Have you seen the streaming services for games? They’re all objectively terrible. If that is the future of gaming count me the hell out. Maybe some day it will be good but the technology and internet infrastructure (in the US at least) simply is not there. I know it’s a massive undertaking but every other art form at…

Because if you do you’ll start to suck more than the country you nuke, apparently.

It’s not an either or. When you practice something, you are effectively training.

There was nothing easy about me winning my first Virtua Fighter 5 Tournament (which is basically the hardest fighter every invented), but no way would I consider that being sports.
I’m cool with the Esports word, because I can see how that terminology could be used to generalize a particular type of competitive genre…

you mean practice, which is different than training

I don’t. I know they’re sports.

No it’s not. No they’re not. You have actual pro gamers in these fucking comments telling you they’re not sports.

So I’m an athlete if I train really hard at chess?

Article is butt. Esports are games, not sports, in the way pool and darts are games, not sports. Hell, it’s in the name -video games! By your logic everything is a sport. You fighting taglia could be sport - or just a weird threat — though threatened violence is only funny when it’s nerdy folks against others…

this guy is completely clueless of the kind of training and discipline that goes into being something like a top 8 Evolution competitor in Street Fighter.

There’s no way to make an argument that “esports” are actually sports. They might be competitive. They might require preparation and some training; so does math league.

No, he’s not. Esports are not sports.

“And he doesn’t think esports are ‘sports.’”

I don’t think competitive gaming is a sport and more than pro chess, shogi, poker, MTG, Hearthstone or anything similar. And it isn’t because I fell in between the mid 90's blip Quake caused and what we have now and missed out on some sweet sweet money. It’s just that they are all GAMES! Games you need skill for and…

Am middle eastern and agree with your unpopular opinion. Fuck burqas and fuck niqabs. Fuck those tools of oppression. I had to wear head covering in the US from early childhood - it was awful and not even as bad as a burqa or niqab. If there had been a ban on it then maybe I and so many other girls wouldn’t have been…

You do reallize tat real tiem combat isn’t a western thing right? Ever heard of Zelda? The turn based model many people associate with Japanese games is in fact based directly off of Ultima and Wizardry, western games. So I highly doubt te combat had anything to do with it being “westernized” (whatever that even means)

Trust me, Studio Ghibli doesn’t care about “traditional Japanese RPG’s”.

It’s combat system was absolute trash. Changing it is the best thing Level5 could’ve ever done to the series.

the first game wasn’t turnbased