Why do I cringe at watching grown men and women "sportcasting" video games? Don't get me wrong, I actually like watching the games themselves, but when they start showing adults talking about game characters and strategies it just looks really off to me.I'm a grown man myself (34 years old) and enjoy playing competitive games from time to time. But this just doesn't feel right at all. I highly doubt many of these people even play or know how to play the game themselves.
On a side note, games are generally supposed to be about fun. I don't like sports myself but in sports everyone is on an even playing field and skill itself determines who will win. Games with multiple factions and characters are *never* going to have any kind of perfect balance or even playing field so I can't understand how they can talk about this stuff as if it's skill that determines outcomes. It's a bit ridiculous if you ask me.
I'm not saying it doesn't require skill. It does, but the heroes and matchups are never going to be perfectly balanced. The only way it would ever be considered balanced is if both sides had the same heroes. But nobody will ever consider that because it would make for boring games to watch.
Aaron Sullivan
hoes mad
Ryan Kelly
All the casters play.
Thomas Evans
Drafting is a skill
Leo Gomez
You are so triggered over this for no reason at all. Pretty pathetic desu.
Josiah Reed
I agree, it's really pathetic Also having the casters wear formal clothing adds even more insult to injury
Adrian Morales
Ok, drafting is a skill. Why do I always see the same heroes chosen in nearly every matchup when there are a boatload other heroes to pick? What if valve decides to make a unbalanced hero or Blizzard makes an unbalanced hero themselves?
It's simply just never going to be perfectly balanced unless both sides are playing the same exact heroes. Again, skill is a factor but you are putting balance in the hands of game designers who are imperfect themselves. This can't be argued.
Zachary Scott
I wish that every adult who is stupid enough to do vidya related shit in public would be killed off. Just play games if you want to, but don’t be a fucking retard who shows it to others.
Aiden Flores
>What if valve decides to make a unbalanced hero There's plenty of them already.
Carter Fisher
Not to mention that these adults are interviewing players who most of the time happen to be children. It's hilarious.
Carson Diaz
You're watching some smuchs that aren't Tastosis.
Eli Bailey
I dont know what games are you watching but all heroes have been picked and every game is completely different. It seems you dont understand.
Levi Long
You dont understand how to play dota*
Daniel Gutierrez
Tidehunter gets picked in 90 percent of matchups? There is a big clue right there.
Austin Perez
You are complaining about tide? Not alche? Ogre magi? Bambi? Learn the games you are complaining about first.
Adrian Barnes
Because it makes money, sports are equally cringe.
Nolan Foster
HOLY FUCK THAT GAME
Nicholas Roberts
That was a pretty nice comeback, I'll admit.
Alexander Nguyen
The interviews are all cringe but the gameplay is solid
Asher Reyes
Nice? The fuck are you watching. That was the hardest thrown in televized history.
>but in sports everyone is on an even playing field and skill LOL you fucking child real sports are even more variable than games
Tyler Cooper
my man redeye
Justin Hall
>always see the same heroes >last game was a meepo visage game
Nolan Bennett
>in sports everyone is on an even playing field I forgot that all humans have the same genetics and muscle mass; and noone has ever had a natural advantage from a physical aspect
Jordan Smith
Personally I'm glad Mineski lost that game. They picked some bullshit standard ass heroes and deserve to get their shit pushed in.
Daniel Sanders
That's because you're a boomer. So am I. Things have changed, there's real money in esports now. I kinda miss how comfy and casual early Dota 2 was but what can you do.
Michael Morris
I cringe watching normal sportscasters. Every time I go on break at work, somebody has the TV set to ESPN. I can't even imagine spending my life caring about any of that stupid shit. It almost feels like even they realize how fucking empty and pointless half of their statistics and HOT TAKES are. God smite any man who gives a fuck about what team picked who in any sport, holy fuck what a waste of time.
Even the people who WANT to watch it, they turn the channel to ESPN and then pull out their phones, like they just need the fucking constant droning of NIGGERBALLNIGGERBALLNIGGERBALL in the background or they can't relax.
Fuck all of it man. Only casters worth their salt are the fun ones, which you only find in Baseball and Starcraft: Brood Wars.
Ryan Price
Because it is made for beta males and females who cannot play real sport, it's a part of creating a docile society
Ryan Gomez
you know dota has like a 96% male player base right? I get that part of your weird conspiracy theory doesn't want that but dota isn't exactly a female game
Elijah Foster
That alchemist played like shit.
Adam Watson
He has a point. For example, fighting game match-ups can make a match 9:1 in favor to a character, even between pro players. That doesn't exist in sports, like Pepe being a hard counter to Messi or some shit. It's more of a spectrum depending on fitness, skill, shitty day, etc. Video games have all that PLUS statistical matchups.
You have honestly probably been brainwashed from so many years of games being for kids and what society has told you that you are having a hard time taking these things seriously only due to it feeling unnatural. There is fundamentally no difference between a team that plays a video games and a team that plays any average sport. I'm sure at some point people were laughing at these retards throwing around a ball with arbitrary rules. It's the exact same thing.
Games can be about fun, but they can be taken more seriously, just like anything. It's kind of a false idea to think that a game has to be entirely symmetrical to be "fair". You probably just have a shallow understanding of strategy or the game to think that because it's not "perfect balance" that it's invalid. Also there's no such thing as perfect symmetry in a game anyways, it only superficially looks that way in things like soccer or baseball because appearance-wise it is. I don't really care if the Olympics is "fair", Usain Bolt sprints for 10 seconds and he has a world record for doing the simplest action of all time, I don't get how it's fun or skillful because he has god tier genetics that got him where he is.
Meanwhile for video games you have people of all shapes and sizes, who have to utilize their brains and can work hard to succeed regardless of most of their genetics. Games overall are much more fair.
A football will always be the same football to everybody. You can throw the football and catch the football and work out to physical peakness and so can the other team. The football doesn't change into a triangle or a square and the player's shoes do not turn into weights.
Generally it's HEALTHY people that become athletes and it's the practice and leadership that essentially dictates how the game will go.
You're simply fucking WRONG if you're telling me any video game is fair for both sides unless both sides play the same exact heroes or factions.
Justin Bell
You are basically retarded, all that a symmetrical game does is shift the imbalance from the game to impersonal. There is always going to be luck factors in every game. You can never 100% minimize it. Even chess, the go-to symmetrical game example, is strongly imbalanced in favor of white at the high levels. There is no such thing as a symmetrical game. You are just a brainlet who can't realize this because you are looking at things superficially.
Easton Rogers
3/4ths of those panel members are in the upper echelon of mmr you brainwashed mutt
Asher Nelson
I was a sports fan for decades and this is true. I still love college football to death but watching supplemental coverage is cringe af. Watching any other sport at this point and >holy fuck WHO CARES? smacks me in the face every time now. Shame because I really liked it for a long time. Sucks getting old. Nothing is interesting any more.
Isaac Wilson
Depends on the match-up. Every fighting game has them.
William Campbell
Reminder that Peruvians are the most enjoyable dota players to watch and that all chink teams aka white honorless imports deserve to lose for playing like virgins.
nah I'm with you they're trying so hard to emulate espn at times sometimes the casters are terrible and don't know enough about the game and it drags the experience down, like the hoarse-voiced chick from soulcalibur at evo
Juan Wright
They caster have top tier mmr you dumb fuck.
Also holy fuck that storn was nonexistent.
Lincoln Perry
OP wasn't talking specifically about dota and neither was I you faggot
This, sucks trading Statman bruno, for nahaz. But gotta admit the games have been pretty amazing and that's what really matters, I simply mute after the games are over now.
Christian Rogers
I mean, Potemkin from GG has had some 1:9 matchups in some versions and people still respected that character. Mostly when it was played by F.A.B.
Asher Kelly
there's a multi-billion dollar industry essentially based on people kicking a ball around. The only reason why this shit is an issue with vidya is because it's new. Grandstanding about it is silly
Because you are watching it for the game. Not filler.
James Sanchez
I don't talk about videogames with my coworkers because it feels like the kind of thing that sounds creepy to do as an adult. I can't even imagine having commenting videogames as my profession.
