2011-12-30, 05:53 PM
chrome Wrote:Any well-designed game can have a competitive scene. The nature of its intended design doesn't really interfere with how "seriously competitive" the game is most of the time if it was good enough to have one in the first place.
No, but the lack of developer support, strong community support and non-player interest (FPS games in general are plagued by this) does. Skill cap and depth of mechanics is also a consideration, but LoL is quite popular and has done well as a competitive game since Riot started pushing it as an e-sport and throwing money at it even though it's lacking a lot in that field.
Anyhow, I don't want to hate on TF2, I think it's a fun game. I was just amused that the topic of the thread was "is my interest in competitive games inappropriate for Southperry?" and then you mention two games that are usually regarded as casual and that have relatively small competitive scenes.