Monthly Archives: June 2012

Chobopeon starts a debate on CS:GO and maps.

  1. chobopeon
    wouldnt it be swell if cs(go) had map pool as dynamic as bw’s and sc2’s?
    chobopeon
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 01:30:07
  2. keekerdc
    @chobopeon strong disagree
    Chris Schetter
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 01:37:44
  3. chobopeon
    @keekerdc maybe not equally dynamic but i think an intuitive level editor and/or more map diversity wouldve gone done the game good.
    chobopeon
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 01:40:51
  4. keekerdc
    @chobopeon I’d much rather see two great teams play on a map they both know well than some map they’ve been scrimming for five days
    Chris Schetter
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 01:46:51
  5. chobopeon
    @keekerdc uh, yeah. me too. but there’s a middle ground where we dont play the same maps for 10 years.
    chobopeon
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 01:47:40
  6. bcarr
    @chobopeon @keekerdc The classic maps are the only thing that previous CS/CS:S players will be able to be familiar with in CS:GO.
    Brad Carr
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 01:57:05
  7. chobopeon
    @bcarr @keekerdc what about the weapons, the gameplay and the look of it? anyway sc2 had LT, that doesnt mean it was the only thing.
    chobopeon
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 02:00:58
  8. bcarr
    @chobopeon @keekerdc I’d argue that maps are more important to gameplay in CS than SC2, as the latter is competitively about build strategy.
    Brad Carr
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 02:04:54
  9. bcarr
    @chobopeon @keekerdc Routes and decision making about what ground to hold are important to FPS games just as which units to make are in SC2.
    Brad Carr
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 02:04:56
  10. chobopeon
    @bcarr @keekerdc so you think it’d be too much to change maps more often than once a decade? thats part of how gameplay evolved in bw
    chobopeon
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 02:07:17
  11. chobopeon
    @bcarr @keekerdc it provides variety, strategic/tactical evolution and novelty for players and viewers.
    chobopeon
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 02:08:00
  12. chobopeon
    @bcarr @keekerdc i mean i love nuke as much as anyone but i dont think the game reaches full potential w/o some new ground to cover
    chobopeon
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 02:09:02
  13. bcarr
    @chobopeon @keekerdc BW needed maps to change because play favored one strategy on a map. CS players are more conservative than neocons.
    Brad Carr
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 02:12:42
  14. bcarr
    @chobopeon @keekerdc CS players optimize routes on a given map. Any minute change would cause an uproar.
    Brad Carr
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 02:12:49
  15. chobopeon
    @bcarr @keekerdc im not asking to change an existing map, im asking for completely new ones
    chobopeon
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 02:13:35
  16. bcarr
    @chobopeon @keekerdc Which is funny, because Nuke in CS:GO offers LESS ground to cover over previous versions. Wonder what Valve’s thinking.
    Brad Carr
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 02:14:27
  17. chobopeon
    @bcarr @keekerdc well i meant new ground metaphorically but :D
    chobopeon
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 02:15:34
  18. bcarr
    @chobopeon WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA
    Brad Carr
    Mon, Jun 18 2012 02:16:20

On what makes esports exciting: part one.

  1. bcarr
    The StarCraft audience is turning to look at the action coming from the League of Legends game just getting first blood.

    Brad Carr

    Sat, Jun 09 2012 01:30:51

  2. bcarr
    With a joke and some ribbing, the Starcraft audience gets loud for the camera. Two games with different rhythms. #MLG

    Brad Carr

    Sat, Jun 09 2012 01:32:26

  3. bcarr
    That leads to the revelation: games where players kill players might be more exciting than games where players’ armies kill players’ armies.

    Brad Carr

    Sat, Jun 09 2012 01:34:34

I’m headed towards the West Coast, again.

Before a client media tour that I participated in almost two years ago, I hadn’t been west of the Appalachian mountain range in my life. Our group traveled up and down that range until it was time to go west. And pretty much directly west. From Orlando, the tour would head directly in the direction of Los Angeles. Traveling through New Orléans and Texas, seeing where JFK was shot, crossing the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona, breaking down along they way was the experience of a lifetime.

This time, there will be much less traveling around and it won’t end with a hotel in the zip code 90210.

I’m flying out to SNA for MLG Spring Championship 2012 and the chance to work with (in person) the ESFI staff. I haven’t been able to write articles as consistently as I’d like to lately, but I hope that this trip will mark a turning point in the ability that I’d be able to contribute in the future.

If you’re going to be in Anaheim for the event, message me via Twitter and let’s hang out over some drinks. I don’t get out of my common environment very often and as far as I’m concerned, any sort of air travel is a special occasion. And special occasions always involve drinks afterwards.