EPTSo far, has HotS been more entertaining than WoL at the pr…
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The_Darkness
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ggrrg
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DMXD
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Blargh
United States2101 Posts
The question is: "So far, has HotS been more entertaining than WoL at the professional level?" Even if only one game has been played, you can still answer the question. Using all of the games (regardless of how many) you've seen of HotS, have you found HotS to be more entertaining than WoL. What this poll REALLY has done is find out that 36% of people don't read carefully enough! Also, I voted "Yes." A large amount of the entertainment value of HotS probably comes from seeing new units. It also seems better paced. Definitely not balanced well enough though. | ||
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Redrot
United States446 Posts
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jinsanity
United States137 Posts
i doubt hots will bring anything close to bws greatness | ||
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Doc Daneeka
United States577 Posts
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Doc Daneeka
United States577 Posts
On February 27 2013 12:08 Blargh wrote: How can you possibly pick "Not enough information." The question is: "So far, has HotS been more entertaining than WoL at the professional level?" Even if only one game has been played, you can still answer the question. Using all of the games (regardless of how many) you've seen of HotS, have you found HotS to be more entertaining than WoL. What this poll REALLY has done is find out that 36% of people don't read carefully enough! Also, I voted "Yes." A large amount of the entertainment value of HotS probably comes from seeing new units. It also seems better paced. Definitely not balanced well enough though. it's a perfectly legit answer imo. wol is heavily saturated with content, you can watch back to back matches you've never seen before pretty much 24/7 if you've got the time. i've been highly entertained by some hots matches which has made me excited for the game, but until the last couple weeks they've been really spread out, and i've seen a fair share of awkward and boring games in hots too. likewise i'm getting wol fatigue but i still catch amazing matches from time to time and it seems fair to rank it higher by sheer force of numbers and the amount of downtime it has helped me kill. there's also the question of how are you defining 'entertained' - the best hots matches have made it seem like the game has more push and pull, but the worst have made the players look really awkward and unsure of what they're doing. it hasn't been a uniformly better experience. if your definition of 'entertained' puts emphasis on not knowing what's coming next then obviously beta is going to be more entertaining... | ||
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GenesisX
Canada4267 Posts
On February 27 2013 12:08 Blargh wrote: How can you possibly pick "Not enough information." The question is: "So far, has HotS been more entertaining than WoL at the professional level?" Even if only one game has been played, you can still answer the question. Using all of the games (regardless of how many) you've seen of HotS, have you found HotS to be more entertaining than WoL. What this poll REALLY has done is find out that 36% of people don't read carefully enough! Also, I voted "Yes." A large amount of the entertainment value of HotS probably comes from seeing new units. It also seems better paced. Definitely not balanced well enough though. took the words right out of my mouth. Can't have a "not enough information" if theres a "so far" poll option. | ||
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dNa
Germany591 Posts
there's way more action, less macroing up and more multitasking involved in nearly all the games i've seen so far. I'm loving HotS at the moment! | ||
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Ruscour
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WikidSik
Canada382 Posts
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Oukka
Finland1683 Posts
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monsta
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TeslasPigeon
464 Posts
Unless tournament organizers start to frequently change the maps (rotating out half the map pool every 6 months) I believe we will see the same stagnation for HOTS as WOL, new units be damned. | ||
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Dunmer
United Kingdom568 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On February 28 2013 02:21 TeslasPigeon wrote: I see much of the stagnation of the last year of WOL due strictly to a non diverse map pool. I don't care if professional players like playing on the same maps, but I as a spectator get sick of it and move on. Unless tournament organizers start to frequently change the maps (rotating out half the map pool every 6 months) I believe we will see the same stagnation for HOTS as WOL, new units be damned. Death to Daybreak. END THAT MAP. HotS has been a blast and I think that we will see some really awesome stuff. Protoss has been hugely improved, with more air, less colossi and a lower need for forcefields across the board. Terran no longer is going straight bio, which is awesome and I am sure we will see more in the future. But better maps are the key to the future. Every major battle does not need to happen at a base. | ||
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wammyz
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On February 27 2013 01:16 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: Dear god yes. Yeah I know, try not to get too giddy, remember WoL once looked like it had a bright future too with 2011 ZvT and bearable ZvP. Then 2012 happened, where I feel that the only match ups that aged well were TvT and ZvZ (haters gonna hate) . ZvZ in particular found itself significantly better than from where it started. Still though, I'm optimistic that 2-3 years from now when LotV is around the corner HotS won't have fallen to the degree that WoL did. I just feel like the tools have been set in place to make HotS a more challenging game with less turtling and actual action in the early stages of the game instead of NR 8-10 min. Death balls are still here though :/ The decline of TvZ has been exaggerated very excessively. With the exception of the two months of infestor abusing TvZ t still produces a lot epic matches and series with the most recent example being Gumiho vs Losira (should go down as the best series in history of WOL). PvT has indeed stagnated but it is almost always entertaining. Only PvZ and PvP have gotten much worse (4 gate > laser wars). People are often pessimistic about WOL but in reality it produced hours upon hours of fantastic entertainment. Sure, it had its flaws but they are much smaller then people would lead us to believe. Overall WOL was a great game and I feel that HOTS has the potential to take it to the next level. | ||
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AnomalySC2
United States2073 Posts
The problem with sc2 has always been it's a game of extremes. Someone either just gets rolled by a rush and the game ends immediately, or we get ultra passive games that are decided by one 200 pop vs 200 pop fight. There are exceptions of course....but these boring games are what stand out the most, at least to me. I dunno, I'm an old jaded gamer at this point and I just don't have any faith left in Blizzard, I'd love for them to prove me wrong though. | ||
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Champi
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