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How to make a successful gaming Super Bowl

Nothing can topple the Super Bowl in popularity. But a made-for-TV gaming event could learn a lot from its spectacle.

JamesDeRosa4866d ago

Video games on TV....

It's like cracking the Mayan written language. I'm sure it can be done, but it'd take a genius to do it.

Dramscus4866d ago (Edited 4866d ago )

Wouldn't be super hard, they'd just have to run it thirty seconds to a min behind real time so someone could cut camera's.
It would work best with a game designed for competitive tournament play.
An fps would probably be the best bet to put on tv. It would be more visually appealing than a fighters static background and action.
Would need to be a heavily clan based game, something where the levels and character classes work best in a full squad working together. Have two or four different squads go in with various objective.
Have a director cutting the camera to where the action is, maybe have a small video feed of the gamer in the corner with their name underneath.

Maybe they could use a different game each time. Use COD one time, killzone 3 the next, MAG, or Socom, or Halo. Generally push the team aspect of it though. In real life the gamers will be working on a team. They always play together.

Could be great.

Edit: Hosts could be guests from the games industry. Designers, coders, testers, reviewers, writers, video makers. Heck maybe even have side competitions with people at home to be announcers.

SpLinT4866d ago

wouldnt work. People know football which is why they watch it. They know the rules and the fundamentals, etc. Theyll never learn a bunch of FPS games

AzaziL4865d ago

I'm surprised G4 hasn't tried promoting gaming as a sport given they're a channel that focuses on gaming. What I think is also needed for them is to create a way where anyone can get in, otherwise no one will be interested if you have to be in the loop to get a slot (cough, MLG, cough). Have the equivalent of the NFL combine online with only those in the top 500 scores advancing, then live stream the tournament matches with commentary, play by play, and instant replay.

They don't necessarily have to shoot for TV, instead they should start with online broadcasts and as the show improves and it gains popularity, then bring it to the mainstream.

Just remember this, bowling is a sport that made it on TV, and I'm pretty sure FPSs will be more popular then bowling for the younger generations.

Sadie21004866d ago

Wait, they actually had a claw-game competition? WTF?

choadley4866d ago

Eh, high-level play is definitely more interesting that watching random people play random games. Even *puts on Toy Story aliens voice* THE CLAW.

hoops4866d ago

Put half naked woman in the show wrestling in cherry flavored jello while playing L4D2 and it might just be.....

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All Call of Duty Black Ops Games Ranked

The Nerd Stash: "Developed by Treyarch Studios, Call of Duty: Black Ops games are some of the best in the series in terms of gameplay, story, and -- of course -- Zombies."

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Rynxie12d ago (Edited 12d ago )

Black ops 4, because it was the last cod of duty I was able to dominate with a +2 k/d ratio. Before all the freaking cheating started to happen. It was nice catching people off guard and shooting at them first and getting the kill. Unlike now, where I shoot people first, but they gun me down with less hits, less time, literally feels like they can kill me in a split second. At times, they are able to run away after me shooting them way more than necessary, yet, the second I'm spotted, I'm dead, there's no me running away to cover. They can do cartwheels, summersaults, backflips and gun you down perfectly. They can shoot you across the map with perfect accuracy. They can jump around like morons and gun you down without even having to correct their aim. They have superman split second perfect reactions. That's the best way to describe it, everything they do is spot on perfect. They can spam and spray (no praying) their gun from far away, because they have no recoil or bullet spread. It always feels like I have to aim and also correct my aim when moving around, while these pricks don't have to do the same.

And yes, I know how to play fps games. I dominated many fps games like: Resistance 1&2, kz 2&3, Socom, MAG, Crysis, Gotham City Impostors, blitz brigade etc. all with 2-4 k/d ratio. Kz2 (lag input controls) and resistance (no aim assist in resistance) being the hardest and were the games I reached either close to a 3 k/d ratio or above.

I truly got to enjoy blacks ops 4 and got my money's worth out of it. Afterwords, I would either stop playing cod games after a while, because of the cheating, or would skip buying cod games for a year or two before buying another.

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The 7 Best Street Fighter Games: Exploring the Franchise

The Street Fighter series has a long history, but which are the seven best games the franchise has yet offered to gamers?

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How Street Fighter IV Saved 2D Fighting Games (Ft. Maximilian Dood)

After Street Fighter II released in in 1991, it caused a fighting game explosion, both in arcades and in home consoles. But, as the decade ended, and arcades were failing, so too were 2D Fighting games. This is how Street Fighter IV completely revitalized the genre.

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Snookies12361d ago

I'd say Blazblue helped too. Didn't care for Street Fighter 4, but Blazblue was amazing during that time. Sad that the series kind of went downhill after the first 2 or 3 games though.

DarXyde360d ago

BlazBlue was phenomenal. Platinum'd Calamity Trigger because I loved it so much. I remember buying Continuum Shift back in the day at launch for like $40. They did have DLC characters (Valkenhayne, Makoto, and Platinum at the time) and it came out to just a tad more than it would at full price. Didn't mind at all.

Great fighting game.

Snookies12360d ago

Continuum Shift was definitely my favorite. Spent way too many hours on that game, haha... Had the counters for days with Hakumen.

DarXyde360d ago

I really like Makoto, Valkenhayne, and Hazama. Super fun characters

Terry_B360d ago

Valkenhayn ..just sayin'

Terry_B361d ago

BlazBlue was the much better, more technical game..and a real 2D Fighting Game after all. But yes, since it was a big name..the characters were still popular and the game itself was good, SFIV indeed helped a lot. However, I am pretty sure the much better-selling Mortal Kombat 9 would have been done without SFIV as well..and that one truly helped to make the fighting game genre in general more popular again.

Ryuha1234h360d ago

You’re sound dumb. Blazblue was not better than sf4. You’re just saying that because you’re a street fighter hater.

Redgrave360d ago

>calls someone dumb
>does it by saying "you're sound dumb"

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Terry_B360d ago

A SF Hater eh? Fight me in SF 2,3 4 or 5 and you will regret that stupid comment ;)

gold_drake360d ago (Edited 360d ago )

eyyy max xD

one of the very few streamers i can actually watch without it being cringe and awful ha.

GhostScholar360d ago

The content of IV was severely lacking when it launched. It got better over time.