On November 14 2012 23:00 Talin wrote:
I don't know if IPL gave any instructions to the casters about what they want to see in the videos, but to me they all sound way too technical and samey/generic. It seems like all of them were trying the absolute hardest not to screw up or say something wrong, but then the end result turned to be a rather boring mix of generic segways and raw strategy talk.
If you listen to every popular caster (even the most analytical ones and/or the progamers, like Grubby, Incontrol or TLO), they all dish out a lot of witty remarks, break up the cast with fun talk during inactive segments, and so on. Literally every caster that the audience gets excited about is actually exciting to listen to.
If you paired any two of these 8 candidates in a cast, the audience would fall asleep unless the game itself was epic as fuck, which most games won't be. SC2 commentary is ultimately entertainment. These videos weren't entertainment, it was more like listening to a lecture 8 times.
On the plus side, most of them have a decent voice and vocabulary.
I don't know if IPL gave any instructions to the casters about what they want to see in the videos, but to me they all sound way too technical and samey/generic. It seems like all of them were trying the absolute hardest not to screw up or say something wrong, but then the end result turned to be a rather boring mix of generic segways and raw strategy talk.
If you listen to every popular caster (even the most analytical ones and/or the progamers, like Grubby, Incontrol or TLO), they all dish out a lot of witty remarks, break up the cast with fun talk during inactive segments, and so on. Literally every caster that the audience gets excited about is actually exciting to listen to.
If you paired any two of these 8 candidates in a cast, the audience would fall asleep unless the game itself was epic as fuck, which most games won't be. SC2 commentary is ultimately entertainment. These videos weren't entertainment, it was more like listening to a lecture 8 times.
On the plus side, most of them have a decent voice and vocabulary.
The cast I watched was of a very straightforward game. Pretty hard to get super excited about that, unless you're Husky or Day9. :-/