On July 20 2010 16:53 Aberu wrote: As much as you guys complain, you could have it worse, you could be a tournament follower of the Super Smash game scene. Even the WORST commentators from Starcraft are ten times as professional as the ones our community think are the best. In fact most commentators for fighting games are idiots (yipes anyone? reminds me of the background voice in Idiocracy that would announce the president coming out).
Are you really going to hate on Waffles for what he does?
Why does he need to be "professional"? How would that help him with his goal, which is add a little more entertainment value/hype to the matches?
It might not be to your taste, but don't call him an idiot. Plenty of people enjoy his stuff.
Smash commentary as a whole could definitely be improved but keep in mind the different circumstances of the different game and community.
I'm going to do a troll commentary using all the bad things laid out in this thread as a guide. The funny part about it though is that it won't sound any different than the others.
On July 20 2010 16:53 Aberu wrote: As much as you guys complain, you could have it worse, you could be a tournament follower of the Super Smash game scene. Even the WORST commentators from Starcraft are ten times as professional as the ones our community think are the best. In fact most commentators for fighting games are idiots (yipes anyone? reminds me of the background voice in Idiocracy that would announce the president coming out).
Rockefeller from 3S & Family Fun is my favourite commentator of any genre. I used to consciously tried to emulate his style.
On July 20 2010 16:53 Aberu wrote: As much as you guys complain, you could have it worse, you could be a tournament follower of the Super Smash game scene. Even the WORST commentators from Starcraft are ten times as professional as the ones our community think are the best. In fact most commentators for fighting games are idiots (yipes anyone? reminds me of the background voice in Idiocracy that would announce the president coming out).
hey u sir are extremely wrong yipes can be both insightful and extremely entertaining if he so chooses
On July 20 2010 16:53 Aberu wrote: As much as you guys complain, you could have it worse, you could be a tournament follower of the Super Smash game scene. Even the WORST commentators from Starcraft are ten times as professional as the ones our community think are the best. In fact most commentators for fighting games are idiots (yipes anyone? reminds me of the background voice in Idiocracy that would announce the president coming out).
Rockefeller from 3S & Family Fun is my favourite commentator of any genre. I used to consciously tried to emulate his style.
loooool FFA commentary guys so goooooood personal favs + Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAus6r3JY2c
last one is done my dirty sanchez and ray ramos(sp) sanchez is even funny commentating on shit he doesnt even know + Show Spoiler +
what about "warp gate" push... since.. they are now able to warp shit in the front line with each "leap" of a pylons as the protoss now tend to build the "yellow brick road" of pylons toward the base of their opponents...
i'm not sure this is relevant to catchphrases, but something that always annoys me is how commentators will try to describe
EXACTLYEVERYTHINGTHATISHAPPENINGASFASTASTHEYCAN
i don't know korean at all, but a lot of the time it seems like the korean commentators just yell OOOOOOHHH when something exciting/fast paced is going on, then comment on what is going on after rather than play-by-play. i think a good example of blending play-by-play and analysis is watching 2GD/joe do quake commentary
On March 14 2009 07:44 Chill wrote: Goes Down Why? What does this even mean? I can understand using it to signify creating buildings ("With the Stargate complete we now see that the Fleet Beacon goes down, signifying Carriers"), but why things dying? There's so many better descriptive words to use other than "goes down", but still you hear it used about 100 times a commentary, and often in rapid succession. Actually I hate myself for using this term, and every time I feel myself about to say it I consciously hold it back because it's just bad.
Maybe by "goes down" they mean the Fleet Beacon can burrow
I don't think I'm good enough at SC to notice a lot of the mistakes being made, but the things you pointed out do bother me. Improper English bothers me the most, but I don't get too upset because I'm pretty understanding of imperfect English
So it's a word of its own AND short for something else? I guess you have to use context to judge? That's so weird. I always thought proxy was its own word.
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