Flamebait game journalism has been going on strong for about, well since the latest console war started. However it didn’t lose total legitimacy until this fall when the PS3 finally got an influx of quality titles. Six months later the argument is pointless and still going on. Is LittleBigPlanet a Halo killer? Is Barbie Horse Riding better than Gears of War 2? Is Madworld graphically superior to Pong? Uggghhh…..it’s enough to get up from your computer and go play an actual game. Then I stumbled across something that brought the fun back to gaming journalism. It wasn’t a big name gaming site, an up and coming blog, nor was it an established writer striking out on their own.

While checking up on the Horny Melon YouTube account down in the suggest videos suggestion appeared this title….”KTF.Flash vs Luxury Proleague June17 (English Commentary)” What the hell is this? Turns out it is a Korean Proleague Starcraft match that had been translated into english. I’ve never been that big of a StarCraft fan. I beat the campaign mode back in the day, but didn’t delve into the online portion too much. With 15 minutes to kill I watched one match, then two, then four. When I looked at the clock two hours had past. What was going on? Why had I just spent so much time watching people play a 11 year old game? Then I realized it was the commentators. They weren’t smack talking, no flamebait topics, and no wild claims. Simply two people clearly enthusiastic about a game/sporting event. The following videos are just a small sample of the wide world of Stracraft commentary.

Not only does this psyche me up for the release of Starcraft 2, but what effect it will have on the Starcraft Proleague.