EPTThe best way to describe the game to a layman is 'A strategy game where two players manage resources to build an army and destroy the other player'.
Describing SC2... to your parents - Page 12
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Effay
United States153 Posts
The best way to describe the game to a layman is 'A strategy game where two players manage resources to build an army and destroy the other player'. | ||
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Zanno
United States1484 Posts
On January 03 2012 09:08 Effay wrote: The chess comparison is a terrible one. Chess is a turn based game with complete information (everyone sees the whole board at all times) and is mostly symmetric, and Starcraft is a real time game with information being hidden.The only similarity between the two games is that they're 'strategy' games lol. The best way to describe the game to a layman is 'A strategy game where two players manage resources to build an army and destroy the other player'. I know it's a bad comparison, but on the most basic level, "the army is trying to kill the different colored army", is all most people need to understand to your average layman, chess is a super complicated war game, and that's all they know about chess likewise, it's all they really need to know so in trying to espouse the wonders of e-sports to people who don't play games, framing it in that light is good, because furthermore, in most people's mind, chess = the only board game they have tournaments for of course to us the comparison makes no sense, but unless you're in your early teens the odds are pretty good your parents can't tell the difference between super mario and starcraft. comparing the game to chess then at least gets you in the same ballpark of seriousness and difficulty, and you might be able to make some headway from there. on the flip side, if your parents happened to be chess grandmasters, then i can see why the analogy would falter a bit, but i have a feeling that is not likely | ||
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Janders
Mexico222 Posts
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Janders
Mexico222 Posts
On January 01 2012 04:37 tdt wrote: Would never happen since both my parents hate video games and even TV and think them a waste of life. I actually agree on the TV part - But video games are active entertainment requiring input but they don't buy it. time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. | ||
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Nallen
United Kingdom134 Posts
I got him fairly interested by starting off by stating that it's a very widely played (global) game with professional players and huge sponsors. When people hear things like 'sponsored by Samsung' I think they cross a mental barrier - if Samsung can take it seriously so can I. Talking about the money helps in the same way. This can segue in to talking about teams, players and who you care about and why, what it is you have emotionally invested. This may have all been said, couldn't get through all 12 pages up to now, but I think the best bet is to get them to care, not understand. If I knew every rule going about football you couldn't get me to watch Chelsea vs. Man Utd. But if you told me that some team had spent 50 years in their league, lost the first half of the games in the season and staged an epic comeback needing 3 points from this game to prevent relegation...well I'd probably watch that if it was pub five-a-side quality because I'd actually care about the story. | ||
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GreEny K
Germany7312 Posts
On December 30 2011 20:51 Jakkerr wrote: You are so wrong. We will be like, shut up kid SC3 is a terrible game, SC2 was the real deal. And then the real parents will be like "shut up kid, BW was the real deal" | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
First I picked out a really simple easy to follow game that was reasonably exciting from each mirror matchup. PvP is the best starting point in my opinion because it's typically low on base numbers with few units running around and if you pick a good game it's easy to see how micro can save the day. The mirror matchups allow your viewer to get a good idea of each race one at a time without looking at non-mirrors and trying to learn the playstyles of two races at once. During said games I would turn off the sound and try to commentate it myself, explaining things really dumbed down as the game is going on. You need to explain broad concepts like worker management and vision are important etc, but they'll also want to know specific things like WTF is a Marine is it any good. At the start I completely ignored upgrades and just said things like "Immortals beat Stalkers but Stalkers are faster" etcetera. After a few such starter games I moved on to a really exciting game, one that's the best of the best and back and forth so they can see how intense a really great game can be. You want to pick out the games you show them. The first games they see are important because if they're one sided or over too quickly they'll think it's pretty stupid, but if it's clearly going back and forth and takes a long time and the casting is good they may think differently. After THAT we watched a team league set together, because IMO team leagues involve more strategy and you can see the players and the teams more often, and it's better at showing the human side of the game. After all that, now my dad watches tournaments with me. It's pretty great. | ||
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TSM
Great Britain584 Posts
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. the future sounds awesome until it happens. well i am quite young and my dad played the sc1 campaigns so hes kinda interested but my mum has nothing to do with it and thinks my PC is the antichrist | ||
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FADCoUltra
Canada73 Posts
But who knows, may yours are very open minded, and like to support you after you show them how much passion you have. So I would take it slow, explain one little bit at a time. If you're too eagered and try to to expalin all the awsomeness at once, you'll loose them pretty quick, just a couple of things every time, over the course of a couple of month, gotta be patient. | ||
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