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the Pimpest Plays of 2010, 2011 and 2012

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Maltos
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany6 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-09 07:46:54
April 08 2013 14:21 GMT
#1
Hey everyone!

I guess you all remember the Pimpest Plays made for Broodwar. I always enoyed them. As I couldnt find any similar for Starcraft II (I found something, but it wasnt good) i decided to make my own project. After a work of a lot of hours in which i searched the games, searched the replays/vods and cutted/edited everything together, i finally finished. I hope you enjoy the Pimpest Plays 2010/2011/2012:


As its blocked in Germany and some other countrys on youtube because of the music in the background ill post a daylimotion link as soon as I will be able to uploud it there

EDIT: The DailymotionVideo is up now :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyu18c_starcraft-2-pimpest-plays-2010-2011-2012_videogames#.UWL1XsqbduQ

Please give some feedback
Maltos
TylerThaCreator
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States906 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 14:25:05
April 08 2013 14:23 GMT
#2
The editing throughout the movie* (for example, at like 5-6 8-10 mins in) makes it incredibly hard to see (the colors are so dark that you can't really see anything..)
aka SethN
kennyf
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom54 Posts
April 08 2013 14:28 GMT
#3
Great video, a lot of really good clips.

There was a few typos (daylimotion etc) and the video itself is quite dark. Should be a lot brighter, sometimes can't see details, on creep for example.

But overall amazing work. Good watch
HeeroFX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States2704 Posts
April 08 2013 14:31 GMT
#4
i hate the song but cool video i remember so many of those games.
KarlKaliente
Profile Joined March 2012
United States434 Posts
April 08 2013 14:33 GMT
#5
Ahahahaah yes I completely forgot about pimpest plays. Very happy to see it back. No sound at work but I enjoyed the editing and plays. Great video!
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Weirdkid
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Singapore2431 Posts
April 08 2013 14:36 GMT
#6
Some parts hurt my eyes haha, but it was very nice overall
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Hacksaw11
Profile Joined July 2008
Australia359 Posts
April 08 2013 14:39 GMT
#7
lol'd @ idra's
- -
Drium
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States888 Posts
April 08 2013 14:40 GMT
#8
This is awesome! It made me want to go back and watch all the old pimpest plays videos.
KwanROLLLLLLLED
Cybren
Profile Joined February 2010
United States206 Posts
April 08 2013 14:41 GMT
#9
Why does every attempt at a modern Pimpest Plays include that masterasia game...
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TRaFFiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada1448 Posts
April 08 2013 14:42 GMT
#10
The effects make it so I got no idea what's going. Harder to appreciate these great moments, but that's just me.
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Drake
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany6146 Posts
April 08 2013 14:44 GMT
#11
i heared exvodsphoenix (one of the best sc1 moviemakers, learned from the best ^^, you see kAra movie sc1) is going to buy sc2 so i will force him to make a sc2 video too xD
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Beardedclam
Profile Joined September 2010
United States839 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 14:46:35
April 08 2013 14:45 GMT
#12
Nice video but it looks very similar to the other top play videos. Also, one play that most people seem to not use that is great and underrated is this Genius storm drops. Genius also had some great viodray micro where each voidray survived with around 10hp during an all in. Naniwa and Kiwikaki using imortall drops to bust out of a contain. Some of lifes ling micro. Leenocks queen switch to block the hellions. I think it might be helpfull to get a thread going where everyone can suggest some plays and then someone can get a video together of them all. Nice job though .
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nkr
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Sweden5451 Posts
April 08 2013 14:48 GMT
#13
liked it, but as others say it's way too dark

also, darkforce infestor harass vs nerchio is nice, but it's also quite standard ;p
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Tidus Mino
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom1108 Posts
April 08 2013 14:50 GMT
#14
I remember one of the most exciting plays I saw was at ASUS ROG Winter 2012, with BlinG doing a storm drop vs Polt on antiga shipyard, you should add this to your next pimpest plays

On topic, it was really well done, perhaps a little dark in places, I think brighter with more colour would be better
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Poehalcho
Profile Joined October 2011
149 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 15:01:19
April 08 2013 14:58 GMT
#15
Terrible editing. This could've been so much better, but thanks to color filters, flashy screens and bad zoomins it's impossible to judge wtf is going on. Music could've been better too, metal rarely works for these sorta clips.

The selection of clips was pretty good though. I suggest you just try to remake it, with good production in mind instead of how these things usually look like...
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-Kyo-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Japan1926 Posts
April 08 2013 14:59 GMT
#16
pretty okay... One of the really good thing about the old pimpest play videos was the minimal visual editing though. I think to really appreciate the games you need as little editing and "loud" music as possible, it seemed really over the top. Good clips for sure, but perhaps you should look back to the old ones for some reference for 2013, or if you're going to edit it needs to be really really well done like super 15
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Chaosu
Profile Joined October 2005
Poland404 Posts
April 08 2013 15:06 GMT
#17
i think it's crap
Please be patient.
Mortal
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
2943 Posts
April 08 2013 15:10 GMT
#18
Can we retire "Pimpest" to the depths? Not a very good video either (pardon the honesty). I don't think some poorly produced content really deserves a thread.
The universe created an audience for itself.
Kitai
Profile Joined June 2012
United States873 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 15:14:44
April 08 2013 15:13 GMT
#19
It was a good effort and entertaining in places. Including typos in your videos can be a real turn off though, like MVP's usage of the "snip" ability in the first clip. Keep practicing ^^
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alukarD
Profile Joined July 2012
Mexico396 Posts
April 08 2013 15:17 GMT
#20
Definitely Squirtle vs MVP takes the cake of the video, and probably best overall series of WoL. For me.
But you definitely missed Kiwikaki vs Stephano IPL game. And Grubby vs Nerchio on WCS. Yes Im protoss.
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DruidzHistory
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden231 Posts
April 08 2013 15:18 GMT
#21
the music, it's like watching Demuslims stream
bgx
Profile Joined August 2010
Poland6595 Posts
April 08 2013 15:24 GMT
#22
Idra plays are unpimpest play, thats a whole different category of highlight videos ;P
Stork[gm]
Maltos
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany6 Posts
April 08 2013 15:28 GMT
#23
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah I know and realize my editing sucked, i really overdone there everything^^ Shouldve used 3 or 4 effects more carefully, but im still learning and will hopefully do better for my next.

there are a lot of games which are very nice and could be called pimpest, i just had to pick some - couldnt bring in all. But maybe a part 2 will come with more games and better editing.

for the music its difficult to touch everyones taste, this is the music i like so i enjoyed using it, but maybe i should use more "neutral" music in the next one.... :D
FeyFey
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany10114 Posts
April 08 2013 15:28 GMT
#24
Well for a only alot of hours it is nice work and thanks for thinking about poor Germans. I really miss pimpest play too *sigh*. Peoples standards have become so high, that nothing is good anymore and there is so much going on that no one has the time to really find the top plays.
But it is best to have someone else double check your video, before making it public to avoid typos and confusing effects.
Fus
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden1112 Posts
April 08 2013 15:31 GMT
#25
I had seen most of the clips already to that was a bit dissapointing to me also the video would have been better without any editing, the colours where to dark.
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crbox
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada1180 Posts
April 08 2013 15:32 GMT
#26
maybe I missed it but no leenock infestor burrow?
ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
April 08 2013 15:32 GMT
#27
Over-editing (as usual for this type of video :/), but good memories nonetheless.
Arceus
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Vietnam8333 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 15:38:33
April 08 2013 15:33 GMT
#28
I appreciate your effort but the video unnecessarily hurts my eyes. All the effects make it look really ugly

edit: ok I turn it off at around 5:00 during the longest basetrade. Seriously remove all the freaking darkening effect!!
danl9rm
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States3111 Posts
April 08 2013 15:35 GMT
#29
On April 09 2013 00:06 Chaosu wrote:
i think it's crap


He's looking for feedback, just tell him how you really feel.
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Alexj
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Ukraine440 Posts
April 08 2013 15:41 GMT
#30
I'm sorry, but these effects make my eyes hurt
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greggy
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom1483 Posts
April 08 2013 15:42 GMT
#31
can't actually tell what the hell is going on half the time, you really need to spend a few days re-editing it
Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12246 Posts
April 08 2013 15:42 GMT
#32
Cool vid but doing it without all the filters etc would have been better imo.
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ErrantKnight
Profile Joined November 2012
Switzerland186 Posts
April 08 2013 15:47 GMT
#33
At 12.40 minutes, "What already done !?" Great work, maybe put the names for colors in mirror match-ups (per exemple in #3 Huk vs Naniwa") next time. Missed a few games but you have to make choices so I understand.
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n0ise
Profile Joined April 2010
3452 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 15:58:59
April 08 2013 15:57 GMT
#34
had to stop 3 minutes in because of all the silly "amazing marine micro"-type descriptions

a lot of small quirks, it's a shame you didn't make this more public or consult with some more experienced 'frag'-movie makers, it had potential
Elche
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland170 Posts
April 08 2013 15:59 GMT
#35
Video is way too dark, editing is weird. all the zoom ins, cuts and fastforwardings made it really tiring to watch.
klibrt
Profile Joined August 2010
United States533 Posts
April 08 2013 16:05 GMT
#36
I had to stop as soon as the gameplay stuff was being shown. Way too dark for my liking and I don't wanna make an effort watching a video.
Emix_Squall
Profile Joined February 2012
France705 Posts
April 08 2013 16:08 GMT
#37
Great video, a bit dark as everyone pointed out but still a good watch!

Having been watching most of those moment live it gave me quite some nerd chills to be honest :D
boxerfred
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Germany8360 Posts
April 08 2013 16:10 GMT
#38
Go for the dailymotion link. gotta hate gema.
Thalandros
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
Netherlands1151 Posts
April 08 2013 16:12 GMT
#39
Sick video, and nicely done. A lot of memories just came back. Thanks!
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Aleteh
Profile Joined December 2011
Denmark166 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 16:23:14
April 08 2013 16:22 GMT
#40
1) Its like om watching a reflection of myself its that dark. Make sure when you are editing that you test it first to have the correct gamma and brightness.
2) The music doesn't fit at all.
3) About music, make it sync with whats happening. Draw inspiration from well produced FPS game movies (Quake or CS 1.6)
4) MVP vs Squirtle, it really really annoyed me when the commentary from tastosis just gets cut off and then back. Its a hype moment and you just killed if off completely by doing that
5) Instead of just showing off what pro players have done, i suggest doing stuff for the community. Let lesser known/complete unknown players submit replays with timestamps of "pimpest" plays (I hate that term). Gives them some much needed recognition.
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ejozl
Profile Joined October 2010
Denmark3376 Posts
April 08 2013 16:27 GMT
#41
Hate the music and Idra leaving vs MMA is not Pimpest play, also there are so many good ones left out.
Some good, a lot of nostalgia, watched it till end.
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Pres1990
Profile Joined April 2011
Poland14 Posts
April 08 2013 16:28 GMT
#42
Nice video but you missed Nerchio's hatch defense at HSC V form YongHwa's dts
sAxiS
Profile Joined March 2013
Canada10 Posts
April 08 2013 16:35 GMT
#43
Not a big fan of the editing. Effects are very rarely ever needed in game video editing, especially since the small details are the main attraction of these clips.

Still, thanks for the effort in putting these clips together. Next time use your own eye when you're editing clips, sit down and judge whether or not what you're trying to show off is enhanced or distracted by the effects you've chosen.
Ravensong170
Profile Joined June 2012
United States858 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 16:45:58
April 08 2013 16:44 GMT
#44
too dark. Some of the plays were pretty standard. BUt you missed probably the best play of the year. Nerchio Vs. Yonghwa Homestory Cup 5. Game 5 ( I believe) He defened his hatchery against DT's wtih drones. And didn't have detection yet. Crazy hatchery block.

when he did that. you knew Nerchio was just on a different level than younghwa. (at least back then)
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BretZ
Profile Joined May 2011
United States1510 Posts
April 08 2013 16:45 GMT
#45
Certainly a call back to the old pimpest plays. It felt even a bit nostalgic since I've seen 95% of the clips live unlike the brood war ones. (I still watch those too.)

A lot of people are pointing out the darkness filter, which I agree isn't really needed. Music choice, you aren't always going to win and I feel that type of metal fits with the "pimpest plays" theme. The text was kinda meh, but the transitions were pretty good. You can always redo it if you feel the need to
MekTypro
Profile Joined July 2010
France360 Posts
April 08 2013 16:55 GMT
#46
We need more like this !

Good job
Maltos
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany6 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 17:00:01
April 08 2013 16:59 GMT
#47
ok for all the germans the dailymotion-version is out now. unfortually the quality is atm at 360p max. dunno maybe it will get better with the time (maybe they need some time to work with the video), i dont have much experience with dailymotion though. You can find it here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyu18c_starcraft-2-pimpest-plays-2010-2011-2012_videogames#.UWL1XsqbduQ

About the Dark Templer scene (Nerchio vs YoungHwa): I planed to put this one in too and as you can see its in the replaypack i uploaded, but at the end i totally forgot that game - i could beat myself for that -.- >.<



AGAIN: Thanks for all the good and bad feedback, it really helps me alot!
renaissanceMAN
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1840 Posts
April 08 2013 17:13 GMT
#48
it was a great video, but it was so dark that it was pretty hard to watch.
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MisterTea
Profile Joined September 2010
United Kingdom1047 Posts
April 08 2013 17:29 GMT
#49
way too dark and too much special fx used, tone it down a little and re upload it i say and it'll be muhc better
lookfirewood
Profile Joined May 2011
1212 Posts
April 08 2013 18:29 GMT
#50
This is cool. I really love the ambition and the general idea. But the ambition is your downfall though.
I believe you had more focus on making the video awesome with effects rather than content. Which is missing the point. But dont get me wrong, I am not pooping on your production, I am trying to give you tips for the future!

Things to think about next time (because I really hope you keep this up, the idea is awesome, but you need to polish it):

1: Too much material to cover: 3 years is waaaaay to much material to cover in one video, you should have done one for each year at tops. You missed some of the pimpest plays over the years (in my oppinion ofcourse, but I believe may would agree).
2: Keep awesome looking effects where they belong: Some effects (and screen cutouts), even though they are beautiful, it makes it hard to appreciate the pimpness of the plays at almost every occation in the video. Place video effects and unrelated awesomness in between the clips that show pimpness. That way the effects are more lovable and the pimpest plays more lovable.
3: Keep it to the original speed: It's hard to understand what happens when you speed up the gamespeed in a video, and again, it's hard to appreciate the pimpness unless you relive the play at the original speed.
4: Music sync: Who doesn't love music sync! It's awesome! You have done that really well in this video, but again, keep it where it belongs. Do not edit the actual video to match the sound by cutting out important stuff, speeding the clip or slowing the clip. You gotta match it by using longer/shorter clips (where it is possible, so you don't cut out important scenes) or do not audio-sync at all. Priority number one must always be the pimpest play!

All this comes from me with good intent and I really hope you can take it constructivly. I love this kind of videos and I really hope you dig deeper into this and perfect your already good skills!

best
Kim
R.I.P STX 03.08.2013 never forget.
j4vz
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada976 Posts
April 08 2013 18:42 GMT
#51
Anyone remember the game on cloud kingdom where a top korean (terran) kept rebuilding a supply depot everytime it went down to rewall at the 3rd base location ?

that was really epic cant remember who it was, but i think it was prolly 2-3month ago.
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Maltos
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany6 Posts
April 08 2013 18:58 GMT
#52
On April 09 2013 03:29 lookfirewood wrote:
This is cool. I really love the ambition and the general idea. But the ambition is your downfall though.
I believe you had more focus on making the video awesome with effects rather than content. Which is missing the point. But dont get me wrong, I am not pooping on your production, I am trying to give you tips for the future!

Things to think about next time (because I really hope you keep this up, the idea is awesome, but you need to polish it):

1: Too much material to cover: 3 years is waaaaay to much material to cover in one video, you should have done one for each year at tops. You missed some of the pimpest plays over the years (in my oppinion ofcourse, but I believe may would agree).
2: Keep awesome looking effects where they belong: Some effects (and screen cutouts), even though they are beautiful, it makes it hard to appreciate the pimpness of the plays at almost every occation in the video. Place video effects and unrelated awesomness in between the clips that show pimpness. That way the effects are more lovable and the pimpest plays more lovable.
3: Keep it to the original speed: It's hard to understand what happens when you speed up the gamespeed in a video, and again, it's hard to appreciate the pimpness unless you relive the play at the original speed.
4: Music sync: Who doesn't love music sync! It's awesome! You have done that really well in this video, but again, keep it where it belongs. Do not edit the actual video to match the sound by cutting out important stuff, speeding the clip or slowing the clip. You gotta match it by using longer/shorter clips (where it is possible, so you don't cut out important scenes) or do not audio-sync at all. Priority number one must always be the pimpest play!

All this comes from me with good intent and I really hope you can take it constructivly. I love this kind of videos and I really hope you dig deeper into this and perfect your already good skills!

best
Kim



WoW this is the kind of feedback i love to see :D It will really help me thanks!
And to your "hope": Yes i will keep doing it and hopefully will get better in that kind of stuff, posts like yours make me get motivated (because thats all you need) even more :D
LeeDawg
Profile Joined April 2012
United States1306 Posts
April 08 2013 19:01 GMT
#53
sick video brah. i remember many of these
:-)
triforks
Profile Joined November 2010
United States370 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 19:14:51
April 08 2013 19:14 GMT
#54
why is it so dark hurt my eyes -_-

edit: but nice video theres not enough of this stuff for sc2
lookfirewood
Profile Joined May 2011
1212 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 19:24:25
April 08 2013 19:24 GMT
#55
On April 09 2013 03:58 Maltos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 09 2013 03:29 lookfirewood wrote:
This is cool. I really love the ambition and the general idea. But the ambition is your downfall though.
I believe you had more focus on making the video awesome with effects rather than content. Which is missing the point. But dont get me wrong, I am not pooping on your production, I am trying to give you tips for the future!

Things to think about next time (because I really hope you keep this up, the idea is awesome, but you need to polish it):

1: Too much material to cover: 3 years is waaaaay to much material to cover in one video, you should have done one for each year at tops. You missed some of the pimpest plays over the years (in my oppinion ofcourse, but I believe may would agree).
2: Keep awesome looking effects where they belong: Some effects (and screen cutouts), even though they are beautiful, it makes it hard to appreciate the pimpness of the plays at almost every occation in the video. Place video effects and unrelated awesomness in between the clips that show pimpness. That way the effects are more lovable and the pimpest plays more lovable.
3: Keep it to the original speed: It's hard to understand what happens when you speed up the gamespeed in a video, and again, it's hard to appreciate the pimpness unless you relive the play at the original speed.
4: Music sync: Who doesn't love music sync! It's awesome! You have done that really well in this video, but again, keep it where it belongs. Do not edit the actual video to match the sound by cutting out important stuff, speeding the clip or slowing the clip. You gotta match it by using longer/shorter clips (where it is possible, so you don't cut out important scenes) or do not audio-sync at all. Priority number one must always be the pimpest play!

All this comes from me with good intent and I really hope you can take it constructivly. I love this kind of videos and I really hope you dig deeper into this and perfect your already good skills!

best
Kim



WoW this is the kind of feedback i love to see :D It will really help me thanks!
And to your "hope": Yes i will keep doing it and hopefully will get better in that kind of stuff, posts like yours make me get motivated (because thats all you need) even more :D


Glad I could help!

I also forgot to mention cropping. Dont do it! Mini-map is a vital part in understanding what happens in the game, even if there's a crazy ass micro bit that's going on, because questions always arise "is it a base-race? is it 5? 10? or even 25minutes into the game?" etc.

best
Kim
R.I.P STX 03.08.2013 never forget.
chocopaw
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
2072 Posts
April 08 2013 20:34 GMT
#56
On April 09 2013 01:10 boxerfred wrote:
Go for the dailymotion link. gotta hate gema.


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nface
Profile Joined June 2011
106 Posts
April 08 2013 20:44 GMT
#57
This weird darkness makes it very unpleasant to watch the video. Also I think most of the stuff is already in other videos, not very original. Other than that, average video I guess.
N.geNuity
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States5112 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 20:58:50
April 08 2013 20:48 GMT
#58
don't label the play with what happens.

You don't see the brood war ones say "good marine control". You don't see soccer (aka football) highlight videos label plays. You don't see NBA basketball best plays label stuff. *edit: this is a little unfair, some of the brood war pimpest plays give names. But try to be a little better than "biggest air battle" or overuse of "epic". A lot of the brood war videos that name stuff go for like "boxer's ninja proxy" or "willpower hold lurkers" or something to that end).

basically don't label the play or "huge air battle", just label the game ("X vs Y 2011"). Keep it as simple as possible. The play is supposed to speak for itself

stopped watching at idra moment because you can't have pimp plays mixed with silly moments or stupid moments (of which there were ones earlier in the video)

I think it's bad to be honest, independent of issues with darkness. Poor selection and against the spirit of pimpest play/highlight videos.
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Prplppleatr
Profile Joined May 2011
United States1518 Posts
April 08 2013 21:14 GMT
#59
pretty cool but it's so dark that you dont really see what's happening, some brightness inthe next vid would be much better
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Hollandrock
Profile Joined January 2012
United Kingdom158 Posts
April 08 2013 21:25 GMT
#60
WHAT!??!? There is no TLO Nuke bait here! Pimpest play of all time...
ManicMarine
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia409 Posts
April 08 2013 21:41 GMT
#61
It's a good attempt but the post production often makes it difficult to see what's going on. Also, I don't understand why a lot of these clips made it in; pimpest plays is supposed to be about a particularly good strategy, piece of micro or specific mind game. Things like Idra leaving vs Bomber, or that TT1 base trade don't belong in this list. Mostly the clips were appropriate however.
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Maesy
Profile Joined November 2011
United States1444 Posts
April 08 2013 22:12 GMT
#62
I really enjoyed them all besides the Idra ones. That's not really Pimpest Plays.
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Maltos
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany6 Posts
April 09 2013 08:15 GMT
#63
On April 09 2013 05:48 N.geNuity wrote:
don't label the play with what happens.

You don't see the brood war ones say "good marine control". You don't see soccer (aka football) highlight videos label plays. You don't see NBA basketball best plays label stuff. *edit: this is a little unfair, some of the brood war pimpest plays give names. But try to be a little better than "biggest air battle" or overuse of "epic". A lot of the brood war videos that name stuff go for like "boxer's ninja proxy" or "willpower hold lurkers" or something to that end).

basically don't label the play or "huge air battle", just label the game ("X vs Y 2011"). Keep it as simple as possible. The play is supposed to speak for itself

stopped watching at idra moment because you can't have pimp plays mixed with silly moments or stupid moments (of which there were ones earlier in the video)

I think it's bad to be honest, independent of issues with darkness. Poor selection and against the spirit of pimpest play/highlight videos.



I think i know what you mean but i dont agree in all points (but in some). You compare Starcraft with soccer and other stuff. I dont think its legit. Starcraft is much more abstract and harder to understand than a cool soccermove. I always noticed in the BroodWar ones that for scenes i didnt see before the understanding what happened is really difficult. so I think the labels are needed here for guys who dont know the games they (the scenes) are from.
but i guess my labels a shit and its true. I shouldnt use words that judge the plays like "epic", "strong" and so on, i shouldve stayed objective and just label by describing. in this point youre right but if i delete the labels completely for some scenes its hard to understand whats happening.

anyways a good tip helped me a lot, i will keep an eye about this next time
Wertheron
Profile Joined October 2011
France439 Posts
April 09 2013 11:35 GMT
#64
Really cool video. You just forgert Darkforce vs Bratok long time ago with the first mass use of ghost against zerg where Darkforce used mindcontrol on one ghost to EMP all the other
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
April 09 2013 11:56 GMT
#65
I really wish people would add new plays, it's all the same highlights over and over again.
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Ace1123
Profile Joined September 2011
Philippines1187 Posts
April 09 2013 12:10 GMT
#66
Cool video! Too dark though.
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Veriol
Profile Joined October 2010
Czech Republic502 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-09 13:50:48
April 09 2013 13:34 GMT
#67
Before i watch im just going to say this. I dont believe it will be anywhere close to BW pimpest plays. Beacuse those were some pimpest plays I dont even think are possible in sc2.

After watching some actions didnt really belong in "pimpest plays" (idra leaving vs mma, kyrix vs mkp micro..). But as other pointed out they are highly repetetive on other videos. Video was too dark for my taste. The texts introducing the actions sometimes overlapped with them so we actually missed some of it (happy marine split come to mind). Some really good plays missed (sase holding baneling bust), but thats because you took 3years and wanted to make single video. I think one year would be better.
The music was good and fitting i feel.
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Finganforn
Profile Joined October 2012
Sweden77 Posts
April 13 2013 08:21 GMT
#68
I watched the whole video and enjoyed it as a compilation, but not as a video.
Good choices of moments to show, but overproduced, I don't personally think the effects make it unwatchable as some seem to, a bit of editing can make a video more memorable and outstanding, but in this case it backfired a bit.
It would be better labeled as "Best Moments" rather than "Pimpest Plays" with stuff like Idra GGing, that long but inefficient stalker micro, and that extremely long zergling vs zealot base race, those are interesting stuff, but not pimp plays.
Sticking to the casters and game sound would have been better than playing your favourite music over it, a lot of people are gonna have different music tastes and enjoy it less. (fwiw, I think it feels very un-starcrafty, that it's the same band playing almost every song, and guys, it's not metal, it's much closer to punk or mainstream rock)
But I liked the clips shown, would have been great with some links when possible, to be able to watch the whole matches.
MyLastSerenade
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany710 Posts
April 13 2013 08:50 GMT
#69
Nice Video, some clips are a bit hard to recognize, but i stilll liked it overall!
ibo422
Profile Joined April 2012
Belgium2844 Posts
April 13 2013 12:23 GMT
#70
Missing some good plays from players like squirtle (micro vs bboong), leenock's triple infestor, kiwikaki/ mc's air play, some nydus plays, .. and yeah as the majority said, the vid is a bit dark and some useless clips in it (like idra leaving a game..).

It feels like you based a lot on foreign scene, dunno why.

Littlemuff
Profile Joined August 2011
United Kingdom301 Posts
April 13 2013 12:47 GMT
#71
Take a chill pill with the Magic Bullet Looks lol.
Elem
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden4717 Posts
April 13 2013 12:56 GMT
#72
Personally I think that Moon's baneling bomb vs Slush isn't his "pimpest".

The sickest one for sure for me was just a week or so later vs Bomber at DH Summer in the semi-final on Tal'darim. Baiting Bomber so hard and burrowing midfight to win a lost battle. Saw that live and had the sickest chills as a zerg player ever. Until Life, at least.
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pieisamazing
Profile Joined May 2009
United States1234 Posts
April 13 2013 13:12 GMT
#73
half of these are just big armies attacking each other.

god i miss bw
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cocosoft
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden1068 Posts
April 13 2013 14:12 GMT
#74
The effects sucks.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Basher_
Profile Joined January 2011
82 Posts
April 13 2013 15:14 GMT
#75
yeah. very good plays. but could you make a brighter or somehow clearer video?
AySz88
Profile Joined March 2011
United States83 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-13 17:46:59
April 13 2013 17:46 GMT
#76
I love the effort, but I think it's a bit over-edited. Let the stories and plays shine through - the weird contrast colors and camera movements / pace changes were really distracting and sometimes made the stories confusing. More of the original commentary would have been fine to give us some context (ex. "that is also not a good use of a third command center" "must have been trying to kill the rocks" (paraphrasing) would have been good to have when they killed their own CC, otherwise we're not sure what's going on). It feels like you expected everyone to have seen all these games already, and you probably shouldn't assume that when making one of these videos.
tuho12345
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
4482 Posts
April 13 2013 17:56 GMT
#77
so heavy edited it hurts my eyes.
thezanursic
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
5478 Posts
April 13 2013 17:59 GMT
#78
Sorry for being a such a negative nancy, but I miss the BW pimpest plays and everything else about professional BW nothing quiet like it anymore and nothing can ever replicated it's success or how awesome it was again or even come close to it for that matter *sob*
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wozzot
Profile Joined July 2012
United States1227 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-13 18:13:09
April 13 2013 18:09 GMT
#79
To be honest, I don't think that people would be paying much attention to this video if it weren't called Pimpest Plays

There are already far more watchable highlight compilations (for example, this) out there, and virtually none of this covers new ground
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thezanursic
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
5478 Posts
April 13 2013 18:11 GMT
#80
On April 13 2013 22:12 pieisamazing wrote:
half of these are just big armies attacking each other.

god i miss bw

I know how you feel... While I enjoy the SSL, the TLS and Gambits cup it still doesn't compare to how good the professional scene was... I would love to see a pimpest play made for the first half of 2012.

The fact that the next SSL will be held where the last OSL concluded and that Sonic managed to get Yellow and NaDa to play a legends match gives me a little bit of hope that we might just see another real pimpest plays in 2014
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misspoo
Profile Joined December 2012
France63 Posts
April 13 2013 18:12 GMT
#81
I really don't like your edit, we see nothing and when we have a title it's look like pixel rush
Darrkhan
Profile Joined February 2012
Finland1236 Posts
April 13 2013 18:23 GMT
#82
On April 08 2013 23:50 Tidus Mino wrote:
I remember one of the most exciting plays I saw was at ASUS ROG Winter 2012, with BlinG doing a storm drop vs Polt on antiga shipyard, you should add this to your next pimpest plays

On topic, it was really well done, perhaps a little dark in places, I think brighter with more colour would be better


Omg yeah, I was watching that live it was 100% epic!
hal_
Profile Joined September 2012
United States6 Posts
April 13 2013 18:27 GMT
#83
There's way too much colour correction on this
do you want some meth? i don't know anything about it, but the people who made it are dead.
thezanursic
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
5478 Posts
April 13 2013 19:00 GMT
#84
Ohh and for anybody making any future Pimpest plays please include Korean commentary and better music selection


+ Show Spoiler +
Done perfectly
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zachMEISTER
Profile Joined December 2010
United States625 Posts
April 13 2013 20:09 GMT
#85
Great video for starters! Though, it could be better. As I used to edit shit like this all the time back in the CS 1.6 glory days, here are some tips I'd give:
  • Shorten your text. Telling a story 3 or 4 words at a time is annoying. Keep it short and sweet. If you must tell a story, it's better to use a paragraph in one scene than several scenes and few words at a time.

  • Adjust the colors. There is an option in every video program called "Color BALANCE"...use it to balance the colors, and then enhance some slightly.

  • Use cut-scenes. Instead of fast-forwarding and showing everything leading up to the scene it's cleaner-cut to just jump right into the scene. If you must show stuff prior to the scene-in-question, just use regular speed. (This one is iffy when dealing with SC2 as some displays of skill are over a longer period of time. I just personally hate the use of fast-forward, it seems tacky and lazy.)

  • Use animations for introductions. Even if your editing isn't professional, you could still animate the introduction a bit with built-in text effects and color effects to distinguish each scene, or player, or race rather than leaving plain-jane, white text to do the job. Here's an example of what I used to use when I made ESEA Clips of the Week.

This is an example of my work I couldn't find much more because most of my clips are physically on a harddrive, and because it was soo long ago. Overall, great start. I realize that editing videos isn't the same for every game, scene, movie, or clip. But these are some general tips I could give you to help you improve your videos.
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Ventil
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden414 Posts
April 13 2013 20:27 GMT
#86
I'm sorry, but I couldn't stand watching more than 2 minutes of this. The editing was just... bad. The filters and level adjustments just made it impossible to watch.

I've made several movies of this kind myself, and I remember experimenting a lot with color correction, gamma and levels myself. Fortunately, I grew out of that habit as time went on. Hopefully you'll do the same. It's a phase everyone goes through it seems :D

For the music I can't really complain. Everyone got different taste in music I guess.
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Maltos
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany6 Posts
April 13 2013 21:51 GMT
#87
Wow didnt expect the thread to come up again. Here are some really serious and helpfull tips i can use for new videos of mine - im really thankfull!
KonanTenshi
Profile Joined June 2012
Sweden210 Posts
April 13 2013 22:32 GMT
#88
you missed the kiwikaki vs stephano where kiwikaki set the new standard of archon toilet.

AND you missed some epic MMA vs DRG games, MVP vs July

I really enjoyed it though, missed some semi important games I think you should've included but the amout of amazing plays out there is to much so I doubt it'd be possible to fill em all in one video.

great work.
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Joedaddy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1948 Posts
April 13 2013 22:46 GMT
#89
Really disappointed with the video quality of this. The colors seemed all wrong and caused me to focus on all the things that were wrong instead of actually focusing on the pimpest plays T.T;

I'd much rather have seen normal resolutions with normal colors ^^;;
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n0ah
Profile Joined June 2011
United States250 Posts
April 13 2013 23:11 GMT
#90
Did this guy even watch his own video before publishing this?? I admire his passion and effort to make a video like this, but come on... I've never had such a bad headache while watching an sc video. -_-
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WackaAlpaca
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada208 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-14 02:51:59
April 14 2013 02:44 GMT
#91
I hope the "not very good" pimpest plays wasnt my thread that i made like 2 years ago.

Cuz that would hurt my feelings.

You think your cool because you put a lot of hours into a video? what the hell do you think i did?
Thanks for pissing on other peoples work.

EDIT: Link to my thread (I can't believe that was actually Feb 2011... holy crap so long ago)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=177511#1

I thought I did a pretty good job managing that thread by myself, and it seemed to be extremely popular, I can't remember how to check how many "Views" a thread got, but I remember it being over 11 thousand last time i checked (which would have been 2 years ago)

EDIT 02: Figured out the views thing, as of right now it has 35194 views which makes it the "Most popular" pimpest plays thread for sc2 to date. Again, it's great you took the time to make this and contribute to the community, but watch your mouth.
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ninjamyst
Profile Joined September 2010
United States1903 Posts
April 14 2013 02:51 GMT
#92
ruined so many epic moments with crappy editing....
DenTenker
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
United States606 Posts
April 14 2013 03:08 GMT
#93
Good video, but some more editing would make this video even more memorable. I can't really say much more than has already been said. Keep practicing! I'm sure these will get better as your editing skills improve and with HotS creating even more epic moments.
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theqat
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States2856 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-14 04:56:15
April 14 2013 03:12 GMT
#94
Fitting coda for WOL in a lot of ways. HOTS has so much to offer us and I look forward to seeing a 2013-2014 pimpest plays of HOTS video!

MarineKing vs Kyrix made me nostalgic for a time when I was as optimistic about WOL as I am now about HOTS. SO MANY BANELINGS was such a hype moment
shin_toss
Profile Joined May 2010
Philippines2589 Posts
April 14 2013 03:37 GMT
#95
My eyes hurt. can pick a not so noisy music too.
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Supercilium
Profile Joined May 2011
Sweden308 Posts
April 14 2013 03:51 GMT
#96
Remember watching the BW pimpest plays-videos a while after SC2 came out and felt that BW was way superior. Over the years there sure are some epic moments in SC2 as well. Really nice nostalgia since I've seen most of them already.
Although I didn´t like some of the editing but it was a really nice video, thanks!
Qntc.YuMe
Profile Joined January 2011
United States792 Posts
April 14 2013 07:56 GMT
#97
On April 09 2013 00:17 alukarD wrote:
Definitely Squirtle vs MVP takes the cake of the video, and probably best overall series of WoL. For me.
But you definitely missed Kiwikaki vs Stephano IPL game. And Grubby vs Nerchio on WCS. Yes Im protoss.

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