MTV True Life: I'm a Gamer

[Master of 7s]

Originally posted by ssbomberman
Anyway, my biggest problem with the Holy Order group (besides the fact that they gave themselves a name and were playing fighters with pads and not custom sticks!) is that beyond videogames they had no drive, no amibition, and their eating habits suck! But seriously, if they used the same passion in the real world, they could be successful there as well and still play games on the side...it's okay to love videogames, but why waste your life professionally doing nothing--it doesn't have to be that way...a little more balance would do those guys good...and atleast once a week they should make an attempt to go out and hang out to meet girls, etc...sometimes you got to unplug...

There's irony here.

[Rumpy]

I was hoping the show was going to concentrate on the games themselves, but there was next to no actual game footage or details at all. It basically picked a few people and followed their lifestyle around. In the end, it was mildly interesting to learn about the people a little (esp. Fatal1ty), but the show wasn't about games at all.

The True Life series is about people and how they live. It's not a "state of the industry" show. I would have liked to have seen footage of the tournaments though, see why these people (namely Fatal1ty) are number one in the game they play.

Originally posted by ssbomberman
Anyway, my biggest problem with the Holy Order group (besides the fact that they gave themselves a name and were playing fighters with pads and not custom sticks!) is that beyond videogames they had no drive, no amibition, and their eating habits suck!

"..." I'm speechless on that one.

[sealed]

fatal1ty has a site up, for those wondering -- www.fatal1ty.com -- and although the flash is pretty much a joke and the e-commerce stuff pretty unprofessional, I guess it's admirable that he's trying to make a living off of gaming.

On a side note, I found it quite funny that MTV misspelled "Shogun" as "Showgun." Great research.

[LOL]

You can do searches around first-person shooter sites for fatal1ty replays. I remember watching replays of him in Quake 3 a few years ago.

Also check out Zero4 if you're interested, I remember him being way too good to be human.

[MVS]

Hmmm, maybe I should look for Thresh Q2 videos. Do you need Q2 to watch those, or can you do it in an external player like with CS?

I tell you what would be impressive from the Pac-Man dude. Playing 2 games, at the same time.

2 PM's right next to each other, and looking in the middle and playing.

He brought in a cabinet, and was then playing Centipeded, but, I don't think a perfect game in that would be all that impressive.

That guy as also put up 100K to the first person that proves you can beat LV 256, I think it is, in PM. Half the screen is garbled, but if you can do it and prove it, you'll be rich and drowing in hot sauce.

[Jeremy]

I think his big goal was/is to get perfect games in all of the games he had brought into that room.

[Dyne]

Originally posted by mattvanstone
Hmmm, maybe I should look for Thresh Q2 videos. Do you need Q2 to watch those, or can you do it in an external player like with CS?

yeah when they first said they had the #1 shooter thats who i initially thought and then out pops this kid named fatal1ty. id imagine theres external videos out there somewhere. oh and when did quakecon become the not "biggest tournament" and this "cyber athlete" shit become top billing?

[sealed]

Okay, I'm not sure about UT2K3, but to watch Q3 matches, you'll most likely need to have your Q3 updated with the patch corresponding to when the match (they're called demos) was recorded, and you'll need the OSP mod(http://www.orangesmoothie.org).

As Stibbons said, ZeRo4 is a top US player right now, but the Europeans are arguably better than US duelers at Q3. As for fatal1ty, when he gets serious, he is a top contender at any game.

QuakeCon is still a very big tournament in the US, but the Cyberathlete Professional League is pretty much where the money's at. They are utilizing Counter-Strike and UT2K3 competitively, at the moment.

For more information, you may want to check out www.esreality.com and www.cached.net.

[Rumpy]

Did Thresh stop playing?

[sealed]

Yeah, very shortly after Q3 came out, Thresh quit competitive gaming. He runs www.firingsquad.com nowadays.

By the way, if anyone wants to download a 300MB file of the show, head over to http://planetquake3.net/download.php...tails&lid=1528