Because of BoxeR's empire NaDa's Brilliance Reach's Manliness XellOs's Sexiness Nal_rA's Dreams YellOw's Silver Crown July's sponsor picture of a steak. iloveoov's Hidden Banana Stash Kwanro's Flowchart to success Firebathero's Dance Moves EffOrt's Invasion Bisu's Cough Ninja Mask Stork's Golden Carrier Badge Jaedong's Death Stare FlaSh's Robotic Eye
Each of these players (and many more) shared an interesting story to tell that's well worth a listen to which they told over the years with their careers. Beyond what you see in the game of Brood War, you could see who they were as people. All of them are inspirational, but it was BoxeR's autobiography that really puts it more than anyone ever could. It's one thing I could suggest not just to his fans or fans of BW, but to anyone wanting motivation because 'they wanted to take the easier path in life.'
On September 02 2011 13:19 Ryusei-R1 wrote: Brood War is the only game I will stay up until 3 AM to watch. I watch it more than I watch regular sports, and that's a difficult thing to beat.
This. BW is nearly the only thing I will stay up late for. Even tonight I will dread through the few hours of sleepiness before my mind is jolted awake by the OSL semifinals.
I love BW because it is a game that evolves...a game that is constantly evolving. It is this evolution that makes the game exciting. Players are constantly trying new strategies and updating their performance with the latest ideas and theory. Seeing players think outside the box and invent sick build orders or building a different unit composition is what makes the game great.
I love Broodwar because from our point of view, it shows that Starcraft is a game that can never be truly 100% mastered no matter how much you try, there will always be ways to improve. It shows how much time and practice the progamers put into the game to try to play to the best of their ability, and when it finally pays off and they get that proleague/individual league win, it makes the progamers feel like all that hard work was worth it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that most of the work (hours of practice) goes unnoticed, and only really the BW fans that understand how much hard work is required to play at this level will appreciate how hard these players work, sort of as a huge respect thing.
Because it was the best game ever invented man, u know this :D ...... You can't play a game practically every day for over 10 years and forget about it ..... especially one like BW, always has a special place in my heart
I love Brood War because I found out about the game when I was eight years old, and it was just a game. Now, 13 years later, it is a source of pleasure for me not only because of the game itself, but also because of the amazing scene it has created. I have met several good friends through Brood War, and even though some of them stopped playing, it does not mean that our friendship has been terminated. I love Brood War because in my first 2 years of college when all of my "real life" friends went away to school and I stayed a local community college, I was able to check TeamLiquid and watch jon747's and nevake's YouTube channels and escape from the world around me. StarCraft created an immense world outside of my own, where Boxer taught Oov everything, and then sAviOr came and destroyed everyone (way before 2009). I loved Ma Jae Yoon because I have always played Zerg, and I'll never forget the game when he beat Bisu on Neo Harmony in January of 2009 and thought, "maybe he WILL destroy everyone in 2009!"
Brood War was never just a game for me. It was a competition; an educational institution; an escape. The professional scene in Korea may burn out and people may stop playing, but I know one day I'll be an old man, talking to kids about a game called Starcraft that will never be topped as the greatest game of all time.
Who can explain it? Love for Broodwar is best when you have love for the players. There's nothing quite like supporting your favourite Broodwar team or player. For sports' leagues, you have a hometown with a team and you root for it out of locational convenience. I honestly believe the attachment you get to a team or player that you create only from watching them play is far greater than rooting for the home team. You're invested in your favourite player because he entertains you and you have no choice but to root for his success. When JangBi defeated Flash I got on my knees, put my hands on my head, and literally chanted "oh my god" several times. It's not a hometown thing - it's a love for someone you picked and you chose to support. And JangBi isn't even my favourtie Protoss. You should see me when Stork wins.
Brood War is everything. It's the coolest form of meditation on earth. You can play it without knowing the vastness that it offers and still love it. It's a never-ending story. Every match is a story. And every match is a different story.
I love Brood War because it's an incredible form of expression. And it's an incredibly fun form of expression.
I love that every time I watch a Brood War match, I can see exactly what each player is doing and what they are thinking. When I see Jaedong controls his mutalisks, I feel as if we are one. When Kal loses his shuttle but just makes another one, I know exactly how he is feeling. When I see fantasy pull off an amazing build, I envy his genius and feel just as smart for realizing it.
There's just this magic to Brood War that makes it so much more compelling than any other game I've ever played. Perhaps it's just the amazing complexity/simplicity of all the units that allows countless forms of creativity. Perhaps it's the interface that allows eternal room to improve that binds us all together.
Or maybe it's just the angelic voices of korean commentators that keep us all here.
On September 02 2011 14:33 Crisium wrote: Who can explain it? Love for Broodwar is best when you have love for the players. There's nothing quite like supporting your favourite Broodwar team or player. For sports' leagues, you have a hometown with a team and you root for it out of locational convenience. I honestly believe the attachment you get to a team or player that you create only from watching them play is far greater than rooting for the home team. You're invested in your favourite player because he entertains you and you have no choice but to root for his success. When JangBi defeated Flash I got on my knees, put my hands on my head, and literally chanted "oh my god" several times. It's not a hometown thing - it's a love for someone you picked and you chose to support. And JangBi isn't even my favourtie Protoss. You should see me when Stork wins.
yes I feel like fans of BW (or I guess any sort of sport without city-teams) are much appreciative of the players/teams they are fans of. it's true that everyone needs something to cheer for, but it means so much more when you cheer for someone because you appreciate the way they make you feel when you watch them instead of just "they win a lot" or "gotta root for the home team."
I love watching BW because the skill cap is insane and an epic game is truly EPIC. Flash v Jaedong w the intense focus and all the sweat dripping, trading armies and units non-stop.
I truly hope SC2 can be as epic and fun to watch as BW. SC2 armies seem to die to fast and the battle seems to small and too much waiting for huge 200/200 armies (that don't seem as massive compared to BW).
I love Brood War for the moments. The moments that made you laugh (Jangbi's "Problem?" face, lololol), the moments that made you bitter + Show Spoiler [OSL spoilers] +
so0 knocking out Killer T_T
, the moments where you were cheering and waking up your roommates for yelling at 5 in the morning+ Show Spoiler [OSL spoilers] +
FLASH GETTING JANGBANGED
. I know in the grand scheme of things these aren't necessarily "important" to what makes Brood War a great game/sport, but it's good to know that this isn't just another sport you watch to kill time, but rather it's something that create memories for me.
No two games are the same. The amount of strategical depth and tactics that are used, and a never ending metagame, combined with a ridiculously exciting set of units as well as a heartwarming pro-scene.
On September 02 2011 14:44 neobowman wrote: No two games are the same. The amount of strategical depth and tactics that are used, and a never ending metagame, combined with a ridiculously exciting set of units as well as a heartwarming pro-scene.
I like this one a lot. so simple yet it nails just about everything amazing about BW.
I remember playing this when I was 4 It has allways been my game to fall back to ever since, wether the other games I also played had been Red Alert 1, Red Alert 2, WoW, Warcraft III, Diablo II, League of Legends, anything. I remember playing the game with my friends all day. I remember being the best out of us and thinking "hell yes, I'm the best" (I breached C- for the first time yesterday, and I still felt like a baws). This, mind you, was before I had internet or ever went to battlenet. I got to know the proscene through the WoW community since it linked me to GomTV.net to watch the Korean WoW tournament. Then my eyes noticed the tab where it says starcraft and watched through it ever since. Tasteless shoutout'ed TL and I came here (hopefully) to stay. While this is just my story it has something to do with "why I love this bloody game" I have loved this game no matter what, when I would feel like a baws beating the missions in vanilla, feeling like a hero after detroying the overmind and going to the phone to call my friend about it, I think I was 8-9 at the time? Then one's success went from being co-op vs a bot (and then more than 1). I remember when I was zerg, I would allways get 5 sunkens and cracklings off of 1 base cus I thought cracklings were baws and 5 sunks were needed else those 11 zealots were probally going to kill me. Oh lordy the nostalgia, going to the present where my satisfaction is in ICCup and seeing Stats and KT as a whole win makes me happy and while a flu prevented me from fully enjoying their latest success. It still felt fucking good. Funny that most of the time I enjoyed this game offline but now it's hard to imagine playing it without being online, back then no strats were needed, no proscene or whatever.. So.. lacking yet so good I guess it's hard for me to define the love, since, it's allways been there. It's hard to put words on something which "has allways been" so I wont try to put it simple
I love Brood War because of the competition and the dedication each player has to the game. I love the community who made it's home on the back of the game. I love that players compete and can call themselves progamers.
I haven't been around long, not long enough to see many players rise and fall, but each time I watch an event like the OSL or MSL, I can't help but feel proud to know the players when they sit in their booth and what they've done to get there. Never having spectacular talent in one field, I often look upon the accomplishments of others to inspire me. Seeing inspirations like Boxer, Nada, Oov and Savior who dominated the scene for so long, and the rising of new players like Flash who I watched become a bonjwa, makes me feel prouder to be his fan than I do for most things I've done personally.
To me, these players are all inspirations; bonjwa or not. Just seeing progamers motivates me harder to work hard and be proud of what I have accomplished, because I see them and see what amazing thing they've done to have earned such a great title. Being a fan of this game will always be an understatement. I love this game.
I'm a super competitive person. When I grew up, I played a lot of sports and my dad always coached me. When high school came I lost interest in baseball and although I still ran cross country and played basketball in some church leagues from time to time, adding in another form of competition wasn't bad at all. That's where Brood War came in.
I'll never forget the feelings I got from Brood War. You all know what I'm talking about. Where you beat that Korean with a really good record or that "known" player, and you know that it was all because of the hard work you've put into the game. I remember the first time I got to D+, C-, C, etc. I was always so happy because I was able to endure all of the frustrating losses (and believe me, there were a ton of them) and was able to grow as a player.
I still remember the first time I hit B-. By then I was only playing Koreans and I went like 13-1 in one day to get from C to B-, and man it felt amazing. Like, everything just clicked. I was playing super, super well and that first time I was able to join the Ladder A-B channel, it was a surreal experience.
And you know, B- against Koreans isn't bad at all. I was really proud of my play and felt really confident playing my style. But I never, ever got cocky....
On a cold day in December of 2009, the new iCCup season had just started. I remember my second game of the ladder I played a Korean Zerg whose name was just random letters. I did my little timing attack that had been working perfectly... only to get it shut down. The Zerg ended up going 3 Hatch Muta into 5 Hatch Hydra. His Muta control was amazing and he picked off all my HT's with ease to the point where he just easily won by attack moving his Hydralisks over my bridges on Destination.
That Zerg was a pro-gamer (at the time, of course) by the name of Luxury. And ever since that, my attitude towards the game changed. I no longer viewed myself as good because compared to the Korean pros, we're all bad. There's no reason to go around bragging about your play because there's always someone out there who can completely smash you. That's not to say that you can't be happy with success - that's perfectly fine - but never start to get content with your play, always work on improving on something.
Of course I've made so many friends over this game and have talked about so many random subjects (girls, religion, etc.) that it just means so much to me.
I really, really hope that SC2 can fill this role some day. Only time will tell.
Why I love Brood War? This is not the first time I was asked this question really,my answer has always been the same.
Why the hell not? Have you ever seen the great life stories of the players who play a video game,like XellOs who secretly played it in the middle of the night after his mother fell asleep.Or the stories of the great dominance of the bonjwas like BoxeR,iloveOov,NaDa,savior and Flash and the great sights of players as they rise to the occasion for that one win in the proleague,or shed tears because of that one loss.
Brood War is no mere game,its a sport,nay its life and it really makes you live it.
I love the pageantry and excitement of a big match. I love the stories that constantly unfold as players reach meteoric heights, testing the limits of endurance and ingenuity, or as players careers meet tragic ends in the face of their physical and mental trials. I love the memories, not only of great matches, tournament runs, players, and eras in the game, but the memories tied up in old LR threads, the memories of shedding sleep and sanity to catch every STX match, practicing ZvT with a beer and a buddy, all of those marathon LAN parties.
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