Lol of course the top picks would be sc related here but lete tell you tekken is rediculous and much more i tense/frantic than sc. I agree that bw is the hardest but tekken should be above sc2

awu25

United States2003 Posts

September 10 2010 01:02 GMT

#23

this poll is obviously going to be biased towards starcraft
the forum goers here would like to believe that it is the toughest game to play so they can feel better about themselves
the majority of them probably have never played any of the other games at a competitive level so comparisons will be hard

theBlues

El Salvador638 Posts

September 10 2010 01:03 GMT

#24

Counterstrike is pretty hard, requires another completely different set of skills, and is totally nerve twitching, I can hardly follow the pro games and the strategy level is pretty complex...

TheMunkey

Canada470 Posts

September 10 2010 01:03 GMT

#25

We clearly know whos going to win. This is teamliquid after all

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BW baby

Tabbris

Bangladesh2839 Posts

September 10 2010 01:04 GMT

#26

The skill sets for fps and rts is completly diffrent

cuppatea

United Kingdom1401 Posts

September 10 2010 01:05 GMT

#27

BW, by far.

The pro setup in Korea is so far beyond any other esport that nothing else can compare.

Shauni

4077 Posts

September 10 2010 01:06 GMT

#28

Eh, why is WoW Arena even on this list haha.

Subversion

South Africa3627 Posts

September 10 2010 01:07 GMT

#29

it has to be BW simply becos of Korea.

the amount of time/effort/dedication those players have to put in to be the best makes it far beyond anything else, and by far the hardest sport to break into.

SC2 may one day reach those levels, but the fact is its too new at the moment to even be considered as a more difficult esport than BW.

DaCruise

Denmark2457 Posts

September 10 2010 01:07 GMT

#30

SC2 will soon be the hardest e-sport if not allready.

Why? you may ask. Cause the competition is much, much higher than other games due the vast amount of players.

GagnarTheUnruly

United States655 Posts

September 10 2010 01:10 GMT

#31

IMO the only relevant factor that influences the difficulty of any sport is the level of the competition. Although different sports have different physical and mental requirements, no sport is inherrently harder than any other sport, because the ease of the sport is determined entirely by who you're competing against. I voted BW because I think it's pretty inarguable that among esports BW is the one with the highest level of competition.

dras

Kazakhstan376 Posts

September 10 2010 01:10 GMT

#32

On September 10 2010 10:07 DaCruise wrote:
SC2 will soon be the hardest e-sport if not allready.

Why? you may ask. Cause the competition is much, much higher than other games due the vast amount of players.

The micro demands for BW are like exponentially higher though.

ArvickHero

10387 Posts

September 10 2010 01:11 GMT

#33

I'm laughing my ass off at seeing how Tekken made the list and not Street Fighter

FortuneSyn

1826 Posts

September 10 2010 01:12 GMT

#34

it's not the game, it's the individual. the game needs to present a skill roof that could never be 100% reached, most/all games on that list has that.

Asking the OP question is basically asking "which esport is most popular with the most dedicated and talented players".

In other words, it's impossible to answer your question.

setzer

United States3284 Posts

September 10 2010 01:13 GMT

#35

BW, no contest. Put it this way: does any one country have such a stranglehold as Korea does on BW? Nope, it is impossible for a foreigner to succeed in BW with today's level of competition.

vileChAnCe

Canada525 Posts

September 10 2010 01:14 GMT

#36

Hardest Brood War

Honest Truth all these games have a skill ceiling that's unattainable so noone really is wrong, competitive human nature is what drives players to become better. The fact remains that Koreans took brood war to a whole different level is why we believe it to be "harder".

iEchoic

United States1776 Posts

September 10 2010 01:14 GMT

#37

SC2 isn't even close to the hardest E-Sport and neither was SC1. When people play a videogame 12-14 hours a day, it stops being about talent and starts being about who is willing to give up more of their life to compete. You don't benefit from playing that much on many games (i.e. shooters). I don't really consider that hard, just a big sacrifice.

Real sports have physical limits that make them 'hard' to compete in.

TheOracle

Australia256 Posts

September 10 2010 01:15 GMT

#38

Tbh this is a rather silly poll, you are on a site dedicated to SC:BW and SC2, what do you think the 2 top picks will be? If you tried putting this poll over on Halo forums I'm sure the results would be pretty different.

lyAsakura

United States1414 Posts

September 10 2010 01:16 GMT

#39

On September 10 2010 10:14 iEchoic wrote:
SC2 isn't even close to the hardest E-Sport and neither was SC1. When people play a videogame 12-14 hours a day, it stops being about talent and starts being about who is willing to give up more of their life. You don't benefit from playing that much on many games (i.e. shooters). I don't really consider that hard, just a big sacrifice.

Seriously? Do you even believe the words that you type?

eth3n

718 Posts

September 10 2010 01:17 GMT

#40

I think the RTS's have a higher skill ceiling (YOU CAN ALWAYS DO BETTER SOMEHOW), but I think that most people max out at a certain level at FPS's, as its more like IRL sports where you are simply limited by your reaction time at some point, and your knowledge of the game and experience are simply not as helpful. There are always some people who will naturally dominate FPS, whereas some people are naturally horrible. Sounds silly but its true.

-edit-

Im talking about twitch FPS (cs/mw), tf2 actually takes a good bit of teamplay/proactivity/creativity along with the general FPS skillset, but clearly its popularity would never allow it to win a poll like this.

Also Halo is a joke.