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Hey there forums of Team Liquid! I'm in need of some help, and I need as much input as I can get. Simply put: How would you describe SC2 to your parents, in hopes of getting them to watch it as fervently as they would watch their favorite athletic sport?
Why am I asking this? I'm currently working to make a video of some kind that would do exactly what I just asked: Be able to explain to the complete and total gamer-ignorant what Starcraft 2's competitive scene is. It needs to be concise, simple, and start from the ground up. I have my own ideas of course, and I'm working to refine them as much as possible, but I want to make sure my ideas are in the right direction.
So, bronze players and grand masters alike, tell me in the simplest terms you can possibly think of: What is Starcraft 2's competitive scene?
Edit:: Might be a good idea to say what I'm already talking about, neh?
Thus far, I'm focusing on a simple TvT for simplicity's sake, on a basic map (Steppes of War), highlighting the gathering of resources to fund an army.
From there, I'll break it into ground units, flying units, and bonuses versus unit types. After that, I have no idea. Again, all Terran-based for now; I figure it's the easiest to relate to and understand, off the bat.
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Parents seem to have a very hard time getting into it, i remember my brother was at home a couple of months ago and plugged in HDMI to our big TV in the living room and our parents came in and tried to watch it for a couple of minutes...
Sadly they refuse to take it seriously at all and thinks that its just some childplay game, we even described to them that it is kind of like a chess but with real time action. but they still had a really hard time figuring out what was going on...
I think the only way is to somehow get them to play some of it before they can understand... but Good Luck with that..
I guess parents are different tho Good Luck anyway
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Dude, just imagine, someday we're gonna be the parents. And we'll be getting our asses explained off by our children... Who are really into SC3.
The future sounds awesome.
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Haha I wish you luck but parents will never get why we play video games.
And especially if there is a caster talking about it :p
And it's fine that way.
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Part of the idea is that my brother and father both LOVE American football, yet they've never played it. Not in high school, not in college, but they follow it like no other. I figure if they never play that, but enjoy watching, the same can be applied to SC2.
I hold a similar fervor for SC2 as they do for football, so I'm hoping to convey a bit of that excitement to help enticing people to just watch. Baby steps, is the idea (hence the request for the most basic description).
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On December 30 2011 20:50 Chargelot wrote:
Dude, just imagine, someday we're gonna be the parents. And we'll be getting our asses explained off by our children... Who are really into SC3.
The future sounds awesome.
You are so wrong.
We will be like, shut up kid SC3 is a terrible game, SC2 was the real deal.
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It's kinda like the yelling you guys do to eachother, but over the internet and without getting other people involved in it.... ;_; .
I really don't bother explaining it to my parents. I've tried once, saying that it was similar to playing risk or chess, but they just dismiss it as sitting behind a computer screen. And other people sitting behind it watching someone else waste their lives away -_- . It's pretty much a lost cause in my case, I'd rather pay attention to the current generation rather than the previous one.
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I appreciate the commendations to my efforts, but what I really would like is simple descriptions of the basic core aspects of Starcraft 2. If y'all could focus just upon that, I would be very thankful. (20-20 hindsight, a better title would have done wonders)
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On December 30 2011 20:51 Jakkerr wrote:Show nested quote +On December 30 2011 20:50 Chargelot wrote:
Dude, just imagine, someday we're gonna be the parents. And we'll be getting our asses explained off by our children... Who are really into SC3.
The future sounds awesome. You are so wrong. We will be like, shut up kid SC3 is a terrible game, SC2 was the real deal.
some will, same deal as people sticking to bw right now. some others, however, will be excited for the new stuff coming up. I don't really see my interest in new technology ceasing any time soon. hope it stays that way
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Don't make a video, if you are really passionate about starcraft 2, you could just explain it to them with words. They will know how passionate you are about it and probably try to watch it ^^.
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The mainstream western mindset about esports is fucking horrible, even open minded people I know thing it is hilarious that people actually take "video games" seriously, most humans don't like things they can't understand and things that challenge their little comfortable version of the world they have built up for themselves.
GL though bro, you're a braver man that I
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It is basically carrying out a war similar to real-life wars in all ways but scale. Securing and harvesting resources, protecting your own resources, harassing the enemies resources. Battling for intelligence, defending and attacking from and through direct, focused and multipronged attacks. Judging on when or where to split forces or to consolidate, whether to attack now or wait until he's weaker later on. Deciding on researching technologies and so on and so forth.
Could go on forever but the first sentence is basically the gist of it.
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On December 30 2011 20:56 Iselian wrote:
I appreciate the commendations to my efforts, but what I really would like is simple descriptions of the basic core aspects of Starcraft 2. If y'all could focus just upon that, I would be very thankful. (20-20 hindsight, a better title would have done wonders)
There are 3 races:
The Zerg : insect thingies that can build stuff really fast, but the stuff they build isn't supergood.
The Protoss : alien thingies They don't build stuff fast but if they get more $$$ to build stuff with, the stuff gets really good
The Terran : human thingies They build stuff quite fast since their stronger stuff isn't that good, but they need to position their stuff well or it dies really fast.
All races have workers that mine $$$ to build the stuff with, more workers + more bases = MORE STUFF
I win.
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not to be a douche but i wouldnt explain sc2 to my parents (that is my parents specifically) as they are already convinced of the tottal worthlessness of games and anything to do withj it.
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My dad was a really well known mmo player back in the day so he understands the gaming scene very well. No explaining needed 
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Ah, but it's not just the people around me, Dr! I want to make a video so that I can spread it far and wide, recruiting more to our cause and our passion! Really though, I want to make a video to help spread SC2 to the larger, unknown crowd.
But you know would really help with that? Everyone's awesome descriptions of SC2's core concepts. Really, that's all I'd like.
Edit:: On December 30 2011 21:02 Jakkerr wrote:Show nested quote +On December 30 2011 20:56 Iselian wrote:
I appreciate the commendations to my efforts, but what I really would like is simple descriptions of the basic core aspects of Starcraft 2. If y'all could focus just upon that, I would be very thankful. (20-20 hindsight, a better title would have done wonders) There are 3 races: The Zerg : insect thingies that can build stuff really fast, but the stuff they build isn't supergood. The Protoss : alien thingies They don't build stuff fast but if they get more $$$ to build stuff with, the stuff gets really good The Terran : human thingies They build stuff quite fast since their stronger stuff isn't that good, but they need to position their stuff well or it dies really fast. All races have workers that mine $$$ to build the stuff with, more workers + more bases = MORE STUFF I win.
Hey hey, this is what I'm looking for. Keep it coming!
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Yeah I agree - it's better to talk about it yourself.
But then, I am luckily blessed with parents with irrational passions themselves, so it's easier .
Edit : The thing is, they probably aren't interested at all in the details of the game (descriptions of the races, here). Your point of view is better.
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ah well in 30 years when we are parents, e-sports is gonna be everywhere. But for now it sucks yeah. If a person watches soccer it's normal, but if you watch a videogame then you are a weirdo and stuff. crazy world 
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part 2:
scouting:
See what your opponent is building.
If he is building a certain unit u need to have something that can kill this unit or your opponent will just win.
Vikings vs colossi etc etc
expanding:
If you have too many workers on 1 base the workers get lazy and don't mine more $$$.
So you need to get a new base to motivate the workers and get more $$$ faster.
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I think you should explain in otherwise. You want them to watch first and then explain while they are watching. Show a part of dreamhack when HerO won. So they can see the passion of the people involved in this game .
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