No time to explain - Hit Points returns to Eurogamer.
I’ve been watching quite a bit of basketball lately.
I have no favourite team, but a few I like to watch and see win.
I know what a pick and roll is now!
I think, anyway.
just don’t ask me to explain it, however.
The commentators agreed both decisions were correct, but declined to elaborate on why.
This is by no means exclusive to basketball.
There is an element of this in just about every form of sport, sure.
But the real world’s most popular sports are pretty easy to understand, and to watch.
Last weekendI read this terrific piece on the problems of Overwatch as a sport.
I have never really clicked with the idea of team-based videogames as spectator sports.
I figured I’d watch some high-level competitive play for guidance.
Surely it would be the same for Halo?
Reader, it was not.
Out of curiosity, I tuned in.
After half an hour I quit the stream, assuming I’d clicked on the wrong one.
I was completely, utterly lost.
Apparently one player’s choice of V-Skill II was significant.
They did not elaborate on why.
But they are low-level, and not especially helpful, and divorced of any meaningful context.
Once the action starts, you’re on your own.
I’m still waiting.
Thanks to Hit Points for allowing us to share this article.
