"fighting game community discussion" aka "how I wish the east coast commentators weren't so black because it intimidates me." am i right or what? Usually conveyed like "they're all trying to talk like gangsters derp"
Problem is more that some of them are very poor at commentating and when they try to go the 'hype' route (aka regurgitate yipes' stuff) it sounds forced and off-putting. I think D'nyce is a funny dude, especially when he has spooky's stream chat in his face to egg him on, but the dude can't commentate for shit. Neither can Ski or Tom Brady or half of the other chucklefucks spooky lets on. But what's there to do about it? you can't lock down the few capable people next to spooky and force them to talk through a 48h event. I do wish someone like Ski, who has at least a modicum of understanding of the games and is steadfast in his involvement in the scene, would go back and listen to himself and take some constructive criticism because he seems to really enjoy commentating and it would be nice if he was enjoyable too.
I hate this sudden expectation of professionalism though. These events are long as hell and not every match is worth commentating on, so the comic relief is nice, even when it seems a bit overdone. Skisonic gets too hype sometimes, but he has a nice mix of hype and insight, in my opinion. He's definitely more of a SF guy than MVC guy. People forget these guys are fans first and not pro commentators and it's not their job..sp00ky just gets some of his friends on there, which has worked out fine, viewer counts keep growing. Ideally, sp00ky's pals would take themselves a *bit* more seriously and study up so they can do color and play-by-play equally well, but for now, they're just doing what they always did and the criticism grows because the scene is growing, but it doesn't make the criticism correct.
The other misconception is that they do "yipes stuff." People have always given weird names for things in fighting games or have their own goofy reactions, it's just that Yipes is pretty damn good at it (Telemundo Yipes is particularly amazing.) But even then, I see people in the GAF threads and in the streams bashing Yipes himself! If the future of stream monsters are people who don't understand the humor or the history, i'll just continue clicking off the chat and start hoping the commentators do the same. It's already a sea of shit. It's always annoying when spooky responds to like one random troll who is bitching.
So, night 1 of NEC, making bets on stream, the hype boiling over, nobody giving a shit about being professional MLG, it was easily the best part--moments like that won't happen in MLG Presents: Team Mr. Victor "Spookington" Font Streaming Gentlemen's Digital Fisticuffs brought to you by Capcom. They'll censor it and start making their stream runners give a shit about what viewers think, which is the last thing I want. FGC is still pretty pure, which is something I appreciate a lot.
I do like the guys who keep it semi-pro like Ultra David and James Chen, but I like how I can expect that on West Coast and how I can sometimes get that or the down n' dirty shit on the East Coast. Just seems like people get intimidated when NYC gets real, which is nothing new, even outside the FGC
but like nyc, you (generic you, not you you) just kinda have to get over yourself and accept those dudes' fighting scene culture because the streams are just an extension of that.
Maybe some new blood will step up the professionalism in their own way, but I think it has to come from the people actually in the local scenes, instead of stream monster and at-home viewer criticism.
edit: but all this is besides the point until capcom nerfs wesker
