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KvP:

--- Quote from: Anyways on 09 Dec 2007, 23:14 ---
--- Quote from: Storm Rider on 09 Dec 2007, 17:45 ---I also consider professional gaming to be a monumental waste of time. Not only is it silly to watch people gaming when you could be playing a game yourself, but also Counterstrike can go ahead and fuck off. I don't want to watch people playing an ugly, 10-year-old game.

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What, and playing them isn't? Gaming as a whole is a useless thing, but it's fun, which is the entire point.

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I think what SR (and I) find dubious about the gaming tournament system is that it's obviously attempting to set up gaming as a sport, with pro players and corporate endorsements and telecast matches with roaring crowds and the like. I can draw a line and say that actual sports require some athleticism. Whether or not that's reasonable, well, you decide.

I don't know. I have no qualms about tournaments per se, they've been around with card games and such for ages, it's just that this whole "WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS WOOO" stuff seems like the product of some guy in a suit's misguided ideas of what young people like. Remember xXx, the Vin Diesel action film? You could practically see the studio executive thinking "kids these days like spy movies, and kids these days like Xtreme Sports... An Xtreme Sporting secret agent movie! Yes! Money!" Pro gaming is sort of like that. It's a corporate (I hate to use that adjective, but it's appropriate) attempt to cash in on the fact that kids like video games, and like playing against one another.

Gemmwah:
To be honest, i see no harm in having the world championships because they're recognising the people that are the best at their games. It just so happens that these games are on a computer rather than outside, but still, it must be nice to go and say "yeah, i'm one of the best in the world at this". I know I'd like to be appreciated if I ever got that good.

Watching the WoW videos was pretty awesome, the CSS got dull rather quickly because I cut in towards the end of a game and then the stupid hundredmillion minute ad break came on, so i was just like "fuck this" and went to bed.

Still, some of you guys might think that it is completely stupid to have the CGS but to be honest there's gonna be plenty of other people who want to watch and go see it, and i figure if you think it's stupid then don't watch it. it's not as if it's being streamed on every site on the internet, it's fairly easy to avoid it. I think it's a good idea and i like watching events where it's pitting the best against the best, whether it be actual sporting events, or the CGS.

Johnny C:

--- Quote from: Storm Rider on 09 Dec 2007, 17:45 ---Not only is it silly to watch people gaming when you could be playing a game yourself

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To be specific, I kinda like watching games sometimes. There are some really cinematic video games out there.

Didn't someone do a list of the top ten games as fun to watch as they are to play?

Scandanavian War Machine:
yes, there are in fact games that are fun to watch without ever having to play. Bioshock is surprisingly fun to watch, though not a multiplayer game. Same thing with Assassin's Creed (to a lesser extent).

The only multiplayer example i can think of off the top of my head would be Call of Duty. That is an intense game even if you are just watching.

Gemmwah:
STV is the worst place in the entire of WoW, regardless of it being pretty. Hate hate hate.

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