How has StarCraft II dominated the e-sports scene even though League of Legends has a far larger community?

Arigot · 2012-05-23T04:58:51.484512+00:00

Is the "people who play it" part really so different from SC2 though? Most of my friends that have seen pro games that haven't played before are so overwhelmed by how much is happening that they just don't care because they don't know what anything is.

Arigot · 2012-05-23T04:43:01.644538+00:00

Thank you for contributing nothing.

faxinating · 2012-05-22T12:13:27.930404-07:00

Because the baby powder trick is now encouraging the ladies to wear bras.

But-ThenThatMeans · 1 day

Casino Royale didn't really have any gadgets and it was still a fantastic movie, as well as a box office success.

imamidget · 2 days

I know that water will warp light, but am I crazy or does that pool still look like it's 3-4 feet deep at best?

footinmymouth · 5 days

You DO realize that's a completely different type of photo site from flickr, right?

sumsh · 5 days

It's Mother Falcon. There's a band from my university (UT Austin) that named themselves after that line.

footinmymouth · 5 days

Is there a better photo upload site? Flickr seems pretty great to me.

seano2101 · 6 days

Looks like the Human Torch.

kodark · 6 days

This isn't the issue at all here. I'm fine with games having one ending as long as its good. DE:HR just produced the illusion of choice that our actions would affect the outcome, only to have it come down to pressing one of three buttons. That's incredible unsatisfying and that essentially makes it so nothing you're doing really even leads up into that ending.

saktiDC · 6 days

Wow. If that's what it takes to make you happy you must be quite the miserable fellow.

kodark · 6 days

DE-HR's endings did NOT leave me satisfied at all. Showing a cutscene after pushing a button doesn't change the fact that pushing a button to choose your ending makes the ending shitty to begin with.

Eincutr · 7 days

IIRC it's where the ironsight is.

droivod · 7 days

Huh? He's saying that Fox News would report it as a job loss if a Democratic candidate did this stuff, while they're report it as job creation if it was a republican.

thinkpadius · 9 days

Hahaha holy shit.

http://playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/uncharted-2-image-037.jpg

"OH GOD IT'S SO UGLY"

And the reason for using the bonus doesn't. They use it because it makes the game look better. That's literally all there is to it.

I'm pretty sure you deleted all your posts so you can hide your backtracking, too. Once again, you dig a deeper hole.

thinkpadius · 9 days

Nope. I just think you're dumb, and you prove it with every post because the only correct things you've even said so far are when you try to backtrack and cover up the original intent of your posts. Good day, sir.

EDIT: I'll apologize for all the ad hominem, but I won't take it back. I tried being reasonable with you at first but your incredible capacity to be willfully ignorant isn't something I tolerate.

thinkpadius · 9 days

Prove it? Look at any gameplay footage from the series. I'm done replying to you. You're legitimately one of the most ignorant, closed-minded and stupid people I've ever talked to in any online community.

No I am not saying it looks good because of X. I am saying it looks better because of X, and without X it would look worse. Interesting fact.

You might want to check your earlier posts. You definitely said it hides the supposed "ugly".

Reddit made me wait some amount of time to reply.

Maybe reddit is learning how ignorant you are, too!

thinkpadius · 9 days

http://playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/uncharted-2-image-037.jpg

That looks incredibly bad to you? And you didn't answer how old you are. It's ok, I'd be embarrassed after saying the things you are too. It's baffling how immature your thinking is. Seriously, get out of this subreddit. You don't belong here.

thinkpadius · 9 days

Hahaha, literally this entire conversation is you backtracking to try to appear less wrong. Oh, wow. First you come in and talk about how console games are just naturally uglier and have to use visual tricks to hide how ugly they are (they don't), abuse bloom (they don't), have ugly textures (they don't), etc, and now you're completely changing your tune.

Off the top of my head COD (insert number here)

They use neither an abundance of bloom or particle effects. Nice try.

I never said there was... Although what is there does improve the visual quality of the image.

"I mean what do you mean prove it? Take away all the bloom and particle effects in that Uncharted image and it would look worse. There done."

You're literally trying to say it looks good because of the bloom/particle effects. Maybe you didn't notice, but there is almost NO bloom in that picture and zero particle effects. Wow.

Let me remind you of your first post: http://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/tinyh/are_games_hitting_a_visual_quality_ceiling/c4nrosn

And now you're trying to backtrack on all of that, saying they aren't actually ugly, they just use those tricks to look better! Oh, and suddenly those tricks aren't exclusive to console anymore, either. Stop lying, you're just digging a deeper hole.

thinkpadius · 9 days

Really? Yet right above you consistently insult console visuals, and then bring up motion blur as an excuse to hide AA when we were still talking about console games. Either you're a terrible liar or you're really this blind.

And with motion blur, how about it, like everything else you're talking about, is on a game-to-game basis. In MANY games it's done very well. Holy shit how are you THIS ignorant? It's fascinating. Out of curiosity, how old are you?

thinkpadius · 9 days

And yet you only apply it to consoles in your previous posts. Funny how that works. And this stuff isn't in games because it lets them take visual shortcuts, it's in games because it MAKES THEM LOOK BETTER. Why is that so difficult to understand? Crysis 1 and 2 are both gorgeous games, as are Killzone, Gears of War, Uncharted, The Witcher, etc. They all have some level of bloom, some level of motion blur, not to hide the ugly, but because they make the games more visually appealing.

And please, explain how there's an overabundance of bloom and bright particles to hide the ugly in that Uncharted picture? Don't dodge this question.

Oh, and you still haven't given me any console games that prove they use bloom and particles to hide how ugly they are. Don't try to dodge that either.

thinkpadius · 9 days

Which is on everything and not just console games. Also, if you didn't notice, motion blur exists in real life so there's probably a reason they put it in games. Again, you prove how ignorant you are.

thinkpadius · 9 days

Skyrim isn't known for good textures.

There would be no reason for them to remove the bloom and particle effects they use to hide the lack of AA, low resolution (monitors have a higher resolution that TVs. Its just the nature of the viewing device), and iffy texture quality.

Those textures are even "iffy" to you? They're all high-res.

I mean what do you mean prove it? Take away all the bloom and particle effects in that Uncharted image and it would look worse. There done.

Well, this conversation is over. There's next to no bloom or particle effects in that image. Thanks for proving how much of a fanboy you are, though! Oh, to live in your deluded world.

Get out of /r/truegaming, ignorant people like you don't belong here.

thinkpadius · 9 days

Oh, my bad. I hope reddit can forgive me.

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