Guild Wars 2

There’s a lot of downtime between matches in the proleagues, which is currently being filled with super awkward conversation between the casters and weird camera shots of them staring soulfully into each other’s eyes.

Can we instead have the casters review the videos of the matches that just finished and focus on good plays (either rotational or mechanical)? There’s a lot that they (understandably) miss when doing the commentary live because there’s so many things going on. So this would be a good chance to go back and pick apart the key fights and rotations that turned each game. It also puts more attention on what the viewers are interested in, which is the matches.

Reviewing replays would also let the commentators go back through the big teamfights frame-by-frame to describe everything that’s going on. I think a common complaint I often see from viewers is that they can’t see wtf is happening in teamfights and instead have to rely on their own experience / knowledge of the game to deduce what’s happening. So you can imagine that newer players are completely lost and consequently bored when they just see a bunch of multicolored explosions and lightning bolts, and all the commentators can talk about is how each team’s health bars look. Having the commentators review these fights during the downtime would allow them to talk about how a team coordinated its burst, how the other team responded to provide support, etc.

The only time I find value in commentators talking about their feelings is when the commentators have some in-depth, non-obvious insight to share about the match. This tends to happen only when the commentators themselves are top-tier players, which isn’t really the case here.

This game has a grand total of 502 viewers on Twitch. It’s over.

The camera makes the game likes it’s made in the stone age, really..they can’t even make a good camera? Good quality? Every person who never played gw2 will say that this is not even a quality, why to play it, I can’t even see what’s going on…

Maybe get some good-looking girl to shoutcast?

Rym.1469:

Maybe get some good-looking girl to shoutcast?

That’s sexist ^^

Great proposal. Yesterday I didn’t even watch the stream most of the time, just had it in background.. in fact it took me several minutes to realize the stream has ended due to the suspicious lack of commentator chatter…

There is however the issue of GW2 engine still being quite outdated as far as recording and replaying of competitive matches goes.

Freeelancer.2860:

Great proposal. Yesterday I didn’t even watch the stream most of the time, just had it in background.. in fact it took me several minutes to realize the stream has ended due to the suspicious lack of commentator chatter…

There is however the issue of GW2 engine still being quite outdated as far as recording and replaying of competitive matches goes.

The engine is superbad. It takes them months to change things that other teams with less members pull off in a week.