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So I've been on this website for a while now and have noticed a lot of things. A lot of things I really enjoy and a lot of things I don't, so this is just a rant blog on one particular thing.
A lot of people on this website seem to think that ESPORTS is StarCraft, and anything other than the almighty glorious StarCraft is not considered ESPORTS. If a game reaches or reaching a high level of popularity, let the butthurt nerds rolling in calling blasphemy that anything other than StarCraft should like just die because it's not esports.
There were a lot of games that are still very popular today and has contributed a lot to the competitive gaming scene. There's CS, AoE, DotA, Warcraft III and many many many many more. Hell Age of Empires is a way harder game than StarCraft can ever be, and the skill ceiling of AoE is way higher than StarCraft (It's the truth, no troll)
I don't give a shit about esports personally, because I just want to have fun and do whatever the hell I want in a game and to be honest I find the entire esports thing is kind of lame. But this StarCraft = esports thing is just dumb...
/end rant
 
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It's hardly unique to starcraft. Some SCBW people say the same about SC2, etc.
It's pretty much the whole "hardcore vs casual" mentality that for whatever reason pervades gaming (on the internet). People pretty much either don't understand themselves why they play games or refuse to understand others.
lol good post combo with below
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I assume you mean sc2, you should specify that.
Brood war = only real esport.
SC2 = joke
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Agreed, SC is just a cog in the wheel
(Love the != title)
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I would like to propose the following instead:
STARCRAFT > esports.
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On August 10 2011 08:34 G3CKO wrote:
Hell Age of Empires is a way harder game than StarCraft can ever be, and the skill ceiling of AoE is way higher than StarCraft (It's the truth, no troll)
Don't really know what to say. You have seen people play starcraft haven't you?
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On August 10 2011 08:43 Primadog wrote:
ESPORTS
I see the light! So only StarCraft is ESPORTS ehhhhh and Warcraft I guess lol
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On August 10 2011 08:49 0mgVitaminE wrote:Show nested quote +On August 10 2011 08:34 G3CKO wrote:
Hell Age of Empires is a way harder game than StarCraft can ever be, and the skill ceiling of AoE is way higher than StarCraft (It's the truth, no troll)
Don't really know what to say. You have seen people play starcraft haven't you?
You haven't seen high level AoE II haven't you... Try planning out a 1 hour game with a 4 resource economy. AOE2 requires so much speed/skill nowdays to compete its insane. It's not about outguessing your oppenents build orders, and playing mind games, and hiding buildings/expansions/etc. its about OUTPLAYING him.
AoE pretty much set the standard for RTS.
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On August 10 2011 08:49 0mgVitaminE wrote:Show nested quote +On August 10 2011 08:34 G3CKO wrote:
Hell Age of Empires is a way harder game than StarCraft can ever be, and the skill ceiling of AoE is way higher than StarCraft (It's the truth, no troll)
Don't really know what to say. You have seen people play starcraft haven't you?
They're both RTS.
AoE2's UI is much worse than broodwar's, and the harvester mechanics are significantly more difficult. Have you seen people play AoE2?
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On August 10 2011 08:43 Primadog wrote:
ESPORTS
/thread?
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On August 10 2011 08:57 Kaal wrote:Show nested quote +On August 10 2011 08:49 0mgVitaminE wrote:On August 10 2011 08:34 G3CKO wrote:
Hell Age of Empires is a way harder game than StarCraft can ever be, and the skill ceiling of AoE is way higher than StarCraft (It's the truth, no troll)
Don't really know what to say. You have seen people play starcraft haven't you? They're both RTS. AoE2's UI is much worse than broodwar's, and the harvester mechanics are significantly more difficult. Have you seen people play AoE2?
What? They are basically the same....
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On August 10 2011 08:51 G3CKO wrote:Show nested quote +On August 10 2011 08:49 0mgVitaminE wrote:On August 10 2011 08:34 G3CKO wrote:
Hell Age of Empires is a way harder game than StarCraft can ever be, and the skill ceiling of AoE is way higher than StarCraft (It's the truth, no troll)
Don't really know what to say. You have seen people play starcraft haven't you? You haven't seen high level AoE II haven't you... Try planning out a 1 hour game with a 4 resource economy. AOE2 requires so much speed/skill nowdays to compete its insane. It's not about outguessing your oppenents build orders, and playing mind games, and hiding buildings/expansions/etc. its about OUTPLAYING him. AoE pretty much set the standard for RTS.
You say that like that's all SC is.
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On August 10 2011 09:04 Trowabarton756 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 10 2011 08:57 Kaal wrote:On August 10 2011 08:49 0mgVitaminE wrote:On August 10 2011 08:34 G3CKO wrote:
Hell Age of Empires is a way harder game than StarCraft can ever be, and the skill ceiling of AoE is way higher than StarCraft (It's the truth, no troll)
Don't really know what to say. You have seen people play starcraft haven't you? They're both RTS. AoE2's UI is much worse than broodwar's, and the harvester mechanics are significantly more difficult. Have you seen people play AoE2? What? They are basically the same....
The UI covers about 1/3 of the screen that BW does, and most people will have a hell of a time trying to hunt boar and manage their gold/lumber ratios on villagers. I don't even want to try explaining how hectic it is practicing the AoC mining mechanics.
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On August 10 2011 09:04 Trowabarton756 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 10 2011 08:57 Kaal wrote:On August 10 2011 08:49 0mgVitaminE wrote:On August 10 2011 08:34 G3CKO wrote:
Hell Age of Empires is a way harder game than StarCraft can ever be, and the skill ceiling of AoE is way higher than StarCraft (It's the truth, no troll)
Don't really know what to say. You have seen people play starcraft haven't you? They're both RTS. AoE2's UI is much worse than broodwar's, and the harvester mechanics are significantly more difficult. Have you seen people play AoE2? What? They are basically the same....
I somewhat disagree with this opinion.
On one hand, you can select more units in AoE2. On the other hand, there is no attack move, which IMO is quite a huge difference.
Also, it's annoying having to deal with large swaths of forest being cut down, which tends to gradually increase worker inefficiency until you rebuild the resource drop-off sites.
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Your post is true, but when you're the biggest, oldest and most developed, it's easy to look on other games as johnny-come-latelies and passing fads.
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Has anyone got any decent FPVODs of people playing AoE competitively? I'm really curious now.
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
This guy thinks AoE is harder than SC.....
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Everything in AoE moves so slow and is such a hard counter. lololol.
I love AoE, don't get me wrong, i've played every single AoE out there a fuck ton. But come on... really? lolololol
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On August 10 2011 08:38 Xenocide_Knight wrote:
I assume you mean sc2, you should specify that.
Brood war = only real esport.
SC2 = joke
high5
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EPT
