Fatal1ty interview

aftershxck · 17 Apr 2007 at 02:51

DJKahuna said:
He's won more 1v1 tournaments than anyone else. Wow, so amazing. Can he work as part of a team though?

I still reckon FPS Doug would pwn him in CS:S anyday.

Lol, I haven't read the interview yet but I don't see why everyone is having a go at him/making fun of him etc. I'm sure a lot would love to be as good as him/make as much money as him, and if he's whoring it for the money then why not? After all the time and dedication he puts in.

And he was in the best US clan iirc so I'm sure his teamwork is upto scratch

IceShock · 17 Apr 2007 at 04:32

oh fatal1ty thats the bloke from on the box of my X-fi Fatal1ty fps edition.

never knew what it meant befor, i thaught it was some one who was good at creating good sound cards

Mephisto · 17 Apr 2007 at 04:45

Bones said:
He was at i29 and giving a presentation on stage and someone from the crowd shouted "OMG HES GINGER!!" was very funny he generally got abused by a mob of gamers

LMAO!

[TW]Fox · 17 Apr 2007 at 10:19

What I'd love to know is what his name brings to the plethora of soundcards, motherboards etc with his name all over..

Vita · 17 Apr 2007 at 10:29

[TW]Fox said:
What I'd love to know is what his name brings to the plethora of soundcards, motherboards etc with his name all over..

Think it's sponsership. Like you know how cars have "go faster stripes", well if you have a "Fatal1ty" on your soundcard/motherboard/case you play better. :confused:

He h4x tbh.

~>Dg<~ · 17 Apr 2007 at 10:43

well hope gaming online does become massive as a sport cant see why it wont as im training my kid hes been playing since 3 on the pc playing cod hes 6 now and is getting pretty good can own decent players few years he might be sponsered me hopes

GarethDW · 17 Apr 2007 at 13:20

dgmug said:
well hope gaming online does become massive as a sport cant see why it wont as im training my kid hes been playing since 3 on the pc playing cod hes 6 now and is getting pretty good can own decent players few years he might be sponsered me hopes

I really hope you're not serious.

As for gaming becoming considered a "sport", I'm not sure about this one. Sport, imo, should be something that involves physical exercise... yet being sat on yer bum driving a car around a circuit is considered a motorsport, so I guess being sat on yer bum with headphones on whilst shouting into a mic and playing a FPS could be renamed as gaming-sport.

Even if it's not classified as a sport, I can imagine this becoming popular to watch on TV. Who would have imagined, 5 or 10 years ago, that people would be prepared to watch people play poker...? Yet today there are dedicated poker channels on satellite, and it's really, really taken off over the past 2 or 3 years. At least gaming is more interesting to watch than Devilfish playing cards against some internet noob poker player. There's a helluva lot of people that play video games these days... 100 million Playstation owners, even more PC owners, this is potentially a massive audience waiting to be tapped-in to.

da_mic_1530 · 17 Apr 2007 at 13:27

touch said:
bah cs is for noobs.
CoD2 = win.

Sometimes we like to change our tags to [EVO]

cod 1 > all over cod 2

and lol [EVO] are still going, always were useless that clan

Kreeeee · 17 Apr 2007 at 13:50

dbmzk1 said:
Who wants to watch some random people play a 1v1 on TV? Almost as boring as watching snooker!

I'm not too sure why he seems to think gaming is a sport though. Seems he is just after the money.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jen46qkZVNI

Fatal1ty was not there at the start of professional gaming.

Weebull · 17 Apr 2007 at 13:59

GarethDW said:
Even if it's not classified as a sport, I can imagine this becoming popular to watch on TV. Who would have imagined, 5 or 10 years ago, that people would be prepared to watch people play poker...? Yet today there are dedicated poker channels on satellite, and it's really, really taken off over the past 2 or 3 years. At least gaming is more interesting to watch than Devilfish playing cards against some internet noob poker player. There's a helluva lot of people that play video games these days... 100 million Playstation owners, even more PC owners, this is potentially a massive audience waiting to be tapped-in to.

I think it'll take the right sort of game for it to really hit public interest. Right now, the only people that really watch or follow any gaming tournament are people who actually play that game to a serious degree. To get a game that will appeal to the general public it needs to be simple enough for them to understand, but complex enough to actually interest the people playing it.

Typical that fatal1ty thinks that 1v1 games are the best though. Just because you have so much fun playing them, doesn't make them interesting enough to watch.

Also,

Streetrunner:The chosen 3 games for CGS are Dead or Alive 4 (DOA4), Project Gotham Racing (PGR) and Counter-Strike Source (CS:S). 2 XBOX 360 games and one PC game.

Stuff like this hurts gaming tournaments too. The people in charge are too interested in being swyaed by publisher's large pay packets and "help us promote our new game!" deals than they are in actually representing what people are playing. They need to just nut up and admit that online gaming (well, PC anyway) has yet to better the days of Quake3/UT, CS and Starcraft.

Gashman · 17 Apr 2007 at 14:05

sheesh what a tool 1 vs. 1 in first person games sucks balls, what you need is a proper war, like 20 vs 20 or something, on another note i beat michael schumachers lap record in monaco GP on F1 championship (PS3)

thats his real record by the way

KNiVES · 17 Apr 2007 at 15:55

Well I thought it was a very good and honest interview. I used to think Fatility was a weirdo, tool etc until this article - he even pointed out that sometimes he takes flak because of the way the media portrays him, which is very true. I wish him all the best in his ambitions, he is fighting for a noble goal after all - (competitive) video gaming in the mainstream.

I also think 1 on 1 FPS matches are the most personal and intense matches, you don't feel quite so pressured when you're in a team!

richjs · 17 Apr 2007 at 16:22

Gashman said:
sheesh what a tool 1 vs. 1 in first person games sucks balls, what you need is a proper war, like 20 vs 20 or something, on another note i beat michael schumachers lap record in monaco GP on F1 championship (PS3) thats his real record by the way

Because 20v20 requires lots of skill and no spam. :rolleyes:

sniffy · 17 Apr 2007 at 17:34

fen739 said:
Because 20v20 requires lots of skill and no spam.

lol I thought the same. 5 vs 5 or something maybe but meh, zerg spams won't be fun to watch.

Gonzo0 · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:00

Meh, at the end of the day hes nothing but a geek.

Inquisitor · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:06

dbmzk1 said:
"FPS Doug" is a complete ****** made up in yet another effort to scam money out of the gullible and often retarded gaming community. As expected its worked quite well.

I don't like the guy, but at least Wendel has some skill.

Do you even know what Pure Pwnage is? :confused:

KNiVES · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:23

Gonzo0 said:
Meh, at the end of the day hes nothing but a geek.

Geek who earned a lot of money from what he does. He also earned it from doing what he enjoys the most.

Hen_Dawg · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:33

KNiVES said:
Geek who earned a lot of money from what he does. He also earned it from doing what he enjoys the most.

Yep. I think I sense some resentment. Travelling around the world, PC gaming for lots of money.

I'd gladly be labelled a geek if I could do that

Gonzo0 · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:42

hey im not knocking the guy at all and respect him for his achievements but at the end of the day arent we all geeks? You know youre a geek once you know how to build a pc and overclock

sniffy · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:58

Gonzo0 said:
Meh, at the end of the day hes nothing but a geek.

A geek who earns far more money than you doing what he loves.

Where do I sign up?