Giant Bomb Thread #4: A thread of perceived slights
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As somebody who has about fifteen minutes of total Starcraft experience and far too much experience watching pro sports: A lot of people would say the same about a lot of sports. Interest in the game itself goes a long way to improving the experience of watching.
Perhaps you perceived that as a slight against Vinny's commentary but I'd listen to Vinny try to explain what's happening too.
Probably, but I don't play SC2 so having someone like Husky go over the current metagame to try to explain the strategy and tactics that players are going for really helps. Knowing what each unit does isn't enough.
I've found most of the time they are wrong and just making it up as they go along.
Husky? Not at all. I know a fair bit about SCII, but Husky in particular is very knowledgeable about the game and entertaining.
Beast Legacy
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See? Esports and FGC aren't that different. Can't we all just get along?
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Good lord Patrick did something entertaining.
Iamwolfthing
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This episode was definitely better than last week's.
Meatvillain
Banned
That was a pretty great ending.
Infinite Justice
Member
Patrick with that last second troll LOL
The show got much better as they got more exhausted and started caring less about presenting the show as something you might see on TV and were more just shooting the shit and naturally prodding each other. The Starcraft section was highly entertaining because none of it felt forced. I also found Eric and Chris to be enjoyable. There is a good old man v. young whipper snappers, get off my lawn dynamic that works.
GazzaScotland
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Didn't take it that way at all so no worries! For someone like me who has little to no interest in Starcraft, I'd rather listen to someone like Vinny who isn't using all the proper calls that would go over my head but can totally see both sides of it.
What was the viewer count on the Gamespot stream?
On twitch it was around 400-200 viewers. On their live stream thing there were 18 comments on their site. Weird.
WickedCobra03
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Chris does everything I hate... :|
Seriously, just merge already so I can throw my hands up and most likely throw the towel in on GB video content, and eventually the rest. Might just be reading and listening to the podcast until they ruin that with Gamespot as well. STOP IT, you are ruining yourselves!
Meatvillain
Banned
You sound like a crazy person.
Iamwolfthing
Member
You're being pretty dramatic. lol
Even as someone who's never played StarCraft before I thought that segment was pretty entertaining, although that could just be because of my growing desire to give it a try. These guys will have produced a ton of SC2 content by the end of the week.
Also I fully endorse a SC2 scrub league.
Also I fully endorse a SC2 scrub league.
Peace out!
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
How does that even happen when the stream had top billing on Gamespot's front page? I understand that Gamespot has multiple things going on at once, but that's just crazy.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I think that's why they bring in giantbomb, because giantbomb's audiences are more used to catching such content live. I'm going to guess that GameSpot's audience is a more regular gaming group that isn't obsessed enough to follow them on stuff like twitch.
YoungBuck219
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I think GameSpot host the stream on their site, and not only through twitch. I guess that's why the views aren't that much higher with both sites promoting the show.
ohhhhh myyyyyyyy goooooooooood
RobotMafia
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Yeah, last week they switched around too much. Plus they had less people on this week so it was much more fluid instead of just introducing new people for each segment. If this is the way the show is going then it should be a great addition. And no offense to Jeff but having Vinny as the major GB voice piece is not a bad thing!
Felix Lighter
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Hell yeah, I'd watch that but low level SC2 is really slow. They'll have to encourage players to attack.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Yeah, it took Brad over an hour to take that guy down on the QL.
That wasn't his fault remember? The guy just had bad manners and wouldn't quit. If you disagree, prepare to be destroyed by brad in Starcraft.
Felix Lighter
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I'm convinced the problem Brad had in that match was he didn't know how widow mines worked. He knew he needed detection to see them but I don't think he realized that they don't explode when they attack regardless of what the word mine implies; they fire a missile and cool down and fire again. I think he didn't bother taking them out with detection because after he walked over a mine field he assumed they were spent, so he'd walk over the same exact mines later. They weren't being replenished, they were just accumulating. I'm sure he's well aware of that now. I could be wrong but Brad completely outclassed that guy.
Broder Salsa
Banned
We have seen V-Pain, now we finally get to see V-Love.
Empty Space
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That really does look like Vinny with a wig its uncanny.
Felix Lighter
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Uncanny.
WrenchNinja
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Trying to watch Wednesday releases video on the site and it just won't work at all. Are they not allowed to post 2 hour long videos on YouTube?
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