in my opinion, the english casters lack knowledge+entertainment value. for example day9, tastosis are very good but i also think Jason Lee(?) ex gsl caster was good if he was more knowledgeable in sc2 and i think one of the IPL caster is pretty good when it comes to shouting excitement. there's a reason why i'm paying extra for korean vods for GSL, it really does change the entertainment value by ten fold. i have hard time watching english gstl/code a because it gets very boring. this is because i've been exposed to korean casts for so long, watching english cast feels blend, the least with tastosis.

more translations will help english casters improve i think, as it brings awareness.

one to add, i realllly hope some of the sc2 casters take some basics in korean or at least prep (its not that hard)...many dont know how to pronounce some of the player's ID or real name.

Parnass

Germany145 Posts

March 26 2012 19:13 GMT

#166

this was pretty amazing!!!! the korean casters are so incredibly cool! good job!

Lansky

44 Posts

March 26 2012 19:18 GMT

#167

Every other subtitled line did not start with "He will go ahead and...." or some variation of this.

Instantly better than everything I've heard in English over the last year.

EndOfTime88

Austria259 Posts

March 26 2012 19:18 GMT

#168

While the commentary is good, I don't see a big difference between them, and what we get from Tastosis, aside from the fact they elaborate more articulately on aspects of the game that are common knowledge.

ilsamsamchil

155 Posts

March 26 2012 19:20 GMT

#169

I think English commentators(most) are just as capable of flowing that much information in a game instead of begging for tweet follows for first 5 minutes, it's just that tastosis has gone for more laid back approach to the casting.

But I would love to see wolf + tastosis(I think it's the best gsl english combination), energy might not be same as the Koreans but it would certainly help making watching VODs more helpful than watching replays.

either that or tasteless needs to step it up and not just read things on the screen for the viewers like a caster would (notice how the Korean caster barely talks and only reads out key information like what has been scouted or not for first few minutes and that works because there's a third person to fill in the gap) and do more of actual commentating if they are going to keep 2 man team, tasteless turned soft and degraded into a JP in recent year and half or so. it's sometimes really sad how artosis has to cut off tasteless talking about silly things when there's something real going on in the screen.

LuckyMacro

United States1482 Posts

March 26 2012 19:26 GMT

#170

bulgogi so good.

thanks for this!

namedplayer

844 Posts

March 26 2012 19:40 GMT

#171

English casters > korean casters imo.

haitike

Spain2722 Posts

March 26 2012 19:46 GMT

#172

On March 27 2012 04:40 namedplayer wrote:
English casters > korean casters imo.

Yes, they can say "follow me at twitter" and "the player X is going to do Y" or "Z is dead". They are so pros.

Ebzy

United Kingdom153 Posts

March 26 2012 19:46 GMT

#173

I really enjoyed that, the analysis was equal to the best casters (tastosis day 9 dappolo) but far superior to a fair few.

Good job, would love to see more!

shiroiusagi

SoCal, USA3955 Posts

March 26 2012 19:49 GMT

#174

Makes me wish foreign casters talked like that. They threw out some nice specific facts that most casters don't do. And it was all SC2, nothing really said that wasn't SC2.

Zamiel

United States211 Posts

March 26 2012 19:52 GMT

#175

Please, for the love of all that is holy, please sub more GSL VODs.

Ryndika

1489 Posts

March 26 2012 20:31 GMT

#176

PLEASE more subs, those casters are so enjoyable, omg I just found something amazing and translators are my gateway to it. Take responsibility.

N.geNuity

United States5112 Posts

March 26 2012 20:42 GMT

#177

On March 27 2012 04:49 shiroiusagi wrote:
Makes me wish foreign casters talked like that. They threw out some nice specific facts that most casters don't do. And it was all SC2, nothing really said that wasn't SC2.

It always is refreshing to see casters ready with good stats. They verbally threw in puzzle in ro8 of gsl (iirc), and I really never remember any english casters doing as well with stats (they generally would say "well he does well in gsl" or things such as that which sound a little underprepared. Not "he can handle pressure, he even made ro8 gsl recently!" or whatever the phrase is).

shows good professionalism. Note I haven't watched sc2 for a little while, except for the most recent MLG.