not really made for seriously competitive play and that is its STRENGTH. Even if you like something else in your games. | ||
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Incognitodies
United Kingdom184 Posts
-Size of player base that want to play it competitively -Support from developers -Prizes available -Number of people wanting to watch it being played The imbalances in the game and amount of luck don't matter much in the equation. As in, they only factor in determining the amount of people that want to play/watch the game. If enough people want to play it competitively and Nintendo had any interest whatsoever in making it an esport, it could be. There is no 'quality control' for esports. Now you may think it would be a crap game for an esport, but that's just your opinion. | ||
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ZAiNs
United Kingdom6525 Posts
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paper
13196 Posts
On January 04 2012 07:20 DJEtterStyle wrote: NO KIDDING? The point is that trying to discredit any game/sport is idiotic, as are the OP's arguments. Good lord. Read between the lines the tiniest bit. Are you kidding me? Maybe next time you try to undermine someone's assertion that shitty game A isn't competitive, you don't use the premier e-sport and instead use shitty game B that actually is competitive. Making senseless claims when the OP is using straight facts is ridiculous. Use your head the tiniest bit. l o l | ||
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Fortissimo
Canada145 Posts
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dongmydrum
United States139 Posts
On January 04 2012 08:03 Fortissimo wrote: From what I understand, Kart Rider/Pop kart/whatever has esports events in China and South Korea and its kind of like Mario Kart cept Speed Format brings the game into a "better" more "skill based" format. Yup, but they had to minimize the extend of luck in gameplay ( no items in competitive tournaments ) so its less like mario cart and more like any other racing games. | ||
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Humanfails
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
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Fishgle
United States2174 Posts
we should make that into an esport (except no planes except on only plane stages. imba imba imba) | ||
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
Certain projectile weapons can miss. Scarabs can miss. High ground advantage; chance to miss. Even trees provide chance to miss. read more here http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=116142 | ||
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T0fuuu
Australia2275 Posts
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infinitestory
United States4053 Posts
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