Introduction
There’s more to games than eSports, you know. I don’t mean to disparage them, though I admit to having little interest in them myself.
Even so, I do find it an odd and slightly depressing trend for every new multiplayer game to be almost knee-jerk rated based on the chances of people foam-fingers bearing the name of their favourite team, and underpants emblazoned with the faces of their e-sporting heroes. I’m assuming that happens. If not, marketing oportunity for someone!
And yet I know several people who won’t even touch a new game if it doesn’t look like esports will give it longevity, and more still whose opinions on its current state are more rooted in the meta of events like Evo than whether they’re actually having fun. Oh, for those halcyon days of picking Street Fighter 2 characters because they were cool, not because someone has crunched the numbers and mathematically proved the ultimate schoolboy question: Ryu vs Ken.
Also that thing about whether you can see Chun-Li’s naughty bits if you pause the SNES version on exactly the right frame. (Answer, yes you can: you just clearly don’t …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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