Do you watch the Flames play hockey? What's the difference? Why don't you just go play hockey instead of watching a bunch of sweaty 20-something dudes play hockey?
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There's a pretty huge difference between watching people perform athletics in the real world vs someone performing a digital replication of something on screen holding a controller.
Watching Messi score an amazing goal in real life is a far more incredible feat and more thrilling to watch than some guy with a controller making Messi score an amazing goal in an EA FIFA competition.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
There's a pretty huge difference between watching people perform athletics in the real world vs someone performing a digital replication of something on screen holding a controller.
Watching Messi score an amazing goal in real life is a far more incredible feat and more thrilling to watch than some guy with a controller making Messi score an amazing goal in an EA FIFA competition.
If thats your thing then sure.
For millions of people the opposite is true. Maybe not for FIFA but for video games in general.
There's a pretty huge difference between watching people perform athletics in the real world vs someone performing a digital replication of something on screen holding a controller.
Watching Messi score an amazing goal in real life is a far more incredible feat and more thrilling to watch than some guy with a controller making Messi score an amazing goal in an EA FIFA competition.
lol, you're saying that because you like watching hockey. I don't watch any team sports and don't see any difference. Watching other people have fun playing a game is lame to me regardless of it being a sport or a video game.
lol, you're saying that because you like watching hockey. I don't watch any team sports and don't see any difference. Watching other people have fun playing a game is lame to me regardless of it being a sport or a video game.
I have to agree. I feel the same watching snooker, ice dancing, football, or soccer. It's cool I guess... but I don't care enough to appreciate any bit of it. At the end of the day you spent a real long time learning something and now you have a mostly useless skill.
I'm not into e-sports but the notion that it's lame is odd considering all sports are a bit stupid.
lol, you're saying that because you like watching hockey. I don't watch any team sports
Hold on... what are you doing here?
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Do you watch the Flames play hockey? What's the difference? Why don't you just go play hockey instead of watching a bunch of sweaty 20-something dudes play hockey?
I can go into my basement and play video games with people all over the world instantly. It's much harder to do that with an actual sport.
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Before you call me a pessimist or a downer, the Flames made me this way. Blame them.
I can go into my basement and play video games with people all over the world instantly. It's much harder to do that with an actual sport.
Not much harder though. Every night of the week if you wanted you could find a sport to play. Are you saying that your enjoyment in watching something is proportional to the effort required to do it yourself at a much lower skill level.
I don't get e-sports - I always hated going to that one friend's house who didn't have enough N64 controllers, so we took turns watching each other play.
I also don't get EDM and any other latest music trend.
Or YouTubers and how they have millions of followers.
But there's no denying their popularity and who am I to judge and try and hold things back? It's no different than my dad not liking what I liked, and his dad not liking what he did.
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For millions of people the opposite is true. Maybe not for FIFA but for video games in general.
Even if some people find video game competitions far more entertaining, there's no real argument to be made that actually doing it in real life is more impressive a skill than doing it with a controller.
That's the thing about esports. No matter what game they're playing it all comes down to using a controller. There's no real world physical achievement. No matter which you enjoy watching more, performing the action in the real world requires far more skill, athleticism etc.
It doesn't make one more fun or entertaining than the other, but simulating a real world action with your hands will never be as impressive as actually doing it.
I think part of the appeal is that it seems like nobody has an inherent physical advantage (which is not true, because to perform at the the highest level you need insane reflexes, but it seems to be). It's similar to why some people prefer games like hockey and soccer to more purely physical events like running or swimming, but to a far greater magnitude.
For me, I only watch games that I play, and my main motivations are to see what the game is like at the highest level, and if I can apply lessons from the games to my own play. In a way, it's more rational than watching the Flames because of their affiliation with the city where I lived most of my life.
I watch the competitive scene of Heroes of the Storm (MOBA game). I quite enjoy watching it. The most recent Western Clash at Katowice was great and the final series was fantastic.
I find it's tough to find my team though. Players move around between teams all the time and middling to bottom teams come and go. Not a lot of consistency when compared with traditional sports.
This is the main game I play but the only e-sport I watch. I have tried watching League of Legends and DOTA 2 as they are in the same genre but they are completely alien to me. While I am far from a pro player I know a lot about Heroes of the Storm and can follow a competitive match easily. But watching another MOBA is like starting from scratch. Same with Overwatch. I haven't really played the game much so it's hard to tell what is going on during a pro match. So much chaos in my eyes. I suppose traditional sports have the same barrier to entry.
This is the main game I play but the only e-sport I watch. I have tried watching League of Legends and DOTA 2 as they are in the same genre but they are completely alien to me. While I am far from a pro player I know a lot about Heroes of the Storm and can follow a competitive match easily. But watching another MOBA is like starting from scratch. Same with Overwatch. I haven't really played the game much so it's hard to tell what is going on during a pro match. So much chaos in my eyes. I suppose traditional sports have the same barrier to entry.
Yup, that's why casting and gameplay analysis has had to improve as well. Good casters can describe all the complexity and still make it understandable for casual viewers.
