OpinionatedCyborg said:
I'd rather be labelled as a professional money-making gamer than a professional level 97 fatass orc with a degree in messageboard posting. And shows like Arena don't work because the people on those shows are rarely very good.
...or interesting to watch.
Games rarely make for good TV shows -- Red vs Blue is about the best videogame-based show going, and that's just a cheap way of avoiding CG rendering for the good comedy they have going. G4 has to try like hell to make their reviews and previews interesting. As more shows pop up around games, they'll get better and sharper, be able to show the games in interesting ways. At least, I hope so. They just had game week on MTV's TRL, and it was shit-inducing, with 15-year-old girls screaming as they rolled in clips of WoW expansions...
I'm always surprised how much people go gaga for video on the net even -- video reviews and full level playthroughs and stuff. I feel the need to see what a game looks like, but 30 seconds of watching a net video of a game and I'm done. Maybe 1:30 for a trailer, but then I'm gone. As much as I like games and champion the artform videogaming, it's just not fun watching something that's meant to be played.
bumpkin said:
I think I saw a few minutes of that show... I love how ever since Ubi organized the publicity stunt with those girls who call themselves "the frag dolls," that now all of the sudden "hot" girls play games. Reminds me of when I heard about this girl who wanted to get good at games 'cuz her boyfriend dumped her for a girl who was. :lol
As good as pro gamers are at playing, the only way most people would sit through an event where people played games while we watched was if the contestants were hot chicks and they hugged at the end. Would you really leave the house to go see an event like this?