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And it was booooooooring. Think it's boring watching your friends play video games? Try watching total strangers PWN each other. As a self respecting gamer, I hope this fails.
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- Scott_Bromley
- 2 years ago
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/video/feeds/broadcast/PD04389_PLY_KoreaGamers.flv
But wouldn't you want to be a professional athlete and make a living doing it, like in South Korea? I know you would. There's a price to pay for fame and fortune.
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Back in the day (2002-2004) I made a documentary about competitive gaming, and I spent a lot of time at a couple major gaming events and a few minor ones. It's my opinion that gaming DOES have the potential to be a spectator sport in the same way that NASCAR is. That is to say that in order to enjoy NASCAR, you either need some literacy in precision driving, or you're impressed by things moving very fast. I don't think watching screen captures is very impressive to most non-gaming literate folks, and knowing the appetites of hardcore gamers, I hardly think boxing and Guitar Hero are the best way to tap into the market of literate gamers. I think CBS has missed the boat on this one.
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I think this would be more accessible to the masses if some of the competitions were focused on the casual gamers market. I for one would be fascinated by a Tetris tournament.
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- Scott_Bromley
- 2 years ago
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With any luck, this is what the show will be like.
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- Scott_Bromley
- 2 years ago
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This was not teh first time that CBS has aired this stuff actually, but I did catch teh tail end of some of it. As a past competitive gamer I was happy to see it catching on here in the states finally. This stuff is huge in some major global markets so it is bound to be big here some day in the future. That doesn't always work I guess if you think about soccer as an example, but I digress. I used to travel and play in Halo tournaments, BF1942 and a few others when I own and operated a gaming center. If we have some people that can talk serious gaming then let me know as I still keep track of the scene and enjoy gaming of all kinds...even WoW.
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This format can work with televising competitive gaming as long as they use the right games, such as a Halo, CS, any of the good team soldier type games like SOCOM etc... Actually I am working on a project based kind of in the world of competitive gaming so I need to hurry up and finish it before this stuff really hits big.
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My experience was that CS is highly watchable given a basic understanding of maps, strats, and rules.
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Yeah I was never a big CS fan, but I did appreciate the simplicity of the maps and gameplay as to how it could be translated to a very fast, watchable, enjoyable game. Games that move too fast and spastic like Quake won't ever translate to a general viewing audience as well as a Halo or CS. Hell even Battlefield would be great to be televised if you could edit it all later and show what is going on better.
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Watch out American Idol.
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Your main source for online tournements, and competition.
